Make Musk think he’s saving the planet by putting him in a time out. That’s the way forward. He has a messianic complex and thinks he can save the world by enabling fucking Nazis, right wing extremists, fascists, white nationalists, bigots, and conspiracy nuts.
I’m glad to see Russia’s air defenses working just this once…
Carried over from downstairs:
re: #334 Nerdy Fish
I bought it without special offers. That apparently didn’t make it immune; I don’t know if it’s a bug in Fire OS or what, but my daughter started complaining of ads popping up at random times, and her tablet became increasingly unusable.
Curious. Of course, I bought mine just for streaming, and that’s all I do with it.
AP: Can a state count all its votes by hand? A North Dakota proposal aims to be the first to try
Backers of the proposed ballot measure are far from gathering enough signatures, but if the plan makes the June 2024 ballot and voters pass it, North Dakota would have to replace ballot scanners with hundreds of workers across the state who would carefully count and recount ballots.
What a cluster it would be to do hand counting of all votes. Doubt this would pass even if they get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. Gotta admire the confidence of the farmer who’s leading the effort that “They can find the people to do the job, because there are people that are willing to come in and do the hand counting.” Unemployment rate was 1.9% for the state this past October.
There’s also this tidbit at the end of the article:
Nearly 44% of voters participated by early voting or by mail in North Dakota’s November 2022 election.
re: #4 dat_said
AP: Can a state count all its votes by hand? A North Dakota proposal aims to be the first to try
What a cluster it would be to do hand counting of all votes. Doubt this would pass even if they get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. Gotta admire the confidence of the farmer who’s leading the effort that “They can find the people to do the job, because there are people that are willing to come in and do the hand counting.” Unemployment rate was 1.9% for the state this past October.
There’s also this tidbit at the end of the article:
What they should do is hand out one ballot per election or issue. Then provide a basket for each candidate, and the counters can toss each ballot into the correct basket. Problem solved.
(I’d suggest the Ancient Greeks’ method of voters putting stones into baskets, but even low population ND probably doesn’t have enough stones.)
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re: #4 dat_said
AP: Can a state count all its votes by hand? A North Dakota proposal aims to be the first to try
What a cluster it would be to do hand counting of all votes. Doubt this would pass even if they get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. Gotta admire the confidence of the farmer who’s leading the effort that “They can find the people to do the job, because there are people that are willing to come in and do the hand counting.” Unemployment rate was 1.9% for the state this past October.
There’s also this tidbit at the end of the article:
And that is a state with a total population around 800,000. A state with millions of residents like New York would face a monstrous problem trying to do it since you have to store all the paper ballots (or paper output from a machine voting system) in order to handle them. And keep all that paper under proper security the whole time as well.
WTSP: Need to fill up? Florida gas prices reach lowest since June 2021
Quick online search of shows similar headlines for a lot of states. Most seem to be cribbing from a GasBuddy press release.
“As the nation’s average price of gasoline has fallen for the 13th straight week, we’re on the cusp of potentially seeing a $2.99 per gallon average for the first time in years, most welcome just in time for the Christmas holiday,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in a statement. “While the declines may soon come to an end as the price of oil has rebounded from recent lows, we could see a gentler 2024 at the pump for motorists.
“Gasoline could see its average fall below $3 this week while the price of diesel has just fallen below $4 for the first time since July, also very welcome news for the economy as nearly all goods are impacted by the price of diesel.”
ilDuce—Fat Q*Bert should have pardoned all of his 1/6 pals…
“He called that rally knowing that that was going to be in D.C. where things could get potentially out of hand, and he’s now saying he would do clemency for the nonviolent. But he could have done that when he was president. He could have taken responsibility.
“He could have said that — not the violent people, obviously that’s a bird of a different feather — but on the people that were there just as protesters and kind of got caught up in it, he could have granted clemency to them and he chose not to because I think he was told that if he did that, he could potentially risk being convicted at his Senate impeachment trial.
“So the idea that now he’s going to help people that were railroaded, he could have done that before he left office. I think there are people that came because he said to protest the election. I don’t think that they intended to do it. Some of the people that were convicted of things like trespassing, you see videos where you have police officers actually motioning for people to go in. You’ll see that, where they were just taking pictures in Statuary Hall.
“And so the issue with that is obviously they would not have been there but for the Trump rally. And those were his people. And so the question is somebody that was there and)nonviolent probably didn’t have intent to do anything when they showed up that day. He could have done things to potentially alleviate burdens on them and he didn’t. Now, he says he’s going to do it, but he didn’t when he was president.” - Ron DeSantis, today on MSNBC.
re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth
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That would probably stop dogs, but not cats, which will climb over it.
re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth
lol. Thanks for making me laugh.
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That would probably stop dogs, but not cats, which will climb over it.
Maybe it’s electrified. (And why is that wreath out in the open?)
When I needed to separate cats, I had three baby gates stacked floor to ceiling. Anything less was useless.
re: #7 dat_said
Yesterday, gas was down to $2.29 after dropping over three weeks. Today it $2.59.
re: #7 dat_said
WTSP: Need to fill up? Florida gas prices reach lowest since June 2021
Quick online search of shows similar headlines for a lot of states. Most seem to be cribbing from a GasBuddy press release.
Thanks, Joe!
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That would probably stop dogs, but not cats, which will climb over it.
I had a dog that could climb chain link fences.
re: #16 Belafon
I had a dog that could climb chain link fences.
I lost a dog to a car because she climbed a 10 ft. fence to try to follow my path to school.
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That would probably stop dogs, but not cats, which will climb over it.
The heavier the cat, the less likely it is to climb chain link. Kittens, no problem.
re: #12 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Maybe it’s electrified. (And why is that wreath out in the open?)
Their owner would be so dead
re: #18 wrenchwench
The heavier the cat, the less likely it is to climb chain link. Kittens, no problem.
I was in my office earlier, and suddenly I hear my wife going absolutely postal on our kitten. Curious, I wandered out to find said cat halfway to the ceiling in one of Mrs. Fish’s potted plants, on the top shelf of a fairly tall shelving unit. Needless to say, Mrs. Fish is growing increasingly eager to get the cat acclimated to outdoor life.
re: #18 wrenchwench
The heavier the cat, the less likely it is to climb chain link. Kittens, no problem.
My beast Mindy can climb a cat tree, but a fence might defeat her.
Mork would run straight up that thing.
re: #20 Nerdy Fish
I was in my office earlier, and suddenly I hear my wife going absolutely postal on our kitten. Curious, I wandered out to find said cat halfway to the ceiling in one of Mrs. Fish’s potted plants, on the top shelf of a fairly tall shelving unit. Needless to say, Mrs. Fish is growing increasingly eager to get the cat acclimated to outdoor life.
If you want to keep the cat, you should keep it inside. Outdoor cats vanish, leaving you wondering what terrible fate they met.
re: #1 lawhawk
Make Musk think he’s saving the planet by putting him in a time out. That’s the way forward. He has a messianic complex and thinks he can save the world by enabling fucking Nazis, right wing extremists, fascists, white nationalists, bigots, and conspiracy nuts.
He is the Great White Dope.
re: #20 Nerdy Fish
I was in my office earlier, and suddenly I hear my wife going absolutely postal on our kitten. Curious, I wandered out to find said cat halfway to the ceiling in one of Mrs. Fish’s potted plants, on the top shelf of a fairly tall shelving unit. Needless to say, Mrs. Fish is growing increasingly eager to get the cat acclimated to outdoor life.
I have gained use of some surfaces for storage of a lot of things. Presta would get on any counter. Schrader does tables, but not the kitchen counter.
re: #14 Belafon
Yesterday, gas was down to $2.29 after dropping over three weeks. Today it $2.59.
British Petroleum announced they’d pause shipping because of pirate attacks with missiles.
Floof Cat in her younger days and in the high-ceiling apartment got all sorts of places.
Couldn’t put any light on the high shelf divider walls due to Tuxedo Cat getting up there and knocking stuff off trying to maneuver around it.
They really did like hanging out under the tree once I put it up.
re: #6 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And that is a state with a total population around 800,000. A state with millions of residents like New York would face a monstrous problem trying to do it since you have to store all the paper ballots (or paper output from a machine voting system) in order to handle them. And keep all that paper under proper security the whole time as well.
I can’t imagine doing it for even just a school district. Our local school board election was the only thing on the ballot this fall - eleven candidates vying for 4 spots. The highest vote getter of the group of 4 sane folks was just over 9500. The highest vote getter of the 4 MN Parents Alliance (think Moms for Liberty) was about 4700. It would be fair to estimate at least 14,000 ballots. Counting one vote a second would take nearly 4 hours and you’d have to repeat for each candidate and likely have to recount each candidate three times or more for accuracy. It would take days with a dozen people doing the counting and there’d be lots of potential errors.
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Eartha likes to hang out under the tree. She’s not an ornament destroyer, which is nice because my wife buys not-cheap ornaments.
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That would probably stop dogs, but not cats, which will climb over it.
Except that some dogs can climb chain link fences.
When we picked up our second Rat Terrier, they had outside kennels with chain link ceilings. I thought WTF, these are small dogs, and then saw a number of terriers climb to the top of the fence to see what was going on.
re: #31 darthstar
some cats just dig the lurkability of a spot……
re: #31 darthstar
Eartha likes to hang out under the tree. She’s not an ornament destroyer, which is nice because my wife buys not-cheap ornaments.
I purposefully hung most ornaments higher than easy paw reach simply to (hopefully) reduce or eliminate incidents.
Some of them claimed to have not gotten the memo.
re: #35 darthstar
I think that license plate reads Uspitania.
This guy’s probably blue checked and active over at exTwitter.
‘WE’RE NOT SCARED OF THESE PARASITES’: THE VIOLENT WHITE NATIONALIST LEADER MENACING TENNESSEE
Kauffmann’s group is part of a larger network of white power “active clubs” that have appeared across the U.S. in recent years. Active clubs train, hold fight club events and promote a type of white nationalist brotherhood that focuses on physical fitness and an aggressive white Christian masculinity that borrows heavily from European far-right groups. Kauffmann leads an active club that is particularly threatening. Under his leadership, the Tennessee Active Club has attempted to intimidate local journalists, activists and politicians, as well as harass participants of LGBTQ+ inclusive events and perceived “anti-white” organizations. Kauffmann’s story mirrors that of the increasingly hostile and aggressive white nationalist movement taking root in active clubs across the country. These groups have grown in number over the past few years and seem increasingly willing to escalate conflict and use violence to achieve their racist political goals.
re: #34 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I purposefully hung most ornaments higher than easy paw reach simply to (hopefully) reduce or eliminate incidents.
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Some of them claimed to have not gotten the memo.
Cats are extremely curious animals. Put something shiny in line of sight, and they’re going to want to poke it to see what happens.
The ‘major electrical work’ has been put off until ‘Tuesday and Wednesday’. I can move all those frozen containers back to the freezer.
re: #36 darthstar
I think that license plate reads Uspitania.
Ispitania — experiences. (If the first letter was и.)
re: #27 darthstar
British Petroleum announced they’d pause shipping because of pirate attacks with missiles.
That might be the excuse, but the cycle here is a 30 cent jump followed by two to three weeks of decline.
re: #32 A Cranky One
Except that some dogs can climb chain link fences.
When we picked up our second Rat Terrier, they had outside kennels with chain link ceilings. I thought WTF, these are small dogs, and then saw a number of terriers climb to the top of the fence to see what was going on.
Our dog was around 40 pounds.
re: #37 Randall Gross
Look at that, a Republican SA training camp.
re: #25 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #45 Randall Gross
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re: #40 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Ispitania — experiences. (If the first letter was и.)
Good catch. I just enjoy being able to read Cyrillic text and pronounce it (mostly) in my head. Lots of words almost sound like their English origins (eg: інженер - inzhener) so it doesn’t feel so foreign - which will come in handy if Trump is elected as it’ll become the official language of the US.
They cut down a tree and don’t realize that a baby owl is in it even after they bring the tree into their house?????
Kentucky Family Finds Baby Owl In Christmas Tree
Jonathan Majors Found Guilty in Domestic Violence Trial
The Marvel actor was found guilty of two counts and cleared of two other counts following his arrest on March 25 on charges of assault and harassment for allegedly attacking his then-girlfriend
re: #47 darthstar
Good catch. I just enjoy being able to read Cyrillic text and pronounce it (mostly) in my head. Lots of words almost sound like their English origins (eg: інженер - inzhener) so it doesn’t feel so foreign - which will come in handy if Trump is elected as it’ll become the official language of the US.
Even Trump cultists wouldn’t accept that. Being illiterate in English is the be-all and end-all of their existence.
(испытания can also mean trials (as in tests), which might be a better choice here.)
re: #35 darthstar
Still looks better than the cybertruck.
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
They cut down a tree and don’t realize that a baby owl is in it even after they bring the tree into their house?????
Kentucky Family Finds Baby Owl In Christmas Tree
Not only that, it was there for a couple of days before a visitor found it.
re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅
Jonathan Majors Found Guilty in Domestic Violence Trial
The Marvel actor was found guilty of two counts and cleared of two other counts following his arrest on March 25 on charges of assault and harassment for allegedly attacking his then-girlfriend
That’s probably it for Kang the Conqueror. MCU plans will have to change.
re: #45 Randall Gross
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re: #57 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That’s probably it for Kang the Conqueror. MCU plans will have to change.
Kang doesn’t have to look the same in every universe.
And Harrison Ford will be the third actor to play Ross.
re: #59 Belafon
Kang doesn’t have to look the same in every universe.
No, but he has so far. They’ve swapped actors before for Iron Man, so it could happen, but an actor would have to be extremely self-confident to take over from a very talented actor who wrecked his career.
re: #60 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
No, but he has so far. They’ve swapped actors before for Iron Man, so it could happen, but an actor would have to be extremely self-confident to take over from a very talented actor who wrecked his career.
For the Hulk you mean.
re: #61 Belafon
For the Hulk you mean.
That too, but that’s pre-MCU.
Rhodey was replaced in Iron Man. A pretty important role.
re: #61 Belafon
Thunderbird Ross has been done by a group of people across Hulk and MCU movies.
Rhodes was cast twice, the second time by Don Cheadle.
Hulk has been portrayed by Eric Bana, Ed Norton, and most recently by Mark Ruffalo.
One thing that is bothering me about Zinn’s history book is his use of “perhaps” as in “and those daring to criticize Lincoln’s policies would be out in jail without trial - perhaps 30,000 political prisoners.” Or perhaps four?
re: #63 lawhawk
Thunderbird Ross has been done by a group of people across Hulk and MCU movies.
Rhodes was cast twice, the second time by Don Cheadle.
Hulk has been portrayed by Eric Bana, Ed Norton, and most recently by Mark Ruffalo.
I’d completely forgotten Bana, even though Jennifer Connelly played Betty in that one.
re: #265 sizzzzlerz
re: #332 Wile E. Wonka
“Stramps” are actually terrible design — although they look great from a distance, and Oberlander and Erickson’s hearts were in the right place when they came up with the concept, it fails to work as a wheelchair ramp (no edges, huge fall risk) AND fails to work as stairs, especially for visually-impaired or otherwise disabled people who don’t use wheels.
I saw this reposted in a thread on Dutch Twitter. I said, “Hoe doe ik ‘dangerous as fuck’ in Nederlands spreken?” TONS of likes!
If that design ever came for approval in Salem before the disabled commission I sit on, I would say NO with very unrepeatable language! That is fucking dangerous for everyone. I have eaten shit falling on my face more times than I can count, because the elevation changed and I couldn’t see it.
re: #65 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
The Ang Lee version of Hulk was interesting visually, especially with the way that the he used a split screen to mimic the cartoon frame that you’d see in a paperbound comic book.
re: #68 lawhawk
The Ang Lee version of Hulk was interesting visually, especially with the way that the he used a split screen to mimic the cartoon frame that you’d see in a paperbound comic book.
An interesting observation about comic books I read a long time ago is this: in comics, all the action occurs between the panels.
BREAKING: Court of appeals *rejects* Mark MEADOWS bid to move his Georgia charges to federal court on two grounds:
-Removal does not apply yo former officials
-Charges against Meadows did not involve his “official” duties. https://t.co/FfVVNw7ihP pic.twitter.com/AFuKwdsOdO— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 18, 2023
Couple of strings back:
re: #80 TedStriker
And Xitter won’t do a goddamn thing about it if reported.
Musk’s doing his best to turn Xitter into a Nazi sausage party.
Lord Soros assures me that the roundups will begin once his trusted acolyte Elon has collected and verified all relevant personal data on the 500,000,000 worst assholes in the world. Trust the Plan!
re: #4 dat_said
AP: Can a state count all its votes by hand? A North Dakota proposal aims to be the first to try
What a cluster it would be to do hand counting of all votes. Doubt this would pass even if they get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. Gotta admire the confidence of the farmer who’s leading the effort that “They can find the people to do the job, because there are people that are willing to come in and do the hand counting.” Unemployment rate was 1.9% for the state this past October.
There’s also this tidbit at the end of the article:
All the election deniers would still claim a system like this is “rife with fraud” because reasons.
re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Those dirty Irish are going to mess everything up!
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They always do. Drinking, getting in fights, promoting Catholicism, etc…
I’m one of them, though no longer involved in those things.
re: #74 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
All the election deniers would still claim a system like this is “rife with fraud” because reasons.
Might not be rife with fraud but it certainly will be prone to errors and there would be differences amongst individuals on how they interpret a vote.
Long Ryders, Lone Justice and Jason and the Scorchers make a Monday not suck.
re: #78 Backwoods Sleuth
“Mr. Giuliani, can you explain to this court why you don’t deserve to have your lips sewn shut and your thumbs surgically attached to each other for your incessant lying?”
re: #78 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #57 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That’s probably it for Kang the Conqueror. MCU plans will have to change.
Most likely you are correct. The whole Kang thing wasn’t really catching on like Marvel hoped anyway. The recent Ant Man movie proved that enemy is no big draw by himself. Probably a quick pivot to a more known entity like Dr Doom or Galactus. Galactus was already presented in a previous Fantastic Four movie, albeit Fox produced.
I however was looking forward to seeing what they eventually did with Kang. Probably “doomed” now I suppose.
re: #23 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
If you want to keep the cat, you should keep it inside. Outdoor cats vanish, leaving you wondering what terrible fate they met.
true that. I’ve got two of mine on milk cartons as I write this.
Tankie progressives gonna pile on Fetterman over his support of Israel forever now.
huffpost.com
re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅
Jonathan Majors Found Guilty in Domestic Violence Trial
The Marvel actor was found guilty of two counts and cleared of two other counts following his arrest on March 25 on charges of assault and harassment for allegedly attacking his then-girlfriend
Please tell me Disney is finally going to drop his ass now.
I’ve been frustrated at their lack of action to this point.
re: #38 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Cats are extremely curious animals. Put something shiny in line of sight, and they’re going to want to poke it to see what happens.
it’s why they’re granted nine lives. It’s understood they couldn’t possibly live long enough to reproduce if they weren’t given an enormous number of mulligans.
re: #332 Wile E. Wonka
“Stramps” are actually terrible design — although they look great from a distance, and Oberlander and Erickson’s hearts were in the right place when they came up with the concept, it fails to work as a wheelchair ramp (no edges, huge fall risk) AND fails to work as stairs, especially for visually-impaired or otherwise disabled people who don’t use wheels.
Thank you for posting that summary — matches my reaction to the design, based on several years of pushing my mom in her wheelchair and now being on a walker myself. The person pushing a wheelchair has to go backwards down the ramps, to keep their passenger safe from falling or feeling like they’re going to fall, while navigating over their own shoulder to stay in the right line. The ‘stramp’ looks like a bloody nightmare for that — no rails, sharp corners, cross traffic from the other folks walking up or down. Doesn’t look much easier for navigating with a walker, for some of the same reasons.
Pretty. Not functional.
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
Please tell me Disney is finally going to drop his ass now.
I’ve been frustrated at their lack of action to this point.
Legal cover. He’s gone now.
re: #84 steve_davis
true that. I’ve got two of mine on milk cartons as I write this.
I once lost an extremely cool cat when he opened my screen door. He entered my life overnight through a window, and exited overnight via a patio door years later.
I’ve had two cats disappear where I live now. The other was accidently let out by a friend who is lucky that cat was a mess that I did not miss. She constantly showed her displeasure with urine. It was a huge problem.
re: #92 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I once lost an extremely cool cat when he opened my screen door. He entered my life overnight through a window, and exited overnight via a patio door years later.
I’ve had two cats disappear where I live now. The other was accidently let out by a friend who is lucky that cat was a mess that I did not miss. She constantly showed her displeasure with urine. It was a huge problem.
same. I’ll always be guilt-ridden about Jesse. I could have picked her up and thrown her back in the apartment, but I was only going to be gone for 15 minutes or so. I didn’t know the deck washers were going to show up at that exact interval and apparently cause her to lose her tiny but wonderful mind.
re: #76 dat_said
Might not be rife with fraud but it certainly will be prone to errors and there would be differences amongst individuals on how they interpret a vote.
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You could, theoretically, do a hand count of a single race. But how many different races are on a typical American ballot? It would be a complete shitshow that would make Florida 2000 look tame by comparison.
re: #94 KGxvi
You could, theoretically, do a hand count of a single race. But how many different races are on a typical American ballot? It would be a complete shitshow that would make Florida 2000 look tame by comparison.
I don’t think they care about the counting method, as long as a single race and religion’s votes count, and other races and religions’ votes do not.
Y’all up in LA over to Santa Barbara are going to get several inches of rain this week.
Down here… we’ll get a trace the next few days… then maybe an inch or so on Friday. But even that amount I think may be an overestimate.
Still, good for the Sierras. They won’t get a lot of snow but every bit helps.
re: #96 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
fill up those aquifers!
Total accumulated precip through the 27th (locally, 12Z 28Dec UTC):
The central Sierras will get some good snow, but the southern Sierra will not, unfortunately.
We are in a very long process of drying out parts of the US, the western part. Eastern part of the US should see increasing precip as surface temps warm.
re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth
So - isn’t this just more of what, in legal terms, is classified as “Standard Trump Legal Bullshit” - i.e., appealing anything and everything “upstairs” to try to postpone any sort of reckoning? Or run out the clock as much as possible in the (fervently-wished-to-be-vain) hope that *eventually* someone (i.e. Someone Else) will blink/give in/try to settle, etc.??
ISTM that It Just Ain’t Gonna Work Anymore: this isn’t some plumbing contractor from The Bronx suing over being stiffed for boiler repairs at Trump Tower or whatever: this is serious shit.
My guess: the full DC Circuit takes about a day (actually probably about 15 minutes, but *procedure*, folks) to slap Trump down (again); and so back to our regularly-scheduled program….
re: #40 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Ispitania — experiences. (If the first letter was и.)
Markkm1960, I hope the downding was an error!
re: #99 Jay C
So - isn’t this just more of what, in legal terms, is classified as “Standard Trump Legal Bullshit” - i.e., appealing anything and everything “upstairs” to try to postpone any sort of reckoning? Or run out the clock as much as possible in the (fervently-wished-to-be-vain) hope that *eventually* someone (i.e. Someone Else) will blink/give in/try to settle, etc.??
ISTM that It Just Ain’t Gonna Work Anymore: this isn’t some plumbing contractor from The Bronx suing over being stiffed for boiler repairs at Trump Tower or whatever: this is serious shit.
My guess: the full DC Circuit takes about a day (actually probably about 15 minutes, but *procedure*, folks) to slap Trump down (again); and so back to our regularly-scheduled program….
it’s doing something for the sake of doing something. Per the Federal Rules:
When Hearing or Rehearing En Banc May Be Ordered. A majority of the circuit judges who are in regular active service and who are not disqualified may order that an appeal or other proceeding be heard or reheard by the court of appeals en banc. An en banc hearing or rehearing is not favored and ordinarily will not be ordered unless:
(1) en banc consideration is necessary to secure or maintain uniformity of the court’s decisions; or
(2) the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance.
His lawyers will argue exceptional importance, but I don’t think the Court is going to buy “a party running for public office not getting to talk shit” is a question of exceptional importance.
re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth
Full panel hold gag order with one dissent. Trump: See, there’s a reason it should be ruled unconstitutional.
Full panel preserves gag order with no dissent. Trump: See, the corrupt court is against me.
re: #83 Florida Panhandler
Most likely you are correct. The whole Kang thing wasn’t really catching on like Marvel hoped anyway. The recent Ant Man movie proved that enemy is no big draw by himself. Probably a quick pivot to a more known entity like Dr Doom or Galactus. Galactus was already presented in a previous Fantastic Four movie, albeit Fox produced.
I however was looking forward to seeing what they eventually did with Kang. Probably “doomed” now I suppose.
There was one movie with Kang, and the lines with Loki. Not exactly a history, unlike Thanos whose presence was felt across multiple stories.
He will be around, as his storyline is rather pivotal to merging the MCU and the Fox X-Men universes together.
re: #29 dat_said
I can’t imagine doing it for even just a school district. Our local school board election was the only thing on the ballot this fall - eleven candidates vying for 4 spots. The highest vote getter of the group of 4 sane folks was just over 9500. The highest vote getter of the 4 MN Parents Alliance (think Moms for Liberty) was about 4700. It would be fair to estimate at least 14,000 ballots. Counting one vote a second would take nearly 4 hours and you’d have to repeat for each candidate and likely have to recount each candidate three times or more for accuracy. It would take days with a dozen people doing the counting and there’d be lots of potential errors.
Illinois usually has dozens of judicial races each election, as well as a host of other statewide/county wide/district wide races. This is a ridiculous idea developed by people who don’t understand counting or who are trying to sabotage the whole process.
re: #2 darthstar
I’m glad to see Russia’s air defenses working just this once…
Next to the downed U2 exhibit at the Military Museum in Moscow is also a plaque commemorating one of the fighter pilots who scrambled to intercept Gary Powers’ plane and was inadvertently shot down by friendly fire.
re: #104 Belafon
My wife said Marvel formally dripped Majors.
No surprise: though I would have thought they would have done it all at once, rather than gradually…
(/// if not noticed…)
re: #25 Backwoods Sleuth
There was a famous quote from Geregor Gysi, a former East German Communist and now member of The Left Party in response to those complaining about how Germany should not be housing refugees when they don’t have enough money for the homeless:
“Even without refugess, there would still not be enough money for the homeless.”
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
They released the baby owl in their backyard. Won’t it die? I would have given it to a shelter.
re: #110 goddamnedfrank
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re: #109 Patricia Kayden
They released the baby owl in their backyard. Won’t it die? I would have given it to a shelter.
I wondered about that. There are people who know about introducing creatures back into the wild
re: #110 goddamnedfrank
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Allow me to apologize for my hometown - Yes, Van Leeuwen ice cream is made in Brooklyn, (and its founders are siblings named “Van Leeuwen”) - but THIS????
re: #45 Randall Gross
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re: #109 Patricia Kayden
They released the baby owl in their backyard. Won’t it die? I would have given it to a shelter.
pretty sure that owl wasn’t a baby
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Next to the downed U2 exhibit at the Military Museum in Moscow is also a plaque commemorating one of the fighter pilots who scrambled to intercept Gary Powers’ plane and was inadvertently shot down by friendly fire.
Russia seems to have little or no IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) capability. This fuckup keeps happening because the systems can’t automatically and securely identify each other. Couple that with trigger happy air defense and this is what you get.
I’m betting this is either the secondary or even the primary reason for Ukraine to be sending drones into Russian airspace. Besides actually destroying targets, it also means air defense in Russia is looking for threats and ready to shoot them down, but no IFF so Russia ends up downing their own aircraft in their own country.
re: #40 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Ispitania — experiences. (If the first letter was и.)
They mean “prototype” or “test” here. That car looks like Mr Bean should be driving it.
re: #115 Backwoods Sleuth
pretty sure that owl wasn’t a baby
Most likely an Eastern Screech Owl…they are very smol and I can see how it could be mistaken for a baby
re: #113 Jay C
Allow me to apologize for my hometown - Yes, Van Leeuwen ice cream is made in Brooklyn, (and its founders are siblings named “Van Leeuwen”) - but THIS????
One must never, EVER, apologize for Brooklyn. Because it’s Brooklyn fergawdsake.
re: #117 Backwoods Sleuth
Most likely an Eastern Screech Owl…they are very smol and I can see how it could be mistaken for a baby
Northern Saw-whet owls are pretty small as well and like to roost in tangles/close brush.
One was spotted in the wildlife refuge south of Philly and they actually had a sign up indicating a ranger had spotted one and where the sight was. I thus have a photo of an owl’s butt since it was in a brushy tangle just off the trail and the angle to even see the owl was very small. (And they requested people going to see it to not leave the trail.)
re: #113 Jay C
Allow me to apologize for my hometown - Yes, Van Leeuwen ice cream is made in Brooklyn, (and its founders are siblings named “Van Leeuwen”) - but THIS????
Listen, when I worked at Chandler’s Crabhouse in college we once made ice cream out of crab stock (with a cloaking field of bourbon) so this really doesn’t phase me at all.
re: #120 goddamnedfrank
Listen, when I worked at Chandler’s Crabhouse in college we once made ice cream out of crab stock (with a cloaking field of bourbon) so this really doesn’t phase me at all.
OK, then:
Disclaimer: I LOVE Van Leeuwen ice cream - and regret that we moved away from an outlet in our old neighborhood - but “Kraft Mac and Cheese” for a flavor??? * . But yeah: “Crab and Bourbon Ice Cream” - OK, Whole ‘Nother Thing; I’ll consider myself chastened….
*OK, another disclaimer: haven’t tasted it. When/If I do, I’ll be sure to report.
re: #121 Jay C
There used to be a restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Stinking Rose that specialized in garlic infused dishes and they served garlic ice cream for dessert.
re: #122 Joe Bacon ✅
There used to be a restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Stinking Rose that specialized in garlic infused dishes and they served garlic ice cream for dessert.
Called what? “Gelato di Aioli”?
I’ve been there with a professional group. Several people bought the garlic-flavored condoms, as well.
re: #109 Patricia Kayden
They released the baby owl in their backyard. Won’t it die? I would have given it to a shelter.
From the pictures, it was a juvenile — which means it had been on its own for a while before someone carried its home away. (Owlets are born in the spring and leave their parents after a few months.)
re: #122 Joe Bacon ✅
There used to be a restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Stinking Rose that specialized in garlic infused dishes and they served garlic ice cream for dessert.
I loved the Stinking Rose
re: #118 sagehen
One must never, EVER, apologize for Brooklyn. Because it’s Brooklyn fergawdsake.
That sounds like apologizing for Brooklyn, like when you apologize for a person in the form of “That’s John being John,” so the person who experienced John knows they’re not the problem.
re: #89 CleverToad
Thank you for posting that summary — matches my reaction to the design, based on several years of pushing my mom in her wheelchair and now being on a walker myself. The person pushing a wheelchair has to go backwards down the ramps, to keep their passenger safe from falling or feeling like they’re going to fall, while navigating over their own shoulder to stay in the right line. The ‘stramp’ looks like a bloody nightmare for that — no rails, sharp corners, cross traffic from the other folks walking up or down. Doesn’t look much easier for navigating with a walker, for some of the same reasons.
Pretty. Not functional.
The first year at my last job (retired after 31 years there) my department was in a small 2 story building on the company campus. There was a stunning staircase to the 2nd floor where my office was. Let’s just say no one ever made the mistake of taking that staircase more than once. We always headed to the back staircase. The one at the entrance was visually disorienting when you tried to walk upstairs. Fortunately, my group then relocated to the main buildings and never had to deal with that again.
re: #124 Joe Bacon ✅
NB: Your link to the Stinking Rose SF menu didn’t display: but I got the link anyway: what a wonderful menu*, I could smell the garlic through my laptop…
And the Stinking Rose BH was the old Lawry’s? On “Restaurant Row”? Man, talk about bringing up memories: that was always a go-to place when I was growing up: massive cuts of meat: even my father couldn’t always finish them off….
*opinions will, obviously, vary
re: #120 goddamnedfrank
Listen, when I worked at Chandler’s Crabhouse in college we once made ice cream out of crab stock (with a cloaking field of bourbon) so this really doesn’t phase me at all.
The Scottish Malt Whisky Society are a bunch of amiable nutters with access to a large quantity of limited-edition single malts. Thay have, of course, contacts within the arcane and eccentric Scottish distilling industry. They also have their terrorist kamikaze wing who, ah, “experiment”.
One night long ago after a tasting session in the Edinburgh sample rooms someone posed a question that should not, perhaps, have ever been asked. “What would we get if we aged a single malt in a barrel previously used to ferment Tabasco sauce?”
Several years later, they tapped the hell-barrel and sampled the results which were rated as being between “meh” and “urgh” on the drinking scale. The barrel was put away in the back of the stockroom and strenuously forgotten about. Much later it resurfaced and was sampled again. It was still “meh” but one member took home a quantity to use in his culinary experiments which, it turned out, were definitely not “meh”, oh no. This sparked a flurry of further experiments which included Tabasco-whisky flavoured ice cream. The rest of the hell-barrel was sold off in limited quantities as “Hot Scotch” and is sadly no longer available in the Society’s catalogue.
re: #115 Backwoods Sleuth
pretty sure that owl wasn’t a baby
That’s an adult Eastern Screech Owl. That’s the same species I have in the box here at the house and always post up.
It just needs to go outside. They are very gregarious around known humans.
re: #119 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Northern Saw-whet owls are pretty small as well and like to roost in tangles/close brush.
One was spotted in the wildlife refuge south of Philly and they actually had a sign up indicating a ranger had spotted one and where the sight was. I thus have a photo of an owl’s butt since it was in a brushy tangle just off the trail and the angle to even see the owl was very small. (And they requested people going to see it to not leave the trail.)
We used to live on a farm that had saw-whet owls, and they were both darling and very friendly. They would come see us, as opposed to vice versa.
re: #129 KGxvi
I loved the Stinking Rose
What is so sad is how many restaurants closed for good during the pandemic. The one that hit me the hardest was the closing of the Pacific Dining Car. 😪
I’d always go there for my birthday, Christmas and New Year dinners.
re: #133 Nojay UK
This sparked a flurry of further experiments which included Tabasco-whisky flavoured ice cream.
Who was in charge of those “experiments”?
Dr. Frankenstein???
I just took this….
Eastern Screech Owl. pic.twitter.com/D7ODx1Q96a
— TravisBlues (@Travisblues01) December 18, 2023
re: #138 Jay C
Who was in charge of that “experiment”?
Dr. Frankenstein???
Dr. Coolhaus was involved with this limited edition…
re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅
What is so sad is how many restaurants closed for good during the pandemic. The one that hit me the hardest was the closing of the Pacific Dining Car. 😪
I’d always go there for my birthday, Christmas and New Year dinners.
Honestly, I’m surprised how many actually survived. I guess most of the places that were able to get on door dash or the like did alright (though apparently door dash takes a big percentage), but a lot of places that were on the nicer sit down side had it rougher. I’m just glad the Cellar in Fullerton survived, one of my favorite little spots.
re: #134 Dave In Austin
That’s an adult Eastern Screech Owl. That’s the same species I have in the box here at the house and always post up.
It just needs to go outside. They are very gregarious around known humans.
Happy I got the correct ID. They live in my barn and the owl in the news video looked like an eastern screech owl.
They are too cute for words.
Glad to see the Hug Bibi In Public plan is working so well:
“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestinian state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza,” Netanyahu said at a news conference.
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“Everyone understands what would have happened if we had capitulated to international pressures and enabled a state like that in Judaea and Samaria, surrounding Jerusalem and on the outskirts of Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also took aim at the Palestinian Authority, the governing authority in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. He described the Oslo Accords ― the 1993 diplomatic agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority ― as a “mistake,” and said he had “inherited” the agreements.
re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Since most of the hillsides are covered in snow, the red light reflects and gives that eerie feeling, like you’re on another planet.
re: #148 Vicious Babushka
What’s wrong with him?
re: #142 KGxvi
Honestly, I’m surprised how many actually survived. I guess most of the places that were able to get on door dash or the like did alright (though apparently door dash takes a big percentage), but a lot of places that were on the nicer sit down side had it rougher. I’m just glad the Cellar in Fullerton survived, one of my favorite little spots.
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re: #148 Vicious Babushka
there is nothing pragmatic about Trump. Pragmatism requires critical thinking skills along the ability to plan and adapt. Trump doesn’t do tactics or strategy, he’s purely instinctual in his motivations - power and money above all else.
re: #150 wrenchwench
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JUST IN: First aerial footage captured just minutes ago of the newly opened volcanic fissure near Grindavík, Iceland.
It is estimated to be about 3 km long! pic.twitter.com/uLLpmZHvFe— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) December 18, 2023
re: #151 KGxvi
there is nothing pragmatic about Trump. Pragmatism requires
criticalthinkingskills along the ability to plan and adapt.…
re: #143 Backwoods Sleuth
Happy I got the correct ID. They live in my barn and the owl in the news video looked like an eastern screech owl.
They are too cute for words.
We set up an owl house years ago, so excitedly. One morning we woke up to Blue Jays making a racket around it and an adult owl peeking out at them. Two days later the owl was gone. We figured that the Blue Jays were just too noisy and bothersome but when I googled it we learned that Blue Jays are the number one predator of Screech Owls!
re: #154 Captain Ron
Yeah, it’s a pretty big leak this time.
See, this is what happens when you keep putting off those little plumbing issues. Little problems become big problems.
re: #158 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
We set up an owl house years ago, so excitedly. One morning we woke up to Blue Jays making a racket around it and an adult owl peeking out at them. Two days later the owl was gone. We figured that the Blue Jays were just too noisy and bothersome but when I googled it we learned that Blue Jays are the number one predator of Screech Owls!
Blue Jays are assholes
re: #149 Dave In Austin
What’s wrong with him?
More-important question: What’s wrong with the NYT for publishing this garbage…?
ADD: A quick (if necessarily brief - there are 2800+ comments) glance through the NYT’s comments section on this tripe is tad more heartening: at least the majority (??20-1??) of commenters are having none of it…
re: #162 Jay C
More-important question: What’s wrong with the NYT for publishing this garbage…?
I’ve wanted to cancel my subscription many times in the last several years, but was only able to do so once.
re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Iceland’s volcanoes have always put on a good show.
Google Little Debbie Ice Cream.
Multiple flavors based on their snack cakes.
re: #165 BlueSpotinAL ✅
I’d try Nutty Bar ice cream. I was addicted to those waxy things for a while years ago.
re: #148 Vicious Babushka
I don’t even need to read that, I already know what it says.
The guy who wrote it is a well-known “stealth” Trump operative posing as a “moderate.” Of course IRL he’s a complete loon.
re: #166 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I’d try Nutty Bar ice cream. I was addicted to those waxy things for a while years ago.
Me, too, still on occasion. And the oatmeal cookie sandwiches… all very bad for my diet.
re: #138 Jay C
Who was in charge of those “experiments”?
Dr. Frankenstein???
the Scottish Malt Whisky Society is still at it, it appears. Unfortunately Exp. #1 is sold out, according to the society’s online ordering pages.
(In case the linked video doesn’t play for some people, Exp. #1 consists of a barrel of ten-year-old whisky with two kilos of chopped Scotch Bonnet peppers added and left for a further seventeen years before being bottled.)
re: #169 Nojay UK
the Scottish Malt Whisky Society is still at it, it appears. Unfortunately Exp. #1 is sold out, according to the society’s online ordering pages.
(In case the linked video doesn’t play for some people, Exp. #1 consists of a barrel of ten-year-old whisky with two kilos of chopped Scotch Bonnet peppers added and left for a further seventeen years before being bottled.)
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re: #165 BlueSpotinAL ✅
Google Little Debbie Ice Cream.
Multiple flavors based on their snack cakes.
re: #166 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I’d try Nutty Bar ice cream. I was addicted to those waxy things for a while years ago.
The LD Christmas Tree Cake ice cream (the OG “regular”, not the chocolate) is the bomb; right after this past New Year’s, I picked up 10-12 pints of it on clearance for $1 each from the Wally World.
re: #168 retired cynic
Me, too, still on occasion. And the oatmeal cookie sandwiches… all very bad for my diet.
The best was It’s It when they were only in San Francisco, before they went commercial, as we used to say.
1928!?!? It’s about time they went commercial!
re: #168 retired cynic
Me, too, still on occasion. And the oatmeal cookie sandwiches… all very bad for my diet.
For me it was a vending machine thing when I was at the Sears Tower. You can write a lot of code on tea and Nutty Bars.
Little Debbie ice cream is sold exclusively at Walmart.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a Walmart.
re: #175 Vicious Babushka
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re: #175 Vicious Babushka
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They are all in favor of forcing kids to be trans against their will, just not in the way they claim. They accuse people of turning cis kids into trans, but this is the reality. They want to force this girl to be a boy, which she is not. She’s told them this, but they want to force her to go through the wrong puberty against her will anyway. It’s grotesque, and an assault on bodily autonomy, but that’s the “Freedom Party” for you.
This girl is asserting herself with the only power that she has, which is refuse to eat.
re: #114 teleskiguy
Alas… It’s finals week at Vail Mountain School, so no skiing for the kids, they got academic’in to do. I won’t be coaching until after the new year.