Jordan Klepper dives into Governor Kristi Noem’s disastrous PR attempt to clean up her book revelations about shooting a puppy and meeting Kim Jong Un, and RFK Jr.’s medical scare with a parasitic brain worm. Plus, Desi Lydic may or may not have fallen prey to RFK Jr.’s worm army. #DailyShow #KristiNoem #RFKJr #JordanKlepper
Whenever I hear about brain worms, I think of the great sci-fi classic, The Hidden
Great cast, cars, flamethrowers and strippers. Lots of action. And a cool idea that would certainly explain much.
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— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 8, 2024
re: #1 silverdolphin
Whenever I hear about brain worms, I think of the great sci-fi classic, The Hidden
Great cast, cars, flamethrowers and strippers. Lots of action. And a cool idea that would certainly explain much.
The Hidden is an underappreciated genre film. It didn’t last long in theaters and like many who’ve seen it, I discovered it later on home video.
re: #3 Dr Lizardo
The Hidden is an underappreciated genre film. It didn’t last long in theaters and like many who’ve seen it, I discovered it later on home video.
It seemed to just disappear, even though I think it is one of Kyle MacLachlan’s best. ANd it played it really straight for much of it. Plus it has some really creepy scenes that are not forgotten soon.
I wonder if it is streamable form somewhere?
re: #145 Belafon
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re: #1 silverdolphin
Whenever I hear about brain worms, I think of the great sci-fi classic, The Hidden
Great cast, cars, flamethrowers and strippers. Lots of action. And a cool idea that would certainly explain much.
Nah, Night of the Creeps.
re: #6 Targetpractice
Nah, Night of the Creeps.
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I depends on whether zombie brain worms are worse than brain worms from outer space ;-)
re: #4 silverdolphin
It seemed to just disappear, even though I think it is one of Kyle MacLachlan’s best. ANd it played it really straight for much of it. Plus it has some really creepy scenes that are not forgotten soon.
I wonder if it is streamable form somewhere?
Good question. It could be one of those flicks still only available on physical media. IIRC, there was a BluRay release a few years back.
re: #4 silverdolphin
It seemed to just disappear, even though I think it is one of Kyle MacLachlan’s best. ANd it played it really straight for much of it. Plus it has some really creepy scenes that are not forgotten soon.
I wonder if it is streamable form somewhere?
I remember seeing it back in the day on the Scifi Channel when their lineup was mostly old scifi B-movies and reruns of syndicated scifi series from the 70s and 80s. You know, sort of like how ESPN used to have to broadcast any “sport” they could get their hands on, so that you found yourself watching regional cheerleading competitions or little league softball tournaments because there were no other “sports” on in the dead of night.
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
Good question. It could be one of those flicks still only available on physical media. IIRC, there was a BluRay release a few years back.
Just checked. You can rent it for buy it from the Apple Store for $9.99 or rent for $3.99. I expect the other places are similar. I ownder what it looks like on my AVP?
re: #10 silverdolphin
Just checked. You can rent it for buy it from the Apple Store for $9.99 or rent for $3.99. I expect the other places are similar. I ownder what it looks like on my AVP?
I’ll have to look for it.
Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on
Nearly a decade after it broke ground on a controversial plan to build a canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has canceled a concession granted to a Chinese businessman to complete the project which critics said would endanger the environment and displace rural communities.
That’s a big development in the world of logistics.
re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea
Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on
That’s a big development in the world of logistics.
I’m hoping the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec which will use trains to move from one ocean to another, finds success. Waiting just to get into the Canal can take 20 days. The railroad would hopefully shorten this. And it is much closer to US ports than Panama.
This idea that the U.S. has to provide Israel with a blank check and then shut up is a new concept in U.S. foreign policy. It’s paradoxical that it’s become more popular even as Israel’s government has moved far to the right and has lost all interest in a 2-state solution.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 9, 2024
re: #15 wrenchwench
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I watched the whole thing. He gave totally credible answers to what she asked. Compare with Trump or any Republican who never answers a question in good faith.
re: #15 wrenchwench
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The screeching you just heard wasn’t a rusty hinge, it was AG Sulzberger losing his mind that yet another outlet gets to interview Biden but not the Times. Quickly, another “Biden is OLD!” story must hit the front page tomorrow!
re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is some relevance there to the current situation Biden is in wrt Israel.
It also comes up in one of the questions.
Well, this was a word. 5/6
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Here’s hoping today is better than yesterday.
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, this was a word. 5/6
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It was absolutely a word that was used.
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There are intelligent, reasoned, and rational arguments to make for and against the policy. But Republicans aren’t in that business. They are in the stupid business. pic.twitter.com/8oeoqHCTiB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
A New York State Supreme Court judge blocked a possible abortion rights amendment from appearing on the November ballot.Democrats passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 2023, which was intended to protect abortion rights and a person’s right to seek gender-affirming care. A state supreme court justice ruled that lawmakers did not follow state rules for approving a constitutional amendment.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will appeal the decision.
re: #24 Dangerman
See the video I posted from Stanford, about democracies and the US in particular, with the US tending hawkish because for the elites (which includes Senators) there is not much of a downside with being so.
Now Cotton is a special case where he is strongly playing to the butthurt throwbacks who only know one thing: resentment at the modern world.
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, this was a word. 5/6
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4/6 here
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A true artist!
19 News investigating a viral video that shows protestors being sprayed with paint. Students say it happened at Case Western Reserve University and they want answers.
Raissa, a student protester says it happened when workers came to cover up messages students painted on the university “spirit” wall.
In the video you can see some people stood in front of the wall to try and block the workers from painting it.
“It was a pressurized paint gun spraying harmful chemicals with carcinogens and toxins directly with no concern for health or the well-being of an individual who is paying to be here,” said Raissa.
re: #15 wrenchwench
All the talk will do nothing to move the needle with The Base.
All the Base wants is a full-size F150 pickup with no touchscreen, simple buttons for $25k and no dealer markup.. What the Base wants is a 3% interest rate for purchasing pickups and houses. What the Base wants is to realize a living wage while seeing online and reality TV the extravagant life the 1% are living. This is a Populist election period.
We are living in an Age of Populism in the US, whether you choose to like it or not. Gone is the Age of Enlightenment, the intellectual Age of Philosophy of the 1800’s, the emergent Socialism of the early 1900’s, and the intellectual Free Marketeers of the latter 20th Century. In their place is a rapid descent to the anti-intellectual bottom with marvelous examples of human thought excrement like Trump, MTG and Gaetz representing America to the world. The Democratic Party still fails to realize our predicament and will lose this election if they don’t take off the gloves and do something.
Gone from their rhetoric is their excuse for racism being a “free market.” The Base wants the government to order large companies to do stuff that benefits them. Their demands are coming from a right-wing point of view. Their complaints and demands are consistent with a feeling of entitlement and ignorance, and Democrats must reply with left-wing Populist solid answers and solutions or else. …Else MAGA will continue to fester and grow. Populism will not simply just go away. It must be commanded and controlled.
re: #31 Florida Panhandler
The base wants a full sized F350 for free with the right to use it to run over minorities and trans people.
re: #32 Belafon
The base wants a full sized F350 for free with the right to use it to run over minorities and trans people.
Trite answers will not make this simply go away.
Here is proof. This just now:
More Populism. Simplistic, nonsensical. But real. Rest easy, MAGA… your nat gas appliances are safe from Commie Demoncrap hands.
re: #33 Florida Panhandler
Trite answers will not make this simply go away.
Here is proof. This just now:
More Populism. Simplistic, nonsensical. But real. Rest easy, MAGA… your nat gas appliances are safe from Commie Demoncrap hands.
And neither will answers that exclude the fact that “populism” includes a whole shitload of racism, sexism, and transphobia,
re: #31 Florida Panhandler
All the talk will do nothing to move the needle with The Base.
All the Base wants is a full-size F150 pickup with no touchscreen, simple buttons for $25k and no dealer markup.. What the Base wants is a 3% interest rate for purchasing pickups and houses. What the Base wants is to realize a living wage while seeing online and reality TV the extravagant life the 1% are living. This is a Populist election period.
We are living in an Age of Populism in the US, whether you choose to like it or not. Gone is the Age of Enlightenment, the intellectual Age of Philosophy of the 1800’s, the emergent Socialism of the early 1900’s, and the intellectual Free Marketeers of the latter 20th Century. In their place is a rapid descent to the anti-intellectual bottom with marvelous examples of human thought excrement like Trump, MTG and Gaetz representing America to the world. The Democratic Party still fails to realize our predicament and will lose this election if they don’t take off the gloves and do something.
Gone from their rhetoric is their excuse for racism being a “free market.” The Base wants the government to order large companies to do stuff that benefits them. Their demands are coming from a right-wing point of view. Their complaints and demands are consistent with a feeling of entitlement and ignorance, and Democrats must reply with left-wing Populist solid answers and solutions or else. …Else MAGA will continue to fester and grow. Populism will not simply just go away. It must be commanded and controlled.
My boss lives in Florida and he thinks trump will beat Biden hands-down since open racism and misogyny are rampant there and they love trump, they love his open racism, his open hostility to women. They love his populist bullshit.
It’s honestly terrifying.
re: #34 Belafon
Which is why it must be commanded and controlled. FDR Style populism worked because it directly addressed head-on the most pressing issues facing the majority of Americans, and while not eliminating the overt racism common in that time period, did at least offer distraction and common cause away from racist policies being a solution to the problems.
MAGA has and will continue to offer up 100% racist policies as solutions for the common man.
As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year,” the Washington Post reports.“Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted.”
“Giving $1 billion would be a ‘deal,’ Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him.”
“Trump’s remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid.”
They expect their bribes campaign contributions to pay off
He’s at least *saying* bribe me and ill do it
More right-wing MAGA Populist solution in these fun times:
From the “Send them back where they came from” files:
The comments hoping for violence and death of these students either by implication or matter of fact tells you all you need to know. This bill is nothing short of a hopeful death sentence for them.
Say gang are we ready for the next chapter of Stormy Weather today?
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs (Michael Cohen) coming up more than once.
When you own words come back to haunt you…
A federal judge used the words of conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to shoot down an effort to dismiss lawsuits challenging right-wing Alabama prosecutions.
“An elective abortion performed in Alabama would be a criminal offense; thus, a conspiracy formed in the State to have that same act performed outside the State is illegal,” Marshall’s office wrote.
This week, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson denied the motion, reported Newsweek.
He used the words written by Kavanaugh in his concurring opinion in the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Thompson wrote that the state, “cannot constitutionally prosecute people for acts taken within the State meant to facilitate lawful out of state conduct, including obtaining an abortion.”
Then he referenced Kavanaugh, who said out-of-state travel for procedures was covered by “the constitutional right to interstate travel.”
Alabama “can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here. In this sense, the case is not an ‘especially difficult call,’” Thompson wrote.
The line to get into court for day 2 of the Stormy testimony is much longer than yesterday. More fireworks to be expected, though the day 1 testimony still hit Trump hard because it moved the needle forward on the prosecution case of showing that this was about preventing the news of the affair/relationship from being made public. Today’s cross isn’t going to help Trump, but his defense lawyers have been browbeaten into doing this because Trump demands it, regardless of the damage it is doing to his own defense.
His defense theories for why this was a legit expense, not criminal, etc., fall apart under scrutiny, and nothing they’ve elicited from the witnesses to date undermines the prosecution case.
Blowsanne is finishing a “tell-all” book showing just how f’n nuts she is and she’s gonna burn what bridges she had left.
Should I have done a deal? I couldn’t live with myself if I did a deal with the Democrats.”— Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), in an interview with politico.
Interesting perspective cause thats pretty much the definition of the job.
But ok kev.
Shortest speakership in a century
re: #43 lawhawk
I was really busy at work Tuesday and only paid minimal attention to Stormy’s testimony online. I think that is how I’ll do it again today…the biggest risk for the prosecution is her deciding she wants her pound of flesh and blowing up the trial by taking it to Don from the stand. Also a small risk from Cohen. Revenge is never a rational act.
Here’s hoping none of that happens and it gets back to boring documented fraud quickly.
re: #45 Dangerman
Interesting perspective cause thats pretty much the definition of the job.
But ok kev.
Shortest speakership in a century
And here again, we see the stark difference between the parties. Democrats have no problems making deals with Republicans, because we don’t see them as “the enemy,” only as sorely misguided (and, in many cases, bugfuck insane). Republicans hate us so much, they’d literally rather die than make a compromise with us.
Some in Trump’s orbit are rooting for chaos, encouraging him to engineer a standoff with the American judicial system. They argue that the image of a former President sitting in a prison cell for speaking his mind would turn public opinion against the proceedings. Trump ‘should fight it even if it means jail,’ says Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist.”
Bannon, who won’t go to jail himself…
But hey, I’m willing to test this theory
re: #48 Dangerman
Bannon, who won’t go to jail himself…
But hey, I’m willing to test this theory
Profiles in Courage.
re: #46 darthstar
Witness prep for trial testimony is an artform, and prosecutors are well versed in dealing with witnesses who are combative, unwilling to testify, or want to put the screws to a defendant by any means necessary, even if it may blow up the prosecution case.
I’m sure that prosecutors spoke with her before she takes the stand again, to make sure that she answers truthfully, doesn’t embellish with details that aren’t critical to the case, and sticks to the questions asked and doesn’t go beyond it.
Defense team is hoping to get her to spew something sufficient to cause a mistrial, but I don’t see that happening after Merchan ruled on Tuesday.
After she is done with her testimony, not sure who prosecutors call next, but it might just be Cohen. He’s the other central figure involved in the payment scheme besides Trump.
re: #51 lawhawk
I heard yesterday that as she’s under cross the prosecution can’t talk to her.
re: #52 darthstar
They spoke to her while she was on direct exam after the mistrial request was made by Trump’s team during the break. You’re correct that prosecutors can’t talk to her while she’s on cross.
re: #51 lawhawk
After she is done with her testimony, not sure who prosecutors call next, but it might just be Cohen. He’s the other central figure involved in the payment scheme besides Trump.
Cohen would be a good way to end the week, and next week would be the other slice of bread on the truth sandwich - documented evidence, expert testimony as to how and why it is illegal.
re: #54 darthstar
Yeah, Cohen is probably next up - either starting this afternoon, or tomorrow when defense finishes with Daniels’ cross and prosecution redirect (if they choose).
Despite it all, a recent Pew Research Center survey showed that two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants have a favorable view of Trump.
For years now, many Christians have sought to justify supporting Trump using various rationalizations, including comparing him to King David, a flawed man who committed serious transgressions yet was used mightily by God.
Never mind that Trump never repented for his sins or even sought to change his ways; the gist was that God can use flawed vessels to accomplish His plans.
Interestingly, though, this argument seems to have morphed (in some quarters, at least) into a more sinister theory: that sexual sin isn’t just a stumbling block that can be overcome, it is proof of a man’s masculinity and even worthiness to be used by God.
At least, that was my takeaway from a recent Politico interview with Samuel L. Perry, a sociologist of religion and author of the book Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants. He contends that many evangelicals see Trump as a “representative of a kind of masculinity that is so masculine that his sexual appetites cannot be contained. That’s almost a good sign,” Parry says.
re: #47 Nerdy Fish
Plenty of (self-declared) Democrats see Republicans as the enemy, and it is easy to find that all over the internet.
However, elected Democrats tend to want to get legislation done, as a central part of the current Democratic Party ideology, even if not written explicitly in some manifesto, is that the government needs to help people and regulate enterprises (public and private.)
And to do that means making deals to pass legislation in chambers in which the Dems do not control veto-proof majorities.
The GOP is currently controlled by atavists who are very much near anarchists when it comes to a federal government.
Some days better than others.
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No more trial photos of Trump, thanks to someone sneaking a photo of Trump when he wasn’t seated at the defense table.
NEW: Judge Merchan is no longer allowing photography in the courtroom for the rest of the trial.
It appears someone in the pool violated the court order by taking a photo of Trump from the aisle. The order permits photographers to take photos only from the well itself— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) May 9, 2024
re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes, and that is very clearly a continued march from evangelical Christianity to a Nationalistic Religion.
Anybody with a seminary degree can tell you that the current American religious right’s love of Trump is about as far from the historical doctrines as one can get.
Indeed, pastors and preachers have commented that they walk a fine line in some of their congregations on this matter.
The pew sitters are turning into a rabble.
And while that is not new, I think we should take note the evangelical leadership is now being wagged by a tail of nationalist fervor .
MediaIte: Kristi Noem Calls Off Disastrous Book Tour, Canceling Hits on Fox News and CNN at Last Minute
Haven’t seen this mentioned yet and thought appropriate for this thread. At least this turn of events frees up some of her time for meeting with people like Kim Jong Un.
Before entering the courtroom, Trump claims Jews aren’t true Americans if they vote for Biden. Supermajority of Jews vote for Biden. So yeah, he’s making a dual loyalties argument if you don’t support him, even as his own policies aided Hamas.
To spell this out, Trump doesn’t think American Jews are truly American. They are Jews on permanent vacation from Israel. https://t.co/y5gM4oc5Go
— The Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) May 9, 2024
And it is not just evangelical Protestants who are in this fervor.
Eastern and Russian Orthodox types now on social media are among the most rabid hyper-masculine supporters of virility-through-nationalism ideas.
re: #59 lawhawk
No more trial photos of Trump, thanks to someone sneaking a photo of Trump when he wasn’t seated at the defense table.
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re: #62 lawhawk
Before entering the courtroom, Trump claims Jews aren’t true Americans if they vote for Biden. Supermajority of Jews vote for Biden. So yeah, he’s making a dual loyalties argument if you don’t support him, even as his own policies aided Hamas.
Wonder how much longer it’ll be before “Die Juden sind unser Unglück” makes it into the GOP platform.
re: #62 lawhawk
Oy Vey. Most Jews in the USA vote Democratic because that is what they have been doing for decades (if not longer). Furthermore the Democratic Party has been far more open minded in accepting individuals from every segment of society.
Thinking of picking up a 2014 iMac as an interim solution (until Apple puts out a decent/affordable alternative with the new M4 or the coming-in-2025 2nm chips).
They can be had at low enough prices and the RAM is upgradeable and with an SSD for a boot device I hope the performance will be fine.
It’s hard to beat the Apple displays in these iMacs, for the price.
Was thinking about a Mac Mini, but a decent 4K monitor costs as much as an old 4K iMac.
That there is still a thriving market for 7 year old iMacs is a testament itself to how well these things were designed.
Only thing I fear is if buying an older machine also means there is some flaw hiding under the surface.
re: #9 Targetpractice
I remember seeing it back in the day on the Scifi Channel when their lineup was mostly old scifi B-movies and reruns of syndicated scifi series from the 70s and 80s. You know, sort of like how ESPN used to have to broadcast any “sport” they could get their hands on, so that you found yourself watching regional cheerleading competitions or little league softball tournaments because there were no other “sports” on in the dead of night.
AFAIK, ESPN still shows cheerleading and the interminable little league tournaments. Maybe not as much as they used to before pro sports seasons started to last almost the entire year. I do think, however, they’ve eliminated those exciting spelling bee contests.
Heads up! SpaceX rocket scheduled for tonight, May 9th from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Launch is scheduled for 8:20 PM, that’s an hour after sunset in AZ, so, if it launches on time, we should have a good show in the western and southern skies. Of course, it might be delayed. go to spaceflightnow.com
or nasaspaceflight.com
for up to date details.
re: #70 sizzzzlerz
I am missing the darts league stuff - where their announces were calling 180 after 3 triple 20s. But that was on BBC America.
re: #70 sizzzzlerz
AFAIK, ESPN still shows cheerleading and the interminable little league tournaments. Maybe not as much as they used to before pro sports seasons started to last almost the entire year. I do think, however, they’ve eliminated those exciting spelling bee contests.
And you can stream The Ocho
Oh, not again…..😕
A Boeing 737-300 aircraft has crashed during take-off in Senegal, injuring 11 people, four of them severely.
Air Senegal flight HC 301 bound for the Malian capital Bamako went off the runway in the early hours of Thursday, Dakar’s Blaise Diagne airport said in a statement.
The pilot was slightly injured, but most of the 78 passengers on board were not hurt in the incident.
Operations have since been halted at the airport.
re: #72 lawhawk
I am missing the darts league stuff - where their announces were calling 180 after 3 triple 20s. But that was on BBC America.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!
re: #4 silverdolphin
It seemed to just disappear, even though I think it is one of Kyle MacLachlan’s best. ANd it played it really straight for much of it. Plus it has some really creepy scenes that are not forgotten soon.
I wonder if it is streamable form somewhere?
Turns out that my library has it available but, reading the wikipedia description gives me great pause as it sounds awfully stupid. However, IMDB user ratings put it at 7/10. Might be worth checking it out although I’m not a fan of slasher-type horror movies.
re: #75 darthstar
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!
I was in the UK for two years for work. Watched the darts on BBC (and snooker - that was captivating as I played a lot of pool then). When they interviewed the defending dart champion before his big match, they filmed him in his hotel room, his wife ironing his shirt for the competition, and he was sitting on the bed drinking a pint and smoking a cigarette. I thought, Now, that’s some athletic discipline!
re: #77 darthstar
I was in the UK for two years for work. Watched the darts on BBC (and snooker - that was captivating as I played a lot of pool then). When they interviewed the defending dart champion before his big match, they filmed him in his hotel room, his wife ironing his shirt for the competition, and he was sitting on the bed drinking a pint and smoking a cigarette. I thought, Now, that’s some athletic discipline!
Don’t be so judgmental. We all train our bodies to razorsharp perfection in different ways.
re: #80 William Lewis
Hate to say but I’m glad it’s not a Max because at least this probably really is pilot error.
Yeah, seems like it and thankfully, no fatalities thus far - though some serious injuries.
re: #16 silverdolphin
I watched the whole thing. He gave totally credible answers to what she asked. Compare with Trump or any Republican who never answers a question in good faith.
When you’ve actually got achievements to talk about, it’s easy. Unlike TFG and other GOPers, who have nothing and so fall back on insults, name-calling, bluster, and lies.
re: #74 Dr Lizardo
If its a 300, its almost 30 years old. The 737-300 never had any serious issues, none of the classics (100-600) had any issues. The Next Gen variants (700-900) didn’t either.
Accident: Transair Senegal B733 at Dakar on May 9th 2024, runway excursion on takeoff
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, May 9th 2024 09:13Z, last updated Thursday, May 9th 2024 13:09Z
A Transair Senegal Boeing 737-300, registration 6V-AJE performing flight R2-3043 from Dakar (Senegal) to Bamako (Mali) with 73 people on board, was accelerating for takeoff from Dakar’s runway 01 at about 04:30L (04:30Z) when the crew rejected takeoff due to a hydraulic defect but veered left off the runway. The aircraft came to a stop on soft ground next to the Presidential Pavillion, the left wing briefly caught fire. All occupants evacuated via slides, there are reports of some minor injuries including one of the pilots.
An Air Senegal Flight HC-2009 from Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to Dakar (Senegal), was in the initial descent towards Dakar at about 04:37Z when the aircraft turned around and diverted to Banjul (Gambia).
avherald.com
re: #23 Nerdy Fish
It was absolutely a word that was used.
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Correct me if I’m wrong here, but it doesn’t matter if Stormy Daniels actually had sex with the Orange Turd. The law at issue here says you can’t falsify business records to cover up a payoff. Paying off someone who is lying about you is not illegal. Lying on your books is.
re: #61 dat_said
MediaIte: Kristi Noem Calls Off Disastrous Book Tour, Canceling Hits on Fox News and CNN at Last Minute
Haven’t seen this mentioned yet and thought appropriate for this thread. At least this turn of events frees up some of her time for meeting with people like Kim Jong Un.
Well, that’s just not Cricket!
You kinda have to love Stormy:
“You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real?” Necheles asked, suggesting that Daniels made up the details of her sexual encounter with Trump.
“Wow,” Daniels said, then added: “If that story were untrue, I would have written it to be a lot better.”
Trump’s lawyers are having a bad time of crossing Daniels IMO. This particular exchange isn’t a good look:
Inner City Press
@innercitypress
Trump’s lawyer Necheles: On Twitter you celebrated and tried to sell merchandise in your online store, right? You have a store?
Stormy Daniels: Sure.
Necheles: You wrote, Don’t want to spill my champagne, merch orders pouring in, right
Daniels: Yes
Inner City Press
@innercitypressTrump’s lawyer Necheles: This was you shilling your merch, right?
Stormy Daniels: I am doing my job. Not unlike Mr. Trump.
Necheles: Your merchandise is you bragging getting President Trump indicted, right?
Daniels: *I* got President Trump indicted?
So, she can’t shill products, but Trump can, including selling pieces of the suit he wore to his criminal booking. She’s not the one on trial, but Necheles is doing a great job of trying to make it as though she’s the one who engaged in malfeasance. It’s just how Trump operates.
She might think that some of this somehow undermines Daniels’ veracity as a witness to events or that her memory is off somehow, but there’s enough contemporaneous evidence and paperwork that backs her testimony. In the end, this is not going to harm the prosecution case.
re: #88 BeachDem
You kinda have to love Stormy:
“You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real?” Necheles asked, suggesting that Daniels made up the details of her sexual encounter with Trump.
“Wow,” Daniels said, then added: “If that story were untrue, I would have written it to be a lot better.”
What person watches porn and thinks the scenario seems real?
re: #86 sizzzzlerz
Well, that’s just not Cricket!
She could have gone on the air and strangled useless puppies crying about responsibility and how much of a real human she is.
STFU.
STFD.
PCMag: Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Patient Now Beats Friends in Video Games
Speaking as a biomedical engineer, they buried the important news:
One interesting development is that Arbaugh’s use of the implant improved even though “a number of threads retracted” from the chip. These threads are crucial since they contain electrodes that can detect neural signals, allowing the chip to convert them into cursor movement.
This is after only 3 months and the device is already failing in the environment. The brain actually moves a lot in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). One hard brake at 60 mph has a good chance of rendering the device into a brick which no software upgrade can fix. Downplaying the safety concerns, like PCMag does here, is horrific.
Are these huge pepperoni slices? 😳
re: #93 jeffreyw
Now that is one big pizza. Can I have a sliver?
re: #94 PhillyPretzel ✅
Now that is one big pizza. Can I have a sliver?
Spring for my airfare and I’ll bring you back a slice!
re: #95 jeffreyw
I do not have $$$ for that. lol
re: #88 BeachDem
You kinda have to love Stormy:
“You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real?” Necheles asked, suggesting that Daniels made up the details of her sexual encounter with Trump.
“Wow,” Daniels said, then added: “If that story were untrue, I would have written it to be a lot better.”
We would have also accepted: “To an extent yes. I made it appear that I enjoyed myself with the Defendant.”
re: #76 sizzzzlerz
Turns out that my library has it available but, reading the wikipedia description gives me great pause as it sounds awfully stupid. However, IMDB user ratings put it at 7/10. Might be worth checking it out although I’m not a fan of slasher-type horror movies.
It’s not really a slasher, horror movie. Lots of action and violence but it is mostly a science fiction detective story at heart. Smarter than it should be with a fine cast of strong B-actors.
re: #96 Jay C
What is that? 2, 2-1/2 meters across?
Must be hell for delivery orders…..
easily that big
And we’re at the midmorning trial break.
For all of the sound and fury coming from Trump’s defense team, they didn’t get what they needed out of Daniels today - she didn’t come across as a liar or a cheat. She didn’t do this for the money. And they can’t pin any of this on her - it’s still on Trump for why he paid her the money, and why Trump signed off on the checks/reimbursements through his convoluted scheming.
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #94 PhillyPretzel ✅
Now that is one big pizza. Can I have a sliver?
An arc length of 1 inch would probably feed me for a day.
Dang. The jackhammers are on my block. Our street is being repaved so they have to raise the manhole covers.
re: #107 Joe Bacon ✅
But they have fresh tomatoes. They look pretty good too.
Trump showed up in court this morning and read another Jonathan Turley article that the case should be dismissed. pic.twitter.com/bR2vdo5X0a
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
All the facepalms.
re: #110 wrenchwench
I can only imagine what those rules are.
A WWII story by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling is published for the first time
Serling enlisted to fight the Nazis the day after he graduated from Binghamton Central High School in New York. Even though he was a slight 5’4, he completed his training as a paratrooper and was assigned to the 11th Airborne of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He was sent to the Philippines to fight the Japanese.
re: #111 PhillyPretzel ✅
I can only imagine what those rules are.
There was a recent dress code update at work. I’d like to claim some responsibility, but competition is tough.
re: #62 lawhawk
Following up on earlier things he’s said in the same vein, he’s…not doing a dual loyalty argument of “are with us or are you with Israel.” He’s doing the argument that Ben Shapiro makes “if you are liberal you are neither with America nor Israel.”
Since the start of his political career, Donald Trump has played on stereotypes about Jews and politics.
He told the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015 that “you want to control your politicians” and suggested the audience used money to exert control. In the White House, he said Jews who vote for Democrats are “very disloyal to Israel.”
That’s been the norm in conservative circles for awhile now: Jews that don’t support conservatism domestically and in Israel are “not real Jews.” The followup to in the most aggressively reactionary sectors of the right is that classic antisemitic conspiracies, such as the Frankfort School and Soros-Rothschild Illuminati, have been redirected toward “secular Jews” who are seen as a distinct population that merits scrutiny.
re: #113 wrenchwench
There was a recent dress code update at work. I’d like to claim some responsibility, but competition is tough.
The BGs that commanded our shop created two Deb-inspired rules (one even called The Deb Rule).
No one gets to take a three-week leave to Italy.
No one gets to retire at 30 without an agency-wide ceremony.
By Israeli accounts they have enough munitions for Rafah now, so this would not be supplying, but rather re-supplying. I suspect Netanyahu will go forward with this because if tensions ease anymore then he is likely out. If he proceeds with Rafah he probably calculates that he will literally blow up any cease fire and hostage exchange.
Biden says US won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally
apnews.com
More than 60 years after moving to the U.S., Florida man discovers he’s not here legally
Revelation came when Social Security denied him benefits
Bonus—He has a Trump sign on his front lawn…
re: #119 Joe Bacon ✅
More than 60 years after moving to the U.S., Florida man discovers he’s not here legally
Revelation came when Social Security denied him benefits
Bonus—He has a Trump sign on his front lawn…
Repeatedly violated federal law for 40 years by voting and the man jokes about it. Lock him up and let Speaker Johnson know we found someone so he no longer needs to rely on “intuitively knowing”.
re: #121 dat_said
One of the very few who are not citizens.
re: #76 sizzzzlerz
Turns out that my library has it available but, reading the wikipedia description gives me great pause as it sounds awfully stupid. However, IMDB user ratings put it at 7/10. Might be worth checking it out although I’m not a fan of slasher-type horror movies.
Not a fan of horror movies at all, any longer. Avoid them like the plague. My last one, because I was too foolish to stop early, was a Korean film The Call, which was recommended by a friend who did not mention that it was really a horror movie.
re: #121 dat_said
“THIS IS PROOF ILLEGALS VOTE!!!!”
re: #121 dat_said
Repeatedly violated federal law for 40 years by voting and the man jokes about it. Lock him up and let Speaker Johnson know we found someone so he no longer needs to rely on “intuitively knowing”.
Obviously someone who thought he was a citizen.
Defense ends their cross of Daniels.
Prosecutors call Rebecca Manochio, who is a Trump Org bookkeeper under Weisselberg. Her testimony will go to process, how checks are handled and paid out. Checks were sent to WH by FedEx for signature.
Umm… yeah..
re: #112 jeffreyw
A WWII story by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling is published for the first time
Suny Binghamton is where I met Mrsdm the first time. January 1977.
Jen Psaki was on NPR this am, the topic was communications and credibility so of course examples came up including that dog murderer.
re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter
Obviously someone who thought he was a citizen.
And yet, right up the road a piece…
Tallahassee police arrested Ervin, based on information from a Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security investigation, at her home around 3 a.m. on September 29, an arrest affidavit shows.
cnn.com
The charges were dropped, but she was still arrested at 3 in the morning, rather than laughing and joking in front of her Trump flag. Hmmm, wonder what was different??///
re: #130 The Ghost of a Flea
Sounds about right for MBS.
Back in the day we called this a bitch slap. https://t.co/2EL522ANPH
— Roger ZenAF (@RogerZenAF) May 9, 2024
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Ghost is dropping a concert film….
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That would make a great ad for a pharmacy chain: “Rite Here, Rite Now, Rite Aid!”
re: #132 Dangerman
Way to go Leader Jeffries.
GOP officials are always shocked to discover that the resume padding and lies they tell their base don’t always work when hitting the general media airwaves. Good local news segment on Noem skeeted by Weigel
Good local news segment on Kristi Noem ending her book tour early after Hindenburging TV interviews and telling more lies. youtu.be/xcU0PF-6J8k?…
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel.bsky.social) 2024-05-09T17:11:32.119Z
re: #133 Vicious Babushka
That would make a great ad for a pharmacy chain: “Rite Here, Rite Now, Rite Aid!”
They could even try to get the rights to “Square Hammer”, but somehow don’t think it’d fit with Rite Aid’s marketing. 😄
re: #134 PhillyPretzel ✅
Way to go Leader Jeffries.
True: but he really had the good situation (and the good PR) handed to him on a platter:
1. He (and the House Democrats) come out looking Serious and Statesmanlike.
2. Speaker Johnson now owes him.
3. The chaos on the GOP side of the aisle fomented by MTG and the rest of the KooKoo Kaucus is still going to be there. And, of course, will be the thing the media will be focusing on. Probably the main/only thing.
Win.
re: #135 Randall Gross
GOP officials are always shocked to discover that the resume padding and lies they tell their base don’t always work when hitting the general media airwaves. Good local news segment on Noem skeeted by Weigel
Emotional Support Locomotive @trainboy.bsky.social
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“murdering her book tour like a puppy”
It’s still going to be one for the record books, but
El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it’s waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.
re: #135 Randall Gross
Dave Weigel definitely deserves an upding for “Hindenburging”…
re: #111 PhillyPretzel ✅
I can only imagine what those rules are.
“The gag order hasn’t run yet.”
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re: #126 lawhawk
Defense ends their cross of Daniels.
Prosecutors call Rebecca Manochio, who is a Trump Org bookkeeper under Weisselberg. Her testimony will go to process, how checks are handled and paid out. Checks were sent to WH by FedEx for signature.
Umm… yeah..
So, weren’t his male moron progeny supposed to be running the business while he was in office? I thought he made a point of highlighting that several times.
re: #130 The Ghost of a Flea
This might wind up being the dumbest and most hyped cruel architecture in history.
According to some of the footsoldiers:
a spokesperson for Neom stated: “Zero Gravity Urbanism is revolutionary and perhaps unimaginable, particularly when seen through the lens of the past and in light of existing failed urban models.
“With the current environmental crisis and the shortcomings of our cities to deliver on human needs, a solution this innovative becomes a necessity deserving to be delivered with unwavering commitment,” they added.
………………
Safely distant architects:
Cook and his studio CHAP, are one of several studios reportedly working on The Line. Other studios featured in the exhibition in Venice included Morphosis, Adjaye Associates, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and Studio Fuksas. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Studio Fuksas founders Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas explained their designs for The Line.
“Interestingness in architecture is very important”
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/05/25/peter-cook-the-line-neom-height-stupid/
re: #72 lawhawk
I am missing the darts league stuff - where their announces were calling 180 after 3 triple 20s. But that was on BBC America.
It’s over on Ocho, along with the dodgeball. accch! completely missed the Ocho reference had already been taken. Oh well.
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