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“The German Bundestag revoked the immunity of controversial far-right politician Maximilian Krah today…” Hmmm. Perhaps there’s an idea. “I realize that we said you were immune from prosecution for actions taken while occupying the office of US President, but, well—we’re revoking that immunity.”
“A society that resorts to violence to solve its problems starts to surrender its claim on being a society.” - David A. Graham, The Atlantic
Well, I suppose the title of this piece is an example of AI “enticing” me to succumb to paying to read it. No.
3) I tell my students, “Ninety-eight percent of people benefit from The Calculus; two percent of people need to know it.” (I have been saying it for years, but I wonder how accurate my estimate is.) Lately, I would rather students be taught five definitions of “truth.”)
Yeah, I’m sorry about that; I had borrowed your negative sign.
“He said.” Do we think that matters anymore in American “governance?” For crying out loud, Mr. Vice President, just lie “No, of course I am not campaigning for the office of President!” Later lie again when you believe it suits your needs. We are s l o w l y starting to expect such behavior…
Yes. They did. But look how serious the former Fox and Friends host looked, even then.
See, that’s all I want: to be in charge of Instant Karma.
Again, likely not:
Having visited for only two and a half days a couple of summers ago, I would attest: No. I am embarrassed for all the times a waitress brought me the egg sandwich I ordered and I thanked them by saying, “Awesome!” The word should be reserved for Banff.
You underestimate, Kevin. I foresee a statement from the President that carjackings in DC are down two-thousand percent…
Umm, I am afraid to ask what you think the best use would be, Erik…
Didn’t Joan Jett do exactly that right after she was offered a gig at Madison Square Garden (and turned it down)?
Washington, DC; God says, “(Sigh.) I guess it’s time to send a flood again…”
(And, I apologize for all those words if there was an implied “/s” at the end of your “what’s the difference” query!)
By comparison, other rifles use permanent cartridges or tubes or clips, for example, which generally contain far fewer rounds, and are significantly more time consuming to reload. People will often distinguish such “hunting rifles” from those with quickly removable magazines, such as AR-15’s.
The “civilian” firearms which are often referred to as assault weapons use magazines with a typical capacity of ten, twenty, or thirty rounds of ammunition. With the push of a button an empty magazine can be released while the shooter is inserting a new (loaded) magazine.
“Assault weapon” has evolved in definition from a rifle which can fire one round per trigger pull (“semiautomatic”) or many rounds per trigger pull “automatic” to a rifle that is similar in appearance to such a rifle, but can only fire one round per trigger pull (without modification).
Supposedly, Ben & Jerry's pay ratio of their highest salaried to their lowest-earning-worker to 5 to 1 ($150,000/year and $12/hour in 1995), but over the years they raised the ratio to 7 to 1, later to 17 to 1, until Unilever acquired them in 2000.
I’d rather have that bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Hmm…Why is his post not written in all caps?
Heh. Thats not how I remember the Brooklyn sky in the 1950’s!
“Before his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump reportedly called Norway’s finance minister to float the idea that he should win a Nobel prize once he had secured peace in Ukraine…”
Andrew H-K, thank you so much for posting this! I downloaded Merlin (also my “bird of the day”) and as soon as all my dogs stop barking, I can test it out. Fascinating, reading descriptions and listening to calls of two hundred twenty-one “area” birds…I intend to learn ten of their calls by ear!
It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know. youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ
According to the Emily Post Institute, “When shaking hands, stand up if you’re seated. This shows respect and creates a more equal interaction…” (Sigh.) Both the governor and the proud boy should know better.
When I was a very young “mechanic’s assistant” with a two-wheel drive truck, I told an old timer mechanic (to whom we brought our big jobs) that I was “going to convert my truck to four-wheel drive.” He looked at me, blinked, and said, “Yeah, you’re young.”
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A minimum of 100,000 people participated in the “Black Lives Matter” march in 2020 after George Floyd’s murder: What if even only 100,000 people walked into the White House and said, “You’re done.” …Peacefully. (?)
A minimum of 500,000 people participated in the Women’s March in 2017…
And would that be the last straw? A minimum of 400,000 people participated in the “Million Man March” in D.C. in 1995…
We enjoyed the show, but cancelled Paramount +. In a very, very small way, it also seems like a gesture of support to Mr. Colbert.
Back in the before times, I would’ve thought that the right hand photo was accurate, and that someone Photoshopped him IN…(sigh).
Another Fox News special report.
I want to get an auto loan and go buy a tow truck.
I would love to be able to post this again, if there are still “voters.” (Near Raleigh, North Carolina)
Thank you, Mr. Gondleman! (That is absolutely worthy of inserting into a segment of “Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!” The next time you are on the panel of judges.)
Just before H.R. 1 was passed, I received this Artificial Intelligence summary on how to remove a stuck DVD from a laptop with a dead battery and no power cord: I cannot help but think the same AI “authored” the bill.
Yep! $3,383,250 for each golfing trip, according to the Government Accountability Office report back in 2019. (The cost of Air Force One, plus flying down motorcade vehicles, plus military working dogs, plus ordnance disposal, plus lodging, plus US Coast Guard…) www.gao.gov/assets/gao-1...
In my continuing efforts to annoy people who have failed to take in what a billion is: 1M seconds = 11 days 1B seconds = 33 years (100B seconds = 330 years) 1T seconds = 34,000 years. These men have hundreds of billions of dollars & accrue more every minute. No primate truly grasps these numbers.
“…There are Americans that are not going to be advantaged…”
(Oops! Sorry—DavidB beat me to that suggestion a few hours ago!)
If you have to do a great deal of driving (or running), the audiobook version is excellent!
Thank y’all for reminding me!
…Albeit a lower case “t.”
Has anyone else thought that the Iran intelligence community (or, a magazine editor) read a certain SecDef Signal chat and decided, “Wow! Look at all those emoji’s! We had better get a bunch of trucks down there and move that 900 pounds of enriched uranium before the US drops its big-boy bombs..”?
Link: youtu.be/j7SOc_8IhSY?...
On Thursday, Karoline Leavitt told reporters that President Trump had shared a message: “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place…” (Sigh.) Only if an event happened, is it a “fact.” Where is Will McAvoy when we need him?
#magakienappers
To quote the last line of “Terminator,” “There is a storm coming…”
Every time this clown leaves the country he embarrasses us on the world stage.
(1,10) Never thought my Father’s Day message would begin with the quote below, but these are unusual and dangerous times. "We will shoot you graveyard dead." As I get ready to leave now for a graveyard visit with my daughter Jaime, because of gun violence, those words directly from Florida’s
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
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What Trump did at Ft. Bragg today was a propaganda exercise and I would be real hesitant to extrapolate anything from it, lest you fall prey to the propaganda yourself.
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance www.military.com/daily-news/2...
For those considering actively protesting, perhaps a (re)viewing of the film Gandhi is warranted; how serious and disciplined are we and what sacrifice are we truly willing to give? youtu.be/DaCXaJA_oJg?... youtu.be/yrHNig2aIjQ?...
Saturday sunset over southern New Hampshire. ”Live Free…”
When you wonder if the writers or filmmakers are alluding to current political events…
Just because you say you're a Christian doesn't mean you are one.
Ha! My brain went right to Mel Brooks. youtu.be/-8ihcq4hzR4?...
It’s not that I have a poor sense of direction, it’s just that I don’t care where I am going.
The president, vice president, and chair of the joint chiefs of staff, as well as others of sufficient rank (Noem delivered the commencement address at the USCG Academy this past week) traditionally rotate through the four US service academies to deliver commencement addresses.
…That decoded message is “Help! Get me out of here—they made me write this nonsense!”
Yeah what is “scaring” (like from the alleged gunshot wound) is that while I claim it was written by cheap AI, the alternative is that some poor White House employee hid the misspelling amid all the textbook-healthy data that was listed, as code for anyone reading it.
@timmiller.bsky.social and jumped on camera last night to run through some of the best clips of Republicans saying that going after organizations’ tax status because of politics was the end of democracy. Which is exactly what they’re currently doing to Harvard…
So…dogs.
Senator Booker (again) referenced Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience.” Yes, too long, didn’t read, you’ll say. Well (1), if Senator Booker can stand there for a day, y’all can read this…and (b) perhaps before it is removed from the government website: www.senate.gov/artandhistor...
Sunset, Mausert’s Pond, Vermont border with Massachusetts (I walked to here with dogs, while Senator Cory Booker was in his twenty-fourth hour speaking on the Seate floor…”good trouble.”)
"... He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge allegiance to our flag and our country."
"After the excitement…I looked in the corner of the room, and there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag.”
One day, the Vietnamese searched the cell, found the shirt and took it away. That evening, they returned and severely beat Christian for a couple of hours. The other POWs cleaned him up as best they could…
The Vietnamese allowed some to get packages; Christian received various articles of clothing. He got a bamboo needle and, over months, created an American flag, which he sewed on the inside of his shirt. Each day, the POWs would hang the shirt on the cell wall and recite the Pledge of Allegiance…
The least we can do is stay up with him a while… The West Wing - Stackhouse Filibuster; Grandfathers: youtu.be/hKTH1YXbO7M?...
Thoughts and prayers.
Remember this from one (1) month ago? Prophetic?
@cnn.com @msnbc.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy #SecretaryOfDefense #PeteHegseth appears to be violating #USArmy and federal regulations and laws regarding the use of classified equipment. In the image below used by a variety of news outlets two laptops can clearly be seen.
And then he needs to define “OPSEC” (or, show off?) to his colleagues?!? On the bright side, here’s a convenient list of eighteen people to be fired today.
Perfect response.
Happy Valentine’s (Galentine’s, Palentine’s…) Day!
It is your club, but I will respectfully suggest adding an additional requirement for membership: Being able to state the United States motto, “E Pluribus Unum…”
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Saw that. It also irritates me that SecDef wears a flag as an article of clothing contrary to the US Flag Code in his official portrait—but perhaps that is a small (but representative) affront…
Wearing a cover indoors…?
Historical definition of “doge” (Noun) The chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa…
Act like seven ten-year-olds, or ten seven-year-olds! Your choice!