vxbush 1/25/2021 5:11:59 AM

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lucius septimius 1/25/2021 5:57:43 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Overcast and drizzly here, but it's supposed to be 70 tomorrow.  They're saying Mom's is going to get 3-5 inches of snow tonight.

doppelganglander 1/25/2021 5:59:51 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

England got quite a bit of snow over the last few days. Contrary to what you might expect from various adaptations of A Christmas Carol, they don't get that much in the Midlands and the South. My daughter-in-law sent us videos of the four-year-old building a snowman and having a snowball fight with her dad. I hate that we live so far apart but it's so easy now to send pictures and videos.

vxbush 1/25/2021 6:19:37 AM

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vxbush 1/25/2021 6:21:19 AM

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In #3 doppelganglander said: England got quite a bit of snow over the last few days. Contrary to what you might expect from various adaptations of A Christmas Carol, they don't get that much in the Midlands and the South. My daughter-in-law sent us videos of the four-year-old building a snowman and having a snowball fight with her dad. I hate that we live so far apart but it's so easy now to send pictures and videos.

I have heard that. Having the ability to be live with family across the globe is absolutely amazing and a wonderful use of technology. I have a friend who used to virtually eat breakfast with her granddaughter every morning, and she said it just made every day better. 

Syrah 1/25/2021 7:00:49 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Now that Biden has been installed as President, CV19 is no longer as useful to the statist as it was prior to November third. 

Spitballing the Newsom recall.

Newsom is Governor in a state where Democrats will vote for any Democrat over any Republican.

if the recall goes to a vote, I will predict that Newsom will win, though it will look close. The only thing that can hurt Newsom politically is if other Democrats decide to replace him for someone fresh. He is tied to Nancy Pelosi, which helps him as long as she holds power. If Nancy gets kicked out of the Democrat leadership, Newsom will look more vulnerable to aspiring Democrats that want his job.

vxbush 1/25/2021 7:21:03 AM

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In #6 Syrah said: Spitballing the Newsom recall. Newsom is Governor in a state where Democrats will vote for any Democrat over any Republican. if the recall goes to a vote, I will predict that Newsom will win, though it will look close. The only thing that can hurt Newsom politically is if other Democrats decide to replace him for someone fresh. He is tied to Nancy Pelosi, which helps him as long as she holds power. If Nancy gets kicked out of the Democrat leadership, Newsom will look more vulnerable to aspiring Democrats that want his job.

Noting the connection to Pelosi is a good point.

It will be interesting to watch this develop. With Pelosi being 80, I have to wonder how much longer she will be able to fend off attacks against her and her position as speaker--and if she will find it easier to let Newsome fall so she can concentrate on DC politics. Maybe this is wishful thinking. 

JCM 1/25/2021 7:49:10 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 3:

Wait I thought England would never see snow again.

JCM 1/25/2021 7:50:37 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: ... how will the Left attempt to halt and prevent Newsom's recall from occurring? 

Fraud.

JCM 1/25/2021 8:02:59 AM

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I'm Shocked! Shocked!

JCM 1/25/2021 8:10:59 AM

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Old and busted the COVID scare!

New and shiny!

Highly contagious COVID-19 variant found in case in Pierce County

Yes but is it more virulent.

Contagious is how easily it spreads from person to person.

Virulent is how sick it makes people.

If this strain is more contagious but less virulent that is a GOOD thing, increase the spread people who've been exposed and therefore make the "herd" immune.

Precise language is important. But they've been manipulating the language around covid to increase the fear.

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 8:40:58 AM

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In #3 doppelganglander said: England got quite a bit of snow over the last few days. Contrary to what you might expect from various adaptations of A Christmas Carol, they don't get that much in the Midlands and the South.

When I was a kid in Cambridge, we got something like an inch and a half---maybe two inches---of snow one day.  The panic was astounding; the town almost shut down, and people were out desperately sweeping the snow from their walks with brooms (nobody had a snow shovel, of course). 

For two inches.  Coming from Chicago, we were laughing at them for the panic.

vxbush 1/25/2021 8:46:16 AM

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In #9 JCM said: Fraud.

Well, not in California's eyes, with people allowed to be ballot collectors. Anyone else would see the possibilities of fraud, but in CA it's merely a feature.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 8:57:31 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

i’ve mentioned this before: I recall listening to BBC news while driving to New York for Christmas around the mid to late two thousands. There was at the time of blizzard approaching the United Kingdom. They quoted the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown if I recall correctly, as confidently asserting that there were X number of snow plows on standby around the country; with X being a number in the low to mid hundreds, maybe 400 something.  I actually shouted at the radio, “for the whole *country*?!“.

I think in Buffalo, New York they have that number of snowplows on standby in May...

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 8:59:16 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: There was at the time of blizzard

= A blizzard.

Farging Voice to text gets worse every year, I swear.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 9:01:01 AM

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doppelganglander 1/25/2021 9:01:07 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

Atlanta loses its collective mind when it snows. We have snowplows and de-icing stuff, but not enough for a city of this size. It just doesn't make sense when it's only used every three or four years.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 9:24:04 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 17:

DC used to be like that back in the day, let’s say the 80s and early 90s. In fairness, they’ve gotten much, much better.

JCM 1/25/2021 9:31:03 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 17:

Seattle is the same. Half an inch and it is the end of the world.

Additional issue is we have hills.

The main problem IMAO is Subaru drivers.... AWD? I'm immune from physics!

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 9:39:52 AM

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In #19 JCM said: The main problem IMAO is Subaru drivers.

Anti-lesbian hate speech!!!!

JCM 1/25/2021 9:48:04 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

My favorite Subaru was at a place I worked. It had two bumper stickers.

First: My religion is lovingkindness.

Second: My dog can beat up your honor student.

lucius septimius 1/25/2021 11:03:01 AM

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lucius septimius 1/25/2021 11:03:29 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 11:07:37 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

There was a six-minute blatherline on Morning Sedition about "the rise of the modern white power movement."

vxbush 1/25/2021 11:08:24 AM

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In #23 lucius septimius said: I felt a slight disturbance in the force.

Well, maybe it was just gas. 

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vxbush 1/25/2021 11:09:24 AM

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In #22 lucius septimius said: Just got an earful from a very liberal friend in LA about "insurrection" and all the right-wing white supremacist terrorism that's going to be happening everywhere.   

Would I be correct in assuming this same person thought that Antifa and BLM activists were completely justified in their actions in Seattle and Portland? 

lucius septimius 1/25/2021 11:11:03 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 26:

What actions?  Antifa is just an idea, doncha know.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 11:17:44 AM

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So my first official staycation-week activiity was to stay up late last night watching random television.  This included the interesting, if somewhat uneven movie Resistance (2020).    Did you know that Marcel Marceau had been active in his youth as a member of the French Resistance?  I had not.

And now I wonder; if Marceau had participated in direct assaults on German troops, would that have made him an... anti-personnel mime?

Discuss.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 11:19:44 AM

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In #27 lucius septimius said: Antifa is just an idea, doncha know.

Perhaps now that they've trashed Democratic Party HQ in Portland, they've been upgraded to "white supremacist right-wing terrorist militia". 

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 11:19:48 AM

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In #28 Occasional Reader said: And now I wonder; if Marceau had participated in direct assaults on German troops, would that have made him an... anti-personnel mime? Discuss.

His big advantage was that if he'd been captured, the Germans couldn't have made him talk.

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 11:20:15 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 11:25:21 AM

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In #30 buzzsawmonkey said: His big advantage was that if he'd been captured, the Germans couldn't have made him talk.

They'd have locked him up inside a tiny all-glass cell. 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 11:31:50 AM

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In #28 Occasional Reader said: f somewhat uneven movie Resistance (2020)

The "somewhat uneven"  bit includes one of my Hollywood pet peeves; they have the lead character, played by American actor Jesse Eisenberg. speaking in English throughout the movie, with an... accent.   What kind of accent?  Well, a foreign accent.   Not French; not Yiddish; just sort of... you know, foreign.   And that's to let the audience know, this guy is, you know, foreign.   (The Germans all speak German in the movie, by they way, except when they're speaking to French people, in which case they speak... English, of course.)

I consider this dumb, and condescending to the audience.  Either have all the actors speaking with their own natural voices and accents, with the shared willing suspension of disbelief with the audience,  "pretend they're speaking French"; OR, go all-in, and have the actors all speaking the native language of the people they're portraying, with subtitles as necessary (see, e.g, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far). 

lucius septimius 1/25/2021 11:37:12 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 29: 

I'm sure according to her (being a Hollywood person) all the violence was done by right wing militias or oppressed BIPOCs seeking justice in a world of systemic racism or some such.  She did bring out evil Kyle Rittenhouse shooting democrats. And right wing bomber in Nashville!  And right wing shooter in Vegas -- the only reason that hasn't been solved is because systemic racism white supremacism something something.

JCM 1/25/2021 12:49:09 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 1:36:43 PM

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In #35 JCM said: Supreme Court Ends Emoluments Suits Against Trump

Were Erich Kastner still with us, he could write a book called "Emoluments and the Defectives."

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 1:40:00 PM

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In #35 JCM said: Supreme Court Ends Emoluments Suits Against Trump

I was just briefly torturing myself by listening to NPR (which I've generally stopped doing) while driving back from the hardware store.  The NPR "News" segment on this story mentioned that the suit alleged that Trump received illegal emoluments by foreign dignitaries staying at his - and I quote - "gold-plated Washington hotel".   That's some totally non-partisan, objective journalism, right there.

/spit

Occasional Reader 1/25/2021 1:59:18 PM

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vxbush 1/25/2021 2:11:21 PM

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In #38 Occasional Reader said: Deplatforming... it can go both ways.  I like this idea. 

This may be the only recourse we have left. 

JCM 1/25/2021 2:38:17 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 37:

What?

You want us to ship food to Seattle, Portland, LA and New York...

HAHAHAHA!

We don't feed haters.

I like it.

doppelganglander 1/25/2021 4:03:39 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 38:

That's brilliant. 

turn 1/25/2021 4:07:22 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2021 4:34:27 PM

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In #42 turn said: It would be a horrible mistake for the Biden administration to start undoing Trump’s aggressive policy toward China, but we all know it’s going to happen.

The Big Buy isn't going to break Hunter's rice bowl

turn 1/25/2021 4:42:58 PM

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In #43 Kosh's Shadow said: The Big Buy isn't going to break Hunter's rice bowl

Right as white on rice Kosh.

lucius septimius 1/25/2021 4:55:49 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2021 5:00:39 PM

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In #45 lucius septimius said: So the "insurrectionists" are getting off scot free ...

They've served their purpose, which is promoting the Great Narrative.