vxbush 3/19/2021 5:20:47 AM

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Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 5:43:21 AM

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สุขสันต์วันศุกร์

(That is supposed to be “happy Friday“ in Thai)

vxbush 3/19/2021 5:57:02 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: (That is supposed to be “happy Friday“ in Thai)

Thai just looks so visually beautiful to me. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 6:11:12 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

Reminds me of "the code of the Dancing Men" in the Sherlock Holmes story of the same name.

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 6:17:58 AM

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They were vaporing on about "the January 6 insurrection" on Morning Sedition today, going on and on about the alleged vast arsenal of weapons that was found in the possession of some of the participants, though virtually none of them were in evidence at the event and none were used.  

Anyway, apparently someone who was arrested in connection with the event had a number of things in his car, which doesn't sound much like he was planning to use them since he didn't "storm the Capitol" in the vehicle.  What was really funny, however, was their description of his having had several "particularly lethal home made Molotov cocktails."  Aside from wondering how anyone can "rate" the lethality of a Molotov cocktail---what is the scale, and how is it calibrated?---I have to wonder about the anchor referring to them as "home-made."  Perhaps we are ill-served by the retail in my neighborhood, but where would one go to obtain a store-bought Molotov cocktail?  Are they not, by definition, "home-made?"

vxbush 3/19/2021 6:25:42 AM

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In #5 buzzsawmonkey said:  Aside from wondering how anyone can "rate" the lethality of a Molotov cocktail---what is the scale, and how is it calibrated?---I have to wonder about the anchor referring to them as "home-made."  Perhaps we are ill-served by the retail in my neighborhood, but where would one go to obtain a store-bought Molotov cocktail?  Are they not, by definition, "home-made?"

An excellent point. 

I was thinking this morning that the repeated proclamations to stand against Asian hate after the killings of 8 women in Atlanta (while only 6 of the 8 were Asian) rather makes me want to scream: Why do you have to say that killing Asian women is bad? Isn't the whole point that killing anyone is bad? (This, despite the fact that the roommate said the issue was his sexual addictions and him transferring his frustrations with his own addictions to the women and saying they were at fault.)

I fear we're watching the language and narrative shift to the point where killing white folks and especially conservatives is going to be seen as not only acceptable but something to rejoice. I really hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/19/2021 6:31:53 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

Plus Fox makes it clear that the killer was battling a sex addiction problem. It seems Asian massage parlors are really brothels, like that wasn't known before, so more Asian women were killed because Asian massage parlors hire Asian women. He was going after sex workers, not Asian women, but that doesn't fit the narrative - plus the Dems and media want to legalize prostitution, and this doesn't help that plan, either.

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 6:57:28 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 7:

It was hilarious listening to Morning Sedition today, in that half of the segments featuring discussion of the Atlanta killings were saying, "Oh, it was a bias crime against Asians," and the other half was saying, "Oh, no---it was not a bias crime against Asians."  You could practically hear them running around in a panic and bumping into each other as they tried to figure out Which Narrative to Go For.

vxbush 3/19/2021 7:13:49 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: It was hilarious listening to Morning Sedition today, in that half of the segments featuring discussion of the Atlanta killings were saying, "Oh, it was a bias crime against Asians," and the other half was saying, "Oh, no---it was not a bias crime against Asians."  You could practically hear them running around in a panic and bumping into each other as they tried to figure out Which Narrative to Go For.

Did they resolve it to make it less cognitively dissonant? 

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 7:22:47 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: Did they resolve it to make it less cognitively dissonant? 

Not that I heard.  I figure that after Biden and Harris, who are going to Atlanta for their tarball-on-the-beach moment, make whatever vapid statements they intend to do, NPR will fall in with the party line.

vxbush 3/19/2021 7:27:52 AM

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In #10 buzzsawmonkey said: Not that I heard.  I figure that after Biden and Harris, who are going to Atlanta for their tarball-on-the-beach moment, make whatever vapid statements they intend to do, NPR will fall in with the party line.

Ah, so they are waiting for the official narrative and then will spout that. Must be nice to be Pravda; you don't have to think to figure out what to say. You just wait until the party tells you what to say. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 7:43:45 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 11:

That's my impression.

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 9:43:03 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:

Have they switched the narrative to '"gun violence" yet?  You know, violent guns, behaving violently? 

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 9:47:44 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: It was hilarious listening to Morning Sedition today, in that half of the segments featuring discussion of the Atlanta killings were saying, "Oh, it was a bias crime against Asians,"

Clearly the violence was inspired by massage-yny. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 9:50:14 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

++++++++ Heh.

buzzsawmonkey 3/19/2021 9:56:47 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: Have they switched the narrative to '"gun violence" yet? 

You could feel it comin' 'round the mountain, but it ain't quite come yet.

I really think that there should be a way to gear up some pre-emptive agitation for getting rid of "high-capacity magazines" like The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, Teen Vogue, etc.---the point being that these "high-capacity magazines" are socially pernicious.  When people start screaming about the First Amendment, use that as a "teachable moment" on the Second.

Yes, this course is fraught with peril, in that the Left would love nothing better than to shut down non-Leftist news sources/outlets.  But, if properly done---and yes, that's a big, fat "IF," given conservatives' general political ineptitude---it might just possibly succeed, in part because conservatives going on the attack for once and setting the terms of debate/discussion instead of being merely defensive/reactive would throw the Left off guard.  

I'd be curious to know what people think of this idea.

JCM 3/19/2021 10:19:56 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

From what I've seen they were legit massage salons.

The shooter wanted massages with a happy ending.

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 10:52:13 AM

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Reply to JCM in 17:

basically, he was an evil piece of garbage, and that’s the explanation. But no, this has to be Donald Trump‘s fault somehow.

The left is completely insane.

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 10:54:05 AM

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In #16 buzzsawmonkey said: I'd be curious to know what people think of this idea.

To be blunt, I don’t think it would go anywhere. It’s basically turning a pun into an attempt at a political campaign, that just doesn’t have legs in my opinion.

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 11:32:36 AM

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Father JAILED in Canada for referring to his daughter as his daughter. 

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 11:42:22 AM

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JCM 3/19/2021 12:03:14 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

My preferred pronoun is "Your Royal Hindness and Most Magnificent Gluteus Maximus"

Occasional Reader 3/19/2021 12:22:05 PM

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Reply to JCM in 22:

this stuff was all kind of funny up to, but not including the point at which they are actually sending men with guns to arrest people for it. And we are now there. Or at least they are in that exotic, far-flung locale known as “Canada“.

JCM 3/19/2021 12:38:04 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

No not funny anymore.

But if I ever get hauled before a Judge having the court address me as such would be satisfying.

It's not like this is a surprise, the famous dystopian novels warned us, the left's own books tell us, sufficient voices like Peterson warned us.

When it happens.... far too many people are surprised.

Alice in Dairyland 3/19/2021 2:49:02 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:  Oh come on now, man.  His feet were just stuttering.  You know all his gaffs are caused by some stuttering problem he has.

Kosh's Shadow 3/19/2021 3:40:57 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 25:
Mossad parody regrets adding 'fun slide' to Air Force One amid Biden slip

lucius septimius 3/19/2021 3:42:14 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

It was the wind!  

Alice in Dairyland 3/19/2021 4:12:39 PM

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In #27 lucius septimius said: It was the wind! 

Yeah, the wind between his ears.

Kosh's Shadow 3/19/2021 4:22:15 PM

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In #28 Alice in Dairyland said: In #27 lucius septimius said: It was the wind! 

Yeah, the wind between his ears.

They Call the Wind Joe Biden

jukebox

PaladinPhil 3/19/2021 4:24:25 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 26:

Nah, it was Trump....

Kosh's Shadow 3/19/2021 4:29:21 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

Way out here they've got a prez who's really no live wire
His head's empty, he doesn't know, they call the prez Joe Biden