lucius septimius 6/15/2020 6:01:57 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 7:03:16 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 1:

Thanks for that.  No real news to anyone here, I think---though the specificity is useful.

buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 7:07:51 AM

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NPR once again was all terrible, systemic racism---whether "racist cops massacre again" or "disproportionate effects of covid."  And, once again, all sorts of worry about "increased virus cases," especially in the (more conservative) states that have opened up, or begun to, even as they quietly admit that the number of actual deaths continues to decline. 

And New York's idiot mayor is now talking about early July---maybe---as being when we might actually get back to some semblance of reopening.

JCM 6/15/2020 7:49:31 AM

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CHAZ is out CHOP is in!

Yeah peaceful... ask business owners who've been cleaned out.

buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 7:53:30 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

I prefer "SPAZ":  "Seattle Political Asshole Zone."

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 8:59:20 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

Related: Behold the rules for the “conflict resolution council”.  And this is allegedly Rihanna, I still have my doubts that it is not parody, but it’s almost too good to check. It gets good when you get to the “edits“:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/06/14/chaz-chop-creates-conflict-resolution-council-and-the-rules-are-spectacular-n527988

buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 9:24:23 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

To reference our Frontier conversation from last week, the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

JCM 6/15/2020 9:26:34 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

This pops out....

political training session

So they already have a Zampolit.

JCM 6/15/2020 9:31:39 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

So.... EVERYONE is on the council!

doppelganglander 6/15/2020 9:57:13 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 5: 

CHOP works well. It recalls the guillotine. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 9:57:59 AM

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In #10 doppelganglander said: CHOP works well. It recalls the guillotine. 

Or a cooking show.  Maybe they're hoping for a cable deal?

buzzsawmonkey 6/15/2020 10:01:11 AM

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By the way, for a look at same-sex marriage (sort of), and same-sex couple adoption (sort of), long before these things were on the horizon, here are Laurel and Hardy in 1932 with "Their First Mistake."

Film runs about 35 minutes.

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 10:03:59 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: And this is allegedly Rihanna for real

Wow.  Oddest voice transcription mistake evah.

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 10:04:52 AM

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doppelganglander 6/15/2020 10:58:18 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

No, they're definitely not talking about a cooking show.

https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1272394304044949504?s=19

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 11:29:45 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 15:

"I am tired of seeing my people being genocided... by every definition of the word!"

Well, fortunately, there are precisely zero definitions of the transitive verb "to genocide", so everything's fine.  

JCM 6/15/2020 11:47:49 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16:

Who is being "genocided" and where?

I assume the ignoramus is talking about blacks in US at the hands of police.

250 people killed isn't exactly being "genocided".

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 11:56:55 AM

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Reply to JCM in 17:

Don't you see?!  It's an excruciatingly slow genocide... the very worst kind! 

vxbush 6/15/2020 11:57:02 AM

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In #17 JCM said: Who is being "genocided" and where? I assume the ignoramus is talking about blacks in US at the hands of police. 250 people killed isn't exactly being "genocided".

If you read the link above about Black Lives Matter, the facts on the ground are studiously ignored. Reality isn't useful for their cause, so they ignore reality and continue to proclaim the huuuuuge number of deaths of black men by the police. The goal is to remove the rule of law. 

Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 12:33:45 PM

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In #19 vxbush said: The goal is to remove the rule of law. 

Phase Two: ? 

Phase Three: Profit! 

lucius septimius 6/15/2020 1:42:33 PM

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Occasional Reader 6/15/2020 1:47:20 PM

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In #21 lucius septimius said: Radar went from nothing to a big bright red blob in 20 minutes and it should hit the house in about three minutes.

Gotta love those.  Last summer, between the time I left work and the time (like 10 minutes later) I arrived at the appropriate Metro stop, one of these little buggers popped up pretty much directly over Little OR's daycare.   Kind of startling, but all was well in the end. 

lucius septimius 6/15/2020 2:28:01 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 22:

And now the sun is shining again.

lucius septimius 6/15/2020 3:01:35 PM

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