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Occasional Reader
4/15/2020 7:15:14 AM
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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: Day's discussion reminded me of this Firesign gem
Will listen to it later, thanks.
And in other news: Chris Cuomo is still a cheap dime-store hood.*
* Hat tip for that term: Stephen King, "The Body" (aka Stand By Me)
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doppelganglander
4/15/2020 7:30:37 AM
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Remember "A Warning" by an anonymous Trump administration official? It looks like the White House has cracked the case. Fascinating bit of detective work. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/04/15/heres_anonymous_trump_aides_say_and_heres_how_they_outed_her_122684.html?mc_cid=495c200ee2&mc_eid=fba478624c
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JCM
4/15/2020 7:49:35 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 4: Thule Greenland AFB is where ya send people like that... not Saudi Arabia although that's not a bad spot for her.
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doppelganglander
4/15/2020 8:00:31 AM
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Reply to JCM in 5: She's a Middle East specialist so it makes sense. It's crazy - she seems like an accomplished, intelligent woman and solid conservative who must have had an aneurysm due to TDS. I did not care for the article's insinuation that Cruz "planted" her in the WH. I think her reprehensible behavior is all on her.
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JCM
4/15/2020 8:27:42 AM
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10 pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct — the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project.
The Vietnam veteran and former FBI agent who make up the nonprofit recently learned of their tally from last fall's apple sleuthing from expert botanists at the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Oregon, where all the apples are sent for study and identification. The apples positively identified as previously "lost" were among hundreds of fruits collected in October and November from 140-year-old orchards tucked into small canyons or hidden in forests that have since grown up around them in rural Idaho and Washington state.
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Occasional Reader
4/15/2020 8:42:44 AM
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In #7 JCM said: has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct Including the Apple II.
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vxbush
4/15/2020 9:30:49 AM
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In #8 Occasional Reader said: Apple II That's Apple ][, please.
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JCM
4/15/2020 10:13:32 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 9: Moof approves!
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vxbush
4/15/2020 10:47:30 AM
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In #10 JCM said: Moof approves! And in other Apple news: for those who cannot stand the larger and larger cell phones, Apple has started taking pre-orders for their new iPhone SE. Same chipset as the iPhone 11 but in a much smaller size and still has the Home button.
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JCM
4/15/2020 11:28:33 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 11: I recently upgrade to a 7 plus. I like the larger screen I can make a phone call without my glasses!
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vxbush
4/15/2020 2:52:07 PM
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So my boss posted the following video as the "sign off" to end the workday. Um....
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Syrah
4/15/2020 3:15:03 PM
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Trump just threatened to smack the congress upside the head. He reminded them that the constitution authorizes him to adjourn congress. (Article 2, section 3) I think the Fourth of July fireworks may come a little early this summer.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/15/2020 3:16:37 PM
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In #9 vxbush said: That's Apple ][, please. I have one of those in the basement. Probably could get it to work again. (Was quite repairable - floppy cable shorted and fried two chips I was able to replace and get the drive working again)
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Syrah
4/15/2020 3:17:01 PM
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Reply to Syrah in 14: i think he would have been better off to have just done it rather to threaten it. Maybe he wants the fireworks.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/15/2020 3:18:01 PM
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In #13 vxbush said: So my boss posted the following video as the "sign off" to end the workday. Um.... You have problem with that, tovarich? We have new assignment for you in Siberia.
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lucius septimius
4/15/2020 3:19:21 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 13: Peace, Land, and Bread, baby! (actually, if you leave out the space stuff, that video would have worked for Illinois in the 1970s)
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lucius septimius
4/15/2020 3:36:55 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 18: When I was in third grade my parents took me to see Nicholas and Alexandra. Around that same time we got a multi-volume illustrated world history published by Newsweek. it was actually very good -- when I look at it now the articles were written by some very heavy hitters, historically speaking. Anyway, all the Russian revolution stuff sort of stuck with me. We had to turn in vocabulary words we had come up with on our own and write sentences using them. Being and impressionable lad and having seen the movie and looked at the books, I pulled out a bunch of stuff having to do with the Russian revolution. One sentence was (with the proposed vocabulary word underlined) "The Bolsheviks came to power promising the People Peace, Land and Bread." There were others about suppressing the bourgeoisie and the Mensheviks. This resulted in letters home.
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Syrah
4/15/2020 3:52:17 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 19: i don’t understand. What was wrong with what you turned in? Why would that result in letters home?
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lucius septimius
4/15/2020 3:53:43 PM
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Reply to Syrah in 20: They thought the words were "inappropriate" since, I guess, they were Communist.
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Syrah
4/15/2020 4:08:58 PM
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Reply to Syrah in 14: Article 2Section 3He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. If I read this correctly, the President could adjourn congress if the Senate were to adjourn but the House were to refuse. It would require Mitch McConnell to play ball here.
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Syrah
4/15/2020 4:11:36 PM
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Reply to Syrah in 22: is there a way to read that which would allow President Trump to Adjourn congress now, while they are both playing the pro forma session game?
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Syrah
4/15/2020 4:18:24 PM
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Reply to Syrah in 23: if this requires Mitch McConnell to play along, he could use it as a bludgeon to beat that useless excuse of a Senator from New York into a sniveling wet pulp of blubbering crybaby, but that is not how Mitch has acted in the past.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/15/2020 4:49:03 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. This may be the "costliest government coverup of all time," one of the sources said. The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan. Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy. |
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