Orange Crush
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| 01/07/2021 03:15 PM |
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| All I am seeing is that Qanon shaman and thinking he looks like one of those crazed TdF supporters on the Alpe. |
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79pmooney
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| 01/07/2021 03:22 PM |
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| That House of Representatives COVID positive - Jake LaTurner of Kansas. (I see that Kevin Brady, Texas Rep, tested positive Tuesday so I trust he wasn't there yesterday.) |
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longslowdistance
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| 01/08/2021 09:37 PM |
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How about Qanon positive: a WV state delegate was in the invasion and bragged about it, and has no intention to resign. Fun shtshow to watch develop in that reflexively shtshow state.
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79pmooney
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| 01/08/2021 10:47 PM |
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A local pol said that Trump was being lynched a second time by impeachment. Came back to apologize soon after but his staff person had already quit.
In a sick way, kinda fun to watch all the fallout. |
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79pmooney
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| 01/13/2021 05:43 PM |
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I found it! The retired Admiral who came on with Trump as the director in charge of global health security and biothreats to the National Security Council. R. Timothy Ziemer. He resigned (or the position was abolished; it isn't clear in Wikipedia the order) May, 2018.
Bush took him on to head the President's Malaria Initiative. Under his watch, world-wide malaria dropped 40%. The guy's not a hack. A quoted line in the Wikipedia, "free distribution of insecticide-treated nets, indoor pesticide spraying, routine doses of malaria medicine for pregnant women, rapid blood tests for diagnosis, and a new fast-acting drug with one of the several longer-lasting drugs for treatment."
Sound like a job description for the guy we needed 11 months ago. |
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79pmooney
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| 01/13/2021 06:04 PM |
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And on a completely different level. I just saw the NY Times headline re: Federal intelligence warning of armed militias at the Inauguration. My immediate thought - be scanning for snipers; real highly skilled snipers trained and used by our Army and Marines, the guys who can kill with one shot from most of a mile. Someone who has done this for his paycheck, done it many times and is considered one of the best.
I have no idea who that is. Just that there is at least one such person with a grudge like we saw last week who is too smart to go live on camera and video.
Our military ought to be scanning every window, wall and doorway with the most sophisticated surveillance equipment we have. I don't like saying this. Freedom from government scrutiny is dear to me but I've come to a weird place where I feel the ethics of our military far exceed that our police and many of our citizens. I also feel that without these efforts, the odds of Joe Biden walking into public view next week and not being shot are maybe 2 in 3. I'd take that for pizza but not my life. |
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longslowdistance
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| 01/13/2021 07:22 PM |
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Perhaps a small small part of the elite Capitol police will join the rioters with long prison terms. Another tribute to win bigly's persuasion skills, and the gullibility of the gullible.
As for 45, I cannot predict. If he truly loved this country, he would have long ago melted away and disappeared. Kinda like Lance coulda done if he wasn't psycho: lay low and you just may escape.
45 has options for damage control, but he is simply incapable of admitting a mistake. |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/13/2021 08:50 PM |
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Not sure about military being better than police. Here in Canada top brass is taking a deep dive on infiltration of armed forces by right wing elements. I am sure situation is same in US. So if you are going to have hypotheses, the notion that there could be an infiltrant in forces meant to protect the inauguration show should be one of them.
Interesting enough that possible risk was why security was so low when the assassination took place that started ww1. They figured the Serb national security force posed an actual risk. Watched a movie about events around that assassination earlier this week. Interesting times. The powers that be were just gunning for something (anything) to happen to have an excuse to start that war. In the end it was just some 19 year old. |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/14/2021 02:20 PM |
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BTW - the reason why Canadian military brass is taking a deep dive into extremists elements in their ranks is because an army ranger entered one of the residences of our PM last year to "ask questions" about western alienation, which is basically about some of our provinces that lean more towards things being done the American way not being happy with how they are being treated by the feds.
So we had a mini invasion of our vestige of power as well. Of course we also had 10 years of Harper before you had 4 years of Trump, with quite a few operational similarities (science denial, kicking against minorities and immigration etc.), although character wise they are polar opposites. |
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79pmooney
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| 01/20/2021 12:20 PM |
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We made it. The new pres. Inauguration went on without a hitch. (No sniper bullets. I was on edge the whole time.)
And for me, a lot of "wows". A non-white woman in the White House. The Blacks all through the Inauguration service as integral to it, not for show. (That young poet! Introducing herself as growing up a skinny Black girl descended from slavery and daughter to an unwed mom. Dreamed of being a First Lady. Now introducing one. Then delivering with poise way beyond her years! And the part that made my heart sing - she didn't look like a slightly darker Caucasian. She looked like African royalty. Carried herself as such.)
I want to hear the real stories of real Americans spoken. I believe we will never heal until we can look at our full history and each own where we came from and where others came from. Martin Luther King's dream that descendants of slave owners and slaves sitting down to together.
I never looked at Joe Biden as a savior. (in fact, I never thought of him as much more than just another lifelong politician.) But if he starts this conversation, this could be the most fundamental growth we have ever known. (Won't be easy and I expect, like the virus, the worst is yet to come - and it will take far longer than the virus to return us to a new "normal"). |
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Dale
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| 01/20/2021 04:39 PM |
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I'm just looking forward to slow news days with no drama and no scandals.
And President Biden's first tweet... complete sentences. Who would have ever though that would be something to celebrate?
#literacycounts
#sciencematters
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79pmooney
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| 01/20/2021 08:27 PM |
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Posted By Dale Dale on 01/20/2021 04:39 PM
I'm just looking forward to slow news days with no drama and no scandals.
And President Biden's first tweet... complete sentences. Who would have ever though that would be something to celebrate?
#literacycounts
#sciencematters
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I'd settle for a day of no new records set. (I can deal with sports. I"m pretty sure some whiz geek has written software that you just plug each game's stats and it searches the past 100 years of stats for new firsts. Most singles for 2 out, 3-1 count slow curveballs ... But COVID numbers?) |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/20/2021 09:01 PM |
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Ben - good points and good goals but it will take a vast amount of work to get there. Symbolism is nice on the day it happens but ultimately doesn’t yield results in and by itself.
This is a good read on progress that was being made in MLK days which got stopped in its track and to a degree got reversed when trickle down Ronnie started stirring politics.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2021/01/18/recent-events-show-the-strong-need-for-joe-biden-to-return-to-the-democratic-impulses-of-the-great-society/?fbclid=IwAR0b4YvVPpNsLjV1_jpft2utp0taX-GPLOitKtAXbNq3NTTc1SiobqA3rx0 |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/20/2021 10:38 PM |
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| Btw the steady stream of Bernie memes in his old coat and hand knitted mittens is a whole lot of unscripted awesomeness. |
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longslowdistance
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| 01/21/2021 12:06 PM |
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| My fave is the Big Lebowski bowling alley meme. |
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