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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social How will we know when something was Natalie's idea ?
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@RevPudDudley@mas.to
mastodon 4.7.2Agnostic, scholar & gentleman, language fiend.
Tao / Stoicism
Formerly catholic, quasihindu, paralegal, overgrown teenager, Constitutional law fan
Favorite Movies - Saddest Music in the World, Barton Fink, Romeo is Bleeding, Don't Tempt Me, Orlando, Ridicule, Brand New Testament.
Authors: Donald Barthelme, Flann O'Brien, Kafka, Greene, Joyce, Waugh, Orwell
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Joined October 31, 2023
Huh ?:
Monsignor, The Tax-Free Church of Jesus Christ Already
What ?:
"Not drinking today", as they say
Who ?:
Subversive, happily divorced, so old I remember JFK
Like to::
Travel, read, sit by the water, space out. In Carcosa. Lost Carcosa. Dim Carcosa
DISTINCTION W/OUT A DIFFERENCE ?
1 The Dept of Obstructing Justice can go right on settling cases with J-6 & other such persons, whether they got away with it or not, special fund or no.
2 Todd Blanche will be right there in his impossible position as Interim AG as long as El Disgusto remains no matter what Tillis/Cornyn or others may do. Likewise Emil Bove, on Court of Appeals, for life, oh puke !
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the unPresident, burbling about J-6 domestic terrorists: "treated worse than anybody in the history of our country" ...notwithstanding the Natives, the enslaved, for example...
Mark Twain said,
"You ought not to start your mouth going & go away & leave it the way you do"
#Impeach
#GOP
#quotes
What does Netanyahu have in common with Drumpf & Putin ?
1 Widely viewed as war criminal
2 If ever out of power, will shortly be in prison, or [worse]
3 Has nuclear weapons
Tampering in other countries' elections ?
Isn't that the biggest part of what CIA was doing in the 1950s-60s ?
This new generation of testosteroni "had work done" poorly-educated GOPers isn't old enough to know that, of course
Suddenly a flurry of references to Flann O'Brien on here ?
"Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" mentions a service to make your books look like you read them & loved them. Do you hear a little bell ringing?
O'Brien aka Myles na gCopaleen wrote pages about his imaginary enterprise in +-1950s: your books dog-eared, coffee/wine-stained, smudged, marginalia
("Poor Joyce said the same thing to me once").
As ever, it's damned funny (his "Cruiskeen Lawn" column in the Irish Times for many years).
Do yourself a kindness, read "The Third Policeman".
"The Best of Myles" can be downloaded ...
You take it from there, never say I didn't give you something incomparable
#Books
#literature
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@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us Let's suppose, anyway, that McConnell is conscious, can blink his eyes, let's say ... or we could expect that he does indeed talk on the phone now and then, or something.
He and others should be very anxious to do that...
Well, many members of Congress are worse than useless, some are just non-functional
Can you say "vegetable"?
#Congress#Dystopia#Fascism
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
for some real fun (if your job was moving rental cars around)
hit the panic button at a crowd of cars because that's how you'll know which one you're driving
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@EthicalProfessor In the good old days a Pope could say, "Your subjects can ignore you, and furthermore you are going to Hell"
and that was that
#Impeach#damnhim
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@Kathmandu@stranger.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
It suggests they can see what's coming quite well
[once again a James Bond movie warned us]
Well, if you never thought about how to make the world nicer, you have time to scheme things like this
#Datacenter
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@theicarian
Just saw quote from Herbert Hoover, in '1929':
'The on;ly problem with capitalism is the capitalists -- too greedy"
well, he said.
@emptywheel.bsky.social oh dammit I had forgotten about that already
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@VeroniqueB99 Or when it comes to important things
-- just doing what Putin tells him
e.g. why would he compassionately remove oil sanctions on russia just now?
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@tangledwing@ohai.social Jan 2025, why, we still had an SEC, FBI & DoJ worth mentioning...
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@juliehuz more & more we're going to hear, "Oh the poor old man is too broke-down to be molesty anymore"
Ignominy is the nicest thing that should follow these shitbags all their days, all the more so for 'pastors'
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@brianbilston@mastodon.online youtube has a song (80s) called "The Last Tree"
... by DJ Buzz Bee
it's good [same feeling]
RE: @djg@toad.social
& add that: ever voting again will void their pardon
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@alissaazar in a more refined era we turned down the news if too much gab about oral sex, stains on a dress -- kids in the room
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com You and I can remember 1st time Defense Dept budget went over $1 billion
and we already had a perfectly good nuclear triad
WE"RE CHANGING THE CLIMATE, YAY
SO, a data center so big that ( ) couldn't describe it. for a 'Mr Wonderful'
40,000 acres = 62.5 sq. miles. Can't be right? Not enough concrete in the world? Mind-bending?
Data ctrs in Utah, that's what they need [about 14 already!).
Oh, but this one can change local temps +5 degrees, wowee, & pollute a vast aquifer! Huge conflicts of interest for officials!
Discussed today on "Fast Politics"- guests from Elevate Utah
& for what? Not permanent jobs anyway
CALIFORNIANS !
also on "Fast Politics" today: Tom Steyer
he makes it sound good, anyway.
Molly seemed to be sympathetic
"Mike Johnson Thinks Everyone’s Being Too Darn Mean to the Religious Right"
boy, when you've had your own way for 1700 years or so, sense of entitlement creeps in
Johnson, now, Hegseth, they might be able to believe this stuff.
Peter Thiel? Trump? Vance?
[who is committed to papal infallibility]
Nah --
they all say they want to go to Heaven, but they never want to go today
Sen. Schumer said his job is to fight for funding for Israel (say it again, what country now?)
There's a phrase in England: *Yesterday's man*
Yes, there are such a lot of them: Sens. Graham & McConnell [if you call those men], Sens. Cruz, Kennedy & Scott [died years ago and looks it] Sens. Collins & Murkowski [with lucid intervals]
& the Fat Fuck Himself...
President Pustule wished to clarify what Pres Xi meant about 'declining America'
Waiting for clarification on what Stormy Daniels said about 'mushroom' and 'worst 90 seconds of my life",
or certain historical remarks from the pitiable JD Vance, the flamboyant Lindsey Graham, the vomitous Ted Cruz
...boy, some people suddenly go strangely quiet, these days
Reminder, if you ever signed a Trump NDA ...
Not enforceable!
[contract in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy]
Putin: arrest warrant from ICC
Netanyahu: arrest warrant from ICC
Trump: soon. Doesn't like the ICC, wants immunity !
"thing that I do best in life" - that is, the Saddam or Versailles decorating style. If that were true & he were even adequate as Pres., how could we be so lucky?
Not plausible !
Remember when he wanted to go check the gold in Fort Knox personally?
Obviously was giving it some thought [Goldfinger!].
"Who's gonna stop me?", he might well ask.
IGNORANCE & SUPERSTITION ON THE MARCH !
On the National Mall !
Suppose you were among the Founding Fathers -
and you had no objection to slavery -
Well, you wouldn’t get any disagreement from the bible, would you
There’s your biblical government that these people want.
I knew a delightful old fellow, perfect gentleman, who spent his vacations arduously hunting for Noah’s Ark remnants
—put another way, evidence of a genocide truly like we have never seen, by that jolly old god of his
*sigh*
Article in NYT ran thru Drumpf Admin's destruction of everything good, by the numbers.
Of course the loss of respect of others & ourselves, ecosystems & lives destroyed, standards vaporized, the cost of obscene criminality & criminal obscenity until a society is shot thru with holes as described by Solzhenitsyn ...
are not quantifiable.
A lot of what's destroyed won't ever be back
Rep. Thomas Massie didn't get, nor Sen. Cornyn at the last minute, Drumpf endorsement.
Neither would you have picked to lead their folks into the 21st century, but-
Cornyn had that 'central-casting Senator' thing
(like Tuberville til he opens his mouth)
Paxton? "Libs will hate it, his wife says biblically unbearable, lies & lies, that's a man after my own heart"
"A Senator like Herschel Walker* could have been!"
*Ambassador to Jamaica !
[gang-confirmation of 100 real winners]
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@UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com Oh yeah -- RFK jr cutting off the wazoo of a racoon:
because too many times he was told, "This is like being fucked by a racoon"
Trying to work this out:
If it's appropriate I use AI for something,
it must be very unimportant.
If I can't do it without AI, what am I on Earth for anyway?
[such a painful business]
Surely not to create AI
RE: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
Letting Mr Filth attend WHCA dinner even as a guest in 2015 (heckled by Pres. Obama) has turned out very very badly
TIL: Checking what the Hubble telescope was looking at,
I got on the track of Hell emissions
"Formation of Narrow Hell λ4686 Emission in HII Galaxies: Link with X-Ray Emission"
one more thing we didn't need in an election year...
or, there's your answer if anyone says 'Turn on the news', or, 'What's that smell?'
Since he wants to declare progressivism anathema to the Founders' vision --
A good time to rerun this:
"I'd be worried about this man's grasp of constitutional law if he were a 2L student"
-- professor at Thomas' confirmation hearings.
"Garden of (250) American Heroes" incl. such deathless figures as Alex Trebek, Kobe Byant, Whitney Houston... stalling out?
Budget $40M, site is TBD, architect already hired, 250 sculptors not heard from.
Elvis Presley? Did he arrest anyone with his bogus DEA badge? No Robert Mueller?
Soldiers/sailors exposed to nuclear tests? Victims of HUAC blacklist?
[I could go on]
Notice how any amt of $ in millions is just derisory now? Spend it on Trump Memorial, only if he's entombed there immediately!
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@gleick Hey, Reparations !
mmmm boy, this could turn out to be a real Bad Deal after all
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@brunomiguel It's been so long since I was at netscape,
started to forget why I hate MS so much
"The Martian Chronicles" - as I remembered it, a lot of Mars stories independent of one framework. But no ... 3 expeditions from Earth were abortive but wiped out Martians (chickenpox) ... then the Earthmen had their way with the place.
At 15 I had read that, Slaughterhouse-Five & Cat's Cradle, 'Catch-22', 'Hadrian the Seventh', Twain's 'Letters From the Earth', 'Candide', lots of Donald Barthelme, Italo Calvino, subscribed to "Time" ... human idiocy & depravity on the grand scale ...
*Foregone conclusion*, that's me
We heard so much about "The kids are reading Harry Potter & 'Series of Unfortunate Events' (13 vols) !"
not so much anymore eh?
#Books
#Literature
Oh, sufficient unto one day is the evil ...
Now what if you had a particular way of reading that ?
"60% of highly paid workers such as lawyers, accountants and software engineers
[have assessed themselves not good enough to be in those positions]"
Bad enough that more than once, deluded individuals had perfectly good trees cut down to build a full-size replica of the Ark / saw the chance to run a tourist trap, & all tax-free!
You'd think that for the sheer wastefulness, God wouldn't permit it.
Honestly, because we were the way God made us - all the other land animals died too, where did all that freshwater go - physics - and finally Noah's daughters molest him, to keep the race going?
Even as metaphor (?) it breaks down somewhere, no ?