Covid Reporter Alex Berenson Returns to Twitter After Settling Lawsuit Against It;<br>Free Beacon Reports That FaceBook's Source for "Fact" Checks About the Biden Administration Is... the Claims of the Flacks and Hacks of the Biden Administration

Covid Reporter Alex Berenson Returns to Twitter After Settling Lawsuit Against It;
Free Beacon Reports That FaceBook's Source for "Fact" Checks About the Biden Administration Is... the Claims of the Flacks and Hacks of the Biden Administration

Journalist Alex Berenson has settled his suit against Twitter and his reinstated after a year of being banned.

Berenson can't say much about the lawsuit, due to the usual NDA, but he did allude to the "pressure" the government may have applied to Twitter to coerce them into banning him.

He can't talk right now, but Ian Haworth of the Free Beacon talked to a FaceBook engineer about how FaceBook deliberately skews its algorithm to spike conservative news.

And apparently at the behest of the Biden Administration, whose claims it was using as the "facts" it was "checking" against.

What Biden says is the "fact;" any critic who disputes him is guilty of pushing "misinformation." That is the rule at FaceBook.

It took just hours after a Washington Free Beacon report on a Biden administration plan to distribute crack pipes to drug addicts at taxpayer expense for the Facebook fact-checkers to mobilize.
In a "fact check" titled "Biden Administration Is NOT Funding 'Crack Pipes, Heroin' For Drug Use," Lead Stories--a prominent member of Facebook's third-party fact-checking program--concluded the Free Beacon report was "not true." Lead Stories based its determination on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's declaration, made days after the report elicited considerable blowback, that as Lead Stories phrased it, "none of the federal funds for harm reduction programs for drug addicts can be used to provide crack pipes."

"While a description of the HHS grants stated that the grantees would be required to buy materials like safe smoking kits and supplies to 'enhance harm reduction efforts,' such kits and supplies are just a few of the many materials that grantees can utilize," Lead Stories added. The fact-checking system at Facebook, which I saw first hand during my time as a software engineer on Facebook's "Misinformation" fact-checking team between 2019 and 2021, hands monumental power to supposedly nonpartisan fact-checking organizations to quash legitimate news.
According to the original Free Beacon report, President Joe Biden's Department of Health and Human Services planned to implement a $30 million grant program that included the distribution of "safe smoking kits" to drug addicts. A spokesman for the administration told the Free Beacon that these "safe smoking kits" would--like many other similar existing kits across the nation--include pipes for the use of "any illicit substance." Another Facebook fact-checker, AFP Fact Check, also concluded the "U.S. grant program is not funding crack pipes for addicts."
As a result of this wave of fact-checking activity, Facebook posts linking to the Free Beacon report were tagged as "Partly False," thereby "significantly" reducing the "content's distribution so that fewer people see it," according to Facebook's own fact-checking policy.

The Free Beacon tried to fight the decision, but complaints fell on deaf ears. Lead Stories editor in chief Alan Duke insisted he had no responsibility to contact the Free Beacon before making a determination, which relied exclusively on the word of Biden administration officials. That's right: Lead Stories diminished the story's distribution on Facebook based on the word of Biden administration officials whose policies were suddenly under scrutiny.
"Your fact check on Lead Stories led to our highly trafficked piece being removed from Facebook. Is there a reason you didn't bother reaching out to our reporter or anybody at the Free Beacon?" the Free Beacon's executive editor, Brent Scher, asked Duke.
"Your article may be 'highly trafficked' but it is also highly false," Duke, a former CNN reporter, responded. "Please let us know when you have updated it with the correct information, as shared in our article."

Duke, whose Twitter profile describes him as a "Facebook fact-checker," added that his duties required him only to contact government spokesmen--not the Free Beacon.

Still waiting for any word from National Review or AEI or any of the other grifter organizations on Big Tech's payroll to state whether they believe that corporations should be "free to be pressured by the government so long as the government in question is leftwing."

Because that seems to be their position. They literally never object to this, ever.

Posted by: Ace at 02:01 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Thrawn at July 08, 2022 02:01 PM (Rl7KJ)

2 Berensons original tweet was freaking accurate for misinformation.

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:01 PM (K0vc6)

3 Sue like the wind.

Posted by: Bete at July 08, 2022 02:01 PM (EDtFE)

4 Freakily

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:02 PM (K0vc6)

5 ahoy.

Posted by: Funsize at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (Jc5GQ)

6 They will not give up that which they have stolen without force.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (QYPq3)

7 Democracy Dies In Algorithms.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (oTZbj)

8 A boy named Sue.

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (gktX6)

9 Berenson is BACK!

And he is saltah!

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (dCxaZ)

10 How did Mark Zuckerberg get awarded the FaceBook franchise from DARPA? Is his daddy a somebody?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (0chEi)

11 Rating: 100% True
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It doesn't stop infection.
Or transmission.

Don’t think of it as a vaccine.

Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.

And we want to mandate it?
Insanity.
Alex Berenson

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:03 PM (K0vc6)

12 He can't talk right now, but Ian Haworth of the Free Beacon talked to a FaceBook engineer about how FaceBook deliberately skews its algorithm to spike conservative news.

And apparently at the behest of the Biden Administration, whose claims it was using as the "facts" it was "checking" against.

What Biden says is the "fact;" any critic who disputes him is guilty of pushing "misinformation." That is the rule at FaceBook.
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And, as it has been forever, this is flatly illegal. The government can't go ask a private company to do something it is forbidden to do to dodge around the rule. That's against the law.

Of course, we're largely post-law now but good grief, this is obviously criminal and they're essentially admitting to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:04 PM (WWh8n)

13 The Tw@tt has closed the back door whereby if you put your browser in Private mode, you can look at teh Twa@tter all you like.

But the other day some moron here hipped me to nitter, so EFF U BIG TW@TT

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (dCxaZ)

14 Still waiting for any word from National Review or AEI or any of the other grifter organizations on Big Tech's payroll to state whether they believe that corporations should be "free to be pressured by the government so long as the government in question is leftwing."

Because that seems to be their position. They literally never object to this, ever.
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They know where their bread is buttered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (WWh8n)

15 Ok, willowed:
Natalya Krasavina. Russian born instagramette and professional model for fashion companies. She's 23 yo. Her father is some rich Russian and her mother was also a model. It would appear that everything she is sporting she was born with. She's dating one of her photographers. Mostly I'm hoping these young ones are protected by their dads, make the money they want, and punch out. She's made millions $US so far so hopefully that's going to be enough for her soon. I think she would make a nice mom with lots of little babushkas running around.

Google reverse image search.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (E9ZCZ)

16 I don't think anyone actually believes any of these "fact checkers". Everyone just laughs at them.

It's not a real job. Anyone can check facts.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (Y5qcH)

17 They will not give up that which they have stolen without force.
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Nope.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (/hCMk)

18 Of course, we're largely post-law now but good grief, this is obviously criminal and they're essentially admitting to it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:04 PM (WWh8n)

You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (6TxNR)

19 Of course, we're largely post-law now but good grief, this is obviously criminal and they're essentially admitting to it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:04 PM (WWh8n)
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The left is projection, all the way down. Everything the left accused President Trump of, the left is now actively doing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (5pTK/)

20 The Tw@tt has closed the back door whereby if you put your browser in Private mode, you can look at teh Twa@tter all you like.

But the other day some moron here hipped me to nitter, so EFF U BIG TW@TT
Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (dCxaZ)
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Private mode was always hit and miss, and it was usually a miss for me. Someone here (I forget who it was) pointed out that if you click the "sign up" button and then close out of the form, it goes back to where you were in the thread and you can keep reading. It's an annoyance but not a direct block.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:06 PM (WWh8n)

21 >>You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

>They are rubbing our noses in it.

That's probably why it feels like they are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: garrett at July 08, 2022 02:06 PM (hFJUJ)

22 But but but . . . NDAs are evil!

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 08, 2022 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

23 You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.
Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (6TxNR)
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That they most certainly are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (WWh8n)

24 Duke, a former CNN reporter . . . whose Twitter profile describes him as a "Facebook fact-checker," added that his duties required him only to contact government spokesmen--not the Free Beacon.
___________________________________________

In other words, a proxy for the federal government depriving someone of their First Amendment rights.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (lf83v)

25 Corporations are people and have 1st Amendment rights to do as they please.
Even if it's at the behest and coercion of the government.
That's not fascism, you white supremacists.

/s/ National Review

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (/DN3g)

26 I hope Elon puts Berenson in charge of hiring and firing decisions for twitter's truth and safety comintern.

Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (uQFwj)

27 >>The left is projection, all the way down.

This is a Universal Truth.

Posted by: garrett at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (hFJUJ)

28 >>> They literally never object to this, ever.

Posted by: Ace at 02:01 PM

Well, that's what the left pays them to do so...

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (E9ZCZ)

29 "Alex Berenson"

Isn't that the radical chick who was imprisoned in South America for playing footsie with the local terrorists? She made an arrogant impression at one of her early court hearings, thereby fortifying the giant hard-on that the authorities had for her. She got out after about a decade I think.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (qpX6U)

30 >>>You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (6TxNR)

We should be rubbing their noses in it since they're the ones that keep crapping on the floor.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (QYPq3)

31 House wants troops to chow down bison meat bought from native tribes

https://tinyurl.com/4m733u2x

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (/hCMk)

32 What I find interesting is that Musk is asking Berenson for details instead of demanding the information from Twitter's legal department.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (WWh8n)

33 You have to feel sorry for the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and State. It was a lot easier to gaslight the American people when there were only three television networks to bribe and/or threaten.

The democrats and GOPe, with their armed flunkies in the above named unconstitutional bureaucracies are finding it hard to hide their crimes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (lTGtQ)

34 What Baghdad Bob says is the "fact;" any critic who disputes him is guilty of pushing "misinformation." That is the rule at IraqFaceBook.

Posted by: Saddam at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (4I/2K)

35
I hope Elon puts Berenson in charge of hiring and firing decisions for twitter's truth and safety comintern.

Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM

Executive Vice President of Retribution

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (ENBF0)

36 The Left is projection and one other thing: envy

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (K0vc6)

37 1. Divorce
2. War

Choose wisely.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (mE7cY)

38 Willard:
382 "The people that I'm mad at are well-educated white liberals.

one coworker is prototype Karyn suburban white liberal. She virtue signals ALL the time, most of her sheet falls on deaf ears because my boss is not leftoid. But we serve the public and her sheet unfortunately will leak out there until someone yanks it.

Her latest, greatest, Sheltered Liberal White Lady faux pas?

A young woman walked into our store and began speaking her native language to her son. Sheltered White Lady asks customer:

"When did you get here from China?"

The woman is Filipina. The worst part is, she's one of our longtime customers.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:10 PM (dCxaZ)

39 26 I hope Elon puts ~~Berenson~~ Zombie Pinochet in charge of hiring and firing decisions for twitter's truth and safety comintern.
Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (uQFwj)

FIFY

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:10 PM (6TxNR)

40 Unfortunately I don't think the Musk Twitter deal will happen. So it probably will.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:10 PM (Mv1CU)

41 The amount of doublethink necessary for a private company to claim it can censor, while simultaneously claiming common carrier status, boggles the mind.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:10 PM (5pTK/)

42 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:06 PM (WWh8n)

thanks I will try that

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:10 PM (dCxaZ)

43 26 I hope Elon puts Berenson in charge of hiring and firing decisions for twitter's truth and safety comintern.
Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM (uQFwj)

I thought the sale of Twatter to Musk was in doubt now as Musk still isn't buying Twatter's claim of less than 5% of it's accounts are bots?

Posted by: Thrawn at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (Rl7KJ)

44 What Pinochet did was wrong and I will not hear of it anymore.

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (K0vc6)

45 This timeline needs giant sloars.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (cupoy)

46 And if you think that the government is only leaning on social media sites to enforce woke ideology and suppress any other... I've got a bridge to sell you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (llsW/)

47 What I find interesting is that Musk is asking Berenson for details instead of demanding the information from Twitter's legal department.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08

Perhaps he could, but now we all also know that there is more depth to the covering up of gov involvement in Twatter censorship.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (ftFVW)

48 We are in the beginning of full out tyranny.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (qwO6y)

49 >>> The Tw@tt has closed the back door whereby if you put your browser in Private mode, you can look at teh Twa@tter all you like.

But the other day some moron here hipped me to nitter, so EFF U BIG TW@TT
Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (dCxaZ)

If you have an android there's an app called fritter that works pretty well too. It will open links anonymously in fritter.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (E9ZCZ)

50 I know, this is gonna' sound crazy - but this Ace fella' may be on to something. I'm starting to think that maybe the media isn't really a bunch of different organizations with different viewpoints at all.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:12 PM (9aVcn)

51 You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.
Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:05 PM (6TxNR)

All we have to do is LISTEN to them, and take them seriously... and put their WORDS up for the electorate to see.

Biden RAN on raising energy prices and destroying the oil industry. HE SAID SO IN CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.

Obama spoke about he wanted to change the US and our 'negative rights'.... and create a National Police force as large at the Armed Forces...

All we have to do is LISTEN to them.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:12 PM (oHd/0)

52 48 We are in the beginning of full out tyranny.
Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (qwO6y)

First quarter. Sides have been drawn, kickoff occurred in 2020.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (mE7cY)

53 Biden is the worst leader since Nero.

Repeat the line.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (UuD2k)

54 Freedom of speech is dead.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (gVbFl)

55 WAPO features the quote "democracy dies in darkness."

A far more accurate quote is "journalism dies in the media."

Posted by: irongrampa at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (KATBx)

56 48 We are ~~in the beginning of~~ 534 days into full out tyranny.
Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (qwO6y)

FIFY

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (6TxNR)

57 I hope Elon puts Berenson in charge of hiring and firing decisions for twitter's truth and safety comintern.

Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:07 PM

Executive Vice President of Retribution
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (ENBF0)

and Chief Defenestration Officer

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (4I/2K)

58 Bonus factoid about above-mentioned Karyn: she is NEA member.

And routinely spouts misinformation to the public. Not about politics or anything SJW - related, just general knowledge. She's like AOC who seriously doubts that ectopic pregnancies were identified prior to this week.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (dCxaZ)

59 31 House wants troops to chow down bison meat bought from native tribes

https://tinyurl.com/4m733u2x
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (/hCMk)

Alternately, we could provide casino style buffets to the troops. Buffets > Buffalo

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (cupoy)

60 It's the Government in bed with the Big Corps and we're the one's getting fucked.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (XvPQV)

61 Posted by: Here We Go Again
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmkBhGqLd2U

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (/hCMk)

62 1. Divorce
2. War

Choose wisely.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (m

I have been advocating for DIVORCE but we've been racking up the victories lately so I'll take a wait and see for now. I'd just like to return to the 60% non-insane population we once had.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (Mv1CU)

63 Freedom of speech is dead.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (gVbFl)
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Nah, it's perfectly okay to hate on white Christian males.

Hi nurse!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (5pTK/)

64 Isn't that the radical chick who was imprisoned in South America for playing footsie with the local terrorists? She made an arrogant impression at one of her early court hearings, thereby fortifying the giant hard-on that the authorities had for her. She got out after about a decade I think.

That was Laurie Berenson. She got smart after she got out, shut the fuck up and did her best to disappear.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (T6Rpm)

65 15 Banana Dream, in Russian “babushka” is a grandmother, not a child.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (Q5p+u)

66 Biden RAN on raising energy prices and destroying the oil industry. HE SAID SO IN CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.
....
All we have to do is LISTEN to them.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:12 PM (oHd/0)

Yes, but he lied about it later saying no he didn't say that. So, you know, you are wrong!

A wise man once said facts are not persuasive.

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (6TxNR)

67 44 What Pinochet did was wrong and I will not hear of it anymore.
Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (K0vc6)

Do you mean the part where he stopped killing Communists?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (XvPQV)

68 Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (E9ZCZ)

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (dCxaZ)

69 This timeline needs giant sloars.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (cupoy)

👍

Posted by: Gozer at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (4I/2K)

70 Consider Dr. Barry Marshall, the hero who risked his own life, deliberately infected himself with Helicobacter pylori to prove that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria, because the medical community refused to consider his work. Imagine if Facebook had asked establishment doctors their opinion, received the advice “this is total nonsense”, then decided to suppress any mention of the infection theory of stomach ulcers. Millions of people could still be suffering debilitating, lifelong medical problems, because the key to curing their condition had been suppressed.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (RHGPo)

71 They are rubbing our noses in it.
==
Literally. Its a dominance thing. It comes from rubbing your Dog's nose in the stuff he did on the carpet.

If you take it and don't bite them, you are whipped. Domesticated. That. Is. Literally. The. Point.

Posted by: But of course, its in the manual at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (i1IRK)

72 >37 1. Divorce
2. War

Choose wisely.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 02:09 PM (mE7cY)

Embrace the power of 'and'.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (gryET)

73 >>>Freedom of speech is dead.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2022 02:13 PM (gVbFl)

Wait, so how long before they bust down the doo...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (QYPq3)

74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

75 And a reminder: A National Divorce WILL lead to war.

There's no way the two groups will coexist peacefully.

They hate us.

And I hate them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

76 Perhaps he could, but now we all also know that there is more depth to the covering up of gov involvement in Twatter censorship.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:11 PM (ftFVW)
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Maybe, but they would have that information, too. I wonder if they're refusing to furnish the bidder with information.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (WWh8n)

77 And routinely spouts misinformation to the public. Not about politics or anything SJW - related, just general knowledge. She's like AOC who seriously doubts that ectopic pregnancies were identified prior to this week.
Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:14 PM (dCxaZ)
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Call me crazy, but, from where I sit, one needs to do two things when working with a customer: make them feel at ease and get them what they want.

Spouting BS that has nothing to do with the issue at hand is not customer service.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (5pTK/)

78 I can't imagine living with the cognitive dissonance leftists must live with every day. Supporting an ideology that is so ass backwards it can only be sustained by censoring people who disagree with you.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 02:17 PM (ZLI7S)

79 Hi blake!
Every time I use my beautiful cutting board, which is daily, I say a little prayer for you and the Missus.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2022 02:17 PM (eV35g)

80 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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It is.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:17 PM (/hCMk)

81 Jack Posobiec made the point that Twitter may have been directed by the government to ban Berenson, and that's why he was reinstated (to avoid a 1st Amendment violation).

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 08, 2022 02:17 PM (V6W16)

82 >74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

Bison is great; but very lean.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 08, 2022 02:17 PM (gryET)

83 We are in the beginning of full out tyranny.

They're trying so hard, I believe, because the Information Age has made the common man's access to the press cheaper and more convenient than ever before. And I'm using "press" here in the old school manner, the tool needed to document and mass produce one's political and social commentary for distribution to the public.

What blows my mind is how censored information was when I grew up - news carried by one main local paper and three news channels. Anything other than that hinged on my ability to find it, assuming my local library even had it, and how was I going to find unpopular or unapproved items if I didn't even know what to look for ?

The Internet has truly democratized the press, and the old school guardians of information who hijacked that name hate it.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (9aVcn)

84 I thought the sale of Twatter to Musk was in doubt now as Musk still isn't buying Twatter's claim of less than 5% of it's accounts are bots?

Posted by: Thrawn

I think the deal will go through, but it will be solved in court as Musk will reduce the price based on the number of fabricated accounts.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (lTGtQ)

85 > House wants troops to chow down bison meat bought from native tribes

I don't actually see anything particularly wrong with this. Troops gotta eat, and bison is healthy, tasty meat.

I'd rather tax dollars went to paying Native Americans to raise livestock than just being issued as a handout. Honest work is good.

And yeah, I'm sure there's some graft, pork, and cronyism in the bill, but there always is, isn't there?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (bW8dp)

86 >>>Banana Dream, in Russian “babushka” is a grandmother, not a child.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (Q5p+u)

Hey, that would be nice too da? Who wouldn't like a few dozen grannies racing around.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (E9ZCZ)

87 Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:12 PM (9aVcn)

Associated Press.... AP... UPI United Press International... UPI.

Those TWO organizations create just about all the 'news' that American see. Even Fox News subscribes to both services. Companies can't afford to run their own real news agencies anymore.... so they subscribe to those two.

Both, lean WAY left.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (oHd/0)

88 Do you mean the part where he stopped killing Communists?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (XvPQV)

Welllllllllll....

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (VeXPe)

89 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08

What I've had kind of just tasted like cow.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (ftFVW)

90 Lefty friend on FB was all up in arms and F your freedom and we can't remain one country because of Dobbs.

I was like finally you see my point.

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (6TxNR)

91 44 What Pinochet did was wrong and I will not hear of it anymore.
Posted by: ...

chopper fuel ain't cheap and reusable like rope

Posted by: x at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (uQFwj)

92 Spouting BS that has nothing to do with the issue at hand is not customer service.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (5pTK/)

she is so eager to signal that she is down with all the other races who aren't white that she just ends up so cringe.

It's just one cringe after another with her. It's starting to amuse me. She's funny, you know...like a clown.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (dCxaZ)

93 >>> I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

It's very lean where I've seen it. You're not gonna make a good hamburger with it unless you cut in some beef fat.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (E9ZCZ)

94 > chopper fuel ain't cheap and reusable like rope

But you also need to take entertainment value into account.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (bW8dp)

95 >And I hate them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

I used to think hate was too strong, too hyperbolic. I was wrong.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (gryET)

96 I don't actually see anything particularly wrong with this. Troops gotta eat, and bison is healthy, tasty meat.
___

Oh, I agree.

Bison is very tasty.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (/hCMk)

97 “Fact-checkers” claim to provide the solution. But a weaponized “fact-check” is nothing more
than a “narrative-check.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (RHGPo)

98 And a reminder: A National Divorce WILL lead to war.

There's no way the two groups will coexist peacefully.

They hate us.

And I hate them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

I think if we were able to get a divorce the Left wouldn't have the balls to start a war with us and I assume we wouldn't need to start one with them. It's all just a fantasy for me anyway because we ain't splitting up without violence.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (Mv1CU)

99 74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

Yes, it is.

And the burgeoning cadre of enlisted transvegans are gonna lurv that stuff.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (MkuC5)

100 Pinochet's problem is that he wasn't only killing commies, he also killed political rivals and just people who were turned in as commies because they were business rivals, personal enemies, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (llsW/)

101 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
==
I read that initially as Biden.

*guffaw*

Posted by: Ashley at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (4cEgJ)

102 It's very lean where I've seen it. You're not gonna make a good hamburger with it unless you cut in some beef fat.
___

Bacon fat works also.

'Cause...bacon.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (/hCMk)

103 You know, I need to check out that simp Giancarlo Poso's tw@tter. That little cvnt knew ahead of time that Berenson was going to get zitzed, and was crowing about it on his useless feed.

He writes for National Review or something. Another fraud.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (dCxaZ)

104 74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

Yes, it is.

And the burgeoning cadre of enlisted transvegans are gonna lurv that stuff.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (MkuC5)

I love Buffalo burgers.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (Mv1CU)

105 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

And how! Pairs nicely with my family's Prairie Crab Dip recipe.

Posted by: Fauxcahontas Warren at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (4I/2K)

106 Under my Presidency, July 4th will include fireworks and helicopter rides!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (mE7cY)

107 >>>I think if we were able to get a divorce the Left wouldn't have the balls to start a war with us and I assume we wouldn't need to start one with them. It's all just a fantasy for me anyway because we ain't splitting up without violence.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (Mv1CU)

Just a reminder: they already started it

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (QYPq3)

108 I think if we were able to get a divorce the Left wouldn't have the balls to start a war with us and I assume we wouldn't need to start one with them. It's all just a fantasy for me anyway because we ain't splitting up without violence.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (Mv1CU)

ANTIFA, CHAZ, Portland....that all tells me plenty on the Left want to kill us.

The Right might not want to fight. Possibly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (XvPQV)

109 75 And a reminder: A National Divorce WILL lead to war.
There's no way the two groups will coexist peacefully.
They hate us.
And I hate them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

Worse, the folks who actually PRODUCE stuff in the US, are all on our side. Energy, Food, Transportation, Industry....

They can't live without us... so they will come and try to take our shit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (oHd/0)

110 chopper fuel ain't cheap and reusable like rope

But you also need to take entertainment value into account.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (bW8dp)
------------

What is with you people? Everyone knows Pinochet Trebochet Services would be Gaia friendly and have entertainment value.

I honestly don't know some of you, any more.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (5pTK/)

111 I don't know if fact checking was ever actually a thing or always just an excuse. I feel like at one time it was a thing but it's possible that's bullshit.

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (VeXPe)

112 Thank you, nurse, much appreciated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (5pTK/)

113 "Call me crazy, but, from where I sit, one needs to do two things when working with a customer: make them feel at ease and get them what they want."

Provide a good quality customer-facing website that can adroitly handle all customer transactions and queries. The less human interaction the better. That's all I ask for when it comes to customer service.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (qpX6U)

114 So the tech lords have willingly chosen fascism over communism as their preferred version of socialism.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (WKPeU)

115 Everyone is aware that "fact checking" only started to appear once the right gained any kind of voice on the internet (and indeed was beginning to dominate the political landscape on social media).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:22 PM (llsW/)

116 If there's gonna be a divorce, WE KEEP THE REAL ESTATE.

This is non-negotiable.

So, war.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (MkuC5)

117 Giancarlo Sopo.

Whatever NT publication he was with, he must have left them becauze it's not longer on his profile.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)

118 90 Lefty friend on FB was all up in arms and F your freedom and we can't remain one country because of Dobbs.

I was like finally you see my point.

Posted by: blaster at July 08, 2022 02:18 PM (6TxNR)

It’s good to see we can find common ground.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (qwO6y)

119 95 >And I hate them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

I used to think hate was too strong, too hyperbolic. I was wrong.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (gryET)

According to scripture, there are things even God Hates.

Ergo, Hate has a home here... its livin in the spare bedroom.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (oHd/0)

120 There’s a company that deals in bison meat, as well as elk and wild boar. Forget what it’s called, but you can find their stuff in Giant in the DC area.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (Q5p+u)

121 So the tech lords have willingly chosen fascism over communism as their preferred version of socialism.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (WKPeU)

You know who else chose fascism as their preferred version of socialism?

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (VeXPe)

122 And a buffalo + beef mix is ideal...or just add BBQ sauce to buffalo burgers.

Buffalo is still more expensive than beef, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (XvPQV)

123 The first amendment only applies to Republican government.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (0OmEj)

124 Pinochet's problem is that he wasn't only killing commies, he also killed political rivals and just people who were turned in as commies because they were business rivals, personal enemies, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:20 PM (llsW/)

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. That both Chile and Spain turned out to be relatively prosperous democratic countries thanks to their military 'dictators' says it all.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (Mv1CU)

125 I'm embarrassed for everyone here, including myself, at all this talk of Pinochet Helicopter Rides and Pinochet Trebuchet Services ... and not one mention of a wood chipper. I don't even know you people anymore.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (9aVcn)

126 It's definitely lean. It hasn't been bred to have a super high fat content like beef breeds. On the other hand, I understand it's easier to finish on pure grass, rather than requiring grain-based feed.

But other than that, yeah, it's pretty similar to beef. They're close relatives.

This is why it's hilarious to see the envirocommies screeching about beef ranching in the west. They don't appear to understand that the land was previously inhabited by millions and millions of ruminants so closely related to the current cattle that they can actually interbreed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (bW8dp)

127 So the tech lords have willingly chosen fascism over communism as their preferred version of socialism.

They've chosen leftist religion as the faith to control the peasants in feudalism, is all. They don't honestly believe any of that crap but its useful to them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (llsW/)

128 I don't know if fact checking was ever actually a thing or always just an excuse. I feel like at one time it was a thing but it's possible that's bullshit.

Posted by: ...

Fact checking was their brute force attempt to shut down non-approved news.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (lTGtQ)

129 hey can't live without us... so they will come and try to take our shit.
==
Well, they're trying to take your kids already.

Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (oZq//)

130 I read the content. Xavier Becerra past Attorney General of the State of California. Kamala Harris who checks so many boxes of the State of California standing there with Joe Biden. Who ever thought of "types, deletes, types, deletes," deserves a royalty. I'll throw in a quarter.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (glGDV)

131 We're already in WWIII.

Most people either don't know, or refuse to believe it.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (/hCMk)

132 They can't live without us... so they will come and try to take our shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (oHd/0)

--
Yes, a literal Free Shit Army.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (/HQcE)

133 @11

>>Don’t think of it as a vaccine.

Heh, there was a time people were banned on this blog for stating that or in fact calling bullshit on the whole plandemic.

And it was apparent this was all bullshit in ohhh...

March of 2020.

The skeptics are proven to be more and more right about this whole Op every day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (yRASd)

134 Elk is fantastic, better than beef. Pricey, though, even if you shoot it yourself.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (lTGtQ)

135 The thing is, I think the leftist elites need to look at Sri Lanka and ask themselves if that is what they want. Mobs of starving enraged poor people are chasing down rich in the streets and murdering them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (llsW/)

136 123 The first amendment only applies to Republican government.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 08, 2022 02:23 PM (0OmEj)

to them, Democracy means Rule by Democrats.

Republic means rule by Republicans...

Therefore, they must destroy the Republic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (oHd/0)

137 I'm embarrassed for everyone here, including myself, at all this talk of Pinochet Helicopter Rides and Pinochet Trebuchet Services ... and not one mention of a wood chipper. I don't even know you people anymore.
___

Neighbor has one, so, meh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (/hCMk)

138 This is why it's hilarious to see the envirocommies screeching about beef ranching in the west. They don't appear to understand that the land was previously inhabited by millions and millions of ruminants so closely related to the current cattle that they can actually interbreed.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:24 PM (bW8dp)

Or ever seen a wildebeest migration in Africa.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (UuD2k)

139 > They can't live without us... so they will come and try to take our shit.

Fortunately, we also have almost all the guns, and most of the military vets (particularly the ones with actual combat arms experience).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (bW8dp)

140 131 --

You are absolutely correct. There is no disputing it.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (MkuC5)

141 Every day the Biden Junta, led by Snively Whiplash, Duke of Kalorama, destroys some previously unassailable part of America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (yVKAE)

142 Elected Democrats love resisting arrest:

"Woodstock Councilwoman Maria-Elena Conte charged with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest"

https://bit.ly/3uzGcZj

Conte is co-founder and organizer of the Woodstock Women’s March. Conte moved to Woodstock in 2015 along with her three cats, Xena, Gabby and Bowie.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (lf83v)

143 Researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI division reportedly ran a number of experiments where a deep neural network was ordered to distribute resources in a more equitable way that humans preferred. The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.

.. define "better"

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (RHGPo)

144 They can't live without us... so they will come and try to take our shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (oHd/0)

So be it. Everything will be simpler once we choose up teams. Kinda' like trying to play a pick-up game without going shirts and skins. It just gets too complicated.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (9aVcn)

145 Heh, there was a time people were banned on this blog for stating that or in fact calling bullshit on the whole plandemic.

I think it was more the way they were stating it and how they treated other commenters than just the opinion, given that many people here have been expressing doubts and questions for years and never been banned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (llsW/)

146 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

147 You will accept our lies as truths comrade.

Posted by: Truth Commissar at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (AmoqO)

148 Big tech blows.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

149 Conte is co-founder and organizer of the Woodstock Women’s March. Conte moved to Woodstock in 2015 along with her three cats, Xena, Gabby and Bowie.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (lf83v)

Cats really don't deserve that shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (UuD2k)

150 I don't know if fact checking was ever actually a thing or always just an excuse. I feel like at one time it was a thing but it's possible that's bullshit.
Posted by: ... at July 08

It seemed like fact-checking used to be the kind of thing only applied to political debates and ads. It would seem to make more sense in that context, but I'm sure it was still skewed in one direction back then, too.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (ftFVW)

151 have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16

Been eating Bison most of my life. It usually very lean because typically grass fed.

Did I ever tell you my story of being chased by a bull Buffalo while surveying one Winter?

Well, there I was on the snowy hilltop in the Buffalo enclosure with theodolite ....

Posted by: Beartooth at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (u9Awk)

152 ANTIFA, CHAZ, Portland....that all tells me plenty on the Left want to kill us.

The Right might not want to fight. Possibly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (XvPQV)

They only try their violence in friendly territory. Little harder to convince them to do it when the odds are different.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:27 PM (Mv1CU)

153 Cats really don't deserve that shit.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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No, they don't.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:28 PM (/hCMk)

154 65 15 Banana Dream, in Russian “babushka” is a grandmother, not a child.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:15 PM (Q5p+u)

What is 'grandmother' in the Woke Language? Birthing Person of my Birthing Person?

"Birthing Person of my Birthing Person, can I have a cookie?" just doesn't nicely roll off the tongue.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 02:28 PM (AMIL/)

155 Heh, there was a time people were banned on this blog for stating that or in fact calling bullshit on the whole plandemic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 08, 2022 02:25 PM (yRASd)

I've only ever seen people here banned for being assholes. Never for the content of their assholery, but simply for being the assholes that they are, including harping on the same comment thread after thread after thread, long after they've been gently told to knock it off.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 08, 2022 02:28 PM (YV6PJ)

156 My standard response now to whatever Democrat suggestion for improving America and the world is "Go fuck yourself".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 02:28 PM (yVKAE)

157 It seemed like fact-checking used to be the kind of thing only applied to political debates and ads. It would seem to make more sense in that context, but I'm sure it was still skewed in one direction back then, too.

The first go-to fact checking I ever heard of was Snopes - which turned out to be total bullshit. Now that I think of it - anything I read on the Internet that doesn't come from Sefton I discount as bullshit anyway.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:28 PM (9aVcn)

158 Don't tell me that AOC knows what an ectoplasmic apparition is.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (44ww/)

159 I haven't tried elk but I really did not like the venison I have tasted. Too gamey, too much liver taste. Its okay in sausage or jerky but not just the meat. I know that's a failing in me, this is what our ancestors grew up on but I am too used to tame, bland food.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (llsW/)

160 The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.

.. define "better"

Posted by: SMOD

AI will follow orders, even if it means death to some. For example, diversity quotas for food. There are no three laws for AI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (lTGtQ)

161 BabylonBee: Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist.

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (RHGPo)

162 They've chosen leftist religion as the faith to control the peasants in feudalism, is all. They don't honestly believe any of that crap but its useful to them.
==
Sociopaths rise to the top.
I wonder if King George III realized that the aristocracy, of which he was obviously a member, was peopled by sociopaths. And if he conceived that the US, if it was permitted to survive, would eventually become a powerful country that would eventually fall into the hands of sociopaths. And those sociopaths would have no familial bonds to the ruling families of Europe. Of course you later get Communism in Russia, speaking of no familial ties to the ruling houses of Europe.

Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (r8W4Q)

163 Biden is Obama's dark side.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 02:30 PM (7AJF9)

164 Snopes is usually, almost always, accurate but they are corrupt as hell and have slouched into the same "fact check" territory where they find ways to technically find the left correct even when wrong and akshually find the right false even when true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:30 PM (llsW/)

165 Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (RHGPo)

That's very darkly funny and true..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 02:30 PM (FZ2cV)

166 > The first go-to fact checking I ever heard of was Snopes - which turned out to be total bullshit.

Some day someone's going to write a nice history PhD dissertation about how Snopes (which is basically just some dude and a rotating collection of stripper girlfriends) somehow became accepted as the Fountain of All Truth for the Internet.

The dude has no special expertise or credentials in ANY area of knowledge, much less EVERY area of knowledge.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (bW8dp)

167 you can't do a national divorce without collapsing the social security system - there's no way to split it up, there's no way to let states take it. (because there's no money left) It has to collapse.

So if you want to see people ready to fight, wait until you tell everyone over 65 "no more SS checks for you!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (trdmm)

168 Members of Buffalo Springfield considered calling the group The Buffalo Theodolites. Not a joke.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (StrrR)

169 NPR published the findings, which show that 53 percent of gun owners believe “passing new gun control laws is a slippery slope toward taking away all guns.”

The poll also shows that a majority of gun owners–51 percent–believe “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (RHGPo)

170 I really did not like the venison I have tasted. Too gamey, too much liver taste. Its okay in sausage or jerky but not just the meat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Deer eat acorns and forbs in addition to grass, which impacts their meat flavor, while Elk are much like grass fed beef.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (lTGtQ)

171 They only try their violence in friendly territory. Little harder to convince them to do it when the odds are different.
___

And when they have to spend (or steal) increasingly expensive gas, they're less prone to go driving out into the hinterlands.
Add the supply chain being broken, and more and more places truly ending up as food deserts...desperate, hungry people are no different from movie zombies at this point.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (/hCMk)

172 a buffalo is a wild cow

I've had bison steaks. Different taste from farm-raised beef. But expensive.

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (geLO8)

173 Hillary Clinton has three grandchildren by Chelsea. I want someone to ask her:

1. Are They vaccinated?
2. Have they been asked about the gender assignment and whether it was wrong?
3. How many transgender reading sessions have the grandchildren, and if not, why is Chelsea a transphobe?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (lf83v)

174 Also BB:

Musk’s Wealth Cut In Half After Taking All His Kids To Chuck E. Cheese

I'm rolling. I would hesitate to guess Musk is too because he at least has a sense of humor.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (E9ZCZ)

175 BabylonBee: Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist.
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (RHGPo)
++++
The Bee has perfected "fake but accurate." Nothing they write is factual but virtually everything they write is true.

When I call the Babylon Bee "America's paper of record," I'm not really joking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (WWh8n)

176 NPR published the findings, which show that 53 percent of gun owners believe "passing new gun control laws is a slippery slope toward taking away all guns."

That sounds incredibly low

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (llsW/)

177 Musk’s Wealth Cut In Half After Taking All His Kids To Chuck E. Cheese
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lol

Must be why I never took my kids there.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (/hCMk)

178 NPR published the findings, which show that 53 percent of gun owners believe "passing new gun control laws is a slippery slope toward taking away all guns."

That sounds incredibly low
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (llsW/)
++++
NPR probably only polled Democrat gun owners.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (WWh8n)

179 Heh, there was a time people were banned on this blog for stating that or in fact calling bullshit on the whole plandemic.

I think it was more the way they were stating it and how they treated other commenters than just the opinion, given that many people here have been expressing doubts and questions for years and never been banned.
==
I have personally expressed strong opinions on the 'pandemic' and vaccinations, and posted links etc. Never had a problem. Not one time. Of course I'm stealthing through a vpn...

Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (MRvHX)

180 Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) attended President Joe Biden’s Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House on Thursday instead of campaigning for reelection in Wyoming.

Down 28 to 30 points in her Republican primary race, which will occur on August 16 against former President Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, Cheney accepted an invitation to enjoy Biden’s Medal of Freedom 1,711 miles away from Casper, Wyoming, to hang out with her new friends.

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

181 Misinformation are just things the biden administration doesn't want you to say.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (8GBH4)

182 Sociopaths rise to the top.

They really do. One of the myths that I hope die along with the passing of today's Conservatism is the idea that life is a meritocracy. It just isn't. I've never seen it to be that. It irritates the shit out of me that people cling to that fiction regardless of metric tons of evidence to the contrary.

The most ruthless always rise. Then everybody stands around slack-jawed, wondering why those in power are doing such shitty shit. Well, its because it takes a shitty person to want to do what it takes to get into power. That shitty person will then, by definition, do shitty shit.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (9aVcn)

183 NASA just announced they are going to publish the first pictures from the Webb telescope on July 12 at 10:30 am.

https://tinyurl.com/yrksxhpm

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (ZLI7S)

184 My Dad, God rest his soul, was on to this garbage back in the late 50's/early 60's. He'd tell me (paraphrasing),

"Sometimes, I don't know what to think about certain things the gov tells me. Then I read the newspaper's take on it. I then always take the opposite side."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (Msys3)

185 BabylonBee: Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist.
Posted by: SMOD
___

Thank you, God.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (/hCMk)

186 Also BB:

Musk’s Wealth Cut In Half After Taking All His Kids To Chuck E. Cheese ...
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:32 PM (E9ZCZ)
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Good thing he didn't go to Disney World.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (WWh8n)

187 Don't tell me that AOC knows what an ectoplasmic apparition is.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (44ww/)

AIM FOR THE FLATTOP!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

188 Meanwhile, while the Junta worries about abortion availability to transgender soldiers, China has some things to say:

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the war in Ukraine should not be used to challenge Beijing's sovereignty over Taiwan, while General Li Zuocheng, chief of the Central Military Commission's joint staff department, said any infringement of China's core interests should expect a counter-attack.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 02:34 PM (kEtER)

189 167 you can't do a national divorce without collapsing the social security system - there's no way to split it up, there's no way to let states take it. (because there's no money left) It has to collapse.

So if you want to see people ready to fight, wait until you tell everyone over 65 "no more SS checks for you!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 02:31 PM (trdmm)

And that's the kicker - entitlements keep us lock, stock, and barrel together while they also collapse the country as a whole...

Funny enough, to avoid the collapse, they'll try all sorts of things to try to "decrease the surplus poor and old population" b/c they'll never just tell the truth that the country can't pay what it's promised without a financial collapse...

Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:34 PM (exHjb)

190 BREAKING:
Four CBP horseback agents WILL be disciplined over September 2021 Haitian migrant incident: CBP officials say they were unprofessional and used unnecessary force

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 02:34 PM (AMIL/)

191 The first go-to fact checking I ever heard of was Snopes - which turned out to be total bullshit. Now that I think of it - anything I read on the Internet that doesn't come from Sefton I discount as bullshit anyway.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08

Yeah, but I remember WaPo having their Pinocchio system back when I was a kid, well before Snopes. And it was pretty much BS, too.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:34 PM (ftFVW)

192 Willowed:

410 He's repeating the Internet-based "story" of a 10 year old girl who had to flee Ohio to get an abortion.

I haven't heard the whole story, but -

doesn't that example definitively prove that abortion its still going to be available in the Baby-Killin' Belt States,

and thus no one who wants an abortion will actually be unable to get one?

Where's the fire?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (5NkmN)

193 The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans
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My answer to this shit is the same as my answer to the people who want to raise taxes. Nothing stopping you from writing the Treasury Department a big fat check.

Likewise nothing stopping Google executives from replacing their current money managers with a robo advisor that will distribute their funds more "fairly."

But I guess it's only easy to be a big shot with other people's money.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (/HQcE)

194 ... spent over 4 billion on skee-ball alone 😂 :

https://tinyurl.com/muskcc

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (E9ZCZ)

195 NASA just announced they are going to publish the first pictures from the Webb telescope on July 12 at 10:30 am.

Yes. First photos of a black hole, although many think the image is that of a black woman in a thong upside down and twerking.

We will have to wait for the science to sort it out.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (lf83v)

196 and more and more places truly ending up as food deserts...

California is a gun and ammo desert...

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (pbX1I)

197 The demise of the Ministry of Truth has been greatly exaggerated.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (N1uCK)

198 Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (r8W4Q)

By the time of George III, the aristocracy of Europe had been decimated. Was REALLY bad in France....

Dueling killed almost 30% of the Aristocracy in the 1600 and 1700s. These were the most 'noble', and ableist... the ones who would put up a fight if their honor was impugned... leaving those titles and lands to those who would NOT put up a fight... So by mid to late 1700s... the aristocracy was not what it once had been.

Now, add in the Aristocrats who would actually go to war? and those losses?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (oHd/0)

199 race, which will occur on August 16 against former President Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, Cheney accepted an invitation to enjoy Biden’s Medal of Freedom 1,711 miles away from Casper, Wyoming, to hang out with her new friends.
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

Point of Order:

Cheney was raised in the beltway. So these are old friends not new ones. Any new friends would actually have to be in Wyoming.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (u9Awk)

200 BREAKING:
Four CBP horseback agents WILL be disciplined over September 2021 Haitian migrant incident: CBP officials say they were unprofessional and used unnecessary force

That was breaking a month or two ago.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (ZSK0i)

201 My wife, she's Russian y'know, is telling me the latest Biden teleprompter gaffe (end quote, repeat the line) is already all over Russian media. Maybe they read AoS?

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (AwYPR)

202 93 >>> I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)

It's very lean where I've seen it. You're not gonna make a good hamburger with it unless you cut in some beef fat.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (E9ZCZ)
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Lard, it's called lard.

Posted by: Ciampino - finding uses for good old lard at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (qfLjt)

203 I consider Dunkin Donuts to be a food dessert...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (StrrR)

204 Beef fat? That's tallow.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (ZSK0i)

205 also, 'fact-checking' is BS

should be called 'let me tell you all the ways you are wrong because you disagree with me'

also- where does one go to verify facts? Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia? If truth is subjective, then everything is true
(am I doing this right?)

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (geLO8)

206 OT: The new Thor movie is bad. Do not watch. If you want to see a fun multi-colored (and yet wholesome) supers romp, go watch the new Minions.

Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

207 I haven't looked at Snopes in years, ever since they went full Trump Derangement. What manure that place pumped out!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (kEtER)

208 Damn, Larry Storch is only just now freshly dead.

99.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (+R5dc)

209 Marisa Berenson >>>>Alex Berenson

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (5NkmN)

210 a buffalo is a wild cow

I've had bison steaks. Different taste from farm-raised beef. But expensive.
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Bison is very lean. So is grass fed beef, as long as it isn't finished for 30 days in a feed lot before slaughter, which most of the store bought stuff is. I buy grass fed beef straight off the farm. Both bison and grass fed beef are more "chewy". In essence a grain fed cow, that doesn't graze for its food, but stands around in front of a trough has poor muscle tone. That mushy meat is something we've been accustomed to now.

Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (2NKQ7)

211 Lard, it's called lard.
Posted by: Ciampino - finding uses for good old lard at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (qfLjt)
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Larding bison will absolutely work to make it make decent burgers, but using high-fat ground beef works as well and the bison+beef flavor combination is quite good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (WWh8n)

212 Sociopaths rise to the top.

A long time ago I heard this modification of an old saying -
The cream rises to the top and so does the scum.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (AMIL/)

213 officials say they were unprofessional and used unnecessary force AND DIDN'T HOLD THEIR MOUTH JUST RIGHT

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (pbX1I)

214 Lard, it's called lard.
_______________________

Yes? Can I help you.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (lf83v)

215 >>> Good thing he didn't go to Disney World.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (WWh8n)

CC is ridiculously expensive for birthday parties. I don't know how parents afford it. For our kid we had a beach party and spent very little. All the kids there had a blast.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (E9ZCZ)

216 They really do. One of the myths that I hope die along with the passing of today's Conservatism is the idea that life is a meritocracy. It just isn't. I've never seen it to be that. It irritates the shit out of me that people cling to that fiction regardless of metric tons of evidence to the contrary.
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This is true for the most part.
Seen many a douche rise through the ranks in the Army due to who they know, as opposed to what they know.

When it comes to truly making things work and run properly, however, meritocracy is very much in play.
What's happening now is the natural result of applying "who you know" on a vast, uncompromising, scale, with merit being tossed aside.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (/hCMk)

217 Lonesome Dove off the Stockyards in Ft. Worth has a Buffalo Ribeye that's orgasmic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

218 The demise of the Ministry of Truth has been greatly exaggerated.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (N1uCK)

They never said they were ending it. The word they used was pause, you know like how you hit pause to go take a piss? They took their 3 minute piss and it's back in action.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (AiZBA)

219 You have to see the tweet that caused Twitter to libel Berenson. He said things that are absolutely true and completely uncontroversial, outside Branch Covidian.

Posted by: motionview, divisive arch-conservative at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (Yuudf)

220 Canada to Destroy 13.6 Million Doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Because No One Wants it Domestically or Abroad

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (RHGPo)

221 Don't tell me that AOC knows what an ectoplasmic apparition is.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM

*backs away*

Her chompers are looking at me, Ray...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (RkC6l)

222 CC is ridiculously expensive for birthday parties. I don't know how parents afford it. For our kid we had a beach party and spent very little. All the kids there had a blast.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (E9ZCZ)
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I remember bowling as a childhood birthday party event. It wasn't real cheap but it wasn't unaffordable (if it had been, my parents wouldn't have done it). I dunno if that's still true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (WWh8n)

223 Musk to buy MLB team to be fielded by his kids. The Texas Musk Oxen.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (Mv1CU)

224 Beef tallow is what McDonalds used to cook fries in back in the day. Best tasting fries in the universe back then. No so today.

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (gmo/4)

225 Canada to Destroy 13.6 Million Doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Because No One Wants it Domestically or Abroad
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lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (/hCMk)

226 My wife, she's Russian y'know, is telling me the latest Biden teleprompter gaffe (end quote, repeat the line) is already all over Russian media. Maybe they read AoS?
Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (AwYPR)

I KNEW there were Russian bots on this site!

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (/HQcE)

227 Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes AGREES to Testify Before Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 Committee Next Week — BUT ONLY IF IT IS AIRED LIVE

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (RHGPo)

228 Lard? Tallow?

*pricks up ears*

— Stacy Abrams

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (Q5p+u)

229 *backs away*

Her chompers are looking at me, Ray...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (RkC6l)
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HAHAHAHAHA. Nice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (WWh8n)

230 The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans

This reminds me of Socrates arguing for hours and hours that philosophers should rule everything. No self-interest there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (llsW/)

231 On the other hand, the Border Patrol agent's Union will take over and they'll be reinstated with back pay when it's all said and done.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (UuD2k)

232 Larding bison will absolutely work to make it make decent burgers, but using high-fat ground beef works as well and the bison+beef flavor combination is quite good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (WWh8n)
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Bison, hamburger and bacon sounds like a winning combo.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (5pTK/)

233 CC is ridiculously expensive for birthday parties. I don't know how parents afford it. For our kid we had a beach party and spent very little. All the kids there had a blast.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:38 PM (E9ZCZ)

Back when it was still "coin" and not these "30 minute play cards", you just skipped an "official party", invited 3-5 kids, and got 2 really good coupons - one for the pizza and one for the tokens and you had your own (very cheap) party.

Or at least that's what I did...

Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (exHjb)

234 198 Posted by: I know you know this but . . . at July 08, 2022 02:29 PM (r8W4Q)

By the time of George III, the aristocracy of Europe had been decimated. Was REALLY bad in France....

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:35 PM (oHd/0)
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Executing Lavoisier was shortsighted.

Posted by: Ciampino - killing Archimedes was a mistake at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (qfLjt)

235 Beef fat?

20 $ same as in town

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (E9ZCZ)

236 go watch the new Minions.
Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

Daughter saw it with some friends this week. Said it was pretty 'meh' but, she's not a Minions fan, so maybe that assisted her review a bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

237 AoS Style Guide: Never say 'elite' when you mean 'hereditary aristocracy'.

Posted by: motionview, divisive arch-conservative at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (Yuudf)

238 >Dueling killed almost 30% of the Aristocracy in the 1600 and 1700s.

I have no doubt that centuries of shuffling off the smartest to be celibate priests also took its toll.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (bW8dp)

239 My wife, she's Russian y'know, is telling me the latest Biden teleprompter gaffe (end quote, repeat the line) is already all over Russian media. Maybe they read AoS?
Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (AwYPR)
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Speaking of "repeat the line" that is not even worst stumble that brain dead fool makes in the short clip.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (5pTK/)

240 One of the myths that I hope die along with the passing of today's Conservatism is the idea that life is a meritocracy. It just isn't.

Nothing is ever one thing, but life is a hell of a lot more meritocracy than it is based on identity group, and it ought to be more meritocratic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (llsW/)

241 Elon Musk's wealth cut in half after taking all his kids to Chuck E. Cheese.

The Bee

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (gmo/4)

242 200 BREAKING:
Four CBP horseback agents WILL be disciplined over September 2021 Haitian migrant incident: CBP officials say they were unprofessional and used unnecessary force

That was breaking a month or two ago.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (ZSK0i)

It was rumored a month ago. The official report was released today. A 500-PAGE report. What a waste of bytes and paper.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (AMIL/)

243 McDonald's fries?

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (StrrR)

244 Researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI division reportedly ran a number of experiments where a deep neural network was ordered to distribute resources in a more equitable way that humans preferred. The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.

.. define "better"
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:26 PM (RHGPo)
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Yeah, and after that, explain how it handles net-new conditions. Spoiler alert: it can't do any better than guess at the right answer to a new condition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (WWh8n)

245 The most ruthless always rise. Then everybody stands around slack-jawed, wondering why those in power are doing such shitty shit. Well, its because it takes a shitty person to want to do what it takes to get into power. That shitty person will then, by definition, do shitty shit.
==
See, that's what I was saying about representative democracy. I told that dolt Franklin.

Posted by: George the III at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (8tRn9)

246 They really do. One of the myths that I hope die along with the passing of today's Conservatism is the idea that life is a meritocracy. It just isn't. I've never seen it to be that. It irritates the shit out of me that people cling to that fiction regardless of metric tons of evidence to the contrary.

The most ruthless always rise. Then everybody stands around slack-jawed, wondering why those in power are doing such shitty shit. Well, its because it takes a shitty person to want to do what it takes to get into power. That shitty person will then, by definition, do shitty shit.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:33 PM (9aVcn)

It's the difference between "systems ought to be run as a a meritocracy" and actually being one. Conservatism says "People ought not get divorced", "People ought have inalienable rights", etc. It isn't wrong about all that. Since we're a republic it is natural for a political movement to propose how we "ought" run things. Did it lose? Yes, we wouldn't be in this mess if it hadn't.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (b2nrj)

247 236 go watch the new Minions.
Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

Daughter saw it with some friends this week. Said it was pretty 'meh' but, she's not a Minions fan, so maybe that assisted her review a bit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

It is a romp through wholesome 70s culture. I gave it a B, but the spouse and male members of my party loved it, and no one hated it (whereas, current Thor movie is not that)...

Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:42 PM (exHjb)

248 Don't mention CC around me. When I was a kid, I found a dirty diaper in the ball pit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:42 PM (UuD2k)

249 Chucky Cheese isn't expensive....it's the co-pay from the emergency room visit, after being shot, that's expensive.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:42 PM (5pTK/)

250 This is all very interesting, but I can't concentrate because I'm still drooling over that picture of the Beef at Steakhouse Ochsen.

"Mmmmmmmmmmmm, beef . . ." *Homer Simpson Voice*

Posted by: Sharkman at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (hGXZE)

251 It's very lean where I've seen it. You're not gonna make a good hamburger with it unless you cut in some beef fat.

What about the hump, the hump?

Posted by: Joey Two-Times at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (yQpMk)

252 It was rumored a month ago. The official report was released today. A 500-PAGE report. What a waste of bytes and paper.
Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 02:41 PM (AMIL/)

But, hey, somebody got to keep their phoney-baloney job.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (AiZBA)

253 Algorithms, can't trust em.
The only thing worse is Data Structures.

Posted by: DaveA at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (FhXTo)

254 This fitness lady has never been to Chuck E. Cheese:
https://is.gd/CjtddX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (WWh8n)

255 It is a romp through wholesome 70s culture. I gave it a B, but the spouse and male members of my party loved it, and no one hated it (whereas, current Thor movie is not that)...
==
Thanks very much for the movie review! Will green light it now for the kids.

Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (8tRn9)

256 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Dirty diaper in the ball pit at July 08, 2022 02:44 PM (StrrR)

257 go watch the new Minions.
Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

Daughter saw it with some friends this week. Said it was pretty 'meh' but, she's not a Minions fan, so maybe that assisted her review a bit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm more of a Grue and his daughters fan.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:44 PM (Mv1CU)

258 When I was a kid, I found a dirty diaper in the ball pit.
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Ew.

My dad got a faceful of dirty diaper when my daughter let him know she needed to be changed. Not a nice way to wake up.

Was it that bad?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:44 PM (/hCMk)

259 206 OT: The new Thor movie is bad. Do not watch. If you want to see a fun multi-colored (and yet wholesome) supers romp, go watch the new Minions.
Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

The Drinker concurs:

https://tinyurl.com/yybxey8j

Posted by: Thrawn at July 08, 2022 02:44 PM (Rl7KJ)

260 Minions couldn't have been any worse than Prometheus.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (9aVcn)

261 Chucky Cheese isn't expensive....it's the co-pay from the emergency room visit, after being shot, that's expensive.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:42 PM (5pTK/)
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Brutal. Hey, remember when CO's governor commuted his death sentence?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (WWh8n)

262 Daughter saw it with some friends this week. Said it was pretty 'meh' but, she's not a Minions fan, so maybe that assisted her review a bit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm more of a Grue and his daughters fan.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:44 PM

I admit it...I thought those were fun movies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (RkC6l)

263 Back when it was still "coin" and not these "30 minute play cards", you just skipped an "official party", invited 3-5 kids, and got 2 really good coupons - one for the pizza and one for the tokens and you had your own (very cheap) party.

Or at least that's what I did...
Posted by: Nova local at July 08

My parents would take everyone to have pizza at CiCi's followed by games at Chuck E Cheese to save money. I was a kid, so I didn't mind cardboard pizza.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (ftFVW)

264 OT: The new Thor movie is bad. Do not watch. If you want to see a fun multi-colored (and yet wholesome) supers romp, go watch the new Minions.
Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 02:37 PM (exHjb)

I'm of the opinion there is virtually no difference between MCUs- Marvel and Minions Cinematic Universes, respectively.

What once may have been attempts to entertain in movie form are now just disposable toy advertisements.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (YV6PJ)

265 Canada to Destroy 13.6 Million Doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Because No One Wants it Domestically or Abroad
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:39 PM (RHGPo)

Please to be reading the fine print on your sales receipt, Canada: All Sales Final

Posted by: AstraZeneca at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (4I/2K)

266 The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.

This is the voice of wold control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (gmo/4)

267 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

268 I'm still drooling over that picture of the Beef at Steakhouse Ochsen.
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Stuff like that doesn't faze me, because drooling over something I know I'll never afford or even be in the vicinity of seems a waste of time.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (/hCMk)

269 Then everybody stands around slack-jawed, wondering why those in power are doing such shitty shit

We're so glad that you're never slack jawed and unlike everybody else on here can always tell in advance who the grifters will be and your clear eye always gives you the correct insight into peoples characters, Scogg

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (FZ2cV)

270 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)
++++
That's ...
That's just ...
ugh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:47 PM (WWh8n)

271 I admit it...I thought those were fun movies.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (RkC6l)

I like fun movies that also have a great message.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:47 PM (Mv1CU)

272
Backing up a bit (yesterday) : Schiff files amendment to NDAA that would conceal any info collected by the U.S. military for use in congressional investigations or court proceedings.
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Earlier today:
"Treasury Department Reverses Prior Practice And Refuses to Provide Suspicious Activity Reports to Congressmen "
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What do these two have in common?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:48 PM (aSWOS)

273 Stuff like that doesn't faze me, because drooling over something I know I'll never afford or even be in the vicinity of seems a waste of time.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (/hCMk)
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If you and ex ex are ever out our way, we'll toss something on the grill that will rival Steakhouse Ochsen.

Failing that, we'll ply you with booze.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:48 PM (5pTK/)

274 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

LOL. Why don't the individual HOR members take some money from their big accounts from insider trading and hand it out to everybody triggered?Because counselling in this sense sounds like "We'll tell you some more lies about inflation and pat your hand."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (FZ2cV)

275 What do these two have in common?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:48 PM (aSWOS)

Hunter made $$$ during his Naval career?

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (AwYPR)

276 I'm of the opinion there is virtually no difference between MCUs- Marvel and Minions Cinematic Universes, respectively.
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I'm of the opinion that spending hard-earned money to go watch something made by people who hate you, not to mention the fact you need to take out a loan just to afford the concessions, is dumb.

Then again, I buy silly cat toys for my kittehs on Amazon, so y'all do you.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (/hCMk)

277 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)
++++
That's ...
That's just ...
ugh.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Inmates running the asylum.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (aSWOS)

278 Me and the kid finally polished off the last episode of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series….and it’s dreadful.

Spoiler warning: My son said, “I know who the real bad guy in Star Wars is. It’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. He could have killed Darth Vader twice and he let him live. And he’s gonna kill trillions of people It’s Obi-Wan’s fault! He’s the bad guy!”

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 08, 2022 02:50 PM (RHGPo)

279
Hunter made $$$ during his Naval career?
Posted by: BignJames
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Nah, the guy wasn't around long enough to even shine his shoes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:50 PM (aSWOS)

280 lol, thanks Blake.

We'll take you up on that, God-willing.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (/hCMk)

281 270 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)
++++
That's ...
That's just ...
ugh.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:47 PM (WWh8n)

The country is run by babies.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (b2nrj)

282 Chicago's holiday weekend death toll was higher than the mass shooting on the 4th and resident wonder why no one cares

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

283 Bison, hamburger and bacon sounds like a winning combo.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:40 PM (5pTK/)

To get the alliteration right, you have to say, "Bison, burgers and bacon".

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 08, 2022 02:52 PM (qyH+l)

284 Hunter made $$$ during his Naval career?
Posted by: BignJames
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He wasn't in long enough to sing, "In The Navy".

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:52 PM (/hCMk)

285 267 House of Representatives Offers Counseling for Staffers if Inflation Was ‘Triggering’
Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

Oh, you SAW the email string between the Finance committee and the Fed Res Board about running up the M2 money supply?

We Counsel you to remain silent... or we may have to... trigger... an event.

Posted by: House of Reps 'Therapist' at July 08, 2022 02:52 PM (oHd/0)

286 When I was a kid, I found a dirty diaper in the ball pit.

I struck out. Sigh.

Posted by: Crappin' Uncle Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (Xrfse)

287 We'll take you up on that, God-willing.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (/hCMk)
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Amen.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (5pTK/)

288
Then again, I buy silly cat toys for my kittehs on Amazon, so y'all do you.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (/hCMk)

Once I cancelled Prime there has been almost no reason for me to purchase from Amazon.

Kitties here don't mind old toys.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (YV6PJ)

289 Then again, I buy silly cat toys for my kittehs on Amazon, so y'all do you.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (/hCMk)

It's a hard siren song to resist. They bring stuff right to your door, usually at the cheapest price. I feel your pain.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (9aVcn)

290 To get the alliteration right, you have to say, "Bison, burgers and bacon".
Posted by: Fox 2! at July 08, 2022 02:52 PM (qyH+l)
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I cannot believe I missed that.

Sheesh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (5pTK/)

291 Great burger joint just outside Medford OR that has over a dozen kinds of exotic meat. Elk, Bear, Bison, antelope, venison, etc.

Posted by: Fish at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (/hSZo)

292 My son said, “I know who the real bad guy in Star Wars is. It’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. He could have killed Darth Vader twice and he let him live. And he’s gonna kill trillions of people It’s Obi-Wan’s fault! He’s the bad guy!”
==
Obviously. Its an inversion of Lord of the Rings. (a Christian narrative)

Mercy Kills everyone instead of Mercy winds up saving everyone.

Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (8tRn9)

293 It's a hard siren song to resist. They bring stuff right to your door, usually at the cheapest price. I feel your pain.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (9aVcn)

Walmart does too, with no annual fee.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (UuD2k)

294 282 Chicago's holiday weekend death toll was higher than the mass shooting on the 4th and resident wonder why no one cares

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

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It's become acceptable "breakage" (and yes, I've been rewatching Breaking Bad, in which that was an episode name & theme).

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (N1uCK)

295 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stormed out of the first meeting of the G20 countries in Bali rather than continue to face a barrage of criticism over Russia’s war in Ukraine. He did so as German counterpart Annalena Baerbock criticized Moscow over its invasion. She criticized Russia for blocking dialogue with international partners. Lavrov didn’t bother to attend the second meeting of the day.

Russia Offers Counseling for Diplomatic Staffers if Criticism of War with Ukraine Was ‘Triggering’

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (RHGPo)

296 > The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.

Mmm hmm. Show me their "fitness" tests by which they define "better."

Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (R38qh)

297 It's a hard siren song to resist. They bring stuff right to your door, usually at the cheapest price. I feel your pain.
Posted by: Here We Go Again
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And living in a rural area, even more so.

The closest PetCo is in St. Louis, so...

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (/hCMk)

298 Repeat the line!

Posted by: FJB at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (vFsV8)

299 Hunter made $$$ during his Naval career?
Posted by: BignJames

Did he get paid for his shortened ADT period? He was only on long enough for the test results to come back and to be administratively separated. Hopefully for the Navy equivalent of "Unfit for Military Service".

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (qyH+l)

300 This fitness lady has never been to Chuck E. Cheese:
https://is.gd/CjtddX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 02:43 PM (WWh8n)

Saw some buns like those at the golf course a bit ago.
Mmmmmm

Posted by: Diogenes at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (anj39)

301 292 My son said, “I know who the real bad guy in Star Wars is. It’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. He could have killed Darth Vader twice and he let him live. And he’s gonna kill trillions of people It’s Obi-Wan’s fault! He’s the bad guy!”
==
Obviously. Its an inversion of Lord of the Rings. (a Christian narrative)

Mercy Kills everyone instead of Mercy winds up saving everyone.
Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (8tRn9)

I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (b2nrj)

302 A brief snippet from a House of Reps counselling session:

"What brings you here today _______?"

"Prices are going up on everything and I can't afford to pay my rent and buy groceries, damnit!!"

"It sounds like you're really triggered by this."

"Triggered?!!.

"Please say more about how you're feeling. You sound very tense."

Blah, blah, blah etc. The Therapist is no doubt a Democrat

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (FZ2cV)

303 Chicago's holiday weekend death toll was higher than the mass shooting on the 4th and resident wonder why no one cares
Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 08, 2022 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

I'm still not sure why that event isn't more urgent and alarming. Notably or otherwise, that area has apparently a heavy Jewish population.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (YV6PJ)

304 Great burger joint just outside Medford OR that has over a dozen kinds of exotic meat. Elk, Bear, Bison, antelope, venison, etc.
Posted by: Fish at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (/hSZo)

I'm sure I've heard that bear meat is generally terrible. Not so?

Posted by: spindrift at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (h5TKJ)

305 You know the best part of being a "COVID conspiracy theorist"?

Everything you get cancelled for will be "stuff everyone knows" in a year.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (ESjRY)

306 Bear tastes OK, can be a bit greasy though

Posted by: Fish at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (/hSZo)

307 Beaver meat tastes surprisingly like beef.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (/hCMk)

308 I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead.

When you leave a man as a stump, smoldering on a volcanic planet ? Seems like an honest mistake to me.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (9aVcn)

309 Lavrov didn’t bother to attend the second meeting of the day.
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Duh. Its in Bali. That's the only reason he came at all.

Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (4cEgJ)

310 Then again, I buy silly cat toys for my kittehs on Amazon, so y'all do you.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (/hCMk)
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I'm still an Amazon Prime member. Some things are just hard to walk away from. But, I've also made a concerted effort to cut back on using Amazon, and, I've done quite well in that department.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (5pTK/)

311
Mmm hmm. Show me their "fitness" tests by which they define "better."
Posted by: bonhomme
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We might want to look at their definition of 'governing'. Also, was this data produced using AI?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (aSWOS)

312 I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead.

Anakin was slowly burning to death.

Rather then give the coup de grace Obi just left him to die, slowly, alone.

He was an asshole.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (ESjRY)

313 a hard siren song to resist. They bring stuff right to your door, usually at the cheapest price. I feel your pain.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (9aVcn)

Walmart does too, with no annual fee.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM

I haven't had the best luck with Walmart delivery. Sometimes what you purchase is out of stock so they pick something that sort of is in the product category. At least they send a picture of the order on your doorstep.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (u9Awk)

314 How’s alligator and rattlesnake meat?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (Q5p+u)

315 Beaver meat tastes surprisingly like beef.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (/hCMk)

Yep. We don't do phrasing anymore.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (9aVcn)

316 Camel tastes like pot roast.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (4oBWf)

317 74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)
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I know I'm late to the discussion, but I just wanted to chip in my $.02. I like to add a pound of bison meat to my chili. It adds a slightly richer flavor and texture to the meat, while the remaining 2 lbs or so add flavor from the fat in the ground beef. Good stuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (K5n5d)

318 Leader McConnell
@LeaderMcConnell
Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill.
4:07 PM · Jun 30, 2022

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

319 304 Great burger joint just outside Medford OR that has over a dozen kinds of exotic meat. Elk, Bear, Bison, antelope, venison, etc.
Posted by: Fish at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (/hSZo)

I'm sure I've heard that bear meat is generally terrible. Not so?
Posted by: spindrift at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (h5TKJ)
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Depends on the cut of meat and how it's prepared. I've had both good-tasting and bad-tasting bear meat. Even the good tasting is not one of my favs, though.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

320 We're just going to cut the feed if he agrees to testify.

Posted by: Nanxi Pelosi at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (vFsV8)

321 308 "I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead."

When you leave a man as a stump, smoldering on a volcanic planet ? Seems like an honest mistake to me.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (9aVcn)

Yeah catching on fire was a pretty persuasive way for Anakin to fake his death.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (b2nrj)

322 Alex Berenson is a former NYT science reporter. He is also a very successful fiction writer. So this guy *used* to be one of the Kewl Kidz. They started to dislike him when he wrote Tell Your Children, a book that details the problems and longterm issues that arise when children/teens develop marijuana habit. But it was not enough for his former NYC elite buddies to unfriend him.

Berenson going off the reservation re: the plandemic and its alleged medical treatment was not tolerated.

Until he fought back...and they blinked.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (dCxaZ)

323 Bear tastes OK, can be a bit greasy though
Posted by: Fish at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (/hSZo)

That's what I thought last time I attacked a bear.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (Mv1CU)

324 Does anything taste like chicken anymore?

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (4oBWf)

325 >>> My parents would take everyone to have pizza at CiCi's followed by games at Chuck E Cheese to save money. I was a kid, so I didn't mind cardboard pizza.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 08, 2022 02:45 PM (ftFVW)

Me: Pardon me, waiter,...

Waiter at CiCis: Ah yes, how can I help monsieur?

Me: Would you happen to have any pizza that has been repeatedly touched by messy children?

Waiter at CiCis: Oh monsieur,... we have prepared for you a carefully selected collection of pizza that has been caressed and massaged by all the very most grimy kids in all the surrounding province.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (E9ZCZ)

326 Mmm hmm. Show me their "fitness" tests by which they define "better."
Posted by: bonhomme

You see, they proved one hypothetical was better than the other hypothetical using wish casting and computers.

It's science, bruh.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (UuD2k)

327 295 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stormed out of the first meeting of the G20 countries in Bali rather than continue to face a barrage of criticism over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

He was just going to find the mistranslated "Reset" button Hillary gave him.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

328 I haven't had the best luck with Walmart delivery. Sometimes what you purchase is out of stock so they pick something that sort of is in the product category. At least they send a picture of the order on your doorstep.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (u9Awk)

There's a button on the order ap that says 'no substitutions'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (oHd/0)

329 I *never* order anything from Amazon. I check locally, and if not available, then go Big Box order, or even Ebay.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (kT/t7)

330 Kitties here don't mind old toys.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 08, 2022 02:53 PM (YV6PJ)

In a household inhabited by multiple GSDs there are no old toys.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (MkuC5)

331 USICA

S.1260 - United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (RHGPo)

332 nood

nurses

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (E9ZCZ)

333
Yep. We don't do phrasing anymore.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (9aVcn)

Yeah, that settled the debate once and for all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

334 Blah, blah, blah etc. The Therapist is no doubt a Democrat
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 02:56 PM (FZ2cV)
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I honestly believe the best counselors are the ones who are Bible based.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 03:00 PM (5pTK/)

335 312 "I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead."

Anakin was slowly burning to death.

Rather then give the coup de grace Obi just left him to die, slowly, alone.

He was an asshole.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 02:57 PM (ESjRY)

See it's possible to get the exact opposite read of Obi-Wan being merciful. I think there wasn't a moral intended for any of it, just kind of a poorly written story of the Rise of Darth Vader. Thematically it's not really coherent.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 03:00 PM (b2nrj)

336 The House and Senate each passed their own versions of USICA and have spent the past few months trying to reconcile them, albeit with only “modest” progress.

But there was McConnell last week, suddenly insisting that no compromise will get 60 votes in the Senate unless Democrats ditch the new “Build Back Manchin”

Posted by: SMOD at July 08, 2022 03:00 PM (RHGPo)

337 I really don't care if you eat rats and bugs.

In fact that's going to be a food group for you all soon.

Posted by: Bill Gates at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (vFsV8)

338 74 I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 02:16 PM (llsW/)
__________________________________

Very tasty and surprisingly leaner than "regular" beef. I get it whenever I see it on a menu, which is generally on ski trips to CO, UT, MT, and WY. But because it's very lean, it can be hard to cook properly.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

339 When you leave a man as a stump, smoldering on a volcanic planet ? Seems like an honest mistake to me.
==
Point taken, and yet he was still breathing when he walked away. Merciful to let him be burned alive by lava? The writing weakness is what gives the theme away. But YMMV. I enjoy the notion that George Loucas is an unoriginal hack who just inverted a better story.

Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (i1IRK)

340
Mercy Kills everyone instead of Mercy winds up saving everyone.
Posted by: a moron at July 08, 2022 02:54 PM (8tRn9)

I don't think there was any implication intended, Obi-Wan thought he was dead.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 02:55 PM (b2nrj)
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No, Anakin was gravely wounded and likely to burn to death. Instead of doing the moral thing and ending his misery, Obi-wan walked away, presumably to prolong the suffering - which of course was repaid with far greater suffering later.

The prequels suck.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (llXky)

341 New medically-related thread, about "millennial nurses". NOOD

Posted by: gdgm+ at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (mucm9)

342 Does anything taste like chicken anymore?
Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 08, 2022 02:59 PM (4oBWf)

That's one of my favorite snippets in The Matrix. The matrix programmers got tired of assigning tastes to animals and so the ones they had left they just made them taste like chicken.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (Mv1CU)

343 How’s alligator and rattlesnake meat?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM

Alligator's tasty. I haven't had rattlesnake, but I can't imagine it's too, too different from eel. Probably less oily.

There's a great market on Charles St. in Boston that has a steady supply of exotics. I've seen whole rattlesnake, bear, camel, lion. I joke that I wat to do a Disney themed dinner someday. Thumper, Bambi, Cimba in Hakuna Matartar sauce...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (RkC6l)

344 > I'm sure I've heard that bear meat is generally terrible. Not so?

I've heard it depends on the bear's diet. Nuts and berries and things supposedly make the meat nice. If it's eating meat and trash the meat is supposedly gross.

I can't vouch for this. I haven't tried bear meat.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (R38qh)

345
Lard, it's called lard.
Posted by: Ciampino - finding uses for good old lard at July 08, 2022 02:36 PM (qfLjt)

Lard is pork fat. Beef fat is called tallow or suet.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 08, 2022 03:02 PM (Qhnrt)

346 No, Anakin was gravely wounded and likely to burn to death. Instead of doing the moral thing and ending his misery, Obi-wan walked away, presumably to prolong the suffering - which of course was repaid with far greater suffering later.

The prequels suck.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 08, 2022 03:01 PM (llXky)

That would be far deeper and more subtle than I think Lucas is capable of writing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 03:02 PM (b2nrj)

347 Then again, I buy silly cat toys for my kittehs on Amazon, so y'all do you.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 08, 2022 02:49 PM (/hCMk)

12 feet of 550 cord whipped in her direction has been my cat's favorite.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 03:02 PM (44ww/)

348 > How’s alligator and rattlesnake meat?

They're both low fat, so the cook has to have skill. It's really easy to make it dry and tasteless.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (R38qh)

349 I don't care for the title 'Leader' McConnell, sounds too much like Dear Leader Kim.

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (gktX6)

350 Off Chuck sock

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (Mv1CU)

351 Heya, banana Dream, if you're around, here's a recent update on that P-47 that's being rebuilt in Minnesota:

https://tinyurl.com/P47-Rebuild-2022-Update

Posted by: Sharkman at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (hGXZE)

352 Anakin has to survive because of the OT, but Obi-Wan has to think he's dead. Also, the scene should be dramatic. So that's how we got what we got.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (b2nrj)

353 Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 03:03 PM (R38q

Alligator tail has a bit of sweetness to me.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 03:04 PM (Mv1CU)

354 > I have heard that Bison is pretty tasty meat.

I think it's good, but there's a bit of a sharp flavor that doesn't appeal to everyone.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 03:04 PM (R38qh)

355 >>Bear tastes OK, can be a bit greasy though
Posted by: Fish

A fish eating bear. Don't see that everyday.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 03:04 PM (ZLI7S)

356 We're all gonna die!!!

Posted by: Covid Reporter at July 08, 2022 03:05 PM (Xrfse)

357 > Alligator tail has a bit of sweetness to me.

Same. If it's cooked right it's nice. I was saying it has to be cooked carefully because it goes from under-done to over-done in a matter of 40 seconds or so.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 08, 2022 03:05 PM (R38qh)

358 BonHomme @ 348- somebody should ask Leo DiCaprio about bear meat.

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 03:06 PM (gktX6)

359 Leo DiCaprio about bear meat.
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I dont like to talk about rough sex.

Posted by: Leo "i wont kiss and tell" dicaprio at July 08, 2022 03:07 PM (r8W4Q)

360 I'm sure I've heard that bear meat is generally terrible. Not so?

I've heard it depends on the bear's diet. Nuts and berries and things supposedly make the meat nice. If it's eating meat and trash the meat is supposedly gross.

What does bear taste like if their diet consists of hikers?

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 08, 2022 03:08 PM (4oBWf)

361 314 How’s alligator and rattlesnake meat?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 02:58 PM (Q5p+u)
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I've had both and, while I can't say they're among my favs, I'll get them if I see them on a menu. They are tasty but a bit "spongy" like frogs legs. Fried alligator is quite good.

For the ultimate snake food experience, go to Vietnam for the "snake fest" meal. You pick out your snake and they cut it up in front of you, and serve it to you in a series of courses. Snake meat cooked a number of different ways, fried snake skin, snake blood, snake heart, etc. All washed down with a SHITLOAD of rice wine. Would I do it again? Probably.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 08, 2022 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

362 A fish eating bear. Don't see that everyday.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 03:04 PM (ZLI7S)

I saw a man eating fish at the local Arthur Treacher's yesterday.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 08, 2022 03:09 PM (4oBWf)

363 It cracks me up when YouTube puts a "misinformation" warning on videos analyzing scientific research.

Posted by: Emmie at July 08, 2022 03:15 PM (6RgRK)

364 No one offers me counseling for all the bills that are skyrocketing

Posted by: Skip at July 08, 2022 03:20 PM (2JoB8)

365 I got Bison at the supermarket I go to, it's beefy but a bit wild tasting.

Posted by: Skip at July 08, 2022 03:24 PM (2JoB8)

366 Dear Ace:

I'm a fan and reader of National Review but agree they do voice suspiciously little criticism for big tech. Might have something to do with the fact Netchoice.org is one of the main sponsors of NR podcasts.

Posted by: Del Gue at July 08, 2022 03:25 PM (rl2c4)

367 Imagine being anally violated while writing.

This is journalism.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 03:35 PM (7AJF9)

368 Duke, whose Twitter profile describes him as a "Facebook fact-checker," added that his duties required him only to contact government spokesmen -- not the Free Beacon.

So actual fact-checking and investigation -- as the heroes of the Left, Woodward and Berstein, supposedly did to uncover Watergate -- is now dead.

Were Facebook "fact-checking" around in the time of Watergate, they would have apparently just taken the word of the Nixon Administration about everything and labeled Woodward's and Bernstein's investigative work as "mostly false" and diminished the distribution of their stories.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 08, 2022 03:37 PM (Do5/p)

369 Berenson cucked out. Settling was a pussy move that lets Twitter and its puppeteers off the hook. He took a whole lot of money from supporters while promising that he would not settle, he would expose the rot, etc. In the end, he's an establishment douchebag.

Grifter, first class. Stop lionizing him.

Posted by: I'm Joe Biden? at July 08, 2022 03:38 PM (1dzqn)

370 Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at July 08, 2022 02:08 PM (qpX6U)

Jesus Christ you're a fucking embarassment to yourself. We are all dumber for having read that. Alex Bernson was a goddam HERO during Covid. But you be you, and completely confuse him with...some figment of your fevered imagination...and then disparage him even though you don't have one fucking clue who he is. Jesus Fucking Christ you suck bags of dicks by choice. The term "ShitCon" was made for you. Go educate yourself before making such a fool of yourself in public again. OUR MOVEMENT DOES NOT NEED IDIOTS LIKE YOU. Just fuck off and die. Bitch.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 08, 2022 04:46 PM (eiN05)

371 I think if we were able to get a divorce the Left wouldn't have the balls to start a war with us and I assume we wouldn't need to start one with them. It's all just a fantasy for me anyway because we ain't splitting up without violence.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 08, 2022 02:19 PM (Mv1CU)

ANTIFA, CHAZ, Portland....that all tells me plenty on the Left want to kill us.

The Right might not want to fight. Possibly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 08, 2022 02:21 PM (XvPQV)

Antifa was being chased out by civilians, even with the tacit support of cops who disarmed them and not Antifa. They needed a year and total freedom of action and police support to come back.

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Covid Reporter Alex Berenson Returns to Twitter After Settling Lawsuit Against It;
Free Beacon Reports That FaceBook's Source for "Fact" Checks About the Biden Administration Is... the Claims of the Flacks and Hacks of the Biden Administration