To once again demonstrate how monumentally, epically, spectacularly stupid TFG is, he went on Laura IngraNazi's townhall last night and once again dissed mail-in ballots as tantamount to election fraud.
Mail-in ballots literally check every box of the right-wing's wet dreams about secure elections: they are paper. They are hand-marked. They are sealed in secret envelopes. Those envelopes are signed. They can be hand-delivered by the voter. The signatures are matched w the election registrar's database before they are even opened. Any questionable ones are put aside for further scrutiny.
In short, mail-in ballots are THE most secure way to vote.
I hope TFG keeps poisoning that well, scaring his own voters and working against the concerted effort of his own party to juice mail voting. His stupidity is just what the doctor of democracy ordered.
Franke, 42, and Hildebrandt, 54, had each pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse for trying to convince Franke’s two youngest children that they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent.
Hold me then, I got to shake her hand and get a photo with her before she stepped down. When she was still speaker she did a whole day of photos with Capitol staff.
Well, I have been absent for a few days for an unexciting reason: kink partner's neighbor flooded kink partner's house with water so we have been dealing with cleaning people etc.
The club was so much great fun and I will share about it at some point.
1613: Mikhail Romanov, come on down! The Zemsky Sobor has voted, the Time of Troubles is over, and YOU are the new Tsar of Russia!
1797: 1400 French troops land in Ireland to support an uprising. They are defeated by 500 British reservists. Womp womp.
1804: The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its debut at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. At least it wasn’t unveiled at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
1828: Sequoyah’s Cherokee syllabary is first used in a periodical, the ‘Cherokee Phoenix.’
1848: ‘The Communist Manifesto’ is published by the greatest comedic duo of the 19th Century, Marx & Engels.
1878: New Haven CT publishes the first phone directory. It’s easy to tear this one in half.
1916: The Battle of Verdun begins. The German plan isn’t to take the city, but to “bleed France white.”
1918: The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity. In Cincinnati.
1945: German forces are defeated by Brazilian troops at the Battle of Monte Castello. Yes, you read that right; by this time, everyone wanted to get in on the act.
1947: Edwin Land unveils the Polaroid Land Camera, the very first ‘instant camera.’
1958: The peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. Chick Tracts will describe it as satanic (the ‘inverted broken cross’).
1972: US Pres. Richard Nixon arrives in China. Years later, an opera will be created to commemorate the event.
1975: For their complicity in the Watergate Scandal, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sent off to prison.
1994: The traitor Aldrich Ames is arrested by the FBI for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
1995: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo across the Pacific in a balloon.
2022: Snooty Pooty, Dictator of Russia, declares the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to be independent from Ukraine, and starts moving troops in. The UN condemns the action.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Francis Ronalds, Andres Segovia, Anaïs Nin, W.H. Auden, Douglas Bader, Ann Sheridan, John Rawls, Sam Peckinpah, Erma Bombeck, Barbara Jordan, Gary Lockwood, John Lewis, David Geffen, Tyne Daly, Alan Rickman, Olympia Snowe, Kelsey Grammer, Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly.
Obituaries: Baruch Spinoza, Kurt Eisner, Eric Liddell, Malcolm X, Tim Horton, John Thaw, Billy Graham, Peter Tork.
Repairing Polaroid Land Cameras is how I paid my way through college..
There was a big Polaroid plant right on Rt 128 (I95) in Waltham MA for many many years. Watching it get torn down was pretty sad.. it is now a strip mall and and office building..
Why is it that Bangladesh and every other country on the planet has a national anthem that I like more than ours? Even a country that no longer exists (the Byzantine Empire) has a better national anthem than the USA.
My spermatozoa would like their attorneys to submit to the court that they are being subjected to prejudices for their status as undeveloped humans, or pre-persons. And they are demanding unemployment financial support and disability compensation until they are able to work. In the meantime, you can send their financial support checks to me.
To once again demonstrate how monumentally, epically, spectacularly stupid TFG is, he went on Laura IngraNazi's townhall last night and once again dissed mail-in ballots as tantamount to election fraud.
Mail-in ballots literally check every box of the right-wing's wet dreams about secure elections: they are paper. They are hand-marked. They are sealed in secret envelopes. Those envelopes are signed. They can be hand-delivered by the voter. The signatures are matched w the election registrar's database before they are even opened. Any questionable ones are put aside for further scrutiny.
In short, mail-in ballots are THE most secure way to vote.
I hope TFG keeps poisoning that well, scaring his own voters and working against the concerted effort of his own party to juice mail voting. His stupidity is just what the doctor of democracy ordered.
At different points he's told republican voters NOT to vote!
He's admitting he can't win unless he cheats
Hey trump!.!
FUUUUCK YGYYOOOUY<<T
Morning all! (waves) Here’s a pic to start the day off: https://substack.com/@ipso/note/c-50020375?r=2kpaef&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Your cat likes ketchup?
Aww! What a sweetheart!
And good morning to you, giver of kitty treats!
Kitty treat!
30 years.
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲
https://www.greenwichtime.com/entertainment/article/judge-to-set-prison-sentences-for-youtube-mom-18677739.php?src=gthplifestyle (AP via local news)
Uggggh. Paywall.
They're gonna get treated better in prison than their kids did under their roof. I hope their cells have roaches and lice.
But no one should expect proof of expertise or hold "influencers" to any sort of standard, because thats "gatekeeping".
Freedom of speech, y'all.
"Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped through a window and asked a neighbor to call the police..."
I don't often lose my temper nowadays, but this... this sort of monstrous shit tests me.
God fucking ddamn it:
Franke, 42, and Hildebrandt, 54, had each pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse for trying to convince Franke’s two youngest children that they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent.
Don't read the details. These two are straight up evil.
Yes, "children are property" IS evil
It's probably a good thing that a paywall is preventing me from reading it
Their contrition is as phony as a snake oil salesman's smile, too.
I just don't even know what to say.
Seconded, these people are monsters.
"Sorry" don't water the plants. Off to durance vile with you.
Liz Truss, the woman who lost a race to a lettuce, is at it again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU0an8H-dSI
Why can't the losers just disappear? Hey, Liz! Take Bojo with you!
Some people just don't know when to shut up.
I know, right?
Worse than bad house guests.
Truss wants to either regain the PM job, or be Party Leader and kingmaker. And, of course, there are some over there who want Boris to come back.
Yesterday was really cool i got to hold the Mace. THE Mace of the House of Representatives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives). So neat. Also got to see a flag that had been on the moon. Man I love where I work.
Your restraint is admirable. I would have been beating republicans with it.
They're all home for the week. The Sergeant at Arms and his staff were great tho!
You saw the flag but didn't hump it? What are you some kind of American hating sooshulist commie coastal elite?
Did you lick it?
WHOA! Holding The Mace is way cool!
Nancy says, "Thanks. Got a cigarette?"
Both are very cool. I would LOVE to hold anything Pelosi held!
Hold me then, I got to shake her hand and get a photo with her before she stepped down. When she was still speaker she did a whole day of photos with Capitol staff.
As you are still employed, I assume you didn't use The Mace for its intended purpose?
Funny enough, the Mace is essentially just a glorified Quiet Stick. Also the House isn't even in so no, I couldn't.
But it's a MACE! Swing it at your enemies and make them cower and lament!
A magnificent symbol of authority.
VERY cool.
Gearing up to play hooky this morning and go snowboarding for a few hours - cross your fingers for us that most of the tourists have gone home! 😊
May you enjoy winter sports with greater joy and coordination than I. 😀
Enjoy!
Have fun!
Well, I have been absent for a few days for an unexciting reason: kink partner's neighbor flooded kink partner's house with water so we have been dealing with cleaning people etc.
The club was so much great fun and I will share about it at some point.
I'm glad to see you're back!
I have been having fun but it is good to be home. : )
Having cleaned up a flooded house myself, I can definitely say that is not my kink..
Right!
Glad that you are OK, sorry about the flooding that your kink partner and you have been dealing with. We missed you!
That's a nasty anticlimax to a fun activity - coming home to a flooded house.
Haha, it was before we even got started. I got there at 4 Sunday and we got a call while we were having dinner at 7 that night.
Oh good grief.
Tell me about it. Fortunately, we have the rest of our lives for a assignations.
Yus! I has one lined up for Friday, I does.
We're a assignation twins!
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1613: Mikhail Romanov, come on down! The Zemsky Sobor has voted, the Time of Troubles is over, and YOU are the new Tsar of Russia!
1797: 1400 French troops land in Ireland to support an uprising. They are defeated by 500 British reservists. Womp womp.
1804: The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its debut at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. At least it wasn’t unveiled at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
1828: Sequoyah’s Cherokee syllabary is first used in a periodical, the ‘Cherokee Phoenix.’
1848: ‘The Communist Manifesto’ is published by the greatest comedic duo of the 19th Century, Marx & Engels.
1878: New Haven CT publishes the first phone directory. It’s easy to tear this one in half.
1916: The Battle of Verdun begins. The German plan isn’t to take the city, but to “bleed France white.”
1918: The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity. In Cincinnati.
1945: German forces are defeated by Brazilian troops at the Battle of Monte Castello. Yes, you read that right; by this time, everyone wanted to get in on the act.
1947: Edwin Land unveils the Polaroid Land Camera, the very first ‘instant camera.’
1958: The peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. Chick Tracts will describe it as satanic (the ‘inverted broken cross’).
1972: US Pres. Richard Nixon arrives in China. Years later, an opera will be created to commemorate the event.
1975: For their complicity in the Watergate Scandal, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sent off to prison.
1994: The traitor Aldrich Ames is arrested by the FBI for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
1995: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo across the Pacific in a balloon.
2022: Snooty Pooty, Dictator of Russia, declares the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to be independent from Ukraine, and starts moving troops in. The UN condemns the action.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Francis Ronalds, Andres Segovia, Anaïs Nin, W.H. Auden, Douglas Bader, Ann Sheridan, John Rawls, Sam Peckinpah, Erma Bombeck, Barbara Jordan, Gary Lockwood, John Lewis, David Geffen, Tyne Daly, Alan Rickman, Olympia Snowe, Kelsey Grammer, Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly.
Obituaries: Baruch Spinoza, Kurt Eisner, Eric Liddell, Malcolm X, Tim Horton, John Thaw, Billy Graham, Peter Tork.
And now, the national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0RS1zTb7Yo
Repairing Polaroid Land Cameras is how I paid my way through college..
There was a big Polaroid plant right on Rt 128 (I95) in Waltham MA for many many years. Watching it get torn down was pretty sad.. it is now a strip mall and and office building..
http://www.polaroidland.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Walthamw3-300x186.jpg
I had a friend who worked there - quality inspection - while I worked at Kodak in Rochester - machine repair. It was fun to swap work stories!
For a short while I also repaired Kodak instant cameras... until Polaroid sued Kodak's ass mightily..
Turns out, by that time Kodak had already figured out Digital photography * and even that people would be sharing photos digitally online * ..
Kodak's fumble on digital photography is a tale for the recordbooks..
Ah, a strip mall. One of the trademark pieces of Murican architecture.
What's old is new again.. enclosed malls are fading and strip malls are rising..
And sometimes outdoor malls, which are strip malls with the parking farther away.
I remember a few years back visiting a new outdoor mall in an area in Minnesota that was just getting built up.
In Minnesota.
"Who had THIS brilliant idea?"
Ann Sheridan, The Oomph Girl! Yow! https://archive.org/details/looney-tunes-s-1941e-17-hollywood-steps-out
(grins)
Why is it that Bangladesh and every other country on the planet has a national anthem that I like more than ours? Even a country that no longer exists (the Byzantine Empire) has a better national anthem than the USA.
Wasn't the original song "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the new lyrics to deliberately composed to be impossible to sing?
I dunno.
Funny how RWNJs never accuse anybody of being an "Engelist".
True! Engels was always a second banana.
How disappointing. Say it ain't so, Joe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSi4Wj0bJmw
Morning all! ☕️
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/health/ivf-alabama-abortion.html
Comment from "Henry, Palos Verdes Estates":
My spermatozoa would like their attorneys to submit to the court that they are being subjected to prejudices for their status as undeveloped humans, or pre-persons. And they are demanding unemployment financial support and disability compensation until they are able to work. In the meantime, you can send their financial support checks to me.
If Trump ever is incarcerated, Blue Man Group gonna sue him.
The lion said, "There so much space!
Whenever I walk any place,
I don't have to say
'Get out of my way'
But everyone does - just in case."
Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/lion-dance-lunar-new-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.P0nr.nWadA8UXd8bE&smid=url-share
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Good morning!
A mouse in her room woke Miss Dowd!
She was frightened, it must be allowed.
A happy thought hit her,
To scare off the critter,
She sat up in bed and meowed.