The launch day is almost here! Meet the two @NASA astronauts – Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – @SpaceX will launch to space in its first ever crewed mission on May 27 #LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/LdB8TNktwd
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 27, 2020
Our #LaunchAmerica LIVE coverage includes liftoff of @SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, a @KellyClarkson performance, live video from space while @AstroBehnken & @Astro_Doug fly to the @Space_Station and much more.
Full schedule: https://t.co/n3m0Tx4yeD pic.twitter.com/xbSN9unevE
— NASA (@NASA) May 27, 2020
Assuming the weather cooperates:
… NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27 for the launch of the first commercially-built and operated American rocket and spacecraft carrying astronauts to the space station. NASA and SpaceX will provide joint, live coverage from launch to arrival at the space station.
Full mission coverage will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website, as well as numerous other platforms…
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is scheduled to dock to the space station at 11:39 a.m. Thursday, May 28.
This will be SpaceX’s final test flight for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and will provide critical data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft, and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, and landing operations.
The test flight also will provide valuable data toward certification of SpaceX’s crew transportation system for regular flights carrying astronauts to and from the space station. SpaceX currently is readying the hardware for the first space station crew rotational mission, which would happen after data from this test flight is reviewed for certification…
'We are go': @nasa astronauts Behnken, Hurley set to make history on SpaceX Crew Dragon https://t.co/BRsy0x647y
— MSN (@MSN) May 27, 2020
It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. aboard a retro-style SpaceX capsule. https://t.co/WMYfal5BaI
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) May 25, 2020
Mustang Bobby
Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and condolences at Bark Bark Woof Woof on the post about my dad. I’m humbled and grateful for your companionship, and I’ll be sure to share them with my mom, who is an avid reader at BBWW. You friends are the best.
Baud
@Mustang Bobby:
I watched your play last night. Very touching. For some reason, I didn’t appreciate how they would have to stage it given social distancing.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
If the history of this era gets written, Jack Dorsey gets prominent mention as the facilitator of much of the carnage and failure.
Twitter’s Rwanda analogy is emerging.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Télévision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines
Mustang Bobby
@Baud: Thank you.
JPL
trump destroys everything he touches, and I fear he will not add to the excitement this afternoon at the launch.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Jeff Sessions is a wart, but you can’t deny that his “sitting on a lead” dustup with Tuberville was funny.
Never get in a short term duel of wits with a cynical old pol.
satby
@Mustang Bobby: May his memory be a comfort.
(and if you haven’t already, feel free to delete the duplicate first comment from me, the second one fixed the typo in the first).
Baud
@JPL: The launch is tomorrow morning. Is Trump visiting NASA today?
JPL
@Baud: The launch is this afternoon weather permitting and trump will be there.
Baud
@JPL: Sorry, I misread the docking time in the story as the launch time.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Oh, in a piece of happy Kentucky news, the 3%er Beshear-effigy hanger got fired from his super well-paying job at a huge car dealership.
He never stopped working due to COVID-19. His rage had nothing to do with his economic anxiety.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I’m so old I remember when it was the Democrats’ fault for not winning over those people.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
“They didn’t even try to win those voters over with M4A, banning internal combustion engines, seizing the means of production or mandating only one LED lightbulb per house…”
rikyrah
@Mustang Bobby:
So sorry for your loss????
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Excellent news. Also, your governor seems decent and is not hard to look at:
Lucky dog.
OzarkHillbilly
NYT:
NotMax
Nearly last minute TV note: Easy to binge, the first season only (6 episodes) of the Danish series Seaside Hotel is available free on Prime, but only through May 31. While there’s nothing in particular which makes it remarkably stand out from the pack, it makes for an attractive, entertaining and gently ambitious period package. So many of these types of slice-of-time ensemble series are sincere but not accomplished; this one grows to be both.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
LOL – yeah, there’s a sizable contingent of Andy fans crushing on the guy.
His speech was a thing of beauty and sorely needed – every single word.
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Isn’t he awesome? So low key and smart, calm, eloquent and brave. I’m so angry. Ohio’s Director of Health Dr. Amy Acton had armed protesters with guns picketing her home as well.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Nice.
Elections have consequences. Sometimes good ones.
debbie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Good. Let him and Christine Cooper find new entrepreneurial opportunities together. //
Kathleen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Thx for posting your link in earlier post. I’m beyond appalled. But not surprised.
debbie
Is Trump’s order to reduce the price of insulin for seniors connected to his belief that insulin may be the miracle preventative for COVID-19?
Baud
@debbie: Probably more connected to his declining poll numbers with seniors.
debbie
@Baud:
Hope you’re right.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@debbie:
He can see how easy it is in the fabulous Trump economy…
debbie
FWIW, I’ve found a good source for single-use masks and gloves. (I like having both cloth and single-use masks…just in case). The initial hoarding and shortages were an issue, but I just reordered and got a month’s supply in less than a week (which included Memorial Day). They’re less expensive than CVS’s single masks, plus they have that metal strip for noses. No more driving all the way to Staples before realizing I’ve forgotten a damn mask!
Immanentize
OT. But I can’t let the cat out because there is a big old grey possum wandering around my back yard eating the bread I threw out for the birds….
That is all. Now read the thread.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: You are so thoughtful of that poor ‘possums feelings, restraining your cat like that.
JPL
@Immanentize: Shouldn’t it be bedtime for the possum?
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Good speech. As for the 3%ers, etc., those people are terrorists, and I know what I’d like to see happen when they parade around government buildings / officials’ residences with guns. But it seems like the cops reserve the tear gas and rubber bullets for unarmed, mask-wearing protesters who are asking for justice.
zhena gogolia
Back in February when I started freaking out about Covid, the guidance was stay 3 feet apart. Then all of a sudden it became 6 feet. Now I just watched the Biden video on an overnight thread, and he’s saying 12 feet. When did that happen????
I don’t really see how 12 feet is feasible in a grocery store, etc.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
Exactly.
Of course, KSP is lily white for the most part, and not well-respected. There was an armed group of ammosexuals that weaseled their way into the Capitol the last General Assembly to whine about legislation that affected their precious dick extensions – and weren’t stopped.
Meal Team Six crossed multiple barriers to pull their Sunday stunt – there are multiple photos showing them while slabheaded KSP dudes are standing about, unconcerned. Rather than being cautious, white privilege was invoked to extend the 1A to terrorism.
Personally, I think the KSP is a combination of cowards and racists.
satby
maybe the possum will eat a few ticks for you too.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: It’s pretty clear that in this country, shooting unarmed black people is just another day on the job, but shooting armed white people is way over the line.
satby
@zhena gogolia: That’s why everyone should be masked. The longer distance is how far a cough can spread droplets unmasked.
Immanentize
@JPL:.
nocturnal animals don’t always sleep during the day just like many of us don’t always sleep during the night…. amirite Ozark? But possums are blind and can be mean which is why I think it might be wise to keep it and my cat apart.
NotMax
@Immanentize
True Boston possums only show interest in the upper crust.
;)
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: But but… If you are a rising football star you can have a big ol 3% tattoo because you didn’t really know it was a racist violent group. Right?
satby
@NotMax: ahhhhhhh!
Robert Sneddon
@zhena gogolia: Anywhere that is
A) Indoors
B) Badly ventilated
C) Changing groups of people interacting and breathing each other’s exhalations
should have social distancing of about 6 metres, or twenty feet. That includes stores, churches, public transport, shopping malls etc.
Masks won’t help much unless they’re real N95 or preferably N99-class masks or, best, positive-pressure full-face helmets. To be any use at all masks must be properly fitted and worn all the time from leaving your home to returning. Taking them off and putting them on repeatedly means handling dangerously contaminated material, assuming the mask is actually being more use than a comforting virtue-signalling item of apparel.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: The point is stay far apart! Not that you have to bring a Carpenter’s rule with you. People hear 6 feet and think 3 or 4. Maybe if people say 12, others might actually do 5 or 6.
Immanentize
@NotMax: Brahmin O’Possum
montanareddog
Because I am relentlessly shallow, I could not help but smirk at this Guardian headline:
Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter
Apparently, computer scientists call this the “Scunthorpe” problem, har har.
White & Gold Purgatorian
it isn’t. Hence the need to wear masks. A month or so back I read that the 6 foot suggestion came from studies done in the 1940s (I think) on the spread of TB through coughs or sneezes. More recently, researchers had done modeling of droplet spread considering the effect of turbulence and come up with roughly twice that as the safe distance. As I recall, they said instead of keeping 6 to 8 feet apart you should try to maintain 12 to 16 feet. And wear a mask because you’ll need to shout at each other over that distance, lol.
debbie
@satby:
Thanks for the link. The longer clip from Today that follows it is even more detailed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I have come across ‘possums at all times of day, tho mostly at night. As for aggressiveness,one night while on a lone bow hunt for a few days, 2 got into a fight 30-40 feet from my campfire. At first I just thought “What’s all the ruckus?” but then my headlamp picked up two pairs of snarling green eyes with yellowed teeth running right at me!!!
I almost shit my pants.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Mustang Bobby: My deepest condolences on the loss of your father.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
I like them, because my yard is overrun with ticks and they’re harmless.
We’ve been enjoying watching a fox that’s denning somewhere in the front yard (I don’t go into that thick part). We’re pretty sure she’s got kits and was responsible for cleaning out a nest of baby cardinals in a rhododendron that’s we’d been watching.
OzarkHillbilly
Speaking of pants shitting situations, via the NYT: A Boy, a Bear and a Close Call in the Mountains of Italy
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Exciting – Lord Littlehands is threatening to shut down Twitter for fact-checking his lying fat ass.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Kid handled it perfect. He literally did everything by the book.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You ever find one playing possum? They go totally catatonic.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Couple of times. Our old groenendael caught one once – I coaxed it from his jaws and took the dog in because I thought I detected movement. It was gone 10 minutes later.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Well, except for the part of warning the bear they were in the neighborhood to begin with.
Sab
Weird thing about this pandemic is if you don’t like the trajectory of your current life, there is nothing you can do to change it.
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
A Carpenter’s rule? Richard’s or Karen’s? Seriously, you could carry a tape measure instead, or one of them newfangled devices that measure distances with a laser beam.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: They make for a pretty convincing carcass.
ETA: Hog nose snakes on the other hand… They kind of blow it by insisting they remain belly up to the sun.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Win-win?
Sab
Amy Cooper is a jerk. Good riddance. Henry is a good dog, displaced yet again. I feel very sorry for him.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
If you haven’t read or seen Beshear’s response, it was awesome. Just a great piece of oratory. Vulnerable and real. (ETA: I see several people beat me to it. I hope Kentucky voters appreciated it.)
In much less profound news, my publisher sent me a draft book trailer yesterday. That’s like a movie preview. A one minute video. I squealed like a little girl.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
I would say that, but Dorsey is a moral coward and won’t fact check him or discipline the account in any way now that he’s grunted a threat with his bulldog throat.
If anything, the buffoon will be emboldened.
I don’t know how Twitter survives long once Trump leaves office.
MomSense
Just took a short walk, coffee cup in hand, to check on the seedlings I planted Monday. I think they like their new digs.
prostratedragon
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Lot of suspense in that, even knowing the boy made it to safety.
mad citizen
@JPL: This was my first thought upon reading that trump and dense are appearing. I hope his King Midas in Reverse touch stays away from this mission.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Bear knew to keep 6 feet away. Obviously it doesn’t watch Fox News.
Kathleen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I am a stan. Never thought I’d say that about an elected Kentucky official. Loved that speech.
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: I like how he called them put as right wing. Don’t hear that very often.
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Puzzling that Twitter slapped a fact check on Trump’s lies about voting by mail but left the gross tweets about Scarborough’s deceased intern up without any notation.
The problem, and it will only escalate, is that Trump lies constantly about matters trivial and consequential, day and night. Do you address only the lies pertaining to matters of broad civic importance? If so, how do you define that?
I was skeptical of Senator Harris’s call to deplatform Trump during the primary, but maybe she was right. Not that deleting Trump’s goddamned Twitter account would really help; his goons and/or the media would just amplify every firing of his diseased neurons, dumping poison into the body politic. To quote Harris: dude gotta go.
Benw
@Dorothy A. Winsor: awesome!
prostratedragon
Update your scorecards. From the Guardian:
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prostratedragon
@mad citizen: Shhh!!!
JPL
I hit the jackpot at the grocery store, but that’s only because I didn’t need t.p. or paper towels. I snagged disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer and alcohol wipes. Not bad.
Betty Cracker
Well, my adult child finally got her unemployment money, only 57 days after she was furloughed. I don’t know how young folks who don’t have parents to mooch off of survive this kind of shit.
Immanentize
@Amir Khalid: Yes, but a carpenter’s rule is perfect for smacking people who get too close. Can’t do that with no laser beam.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: Twitter is inconsistent, Facebook is consistently evil. Evil is their business plan.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: OK OK, I got my laugh for the day. I can get off and go to the Doc now.
Jinchi
If Trump thought insulin was a miracle cure, he’d seize all the stocks and hand it off to his friends to sell at steep markups.
He’s reducing the price of insulin, for seniors only, because he’s worried that his indifference to “really old, almost dead” people dying from coronavirus is putting a dent in his poll numbers.
germy
California DA launches investigation into Tara Reade testimony
Betty Cracker
@Jinchi: Yep. I think there’s a good chance the orange shit-stain loses Florida in November, and that’s ballgame.
mad citizen
Twitter is sooooooo plain stupid. I remember reading about it at the beginning–something like, here’s a thing where you say what you are doing right now. I remember Gov. Arnold S tweeting a picture of his breakfast and thinking, this is twitter? Really useful.
Of course it became just another thing that a few use to get out their ideas, thoughts, etc. Although the levelness of it has allowed so many others’ voices to be read–all the people I see linked here.
But yes, if it went away our world would be so much better. What I don’t see is why it gets so much attention–I guess why Trump’s tweets get so much attention. If those got no press, he would have to communicate with speaking or writing, and we all know he doesn’t do one of these well at all and the other we’re not sure he is even capable of
From the internet: “Only 0.06% of Twitter users have more than 20,000 followers, and only 2.12% have more than 1,000 followers. Meanwhile, 95.9% have less than 500 followers.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
Mr DAW took my car in to get the oil changed this morning. He was well provided with mask, gloves, and wipes, but it still makes me nervous.
Today is clean-the-condo day. It’s a sign I’ve been in lockdown too long that I view it positively as something to do.
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, man, I’ve always wanted to see a hog-nose snake! When I was a kid I had a deathly fear of snakes till I read a couple books about them, including a story of a boy who had a hog-nose snake as a pet. They look so cool! Plus the flippy thing. Alas, I never found one in the wild.
Benw
@Betty Cracker: man I hope so!
David Evans
@Amir Khalid: I wonder who will be first to make a phone (or wristband) that beeps when anyone comes too close.
Jeffro
Really good op-ed in the Paper That Shall Not Be Named today: Why aren’t Republicans trying to please voters?
(Hint: follow the money)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
He’s the living embodiment of the American Herrenvolk ideal – lazy, inept, incurious, biased and corrupt, but born to money so he displays the trappings of a peculiar form of success.
We really do have deep cultural flaws that date back to the American Revolution, and those flaws need burnt out. About 5 public hangings at the conclusion of the War of the Rebellion would have done it (Davis, Stevens, Benjamin and Lee), so sadly, we’ve suffered the Lost Cause culture war ever since. We coddle mediocrity and enable the delusion of white supremacy as a matter of public order. Anything that challenges The Narrative is the worst crime that can be perpetrated anywhere. Motives must remain unscrutinized and assumed to be pure, malice doesn’t exist.
I used to enjoy the National Anthem at games – I don’t think I ever will again.
Jeffro
Help plz mods! I guess I put too much in block quotes??
MattF
Via Jen Rubin, Biden has picked up on the ‘feminized Trump’ meme:
This will enrage the Trump cult, which engages in ludicrous compensation by depicting Trump as armed and beefy. Which he is not.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I went to hospital last week for a scheduled appointment, wearing a mask and latex gloves. The staff nurse who checked my temp at the clinic door said I shouldn’t be wearing the gloves; they trap sweat, and create a humid environment around your hands that encourages the growth of bacteria already there.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: Trump is almost at the “I’ll pay you 100 bucks to vote for me” stage.
Jinchi
I thought we’d shattered that myth a few weeks back. Homemade masks, and bandanas reduce the transmission of the virus in the same way that we’ve long understood that covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze does. They don’t have to be perfect, they have to be better than doing nothing at all. And your homemade mask is a lot better than nothing at all.
We want to crush this thing instead of seeing 1,000 deaths a day for the rest of the summer. Leave the anti-mask propaganda to Trump and his Russian bots.
WereBear
@mad citizen: One thing Twitter is good for is giving a voice to many oppressed categories like POC, women, mental illness, autism spectrum, animal rights and rescue, and all kinds of struggling artists.
It’s become my favorite social media platform for my cat activism :)
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Welcome to well-tended blossoms,
Which thrive in Imm’s Bahston back yahd—
Where the kitties speak only to possums,
And possums speak only to Gahd.
Immanentize
@David Evans: That is a good idea. Proximity Detector fit bit.
Amir Khalid
@MattF:
If I ate white man, I wouldn’t want a steak cut from Donald Trump. It would be all fat and almost no muscle.
eric
@Amir Khalid: I find that they discourage face touching more than anything. I wear them when i go into stores for short bursts and take them off as i get in my car (using the proper method for removal).
J R in WV
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I’m so glad for you~! I know this validates a lot of hard work and creativity on your part. Hope the sales are through the roof!!
Best of luck !!!
Jeffro
@MattF: It’s great, coming on the heels of Tom Nichols’ piece in The Atlantic.
trumpov is the biggest, whiniest wuss this country has ever seen.
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Same. Our fellow white people’s freak-out over Kaepernick’s peaceful protest cured me of that forever. Now I hit the beer stand while everyone else springs to their feet.
It can’t be proved, but I’m convinced white rage and resentment over the BLM protests had more to do with Trump’s EC win than Jill Stein, James Comey, screeching Bernie brats and voter suppression combined.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Amir Khalid:
I bought a pack of washable cotton gloves. He’s home and just dropped his in the washing machine when he came in. I don’t know if they do any good, but they made me feel better. They’re intended for jewelers to use when they handle things.
germy
Jeffro
Also good this morning: Hell Hath No Fury Like a president* Suckered
Dana Milbank points out that the orange moron fell for China’s excuses about Covid-19 (in addition to believing Jared, which is a whole separate category of stupid) and publicly praised Xi 30+ times
Jeffro
@germy: *yawn*
Oh, it’s Wednesday, we’re back to OBAMAGATE! again…
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Benw: @J R in WV: Thanks for the good wishes. The sales will never be through the roof because I’m a tiny fish in a big pond, but I love the book and enjoyed writing it, and I appreciate what my publisher is doing for me.
@germy: If you tweet it in all caps, it makes it true!
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I’d love to see it! Is it, or will it be, available on line?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SiubhanDuinne: It should be online eventually and I’ll tell you all when it is. It still needs to have music added. And one image needs to be blurred a little because people are wearing recognizably contemporary clothes. You may still be able to tell that even with the blurring, but I don’t think it will matter too much. I have nothing to do with any of that part, btw. I just provided the script for the words.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@MattF:
They lost their shit over Tom Nichols pointing out how unmanly Trump is in the Atlantic. He talked about the petulance, the selfishness, the whining, the lack of foresight.
Can you imagine him bending over to tie a shoe? Washing a dish? Fixing a running toilet? Mowing grass?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
I had that thought, too.
”How dare you people criticize us, your betters.”
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Huh, never gave this much thought, but is long pig haram, like regular pig?
MattF
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yep, all that. It also explains why the videos of young women lip-synching Trump’s verbal hodgepodges are so funny.
germy
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: *clap clap clap*
Your versifying touch is ever deft, m’dear!
Miss Bianca
@Jeffro: I engaged with some FB friends who were speculating about the appropriateness of using “whiny little bitch” to describe Trump. I said that while I was normally not in favor of gendered slurs, that that happened to be the phrase that not perfectly sums him up, but is probably the *only* one that might prick the bubble of masculinist self-conceit that surrounds both Trump and the MAGAts.
The Moar You Know
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Quibble. Minor. The main guy who needs a scaffold all his own is Zuckerberg. Jack can and should have the one right next to his.
The Radio Rwanda analogy is more apt in Dorsey’s case, though. Definitely agree with that.
Betty Cracker
@germy: And here I didn’t think Jeebus loved us enough to allow Trump to make the far more popular and beloved Obama the hate-fetish center of his reelection campaign…
Miss Bianca
@germy: Are these the same potatoes that farmers are supposed to be protecting at gunpoint? I’m so confused.
The Moar You Know
@germy: Young person wrote this, right? Because that WAS the reaction of most folks when the government started putting out the warnings about cigarettes.
germy
@Betty Cracker:
“OBAMAGATE!”
“Yes, but what was the crime?”
“OBAMA! Obama was the crime!”
Kristine
@OzarkHillbilly: Years ago, I spotted what I thought was a dead possum with its head stuck in a gap in my chainlink fence and my two big dogs sniffing it. I herded the pups inside, wondering all the while how I could get rid of the body–it was slumped and absolutely not moving. I waited about 20 minutes, then checked outside. No possum.
germy
Cameron
@Betty Cracker: I stopped listening years ago when I ran across an article on what a stone-cold racist Key was. There’s a reason they don’t perform all the verses of the anthem – the third one is specifically aimed at slaves who rose up and joined the British. Could prove a bit problematic.
Elizabelle
Good morning, jackals.
Today might be hard for Carole, Alain’s partner. We remember how interesting (OK, exciting) Alain found space launches. In my thoughts.
Elizabelle
@Mustang Bobby: My condolences on losing your father. All the best to you and your mother and all his other loved ones and friends.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
I don’t know. For some reason, this matter never once came up in my religious education.
Geminid
A couple of good news cycles for Biden. The pictures of him and Jill Biden out on a pretty but serious Memorial Day were a good look. I expect that made the evening news. And tape of him calling Trump “a fool” etc. was the lead on today’s 8am CBS radio news. Short, punchy and to the point.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Geminid:
Like Pelosi, Biden is not sensitive to Trump’s insults. He sees them for the playground taunts they are, and he’s not operating on the playground.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
It was his infernal blackness.
Baud
@germy: I’m curious why Pence hasn’t scared the virus off with his steely look of resolve. Maybe he’s hoping to be elevated into the big chair? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
@Cameron:
I read that as “Kay” and was thoroughly confused.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Hope this helps.
Baud
Tulsi Gabbard has dropped her defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.
MattF
@Baud: Tulsi is out of money.
Baud
@MattF: Who wouldn’t be after getting slandered by Hillary?
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Hillary’s embrace of the mothers of slain African American triggered even more hatred towards her, which has not been discussed anywhere that I can tell. So for Hillary, they got a twofer. Misogyny and racism.
Baud
@Kathleen: Agree completely.
Kathleen
@Baud: Thank you!
Jinchi
Actually, that explains the whole birther nonsense. It’s not just that Obama was “born in Kenya” it’s that he was born at all.
catclub
@Gin & Tonic: Only SOME of them have cloven hooves.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Damn,
That is powerful
Another Scott
@Jinchi: +1
Dunno the original source for this graphic (note the comma for the decimal point).
https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/covidcontagianmask.jpg
Cheers,
Scott.
Colleeniem
@MattF: Late to the party, but Tulsi came in FOURTH in the HAWAII democratic presidential primary.
Hahahahahahahaha
artem1s
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
thank you for posting this! do you have a link to the transcripts?
rikyrah
@satby:
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NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Veddy nice.