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Retired Software Developer. Balloon Juice Jackel also at https://universeodon.com/@JaySinWA occasionally lurking at https://x.com/JaySinWA

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Your neighbor's name is Nevermore?

09.03.2026 04:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elections calendar Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

Pedant brain says there must be an election somewhere on April 18. Sure enough elections calendar says there are a few.
ballotpedia.org/Elections_ca...

09.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
Davis X. Machina 2/2

09.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know, we may see this old quote put to test:
β€œThe salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, 1/2

09.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one reason why denying health care (vaccinations) to undocumented is stupid as well as wrong.

06.03.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I doubt having insurance would stop the captain from worrying about the crew mutinying. Thier lives will be on the line.

06.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same question for Lewandowsky

05.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what did Mullin know and when did he know it? Just wondering if this came as a surprise to both of them.

05.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure Lewandowski will continue to serve at the pleasure of the Secretary.

05.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I kid, there are probably more malignant congress critters than brain dead ones.

04.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure you would have a quorum if you did that. But you wouldn't need to get rid of all of them, just enough of them.

04.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a Lint for dummies?

04.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The military literally doesn’t know how to spend an extra $500 billion Pete Hegseth convinced Trump to pitch a $1.5 trillion defense budget but officials are struggling on how to spend an extra $500 billion.

What happened to the $500 billion they couldn't figure out how to spend? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

04.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The front cover of A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines." The cover shows a black circle with the title and the author's name (mine!) in white. The bottom right of the circle is indented, pushed by the needle of a pre-WW2 syringe, held in someone's left hand. In the space between the hand and the spine of the book, there's a blurb by geneticist, author, and broadcaster Adam Rutherford: "Brimming with righteous anger, this book should infuriate you for all the right reasons, and arm you to take on the grifters and their war against science."

The front cover of A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines." The cover shows a black circle with the title and the author's name (mine!) in white. The bottom right of the circle is indented, pushed by the needle of a pre-WW2 syringe, held in someone's left hand. In the space between the hand and the spine of the book, there's a blurb by geneticist, author, and broadcaster Adam Rutherford: "Brimming with righteous anger, this book should infuriate you for all the right reasons, and arm you to take on the grifters and their war against science."

With all the horrors around us, talking up a book seems...weird.

But I have a book coming and it is, I believe, an important oneβ€”one hope help persuade the vaccine hesitant (those who've heard the noise but aren't yet consumed by anti-vax BS).

Anyway, here's the latest iteration of the US cover:

03.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Absence of Malice (1981) A liquor wholesaler sees his life unravel after an investigative reporter puts forth a story that accuses him of murdering a union president.

It's still on Tubi tubitv.com/movies/10003...

03.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I liked "Absense of Malice" but I am not a lawyer, so you might end up picking it apart. It's more about the press than about the lawyers.

03.03.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So English majors get to be mean girls for grades? Cool.

03.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sure the answer to "can you still get X if you got the vaccine" is yes for pretty much any value of X. But it is often a milder case than it would be if unvaxxed.

02.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We've turned the circus analogy into reality.

01.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course Iran probably had some sort of post strike plan on the order of take a licking and keep on ticking. It's possible that the sum total of the US, Israel, Saudi plans are for Iranians to eat shit and die. But it would be interesting to see what those plans were and how different they are.

01.03.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be shocked if there was a US plan before the action, but I suspect there is some level of plan from the Israeli side and another from the Saudis (assuming reporting of there pre strike involvement is correct). Not that those plans would be in Iran's, our, or each others interest.

01.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a litteral white flight from South Africa to the US? I thought that was a relatively small number that wanted to leave.

01.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America" has been working for us lately.

28.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. This is going to be an absolute mess.

28.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

For medicinal purposes only.

27.02.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For medicinal purposes only.

27.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course cheap cuts stop being cheap if people start buying them up.
I'm looking at you, chicken wings.

27.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fire'n ICE. Has a ring of finality to it.

27.02.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But I thought this was black out BIngo.

24.02.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Homicide: Life on the Streets may still be up on Tubi or others.

23.02.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0