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From Sarah Cooper:

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Listening to the designated moderator try so hard to … well … moderate:
Here’s a thought.

Rather than a continuous pleading with the President to abide by the rules he had agreed to follow…

How about simply controlling the mic?
Only turn on the microphone of each candidate when it’s that candidate’s turn to speak.

 

From Infidel753:

In this post last month, I said that one reason I reject alien-abduction stories is that the aliens they describe — “greys” and suchlike — are just unimaginative modifications of the human form, and it’s very unlikely that evolution on another planet would produce anything so closely resembling us or any other Earthly species. Aliens with a space-traveling civilization would need to have sophisticated sense organs and organs of manipulation (like hands or tentacles) in order to develop technology in the first place, but that’s all we can assume.

So what would life on another planet be like, if it exists at all? Not just intelligent life that might visit us, but life in general which we might someday discover? This is obviously going to be very speculative, since we have only one example of a life-bearing planet to look at and thus no general knowledge about what is and isn’t possible. But it’s informed by what I know about evolution, at least.

To begin with, all land vertebrates on Earth are four-limbed (except in a few cases like snakes where evolution has done away with limbs that their ancestors had), but this is just because they all evolved from a common four-limbed ancestor. There’s no reason to think that the same would hold on another world. It would depend on how many limbs the common ancestor of land life had. Six limbs, or eight, or even ten or more, might actually work better, especially for very large animals. In some Earthly vertebrates such as birds and bats, the front pair of limbs has evolved into wings, while in a few species — notably humans — the same front pair has become specialized into organs of manipulation rather than locomotion. With more pairs of limbs to work with, evolution might specialize them for several different functions in the same animal. In an intelligent species, the first pair or even the first two pairs of limbs might specialize for manipulation as our arms and hands do, leaving the rest as legs and/or wings.

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From Max’s Dad:

…but some of this shit is priceless.

$70K a year for somebody to wrangle that mess on his head? Paying Ivanka $700k to “consult” then write it off? That alone is sending him to prison and hopefully her too. Losing millions and millions and taking on debt from who knows and getting 70 million in refunds from his own country and then calling said country “stupid”.

Holy Club Fed, Batman. Only the most dim of us still stand behind this Parasite in Chief and theres plenty. Behind the scenes fascists have had their puppet strings stretched to the limit and will soon abandon him once this crazy handmaiden is installed to the Court and their authoritarian philosophy is ingrained into law. Then theres the white supremacists at his rallies. They still support him because he still appeals to their fears and bigotry .

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10cc was a British Band from back when history began in the late 60s.

This piece came out, what, 40 years ago? 50 maybe?
Okay, looking it up: 1975.

People still alive from back then were either kids or now wish they were.
I mean anyone who was a grownup from back then is one of the geezers everyone else talks back to with Okay, Boomer!

And it’s really beautiful. Listen.

1975? That’s 45 years.

So it was a long, long time ago.

And that’s what’s amazing. It would be a creative masterpiece if it was made today. Back then, with no PC software, with today’s PCs still a dream or two away, they MacGyvered it together.

They wanted a voice choral sort of background, but they only had four guys. So the one closest to a techno-whiz semi-synced up a dozen tapes of the four to run at the same time, looped and staggered so the break in each would be be drowned out by the eleven others.

The last piece fell into place when their secretary (the band had a secretary?) whispered a message. They decided on the spot that her whispered voice in the middle of the song would be perfect.

What gets to the residual pre-teen romantic in me is how the thing started. The wife of band member Eric Stewart complained that he didn’t say he loved her, at least not enough.

So he thought of a way to express a sort of helpless love expressed in denial.
So I’m Not In Love.

Want to see the words?

Click on: MetroLyrics

 

From News Corpse:

Most Americans find this sort of authoritarian demagoguery repulsive, treasonous, and frightening. However, Trump himself thinks it is hysterical. The Daily Beast’s White House reporter, Asawin Suebsaeng, reveals that…

“According to two people familiar with the matter, hours after the president stepped away from the cameras, Trump continued following the fallout in the press, including on cable news, and began privately remarking how amusing it was that his answer was making media and liberal heads explode, and also predictably dominating TV coverage.”

“’He seemed to get a real kick out of it,’ one of the sources said, adding that the president seemed to relish making the press, in Trump’s words, ‘go crazy’ over his non-commitment to democratic norms and procedure. ‘[The president] wasn’t going to be playing by their rules on this just to make them feel comfortable.’”

So emulating Hitler and Mussolini is just a big joke to Trump.

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New tax leaks reveal Donald Trump’s financial genius. In a few short years he achieved financial history.

Beginning in 2012, Trump controlled companies became the first American corporations to qualify for food stamps.

 

From The Onion:

“Let me be clear: This gun is not a toy, so you shouldn’t play with it unless you can’t think of anything else to do,” said Webb, who made the 9-year-old promise he would never ever use a kitchen chair to retrieve the pistol from his bedroom closet, which he kept in a red shoebox on the top shelf.

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From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

Watch this entire video. I’m a leftist. I don’t hate religious people, hard work, Mom or apple pie. I feel like I just got personally reamed out by this elected official, Senator Rick Scott. This man told me I had no values. He told me I don’t care about marriage or the deeply-held values of faith communities, that I disrespect the troops and law enforcement, that I am not American in the sense that he understands America from the Pledge of Allegiance and so on.

The pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist minister (because socialists can also be believers–not that there’s anything wrong with not being one) and did not include the words “under God” originally. Just as we have civilian leadership over the military–it’s the decision of the people through their elected representatives whether a nation should go to war and those elected representatives determine our treaties. Some protestors have a radical view regarding the future of law enforcement, but no one is saying that there will be no laws, nor that no mechanism of enforcement should exist.

And this man needs to back off entirely about the concept of family and the sanctity of marriage. Is he saying couples can not divorce? (Because for what it’s worth, I’ve been divorced and it worked out great for both me and my ex.) (I doubt that’s what he’s referring to, though.) I think he might be implying that some marriages are not created equal to others because of the genders of the partners involved. But I am a big fan of marriage. I think marriage is a great institution, and I love that LGBT people can enter into marriages and create warm, loving families. If he is against those bonds, maybe the marriage-hater is him, ok? Maybe he’s disrespecting those families.

And I don’t have a problem with people of faith–I just don’t think they need to tell me I have to believe as they do, which is no more than any person of any religion would say to a person of a different religion.

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Shamelessly stolen from Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

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• Iron Knee at Political Irony provides a minute and a half of inspiration, reviewing the career of RBG. Video is from the Lincoln Project.
   
• JoAnn Williams defends Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy on reproductive rights.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson goes for the sort of balanced approach that afflicts much of the mainstream.
   
  Seems Republican Senator Ron Johnson is a hypocrite. He insisted in 2016 that President Obama had no right to have his SCOTUS nominee considered in an election year. But now Johnson insists that Trump has that right.
   
  However, we have to hit both sides, right? So Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin is also a hypocrite. In 2016, she thought Obama’s nominee should be considered. But now, for some unprincipled reason, she thinks both presidents should be treated comparably. Goose and gander.
   
  In defense of James, he usually does much better than this.
   
• At The Onion, mainstream media also maintains a balanced approach, as CNN demands to know why Biden has not yet come up with his own plan to trigger nationwide violence.
   
• You know what part of world history Trump rallies bring to mind, right? PZ Myers takes a look at the the rhetorical content coming from the podium, the part about the importance of good genes.
   
  On that good genes front, I do find myself occasionally correcting friends who criticize my president for hating immigrants. It’s only some immigrants.
   
• Sarah Cooper allows my president a moment of serious denial in a clip sponsored by World War Zero:
   

  One insightful comment: Sometimes even comedy isn’t funny anymore.

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