11.28 and 29 Open Threads
Well, it’s the Saturday after 🦃. I hope everyone is slowly recuperating from a good and healthy 🦃😊. Can you believe it is December 1st next Tuesday? Wow, where did the year go? The Nest is Open. Enjoy!👍 11/29: I know everyone is busy with the beginning of the Holiday Season, so I combined the 2 threads. Everyone, be well.
Tip Jar for Orl
For Orl
Ready to move on from 2020 for other reasons than Covid!!!!! 2021 has to be better
https://twitter.com/TwoGreenBears1/status/1332692842095935488
Fools and their money are soon parted
Man sues for refund of $2.5m he donated to Trump election challenge group
Trumpcorps group; True the vote offered the guy 1 million back as the donor was disappointed as he feels the group didnt “investigate, litigate and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election,”
No, really? You mean that’s all a major fund raising swindle? What a surprise.
Catholics have gone so far downhill. When i was little, my dad, a strict French guy Catholic, introduced MLK at a church and he must be why I’m so into service, although my big sis hates Bernie. As far as I knew the Church was really all about New Testament Jesus and I was a believer, not in an evangelical way, but in a “wow, there’s a butterfly on the pavement after Easter Sunday services” and i got to take it home and let it go and later a butterfly landed on me near the same tree and i was young enough to believe it was the same butterfly kind of way.
In high school, some of us rebels made a stained glass window for a church in the barrio in art class and they had a Mass to celebrate it and I floated up to communion in my boots and wool pancho (Tucson). There were hootenany services starting, but it wasn’t long after that when the scandals became public and a lot of us younger folk started questioning why you’d go to hell or purgatory if you didn’t believe in a certain God. For which dad had no answer.
I still love Jesus, among others. He was radical and he was involved in politics, in his way. :O)
p.s. i didn’t know about MLK until this year. my stepbrother found an article in some old things. i’m so glad he told me. silly dad, he was older and very old-fashioned and didn’t think to include us kids, afaik. but he did transmit that energy. even when he started being a professor, he’d work summers at the gas station, partly for money, but partly for the solidarity, I’m now sure. again, i didn’t even know. he was full time admin the year i was born.
I don’t know if the racist righties were always a yuge segment and there were enough of us lefties to outweigh them and we left and tilted the scale or if Scalia types encouraged them, especially very wealthy ones, or what the hell happened. It’s sooo different now. Episcopaleans seem to be more liberal, anyway, at this point.
Advent right around the corner. I might look into it this year. :O)
Treasured and uplifting memories. Thx for sharing, pb.
Third generation southern Irish on my Dad’s side pb4, you know what that means.😊 I left the Church mentally/emotionally when I was around 10. Too much intolerance and bloody history like the Crusades and the Inquisition. It didn’t add up.
i sure do! in my 12+ years of Catholic schooling, i got to know quite a few great Irish and Latino people. i’m suddenly nostalgic this morning–not like me! lol
p. s. among others. Arizona, tho. :0)
Just those 2 events set back mankinds tech development behind centuries, mankinds history to this day is filled of various “Holy Wars” which i cant do without
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interesting video. one guy saying this is how wars can start.
I would love to see Byedone tell Bibi Netanyaboob to shove it. One can fantasize.😟
Meteor Blades has a good summation of some reporting put forward concerning the complications of resuming the Iran nuclear deal:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/28/1998735/-Assassination-of-scientist-could-muck-up-Biden-plan-to-return-to-Iran-nuclear-agreement
I can not stand Cupp. First time I saw her was on Bill Maher years ago. She is one of those condescending, idiotic, white entitled broads who drive me crazy. 🤮
thanks orl :O)
The neolibcons in congress could care less. The turtle is where bills go to die unless their for the 1%
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1332749852376227843?s=20
Bleak Milestone
https://twitter.com/ddoniolvalcroze/status/1332820861519159296?s=20
probably no one will see this at this point, but wanted to point out that she is using a star to give life to the bird.
This is from FOX:
John Kasich faces liberal backlash for shrugging off outrage over Flynn pardon, urging everyone to ‘move on’
Lincoln Project trying to squeeze more outrage bucks out of #Resistance?
Personally? I’d trade outrage (the lack thereof I mean) over Flynn’s pardon over compromising with Republicans “on issues like taxing and spending” any day!
The timing of this “purge” seems silly to me, but I didn’t know until now that Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright were both still in deep at the Pentagon.
Pentagon Purges Leading Advisors From Defense Policy Board
great finds today mags.
Thank you polarbear. It’s fun to share info with you all here. Mr. mags can only take so much 😀
it is fun. i’ve disengaged a bit and am enjoying being more of a lurker/commenter, but I know the feeling.
An interesting vote coming up tomorrow in Switzerland:
oh thank you and all best to the voters. hope we see a victory
I’m sorry to report that, although the measure passed re: the majority, yet again a political system has guards against giving the people what they want. (especially if it’s something that threatens corporate profits)