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Mark Fiore: ‘Merican Freedom Air

Full Frontal: What we should learn from the California recall election

LegalEagle: Is Roe v. Wade dead?

An Inconvenient Climate Week:

Robert Reich: Democrats have to make this choice

Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship

AJ+: Why the stock market not the economy

The Domestic Terrorist Group Known as “The Republican Party”:

Josh Meyers: Gov. Gavin Newsom on winning California’s recall election

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

This Week in ТрампPlague:

Robert Reich: The secret to actually taxing the rich

Samantha Bee: The midterms are only 411 days away. Holy Shit!

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

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  2. 2

    Never thought this would happened as it has been proposed before.

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42517/rolls-royce-will-provide-long-awaited-new-jet-engines-for-the-b-52-bomber-fleet

    The impetus for it being green lighted this time, is the TF33 engine has not been produced since 1985., and spare parts are getting harder to source. They may have even depleted the Boneyard on this one. Previous plans included using bigger engines and reducing the number to 4. This plan, will keep it at 8. Probably won’t have to redesign the B-52’s unique throttle.
    Retirement could be 2040 or later.

  3. 3

    2 Continued…

    It’s amazing about the engine replacement. The airframe itself, the B-52H, production ended around 1964, and the rollout of the XB-52 was in 1952. Throughout it’s career, many theorized new weapons systems and new planes would make it obsolete. Now many of those systems are retired, or about to be. The B-21 Raider is cgoingbto be replacing B-1 and B-2s. Something recently installed for creature comforts on long missions, and taking into account the needs of a group of pilots not allowed to fly it until recent decades, a better toilet.

    Also, the mission and attack prod file has changed. The original mission, penetrate at high altitude, Soviet Airspace and drop free fall Thermonuclear weapons on targets. Then after Gary Powers was shot down, it became low level, and in Vietnam, a conventional bomb truck. Now it drops GPS guided smart bombs.

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    I have an important, sincere, and very, very serious question for Burka Bob (because, you know, he’s a “Doctor”):

    About what percentage of hospitalizations that have been “misclassified” as COVID-19 are actually the result of hydrogen peroxide nebulizing parties at the trailer park?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/22/hydrogen-peroxide-covid-misinformation/

  5. 5

    Pew Research Center poll, through 9/19.

    Biden approval 44%
    Biden disapproval 53%

    In July those numbers were 55/43.

    Steve just loves him some Biden polling. Glad to oblige, Moobs.

  6. 6

    I just want to be clear about this, and now I am being quite serious.

    The claims that Burka Bob made yesterday that at least “one hospital had 25% incidence of” .. “hospitalized patients who are asymptomatic” .. “get classified as a Wuhan patient”.

    This is straight from anti-VAX Facebook.

    This belief in corruption among frontline medical professionals, and “hospital conspiracies” is one of the shibboleths of the increasingly extreme COVID anti-VAX community. They are sharing among themselves their own “truths” about hospitals infecting their family members and then drowning them to death on ventilators “for profit” as a form of Medicare fraud. And the fear and paranoia they have inculcated among themselves it what is driving the home treatment industry.

    This actually predates the pandemic. A profound fear of science in general, and medical science in particular runs very strongly through these communities, often alongside devotion to charismatic evangelism. And it opens enormous opportunities for financial exploitation of those duped into the fears. All those ridiculous and at times toxic bleach and silver nitrate solutions being pimped by televangelists and prominent “conservatives” come from the same place.

    But it’s very important to understand just how manifestly evil this has become during the pandemic. And we have now seen Burka Bob delve into this evil very specifically and very directly. First, fabricating falsehoods intending to discredit vaccination. And now more recently fabricating statistics to claim that hospitals are faking COVID numbers.

    It needs to be very clearly understood what “conservatives” like Burka Bob are doing here. It’s not innocent lulz. They are killing people.

  7. 7

    @ 6

    …corruption among frontline medical professionals…

    I don’t think corruption is the correct word. And if by “frontline medical professionals” you mean ER and ICU physicians, I don’t think they are the ones responsible for coding a Wuhan positive patient.

    It’s really not hard to grasp a concept that there are two pools of money, one more generously doled out than the other, and that classifying a patient in the more generous category for reimbursement results in…

    wait for it…

    greater reimbursement.

    The federal government has created a financial incentive for treating patients with The Wuhan. Of course hospitals will take advantage of this. Administrators ultimately either make the coding choice or are fine with the choice.

    Wink.

    Wink.

  8. 8

    @6 If I had to guess, I’d estimate that the number of U.S. hospitals classifying admissions as “Wuhan patients” is exactly zero.

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    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is gonna have to skip a few meals each week from now on.

    It seems Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit’s BBC has significantly raised his escort fee. Nobody rides for free.

    Damn you $15 minimum wage!

  13. 13

    @ 11

    Why he ever thought he would is a mystery.

    The bill ends filibustering on voting rights legislation.

    A carve-out would create a new precedent in Senate rules that legislation on voting rights would not be subject to the chamber’s rules requiring 60 votes to begin or end debate on a bill and move to a final majority vote, a process known as cloture.

    Mystery solved.

    All you need to do in order to realize that, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, is pull your head out of your ass.

  14. 14

    @7 When states have to pay travel nurses $250 an hour, out of their own shallower pockets, they may reassess their vaccine and mask policies.

  16. 16

    DHS Sec’y clown, yesterday:

    • They didn’t test any of the Haitian illegal aliens for The Wuhan.

    • He has no idea if any of them had Wuhan illness.

    It’s a clown show, all the way down.

  17. 17

    @13 Speaking of head-up-ass, the reason for watering down the voting rights bill is Manchin. And Sinema. Strangely, if you get a couple GOP votes, you don’t need them to vote for it, although you do need them to vote for a filibuster carve-out or change, which it appears you still don’t have.

    Manchin and Sinema have to choose between voting rights or filibuster, because they can’t have both. They also have to vote for voting rights, because there will be no GOP votes for either. If they don’t, we’ll back right back to Jim Crow, and we’ll see black people going to jail in Georgia for handing a water bottle to a friend or spouse.*

    * They won’t even have to do that. A white cop’s word that he saw them do it will be enough, even though they didn’t, and no one else saw them do it.

    This is the party you voted for, dumbfuck. This is the kind of America you want to live in. You helped make this. You’re still helping make it. You’re a dumbfuck.

  18. 18

    @16 I would merely note there are more unvaccinated, unmasked, and untested Republicans at large in the United States than untested Haitian migrants. Way more.

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    @ 17

    …travel nurses at $250 per hour is…

    … a huge part of the incentive to code hospitalized patients as Wuhan patients, even when they aren’t symptomatic for it.

    QoS McHillbilly will tell you that this is corruption. It isn’t. It’s a method of trying to deal with exploding staffing needs and costs.

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    Biden only needed black voters to support him until November last year.

    He’s not running again. Fuck ’em.

    Al Sharpton: Black America Is ‘Being Stabbed in the Back’ by Joe Biden

    Sharpton actually accused Biden of double-crossing minority voters who supported him last November in large numbers.

    “[Biden] said on election night: Black America, you had my back, I’ll have yours,” Sharpton told The Washington Post on Thursday . “Well, we’re being stabbed in the back, Mr. President. We need you to stop the stabbing — from Haiti to Harlem.”

    Hey, it’s an improvement over “From the river to the sea.” Gotta give Sharpton credit for that. Guys at CNN don’t have that degree of self-control.

  22. 22

    7, 19,
    Whether by corrupt intent or corrupt incentive, the key point is that it simply does not exist. The entire thing is a paranoid fantasy that exists exclusively in the minds and on the Facebook pages of the anti-VAX/anti-science rapture community.

    Again, yesterday Burka Bob got excited and promised to cull through his voluminous Facebook group “research” to find the definitive data study “proving” that yuuuuuuge numbers of current “WHUHAN” patients are just comorbidities being intentionally reclassified for higher reimbursement.

    But his own data study that he quoted, when you do the simple math required, demonstrates that at worst according to the author’s deliberate choice of the greatest potential error, the percentage would be no more than 0.35% of all hospital admissions – that is 25% of 1.4% of all hospitalizations that might possibly be reclassified for increased reimbursement – or about 1700 hospitalizations out of 530,000.

    It’s statistically trivial. But anti-VAX cultists like Burka Bob cite it as evidence that the entire pandemic is fake or that well proven public health practices like masking or quarantining are fraudulent. Just like he made up pretend friends as evidence that vaccines are unsafe.

    It’s important to understand here, this isn’t just Burka Bob. This is the entire right hand end of the political spectrum in America. Bob’s a good example. We’ve all seen this transformation in him, even if he hasn’t. He began as a Trump-curious “conservative” “rationalist” who leaned into Trump because of “woke, PC liberal hypocrisy”. Today he’s an openly racist, misogynistic authoritarian who casually trafficks in absurd tales of “leftist FBI conspiracies” and who rejects basic foundational principles of democracy and medical science in favor of peroxide inhalers. He is living proof that a person simply cannot “dabble” in these kinds of dangerous ideas and philosophies without it changing them permanently.

    And it’s the entire right wing of American civic life that has been changed. Probably as much as half of all “conservatives” are now essentially beyond reason or meaningful compromise. Which is what makes posturing by Democrats like Sinema and Manchin useless and ignorant. There comes a point in any confrontational or adversarial relationship when the overwhelming evidence demands abandonment of rational actor theory in favor of a more efficient model.

    Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer and the rest of America now find themselves bound up in a political relationship with angry, paranoid, cultists. And it’s only going to get worse. As with Trump before, there will be no pivot. The extremism, fear, and hysteria among them will only increase with time. They will continue to define themselves exclusively in terms of who and what they oppose. And that will increasingly limit and diminish meaningful prospects for compromise or inclusion.

    Democrats have to start being straight with voters about this. They have to stop defining themselves to voters in terms of legislative bipartisanship in the mistaken belief that this will credit them with success. Words like “Republican” need to be cleansed from their vocabularies. They have to stop speaking with their voters about that other party or those other party leaders. And instead they have to talk about those other voters. It’s Trump’s GOP now. Accept it. And move on.

  24. 24

    A Seattle Times headline this morning said a pill to treat Covid-19 may be only months away. Dying Trumpers will refuse to take it because (check all that apply):

    [ ] It’s poison
    [ ] It’s not fully approved by the CDC
    [ ] It’s CDC-approved, and they don’t trust the CDC
    [ ] Ivermectin is better
    [ ] Bleach enemies are better
    [ ] Prayer is all that’s needed
    [ ] It’s putting a foreign substance in the body
    [ ] It’s a tracking device
    [ ] It emits harmful microwaves
    [ ] They only have the flu, and it doesn’t work for flu
    [ ] There’s no such thing as Covid-19

  25. 25

    In Idaho the state’s only not-for-profit hospital system now reports a 1000% increase in COVID-19 admissions since the end of July.

    How exactly does 1000% compare to 0.35% in terms of patient admissions? Well, it means that if the system saw 1000 admissions for COVID-19 over the entire month of July, then 3 to 4 of those admissions might possibly be admissions that could have been admitted for some other diagnosis, reimbursed at a lower rate.

    But it also means this: that the same hospital system would now be on pace to admit 10,000 patients for COVID-19, and 34 of those admissions might be labeled COVID-19 merely for the higher reimbursement rate. Now that’s a six hospital system with a grand total of 437 beds. So it’s safe to say they are NOT admitting 10,000 patients. Duh. But it does mean that with the state’s new rolling daily average of 1300 new cases per day, all of them Delta, that all Idaho hospitals are now over capacity and have been now for almost one full month. Every bed is taken. Every ICU bed is taken. Every PICU bed is taken.

    So obviously what it also means is that patients presenting with COVID-19 infections are being sent home, or sent to Spokane, or sent to Salt Lake City.

    According to Burka Bob’s Facebook Group this has nothing to do with Ida-fucking-ho having the lowest rate of vaccination, refusing to mask, refusing to quarantine, and refusing to close even one single mini-casino for even a day. It’s all because of reimbursement rates. Now when you think about how unhinged and brain-fucked that thinking really is, remember also that this is absolutely a sincere belief on his part, and on the part of nearly every single soon-to-be dead Idaho anti-VAXer circling the drain.

    If they would rather suffocate on a ventilator with broken teeth, smashed faces, swollen legs, blackened feet, and luridly inflamed bed sores than admit that they were wrong, how likely is it that you can reach a legislative compromise on voting rights or recovery spending?

  26. 26

    @10 are you asking this to a male? Not too many females put their Iphones in their front pocket?

    Is it your hope that they are happy to see you? You’re not still having wet dreams of Mayor Pete, are you?

  27. 27

    • They didn’t test any of the Haitian illegal aliens for The Wuhan.

    • He has no idea if any of them had Wuhan illness.

    It’s against constitutional values to force someone to do something.

    Even The FuckHumpster probably would agree that they shouldn’t have to be foreced to do so. So why bother test them?

  28. 28

    @16 I would merely note there are more unvaccinated, unmasked, and untested Republicans at large in the United States than untested Haitian migrants. Way more.

    The dude just wants to play politics, he doesn’t have any moral convictions of what is right and what is wrong.

  29. 29

    @24 and it will make you sterile……wait a minute, breeding will not save them, so they shouldn’t have to worry about that one.

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    I wish the Northeast would succede from the Union. We don’t need Idaho or Texas or Florida.

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    Idaho morgues running out of space as COVID deaths mount per the Wahington Post. I couldn’t read the article due to firewall.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/25/idaho-funeral-homes-coronavirus/

    https://democraticunderground.com/10142805344

    Rawstory @)$#!

    At the begining of the Pandemic Bob sligthed New York (NYC) and praised places like Idaho (where social distancing was normal befoe the Pandemic), so what the fuck happen Bob? Liberals fucked up?

  34. 34

    Amtrak Train 7/27 en route to Seattle/Portland derailed in Montana today. Looks like 3 dead, multiple injured. This time of year, the train is a critical transportation asset for the Hi-Line. When Glacier closes, they shift the local stop to Browning to serve the local community better.

    https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/amtrak-empire-builder-derails-in-north-central-montana/article_1235a76c-0e45-5122-ad08-d7a708e41df9.html

    As for the cause, could be mechanical, could be on Amtrak’s part. It could be track and/or signal, but BNSF hasn’t totally been taken over by the PSR Insanity that prevails at the other Class Is, although BNSF is running longer freights.

  35. 35

    So Burka Bob, the now thoroughly discredited lying troll, has often regaled us all with his opinions about “valid fears of voter fraud” and why they make ID requirements obligatory. “To protect election integrity” they say.

    So what does that look like?
    Well, as I’ve often pointed out, ID requirements can be and often are erected as a means of preventing “the wrong people” from voting. And how do we know this? Try this on:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/KelseyJRobbins1/status/1441826442732445702

    Ms. Robbins is an attorney at Dunham & Jones, a Texas law firm specializing in criminal defense.
    She’s presenting them with a Texas issued birth certificate, her CO driver’s license, utility bills, and a valid U.S. mother fucking passport. And they turn her away.

    I’m actually fine with the ID requirements, provided they guarantee the right to vote to qualified citizens. Full stop. Guaranteed. This woman has every legitimate bit of documentation needed to establish her right to vote where she lives. But Texas wants to deny her constitutional right to vote.

  36. 36

    Another woman in Georgia, divorced for more than 20 years, licensed under her original pre-marriage name for almost all of those 20 years, needed to replace her expiring license, but now under the new “more secure” Georgia ID requirements recently passed. She needs a valid DL in order to vote in GA. She waits at the DMV for more than 90 minutes on a week day (had to take sick time) for her number to be called.

    They sent her away because she did not bring a copy of her final divorce decree. From 20 years prior.

  37. 37

    I have to start using this
    Middle Age Riot Sep 24

    If you voted for a man who autographed Bibles for his supporters, saluted a North Korean general, used a Sharpie to change the course of a hurricane, stared into the sun twice, and tweeted a quote from Mussolini, is a your opinion of Joe Biden’s mental health is laughably irrelevant.

  38. 38

    One drawback of the German Election that gets underway tomorrow, is how much the Bundestag is going to be increased this time. It’s nominally 598 seats, but overhang and adjustment seats brought it up to 709 after 2017. Those 111 extra seats go away with the end of the term, but depending on how many overhangs this time, it could be increased to 900 for this term. If only that was the problem we had to worry about.

    https://www.dw.com/en/bloated-bundestag-trouble-for-german-democracy/a-59188371

    Overhang seats are created to make sure parties get the seats they are entitled too, especially if one party wins more seats at 5ge district level than their party vote.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhang_seat

    In New Zealand there once was a party that wanted to exploit the opposite, the Underhang Seat, to reduce the size of parliament. Didn’t happen, failed to win 5% or 1 District Seat.

  39. 39

    On some of the Facebook Railfan groups I’m part of, we’re looking at the photos of the wreck. Looks like it may have been a switch issue. The term they used, the EB may have picked the switch, where the switch did not have enough pressure against the rail, and pushed open by the wheels flange. Unlike trolls that want my opinion, or just want to gloat and ridicule, most of that group, including me, will wait for the NTSB report. The GO Team hasn’t even arrived yet.

  40. 40

    Manhattan is one of the safest, if not the safest, place to be with respect to COVID.

    Damn you liberals! You damn socialist commies!

  41. 41

    Unlike trolls that want my opinion, or just want to gloat and ridicule, most of that group, including me, will wait for the NTSB report

    Bullshit. Joe Biden and them libs derailed it from the basement sex dungeon pizza restaurant.

  42. 42

    I took the Empire Builder once, traveling by train from California to Springfield Massachusetts

  43. 43

    MTG is a real C.

    Her and Wheels from Texas are two freaks. Breading will not save them.

  44. 44

    @ 35

    Ms. Robbins is an attorney at Dunham & Jones, a Texas law firm specializing in criminal defense.
    She’s presenting them with a Texas issued birth certificate, her CO driver’s license, utility bills, and a valid U.S. mother fucking passport. And they turn her away.

    Had her passport been current, she should have needed nothing more.

    Primary Identity Documents

    An individual can present one primary document. No other documents are required to verify identity if one primary document is provided.

    Primary identity documents include:

    Texas driver license or Texas identification card not expired more than 2 years
    Proof of citizenship will be required if not previously established
    Valid, unexpired U.S. passport book or U.S. passport card

    https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/identification-requirements

    One would think an “attorney”, particularly one licensed in the state of Texas, would know this, QoS McHillbilly. Although Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit claims to be an attorney yet has repeatedly proven he doesn’t know shit.

    Assuming she had a valid passport she needed nothing more. Either she is lying or a government employee erred and she let the employee make the mistake, which seems to be a stupid thing for an attorney to do.

    There’s nothing wrong with the quoted Texas requirement – if you’ve got a passport, you need nothing more.

  46. 46

    Will be interesting to see how the former East German Communists, Die Lienke, stay in the Bundestag. The exit polls have them on the bubble at 5%. The AFD took a good chunk of their support in the East in recent years. Right now, they have a higher portion of Postal Votes to count. Those won’t be breaking for the AFD as they have complained about potential for fraud.

    As for the CDU/CSU, they are already saying they should have nominated the guy from Bavaria instead of Lascholt for Chancellor.

    Also, DW is reporting lines of people still voting in Berlin.

  47. 47

    @ 39

    Unlike trolls that want my opinion, or just want to gloat and ridicule, most of that group, including me, will wait for the NTSB report.

    Of course you should wait, Railfan.

    We had to wait for the Democrat organizer to be convicted of a terrorist crime, too.

    All I can offer is thanks that yesterday it wasn’t spilled coal. ’cause somebody could have been hurt.

  48. 48

    Speaking of people dying in train derailments, the dude responsible for the death and carnage in that 2015 incident in PA might still face justice for, er, doing his job with the level of competence typical for an employee of a government-owned entity.

    Judge reinstates charges in deadly Philadelphia Amtrak 188 crash

    It’s not as bad as a Border Patrol agent on horseback trying to prevent an illegal alien from re-entering the country, but trains can be dangerous.

  49. 49

    Amtrak is owned by the federal government.

    Federal investigators later concluded the engineer was distracted by word that a nearby train had been hit by a rock. They say he didn’t realize where he was and accelerated full-throttle to 106 mph instead of slowing down for the curve’s 50 mph speed limit.

    Sounds a lot like the conduct of somebody employed by the government. Come to think of it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit spent his career employed by the government as well.

    Which explains a lot.

  51. 51

    Stupidity should be painful.

    Dallas Cowboys right tackle La’el Collins was suspended after trying to bribe the league’s drug-test collector, sources told ESPN.
    …
    The NFL initially was preparing to suspend Collins five games for his actions, but the NFL Players Association — aware of the intended five-game suspension — helped negotiate a reduction to what would have been a two-game ban.

    Collins, however, appealed the suspension, and the appeal was heard by an arbitrator appointed jointly by the league and the NFLPA. The arbitrator not only rejected Collins’ appeal but also ruled that, based on the evidence, the suspension should be increased back to the original five games.

    Before Goldy gloats about a story shaming a player with the hated Cowboys, may I offer a two-word comment: Michael Vick.

  53. 53

    50)

    Trolls kill, messengers. Especially ones that need to get a life. I almost got-hired at Amtrak, out of Seattle, which means this PARTICULAR TRAIN! You knows how long the on board service crews were on duty for this particular segment? 16 HOURS! The engineers and conductors were actually about to go off duty, unlike OBS crews, they have federally regulated hours of service. Of course you would hate the OBS Crews, they are represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks of the Transportation Workers United. One of their predecessor unions, the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who to make sure Pullman didn’t fire their leader during the organizing drive, they hired A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH to be their leader. YES, I SAID HIS NAME DEPITE HIM BEING A SOCIALIST . I AM SICK AND TIRED OF WALKING ON EGGSHELLS AROUND YOU. WHO DEMEAN HARD WORKING AMERICANS THAT HAVE A TOUGH JOB. YOU KNOW WHO FIELDS COMPLAINTS FROM PASSENGERS, ESPECIALLY FIRST TIME RIDERS WHEN THEY ARE DELAYED, NOT THE ENGINEER, THE SLEEPER OR COACH ATTENDANT IS THE FIRST POINT OF CONTACT ON THIS TRAIN, THE CONDUCTORS AND ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS CANT BE EVERYWHERE.

    AFGAIN, THE PEOPLE ON THE FACEBOOK GROUP, SOME OF THEM BEING RAILROADERS THAT KNOW MORE THAN ME, AND A HECK OF A LOT MORE THAN YOU, THINK IT LOOKS TO BE A SWITCH PROBLEM. Could still be sabotage, we still are waiting on a suspect in the derailment of the Sunset Limited, looked similar to a previous case, but couldn’t have been the same guy. As for the stretch of track, most of the former Great Northern Main Line is Single Track, even a few portions of the Scenic Sub, but definitely the Hi-Line Sub where this happened. BNSF is better run than the other railroads, because they don’t have to listen to a lot of activist investors, just one. They haven’t gone whole hog for PSR, but have been running longer trains.

  54. 54

    Looking at coverage of the German Federal Election, love the backdrop of the Reichstag in DW’s Studio. Especially the Glass Dome that replaced the original concrete dome on the structure inspired by Memorial Hall at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Of course the Glass Dome came about after Berlin once again became the Capitol of a United German Republic. The reason for that reared it’s ugly legacy again, a bomb disrupted voting in Wuppertal, a WWII Bomb.

    https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/german-election/s-100649

  55. 55

    Livestream from DW News

    https://youtu.be/R2jw4aszPEg

    Looks like the Greens took votes from everybody. Even the far-right.

    Still, a party leaders debate after the polls close. Definitely a German thing, as the negotiations need to start soon anyway.

  58. 58

    @ 57

    Stupidity should be painful.

    So should poverty. Run the numbers, YLB. There’s a correlation with per-capita income as well.

    So should skin pigment. Look at the vaccination rates, YLB.

    So should poor health. Look at the medical risk factors, YLB.

    This is why I refer to you as an unserious twat, YLB. You pull a headline or subheadline, cheerlead it, and give no thought to it before doing so. That you give it no thought hides the fact that you don’t comprehend well enough to understand even if you did give it a thought.

    y’all suck from your sins.

    Then poor, unhealthy black people must really suck, to YLB.

  59. 59

    Hitting the crossbar on the way was a nice touch.

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    THE LONGEST FIELD GOAL IN NFL HISTORY.

  60. 60

    @ 53

    I have no reason to believe it’s not a switch problem.

    But man, was it ever fun watching you get triggered, Railfan.

    Of course, since you mentioned sabotage, there’s this little goodie from two days ago:


    The New Yorker Radio Hour
    Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?

    For far too many of your ilk, Railfan, the answer is an immediate Yes.

    Chill out, and realize that you gave me @ 53 exactly what I was hoping for.

  61. 61

    Iceland had a historic election. First time a majority of women have been elected to what maybe the oldest legislative body.
    https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-election-women-lawmakers-outnumber-men-for-first-time/a-59312593

    Still too close to call in Germany. Plus, it only determines who will be negotiating the next government. If it’s Schulz, could be a Traffic Light Coalition, Laschet it would most likely be a Jamaica Coalition. Since the SPD and the Union block say they won’t do another coalition, Grosscoalition and Kenya coalitions may be out. With Die Lienke barely at 5%, The Red-Green-Pink coalition is out.

  63. 63

    60)What ilk?I am not for sabotage.I won’t chill out. You just accused me of something I am not.I don’t have to respond to every incident on the rails because a wannabe dictator like you says so. Don’t like being accused like that, should not have accused me. AGAIN, I AM NOT YOUR PROPERTY, I DO NOT HAVE TO EVEN GIVE YOU A RESPONSE. IN FACT I USUALLY SKIP YOUR COMMENTS.

  64. 64

    44,
    It’s a valid and current passport.

    And you’re still an ignorant liar.

    What the fuck do you think an attorney can do that anyone else can’t? There’s no Monell claim here unless the cited practice is either written down as official policy, or has been carefully and repeatedly documented as part of a pattern and practice. In the time it takes to establish the claim elections come and go and she still doesn’t get to vote.

    So some fuckwit clerk prevented another “hippie” from registering to vote. All she can do is write letters and eventually sue for relief.
    That’s not how this shit is supposed to work. And if they put an attorney through it like this, imagine what some retail clerk on their lunch break goes through.

    Republicans are preventing citizens from voting because citizens hate Republicans. And citizens hate Republicans because they are preventing them from voting. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone.

  65. 65

    …might still face justice for, er, doing his job with the level of competence typical for an employee of a government-owned entity.

    And the degenerate liar posts this mere moments after claiming that public employees are perfect and incapable of error whenever they are processing an application for voter registration.

    Stunningly corrupt, dishonest, and of course stupid.
    Burka Bob is now reduced to crushing the urinal cakes and straight snorting that shit.

  66. 66

    65)I guess I should not remind him that I think that bus drivers in fatal accidents need to face the court. That includes Metro.

  67. 67

    65)The 1987 Gunpow Maryland collision, saw the ConRail engineer go on trial. At the time of the wreck, he was a Federal Government Employee. The ConRail IPO wasn’t until March. He went to jail. The Amtrak engineer did go over the posted limit on that one. On that stretch of the NEC, trains were limited to 105mph if Heritage Fleet equipment was in the consist

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Maryland_train_collision
    Amtrak,, at the Brotherhoods request, put in place for awhile, Operation RedBlock, but was ended in 2017. It was supposed to be confidential, and non-punitive, some freight railroads even adopted it.

    https://www.railwayage.com/news/bobby-bonds-operation-redblock-founder-1953-2015/

    Although I am for cannabis legalization, it shouldn’t be used on the job.

  68. 68

    Watching the Kraken game, good thing it’s a preseason. I heard Canucks Fans can get very destructive when they lose.

  69. 69

    66,
    I feel confident saying that as far as Burka Bob and Republicans are concerned, if a bus driver can manage to kill enough opposing voters, or perhaps crash their bus in a way that destroys a polling place in a poor neighborhood, they’ll face being elected to Congress.

  70. 70

    C’mon, “in the line of duty“?

    Olympia, WA – A spokesperson for the Washington State Patrol announced that Trooper Detective Eric Gunderson, 38, died on Sunday morning after a battle with COVID-19.

    Gunderson had served the Patrol for nearly 16 years. He died peacefully surrounded by family, friends and love, according to a news release. Eric is survived by his wife Kameron (Kami), and son’s Blake (13) and Braden (10).

    Eric is the 32nd member of the Washington State Patrol family to die in the line of duty in the agency’s 100 years of service to this state.

    This death is no more “in the line of duty” than Sicknick’s.

    And there’s no apostrophe in “sons”. KOMO has really gone to shit under Sinclair.

  71. 71

    @ 63

    Don’t like being accused like that, should not have accused me.

    I didn’t accuse you, Railfan. Just a whole bunch of your friends.

    Or, in the lexicon of a KOMO editor, your friend’s.

  72. 72

    @ 69

    Q: What is the definition of a shame (as in “that’s a shame”)?
    A: When a busload of lawyers goes off a cliff.

    Q: What is the definition of a “crying shame”?
    A: There was an empty seat.

  74. 74

    69)Can’t believe Germany is better than us. They probably would call it voter intimidation and one of the few crimes that is grounds for disenfranchisement. Most felons can vote in prison there, and the guards are supposed to encourage it.

    The most interesting part of the day, the Party leaders having a televised debate while the results were rolling in. As I said, coalition talks will be starting soon. The SPD and Green Chancellor candidates seem to be very friendly, even running in the same district. Sholz won, but Baerbach should be in on the list vote. The Greens have come a long way, they started being considered Chancellor material in 2011 after winning the State election in Baden Wurtemmberg, and being re-elected with the CDU as their junior partner. They just need to work with the pro-business liberal Free Democrats and they will determine if the CDU or the SPD controls the Chancellory.

    Most likely it will be a Jamaica or Traffic Light coalition (named after combinations of party colors).

    Baden-Wurttemberg, home to where the German Constitutional Court sits in Karlsruhe, is an interesting state. The light rail network is impressive, Although some parts of the Karlsruhe Model can’t work here.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Stadtbahn?wprov=sfti1

  75. 75

    @ 74

    Can’t believe Germany is better than us.

    You could if you ever stepped out of an Audi and into a Chevrolet.

  77. 77

    And suddenly this morning it’s no longer “moderate opposition to taxing billionaires” against “progressives like AOC”.

    In the brief span of just a few hours it has “suddenly” become “two lone Senators with their pockets stuffed with cash” facing off against “the entire Democratic Party and 90 percent of voters”.

  78. 78

    Josh Gottheimer forgot to take hostages before taking the call from the hostage negotiators.

  79. 79

    Across five different nationwide polls recently conducted support among voters for the reconciliation package continues to outstrip opposition by two to one.

    The moral lesson being when Gottheimer gets around to taking a hostage, try not to choose Bruce Willis.

  80. 80

    Greedy racist incel: “I didn’t accuse you, Railfan” but I did imply sabatoge as hard as I could while still having a vineer of deniability

  81. 81

    80)Usually I ignore him. He always finds something negative.

    Can’t wait for Saturday, although my train fare goes up, next station down the line from where I currently get off, is an extra quarter. Won’t be like Charlie though, it’ll just be matching the fare on the connecting bus.

    Still going to be interesting to see Kraken crowds transfer at Westlake. Although the food court will be making some money . Not much direct access between the mezzanine and the monorail terminal. Should have kept the original terminal and told Westlake developers, build around it.

  82. 82

    Got an issue with Sound Transit’s Northgate Extension commercials. Specifically the disclaimer about the Roosevelt Moose on ice skates and the Burke Museum T-Rex skeleton. The disclaimers say it’s fake, but with opposite world these days, some would think that part was wrong.

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