Sunday Reads: Christ Donuts
Posted: December 12, 2021 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |35 Comments
Cartoons from Cagle:
I told Fox it was a bad idea to schedule their tree lighting & book burning in the same place.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 8, 2021
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) December 8, 2021
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) December 9, 2021
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) December 10, 2021
Nice to see purple back again:
Now for some updates:
This is Anne’s son Christopher and it breaks my heart to inform you that earlier tonight Anne passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke. Below is the statement I shared on her Facebook page moments ago. pic.twitter.com/jIHYg6uewI
— Anne Rice (@AnneRiceAuthor) December 12, 2021
I first read Anne Rice in 1985/1986 when Stings album came out and his song Moon Over Bourbon Street was about her novel, Interview with a Vampire. I think that was my favorite book of hers…
Six people killed in Illinois Amazon warehouse collapse after tornado – CNN https://t.co/pVAAfQwk0K
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) December 12, 2021
This pretty much sums it up in :19. #Mayfield #MayfieldTornado #KyWx #WX pic.twitter.com/IcPL4XGtPS
— WxChasing- Brandon Clement (@bclemms) December 11, 2021
The ongoing quad-state tornado, if it has stayed on the ground the entire time, may break the record for longest track tornado on record in the United States. Radar suggests it has been on the ground for 210+ miles from northeast Arkansas to western Kentucky. pic.twitter.com/DxS8KWnuba
— US StormWatch (@US_Stormwatch) December 11, 2021
According to the National Weather Service, the deadliest tornado in the U.S. since 1900 occurred on March 18, 1925. A tornado raked Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people. A list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900. https://t.co/S31LoLv8zI
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2021
LOL
— pizzmoe™ #VaxUpOrShutUp#WearAMask (@pizzmoe) December 12, 2021
This is a very good thread. And @AP and @nytimes should actually read it and u der stand the argument here. https://t.co/qXXcYIc5SV
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) December 11, 2021
@RepAdamSchiff @RepSwalwell Look at the date of the https://t.co/j0jmYGuFto
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) December 11, 2021
holy. fucking. shit. WHAT IN ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 11, 2021
— who disabled Mike Pence's access cards on Jan 6?
— why was Pence afraid to get into the car Trump sent to pick him up?
— why did Chuck Grassley say THIS on Jan 5?https://t.co/q4gqT3LlM9
(thread) Based on our reporting, Eastman begins drafting his memo in late Dec. and Trump WH has it by the new year. WH then gives it to Sen. Lee and others on Jan. 2, as we document in "Peril."
— Robert Costa (@costareports) December 11, 2021
But by Jan. 3, after Pence meets w/ Sen. Parliam., it's clear he's not coming along.
BREAKING: GOP Senators and Congressmen were BRIEFED on the 38-page coup PowerPoint memo two days before insurrection.
— Chip Franklin.com (@chipfranklin) December 11, 2021
Who else thinks they need to be EXPELLED and TRIED for SEDITION! 🤚
Peggy Noonan’s column has major The VP is Being Uppity energy and once again, here we are again with a white woman gleefully carrying the patriarchy’s water. https://t.co/rfGPdAkYpE
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 11, 2021
🧵 And now back to the program… Peggy Noonan and the unrelenting hit job that she & the GOP right wing are trying to put on VP @KamalaHarris . And before I hear the M. Obama quotes… had y’all properly checked this in the 80s I wouldn’t have to in ‘21.. so don’t want to 👂 it. https://t.co/s3vGYKX2VP
— Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair (@harrisonjaime) December 11, 2021
Fed bust of 'modern-day slavery' ring is the first under a new model pursued by ICE that deepens its focus on employer accountability, rather than the immigrant workers that are being taken advantage of. https://t.co/tvQaKHre1U
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 11, 2021
Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon face rising threats from illegal loggers and miners, says a new report.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) December 10, 2021
Brazil's Pres. Bolsonaro has emboldened loggers and cut protections for Indigenous people in the Javari-Tapiche corridor, who are highly vulnerable to diseases like #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/zVwcXsJ4BW
Just remember:
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 11, 2021
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Here is something, this thread:
Someone please explain to Gavin Newsome that two wrongs do not make a right. This isn’t dunking on the right. This is giving cover to the right when it comes to the stupid Texas abortion law. Now they can claim even Democrats approve of that type of law.
This is shitty trolling and it isn’t going to work the way he thinks it is.
I’m not so sure about that, darthvelma. I think it’ll act as a bit of a dopeslap. Dozens of those kinds of “laws” will force the Supremes to remember that you can’t outsource state enforcement without heading for anarchy. And without enforcement by private posse, the right to control your own body could well return. The state isn’t allowed to enforce illegal garbage.
I wish I could believe you are right. But the current Supreme Court doesn’t have any compunction about ruling based on their politics rather than precedent, the law, or even consistency with their own prior rulings. I’d bet dollars to day old donuts they’d find a way to let the Texas law stand while striking down Newsom’s proposal in Cali.
True. 😦 There is that.
These assholes are pushing it too far…
Hugs to BB. Hope you’re doing better.
I’m sorry I was AWOL yesterday. I was having trouble with my eyes and my vision is still not right today. I have had trouble reading on the computer for a long time, and now I’m having difficulty with my tablet and phone. I’m not sure what to do.
Have you checked your sugar levels or blood pressure? Idk what it is but there is something that causes problems with vision…feel better and have maybe see your doctor. 💜💜💜
Yes I have. This has happened to me before when I fell asleep with my eye pressed into a pillow. I have lenses in my eyes because of cataract surgery and I think it has to do with that. It also exacerbates my severe dry eye syndrome.If it’s not better soon I’ll have to see my eye doctor.
Much better today
Be sure and get checked out BB! Reading and computer work causes my long-range vision to go blurry for a few minutes. It clears up in a few minutes but it’s annoying. I’m in awe of how hard-working you all are posting every day!!!
BB, have you seen a neurologist? That might be helpful. I would go to Brigham and Women’s rather than Mass General for neurology but that is just my opinion.
Also, is it possible that your RA meds are affecting your vision?
I hope you can find a solution to the problem. xoxo
BB, we “older ladies (turned 75 this year myself) need to take care of ourselves. Thanks for all these years of great discussio s. Stay well please.
Thanks. I just turned 74. I think I’m just beginning to come to terms with the limitations of old age.
Hope you feel better soon! Vision problems are so hard to deal with. For me, I’d just as soon you didn’t take any time off and kept giving us your great discussions. ( 😆 ) But, really, take all the time and rest you need!
What they all said, and probably an ophthalmologist first, then a neurologist, or even better a neuro-ophthalmologist. The characteristics of computer screen display makes it harder on the eyes than hard copy. If there’s a difference in those two materials for you that could help differentiate the problem.
I’m really curious about that Pence story. Also Chris Wallace just suddenly left Fox News.
Wallace is moving to CNN+ streaming news.
He’s going to CNN.
I’m also curious about Pence. Makes you wonder.
Devastation caused by the tornado that hit the Mayfield, KY area:
I was in Norman OK a day or two after a huge Category 5 passed near there. In the path, what was left was pretty much matchsticks. The damage from this one looks very similar in many areas. Also a strong Cat 5? In December?
I’m about 250 miles from Mayfield. We were under a tornado watch Friday night into Saturday morning. At about 1 am Saturday, we were awakened by what sounded like a freight train right outside. That classic tornado sound. But as far as I know, no tornado touched down here. A few trees were damaged. I’ve been through tornadoes before but never in December.
Yeah, the December part is the weirdest. And the immense track.
It sure sounds like you had your very own tornado! 😯
I guess the weather whisperers were too busy tracking all the other tornados?? It’ll appear on a radar somewhere once they put together the final report on this whole event. What a doozy.
Thank goodness it didn’t hit you.
From DYB over at TW:
It boggles my mind how some of the farther-out-activists can’t seem to fight their way out of a paper bag. Do they really imagine that a name is some kind of magic that conjures reality? I’d say the 1200s called and want their idea back, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t have phones then.
It’s crazy, isn’t it? For those not accessing the article, this is the first part of it.
I’m still trying to figure out if “live as their new gender” means anything other than living according to stereotypes.
That’s insane!