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in general we liked two far more than one. however, we had a curious quibble: mass murderers repeated stating that hurting kids were the proverbial bridge too far. at least three times in a movie with almost constant bloody and indiscriminate mayhem, villains felt the need to announce that they weren't gonna engage or condone acts o' violence against children. felt forced. also, while we chuckled more than once at stallone's gr00t, the similarity to guardians were unnecessary and a bit distracting, and that were the biggest issue we had. king shark were a bloodier version o' gr00t and suicide 2 as a movie felt like it were constant challenging us to deny that suicide were something other than a bloodier guardians film with a bit more profanity. such an observation is unfortunate 'cause we liked so many suicide 2 characters and they deserved better than to be compared to guardians characters. HA! Good Fun! ps perhaps a bit different than shady, we didn't find our self measuring suicide 2 against suicide 1, with the exception o' idris elba's bloodsport. seemed kinda obvious the writers/director initial wanted to bring back deadshot, but found a more obscure dc version o' nominal the same character to replace him at some point.

no. trump, as a candidate clear advocated a muslim ban. ignore the video o' trump clear and irrefutable advocating for a muslim ban once again makes you appear obdurate on the level o' skarp_one. as President, trump attempted, multiple times, to implement the promised muslim ban but the Courts denied his efforts. trump gets no credit 'cause he were unsuccessful at implementing the muslim ban he promised. but again, we has had this same discussion in far more detail multiple times and you and Gromnir is doing no more than repeating. is a stoopid groundhog day exercise. indulge your need for digital self gratification w/o our help. HA! Good Fun!

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not sure how many times we need correct you on the muslim ban. the ban which were final enacted after going through the courts is not material. the point is trump were advocating a muslim ban, and people were cheering. this were BEFORE trump became President and the announcement revealed his willingness to embrace bigotry and extremism to further his political fortunes. truth to tell, this were the moment trump seperated himself from the other republican candidates, all of whom condemned trump's muslim ban promise. this were the moment trump won the republican nomination even if few recognized the significance at the time. 'course this announcement were not the first warning sign trump were unfit for office, but the fact americans did not rise up en masse to denounce trump is what is most telling in retrospect. trump warned us all what he was and what he would attempt to do once given power, and too many americans shrugged with indifference while others f'ing applauded. serious though, am not revisiting this bit o' bruce intransigence in the future. HA! Good Fun!

if the horse were a soccer player, we got no doubt it woulda' immediate sprawled on the turf in anguish following that brutal hammer blow o' a punch. wasn't exact what we expected when we read the story. dunno, maybe rule is coaches ain't allowed to make contact with the animal, so were less the "punch" than the contact? again, don't know the rules. however, and if some o' you think less o' us after this admission am understanding, but our personal experience with stubborn horses has more than once involved a thrown punch. is something we learned from our father. we were raised by grandparents, but we knew our father and he visited the ranch where we grew up a couple times per year. pops, for all his faults, were an accomplished equestrian. incident am sharing happened when we were sevenish and am recollecting pops were dealing with a less than docile, and unusually robust quarter horse. in addition to being willful, the equine in question were just plain mean and the brute were both a biter and kicker. dad put up with the beast's nonsense for less than a minute before he leaned forward in the saddle and punched the horse solidly in the neck. *chuckle* we were watching this happen from behind and we could clear see the legs o' the horse buckle when our father struck. is doubtful the punch hurt the horse, but the animal's shock were clear; it had never experienced that sorta treatment previous. dad had zero troubles with the horse henceforth. maybe not the kinda story you share with peta folks. anyways, 'pon reading the story 'bout the german coach, our imagination took us back to the punch our seven-years-old self witnessed. disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that Gromnir has been expressing disbelief so many could shrug off trump excesses since the moment 45 advocated a muslim ban. death by a thousand cuts? quick cuts. the normalization o' American extremism happened far quicker than we coulda' imagined outside a nightmare scenario requiring a world war or continent spanning calamity. sure, there were genuine trump supporters on these boards who with full awareness forgave trump his sexual indiscretions and overt corruption 'cause 45 were the last and best hope for unborn children facing abortion and 'cause the dems were missionaries o' the apocalypse. am suspecting a few o' those folks is still 'round but they got kinda quiet after the election and they all but disappeared post january 6. whatever. not much possibility for dealing with folks who respond to any criticism o' trump's violations o' rule o' law and human decency as an existential crisis. the folks we were genuine disappointed with were the, "it wouldn't be any better with hillary," crowd. ... whatever. point is every step o' the way, as trump normalized the previous unthinkable, we shouted for people to wake up from their stupor. all too often our comic repeated cassandra play were met with same relative indifference we now see regarding january 6. am now told that january 6 were indeed unfortunate, but were it really any worse than the summer protests? we should all just move on 'cause no good will come from investigations or prosecutions and is not like this could happen again in two or four years, yes? for the past four years have have been having same conversations regarding each new improbable excess. the fact we keep being rebuffed with indifference until we somehow reached the point where people were shrugging off the unmarked vans in portland kidnapping protesters and an actual gawd be damned insurrection at the Capitol meant to stop the peaceful transfer o' power from 45 to biden should be a wake up call... but muslim bans weren't so perhaps is Gromnir being obtuse for not accepting the inevitable, eh? HA! Good Fun!

haven't seen the episode, but ordinarily the issue is cost. no insurance or wrong insurance means you gotta pay. we all know 'bout how if you ain't insured you gotta pay for emergency room services, yes? many thousands o' dollars. call for an ambulance and 911 dispatch sends a private ambulance service to your home, service not covered by your provider. what then? maybe get charged thousands o' dollars for a trip o' a few miles. the thing is, if you are unconscious or unable to call 911 and somebody else calls for the ambulance you still get charged. HA! Good Fun!

then shoulda' left there, yes? cherry picking like some alt-right radio host does you no favors. most o' the georgia changes is indeed innocuous or even common sense, though identify as "ballot harvesting" is a bit loaded and is a mischaracterization o' what actual were the legal practice. genuine ballot harvesting were already illegal in georgia via a 2019 law. the 2019 law changed so only a close family member could deliver and/or mail. etc. the problem with the georgia law is the other stuff not mentioned by conservative radio hosts. am thinking gd should first self educate a bit. aside, given how republican state and local election functionaries were treated by their party for doing their legal duty in 2020, is it more or less likely that their inevitable replacements would do same in 2024? as for meekly acquiescing, you seem to have done so. Capitol riot? meh. an investigation o' said riot? meh. 40% (38.6% to be exact) believe the january 6 insurrection were no biggie or were a patriotic act. nevertheless, you are certain that if trump had succeeded, the folks on the other side o' the fence woulda' risen up en masse and rejected the authoritarian power grab. why? trump buried an ig report on his ukraine activities and pardoned folks who could be called as witnesses against him in a future criminal trial. trump pressured a foreign government to investigate a political rival. trump refused to comply with Congressional demands for records and witnesses as part o' an impeachment. trump ignored spending power o' Congress on multiple occasions. turns out trump also prevented the fbi from following up on leads regarding now Justice Kavanaugh while the nomination were being deliberated by the senate. the aforementioned jeffery clark were almost acting ag 'cause trump abused the already questionable temp appointment power. oh, and again, how many folks rose up in response to trump sending federal troops to states w/o the consent o' state legislatures or governors, troops who attacked people on public state thoroughfares and kidnapped protesters using masked agents and unmarked vans. etc. four freaking years taught us just how meek is american patriots. ps we have been told, innumerable times, they is all bad. so what does it matter if biden won the election or trump stole it? doesn't matter 'cause they are all corrupt, yes? ain't worth fighting for or against any politician 'cause ultimately it makes no difference. is no wonder we see such apathy to Constitutional and humanitarian violations. if is not "me or mine," if is not my chainsaw, then it don't matter 'cause there is nothing worth fighting for when all the alternatives is bad... but not bad enough apparently.

the guy at the doj promoting that conspiracy theory were almost the acting attorney general and we are discovering through released email correspondence that jefferey clark had every intention o' sending letters (which he had already drafted and circulated at doj) to election officials in the six states where votes were close(ish) claiming the DoJ had indeed uncovered evidence of widespread election fraud, seeming based on the conspiracy theory nonsense which you so readily and reasonably dismiss. clark had been part o' the intelligence briefings which revealed the complete lack o' any evidence o' widespread election fraud, but he disbelieved the conclusions o' intelligence and instead latched onto alternative facts. s'posed, scott perry were instrumental in the crafting o' the circulated letter. so, imagine you are one o' these fence sitting functionaries in michigan or nevada. you have absolute no intelligence background and your position on the county election board were s'posed to be nothing more than a ceremonial appointment. you weren't even elected. you got no engineering background and have no idea how voting machines work. nevertheless, to your surprise, for the past couple weeks you have been amongst the most talked 'bout people in your state. heck, President Trump called you personal and asked you to be a courageous patriot. unfortunate, you are getting death threats, and not just from the libs. suddenly a letter arrives from the acting attorney general which claims widespread voter fraud happened in your state. what a relief, no? is no longer a matter o' you needing you make an impossible decision. doj is asking for time to investigate fully before ratification takes place. why would you say "no" to the doj? improbable almost happened, and state legislatures in georgia and elsewhere is making sure that next time, if there is a next time, improbable becomes likely. HA! Good Fun!

serious. any o' them? ... ... am gonna pause to let the magnitude o' this amazing expression o' self deception sink in fully. genuine beyond belief. so, none o' those guys were there 'cause they thought they could overturn the election... y'know in spite o' court admissions already which contradict this position. the insurrectionists, many o' whom believed they had been invited to the Capitol (though a few thought they were at the White House, no joke) were there to stop the ratification o' the election and force Congress to make Trump the winner o' the 2020 election. insurrection, btw, don't require a belief by participants they is complete overthrowing the government, which is why we so many times posted the freaking definition and statutes in question. stopping, altering, delaying the election process counts as insurrection and those buds and yahoos attacking cops and doing violence to gain entry to the Capitol weren't just there to voice their support for the soon to be former President. the buds and yahoos were there to make a difference, to force a change in what were taking place at the Capitol that day. what were happening at the Capitol that day btw? serious, what on earth did some o' you see on january 6 or in subsequent weeks o' insurrection video?

this continued willful self delusion is hard to take. change events by altering the choices o' a handful o' folks in a handful o' positions. simple limit to january 6. if pence had sent votes back to states, the Courts might very well have chosen to stay uninvolved, 'cause 1) were arguable a political issue and 2) you do not have a Constitutional right to vote for President and Vice President. that detail keeps slipping the minds o' folks. tell us 'bout pence and the impossibility o' him doing the wrong thing is unconvincing seeing as how he were one o' the chief supporters o' trump's stolen election bs and he were the guy who actual suggested using the insurrection act to respond to protesters in oregon and washington dc. pence were hardly some kinda bastion o' Constitutional integrity. sure, on january 6 he did what he were s'posed to do, but if anybody before january 6 claims they were certain he would, am gonna call 'em naïve or a liar. oh, and lack o' legal authority had never stopped trump previous to his election interference, election interference am gonna remind you that a few months earlier gd thought were nothing more than media fear mongering. where were you during the trump Presidency for gawd's sake? if you got the DoJ refusing to prosecute or even investigate the President for even overt illegal action, and the senate refusing to hold a trial or even consider articles o' impeachment, the the President could get away with just 'bout anything, and he did, over and over. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056#2017 count on the joint chiefs? the joint chiefs also wouldn't have used the military to prevent regime change. you have no idea how wrong you are 'bout the election and january 6. a few people in a few key states making a few decisions different than they did. key counties in michigan came down to the seeming insignificant functionaries performing largely ministerial duties, and one o' them freaking abstained. if the other republican on a vote board had chosen different and forced the republican state legislature to decide, what then? look at georgia today. sure, the secretary o' state did not embrace trump's attempt at fraud, but the secretary o' state may now be overruled by the state legislature. seriously. what kinda kool aid is some o' you drinking?

we mentioned the issue in a previous post for the most part, lawyers is free to posit wacky legal theories w/o risking rule 11. read case law unconventional and do a bit o' dr. frankenstein surgery with precedent is okie dokie. a few o' the trump team lawsuits had advanced affirmative action claims which relied on prayer as 'posed to established rule o' law; hope the Courts would sudden decide the past few decades o' voter law cases opposite o' reality. such wishful thinking based lawyering is not cause for sanction. what the kraken lawsuits had judges and government lawyers shocked and angry 'bout were the factual reliance on innuendo and gossip w/o any suggestion there would be admissible evidence forthcoming. the thing is, and am admitted continued perplexed by this, something like 40% o' americans thinks January 6 and trump's efforts to overturn the election were either justified or not as worrisome as lib media makes it seem. wtf? the guy in the picture were a hairsbreadth away from being the acting attorney general when that failed, the President o' the United States of America encouraged thousands o' his followers to march on the Capitol. those insurgents who did indeed march to and invade the Capitol were intent on forcing mike pence to send electoral votes back to the states, and perhaps worse. unlike the summer protesters who vandalized empty fed court houses in oregon and washington, the insurgents broke windows and broke down doors to gain entry to the Capitol while Congress was in session and with the VP present. the insurgents attacked cops and a few even called for mike pence to be hanged. an example o' a not insurgent ... what more do you freaking need to wake the heck up? we got americans who will fight to the death for their chainsaw or to oppose a mask mandate, and marjorie taylor greene suggests the biden folks going door-to-door to inform the unvaccinated 'bout delta will be met in the south by a 2nd amendment response, but americans see an attempt by the President to overturn the election and thousand o' the President's loyal followers ransacking the Capitol looking for disloyal Congressmen and the reaction is either sympathy or indifference? wtf? some people is being willful obtuse 'bout how close we were to calamity following the previous Presidential election and refusal to come to grips with such a reality makes it all the more likely it is gonna happen for reals in 2024 or 2028 or... it is funny. chinese thermometers changing vote tallies in michigan is funny. the quips 'bout santa claus, the easter bunny and the bumbling kraken lawyers is funny. the problem is far too many don't realize or they ignore how dangerous close those b00bs came to achieving the unthinkable. not funny.

and if the broomstick were to wear out 'fore the work end, we woulda' guessed azdeus didn't know how to use a broom. you live in an old house, yes? perhaps you offended the house gnomes. what is the proper offering for swedish house gnomes? pickled herring and mead perhaps? cream is always a good bet based on fairytales. 'course cursed by witches is always a possibility. problem is those witchfinders is as likely to accuse azdeus o' witchcraft. you a good swimmer? maybe give the broomstick a quick swipe or two with some fine sandpaper to remove any other splinters and then move on with your life is a better course o' action, but please keep us informed if you go with the witchfinder route. HA! Good Fun!

not quite the same as the maid bit, but reminded us o' Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011) "In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the second woman to win a Nobel prize in medicine for co-developing radio-immunoassay (RIA), a groundbreaking technique that uses radioactive isotopes to quickly and precisely measure concentrations of hormones, vitamins, viruses, enzymes, drugs, and hundreds more substances. The technique is so sensitive that it can detect a teaspoonful of sugar in a body of water 62 miles long." from her nobel bio: I was excited about achieving a career in physics. My family, being more practical, thought the most desirable position for me would be as an elementary school teacher. Furthermore, it seemed most unlikely that good graduate schools would accept and offer financial support for a woman in physics. However my physics professors encouraged me and I persisted. As I entered the last half of my senior year at Hunter in September 1940 I was offered what seemed like a good opportunity. Since I could type, another of my physics professors, Dr. Jerrold Zacharias, now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtained a part time position for me as a secretary to Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, a leading biochemist at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S). This position was supposed to provide an entrée for me into graduate courses, via the backdoor, but I had to agree to take stenography. On my graduation from Hunter in January 1941, I went to business school. Fortunately I did not stay there too long. In mid-February I received an offer of a teaching assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, the most prestigious of the schools to which I had applied. It was an achievement beyond belief. I tore up my stenography books, stayed on as secretary until June and during the summer took two tuition-free physics courses under government auspices at New York University. one o' the great scientific minds o' the 20th and at numerous turns her family and s'posed mentors kept pushing her away from physics. is hard to imagine how much human capital has been wasted over the centuries 'cause o' stoopid prejudices. HA! Good Fun!

am not gonna claim brotherhood of the wolf is a good movie. we will offer the two word summation as to why we purchased tickets to watch and did not feel cheated: monica bellucci. HA! Good Fun!

our world view is typical predicated on some personal reflection after reviewing academic sources and math. is why we laugh at folks who were hoarding toilet paper (and eggs o' all thigs) for a month or two last year and am similar dismissive o' the persons who shrug off the medical advice from fauci regarding covid. last year we saw some buffoonery when folks like the recent dead herman cain tweeted the 94% statistic, presumable 'cause the 94% observation meshed nicely with the covid-19 mitigation efforts are an overreaction world view. too many clowns felt validated by the number w/o understanding what it meant. didn't need fauci to explain the stoopid of 94%,shouldn't have needed. curious, nowadays fauci explaining why the 94% tweets were idiot bait makes 30% o' the country more likely to embrace the stoopid underlying the statistic. a funny video o' a guy narrating a real video o' the kinda stoopid which happens all too frequent on airplanes nowadays (duct taped guy were no doubt sharing the 94% statistic on social media last year) is worth a laugh even if the need to duct tape people to their airline seats 'cause they got common sense and know better is far less amusing. HA! Good Fun!

Trump Hawks Tacky Gold-Lettered ‘Trump Cards’ for MAGA Die-Hards sure, there is a spelling error and yeah, the whole notion o' selling trump cards is too silly to take serious, but... well, that is all we got. can't help but wonder if a graphic design person were having a bit o' a laugh and then were shocked when everybody said they loved the design. too late to tell folks they were being pranked? am thinking the eagle one would benefit from a nice SPQR. HA! Good Fun!

we are gonna need more duct tape and more of mr. rivera. HA! Good Fun!

in the twitter silliness the plymouth rock pilgrims, who were as amentep observes, separatists as 'posed to reformers, is being conflated with the blanket descriptor o' "puritan" which is inappropriate on multiple levels, but to be fair, the "puritans," who were indeed being persecuted in england were, as often as not, intolerant d-bags once they got to the americas. America’s True History of Religious Tolerance any kinda american religious tolerance weren't a thing until 1777 when thomas jefferson (whom we admitted criticize frequent on these boards) pushed back against an effort to make christianity the official state religion o' virginia as well as a proposed mandate to teach christianity in the "state." is first time we saw an effort at legislating state-wide religious tolerance in what eventual became the USA. previous to 1777, the norm were cold religious bigotry punctuated by all too frequent actual bloody conflict. 1786 sees adoption o' the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, and if that were the only positive thing jefferson ever accomplished, from our pov it would be enough to be deserving o' monuments in his memory. the term religious extremist is a bit loaded. different. the puritans (again a terrible overbroad descriptor) were indeed persecuted and faced draconian punishments for even minor slights against the anglican church in england. extreme 'cause they wouldn't conform. once those persecuted people reached the americas, they immediate began persecuting indians and each other. look to the experience o' the quakers who were persecuted in england, and new england, and you are gonna have a hard time accusing them o' the great evils the twitter excerpt seems to feel justified the treatment o' the puritans. the persecution in england and the colonies had little do with extremism. different alone deserved persecution. HA! Good Fun!

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not the onion, but https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/07/29/dr-priscilla-frase-intv-ozarks-healthcare-missouri-private-vaccine-backlash-sot-ac360-vpx.cnn the thing is, this behaviour is not new, surprising or limited to any particular identifiable group. the kinda stoopid people will embrace outta fear o' being excluded by their community or peer group is the norm and not the exception. before we found out 'bout some long-term health issues, we were engaged and brought our fiancé to meet the family. our immediate family is small and most were welcoming. however, more than a few o' our supposed friends and acquaintances were little more accepting o' us being engaged to a white woman than were the traditional, classic american bigots we expected to encounter on streets when we were in public together. think any o' us is more evolved than the chimpanzees in those brutal ostracism videos put together by anthropologists would be a mistake. what is new in 2021 is the fact that those who know better and is not ignorant is willing to sacrifice literal hundreds o' thousands o' lives to support a populist movement. wtf? HA! Good Fun!

Newt Gingrich: The left wants "to get rid of the rest of us because we believe in George Washington" "The anti-American left would love to drown traditional, classic Americans with as many people as they can who know nothing of American history, nothing of American tradition, nothing of the rule of law," he said. "If you go and look at the radical left, this is their ideal model. It's to get rid of the rest of us because we believe in George Washington, or we believe in the Constitution, and you see this behavior over and over again." *sigh* am knowing we mentioned the smallpox bit previous... How George Washington Used Vaccines to Help Win the Revolutionary War "By spring [of 1776] the condition of the American soldiers in Canada had deteriorated severely due to continuous outbreaks of smallpox... Approximately half of the soldiers were ill. The majority of the new recruits were not immune to the disease, and reinforcements sent to Canada sickened quickly." Becker recounted. "Contemporary evidence is overwhelming: smallpox destroyed the Northern Army and all hope of persuading the Canadians to join the Revolution." "Our misfortunes in Canada are enough to melt a heart of stone," John Adams wrote in June 1776. "The small-pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians, and Indians together." FULLY AWARE of the disaster in the north, George Washington realized that merely evading smallpox would no longer suffice; he wanted to prevent it altogether. Inoculation was already available, although the procedure -- called variolation -- was not without risks. The vaccines we're accustomed to today were not invented yet, so doctors would simply make a small incision in the patient's arm then introduce pus from the pustules of an infected victim into the wound. Variolation often resulted in a minor smallpox infection with a speedier recovery and vastly lower fatality rates, around two percent. Survivors were granted lifelong immunity. At first, Washington simply required new recruits to be inoculated. Then, in February 1777, he bit the bullet entirely. "Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro' the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated. This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust, in its consequences will have the most happy effects." This was a bold move. At the time, variolation was technically outlawed by the Continental Congress, so Washington was openly flouting the law. Whole divisions were inoculated and quarantined en masse, a process that would continue for months. Strict secrecy was maintained to prevent the British from uncovering the program, lest they launch an attack upon the recovering troops. By year's end, 40,000 soldiers were immunized. The results were stunning. The smallpox infection rate in the Continental Army rapidly fell from 17 percent to one percent, prompting the Continental Congress to legalize variolation across the states. ... george washington might not be the founding father newt gingrich and desantis should invoke to defend their ignorance and stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

kamala harris is no doubt relived. when folks talk 'bout most dysfunctional and inept political campaigns o' the last decade, perhaps the vp will no longer be the first name which comes to mind. HA! Good Fun!

so, cover of tower of power w/o a horn section? that takes some cojones. kinda fun nonetheless. HA! Good Fun!

Who is to blame for rising COVID-19 cases, by vaccination status HA! Good Fun!