Alleged Russian spy whale is apparently defecting to Norway- The Washington Post, not The Onion https://t.co/RS97lyaKtx
— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) May 2, 2019
… Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries official Jorgen Ree Wiig told The Washington Post that the beluga “was the first thing I saw outside of the window” of his patrolling ship in the morning. Speaking from the city of Hammerfest, he said the whale had moved only about 25 nautical miles within the last week and appeared to enjoy the proximity to humans, which he noted was “strange” for a beluga.
Contrary to the species’ normal behavior, the beluga had allowed residents to pet its nose over the last few days.
The whale was first spotted by Norwegian fishermen last week, when they noticed that the whale defied normal behavior by persistently harassing their boats. The fishermen subsequently spotted a strange harness wrapped around the whale’s body.
Wiig said an inscription on the harness they later recovered read “Equipment St. Petersburg.” He said he had handed the harness over to Norway’s special police security agency (PST).
No details over the status of this probe have been made public, and the PST did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday…
In this part of Europe, nobody would be surprised if the latest Norwegian discovery did indeed turn out to be the fallout of a military experiment gone wrong. Since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, there have been creepy reminders of the Kremlin’s massive military apparatus lurking on Europe’s eastern outskirts: mystery submarines; unidentified jets, including one that almost crashed with a passenger plane; and strange troop movements…
Per the Guardian, this beluga could well be a escapee, or a ‘washout’ dumped by its former captors:
… During their research the Murmansk sea biology research institute concluded dolphins and seals were much more suited to the training and arctic climates than the beluga whales. The whales were deemed too sensitive to the cold and did not have the same “high professionalism” of seals, which had a far better memory for remembering oral commands.
But it was Vice’s Motherboard that reported a key detail:
… From their patrol ship, Rind, the men tried enticing the whale with cod fillets. While seemingly comfortable around humans, even allowing them to touch it, the whale wasn’t getting close enough…
In a final effort, Hesten dove into the water and undid one of the straps. Using a tool “handcrafted to free entangled whales,” he pulled on one end of the harness while Wiig pulled on the other from a rope that he’d affixed to a different strap.
“Suddenly, it was loose! First we thought that the rope had been ripped apart but then we saw the most enjoyable thing in the water: the whale was loose from the harness,” Wiig said…
Not to mention the most Norwegian quote of the week:
"We figured the whale might be Russian, but we don't know so much Russian words except some quite bad ones Yngve knows from his days working as a fishermen, so we tried to just talk Norwegian to it."
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) April 29, 2019
(My late mother-in-law emigrated from Norway. After many years of uncertainty, I don’t pretend to understand Norwegian humor, but at least I can pick up when it’s happening.)
Jay
It’s my happy story for the week.
Amir Khalid
That line about Yngve and his knowledge of Russian profanities is classic.
NotMax
One can livestream super slow TV of Norwegian caviar aging.
NotMax
Breitbart demands whale be dissected to find Hillary’s e-mails inside in 3…2…1…. //
JoyceH
@NotMax: I watched part of the Slow TV knitting program- there was a bunch of crazy women knitting a Harley cozy!
TS (the original)
It is VERY unusual for criticism of the US government to come from Australia. It was pleasing to see some things are not acceptable
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-03/analysts-blast-us-china-comments/11078820
Jay
@NotMax:
Still Dead Briebart and Devin Nunes
Jay
@TS (the original):
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/05/a-better-reading-of-history-must-bring-home-the-truth-that-the-basic-factor-in-human-affairs-is-not-politics-but-race
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: The Spousal Unit claims you can understand a lot about Norwegian humor (& Norwegian culture in general) by remembering that it developed under the intense pressure of spending six to eight months every year confined to a small cabin in the dark with all one’s relatives. Slow TV seems, IMO, a facet of this.
(He also points out, when the topic comes up, that his ancestors shipped most of their manic berserkers off viking, to contaminate the genes of the Celtic lands & even the Rus. The Norwegians who remained were gifted with stoic endurance.)
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
“Okay, time for bed, kids.”
“Aw, Mom, can’t we stay up until this program is over? It’s just getting good.”
Jay
@Anne Laurie:
http://indepthnh.org/2019/01/27/how-winter-fly-fishers-fight-the-shack-nasties/
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: Everything I know about Norwegian bachelor farmers I learned from the Prairie Home Companion
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay:
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Should have gone with Dan Savage.
different-church-lady
In Russia, whale watch you.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Everything Drumph touches dies.
sukabi
Not so stealth flying killer whale…
Very impressed with the freshmen class of representatives.
Video at the link, Rep. Underwood is very good in her questioning.
Mary G
I’d much rather live in Norway than Russia as well.
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Keep in mind: Garrison Keiller wasn’t Norwegian himself — his people were from a rather dour Scottish clan!
OzarkHillbilly
Gee, I wonder what changed?
Gee again, what changed?
Hmmmm… Still don’t know what changed but it’s pretty plain what didn’t.
OzarkHillbilly
@sukabi: Damn. She brung the hammer and knew how to use it.
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Damn it Beavis! Forgot the link: Military sexual assaults jump by 37%, anonymous survey shows
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
Baud
Send in Buttigieg. He speaks whale!
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
raven
@Anne Laurie: You rang?
JPL
Good Morning.
Baud
@JPL: Good morning.
Immanentize
Good morning, All.
I was supposed to go to a conference in San Fran today, but instead I will be staying in Beantown to be the Immp’s Uber-Dad for his school formal (and harbor cruise) tomorrow night. He got his first suit, which had to be purchased at the store that caters to the Celtics. Not joking.
But the
Immanentize
Calling Kay!
Has Ocasio-Cortez been reading Kay’s comments on B-J?
Linky
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize:
Don’t leave us hanging here.
JPL
Friends who are long time Bernie supporters visited for a few days, and they are determined to support the nominee even if it’s Biden. Everyone is concerned about the level of power that trump is asserting.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know. I’m sure I had an extra thought,
but the coffee needed drinking.
But the sun got in my eyes.
But the car had a flat tire….
Baud
@Immanentize: It does sound like Kay.
@JPL:
Good to hear.
JPL
@Immanentize: She’s good. The new democratic women Freshmen are using their platform to ask real questions, rather than just to bloviate. I’m amazed by several of them.
Immanentize
@JPL: I loved Omar’s questioning of that evil rat, Elliot Abrams.
satby
@rikyrah: @Baud: @JPL: Good morning all you ?! It’s a dank grey day today, but at least it’s not raining.
Baud
@satby:
Good morning.
satby
@Immanentize: I remember how hard it was 20 years ago getting things that fit 6’5″ # 1 son.
#2 son is a shrimp at a measly 6′ even. Both tower over me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: They don’t make much for midgets like me either.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: @Immanentize: Huh. It’s almost like they came to DC in order to accomplish something more than getting reelected..
Kay
@Immanentize:
Fun. I love Prom Season. Ours is next weekend. Some boys are coming here to get dressed and I’m going to give them dinner. Ours eat at houses before- boy and girl groups separately- and then they get dressed, join up, and go to the dance. The girls are always freezing. I think all prom dresses come out of a central facility in Ft Lauderdale, FL. It’s too cold in May for these dresses!
debbie
@sukabi:
This religious freedom garbage has me screaming at the radio again. Now it appears even receptionists can refuse to check-in a patient! These bastards will never get all they deserve.
Kay
@Immanentize:
The documentary on Netflix about the candidates who challenged incumbents last cycle is good. Anyone who has been active locally with Democrats anywhere will recognize all the “types” of supporters. Boy, was her opponent complacent. I have to say though he was decent to her all the way. One of his supporters said she was an “idiot” at an event and the incumbent shot right back with “she’s not an idiot”. Manchin’s challenger didn’t have a shot in hell so this may be why he was generous, but Manchin called her after the race and said he would meet with her to talk about the issues she says he ignores.
Immanentize
@Kay: My son’s formal is for everyone at the school -+ although it also is understood as the senior’s event. You do not need to have a date and this takes huge pressure off of everyone. Straight and gay students arrive with who they like, groups of boys or girls (dateless) go together. No one “takes” anyone else. It really seems so much kinder than my highschool experiences.
plato
With nearly 50% in, cons have already lost nearly 500 council seats, labour has lost 75 while libdems have gained over 325 seats and indies gained over 225 seats.
brexshit is fucked now, I guess
Immanentize
@Kay: That really does sound like a winning formula — even if you lose, you don’t lose ugly.
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: https://ashanderie.com/collections/shorter-men-clothes
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@Immanentize:
They all do that to a certain extent now. That’s how we ended up with the home parties prior- so many of them go in as singles in groups. They used to go to restaurants in groups of couples, but there were so many “singles” going that that stopped making sense. You’re right- it’s much better and I bet more fun. I want to make them a real sit-down meal but my son is objecting to that- says they will want snacky food. I think he’s wrong (I’ve done this before) so I’m trying to persuade him otherwise. Eating together makes the thing. I dress it up- candles, the whole works. They’ll like it. I blew it when I told him I would make “mocktails”. I always have to push it, right? “Mocktails” were a bridge too far- he saw this going off the rails and into crazytown! He doesn’t like when I treat them like they’re cute, which they are :)
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Little Imma got his first suit
Awe ??
rikyrah
This is called vetting, Dear??
POLITICO (@politico) Tweeted:
Bernie Sanders had his own TV show. We found the archives
https://t.co/MxHAAaIxjT https://twitter.com/politico/status/1124244726981505026?s=17
rikyrah
NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) Tweeted:
It is unconscionable that Trump’s HHS would push through a rule that enshrines discrimination as much as the one released today would.
We won’t let this administration undermine access to care for all patients.
New York stands ready to take legal action. https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1124071883245281282?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Am not!
Baud
@rikyrah:
LOL
Spanky
@rikyrah: They couldn’t do this in 2016?
rikyrah
??
Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) Tweeted:
“I’m the victim,” says Portland man who killed two other men who came to the defense of two black teenage girls he was harassing.
https://t.co/26c52928Ey https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/1123971457745289217?s=17
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@plato: how is it fucked – can you expand.
Patricia Kayden
Russian Beluga spies defecting to the West would make a great thriller.
Interesting. I never thought of seals as professional. Trump should put one in his administration. Would be a big improvement on the “best people” he has now.
rikyrah
Ian Sams (@IanSams) Tweeted:
UPDATE: The @cspan video of @KamalaHarris’ full questioning of the Attorney General has now exceeded 4 MILLION views. https://t.co/WMJQmjQAum https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1124052118632042496?s=17
rikyrah
RozieK (@kenner3616) Tweeted:
Favreau had a really good discussion with Belcher (former Obama pollster) about why Democrats shouldn’t expect that white working class voters in Michigan, Ohio, etc. will vote for Biden. The discussion made me think differently about the candidates. Well worth the listen. https://t.co/5uvcka0uvS https://twitter.com/kenner3616/status/1123801016447664128?s=17
rikyrah
????
Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) Tweeted:
EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, Morning Joe and Mika are trying to rehab accused sexual harasser Mark Halperin’s career. https://t.co/MJ0lmatMAY https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1124105893057060864?s=17
rikyrah
@Kay:
Oh Kay??
The dresses are beautiful ?
Baud
FWIW
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize:
Fake news. I can look outside too.
Chyron HR
@rikyrah:
“the man who rewrote America’s political script”
Yeah, into a disaster movie.
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah:
Good. I think people just haven’t been paying attention yet. She’s going to get a lot more support when they do, IMO.
rikyrah
@sukabi:
I love her. She is understated…out there, getting down to business ??
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia:
She has that strength and intelligence that Hillary has, but she hasn’t been dragged by the media for 30 years (yet).
Baud
@rikyrah:
More vetting
rikyrah
@JPL:
The former law Professor Katie Porter is one of my favorite freshmen.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Pretty weak sauce.
rikyrah
@debbie:
It’s just pure phuckery ???
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@OzarkHillbilly – yeah having been there, back in the 90s I am saddened to see that not much in the military has changed, and if I could go back and change something I did , I would not have reported my attempted assault. Let’s just say NIS (now called NCIS) were and are, not the good guys they are portrayed on TV. They wanted to make the incident go away, so they did. They nearly torpedoed my career at the same time, so win/win for them I guess? The experience really opened my eyes to the fact that the cops are NOT always the good guys and made me think twice about ever calling them for anything again.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Mocktails?
,????
You are such a good Mom, Kay?
rikyrah
New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) Tweeted:
Manhattan museum unveils largest Auschwitz exhibition ever in U.S., with chilling artifacts from Jewish victims
https://t.co/XOKT83te8s https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1124209986412982273?s=17
Baud
FWIW
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Best part of that piece? “Sanders declined to be interviewed for this article”
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Patricia Kayden
Completely random thought: I wonder if they actual meant sea lions and not seals? The reason I wonder is that on one of the Navy bases I was stationed on the seal lion training pens were on my way to work and you could hear the sea lions yelling to each other every morning. I’m not really a fan of using wild animals to look for bombs etc…
Here’s an article about the US military and their marine mammals –
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140328-navy-dolphin-sea-lion-combat-ocean-animal-science/
“A 2011 media demonstration in San Diego Bay, California, featured a former U.S. Navy SEAL attempting to infiltrate the harbor with an unarmed mine. The Navy deployed dolphins and sea lions to patrol the area, and both caught the diver on every one of his five attempts. The sea lion even managed to attach a clamp to the diver’s leg, and handlers on the surface reeled him in like a fish.”
Steve in the ATL
@Immanentize:
All male school? Mine was, ergo we had formals rather than proms.
Steve in the ATL
Beluga whales are from Florida? Huh.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: there’s like five of them
ETA: hat trick!
Kay
@rikyrah:
Right? Who wouldn’t love a nice mocktail. It’s the word, I think. If I had just shut up and made them he would have been fine. He thinks I’m teasing him and to a certain extent I am.
I love how he is with me these days- “absolutely not”. He used to just go along with these things.
rikyrah
???
Nicholausa Wants Kamala for POTUS! (@acidsaltydame) Tweeted:
I love how I am seeing “if Kamala doesn’t win… she’d make a great AG.”
It’s May 2019.
Kamala has been an AG already.
We want her as POTUS https://twitter.com/acidsaltydame/status/1124083682606833665?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: :-(
mere mortal
So, this story about the white whale has me thinking two things.
First, the folks at WaPo must have cabin fever from the Trump dumpster fires, to take such a deep dive into this bit of news.
Second, I feel a little bit like Captain Rogers when he had to pony up the ten bucks to Nick Fury.
rikyrah
LIES
Muthaphuckin’LIES ?? ?
Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) Tweeted:
New @mmfa study: Major media outlets fail to debunk President Trump’s false or misleading statements in their tweets 65% of the time, amplifying his misinformation an average of 19 times per day. https://t.co/8OV2FGddbn https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1124279490493014016?s=17
Baud
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719897599/facebook-bans-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-and-other-dangerous-individuals
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: She has that sweet, round face that makes it easy to underestimate her, and she kicks ass.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steve in the ATL:
Leto
@Anne Laurie: Sisu! Recently read a book about the Norwegian lifestyle and that was a prominent component. Similar to hygge for the Danes.
OT: I have my PT in 90 minutes but I’ve been up since 5am. Multiple cups of coffee down, small breakfast had, pretty sure I’m ready. Avalune bought me a new small backpack for me to transport a few of my medical supplies, as well as my handicapped parking tag, for these visits. I get to test that out today. I’m sore. Good sore, but still sore. I’ll probably be ready for a nap when I get back.
I don’t have anything to say about the assaults in the military because I still haven’t seen substantive change. We got a few more PowerPoint slides but nothing fundamental has changed. Blech.
Kay
@Baud:
The newer members probably love “firebrands” but what comes thru in the documentary with her is she’s calculating in a good way. She thinks all these moves thru. There’s a funny part where she compares her mailer to her opponents mailer and she’s right- his is terrible. For one thing he didn’t put the date of the primary on it. She says one flyer was created by an organizer and the other was created by a consultant and there’s truth to that. The Establishment don’t have to adopt the ideology to listen to the suggestions on HOW to do this. This is broadly applicable.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I went to a run down Catholic high school in Detroit. We didn’t have a prom. Rumor was it was because there was a rummage sale in the gym.
Then my son went to this neo-hippie school that didn’t have a prom either. It was the kind of place that let anyone who wanted to be on whatever athletic team they had, though they didn’t have to play if they didn’t want to. My teacher DIL now rolls her eyes when my son describes his schooling.
Citizen_X
@OzarkHillbilly: The Trump age is so liberating. I’m going to put “unburdened by expertise” on my resume now.
Raven
@Kay: Our was weeks ago and graduation is in two weeks. The daughter of wonderful friends has the choice of about 10 schools but, even though she is Hispanic, the cost is overwhelming and she can go to UGA for free with the Hope Scholarship.
Raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My young ass was on the Korean DMZ when my prom happened!
tobie
@sukabi: I like that Underwood studied hard and developed expertise in public health policy and is now using her position in Congress to cast a spotlight on how this administration is endangering public health. I’m also impressed with how Katie Porter brings her teaching experience and legal knowledge to bear n questions of finance and wages.
Baud
@Kay: Yeah, Crowley phoned it in. But good for us, because AOC has been very good since she took office.
Kay
@Baud:
Speaking from a 70% Trump county where we run statehouse candidates and US House candidates every two years, I am a little annoyed at the whole “how HARD it is beating the establishment Dem machine!” thing. Her race was an upset and she deserves all credit for busting ass, but she’s talking to people who are voting for a Democrat. That first barrier doesn’t exist in her race. Our candidates have to take people all the way from voting for Republicans to voting for a liberal Dem, which is hard as nails. I think the liberal insurgents vastly underestimate this journey.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My public HS had one. I think. Maybe. I don’t really know because I wasn’t invited.
rikyrah
???
House Of Impeachment?? (@battletested5) Tweeted:
Yesterday we saw a black woman who is running for President have the current attorney general admit he didn’t even look at the underlying evidence in the Mueller Report and Chris Hayes thinks America needs to hear from Bernie Sanders
#Kamala2020 #inners https://twitter.com/battletested5/status/1124109867243974656?s=17
rikyrah
Trust Black women (@TrustBlackwome2) Tweeted:
#FridayReminder
94% of Black women did not vote for this shitshow.
Tell it to your children! https://twitter.com/TrustBlackwome2/status/1124258574962692096?s=17
rikyrah
???
Reuters Top News (@Reuters) Tweeted:
EXCLUSIVE: State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause https://t.co/JtS24MtNk8 @JuliaHarte1 https://t.co/DN1MGmurry https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1123948899532771328?s=17
chopper
@Raven:
raven, dunno if you saw my post in yesterday’s thread, but i had a crazy-ass run in similar to your neighbor. guy on a clear psychotic break who was trying to get away from the police decided my house was the place to go, and ended up kicking my front door in. got tackled by a million cops in my living room.
no tasers or anything, just 1000 pounds of cop jumping on him.
Kay
@Baud:
The Missouri insurgent challenger is talking to a voter in the film and voter says “we never had a choice I guess. In Democrats”
He’s a voter who limits the field to Democrats. She’s half way there. That’s not true in R areas. They start so far back it’s a huge win to get to “I might consider a very specific Democrat, but probably not you, for this reason that will be ever-shifting”
Tony Jay
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Not to speak for Plato, but I think the basic message from these local elections seems to be that pro-Brexit parties have taken a massive kicking, anti-Brexit parties have seen their vote skyrocket, including large gains in areas that voted Leave quite strongly in the 2016 Referendum, while Labour has failed to capitalise on Conservative weakness because its balancing act over Brexit has been painted as being wishy-washy and neither pro or anti enough for either opinion.
You can tell how bad the result has been for the idea that Britain Wants Brexit by the volume with which the Tories and their enablers in the BBC Politics department are screaming “Bad Night for Labour! Britain demands Brexit!”
Baud
@Kay:
Our side definitely has blinders when it comes to thinking our experiences are universal.
plato
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Because, the cons party and the ukippers which pushed brexshit heavily lost heavily. Wishywashy labour lost moderately.
Remainers like libdems won handsomely along with indies and greens.
Now corbyn is saying that may be his party should support another referendum. I don’t see how theresa, who is now a lamer duck, can push her my way or highway brexshit agenda any farther more than she did in the last 3 years.
eta: Tony Jay beat me to it while I was following the bbc live feed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: The GOP has the same problem.
Baud
Sounds like there was a good jobs report today. It’s really the only thing buoying Trump’s approval numbers.
Steve in the ATL
@rikyrah:
Oh come on—AG California is not AG USA
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think not. They do a much better job knowing what sells to voters in different areas. You don’t see them kvetching over fairly moderate governors who get elected in blue states, for example.
plato
@Tony Jay:
Who is this nutjob “Professor” Sir John Curtice “Polling expert” with hot takes like this?
This hot take on a fading party that has a loss to win ratio of almost 4 to 1.
rikyrah
@Steve in the ATL:
True. Only the AG for the 5th largest economy in the world ?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: You should read the bullshit they send into the local red state rag. They don’t even try to engage in a discussion, because everybody already knows they are right.
Kay
See, the problem is they all lie, so what ends up happening is no is accountable. I don’t know that we had a plan for this. It’s difficult to catch any one of them because it’s entirely possible that he was lied to, too.
Belafon
I joke that I’m learning Spanish so my dogs will finally understand me.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Steve in the ATL: True, though Obama offered her the US AG position and she turned it down. I believe that was after Holder left but I could be wrong
tobie
@Baud: @Kay: Like Kay, I live in a district that is over 70% Republican. We worked our butts off in 2018 to get a Democrat elected to the House and still lost resoundingly. The 2018 Blue Dog Democratic candidate got 38% of the vote. This was actually an improvement over 2016, where the then Sanders-style Democratic candidate got 28% of the vote. I don’t know how you make inroads in such a district.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: It is the boy who cried wolf to the power n
germy
CliosFanboy
gives new meaning to the term “wet work.”
Quinerly
@CliosFanboy: ?
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: If the sum contents aren’t the statement “Because they’re racist as all fuck, Jim,” followed by 45 minutes of light music, then they’re just wasting my time.
Tony Jay
@plato:
It boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
Yeah, Prof. Three years after the Referendum, in strongly nationalised ‘local’ elections held mostly in rural, pro-Leave districts, amidst a deafening campaign accusing the ‘political elite’ of betraying Brexit and calling on Leavers to ‘send a message’, and with the Tory vote collapsing, the party most associated with Leave does so strongly that it…. loses seats, wins no councils and sees the anti-Brexit Lib-Dems and Greens suck up all the protest votes.
You wanna get your political hot-take emitter looked at, Prof. Yours is proper wanked.
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly: where have you been? And where’s our Hawaiian tropic poster?
rikyrah
@plato:
I know I’m across the seas, but, he absolutely SUCKS…shoulda said this years ago.
rikyrah
@Quinerly: ‘
QUINERLY!!!
How are Poco and the tribe :)
Procopius
@Immanentize:
I enjoyed her questioning, and I despise the hypocrites who accuse her of anti-semitism even when she says nothing about Jews, but I don’t think we’ve yet found a way to get at the basis of their crimes. I regret just a little that I’m not a resident of her district, because I’d sure be glad to be able to vote for her.
Miss Bianca
@Quinerly: hey, you’re back! Where you been, Blue Ryder?
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
At my high school the student body voted to do away with such frippery and to donate any money which had already been budgeted for a prom to anti-war groups.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
When we moved to our holler, there was a pair of Appalachian Bachelor Farmers next door, with a different heritage, but many of the same traits. They were really helpful and happy to share their knowledge and tools.
I enjoyed their company a lot, and learned about farming in general, and tobacco farming in particular, which was their tiny cash crop. They managed on about $3,000/year all their lives. Somehow.
Raven
@chopper: I missed it. The best I can understand is that as long as this dude was in his house they couldn’t do anything. Crazy shit.
Raven
@NotMax: Fuckin hippies
sukabi
@germy: that’s sadly true.?