Babel 17

I just want to say, before the video has even started, that I aDore the title that Jimmy gave to this topic.

“It’s dinner time, did you eat?”

“I had my supper.”

“But did you have your dinner yet?”

“I ate my dinner when it was supper time.”

“Did you eat with your Mother?

“My Mudder? She ate her fodder.”

“What!?!”

But American folks buy his books in droves, and listen to his talk of how folks like Bernie are too progressive for the folks who vote, and the folks who donate to the party.

Which I later learned was spelled “Victuals”.

So “I’ve already supped” means I’ve already chowed down, with the presumption being that that was after lunch.

Dinner = Dining, which has a connotation of a formal sit-down, and yeah, since it got mentioned up-thread, I guess that can easily take place later in the evening. Go out on the town, maybe to a play, and then have your dinner by dining…[Read more]

He has fellow comedian Mike MacRae on speed dial, and his Obama impressions are good.

Reminded me of Joel Hodgson talking about the mercenary Commander in Avatar.

Video is mirrored so as to stall automated takedown notices.

I’m not even going to go there, the mind boggles.

He’s already delivering on his promise to heal the nation’s divide, and bring people together. 😉

@jbnw

It won’t be like there will be millions of devoted Biden supporters in town that day to hog the lime lights. Angry protestors willing to defy being cordoned off, or getting sanctioned for violating Coronavirus regulations, would get their share of attention.

Team Biden might end up hoping for angry Trump supporters showing up so that there’d be a…[Read more]

Ruh-roh, as I think one way of getting that is to reduce performance. They might be marking active blocks as part of the reserve that gets used to act as replacements for blocks that are marked as having become unreliable. Presumably that reserve is running low.

Fewer blocks that can get used are fewer blocks that can be used in high performance…[Read more]

Thanks for the link!

And as Dr. Strangelove taught us, it’s best to announce your credible threat/counter measure way before it might get used.

Dr. Strangelove:
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn’t you tell the world, EH?

Ambassador de Sadesky:
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As…

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The contested elections have made it now where Pelosi is looking at the narrowest margin for the Democrats in the House.

Even if Pelosi wins in spite of having a few holdouts not vote for her, there could be consequences, as the most progressive Congresspeople who did vote for her will face questions about why they too didn’t hold Pelosi’s feet…[Read more]

Nor can you bank on your name for funding while a pariah.