vxbush 4/21/2021 5:19:21 AM

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Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 5:56:39 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

it almost looks like grits to me, although the photo is definitely not taken in part of the grits-eating world...

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 6:32:01 AM

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lucius septimius 4/21/2021 7:13:37 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

It's Mihlama, a porridge made with cornmeal and white cheese (hence the gooiness).

vxbush 4/21/2021 7:34:02 AM

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In #4 lucius septimius said: It's Mihlama, a porridge made with cornmeal and white cheese (hence the gooiness).

Ah, thank you! I wasn't finding that term when I was searching. 

lucius septimius 4/21/2021 7:52:26 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

It's getting me thinking I need to find that kind of cheese.  Perhaps Saturday I should make a Turkish breakfast.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 8:29:51 AM

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In #6 lucius septimius said: Perhaps Saturday I should make a Turkish breakfast.

Follow in your book and repeat after me as we learn three new words in Turkish:

Bath

Towel

Border

May I see your passport, please?

--Firesign

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 8:33:14 AM

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Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 8:34:19 AM

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In #6 lucius septimius said: Perhaps Saturday I should make a Turkish breakfast.

That will certainly earn you an “attaboy!”, or at least, an “Ataturk!”.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 8:37:42 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: And so it seems that a gentle giantess was racistly killed by white police in Dayton, Ohio, as she was mostly peacefully stabbing someone.

They must have learned that from Israel, where they are always killing Palestinians peacefully stabbing people.////

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 8:44:23 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: in Dayton, Ohio

Correction: Columbus.

And doubtless the fact that the city is named after a white supremacist imperialist colonizer is the real source of the problem.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 8:53:16 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

Ataturk is spinning in his grave as Erdogan is spewing Istan-bull

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 10:06:37 AM

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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: Ataturk is spinning in his grave as Erdogan is spewing Istan-bull

Killed a pun thread? Why I ought to....man...

JCM 4/21/2021 10:31:42 AM

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L.A. must offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row, judge orders

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days and audit any spending related to the out-of-control crisis of people living on the streets.

In a fiery 110-page order, Judge David O. Carter slammed officials' inability to restrain the unprecedented growth of homelessness that has seen encampments spread into nearly every neighborhood in the region.

“All of the rhetoric, promises, plans, and budgeting cannot obscure the shameful reality of this crisis — that year after year, there are more homeless Angelenos, and year after year, more homeless Angelenos die on the streets," Carter wrote in granting a preliminary injunction sought by the plaintiffs last week.

90 days to get women and children off the street. Also on audit of spending on the homeless.

Could be a good thing force LA to actually deal with the problem instead of use the homeless for the leftist agenda.

We'll see.

JCM 4/21/2021 10:34:47 AM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

What I don't see is anything about requiring treatment for mental health and drug addiction.

Without that "housing" the homeless will fail.

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 10:51:31 AM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

Nothing to stop more homeless from going to LA until the city goes broke trying to house them all, especially since it will cause taxpayers to leave.

JCM 4/21/2021 11:25:57 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

That too!

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 12:19:52 PM

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In #14 JCM said: Could be a good thing force LA to actually deal with the problem

Yeah, but.  As a matter of legal philosophy, I'm not a fan of these sorts of decrees.  This smacks of "legislating from the bench". 

JCM 4/21/2021 12:47:55 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 18:

Hobson choice?

When the legislative and executive branches refuse to do their duty, isn't the court the resort?

When all three branches fail?

I don't like the response "fuck 'em they voted for it", however if the electorate keeps voting in officials in all three branches who consistently fail in their duty. Or when like in 2010 and with Trump the electorate votes for a new direction the status quo stymies them at every turn?

That's the definition of a "failed state" whether municipal, county, state or national, it has failed.

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 1:04:20 PM

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Dance break:  Celia Cruz, "La Negra Tiene Tumbao"

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 1:24:01 PM

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vxbush 4/21/2021 2:30:13 PM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: So I guess everyone's dancing now.  Good. 

I'm not. I'm in a battle of wits against SPSS. I'm losing. 

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 2:36:49 PM

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In #22 vxbush said: SPSS.

Long time since I've heard that term. Probably close to 40 years. I guess I should not be surprised it is still around, though.

JCM 4/21/2021 2:45:35 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 22:

Lies, damn lies and SPSS......

Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 2:48:17 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

I don't dance.

But I do remember Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari saying he finally understood what his father meant by "My shoes are too tight. But it does not matter because I have forgotten how to dance."

(Babylon 5)

Occasional Reader 4/21/2021 3:08:56 PM

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In #22 vxbush said: I'm in a battle of wits against SPSS.

The Special-Purpose Schutzstaffel? 

lucius septimius 4/21/2021 3:23:31 PM

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In #22 vxbush said: I'm not. I'm in a battle of wits against SPSS. I'm losing. 

SPSS was invented by Satan.  I had to learn it on the mainframe and still have PTSD.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 3:41:44 PM

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In #25 Kosh's Shadow said: I don't dance.

I Won't Dance.

buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 3:46:29 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/21/2021 3:55:12 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 4/21/2021 4:01:39 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 29:

Just by the way---this number, among many, many others, is why I find the Fatuous Feminist Fulmination, "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels!" so very, very annoying contemptible.  Any creature that utters this should be regarded as lower than the beasts of the field, and, worse, someone who's never actually seen an Astaire/Rogers film.

The dances of Astaire/Rogers were always---or almost always---designed to show the two partners as equals; they are usually dancing either side-by-side, or opposite each other, especially as Astaire is usually pursuing Rogers---generally unsuccessfully until the film's conclusion.

The Feminist Snot Bromide is merely another example of the Left attempting to distort, and/or suppress, actual history.

lucius septimius 4/21/2021 5:01:10 PM

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In #31 buzzsawmonkey said: The Feminist Snot Bromide is merely another example of the Left attempting to distort, and/or suppress, actual history.

Without knowing anything about it.  I remember listening to a colleague expatiate on an author she hadn't ever read, would never read, and was proud never to have read.  She was immensely proud of her ignorance.