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It puts the Dem lotion on its skin or it gets the GOP again. n/t
From:Swipe Blue
lotlizard Tue, 11/08/2022 - 12:51am 5 0
The Florida “Democrats’ Democrat”: Debbie Wasserman Schultz
From:Swipe Blue
lotlizard Tue, 11/08/2022 - 12:48am 1 1 Tue, 11/08/2022 - 05:53am
Yup! n/t
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:14pm 1 0
The US had Marines in China putting down the Boxer Rebellion too
From:11/7 - October Revolution Day
lotlizard Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:11pm 1 1 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:19pm
I was indeed hopin’ you’d have dat original at yer fingertips…
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Sun, 11/06/2022 - 01:16pm 1 1 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 09:09am
In Europe, migration issues continue to fester
From:The Weekly Watch
lotlizard Sun, 11/06/2022 - 09:39am 1 2 Sun, 11/06/2022 - 02:51pm
Well, that’s why they openly want WAR WAR WAR now
From:Welcome to Saturday's Potluck -
lotlizard Sun, 11/06/2022 - 03:35am 1 0
Nothing much has changed since Doctor Faust made his deal
From:Flip the script
lotlizard Sun, 11/06/2022 - 12:25am 0
“Cheech Wizard” was a big hit with “National Lampoon” readership
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Sat, 11/05/2022 - 10:25pm 1 1 Sun, 11/06/2022 - 02:12pm
“Eli” — Arlo Guthrie — a song about “lying flat”?
From:Welcome to Saturday's Potluck -
lotlizard Sat, 11/05/2022 - 08:02am 1 1 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 01:12am
Bodé did a self-deprecatory strip where he introduces himself to
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Sat, 11/05/2022 - 07:22am 1 2 Tue, 11/08/2022 - 12:51pm
Ursula von der Leyen = our Führer*in <== gender-neutral spelling
From:The Evening Blues - 11-4-22
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 08:59pm 1 0
Maybe Pat Nixon’s “respectable Republican cloth coat” from 1952?
From:Open Thread 11-04-22 - On the Road
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 07:41pm 6 1 Sat, 11/05/2022 - 10:18am
Speaking of herbs, I really miss “Frankfurt green sauce” here
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 12:54pm 1 1 Fri, 11/04/2022 - 06:28pm
They seem to call that big-hole cheese “Emmentaler” here…
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 12:30pm 1 2 Sat, 11/05/2022 - 10:14am
“Who’da thought *Moscow* might become that ‘city upon a hill’?”
From:Open Thread 11-04-22 - On the Road
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 10:41am 1 0
Met Vaughn Bodé in person at a comic-con in NYC in 1972
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 04:49am 1 1 Fri, 11/04/2022 - 10:22am
Well, heck, “a new Pearl Harbor” worked so well the first time
From:The exercise will be called Event 201 in honor of the, uh, potential pandemic
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 04:17am 1 0
Alas, jack cheese is unobtainable / “unobtainium” in Germany
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Fri, 11/04/2022 - 02:15am 1 1 Fri, 11/04/2022 - 10:42am
Saying the quiet part out loud and stealing Palestinians’ houses
From:The Evening Blues - 11-3-22
lotlizard Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:53pm 1 0
Cooking has become my #1 form of recreation now!
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Thu, 11/03/2022 - 11:41am 1 2 Thu, 11/03/2022 - 07:04pm
SCA = Society for Creative Anachronism ?
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:27am 1 1 Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:38am
It wasn’t banned, but a note supplying the missing context
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:21am 1 1 Thu, 11/03/2022 - 03:05pm
Whom do you mean? I, for one, don’t trust Elon Musk. Not at all.
From:Open Thread - Thurs 03 Nov 2022 - Yum!
lotlizard Thu, 11/03/2022 - 07:26am 1 2 Thu, 11/03/2022 - 05:22pm
To those who say “But Trump! But Russia!” … we *are* the balance
From:The Evening Blues - 11-2-22
lotlizard Wed, 11/02/2022 - 08:33pm 1 3 Wed, 11/02/2022 - 09:11pm
IIRC, Desenex was a brand of anti-athlete’s foot fungicide. n/t
From:Open Thread WE 3 NOV 22 ~
lotlizard Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:43am 1 0
Speaking of regularly recurring Hitler avatars…
From:The Evening Blues - 11-1-22
lotlizard Wed, 11/02/2022 - 06:22am 1 0
Center-left bloc seems to have pulled off a narrow 1-seat win
From:The Evening Blues - 11-1-22
lotlizard Wed, 11/02/2022 - 03:01am 1 0
Danish parliamentary election returns live here:
From:The Evening Blues - 11-1-22
lotlizard Tue, 11/01/2022 - 03:24pm 1 1 Tue, 11/01/2022 - 07:48pm
Danes voted today to elect a new Folketing (parliament)
From:Flip the script
lotlizard Tue, 11/01/2022 - 03:01pm 1 2 Tue, 11/01/2022 - 03:34pm
Also full-spectrum dominance = stunt everyone else’s development
From:The Evening Blues - 10-31-22
lotlizard Tue, 11/01/2022 - 05:06am 1 1 Tue, 11/01/2022 - 09:15am
It’s a holiday here in Saxony due to 1517 and Luther’s 95 theses
From:10/31 is Samhain (north)/ Beltane (south) / Halloween (sundry)
lotlizard Mon, 10/31/2022 - 06:39am 1 1 Mon, 10/31/2022 - 11:18am
In Germany the Social Democrat / Green / Liberal gov’t coalition
From:The Weekly Watch
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 12:30pm 1 1 Sun, 10/30/2022 - 12:53pm
Hey, them’s a passel of Eurasian coots, in their b&w livery! n/t
From:The Weekly Watch
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 12:16pm 1 0
(via today’s NC) — An old thread worth re-reading periodically:
From:The Weekly Watch
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 09:18am 1 1 Sun, 10/30/2022 - 09:27am
I for one welcome the day when Ukraine joins the EU & euro zone
From:News Dump Saturday: I thought that Russia had lost the war edition
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 08:59am 14 0
Public service announcement for non-European readers:
From:Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - 10-29-2022
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 03:16am 1 0
Years ago I could watch RT, Press TV, or Al Jazeera on satellite
From:Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - 10-29-2022
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 03:06am 1 0
Being from Hawai‘i, I find all the U.S. and German oinking about
From:News Dump Saturday: I thought that Russia had lost the war edition
lotlizard Sun, 10/30/2022 - 02:09am 1 0
“Washington’s plan to break up Russia” (Mike Whitney)
From:Tragedy Unfolding in Europe
lotlizard Fri, 10/28/2022 - 03:17am 1 1 Fri, 10/28/2022 - 05:54am
What are Audubon’s sins against “the Successor Ideology”?
From:10/24 - United Nations Day
lotlizard Wed, 10/26/2022 - 02:34am 1 2 Wed, 10/26/2022 - 12:12pm
Yes! Look at the Korean war — officially a U.N. ”police action”…
From:10/24 - United Nations Day
lotlizard Wed, 10/26/2022 - 02:20am 1 1 Wed, 10/26/2022 - 11:42am
Blaming one’s staff a.k.a. “the servants” a.k.a. “the help”…
From:All we are saying --
lotlizard Tue, 10/25/2022 - 03:30pm 1 0
Two Dutch kids’ songs about saying farewell to a beloved cat
From:Sadness
lotlizard Tue, 10/25/2022 - 10:32am 1 1 Tue, 10/25/2022 - 10:48am
Just saw that the Waukesha Christmas parade trial is in progress
From:The Evening Blues - 10-20-22
lotlizard Fri, 10/21/2022 - 04:47am 1 0
Stock-trader guy’s experience as an intern during 1987 crash
From:The Evening Blues - 10-20-22
lotlizard Fri, 10/21/2022 - 03:20am 1 0
Buffalo Bill is a U.S. folk hero, commemorated on postage stamps
From:The Evening Blues - 10-18-22
lotlizard Tue, 10/18/2022 - 09:26pm 1 1 Tue, 10/18/2022 - 10:58pm
♫ And she’ll have fen fen fen, after NATO takes her dollars away
From:I Can't pronounce Renminbi
lotlizard Tue, 10/18/2022 - 02:30pm 1 0
What are the odds that Boris Johnson makes a comeback?
From:I Can't pronounce Renminbi
lotlizard Tue, 10/18/2022 - 02:26pm 1 2 Tue, 10/18/2022 - 02:40pm
German gov’t won’t tell German voters who blew up Nordstream 1+2
From:The Evening Blues - 10-17-22
lotlizard Tue, 10/18/2022 - 03:55am 1 0
Call Brookings! Those c99%ers are engaging in wrongthink again!
From:Open Thread - 10-14-22
lotlizard Fri, 10/14/2022 - 02:13pm 1 0
For all the complaints about the U.S. electoral college,
From:The Evening Blues - 10-13-22
lotlizard Fri, 10/14/2022 - 05:19am 1 0
Democrats could use their majorities to reinstate Glass-Steagall
From:Tulsi Gabbard makes a bit of news
lotlizard Thu, 10/13/2022 - 12:50am 1 1 Thu, 10/13/2022 - 06:00am

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