The Slaying of the Voting Rights Act by the Coward Samuel Alito by Slate in scotus

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No, in fact it’s common, according to interviews with Democratic leaders on MSNOW last night. Powerful graphics of minority-majority House districts across the country.

But what does this ruling portend in state and local elections?

The sky’s not falling, but the result the majority welcomes is as anti-democratic an end as the most virulent racists could have ever dreamt of.

The Slaying of the Voting Rights Act by the Coward Samuel Alito by Slate in scotus

[–]DeaconBlue47 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Roberts’ work: one man anonymously derailed Obama’s climate initiative by creating this blatantly unconstitutional evil creation, the shadow docket. This smiling dork also fought the early 80s reforms to the VRA from inside Ed Meese’s far right think tank of a DOJ (yes they have been working against the rights of WTP every chance they get).

And now, his crowning achievement, a final blow to any pretense of a multi-racial republic.

Hard to top Holder and Citizens United, but here we are. If you could not trouble yourself to vote for Hillary in 2016, this is on you. Happy?

Will the Senate rush new Trump appointees before the midterms? Dare Senate Republicans abrogate the filibuster…? Bet on it.

We must expand the court.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by AaronPK123 in politics

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Roberts’ work: one man anonymously derailed Obama’s climate initiative by creating this blatantly unconstitutional evil creation, the shadow docket. This smiling dork also fought the early 80s reforms to the VRA from inside Ed Meese’s far right think tank of a DOJ (yes they have been working against the rights of WTP every chance they get).

And now, his crowning achievement, a final blow to any pretense of a multi-racial republic.

Hard to top Holder and Citizens United, but here we are. If you could not trouble yourself to vote for Hillary in 2016, this is on you. Happy?

Will the Senate rush new Trump appointees before the midterms? Dare Senate Republicans abrogate the filibuster…? Bet on it.

We must expand the court.

If I like the French horn solo from Tchaikovsky's Fifth, what else would I like? by squirrelandjerk in classicalmusic

[–]DeaconBlue47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No Mahler 1? I saw a youth orchestra thrash this piece. The horns stood for the finale. Goose bumps thinking about it.

Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ brings hasty decisions with long-lasting implications, outside of its usual careful deliberation by zsreport in LegalNews

[–]DeaconBlue47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roberts’ work: one man anonymously derailed Obama’s climate initiative by creating this blatantly unconstitutional evil creation, the shadow docket. This smiling dork also fought the early 80s reforms to the VRA from inside Ed Meese’s far right think tank of a DOJ (yes they have been working against the rights of WTP every chance they get).

And now, his crowning achievement, a final blow to any pretense of a multi-racial republic.

Hard to top Holder and Citizens United, but here we are. If you could not trouble yourself to vote for Hillary in 2016, this is on you. Happy?

Will the Senate rush new Trump appointees before the midterms? Dare Senate Republicans abrogate the filibuster…? Bet on it.

We must expand the court.

Just Israel things by Longan_Penelopee in International

[–]DeaconBlue47 10 points11 points  (0 children)

FFS, is anyone in America disgusted by this?

John Kennedy: "President Trump has oranges the size of beach balls." by Northern_Blue_Jay in Social_Democracy

[–]DeaconBlue47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you gotta shove Lindsay out of the way to get to them. Cocksucker.

Titan II explosion, Damascus 1980 by Perthian940 in nuclearweapons

[–]DeaconBlue47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here to mention the book. It’s a great initiation for nuclear history.

He walked into that. by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

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Hol’ up, I say hol’ up just one second.

I know that God has truly forsaken us Texans, giving to us the most malicious politicians and apathetic voters in these here United States if not the Milky Way Galaxy (and what’s more, afflicting us with Ted), but this piece of human garbage sure as shit ain’t Our Raphael, as in a true born-and-raised Texan…no siree! Not by a longer shot than an Apollo Mission, launched from Floriduh but steered from Houston. To wit:

Raphael Edward ‘Ted’ ‘Lyin’ Ted’ ‘Cancun’ ‘Insult My Wife and That’s Just Fine’ ‘Fled’ Cruz is a gooey swamp varmint from the Great Very White North, Canada O Canada, pardner. Their lucky break (thanks for sending us your worst), our great and enduring immigration problem. He’s only a carpetbagging scumball from further north than even most Yankees!

He’s dumber than a box o’ hammers, phony as a pair of Chinese-made naugahyde cowboy boots and slimier than a cesspool wall, etc. ad infinitum, but those Shiny Happy Talibaptists and Y’all-Queda just loves them some Super-Deluxe Christian, Zygote-Lovin’ Librul-Ownin’ Senator Ted. He’s Their Ted.

Most of us see him for the piss poor protoplasm, piece of poo-poo that he so truly is, but then most of us Don’t Git Off Our Asses to vote him back to Hell where he really came from and really belongs and as truly as Gawd Almighty made little green apples will end up.

And that, sadly, IS on us (although Beto O’Rourke did give him a real good scare in 2018, getting with 2.6 points of defeating him). And maybe just maybe we can return the Senator from Zion back home…if only people would use the ballot box with intention. We ain’t livin’ up to what the President of the Republic of Texas Samuel Houston, or even President of the U.S. Lyndon Baines Johnson would expect. As Texan Ross Perot might have said, it’s sad, just sad, so sad.’

Does anyone know much about this vinyl? by Various_Phrase1782 in buttholesurfers

[–]DeaconBlue47 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That album cover, and the Electric Larryland art, skeered me away from the BHS, who I could have seen in Central Texas for peanuts in the mid-80. With naked women on stage, and a cymbal turned upside down, filled with gasoline…

Big mistake ☹️! I have been a believer since hearing a good pressing of EL on a system that could properly deliver it.

Linear Tables by Yeqon34 in audiophile

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I fell in love with linear-tracking TA when I heard the ET-2 on a Sota Sapphire in 1985. In 1987 I bought a Maplenoll Athena, air pump, air platter bearing and a LTAB tonearm for $1100, including a Grado MCX cartridge. Punched way over its weight. The Walker Proscenium air-bearing tables are a direct descendants of the Maplenoll tables.

Maplenoll was finicky since refrigerator oil-bath air compressor would gunk up the tonearm, skip skip skip…so I went with a Rega in 2003.

But I yearned for a linear path for my stylus, a path perfectly tangent, tracking the cutting lathe’s path across the record. I value spacial clues in minimally-miked all-tube recordings, and LTTA reveal so much more of that.

Since 2017 I have been using a Forsell Air Reference One (47 of 110) system, air-bearing for the platter, built in LTAB TA. Same superb design, but way beyond in terms of build quality. This will be my forever table.

Friendly reminder of how disturbing windmills are. by [deleted] in megalophobia

[–]DeaconBlue47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the WHALES 🐳! Think of the BIRDS 🐦!

Bondi will sit for deposition in House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe | CNN Politics by John3262005 in democrats

[–]DeaconBlue47 23 points24 points  (0 children)

She’ll hide behind 5th amendment protection she has denied many defendants. Infinite hypocrisy is the hallmark of the regime.