Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Walked into a large hotel the other day and there was some kind of board game convention going on. All the people were loudly banging on about how good they are at their game and how quickly they got their last checkmate.

And I thought, ugh, I've had enough of these chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

#ALweather #ALwx
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FXUS64 KMOB 232247 CCA
AFDMOB

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Mobile AL
411 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

...New NEAR TERM, LONG TERM, MARINE...

.NEAR TERM...
(Now through Monday)
Issued at 406 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

A large upper cutoff low will evolve over the central US Sunday night
into Monday, with a potent negatively tilted shortwave ejects over
the lower Mississippi Va https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202312232211-KMOB-FXUS64-AFDMOB-CCA

You know Alabama Senator #Tuberville is just *itching* to say the N-word!
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Tuberville on Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ comments: ‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4367999-tuberville-trumps-poisoning-blood-country-comments-mad-he-wasnt-tougher/

@AlliFlowers @johnettesnuggs @todayilearned

You both have good taste. If I was to believe the old Starkist Commercial, either you have good taste or you taste good.

I'm almost positive that Boebert has/does neither.

When the UK and #France handed over Sudetenland over to Hitler, those negotiations were done without Czechoslovakia. No peace negotiations between #Russia and #Ukraine can be done without Ukraine. Early in the war, when peace feelers were being sent out after Russia's failure to take Kyiv, President Zelensky talked about security guarantees. I can't imagine Ukraine taking any deal that doesn't allow them to continue their pursuit of a NATO membership. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-cease-fire.html

@tomcapuder @riggbeck @lednabwm One of the "rules" of classic rhetoric is that it's impossible to prove universal non-existence of something. Purple unicorns may indeed exist in some galaxy of which we have no information and no way to get that information. Thus to debate something's existence in any meaningful way, the burden of proof falls on the person declaring the existence of something. If something exists there will be empirical evidence of its existence.

We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.

@riggbeck @lednabwm

It is not the job of atheists to prove nonexistence of a god.

Theist = holds a belief in god(s)
A+theist = doesn't

That's all it is. We aren't convinced that YOUR claims are true. If you can't prove 'em, we needn't disprove 'em.

#BurdenOfProof

FBI to review reported threats to Colorado justices following ruling in Trump ballot case | The Hill

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4375033-fbi-review-reported-threats-colorado-justices-trump-ballot-ruling/

#Republicans #hate their own #constituents, and never pass up an opportunity to make their lives more difficult. In #Iowa, they literally want #poor #children to #starve. This isn't hyperbole, either. It's their actual words and policies.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/22/iowa-opts-out-of-ebt-food-program-for-low-income-children-in-summer-eb-usda/72015276007/

#Hamas controls the fate of #palestine like every elected government in every nation on #earth .
@palestine
@israel

"Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said in a column for MSNBC Friday that those threats — which include threats of beheadings and to "slam dunk a judge’s baby into the trashcan" — are only going to keep coming."

"As reported by Figliuzzi, these posts seem more than just idle talk: "Other messages discussed precisely how to kill the justices and other supposed enemies, including using bombs, hollow-point ammunition, rifles and ropes.""

https://www.rawstory.com/colorado-supreme-court-maga/

December 22, 2023- “JN.1—a new, highly mutated COVID variant—could cause one of the largest U.S. waves yet, experts say.” -https://fortune.com/well/2023/12/22/jn1-covid-variant-largest-wave-us/

Lucy can't even look 😂

@MichelleRNCHPN

Oof!

"Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch. "

Any of these characters remind you anyone at your celebratory dinners? This video is a gem. https://youtu.be/vhg7Xm4FXAY?si=8WxZmeYF78G5z8X2
#Xmas #celebrate #Food #fedidogs #fedicat #Dinner