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Discussion: Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

DaveSchmidt said:

Was listening to her classic 1972 album with her Howard classmate Donny Hathaway just this weekend.

https://apnews.com/article/roberta-flack-dies-61ad9755cc7b4f37b29884adc49c9340

I can't even tell you how many times I've listened to Killing me softly...  One of my all-time favorites.

Thank you Ms Flack.  =((

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Discussion: The Rain and Snow Thread

Monday February 24th

A calm week ahead, weather-wise

Most of this week will show early signs of spring, with daytime highs in the low 50⁰s today through Thurs and mid 40⁰s Friday. Lows overnight in the 30⁰s

Slight chance of a shower or two tomorrow, and chance of showers Thursday

Keeping an eye on Saturday, but right now there doesn't appear to be a lot to the system

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Discussion: The trans women issue

DaveSchmidt said:

GL2 said:

So how about dropping the interloper accusations and the A,B,C stuff and either drop it or discuss it w/o the territorial crap.

Now that I’ve dropped the unintended interloper accusation, maybe the discussion can return to how anyone is supposed to combat misinformation about transgender participation in sports without raising the temperature or appearing to make too much of it.

It's the rich man's flim flam perpetrated on the rank and file - get people riled up about issues that generally don't have any impact on their lives in any given year and they won't notice you picking your pocket.

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Discussion: Inconsequential Chat

My cat didn't realize he left the tag on his coat.

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Discussion: The Rain and Snow Thread

The system we were watching for Saturday is passing far north of us

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Discussion: The trans women issue

PVW said:

I don't think any of us here work for the DNC or are running anyone's campaign. I don't really know how a campaign should best handle questions around trans people for the sake of maximum electoral benefit. But as regular people on a message board talking to other regular people, free from the burden of worrying over the electoral consequences of our words, I do think it's important and appropriate to insist on the civil rights of everybody. People should be able to their lives in dignity and security, regardless of gender -- to use restrooms meant for their gender, to register for official documents such as passports or drivers licenses using their gender, to be free from having nosy busybodies demanding they justify their existence and identity.

Is that a winning electoral message? I don't know, but while my control over national political outcomes is limited, I do have control over how I treat and stick up for people in my immediate community.

I agree with this. 

It's never a good idea in the long run to oppose a group's civil rights. I mean how ridiculous and frankly mean of Obama does it seem when we recall his opposition to same sex marriage. It was only about 15 years ago it seemed like a good electoral strategy to oppose basic rights for same sex couples. And how does that look now? 

Pretty bad. 

Given the right wingers are going to hammer Democrats with this issue as long as they think it's beneficial to them; what should Democrats do?

Just keep repeating they support civil rights, dignity, safety and privacy for everyone. 

Everyone. 

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Discussion: Need a computer recommendation

jimmurphy said:

I ended up buying a cheap laptop on Amazon. New, Windows 11 Pro, included MS Office, seems plenty fast for my needs. 196 bucks.

just curious what you ended up buying. looks like a great deal with the included software. most lower end laptops I've seen come with Windows 11 Home, which is limited in functionality.

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Discussion: Why are business ads covering MOL comments?

jamie said:

ok, try now.

Lookin’ good.

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Discussion: Columbia High School Musical Information 2025 Please help!

Tickets are in presale. Open to general public starting at noon today. I just clicked on the link Max provided, and another link and another one: https://cur8.com/23361/project/129076

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Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

nan said:

Zelensky beating the elderly and clerical.  

The above post from Saturday morning was the first "video" with the lies about religion, with excerpts from the longer Tucker Carlson interview.

The first picture below is a screenshot from that video, illustrating the narrative, showing a wrecked church, to illustrate their allegations. The second picture below is the image from which the first was taken: "Church personnel inspect damages inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, on July 23, 2023 [Jae C Hong/AP]". As described in this article accompanying the picture: "A Russian air attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed two people and severely damaged a historic Orthodox cathedral. UNESCO condemned the 'brazen' attack as an 'escalation of violence against the cultural heritage of Ukraine'."

So Tucker Carlson's video uses footage of a church damaged by a Russian attack, to illustrate his lies using religion to promote hatred of Ukraine.

And all of this is posted and promoted on social media by people who rely on him.

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