The longest filibuster in US history! Give it up for the Garden State’s Democratic Senator, Cory Booker – 25 hours and 5 minutes on the floor!
Finally Some Fire’: Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home
How he prepared for the record breaking speech.
The National Constitute Center says that “a public debate [has] started about whether his marathon appearance should count as a true filibuster, or instead as just a long speaking appearance. Most likely, based on the rules of the Senate and tradition, Booker’s efforts will count as the latter, and not as included in the list of classic Senate filibusters” (Booker could not block or obstruct the vote on Whitaker’s nomination from happening, which is one of the key goals of any filibuster, due to the Senate having previously voted to invoke cloture for the nomination vote for Whitaker as NATO ambassador.)
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Are we to allow the humans to get a piece of the Immortal’s body? It appears that IT pretends that its body is losing sight as it ages. The humans have devised a way to gain access to a part of his eye. They want to test the regenerative power of his eyes to repair macular degeneration of the human eye, and ITs regenerative ability to repair the lens when they experience cataract damage.
We are aware of a scheme to get the Immortal to allow them to replace a lens in his eye do to “cataract” damage. They intend to remove the lens, but not replace it with anything. It is their belief that the Immortal’s eye will repair itself by growing an entirely new lens on its own.
Whether that will occur or not is not the issue. The issue here is whether we should allow the humans to get their hands on the Immortal’s lens. If we are given the Okay to possess a part of the Immortal’s body, then we will prepare to freeze the event and take the actual lens when the humans remove it and replace it with a replica of our own.
We will, of course, allow other interested parties to share in the testing of the regenerative powers of the Immortal’s lens. Even if the lens cannot help us since we do not share a similarity of sight with humans, the human should not be allowed to benefit from regenerative powers of the Immortal.
We have been attempting to track the Immortal for the entire nine years that we have been inside the Gate. IT travels between Planes, Dimensions, and perhaps other places we don’t have the technology to observe or understand. The Immortal is our “ocean.” It is so vast and deep that we have only discovered a bit of Its surface.
Do not be so sure that what you are observing is what is actually happening. The Immortal has been surviving among us mortals forever. While it may appear that the Immortal does not care what the humans do, or learn from the form IT occupies on Earth, we cannot be sure this is the case or even if the form IT allows them to test is real.
Not long ago, several of us thought that we were testing parts of the Immortal until we realized that we were doing so with different, and the same parts at the same time. Hence we were not. The Immortal may move between Times as easily as we move between distances. As we are not affected by the distance we traverse, the Immortal is not affected by Time IT traverses. Being at the same or a different place at the same time may be a natural state for IT.
The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole by mortals may not fit the Immortal because that is our conception of time. Time has a direct impact on every mortal’s existence whether the immortal is aware of it or not.
Time has no such meaning to the Immortal. IT can choose to ignore Time because nothing will change for it because of the elapse of time. We want to extend our existence to a length with is meaningless to IT. What does a thousand, a million, or even a billion years mean to IT? Thus IT probably doesn’t care what we learn from the various forms it takes. One day IT will tire of us an move on.
one of the smartest comments I’ve read
“ One day IT will tire of us a move on.”All the reason to examine IT while we have a chance.
Yes, that should be an imperative. The humans have devised a way to get a bone marrow sample of IT. Now that they know that he can regenerate his finger with the injury that he was told he had to the finger, they will stop at nothing to get more from IT.
When you finish paying for you android phone and ask for it to be unlocked, you think that you own that phone think again. Android phones ship with something called the “Play Integrity API” that tells apps “don’t trust this user,” if they’ve rooted or unlocked the phone.
Just another for the corps to keep you paying for something you have already paid for.
Manufacturers realized they can sell more accessories if they take away the ports, and it’s cheaper to waterproof phones without removable batteries. Android phones now are just sealed slabs with a USB-C port.
To repair an Android phone today, you need years of training and a specialized toolset. The phones are sealed shut with an unmodular design that makes it impossible to swap out a single broken component without replacing others as well.
In true Apple fashion, some manufacturers like Samsung push “authorized repair” and restrict or disable features if they detect unauthorized repairs. Samsung even forces repair shops to “disassemble” phones brought to them that have aftermarket parts (not purchased from Samsung). Imagine leaving your phone at the repair shop and coming back to find it destroyed.
Good Lord, don’t REWARD Apple when
1) Most of this lost-goodness is directly Apple’s fault. They forced customers to pay hundreds for built in storage rather than allowing SD cards, took away headphone jacks, for years had sub-par internals yet charged premiums “because aluminum”, and have always had that walled-garden approach where “They don’t share what they are doing with my data, so it must be secure!” black-box approach.
Now because the Luddites would follow a “genius bar” hipster off a cliff, of course other companies want that kind of loyalty. Don’t REWARD that!
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2) Apple as a company is about as immoral and boycott-worthy as any Walmart, Chick-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, Trump-pire, Tesla, or any other group that should make your skin crawl to look at, much less donate your hard earned money to.
From the beginning, Steve Jobs was a terrible person hell-bent on exploiting customers who didn’t know better – the “if it costs more it must be better” luddites. He famously told his own daughter she’d never get a penny of his money. He wouldn’t even put license plates on his car, when his Mercedes(plural) got impounded he’d buy another – IN YOUR FACE, peon workers. No charitable donations under him – back then.
Their cash pile grew to ‘merely’ a mass sufficient to counterbalance ALL the “stimulus checks” disbursed to bring the economy back from several recessions. Today? It’s laughably worse. It’s a drain on the country, effecting a braking force on the USA (economic health is measured in circulation)… all while Foxconn factories installed suicide nets to catch workers throwing themselves off roofs, and Apple created a false foreign “headquarters” to avoid paying taxes – pushing even MORE tax burden on US citizens – who in return are MORE than happy to stand in lines for the next iPhone, pay higher dollars for apps that Apple mandates a 30% fee for despite not coding a single line in any of them – BUT software vendors HAVE no alternative option like sideloading.
Once again the whiteboy uses his power to dis women. UConn coach Geno Auriemma’s diatribe last week about the scheduling nightmare of this tournament has stuck with me. For this entire stretch, the men’s tournament games have been staggered one day ahead of the women’s. Now, they flip: women’s Final Four tonight, men’s Final Four tomorrow, etc. It’s a ratings play, of course, but it still leaves the women’s teams — who are supposed to lead this collective into new financial heights — with more travel and less rest than the men’s side.
You nailed it. The whiteboy is all about promoting themselves. They manage to fuck the Women’s title game too. Sunday’s title game? Not even in prime time, as Richard Deitsch points out in a column this morning. Viewership numbers keep rising and yet the sport’s decision makers keep treating it like a secondary product. The numbers are great without Clark, by the way. So why is the most important game played at 3 p.m. ET on a Sunday on ABC, when the channel’s actual prime-time lineup includes … “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “American Idol”?
Really enjoyed watching Warriors last night. Lakers came in with a plan to out physical the Warriors. Dubs matched the physicality and in some cases was the more physical team. Warriors can beat this version of the Lakers in a seven game series. Podz, Moody and Kuminga all made major contributions. Other than the two dumb fouls, Gui Santos is doing a lot of little things to help Warriors. Quinton Post is an asset going forward. I thought the Warriors would go 3-1 in the stretch starting with Memphis. Looking forward to tonights game against the Nuggets. They have a great chance to beat Denver, then the Rockets. Go Dubs!
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Republicans resort to belittling the people who disagree with them rather than addressing the substance of the disagreement.
I like the theory from these aliens that the “Immortal” is responsible for life in the Universe. Most of these other theories is speculative at best. We have never discovered microbes in asteroids, meteors, or comets. We have discovered organic molecules that are the building blocks of life, but that doesn’t mean they have a biological origin (rather than being the same feedstock that allowed life on Earth to start).
Panspermia is an interesting theory, and one that I personally find intriguing, but takes more than imagining things to make it a scientific theory (theory in science meaning a well-substantiated explanation backed up by the preponderance of evidence).
I think that all of you should leave that Immortal alone. What has he done to warrant such deviousness from everyone? It is bad enough that he must lead a very sad life since he knows any friend he has will die. How can he trust anyone if they know that he is immortal? All anyone would want is something from him, more life, or something.
I would like to think that if he were a friend of mine that I would be a good friend without pressuring him to do something for me. To me, it would be like walking around with God. I wouldn’t expect him to be too holy, after all life to him has a different meaning. But I would enjoy hearing the memories he has about his experiences.
Yeah, man like the 12 apostles. I would bask in his wisdom or just feel lucky that I know something no one else knows. I agree, he must be very lonely. Our life lines seem long to us until we are reaching its end. That’s when we think life is too short. I wonder if he judges his lifeline by the lifelines of those he befriends.
If he can see the future does he know when his friend(s) will die? That would be a terrible burden for me, Looking at my friend everyday knowing when he/she were going to die.
On the topic of what to do about the suits that are more a replica of the alien rather than the humans they are impersonating, this needs to be addressed. Since the alien’s body converts methane to acetate which the alien uses as energy, the suit have to be altered.
Gut bacteria from humans produces methane gas. In those aliens it produces acetate. If you can find a way to add a sweet smell to the farts and insure that they don’t make aware their increased strength, you may get permission to stay on Earth longer.
Your volte-face is astonishing.
Forsooth, and we didn’t think you were listening.
Yes, we were. It’s refreshing to also notice that esprit de l’escalier never effects you.
And you want to have a temblor strike where in the “Bay-Area?”
Oh, my litterateur, please.
We are not that bad. Just bill us and we will certainly add a pourboire of 20%.
Oh, kiss my sitzfleisch.