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2020-11-18 09:41 pm

Glowing like String Cheese

So, unscientific poll by local, soft-leftish newspaper shows that 53% of their readership don't believe that Biden won.

Wisconsin vote tallies.
It's not hard to see why. Here's the New York Times record of how the votes were tallied on election night in Wisconsin.

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Cat translator app.

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree comes with free Christmas Owl included.

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Back in 2001, when the Endless War started, I opined that we'd do far better to keep ground troops out of it, and just send heavy bombers to saturate the Taliban-held villages at unpredictable intervals, so that nothing moved that wasn't blown by the wind. I still think that.
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2018-07-22 11:45 pm

Zimbabwean Election!

So, Zimbabwean election: You're not allowed to bring gryphons *or* magic owls to the polls, which seems kinda discriminatory to me. Guns're okay, though. Also, ghosts can't vote.

Apparently vuvuzelas are okay too.
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2018-06-27 01:45 am
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'Twas then I heard the Kaiser say...

So, somebody tried to blow up the President of Zimbabwe. He suspects politics may have been involved. If he ever tires of being POTZ, he definitely has a career as a detective waiting for him.

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I can honestly say that never in my life have I even once thought of offering or accepting payment in owls.

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Frederick II owned a book about birds that shows the first depiction of a cockatoo. That's a remarkably lifelike depiction of a cockatoo for 1248. It is, for instance, much more recognizable as a cockatoo than this is recognizable as Frederick II. I like that he apparently put his best painters to recording his birds. The cockatoo looks friendly, even. I wonder if he could talk? I find that I like the thought of such a great and powerful man relaxing by reading about birds.