12 responses to “Tabby Thursday”

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   Scott

   July 31, 2025 at 11:04 am

   In the 1930s it was the Italian and Irish immigrants that were primarily coming to the US, and they definitely did help build the Empire State Building. They just weren’t brown. He’s letting his racism show, as usual.

   And don’t forget the Mohawk Skywalkers

   Mohawk skywalkers is a nickname for Mohawk ironworkers and other construction workers who have helped construct buildings and bridges in American and Canadian cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Mohawk workers have contributed to the construction of iconic structures across North America including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, the CN Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the United Nations Building, and the Twin Towers. Mohawk volunteers and workers contributed to both rescue efforts at Ground Zero and the rebuilding of the new World Trade Center.

   The over 140-year history of Mohawk involvement in ironwork dates to the 1880s, when Mohawk workers from Canada and upstate New York began to travel to major cities across North America. In the 1920s, Mohawk families from Canada formed the ethnic enclave of “Little Caughnawaga” in Brooklyn, as many Mohawk ironworkers were employed in the construction of skyscrapers in Manhattan. According to the Journal of American Indian Education, Mohawk culture values “physical bravery” and the ethic of taking risks for the greater good of the people. In the 21st century, Mohawk workers remain involved in high-rise and bridge construction.

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   Eusebio

   July 31, 2025 at 11:23 am

   @Scott:
   And that many of those being arrested, detained, and deported have, unlike Miller, significant indigenous American ancestry.

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   gVOR10

   July 31, 2025 at 11:42 am

   Re the covered wagon {tweet, X, Xit, twixt, whatever we’re supposed to call them}, for some reason I see that mural fairly often. She always looks like she has two right legs.

   And I’m sure all the people on those wagons and trains and stagecoaches had parents who presented proof of citizenship at the hospital per Trump’s new “natural born” citizenship draft policy.

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   gVOR10

   July 31, 2025 at 11:45 am

   @Eusebio: Yeah. If we wanted to have a white nationalist nation, maybe we shouldn’t have stolen half of Mexico, complete with Mexicans.

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   Kathy

   July 31, 2025 at 11:50 am

   Yeah, the Empire State Building went up during the Great Depression. The Moon landings* took place at the height of America’s involvement in Vietnam. That’s what not having immigrants does to your country: war and economic ruin.

   Fight sophistry with logical sophistry.

   *Does this moron know there was more than one landing on the Moon? I’m amazed how many people write off Apollos 12 through 17

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   Jay L. Gischer

   July 31, 2025 at 12:25 pm

   I have to say, the investigation of wire transfers to Epstein does not seem likely to be fruitful. Paying Epstein for sexual adventures with wire transfers is kinda like paying for porn with a credit card.

   …

   Huh. Maybe there is something there.

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   Michael Cain

   July 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm

   The Navy and NOAA have agreed to continue collecting and distributing the satellite data, at least for a while. One problem here is that the three satellites in question are long past their design life, and of a design that is prone to explode if not shut down soon enough.

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   Jay L. Gischer

   July 31, 2025 at 12:35 pm

   If it were up to me, I would continue to allow the MAGA social media scene lead on the Epstein thing. Maybe just poking things once in a while.

   That’s because the psychology is better. I mean, if you could drop hints that you are worried about what it might expose about Bill Clinton, so much the better. (Hint: I don’t think that procurement of any form interested Bill in the slightest. His whole thing was that he could persuade a woman to be sexual with him on his own. And a child would be too easy. That’s my take anyway.)

   Of course, there would be countless numbers of Democratic supporters calling one “weak” and “feckless” for doing this.

   Sometimes the best thing to do *is*, in fact, nothing.

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   Mr. Prosser

   July 31, 2025 at 2:50 pm

   @Jay L. Gischer: Maybe just poking things once in a while. That is what Wyden is doing. As you say, nothing may come of it but keep stirring the pot.

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    Gustopher

    July 31, 2025 at 5:27 pm

    @Jay L. Gischer: But would he turn down something readily available?

    I can cook up a pretty ok meal, but I’ll still get delivery.

    My general assumption with Bill Clinton has been that there are few moral depths he wouldn’t leave unexplored if he thought they were safe. The man gives me the creeps, and I have no idea why anyone says he’s so personable or charming or whatever. He’s such an extraordinary phoney and fraud, and so few Democrats seem to be able to see it at a glance.

    During the primaries in 1992, he travelled back to Arkansas to hang out for the execution of a mentally impaired man who saved the dessert from his last meal so he could eat it later. And by “hang out” I mean that he did nothing, but was in the state, to look tough on crime.

    All I can say to his credit is that Clinton didn’t head down to the prison to eat that slice of pie. (That we know of)

    On Pedophile Island, I fully expect that Clinton would say “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

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    Michael Reynolds

    July 31, 2025 at 7:25 pm

    Am I the only person who did not realize the cell doors on the famous minus-one-minute tape, were not Epstein’s? Epstein was up a set of stairs, and there was plenty of room, even setting aside the disappeared minute, for a man or men to walk just out of camera range, climb the stairs, and murder Epstein at leisure.

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    Eusebio

    July 31, 2025 at 9:18 pm

    @Gustopher:
    A couple of things about Clinton, but first… If he was involved in the abuse of children, then let that be known and let him face whatever consequences can be brought to bear. And I think very few people would disagree with that.

    However, I thought there was no evidence that he ever went to Pedophile Island.

    And as for having “no idea why anyone says he’s so personable or charming or whatever,” it may depend on what your definition of “is” is, since he’s been an adult for 60 years.

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