Recent content by Grandma Bates

One of the things I find frustrating from those sort of articles is the focus on off repercussions rather than big, immediate issues. In this case a bigger story is that Scottsdale did nothing about an irresponsible community until it was forced by new state regulations to define contingency...

I briefly lived in Utah and saw so much of this kind of nonsense that as soon as I started reading the article I assumed that there was more going on. The Mountain West is clearly going through many changes, and it is entering a dry period that will require massive changes. As long as there have...

The Guardian article sounds relatively sympathetic to the people of Rio Verde Foothills with only one line about how the people there did nothing despite prior warnings: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/rio-verde-foothills-getting-creative-after-losing-water-source The people of Rio Verde...

Trump tried to sue Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee for spreading false information about his ties to Russia. The lawsuit was tossed, and now the judge has sanctioned Trump's legal team who have to pay almost one million dollars including paying for Clinton's legal bills...

https://mastodon.social/@markarayner@mas.to/109631700985685188

Took me a hot second to realize that this is parody. (Warning: offensive and tasteless holocaust reference.) https://mastodon.social/@AvvieLanche/109690011157303415

Sorry to hear of your troubles Cristiano. I hope you will be feeling better soon. If there is anything I can do please let me know. It is also good to have the site back. I kinda missed you all and was wondering if there was a way to keep contact. I did not realize how much this place meant to...

Col. Macgregor is an experienced war fighter with an impressive list of military accomplishments. Once you look past that, though, he is a hot mess of prejudice and anger. He has advocated for extrajudicial execution of people trying to cross the southern US border, said that the Russian army...

Finding new and ever more creative ways to abuse: https://mastodon.social/@Judith_IP/109583968564519230

I did not realize this, but when Hahn published his work on fission, which led to a Nobel prize, he did not include Lise Meitner as a co-author on their shared work. Dr. Meitner did the theoretical work which described the results of Hahn's experiments...

You dirty liberal commies and your war on Thingamabob. I hope you are all warm and safe and unable to destroy our way of life with your tolerance and charity towards others.

The folks who claim there was a vast conspiracy to commit fraud during the last US Presidential election may have left a trail of evidence of their efforts to conspire to lie about their efforts to overturn the election: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-is?sd=pf

He knows exactly how they work. People give him money and get nothing in return except bragging rights, hand waving, and meaningless letters and numbers. This is an idea he is intimately familiar with and yugely experienced with their manipulation. He also knows how to explain in a way that...

Found at https://at.tumblr.com/inthefallofasparrow/703116392365490176/kdkv6l7coh0l Makes the perfect gift when waging war on Christmas: President Donald Trump Prank Puzzle (but sadly sold out.)

Some of the people that were dismissed from Twitter are claiming that they have not received the benefits they were promised. Some appear to have lost patience and have started to push for what they were promised: https://mastodon.social/@AkivaMCohen@mastodon.sdf.org/109441893372545082...