I’m slowly moving my collection over to Songbook Pro. It isn’t perfect, but you can search ultimateguitar’s tabs and save them locally.

It’s incredible how quickly it loads a page of text (when comparing to UG’s pathetically terrible app experience). And I’ve never had it CTD because I dared to open a saved song.

I don’t know why it takes 45 seconds every time it needs to update the screen.

I’ll try to douse the flames if it comes to it.

Relevant quote:

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

On War, by U.S General Smedley Butler (1933)

The fix for this should be simple: EBT funds should only be accessible in the state where the card was issued.

The solution to robbing from poor people should not be robbing them of more of their benefit.

I’d rather a hundred people get benefits they “don’t need” than have one person go without the support they require.

Not that it’s even happening, but even if it were I really wouldn’t care even a little bit. And furthermore, food stamp benefits are pathetic in the US.

Absolutely. We’ve pretty much shown that having a nuclear weapon is the only deterrent that matters to the US. They’d be stupid if they didn’t rush to acquire them.

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I should really visit France sometime. Sounds fantastic.

About $2.5 million.

The only way to settle this is a machete fight.

What a stupid piece of shit. How surprising that she became a cop.

The dirty pigs tried to intimidate her in the courtroom, too:

The trial took place at the Fairhope Civic Center, home to the city council chamber and — on the first and third Wednesday of every month — municipal court. Outside the building, dozens of people gathered to support Gamble, while a small army of cops stood watch from inside.

Dude-bro really thought he was the morality police. Fuckin’ scumbag.

[…] In his body camera footage, Babb repeatedly scolds Gamble for the costume, demanding to know how she would explain it to his kids. “I’m not trying to violate your freedom of speech,” he says as he unzips the penis suit. “I’m trying to preserve a town that has values.” Now McDowell was conjuring an alternate reality in which Gamble had teetered precariously at the edge of the road, endangering motorists, while the protest itself was veering close to a riot.

It’s kind of amazing how this is all coming together at the same time for Alex: getting his life’s “work” bought out from under him while Trump cuts him out of the alt-rot movement altogether. I’m curious how it’s all going to go.

Someone in the meeting then reportedly mentioned the Avignon Papacy to Pierre. This refers to a 14th century attack on the Vatican by the French king, in which Pope Boniface VIII was murdered by assassins and the Vatican was forced to relocate to Avignon where it could be controlled by the French crown for the next 67 years.

FTA

Oh, for sure. It’d have been useful information to communicate!

But telling kids to wear two condoms is insane even by American South standards.

I didn’t go to a “religious school,” but I did attend public high school in Texas.

Our health teacher was a coach, and he went over sex education. One day he said that condoms don’t eliminate risk from STDs, they just reduce it by about half. Even wearing two condoms doesn’t really eliminate the risk, it just reduces it by another 50%, so you’ve still got a 25% chance of getting something.

I was a pretty naïve kid, but even I knew that was fucking stupid.

My dad became a Christian Nationalist, but he loved Jim Croce when I was growing up.

He really liked the song Which Way Are You Going, but true to the song he’s got “one hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun.” It could have been written about him, but he still thinks he’s the pinnacle of righteousness.

“I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake I made,” he said. “It definitely is the opposite of the values of the Foundation and the goals of the Foundation.”

It’s not though. The foundation is a way to spread his influence, bolster his ego, and pay less in taxes. Wasn’t that why he was pals with the pedo kingpin?

The piece of shit got his ego rocked.