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We got them both last time around. One of the arms was a bit more sore than the other (can't remember which was which). Neither one of us suffered any ill effects.

He has majorities in both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court in his pocket. Please explain to me like a third grader how it won't pass if he wants it.

So, the people who insist it’s necessary to have an ID to vote don’t think it’s important for someone to have a background check to become the director of national intelligence? Do I have that right? Really, if a Democrat President-Elect tried the same stunts Republicans would begin impeachment proceedings before the inauguration

If we're still doing election autopsies, this is about a good as anything else out there https://www.publicnotice.co/p/anna-gifty-kamala-harris-glass-cliff Once again for emphasis While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all.

Another reason to give The Bird the bird https://x.com/therickwilson/status/1857797227659337751?s=61&t=akgNyUltuSb7RN54lulxTw edit Has anyone tried deactivating their account? I keep getting a "something is wrong" message. The "something wrong"is the megalomaniac owner

Today's JVL. For those old enough to remember standing in line to get the polio vaccine on sugar cubes, days before heart, kidney, lung, etc surgery. Knee transplants were not out patient procedures. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/vaccine-politics-and-american-decadence?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email The Trump crime family wants to take us back to those days again. This is one time I'm glad I'm older and can see the end.

It's amazing how stuff accumulates. We did a major purge in the Spring in time for the neighborhood yard sale. Looking around the garage lately and there's still a ton that needs to go. Especially a ton of sheet music that's doubtful. We'll ever use (I'll keep a few "fake books"). I may have to start researching local schools or groups who could use them.

That one almost make sense since he's from North Dakota. Another big business billionaire. Drill baby, drill!,!

The other issue, at least around here seems that the older long time farmers have either retired or died off, their heirs either have no interest in carrying on the tradition or have moved out of the area. They're left with lots of land they're paying taxes on, not producing anything and a portion of the population dead set against new subdivisions, industry or anything else unless it's a WAWA or a BUC-EES

If you look back and remember how farmers in the US struggled under Trump's tariffs last time around. This could be much worse. I have no problem attempting to get people to eat healthier and understand the problems with process foods. It just seems that the administration will have a huge problem on their hands trying to dictate to Big Foods.

It's not even going to the Senate. The cowards will bend and adjourn so we can have permanent acting fools in charge

Sri Lanka tried RFK Jr.'s food plan, and it was catastrophic. Productivity plummeted, causing food shortages, skyrocketing prices, lost exports, and an economic collapse. Farmers faced huge losses, forcing the government to reverse the ban and import costly emergency food. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/

I don't know, he's been pushing for adjournment appointments. Basically, the Senate adjourns and he names them without hearings. He wants to make them "acting Secretaries with no oversite" Since the Trumpublicans control both houses of Congress, he may get his own way.

My wife picked up the Piano Note courses a while back. I may think about trying it out again. My biggest problem is thinking in both treble and bass cleft at the same time and hands doing different things. Unlike wind instruments where you mostly think linearly.

I'm curious whether the Yankees' single A team will share the stadium. Possible a morning schedule of home games when the schedule with the Rays collide.

Looks like the butterfly is having some growing pains today. Keep getting "not enough resources" messages

This is brilliant... https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3QW8HbmU8_odkp98DubwKgmCY39vzfLsJPFv_4PUuyBe5kxHDRfqQ43iY_aem_SSKp93wujTTVNVXfi_6UKA

I was thinking Education, but since they're shuttering that position. HUD may be the next best fit

All I can envision is bread and TP lines

Congratulations, keep up the work. A few years ago after a trip to Ireland where we discovered Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland my wife decided she needed to get back into music. She had played violin thru high school and college but life intervened as it almost always does. She got the violin out of the closet and joined a local orchestra. That lead to the founding of another orchestra (Spectrum Orchestra in the Farmington Hills/Birmingham area). For a while she had a blog called Midlife Musicians chronicling the return to music in late middle age. The result of her efforts led me to take up the saxophone (I played clarinet in high school but drooped it soon after) I had always wanted to try the sax so when she decided she wanted a grand piano I got the sax. Which led me to lessons and search for a group to play with. The first group was part of an organization called New Horizons for Music, founded by a professor at Eastman School for Music in NY. The program caters to older adults who either played or wanted to learn to play an instrument (mostly concert bands nationwide). Because of New Horizons, I got to attend "Band Camp" at Interlochen , and a couple more places. A combination of dental issues and COVID has reduced my playing time along with a dearth of concert bands in our new area. I plunk a bit on the piano we have (nice that the electronic ones have headphones) and play the sax a bit in the garage. Maybe I need to spend time there working up some stuff for the holidays,

I looked it up. 1983 Reinsdorf threatened to move the team to St Petersburg if he didn’t get a new stadium. The Illinois legislature caved at the last minute. Ive always called the current Sox Park Comiskey II

Somebody needs to do a deep dive investigation on whether Musk is in the country legally. I've seen reports he and his brother may have lied on their papers.

As did whomever owned the White Sox pre Comiskey II. I'm assuming it was Reinsdorf.

Clock or time-bomb? (between the election and spouse's knee replacement surgery, That ticking could just be me

Maybe we need to transition to a post election thread. Anyway... Tom Nichols (radio freedom)