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Yep. “Let’s impeach him”. ****. We now had 3 speakers of the house in 90 minutes and the one who “survived” ended up in prison for molesting little boys. There’s hope yet for Jim Jordan, eh?

I am not glossing over it. I lived it in real time and that’s a major reason why I was a right winger for 25 years. You don’t need to preach to me about Bill Clinton. But compared to what’s happening now that’s peanuts. He was rightfully scandalized. That’s what is supposed to happen. All of that would be in the “afterthought” section in a book about Donald Trumps transgressions. You look at the grifting today and read up on whitewater and see amounts in 4 and 5 figures. My point is our media and perception on what is scandalous has been warped beyond repair.

When you look at Whitewater... it's such small potatoes. Seriously. The scandal responsible for much of the drama in the 1990's.... go research it. It wouldn't even get noticed today. Every person who ever criticized Bill Clinton but supports the current guy is a hypocrite. Trump is Clinton on steroids, super soldier serum, and everything else. He's all of Clinton's flaws multiplied exponentially.

Scott Jennings... LOL

Cruz is not a good source for that kind of crap. and why is the right wing so obsessed with this race? I wish I could put my finger on it... actually I can

I get up at 5 so I feel like a bad fan for turning off the game.... I even hated leaving it when it was tied in the 8th...

probably a response to the clickbait rumors and that generated chatter.

The throw to the plate to get the runner excited me in ways I might be embarrassed to admit.

My algorithm is triggered by Melissa hitting Jamaica. Started last week when the resort I follow started posting stuff. We went for our honeymoon in 1998 and have always said we’d go back for our 10th then our 20th then our 25th… but we always want to go someplace new. Tbese poor peoole.

Working here means you are on the books as working. There's a threshold that you have to be under to still qualify. It's actually less likely because it shows they are going through the proper channels. The fraud examples people like to cite are under disability... because they know a guy who knows a guy who said his cousin is "disabled" but just smokes pot all day. Because of that anecdote then nobody else should qualify either.

69% of people getting SNAP are either children, elderly, or the disabled (my son among the latter). Of the remaining 31%, 70% of those are working. Keep that in mind when you hear the usual chest thumping about "fraud" and "lazy people".

yeah but "both sides are the same"

All you need to know about Leyland is the way he got emotional when the team won the division in 2011, after the city went through the recession and bankruptcy and all that... he grew up in a very blue collar world so he understood the city. He just started talking and realizing what he said and he started to choke up... that's character. Then he danced with the fellas in the celebration. I remember the first time I saw him with the Pirates... "hey, it's Harry Dean Stanton!"

About 6 weeks ago this guy started getting sick and throwing up. Then he stopped eating. A bunch of tests and few thousand dollars later we still don’t know what it was. Doctor thought it was addisons disease which would have meant forever treatment. It wasn’t. She knew of a parasite with similar symptoms so we treated it as if it were that. I swear at one point I figured we were going to lose him. I had already told myself that. He was on prednisone and going out every hour. One night he’d just go out there and lay down. I had to put his leash on to simulate a walk and that got him back in. He would only eat chicken if we made it and barely any at that. Then one day he finally ate a half serving of his food. A few days later he was back to his normal diet and routine and now he’s better than ever. I was feeling guilty over not taking him for enough walks. Sunday is our long run day but with the freep half marathon last week and our post race massages, which is worse for us physically than the race itself, we decided to walk our route today and take him with us. He loved it. Out in the woods and taking in all the smells. He’s been sleeping since. Dogs rule!

I didn’t understand the point there. Is it to justify Islamophobia after 9/11? Like if a Muslim says they had a hard time afterwards we just say “shut up”? That’s the bigotry so I guess we can add that to the list of adjectives. I certainly don’t anticipate a response because the right on this site are intellectual cowards.

I remember when these rednecks killed a Sikh after 9/11 because they were too ignorant to know the difference.

Dip****s proudly voted for this.

I’ve seen references to that. on that subject. I grabbed this off the Insta today

I miss that. We had one guy who grilled hot dogs and had beer for the adults. I know it ranks below ball park hot dogs, everything does, but I think trick or treating hot dogs are higher than Home Depot hot dogs.

I used AI all day today at work. I’m finally taking the plunge to use Alteryx, 7 years after taking the initial few hours of training and forgetting it . My job has gotten a lot less technical over the years, more strategy and decision making and delegating, but I still run regular SQL based queries that I wrote 15 years ago and still create new, yet relatively simple ones. No need to learn how to do it via a workflow instead of the 90 seconds it will take me to make my own. So I used our internal AI tool to ask it question as I figured out the different ways to do these things. It was very helpful. On the old days I would ask Google and then spend all that time wading thru sites. This cut thru all that crap and saved so much time. And being able to ask questions based on your previous one is so important. Having the conversation. “I don’t see that anywhere” is what I told it today and it totally knew what I meant and gave me ann answer. That’s where I left today. I still didn’t see what it was referring to and I honestly can’t wait for Monday to follow up with it. then I spent tonight using to see if Geddy Lee was at game 1 tonight. ChatGPT has strict standards for proof. It went thru 4 layers of searching and found lots and lots of evidence that he wpuld be and was but would not commit fully since it did not see a screen grab with a timestamp or the LAD reference visible. I asked Grok was he was like “oh yeah. Some dude on X who has rush in his handle saw him”. I didn’t care that much but was interested in what it would take for them to say it. I just went back to check again and they’re like “nope, not yet”. That’s literally what it said.

I like cooking them myself. I got a Weber last year and a griddle top and frankly, I've not used racks since then. I should have just bought a blackstone. The best chicken I've ever made is cooked on that. I usually cook them all on Sunday then we have have it for the rest of the week for whatever purpose comes up.

We don't use delivery but the pickup and mostly only on non perishables. Soups, pastas, sauces, etc. Anything fresh we try to get from our local market, not a chain. The only thing I can't get her to budge on is she buys chicken breasts in the large packages because at the local place it's "too expensive". Trouble is I spend 15 minutes hacking them up because they are machine cut and there's always some bone and tendons and gristle still on. I tried showing her how much I cut off and the weight to balance the cost but that's a battle I won't win.

I was in Canada for about 40 minutes on Sunday. Ran over the bridge, up Riverside then back through the tunnel. The boarder guys in Canada are great. They high five you and cheer you on. The people in Windsor are fun too. The border guys in the US are what you'd expect. They look like they hate their jobs and hate you. People were having fun and that's not allowed in the US anymore.

"wrong within normal parameters"... as I like to often quote PJ O Rourke when he announced his support of Hillary Clinton in 1996. Until Trump came along the US was still going in the same general direction. Now that's all gone. Trump, especially Trump 2.0 has reversed that. To be a conservative/Republican today, if you called yourself one 20 years ago, is a direct contradiction. The party and platform is simply indefensible.