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A friend just put one in his basement rec room. They call the powder 'sand' but it's a mix of things that are softer than beach sand type sand as you don't want it to scratch the table.

Looks right now that getting Maxwell sent up is more than these folks are going to do about anything. And she could have blown them all out of the water and wouldn't either. And now they've apparently sent her to Club Fed. The problem with this whole mess is that there is still way more smoke than fire. They had enough to charge Epstein for a 2nd time, they had enough to give Maxwell 20yrs. The rest is still buried in charges, countercharges and redactions.

I remember seeing that and hoping it might actually be true. Sadly not so much....

I think Gore hurt himself more that Clinton helped or hurt him. His campaign was pretty artless - esp early on. And even the liberal press was writing nice things about W's time in Tx. Plus W caught the afterglow of GHWB's rapid rehabilitation from re-election loser to fondly remembered ex-prez. It certainly never entered my mind that with all the legacy, expertise and connections that W had available to him that he would end up running the most outright incompetent WH since --- probably before Herbert Hoover.

And Nixon just barely edged Humphrey in the popular vote. I think the conventional wisdom is Wallace drained more votes from Nixon than Humphrey, but who really knows? The South was still pretty nominally Democratic at that time so without a favorite son how many of those votes might have gone to Humphrey by habit?

the Presidential nominating system has been like the NBA draft, every reform they have made has produced worse outcomes. Of course, the NBA still has a chance to make changes in a positive direction if they figure them out because they don't also have to cope with Citizen's United.

what else can you expect from a guy with a silly beard? ✂️✂️

If you haven't heard it, last week Vicky Ward was on Fresh Air. She was one of the first investigative journalists to work on Epstein, initially before anyone knew anything about the sexual abuse side. She began to uncover more stuff and Epstein got her reporting on him spiked. At the time for various personal reasons she took her work in a different direction. But one of her interesting holdings is that Epstein had never been into under age girls until he hooked up with Maxwell. In not so many words she's saying it was Maxwell who first cultivated Epstein's proclivities. Doesn't make that much difference in the overall scheme of the larger public issue this has all become and efforts for accountability, but interesting to hear someone who did a lot of earliest research hold that Maxwell was as much or more the driver than Epstein.

fair question. I have no problem with the hammer falling wherever it may on those that covered for any of this in the past. But action can only take place in the present, and someone is in a position to do something about it now. If the past were an adequate excuse for the future we'd all still be caves.

the shoe finally dropped. I hope this becomes an opening for better future outcomes.

that fact that it hasn't happened in the post media campaign age is probably significant. The parties don't like sending retreads into the media mill. Trump is the exception because there was nothing left of his party but him.

To me, when you refuse to act civilly, you forfeit the right to be treated civilly. On an individual level, there may always be an ethical imperative to "turn the other cheek" but for society as whole, the first obligation is to re-establish justice, equity and protection of the powerless, and if accomplishing that requires that those who turned their back on civility be treated uncivilly, so be it. The 'ends' doesn't justify the 'means' is wonderful social theory, but at a societal level it only works when there is a consensus to stay in the system. By definition, the approved rules of constraint in the system may be powerless on those that have taken themselves out of it, while the moral imperative to stop them remains.

well, we've got one guy preventing that from happening. Can this stuff be the one thing that sticks to him with his supporters when nothing else has? Who knows, but judging by how long he's kept the lid on it so far, I'm not holding my breath.

He's still clueless. I'm sure he thinks he's being both noble and clever but all he's really doing is keeping himself irrelevant - which given his ineptitude is probably for the best. I still sort of have sympathy for him having gotten in so far over his head. He clearly didn't have the intellect to manage his own admin and so in multiple areas he became the tool of people he should have thrown out of the oval office. Plus he completely poisoned the well for his brother, who was one of the people that might have been able to help shepherd the GOP back to sanity - had he ever gotten the chance.

pretty shocking really that he was wasting his time in BP just swinging in his happy zone and not trying to increase his plate coverage. What is 'control the zone' about for a hitter other than being able judge and defend more strikes that would otherwise be called against him? This is not the 1st time when I have sensed a disconnect between what Scott Harris says he is building a team to be (controlling the zone) and what Hinch and his coaches seem to be curating on the field (be selective and mash). The second strategy may get you the HRs, but it also gets you behind in the count and too often back to the bench with a K.

Heathkit stuff was rock solid. Probably go another 20yrs. My first rig used a pair of these preamps my dad had built along with a completely home-brew vacuum tube diode power supply he had cooked up to go with them.

I dunno. I think he would be considered a Putz.

only because no-one else has a candidate in mind. Question for the history buffs. Has a candidate ever won the Presidency after losing in the general election as a challenger 4 yrs earlier? (IOW excluding Trump who was running for re-election and lost. Nixon did it 8 years 8 yrs later.)

Marco said it was a new era for world now with Trump and Orban leading the way.

I'd put the odds of Harris getting the nomination at about 15%. That is, within the realm of possibility but not particularly likely.

the thing is, what he he doing there now can't work for any length of time anyway - you can be half in with Trump. A quick survey of the Post Ed Board offerings for the last few days show them almost exactly split down the middle between old style GOP pro free market pieces and velvet glove anti-Admin critiques. That's nowhere good enough for Trump, who just barely tolerates Fox even with their 24/7 sycophancy. So at the end of the day, I'm sure he's not buying himself any useful favor anyway while he continues to drive off his potential reader base, because the Post isn't near MAGA enough for MAGA, and even if it were, MAGA don't do newspapers. But he's probably too vain to let it close and be seen as a failure. So there is that.

who knew you could spike the ball short of the end zone in curling?

Granted, every person is uinque, but still - I have a hard time seeing a guy who already worked his way through and clear of the justice system once being that despondent over getting busted.

And he was supposedly a great NCAA athlete. Hard to understand how fast he lost it all.

In the Oil/Chem industry if you have a benzene inhalation exposure they are supposed to monitor you regularly for the rest of your life - though it not for colon risk rather for hematopoietic system risks. Not sure how that works if you leave the responsible employer but that was still the rule when I left the biz.