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- Mon May 27, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Sorry I spoke . . .
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Sorry I spoke . . .
I keep a landline because - and maybe this is false reasoning - it seems that my junk calls go there and my phone tells me it's a 'Spam Risk' and if it's real, whoever will leave a message. I get very few spam calls on my mobile. I do get spam texts, however. Usually they are, I assume, the sort des...
- Fri May 24, 2024 4:58 am
- Forum: All our own work
- Topic: Pride - It looks like I did something right.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 71
Re: Pride - It looks like I did something right.
You did a good job there CP. He'll have to deal with being labeled 'woke' by various idiots but it sounds as if he will be OK.
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: 'Justice' Alito's wife did it
- Replies: 8
- Views: 172
Re: 'Justice' Alito's wife did it
And now it seems that Alito was flying the 'Appeal to Heaven' flag outside his beach house. NYT has several pics; and makes the case that this flag - which has an honorable history through George Washington and John Locke, signifying defiance - has become a MAGA - Stop the Steal - Jan 6 symbol. Alit...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: 'Justice' Alito's wife did it
- Replies: 8
- Views: 172
Re: 'Justice' Alito's wife did it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/judge-juan-merchan-trump-trial-political-contributions According to the Guardian, Judge Merchan who is overseeing Trump's Stormy Daniels trial in NY donated $35 to the Democratic Party in 2020. And apparently the NY Commission of Judicial Condu...
- Sat May 18, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Is human intelligence regressing?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 115
- Fri May 17, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: 'Justice' Alito's wife did it
- Replies: 8
- Views: 172
'Justice' Alito's wife did it
During January 2021, while SCOTUS was considering the 2020 election results and whether to intercede (they didn't although C Thomas dissented loudly), an upside-down US flag was displayed outside Alito's home in Alexandria VA. Apparently it was, according to neighbors, up for several days. An invert...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: SETI
- Replies: 14
- Views: 222
Re: SETI
There is a Project CETI (a sort-of-pun on SETI where the C stands for cetaceans - whales, dolphins etc) which focuses on the sounds made by a group of sperm whales in the Caribbean, and how they communicate. Recently researchers have decided that the clicking sounds made by these whales are actually...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Gaia on Fire
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1633
Re: Gaia on Fire
I oscillate between extreme pessimism and hope. Part of me thinks that the earth is fucked and climate migration in a decade or so will make today's border crisis look puny; and the great wars of the 20th century will be surpassed by those of the 21st. But most years for the past 15 or so, I have be...
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Rebels Without a Clue
- Replies: 21
- Views: 648
Re: Rebels Without a Clue
I was there in Kent one day 1998-ish. It wasn't the anniversary - the daffodils on the hill were out, and the spots where the four students died were well marked. I was an ocean away when it happened, but it was devastating to us all the same. Antisemitism has a long history from Shylock through blo...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: A local story
- Replies: 14
- Views: 540
Re: A local story
I haven't been following this case - but didn't we have a situation in the last few years in which a father who had left his child in a car - child died of heatstroke - was tried for murder although there was no evidence (IIRC) that there was no intent? May be different laws in different states.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Israel at War
- Replies: 244
- Views: 9837
Re: Israel at War
The two things Reagan pushed were 'Brilliant Pebbles' which was space based and consisted of thousands of satellites equipped with missiles to attach incoming ICBMs; and project Excalibur which used laser beams. Neither came to anything, IIRC.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: A local story
- Replies: 14
- Views: 540
A local story
Jamey Noel was Sheriff of Clark County IN (just across the river from Louisville) until an investigation by Indiana State Police led to his arrest last November. He is accused (and of course he is presumed innocent unless he is found guilty) of using something like $5 million of public funds for his...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Johnson & Trump Want to Outlaw Illegal Things......
- Replies: 3
- Views: 210
Re: Johnson & Trump Want to Outlaw Illegal Things......
This week will be 40 years exactly since I moved to the US. I thought it would be for three months but I'm lazy - they kept paying me so I thought I'd stay a while. I'm not a citizen so I don't vote - still pay $2000 every few years for my green card - I have never felt the urge to become a citizen ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: And just like that, the bridge collapse is blamed on the browns and the gays
- Replies: 12
- Views: 679
Re: And just like that, the bridge collapse is blamed on the browns and the gays
And the loopies are out in force. Daily Mail is reporting that 23 Ohio River barges broke free in Pittsburgh, and the local cops closed down the downstream McKees Rock Bridge as a precaution. Makes sense to me and well done those cops. In the comments section we have this from JulesBoys who apparent...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: The Juice has expired
- Replies: 14
- Views: 434
Re: The Juice has expired
You're right RR - it was the prosecution - I just looked it up. So my point about calling him for cross-examination is wrong.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: NOW is when McCarthy chooses to find his voice?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
Re: NOW is when McCarthy chooses to find his voice?
I have just heard on NPR that Johnson has offered MT Greene (R-GA) a position as Advisor to the Speaker because she has been saying mean things about him. I think he has just booted himself up to a 9.95.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: The Juice has expired
- Replies: 14
- Views: 434
Re: The Juice has expired
I ran a lab dealing with environmental samples, analyzing them for toxic metals and PCBs and pollutants of all types. Because samples and testing results could be used in prosecutions against those who contaminated ground or rivers or marine waters or air, we had to have very strict chain-of-custody...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: An Eclipse.... woop dee doo!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 775
Re: An Eclipse.... woop dee doo!
/Users/andrewclifton/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/resources/derivatives/D/DA7C7D0D-EC78-47A4-B8E2-4A0FFD6BF450_1_105_c.jpeg (I think I have posted that as an image - my Mac sometimes has trouble with these so someone will have to let me know if that works. It should be an image of a shadow...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Havana Syndrome
- Replies: 10
- Views: 366
Havana Syndrome
For years now the prevailing wisdom has been that Havana Syndrome is really only mass hysteria in a new format and possibly just a new vehicle for lawsuits designed to get USG payouts for frivolous claims. I'm normally cautious when I see this sort of stuff on the intertubes but this has, at least o...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: NOW is when McCarthy chooses to find his voice?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
Re: NOW is when McCarthy chooses to find his voice?
Nailed it, Sue! Having said that, if I were forced to pick between McCarthy and Mike Johnson I think I'd choose McCarthy. On a 1 to 10 scale of odiousness Johnson is a 9.9 (TFG has a permanent claim to the 10-spot here) while McCarthy is only a 9.5.