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I don't know how you mustard up that one!
Have to be more specific.
Pete Rose died on September 30, 2024. Biden was still president.
Another enthusiastic vote for Matewan.
Using this ruleset, I read a sentence that begins: "Reuters reports that Bill Maher"; the first rule condition is met, so I stop reading. I can test for the second rule condition only by continuing to read the sentence that the first rule has stopped me from reading. So the ruleset is invalid.
If the Fed were truly "independent," wouldn't it have representation from workers, small business... y'know non-corporate bankers?
Don't worry, there will be another cutesy meme soon so it'll all work out.
Enjoy!
Or longer. Bermudas, maybe.
But if you stop reading the sentence after "Bill Maher," how can you know how the sentence ends?
Or reproduction.
Excellent analysis, and well argued. The nut graf, paraphrased for length, is that government regulation of capitalism proves that "free enterprise" is a built system, "a political project." Thus belying the preferred neoliberal view of capitalism as an unalterable state of nature.
Thanks for the update!
Yes, definitely. A fairly robust Communist presence, some anarchists, trade unions, Basque separatists.
Hmmm... Is the actual MAGA hardcore base 40%? Or does that 40% take in 10% or so leaning that way in a two-party race but who might vote for an actual Republican in a multiparty race?
I dunno. I served, and when I saw the soldiers in Trump's self-extolling military parade ambling along like a group of guys headed to the pub, I thought, "This is not how dedicated troops march in a ceremonial parade." Which in turn climbs the ladder to the non-coms, officers and generals.
It's the latest version of, "We can win on our positions by changing them to their positions."
Credibility suffers bit from misspellings of both "government" and "bureaucracy" in the line item about "govenment bereaucracy."
I just visited your site and admire its spirit and focus. I don't see any names of the "new young leaders" who have been cultivated. Maybe they should go beyond the ideals and identifying and promoting some promising future candidates.
Did you know while he was doing it?
I'd watch it! But I bet the "asshole lab partner" is pretty much the same as the "asshole deskmate," the "asshole warehouse colleague," the "asshole fry cook..." etc.
Forgot lawyering: the lawyers liked Rumpole of the Bailey. Keep in mind this was all taking place in Canada so the lawyering activities and processes were very much like those in the UK.
When I was a newspaperman, I did a series asking people in various professions which TV shows were most accurate in depicting the actual work and people-types. As I recall the winners: Cops: Barney Miller Medical: M*A*S*H* Teaching/school: Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High
Ditto, except for the sleazy quote-maker-upper. As far as I know.
I dunno, it rang pretty true for me.
You are correct, sir.
Excellent call.
Don't they all debut at their age?
Even sorrier for whoever has to clean it.
Takin' Care of Business BTO
Maybe it's the train's last stop.
On the good side, the seven years of bad luck will be in dog years. You're OK in a year!
The unfortunate aspect of this is that we seems to be just taking the companies' word for it that they are only "passing on" the cost of increased tariffs. It's a golden opportunity for them to just bump prices to increase profit, and blame the tariffs for the entire price increase.
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The Globe & Mail here in Canada got up over $70/mo while shrinking to about the size of a placemat. I cancelled before it cost $100 for a business card.
Hey, they lost Ryan Suter AND Radek Faksa!
These reports should say, "...a four-year $136 million contract that could end up being worth $188 million."
Clearly a while since you have been to Alberta!
Plus you get credited for having "opined."
Capitalism has been "evolving" into neo-feudalism since 1980.
Same with José Changeupo.
I learned it in the military. Great place to pick up regional games. Other than that, not so great.
I love those moments when a cool old tune surfaces from unexpected places.
Also a common diagnosis in senior political circles.
Yup. My buddy and I went Opening Night at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver. City's first 70mm/Dolby. They handed out playbills like at a play, no opening credits--the film just started with SFX of a chopper flying from front left to rear right, with Doppler. Blew my mind, then and ever since.
I learned an even more profound and useful lesson: Don't get a cat in the first place!
Boy, yes. Both great films. I became a huge Altman fan, which I guess was life-changing in its own way.
Not especially movie related but your experience felt like mine... I flipped at uni a few times because I thought I was preparing for a job, quit and travelled (read a lot then too), came back in a frame of just learning and did really well.
Yes indeed.
Great story! It was one of the films that I watched and discussed with my friends, which must have had some influence in my 10-year career as a movie critic!
My two young daughters of course loved the movie and Miss Honey, and luckily had several Miss Honeys during their early educations.
Excellent call. I hadn't thought of it, but I've watched 20 or so times, and always loved the delightful comedy of the absurd and the subversive social commentary. Plus those great songs!
The autocorrect changed "about" to "snout"! Or maybe it was meant to say "scout"?
The Yankees will soon need approval of broadcast deals. Can't start too early kissing regulatory ass. FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote in Project 2025 that the FCC should promote satellite Internet, specifically Elon Musk's Starlink, and that the agency overregulates the communications industry.
Means "air fleet." But re the other inference... In the legislature where I lived, one daily order of business was members welcoming visitors to the public gallery. The opposition party faked a visitor slip for a government member, who rose and happily welcomed constituent "Ms. Connie Lingus."
Does the tool tell users if the church is investing in corporations that exploit workers and/or the environment? Or in corporations that manufacture weapons of war?
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He had applied at Starbucks to be, yes, a bear-ista.
Oddly, right behind this truck, a truckload of mushrooms and onions...
Or Yojanser Calzado?
And gets the whole concept of the totem pole wrong as well.
Is it Jhostynxon Garcia?
What?! When? And does this mean José Bautista is OK?
Wait... So to fix the problem of states trying to give their party *more* seats than their voter support, a system that gives them *all* the seats? Why not a percentage split?
I hope he gets to The Show in time to pitch to Mike Trout.
You know what somebody needs to harness AI to do? Make it so that I don't get 14 posts in a row all telling me that José Bautista got shoulder surgery.
Uh... Posh, Sporty, Hoss, All and Old.
"Exceeded"?
"Drew a media spectacle" doesn't make sense. "Was," "became," "grew into," maybe, but "drew" is just nonsensical.
Well that's a horse of a different color!
I read somewhere that Jhostynxon's teammates call him "Password."
It's "Whoa" for stopping a horse, but it probably won't matter because when you spell it, the horse doesn't know what you mean.
Explain it once more, he'll be an asshat.
Shouldn't an Australian team be inspired by the Southern lights?
Quite an accomplishment.
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I hear you. I memorized the basebally ones but forgot them over time. Then I printed out a cheat sheet and it works (although I have bumped the font size a few times as I get older!). I still remember Alt-0151 is an em-dash and the codes for curly single- and double-quotes because I use them a lot.
Good news: I had the horse-human exacta!
MS Excel has been made far better in the last five years.
Actually more like his life after baseball was affected by his behaviour after baseball.
It does suck. But you can speed it up by learning the Alt-codes.
Hockey is the best sport live.
Huh. I liked the movie except for the cacophonous hamboning of Crystal and Kane.
I'm pretty sure the Pope has the #1 see.
That's how my family describes me!
Goat parkour.
How about a law saying no government official who cuts off funding for a rental voucher program can shoot off his big trap about rental housing.
Osie Johnson? Did you ever meet him?
Instead of a paddle, he appears to be using Fred Astaire's old walking stick.
My karaoke go-to is "Mack the Knife," the 1959 Bobby Darin version. Trivia 1: the great trumpet work is by Doc Severinsen, leader of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Orchestra (actually a band; no strings). Trivia 2: the song was recorded the day after my first birthday.
Thanks. I was really touched by the sentiments of the ballplayer I mentioned towards the end.
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I'm guessing he's had a few 120-MPH O'Neil foul liners whiz past his melon.
And, in an odd coincidence, Vance looks like a potatoe.
Pre-emptive gambit against millions of readers saying, "No way, man, a thumb is not a finger."
Surely the work will continue elsewhere.
If you mean info on Maxwell, there's tons. He stole tens of millions of pounds (sterling) from his companies' pension funds and was later found floating face down in the Atlantic off the Canary Islands. Quickly ruled accidental, nothing to see here, move along by the authorities.
"Dear Honey... I'm sorry that I can't get home for dinner. I know this is twice in a week, but Adolf Hitler would spot the pattern and act decisively."