- 70+ grandfather married 42 years, Barbershop Quartet baritone, Woodworker, played basketball until the knees went. Ski, play golf.
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I agree. There are a lot of really terrible movies being made, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to make or go to one with this premise. This was billed as a "romantic comedy." Seriously? Comedy? Maybe they should do one where career challenges and successes are met with grace.
If you don't have friends that want to be part of one, get better friends.
Drove to Roseville from Truckee (about 80 miles) used 12% going (downhill) and 53% coming uphill back home. Would be different in the cold, too. Tesla Model Y with "no Elon" stickers.
Kia Sorento and Sportage; Hyundai Santa Fe and Tucson. Mazda CX90 and CX50. There are a few American one's as well. We've been shopping these as well. That XC70 PHEV will probably sell for around $80K.
We can use more baritones in the Truckee Tahoe Community Chorus, the World's Greatest Community Chorus over 6,000 Feet. Sounded awesome.
Maybe they want some lovely live music occasionally....barter economy....
Trump and his sycophants have "flooded the zone" with horrible, illegal, unconstitutional bull shit. Of course, he's a racist bigot. Is that more important than that he is a sociopathic grifter WHO THE VOTING PUBLIC liked better than a qualified woman?
Who tried besides L. Ron Hubbard - who was pretty darn successful with Scientology?
Maybe. But there's Durkheim's "when norms are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; where norms are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.." (or something like that). We need better/longer-lasting norms for BP, for DHS, for America in general. How do we get that?
Religion is great. Organized religion is mostly not even good, although there are some amazing people of faith that actually try to practice what they preach. The ones you hear about missed the part about "humility."
America has wonderful custom guitar builders. Classical, steel-string, arch top, electric.....it's really the Golden Age for the art of Lutherie
Most of the advocates of biblical roles in marriage can't admit that their marriages are messed up. There. Fixed it.
I hired a plumber because of the kids making noise in the background.
The question I have is "how big a gun" did the naked Li'l Nas show the cops? Seems like it must have been very threatening.
Jesus Christ, Waj. No. People don't enlist in the National Guard to terrorize fellow Americans. They enlist in ICE if they want that. They enlist in the National Guard to earn more money for their families and to be of service during disasters. Many of them HATE these Trumpist deployments.
Let's see how the National Guard members, who signed up for short-term duty, feel about permanent absence from their families, friends and jobs.
Keep up the good work, Waj. A lot of us who were born right after WWII thought that there was something particular about Germans that allowed them to embrace Hitler, but it turns out it was just plain human nature. The story of the king with no clothes was meant for us.
Anyone who believes anything Partisan Bill Barr says is an idiot. He lied about the results of the Mueller Report. He set up the fake Durham investigation that found nothing. He failed to protect Epstein (while protecting Trump). He's an amoral tool.
I'm with you, Tom. I'm guessing that Las Vegas whorehouses are much more refined. But we'll have to ask Josh.
Mass peaceful protests convey: (1) we hate what is being done enough to make signs, use our precious time to protest and (2) this is not an emotion lashing out. OTOH, there may be times to legally protest individual Guardsmen's actions - if they are defending masked men making unwarranted arrests.
I agree. That's one reason I think angrily and verbally abusing them is counter-productive. It's what I thought you were advocating.
Seems like women are over-represented in the ranks of "tireless" organizers. Thanks!
2/ verbal assaults are unlikely to change their perspective, and more likely to reinforce any Fox-led inclinations to think that you/liberal are looking down on them.
I suppose we can all always "choose," Dee, but you show little empathy for your fellow Americans who joined the National Guard because it was one way they could make a little more money for their families. Yes, they probably do know that what they are doing is ridiculous (I hope they do). But /1
Dumb take, Waj. This probably isn't the sword to die on for most of these Federal employees. Do you know how they think, what they think, why they haven't quit their jobs? ICE, on the other hand.....
Nadia translated: "I had too many Marxist professors in college failed to learn lessons of history, but do think that I should be entitled to rule others by virtue of being violent."
LOL. Please. There's a difference between talking about "fiscal responsibility" and actually wanting it. Reagan blew up the debt by reducing top marginal tax rates. Cheney said, "deficits don't matter."
No doubt it will be easier to bump her off when she's outside the prison walls, er, fences. No doubt to be blamed on liberals.
I missed the "explanations", Tom, but I often hear people asking for consistency within a religion. That make smack of "explanations" but I think it is more, "well, what DO you believe?"
Somewhere along the way, or in how I word things, Sam, I offend you. Too bad, because I love music and people that contribute towards making America a better place. I'm sorry for your students who are impacted because of Trump and his evil cabal and their great stupidity.
Fantastic, Molly! Now do the long form short story or novella!
Was it better in Minnesota?
The good news about this is that when all the 2nd Amendment Americans start killing each other over their betrayal by Trump, there shouldn't be too many innocent foreigners in the cross-hairs.
Including Trump, his sychophants and the whole Republican Party.
Incredible. Recipe?
A lot of the research that went into Sesame Street looked at the ability to control the attention of the audience. Fast moving, Colorful. Funny. Blues Clues took a different approach that laid more emphasis on the child's internal processes - the same show played 5 days in a row
But why are 50 Republican Senators such push-overs? Surely they know she is unqualified!
My initial questions were: what size is it and how can I buy one? My next thought was, "why would I want that in my house?" Admission - I once almost bought a very large Mao painting, too, but fortunately my wife talked me out of it.
Reality wins. "It's not the fall that hurts you, it's the stop." At some point, MAGA people are going to realize that Peter Navarro is a fool, Pam Bondi is a criminal, Pete Hegseth is over his head and Donald Trump never cared about Americans.
As I get older, I realize that one's lifespan is not guaranteed - 25% of the people I went to school with have already died. And I know someone living independently at 105. "Lifetime" appointments do not always mean what people fear they mean.
Good point. But I grew up on Batman and Superman, so "fighting crime" just rolls off the brain. Kind of like "stealing" employees.
Let's clarify one thing. The idea behind "SANCTUARY CITIES" was that undocumented people could report crimes without fear of deportation. That's it. That's all. To fight real crime. Idiot Republicans and Trump prefer not to distinguish between criminals and undocumented people - so we get more crime
The psychological mechanism of "projection" is strong with this group. They're guilty of it, so they assume others are as well.
Anyone who voted for Trump during Republican primaries or in the general election AFTER his birther non-sense has no moral center. That "othering" was racism, pure and simple.
Theoretically, God is not time limited, so he could have chosen to punish Europeans in 1350 for introducing smallpox to the Americas after 1492, but most people would think your argument that God used the plague to so punish them for introducing smallpox over 100 years later is silly.
"...had a major impact on world history, not least because indigenous populations of regions where smallpox was non-native, such as the Americas and Australia, were rapidly and greatly reduced by smallpox (along with other introduced diseases) during periods of initial foreign contact,...."
Nope. "The plague" or "black death" happened in the mid-13th Century. Since it preceded smallpox in North America (post 1492), it couldn't have been God's response to that. Good try, though.
It's not "genocide" without intention. It's wrong to call the destruction of native culture by a disease "genocide." Without the eradication of the native populations of the Americas by disease, we would have had a different history. See the book "1491" by Charles Mann.
Dale, you're completely wrong about this. White Christians didn't have a chance to wipe out Native Americans - they were felled long before that by smallpox - mostly unintentionally passed to them.
Make sure to include something about magic ear healing. Only reptiles need apply.
This is a hilarious comment given your hobby. There’s a little extra meeting to your profession given that you are a Woodworker I guess is that they are soft woods without a lot of distinguishing grain or character
Molly, is there anything stopping Comey from writing a "tell-all" about the ins and outs of Epstein?
Time for a "tell-all"
I would be surprised if that was true. ICE thugs have shown no unwillingness to hassle bystanders or others who threaten them.
Totally blown away by your hobby, Josh, although given how good you are TPM, it shouldn't be surprising. Keep it up!
George, you forgot the "/s"
It will certainly be "permanently unclear" in the Trump Administration, because Trump will not want anyone to know that his (Musk's) careless actions created negative consequences.
It's obvious, Ron. Only men should be allowed to have one-night stands with women 23 years younger than them.
2nd Amendment, but I don't think anyone's going to wake up. Those of us already "woke" don't need to be told of the horrors. Those in the cult aren't going to be swayed by deteriorating circumstances. But, how's your Mandarin?
My son was music director for a couple of huge female stars - and said they deserve every moment of vacation/time off that they get - because they work their asses off the rest of the time.
Seems to me that there should be MORE ridicule of the Right Wing.
This is what I used to understand was the driver behind "sanctuary" cities - police didn't want to stop undocumented people from reporting crimes because of fear of deportation.
Yeah, that's stupid. The House of Lords is for people with inherited wealth and titles. We don't need that! No Kings! Political parties with an interest in the future should reward people who develop talent and get out of the way when the time comes. They can be "emeritus" party members.
I guess I just like the way "butterflies" look in general. It sounded like you were only putting these on the bottom.
This may or may not be germane to your point - some of the tone of DEI education was that if you were a white male you were "an oppressor" and (obviously) everyone else was your victim. That wasn't a winning position.
Josh, I'm curious why you didn't feature these on the top side of the table. Nice work. Table's going to be awesome.
In the Age of Trump, being an asshole - saying whatever you feel like - is taken as "manly". Fortunately, some men still remember their morals their parents (mostly mom) taught them.
I wonder what that "13 weeks of training in enforcement" looks like. Do you have any insight into (1) selection process (besides, "must be white and male") and (2) the 13 week curriculum?
Jasmine - you are spectacular, but you are also confused. Laws and the Constitution don't apply to Republicans! Let's hope Democrats don't rubber stamp Trump's actions if it ever does come down to Congress.
How do we even know these guys are "police"? Wearing body armor and "ICE" labeled shirts doesn't really cut it, when they're also wearing casual clothes, backwards hats and full face masks.
Worth it. But I wish The Atlantic would restore comments - and barring that, make it easier to follow people whose writing we like on Bsky.....
No uniforms. No badges. No IDs. Just a matter of time before somebody with a gun in a big open carry state decides they're not federal officers, but kidnappers.
Some were apparently at Diego Garcia
No doubt, the US military wanted to see if the bunker busters could achieve their desired effect. Much like it was testing its military equipment in Ukraine.
Unless there is a thunderstorm, or high winds/tornado. Lightning will seek out a tall tree, so don't go there - find someplace low and curl up into a ball.
I worked with a recycler hoping to clean contaminated plastic in the meat processing industry, using little water. One plant we looked at was using landfill to dispose of 60 tons of plastic a month. Expensive. But the plastic being used included blended two types of plastic and couldn't be recycled.
Just more evidence that Trump is the ACTUAL reincarnation of Hitler.
We have a local bar that boasts "Free Beer Tomorrow." Same kind of thing as "in two weeks".
Most Republicans cheat on their taxes so much that they don't see tax returns as a valid adjudication......
We learned about democracy in the 1950s and 1960s, when the horrors of fascism and authoritarianism were firmly remembered by our teachers. The intentionally cruel actions of DOGE, the lack of due process, the corruption, the shear thoughtlessness - all of this makes us old people crazy.
Question I have is how we know these masked, unidentified people are agents of the government. They have no warrants, no ID's, possibly fake "ICE" logos.....
Interstate highway system - Eisenhower; EPA - Nixon.
Yes, which is why Tom Cruise thinking he could be Reacher was delusional.
Fair.
Not quite sure what "ideological diversity" has to do with trans people, unless you mean "interested in stories and people who identify as trans."
There were around 2,000 people in our town of 16,000 at our "no Kings" rally. 12%
Killings in Minnesota: looked "exactly like a SUV squad car" - hmmm, maybe it actually WAS a squad car and the "dressed like a police officer" was a police officer. Should anyone trust someone dressed like "ICE" without a warrant, with a face mask?
Why do these southern asshole sheriffs always look like the southern asshole sheriffs portrayed on film? Fat, ugly and mean.
I'll be putting that to the test in October. Hopefully, they'll let me back in after visiting Canada.
You might be wrong, Ron, about Hegseth's lying. If Hegseth thinks the job of the Marines is to shoot protestors, then they're probably properly trained for that.
Bull shit. Americans are convinced that uncontrolled immigration is a problem. Most Americans don't believe ALL immigrants are a problem (or even all BROWN immigrants).
I'm sure there are plenty of people in ICE detention who have worked as cooks and can do laundry.
Your basic liberal reader and informed person is not going to be throwing rocks at cops. The people doing that don't care that it is counter-productive and helpful to ICE and Trump. Heck, there probably are a reasonable number of Trump-aligned people doing it.
I'm actually wondering whether the senior officers in the military will honor their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, "foreign and domestic" if they are asked to sign loyalty pledges to one man. And how they would do that.
Noah Smith doesn't realize that Trump is the culmination of decades of GOP lying, racism, denying science, ignoring the future and fooling their voters. There's no "taking back" because MAGA is what the GOP always was.
I got a note from my accountant, but unfortunately it didn't say, "because you live in California, you no longer have to pay Federal Income taxes."
What would make you think that any kind of social meeting would help you deal with a "difficult" personality? What's the upside for you of being the advisor? Is it worth the downside? Does the "personality" like cards or beers?
Jesus, Waj, you're a spinmeister and THIS is how you position going to an action movie?! How about, "Warrior males...gleeful lovers of the Three Stooges, Rambo movies and the humiliation of foes forming a platoon to meet to enjoy a movie focused on a good-looking woman killing bad guys."?
Biden could have fixed this by using his "official immunity" powers. Sorry, Joe, you mostly did a good job, but you failed to protect democracy and now we've got to clean it up.
The article shows the bias in two IQ tests she took, as well as the non-correlation of IQ to success. Early IQ tests were incredibly biased, and showed first Irish, and then Jews, to be of "low intelligence." I'm sure MAGA could make a test that showed libs were idiots: no buy-in to conspiracies.