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Foosters

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  1. Just now, Don Johnson said:

    Based on Chuckie's post, one player actually spoke and he agreed with his message, but then Chuckie looked around and assumed 80% of the fans and 90% of the players were MAGA.  Just based on looks.  He couldn't enjoy a Savannah Bananas game because 90+% of the players (in uniform, mind you) LOOKED like they were probably MAGA.

    I see you've adopted the ChickenSandwich and Ani approach to the CR lately - ignore everything going on, and smugly criticize Surly's reaction to the events. Swell.

  2. Just now, Js1 said:

    Percy Jackson? 

     

    25 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    Anyone have some recs for my 9 year old daughter who is powering through books above her level? She has read all of the Percy Jackson books and their spinoffs, and this summer she read all of the Harry Potter books, and is now re-reading them. She also just read Tales of Despereaux and Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm - both of which she enjoyed. I've got the Narnia books lined up. Lord of the Rings too advanced? She did tell me the other day that she really prefers fantasy, magic, etc. We tried the Redwall series about a year ago, but I think that may have been too soon, so she's not that interested in trying again.

    Just seems like she's in a weird period where she's probably not mature enough for some of teen content, but is advanced enough that she' may find books targeted at her age not much of a challenge?

    lol

  3. Anyone have some recs for my 9 year old daughter who is powering through books above her level? She has read all of the Percy Jackson books and their spinoffs, and this summer she read all of the Harry Potter books, and is now re-reading them. She also just read Tales of Despereaux and Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm - both of which she enjoyed. I've got the Narnia books lined up. Lord of the Rings too advanced? She did tell me the other day that she really prefers fantasy, magic, etc. We tried the Redwall series about a year ago, but I think that may have been too soon, so she's not that interested in trying again.

    Just seems like she's in a weird period where she's probably not mature enough for some of teen content, but is advanced enough that she' may find books targeted at her age not much of a challenge?

  4. On 9/30/2025 at 6:04 PM, aggie08 said:

    So, in this alternate reality of yours where #46's age and mental acuity wasn't a daily mainstream discussion topic for over two years, what are your thoughts on #47's daily, incoherent, senile, racist grandpa ramblings being almost entirely ignored by the same mainstream?

    @statsman

    And yet another example of a "conservative" penning paragraphs of invective against Dems and their policies, and disappears when shown IDENTICAL behavior by their side. Happens on a daily basis around here.

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  5. 10 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    That's a really good point, I'm certainly fine with pulling from other social programs/welfare to make that happen.  Not their fault who their parents are I suppose.   Also, would have been nice to see more than a snipped of the definition.  Unless lack of empathy is the only characteristic of Psychopathy. 

    Pennies make dollars, and defense and corporations are actually purposeful.   

    Swing and a miss.  Aren't you in criminal defense?  I wouldn't worry about me. 

     

    swing and a miss? You're certain that you're going to heaven when you die? that's objectively funny

  6. 3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

    I wonder the same about baseball games, and well, shit, just about any form of live entertainment these days.

  7. check this out

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.285023/gov.uscourts.dcd.285023.12.0.pdf

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    A federal grand jury refused to return an indictment in this case. This was once unheard of, but has become common as of late. Typically, when a federal grand jury refuses to return an indictment in a case, either the government takes the message as a warning to go no further or, hopefully in only the rarest of cases, presents the indictment again to another federal grand jury. To this judge’s knowledge, what has never happened before is doing an end run around the federal grand jury completely. Yet that is what has happened today.

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    Today, prosecutors again presented a single count federal indictment against the defendant, but this time before a Superior Court grand jury. After receiving a true bill from that local grand jury, prosecutors sought to return the federal indictment in federal court. At a minimum, this is very unseemly; more than likely, it is unlawful. Not to mention, this only deepens the growing mistrust of the actions of prosecutors.

    That is a sentiment that was once unthinkable, but the irregular is now the regular. See Fed. Educ. Ass’n v. Trump, No. 25-1362, 2025 WL 2355747, at *11 (D.D.C. Aug. 14, 2025) (Judge Friedman, a renowned former prosecutor and judge, recently collected cases addressing this topic, and concluded that “n just six months, the President of the United States may have forfeited the right to [] a presumption of regularity.”). Prosecutors used to not look for loopholes. They sought justice and respected the decisions of juries, favorable or not.

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Thatguy said:

    Progressives are the folks who are fucking things up? You are going to have to explain this one to me. Here is what I see-

     

    The democrats have spent decades throwing the marginalized under the bus to appease moderates like you. The 94 crime bill comes to mind. They have not run on identity politics at all, and have largely only gotten the marginalized vote out of no other options. 

    Where you seem to be getting your idea of identity politics is the Republicans ability to attach all the marginalized groups to the Dems regardless of the fact that the Dems have largely tried to distance themselves from them on their platform. It's Republicans that are talking about Trans volleyball players. Its Republicans that are talking about men in women's bathrooms. It's Republicans that are talking about cat litter boxes in schools. It's Republicans that are talking about illegals being murderers and rapists. Its Republicans that are talking about DEI, and have been for decades talking about black people being a burden on the system. It's Republicans saying that Dems are trying to open borders to increase their voting pool. 

    So you see, Progressives aren't doing anything to "fuck things up". What you are seeing is Republicans successfully attaching everything to the Democratic party simply by pointing out what marginalized groups vote for it. As long as black, brown, and lgbtq people vote D, the Rs will always use that to rile up their base. Meanwhile, the Democrats keep serving up Chuck Shumers and wonder why they keep losing elections. You think Progressives are the problem when its the opposite. 

    part of the problem is that the GOP will elevate some random's tweet as the national Dem policy.

    Oh, look at this woman - who's running for city council in Portland - saying that police funding should be slashed! Dems want Anarchy!

    And then the people who only casually pay attention, see this regurgitated by every conservative media outlet, TikTok video, Podcast, etc., and think "hmmm, Dems are crazy!"

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  9. Stay True: A Memoir by Hsu, Hua: New Hardcover (2022) 1st Edition. | Blacks  Bookshop: Member of CABS 2017, IOBA, SIBA, ABA

     

    Memoir by a Taiwanese-American kid who went to UC Berkely in the 90's as he tried to figure out an identity despite always feeling like a foreign kid. Found A LOT that I could relate to, despite being the WASPy kid that he was desperately trying to reject 

  10. 9 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    It's pretty fucking insane that a bunch of people collectively decided to burn down the most powerful empire the world has ever known basically because they were bored. 

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    We were spoiled, I think I am trying to say. As were those on the other side: willing to tear it all down because they had been so thoroughly nourished by the vacuous plenty in which we all lived, a bountiful condition that allowed people to thrive and opine and swagger around like kings and queens while remaining ignorant of their own history.

     

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