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  1. 21 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    It’s a very rational response. It’s big and showy for the Islamic world to see that Iran isn’t going to take its consulate getting bombed without a response.  But the response is done in such a way that Israel can repel it with little difficulty and virtually no damage.

    Israel can declare victory and call it a day based on the performance of its air defenses and the support it has received from its allies.  And, in fact, that’d probably be the smart play.

    But it’s not the play that keeps Bibi in office and out of prison. So really no chance of that happening.

    You punched me in the nose, so I'm going to shoot you in the chest.  It's cool though, 'cause I know you're wearing a vest.  So we'll all good, right?

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    The Walrus is energized tonight. John Bolton on CNN Blaming America for the strike and strongly recommending that Israel goes in hard and destroys any potential nuclear capability of Iran.

    He disregards any concerns with escalating the war.    Neocon’s gonna neocon. 

    I watched with amazement.  Holy shit balls, he's nuts.  

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  3. Born down in a dead man's town
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
    End up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up, now
    Got in a little hometown jam
    So they put a rifle in my hands
    Send me off to a foreign land
    To go and kill the yellow man
    Come back home to the refinery
    Hiring man said, "Son, if it was up to me"
    Went down to see my V.A. man
    He said, "Son, don't you understand, now?"
    I had a brother at Khe Sanh
    Fighting off all the Viet Cong
    They're still there, he's all gone
    He had a woman he loved in Saigon
    I got a picture of him in her arms, now
    Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
    Out by the gas fires of the refinery
    I'm ten years burning down the road
    Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
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  4. The deodorant brand I've used for more than 30 years now struggles to cover me till the end of an active day.  Is that an olds thing, or is it more likely the bastards changed the formula?

  5. I've never heard of the El Chico frozen dinners, but I worked at El Chico through college.  I don't know if it's nostalgia, or just conditioning through eating there so often, but if I could figure out exactly how to make cheese and onion enchiladas with chili con carne gravy, or chicken chimichangas like we served there I would make that shit twice a week.

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  6. True, but they've already bought him- At least the Saudis have. And, unbelievably, the financial judgment against him really doesn't impact his chances of getting elected.

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    54 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


    pump and dump 

     

     

     

    It's a Meme SPAC stock, It's already a Pump and Dump. For him to make $500M at the current price he'd have to sell about 13.5M in stock. The current average volume is about 3.5M shares a day. There's just no way he can put that many shares on the market.  It just won't happen.

    What WILL happen is that he'll try to collateralize his position by getting a loan on it.  No legitimate funding source is going to do that though.  Not for this turd burger.  The whole company isn't worth $500M, let alone $5B.

    Some random billionaire or foreign source might give the cash as a Quid Pro Quo, but that's his only hope, and the SEC and federal prosecutors are watching.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    I’m willing to bet that the board waives the 6 month lockup 

    That whole stock is propped up by small money as it is.  They do that and it'll tank faster than you can say Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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  9. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1770996133910712753.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

    Woah. Ted Cruz’s Super PAC just reported receiving $214,752.98 from iHeartMedia in February in a new FEC filing.

    iHeartMedia is a registered lobbyist—they also host and market his podcast.Image
    Also—after filming his podcast in an iHeart studio for years, he mysteriously stopped filming them a month ago.

    The same month his PAC gets a couple hundred thousand dollars from them?Image
    The Senate ethics rules prohibit senators from “knowingly accepting a gift from a registered lobbyist” or from collecting honorarium for an “appearance, speech, or article.”

    iHeartMedia has spent $915,000 lobbying Congress last quarter.Image
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  10. I think the thing that makes this douchenozzle my most hated politician is just how extreme he is with this kind of pandering.  He knows better.  He knows exactly what she means- what are the predicate offenses?

    No cop or prosecutor is going to go up to someone and say, "I'm charging you with the crime of Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act."

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  11. 4 minutes ago, C-Man said:

     

    ... After very careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that the current US judicial system sucks.

    The fatal flaw is that the US judicial branch, like the Executive and Legislative, assumes good faith and general competency.  Whoops. 

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

     

    The Vikings are definitely wanting to trade up for a QB.  They know it'll take (at least) two 1st rounders but really don't want to trade next year's, because they know it might be a really high one. 

    I'm guessing there's already a handshake agreement to deal it away.

  13. Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’ Accused of Plagiarism by ‘Luca’ Writer

    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-holdovers-accused-plagiarism-luca-writer-1235935605/

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    In recent weeks, after Stephenson’s exchange with Mackey went nowhere, he shot off an email on Feb. 25 to the WGA board with the subject line: “An urgent plea for help from a WGA writer in a truly extraordinary situation.” He wrote, “I can demonstrate beyond any possible doubt that the meaningful entirety of the screenplay for a film with WGA-sanctioned credits that is currently on track to win a screenwriting Oscar has been plagiarised line-by-line from a popular unproduced screenplay of mine. I can also show that the director of the offending film was sent and read my screenplay on two separate occasions prior to the offending film entering development. By ‘meaningful entirety’ I do mean literally everything- story, characters, structure, scenes, dialogue, the whole thing. Some of it is just insanely brazen: many of the most important scenes are effectively unaltered and even remain visibly identical in layout on the page.”

    He continued: “I’ve been a working writer for 20 years – in my native UK before I came to the US – and so I’m very aware that people can often have surprisingly similar ideas and sometimes a few elements can be ‘borrowed’ etc. This just isn’t that situation. The two screenplays are forensically identical and riddled with unique smoking guns throughout.”

    Long article, but really interesting- and pretty convincing honestly.

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