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  1. 14 hours ago, Deej said:

    Fucking PETA doesn't think dogs should be pets. 

    Thousands of years developing a symbiotic relationship with humans and we should just set them all free, or in PETA's opinion, kill them all.

    Fuck those wackos. My dogs have a better life than most people.

    Yeah, we all know PETA sucks.  There's no need to feed a fed horse here.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Satchel said:

    The J6 trial promises to be a doozy 

    https://newrepublic.com/post/177606/binder-highly-classified-russian-intel-went-missing-trump

    A 10-inch thick binder of highly classified raw data regarding Russian election interference went missing in the final days of the Trump administration, a new report reveals.

    The loss of the massive binder, which has yet to be found two years after it was first reported missing, included details on Russian agents that informed the government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election, according to a sprawling CNN investigation…

    …In the waning hours of the administration, Trump ordered a host of documents, including the binder, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for mass declassification in a scheme to prove that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation into his 2016 campaign ties was a hoax.

    Republican aides spent days scrubbing the binder, redacting the most sensitive details so that an abridged version could be released to the public, even against the behest of other top Trump administration officials who repeatedly attempted to block the former president from releasing its contents, according to the outlet.

    A day before his term was set to end, Trump issued an order to preemptively declassify most of the binder’s contents well before it was ready and regardless of some of the redactions. Multiple copies of the redacted version had been created inside the White House, with plans to hand them off to Republicans and right-wing journalists. But that’s not what happened. Instead, White House lawyers scrambled, forcing an immediate retrieval of some documents that had already been sent off, and demanding that the documents be stripped down more…

    “The Crossfire Hurricane binders are a complete disaster. They’re still full of classified information,” White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled a White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, telling her. “Those binders need to come back to the White House. Like, now.”

    With minutes to spare before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hand-delivered a redacted copy of the binder to the Justice Department for a final review… 

    …“I personally went through every page, to make sure that the President’s declassification would not inadvertently disclose sources and methods,” he wrote in his book detailing his time as Trump’s chief.

     

    Meanwhile, the original, unredacted version had gone missing.

    But Hutchinson believed she had a clue as to its location. In a closed-door testimony before the January 6 committee, Hutchinson pointed a finger directly at her old boss in relation to the possible whereabouts of the original binder.

    “I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson said, according to transcripts.

  3. 1 hour ago, HouTex said:

    I don't follow PETA--maybe they have already objected, but if not, it's only a matter of time that they complain about using animals in old sayings.  I'm waiting for these to be a problem:

    Crazy like a fox. (even though actually a complement)

    Strong as an ox.

    Hungry as a bear.

    So hungry I could eat a horse.

    Beat a dead horse.

    Hold your horses.

    Stubborn as a mule.

    Poor as a mouse.

    Madder than a wet hen.

    Scaredy-cat.

    Like a bull in a china shop.

    Snake in the grass.

    800 lb. gorilla.

    Elephant in the room.

    Wild goose chase.

    In the doghouse.

    Cat got your tongue?

    Kill two birds with one stone.

     

     

    Oh, they've got you covered..

    https://www.peta.org/teachkind/lesson-plans-activities/animal-friendly-idioms/

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  4. 13 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Ditto... no one has ever accused of being tall and I actually hate shoes with too much cushion, support.  Put me in a pair of chucks and I'm all good.  This stuff?  Really embarrassing.  

    The thing is,  there is actual evidence suggesting that shorter men are at a disadvantage in presidential elections. 

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1048984312000884

    So, I suppose an argument could be made that Ron is doing this to overcome a societal bias, rather than his own insecurity.  That argument would be bullshit (it's both) but you could make it.

  5. On 12/12/2023 at 12:08 AM, fattyflattie said:

    Going with those botas picudas?  Seems ironic with his stance on the border.  
     

    Honest question.  Doesn’t “riser” type shoes have a thick sole all the way thru?  What good does it do to have a walking/slight riding heel  if the rest of your sole is 1/2” thick?  I used to have an old superintendent who had some but the whole damn sole was like 1.5” thick. He’d lay on some shit about them being for his bad feet but it was only in his good boots (and he was like 5’-6”).  I’ve got an old pair of gators with a walking heel in them and it doesn’t make me any taller I don’t believe.  I know they don’t change my suit pants when I have them vs my roper heel. 
     

    eta: he’s definitely doing something. I’m just trying to figure out how it works. 

    The article posted above explains it better than I could, but the bottom line is that he's not using custom made/modified boots.  He's simply tossing in aftermarket heel lifts into his off the rack boots.

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  6. Lame BDSM jokes aside, I appreciate the discussion. When I was approached yesterday I was filled with anxiety because I thought: Shit, now what? If a term like "grandfathered" can get past my decades of using it, now what?  I've always tried to be mindful of the words I use, and the obvious ones are easy.  But if that one can slip past, what else am I saying that I shouldn't be?

    I think the bottom line here is to try to be mindful that these terms and idioms are out there, but realize that we're not going to catch them all.  We just need to be thoughtful and responsive when it's brought to our attention.

     

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