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  1. Good morning all, happy to be here and happy to have another sober day behind me. I really loved the line from today's Daily Reflections and thought I'd share.

     

    "May I always remember that the power within me is far greater than any fear before me. May I always have patience, for I am on the right road."

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  2. 6 hours ago, BearSchlong said:
    4 hours ago, Dewey said:

    Do not ever doubt yourself 

     

    1 hour ago, Reagan1k said:

    That's natural and expected.  We're alcoholic and its what we do.

    Its also not a "bad" thing even though it may be uncomfortable for a while.  Lucky for us, we can't just be struck drunk without actually taking the 1st drink.  You don't have to worry about getting drunk if you don't take the first drink.  Sounds a bit trite, but its true 

    I worry much more about guys when they tell me everything is great and while feeling "good" let their program take a back seat to other things.  They often end up drinking.  The guys expressing that anxiety you describe who bore into the program and a emphasize a conscious contact with their higher power stay sober.

    You can't control the thoughts of anxiety that pop into your head but you can control your reaction to them.  Don't let it paralyze you, don't keep it internal where it gets infected and festers- do what you did to get it past your teeth and take action in the program.  That's what we can control.

    I heard once that we learn to be comfortable feeling  uncomfortable and we do that by taking action and through communication with out higher power.  

    Valid.  False Events Appearing Real.  Fuck Everything and Run.  Or, Face Everything and Recover.

    If you don't put in today you get a gold star, no matter what real or imagined troubles occur.  You wanna talk about it, PM me your cell number and I'll at least distract you and make you laugh.  I welcome the opportunity to just talk with another drunk.

    @JohnnyRage you just did page 24 from the BB in real time on this page.  Reading your experience I can feel with sufficient force the pain and suffering.  Thank you for your sobriety.

    Thanks guys and thank you @BearSchlongfor the chat earlier. I dropped into a meeting tonight and it was a very fitting discussion (funny how that always seems to happen). We read the southern gentlemen story from page 217. @Reagan1k, I feel like your replay fits nicely with the conversation we had tonight in the meeting. The man in the story felt complacent and was tempted to go buy a drink, but stopped to talk to other drunks along the way and spoke to his wife and those kept him from doing so. I had one of these ah ha moments today and realized I haven't been following my program as I should. This shit really does work if I follow it. Thankful to make it through another day sober and grateful for the words of encouragement today.

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  3. Woke up struggling a little bit today having that feeling of anxiety that I'm going to screw up again. I just have to be sober today and remind myself of my gratitudes and pray that my thoughts be directed. 

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  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawyer-suit-fraud/2021/02/09/50f0769e-6ae3-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

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    One of Trump’s impeachment lawyers sued him last year — and accused him of making claims about fraud with ‘no evidence’

    A mobile billboard truck displays an image of former President Donald Trump near the Capitol ahead of the start of his second impeachment trial Tuesday.
    A mobile billboard truck displays an image of former President Donald Trump near the Capitol ahead of the start of his second impeachment trial Tuesday. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
    Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:23 p.m. CST

    Last year, Philadelphia lawyer Michael T. van der Veen filed a lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump accusing him of making “repeated claims” that mail voting is ripe with fraud “despite having no evidence in support of these claims.”

     

    This week, van der Veen is adopting a different posture as part of the team of attorneys defending Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in his Senate impeachment trial.

    How a longtime personal-injury lawyer found himself at the center of that trial, which opened Tuesday, may say more about his client than his own legal career. Trump struggled to find lawyers to take on his case, parting ways with several who were unwilling to claim that the 2020 election was stolen, as the president is said to have wanted them to do.

     

    Van der Veen’s route to Trump’s legal team began when the firm he founded — van der Veen, O’Neill, Hartshorn and Levin — hired Bruce L. Castor Jr. in December. Castor, a former prosecutor from suburban Philadelphia, in turn was recommended to Trump aides and hired last month.

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    Now, van der Veen’s name and signature appear in Trump’s impeachment filings alongside Castor’s, as well as those of David Schoen, an Atlanta-based lawyer Trump brought on last week. In a 78-page defense brief filed Monday, the lawyers argued that Trump was entitled to express his belief that “voting irregularities” he attributed to illegal changes to election laws had tainted the election.

    Van der Veen did not respond to repeated requests for comment made through his law firm.

    It has been just a few months since his name was on a very different legal document — a lawsuit against Trump, the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy filed in federal court in August on behalf of Melvin Johnakin, an independent candidate who last year unsuccessfully sought to challenge Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Pa.). Johnakin claimed in the suit that operational changes at the federal agency would make it harder for voters to cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic, part of a wave of litigation against the Postal Service last year.

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    On his website, van der Veen touted the action thusly: “To exercise the fundamental right to vote, many voters have and will utilize all available means to vote by mail rather than in person at a polling place. Advanced planning and proactive measures will be necessary to ensure that voters have sufficient access to vote by mail to preserve and protect the essential right to vote and prevent large-scale disenfranchisement.”

    The suit described DeJoy as a “Republican Party and Trump campaign megadonor” and accused the Postal Service of “reducing staff hours, prohibiting overtime, removing hundreds of high-volume mail-processing machines from facilities across the country and removing mail boxes in urban areas with high concentrations of minority, low income and Democratic voters.”

    Those operational changes “led to delays in the delivery of mail,” the suit said — and came at a time when Trump was making “repeated claims” without evidence that voting by mail is “ripe with fraud.”

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    The suit was settled in late November, part of a broader effort in 19 states and the District to block the Postal Service from making changes that could delay the mail.

    Trump and his legal team at the time were attacking accommodations that state officials had made to help voters cast ballots amid the health crisis, falsely asserting that those changes led to widespread fraud.

    On Nov. 25, the day the suit was dismissed, Trump spoke by telephone to a panel of Pennsylvania state senators who had assembled to examine allegations of fraud. He said he had “won by a lot” — and lamented that “all we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of a problem.”

     

    There is no prohibition against a lawyer representing a former adversary in a new matter when the previous client has no interest, said Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, who noted that the practice is common.

    In Philadelphia, van der Veen is best-known for his law firm’s ubiquitous ads on local news radio station KYW-AM, which are reminiscent of East Coast electronics chain Crazy Eddie’s high-octane TV pitches from the 1980s.

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    “Whether you’re walking down Chestnut or Market, Frankurt or Aramingo, be careful and watch your step,” the announcer nearly shouts in one of van der Veen’s radio spots. “But if the walkway isn’t clear, and you fall and get hurt due to snow and ice, call 215-546-1000 for van der Veen, O’Neill Hartshorn and Levin — trial lawyers excelling in the area of the law most critical to your family.”

     

    “The ‘V,’ ” the announcer concludes, ‘is for ‘Victory.’ ”

    The law firm’s website offers personal-injury representation as well as “relentless, savvy defense” work for those accused of corporate embezzlement, Internet-based offenses or violent crime. And it claims massive results, including a $31.5 million judgment for a man paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and a $10 million settlement for a 9-year-old boy struck by a tractor-trailer.

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    Van der Veen is active in local and state trial lawyers’ associations; last year, he donated $5,000 to the state group’s political action committee, according to Pennsylvania campaign finance reports.

    During the first two years of Trump’s presidency, van der Veen donated to prominent Pennsylvania Democrats, including Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., one of the former president’s most vocal critics in the chamber. A spokesman for Casey’s office declined to comment on van der Veen’s representation of Trump.

     

    Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), who has received several political donations from van der Veen in recent years, said in an interview that she wondered whether Trump realizes he hired someone who recently went up against him in court.

    “Given the former president’s enemies list, he would likely not be happy to learn he’d been sued by his current lawyer, since he generally demands total loyalty,” said Scanlon, who is also a lawyer. “It does seem a little out of character for the former president to embrace someone who so recently sued him.”

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    A spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Van der Veen drew local media attention in 2018 for the elaborate renovation of his small firm’s offices in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood. The 25-employee firm occupies a 19th-century row house featuring a Delftware fireplace and ornate mantel carvings of Zeus and Apollo. The customized furniture he bought from Maine-based Thos. Moser was built from cherrywood harvested from family farms in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Plateau — “so there’s no clear-cutting involved,” according to a write-up in Philadelphia Business Journal.

     

    For some in Pennsylvania, van der Veen’s representation of Trump is a natural fit, given his career path as a personal-injury lawyer who broadcasts ads on local talk radio and touts glowing magazine cover stories on his law firm’s website.

    “It probably speaks more to the gadfly culture of Philadelphia trial attorneys than anything else,” said one Democratic strategist from Pennsylvania who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s a showman’s culture.”

     

     

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  5. For the downtown area lunch, id recommend Taqueria El Lugar (street tacos), Don Juan is also a good spot on the square. Second the Stanley's, Jucy's, and Country Tavern Recs. Bruno's Pizza, 

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  6. Bump.

    I missed this on the original run. I've been slowly watching over the past few weeks and down to the last 2 episodes. I'd definitely put this in my top 5 shows. A lot of great characters are in this, but Boyd is definitely a standout. 

    Side Note: Sam Elliot just doesn't look right without the mustache. 

  7. I had a couple shoeboxes of baseball cards from the late 80's/early 90's that I ended up getting rid a year or so ago. I may have had a few gems in there, but I don't think I had anything of significant value. After watching the Jack of all Trades doc last year, I learned a lot of baseball cards from that era were overproduced and not worth much.  Starting to think I should have held onto them now.

  8. 8 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Serious question. How does one maintain a friendship with people like this? I don't really have anyone like that in my life other than my mother, who I let vent because she's old and harmless and I'm compelled biologically to still love her and show appreciation for, you know, my existence. You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends. I see accusations lobbed about people "living in a bubble" but I seriously can't think of anything I would have in common with people like this to the extent I could maintain a friendship. I have acquaintances who I know or suspect believe this stuff but I wouldn't call them "friends" necessarily. Friends I actually spend time with mostly agree with me on things and those who might be republican are at least sane and willing to talk policy and whatnot instead of accusing everyone else of criminality and pedophilia. I don't get "friendships" with people who are litierally crazy, unstable, and ultimately, very very stupid to believe shit like that.

    I agree, when she starts spouting this stuff, we just kind of look at each other and roll our eyes. My GF has known her since High School and its just in the last few months that she's bought into this stuff. It was kind of entertaining to listen to it at first, but now we've started to become concerned for her. 

  9. My GF's Roommate (no pics) has bought into this shit. She spends all day talking about it and watching bearded dudes in Oakleys spouting their bullshit. She left a page of notes on the counter the other day that she's been keeping as she's watching these videos. Things like the oval office we've been seeing Biden in is a movie set and that orange means new beginnings (I'm guessing she's referring to head cheeto man). She also claims the inauguration wasn't live last week, but she didn't watch it and seemed skeptical when my GF and I told her we didn't see anything out of the ordinary besides no crowd on the mall and the people on stage being socially distanced. She's warned my GF several times to not be alarmed that a power outage and media black out is coming (which they obviously haven't). 

    Just alarming how bought in people are to this shit and don't bother to research anything or actually read the constitution. 

     

  10. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Oh,. I've seen several people pop up in various places with the "wait till March 4th, the military is in charge, and is going to arrest Biden for being part of an illegal government in league with foreign countries blah blah blah."

    That date will pass....and they will cook up something else.  They will be awaiting Trump's Christ-like return 10 years from now, based on the 459th iteration of their "but wait, this is the REAL STORM....next week!" nonsense.

    These people are either morons of the highest order, mentally ill, or both.  And they control the dialogue and direction of one of our two political parties.

    Dumbest.  Fucking.  Timeline.

    Someone tried to tell me the other day that March 4th is the actual inauguration day in the constitution.  HMMMM...have you read the 20th amendment dumbass?

  11. On 1/7/2021 at 11:30 AM, sunset87 said:

    I was symptomatic starting December 15th, which started with a cough. I am about the same age as you.  I had fever for the first two days, got up to 102.3 and after that body aches, congestion, fatigue and lost taste and smell but for only a couple of days. 

    The worst part is how long it seems to drag on and, the main reason I quoted, the freaking brain fog.  That stuff lasted a good 15 to 16 days after my initial symptoms.  It's a shitty feeling that you just can't shake. I am pretty much fully recovered now, but I have heard some people have brain fog for months.  That would drive me insane.

    That was me too. I started having symptoms around the 22nd. Started with fever and body aches. I never really had a cough. Tested positive on the 26th and for about a week after that could barely walk from one room to the other without feeling short of breath. Had the brain fog and didn't feel 100% normal until this past weekend (Jan 10th), also dropped nearly 20lbs during those few weeks.

  12. I've always been curious about this, but not sure what I'd uncover. My biological granmother was a sloot(no pics). Pretty certain my grandfather fathered my mother's oldest two sisters, but he for sure didn't the third (Mom was the 4th) as he was stationed in Germany at the time of conception. He raised her as his own, but there was always the question of my Mom and another sibling that was given up for an illegal adoption after she was born. 

  13. After 5+ days of fever, I went to the ER Saturday. I tested positive and they also found a spot on my lung they said is inconsistent with covid. My pulse ox was at 95, so they didn’t keep me. The fever is still here after a week, but starting to stay down. I do feel very winded just making short walks from one room to the next and haven’t felt like eating in about 3 days. I’m isolating at home alone and just trying to keep fluids in and rest. Thankfully no one I was around recently is showing symptoms.

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