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Mrs Whiggins

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  1. Better fast forward that curriculum planning for your Flat Earth Academy before you miss out. Wonder how much the actual educators get paid at his campuses.
  2. Without taking away from your statement, there are a lot of people that have difficulty with 'scale' when it comes to more than just money. "This is a great program!" But they only ran the numbers for a group of ten people and when you point out the flaw after sitting there and mentally sizing it up for 100 times that many because that is the target, they just blink because the concept throws them into a vapor lock.
  3. Guess they can try and get a job at the state penitentiary or one of the other prisons up the road. Not a lot going on in that part of Oklahoma besides some ag-related stuff.
  4. Do you think he spends ANY time thinking about trees ever? I mean his only outings with nature are on his golf courses where the trees are mostly at a distance lining the fairway and he's speeding by on his lil cart; his oldest son goes on canned hunts to kill species that probably ought to be on an endangered list; if Ivanka ever set foot in anything resembling a tent it would only be one of the pavilion types they use for weddings and runway shows; Eric is just smart enough to know that trees provide shade but not smart enough to understand the Warren Buffett line about "someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." Nature would give them their just desserts if they ever actually experienced it in the wild.
  5. Mudslides or Dust Bowl: pick your poison based on the National Park's location and climatology.
  6. Seems like more and more he wants to use strong arm tactics to crater other forms of transportation through disruption, destruction, and favored legal and funding status over his competition so that his automobile company can rise from the (literal) ashes and become the only option. After all, it's been done and he's not really an innovator when it comes down to it.
  7. For what it's worth, the most inciting violence conversation I've witnessed of late is the consistent and persistent gerrymandering talk in the Leopard's thread; the derail was intense, immutable, and irrelevant. But I usually scroll past most stuff anyway.
  8. Finally started this and thank you for the rec; we're enjoying it thus far but not through it too far yet. So many dishes that I would have loved to taste myself. It's the one show thus far that when the subtitles were going so fast that trying to read and watch got tricky at times and was glad for the back up feature. I see there is to be another season released in the latter half of this year.
  9. He's been working towards this for a long long time. Well before Musk bought Xitter, he had a well thought out agenda and worked social media in an adept way. Just as Roger Stone was able to expand on the Florida vote counting methods during the Bush vs Gore and turn it into the stop the steal blitz of 2020 (along with some new key players), Rufo has gathered resources and enough of them to be one of the GOP attack dogs to infiltrate, intimidate, indoctrinate, and ultimately purge institutions of 'not right minded' individuals.
  10. Just in time for Spring Break.... Florida high school student in the Miami-Dade area has measles in the state's first reported case of 2025. The state's vaccination rate among school age children ranges to pretty high to not so great. Their state surgeon general is the official who during an outbreak last year among elementary school students said that parents could decide whether to send their children to school or not (regardless of vaccination status). Flori-duh.
  11. They've devolved to the point where the opposable thumb is returning to a claw?
  12. Jumping catfish! What a great arm! Who is that kid, anyway? Of course he's got a great arm, Buttermaker. He's the best athlete in the area. But you don't understand, that's Kelly Leak. You guys talking about Kelly Leak? Yeah. That dude is a bad mother. You talk about a loan shark. I borrowed a nickel from him last week. He said if I didn't give him a dime by Friday, he'd break my arm. Es un bandido. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Look, Buttermaker, you're not my father and I'll not move an inch to play baseball for you any more. So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours and go, go vacuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?
  13. The problem with this is that it also affects the ones in that demographic that didn't vote for him and although the male demographic shifted right, 42% of the male 18-29 group voted for Harris.
  14. The DOJ will look into anything that Christopher Rufo asks that they do and then apply some sort of punitive measures via the FBI, Homeland Security, and/or loyalist state governors? Grammar and phrasing...
  15. Oh, believe me I understand your point and chasing numbers during an outbreak in order to quell spread is frustrating to all, especially with the misinformation being promoted through various means. However, and this is just my opinion, I find that reasonable citizens are more likely to seek medical help if they suspect it is measles and thus those stats would be reported. It does nothing to address the spread itself, nor address those like the herbal tonic MLM mom and the numbers may climb again since measles is so highly contagious but it was still somewhat encouraging to see the count not racketing up across the state. It will only take one infection to cause trauma in someone's family, but health officials on the scene appear to be trying their best.
  16. Official news updates are Tuesday/Friday and with today's update it is now 159. Actually somewhat relieved it wasn't growing by double digits.
  17. Has the price on those ugly things dropped a bunch or something? I don't keep up with new car prices as much, and after only seeing one or two of those trucks in the wild, all of a sudden I've spotted half a dozen in one day. I figured they either got cheap or the folks with oppositional issues were buying them to make a statement or something. If someone wants to drive a cybertruck for the latter reason, fools and their money something something...
  18. I'm leaning no but only because I'm not sure I'll be living in 20 years.
  19. He was in a *relationship with Emma (Emily now as she has been using her real name lately) Stone prior to her *relationship with Andrew Garfield and IIRC, they've all remained friends. Very talented group and I've enjoyed their work. *I know Hollywood sometimes has PR pairings and since I know none of these actors personally, it doesn't really matter, but I am somewhat relieved when folks behave like adults and get along.
  20. The books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have been removed from some reading lists due to stereotyping of certain minority groups, but considering they're children's literature, they do provide a window into the harsh reality of life without a safety net. That glass of warm raw milk...consuming consumption.
  21. He's not unlike a twelve year old boy except most of them are more aware and compassionate and that's saying something, considering the immaturity of that age. Boys in early adolescence are seeking their place in the world and since most of the world follows patriarchal models, it takes some time to figure out which path to follow. Having money (i.e. coming from 'money') usually means that you're going to have a certain set of allowances that society 'grants' to you based on that as well as a certain set of expectations. Elon is going to forever chase the image he has of himself: as a historical figure, a man of brilliancy, the world's richest man, a father sperm donor to many children, an emperor, but he will never achieve satisfaction because there is no substance to that which he seeks. These are all characteristics that are ephemeral--someone will eventually surpass the qualities of richest or most children or brilliancy and even historical figures who are infamous are, in hindsight, reviled and derided as fools or evil. Andrew Carnegie was able to blink away some rather shrewd manipulative business dealings by giving away much of his fortune with philanthropy. Somehow I don't see Elon doing that. he is a rather hollow brittle personality, one that shatters when touched.
  22. She is one half of the podcast, Gaslit Nation, IIRC. I used to listen to it quite a bit but backed off as my blood pressure needed a break. It was a poster on here that mentioned it but I can't recall who exactly. Sorry if that was already covered; busy times this week.
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