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Mrs Whiggins

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  1. The female justices dissented. Guess Barrett suddenly realized she's not got the 'Y' gene necessary to count in this administration's future interpretations of the Constitution and its rights if she doesn't speak up.
  2. I was reading a little of this in the 'Papers please...' thread in DT. While Makled was successful in keeping his phone, I noticed the feds obtained his contact list. When agents questioned him about one or two names, IIRC, Makled stated only that they were his clients and did not divulge further. However, now that the feds have a list of names and numbers from his phone, isn't it probable that those in his contacts, regardless of status, can now be surveilled and harassed if they were not already? Seems like the government could easily make things quite uncomfortable for a legal reps circle of not only clients but friends and family. When word travels, as it does, then finding representation for future deportees becomes difficult. Intimidation tactics are not in the least fashy are they? /sarcasm
  3. Disagree, but like much in youth athletics there are issues with lack of trained volunteers/coaches/officials and/or people that care sufficiently about ALL the participants and not just the stars. I will say that watching someone get hit with a discus is rather alarming. I used to time meets with 3 watches (one around neck, one in each hand) so that everyone (not just placers) had a recorded time so that could log their progress. Some students didn't have or forgot to bring a watch and while some coaches would pull other students over to time the slower runners, a lot didn't bother. When timing chips came on the scene that helped some, but their use isn't universal/widespread at all levels. Eh, I clipped the rest of your quote because I can't speak to that w/o more knowledge but the part above isn't all that strange as it depends on the circumstances. Set up at some meets is not well organized, some stadiums are small and with inclement weather, not everyone can crowd under the bleachers. Cross country meets are worse for that as they are often held at parks, etc and if it's raining hard, it's quicker to stand in a tent than trek back to the bus or crowd into a teeny shelter. The McNeil Invite had a storm hit at their park during a meet and I thought I was going to need a tow and a new set of clothes before the drive back.
  4. Texas DHHS Friday update on measles: 481 cases, 56 hospitalized (that is a cumulative since the initial outbreak).
  5. Here's one for you: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75dl7rdxexo
  6. Anyone else watching Weak Hero Class 1 ? (Korean w/English subtitles for us). The bully(ies) picking on the weak trope, but for a quasi 'teen' show, not a bad watch thus far for some of the fight scenes, although: criticism behind spoiler
  7. Naming a naval vessel after Musk is really really bad luck. I'm only a little 'stitious, but the symbolism of a word that attracts predators due to its scent seems particularly ill-advised. Sailors need all the luck they can get...
  8. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your contributions and discussions on this forum and think you bring a lot to Surly, but after reading the last two pages ending with the above, my reaction: I get what you're saying, but I'm not certain we're here for it at the mo, Mulder.
  9. That's why the law is being changed so 14 year olds can work overnight. When the younger ages have to go home, they can clock in. That's supposed to be sarcasm, but alas, it's Florida so....
  10. It's felon camoflauge
  11. Thank you for providing the update for Friday; got busy with work. IIRC there are around 41 patients hospitalized. Imagine how a couple of minutes in the doctor's office can prevent spending hours in the pediatric ward while a small child struggles to live.
  12. I'd speculate more of a useful idiot; there to be the shiny suited slurring distraction while the real deal agents are going through all the wallets files, aligning the systems for the future, and whatever else they can get away with. It's not like anyone with baseball bats is out there stopping the mafia from entering the store.
  13. Ah, but if you find that needle in the haystack:
  14. She was raised in Florida, the child of a Florida politician. I will never be surprised at the lengths to which she will go to sit at the table of power.
  15. That Kristi Noem photo is the new, 'look at me standing at the Rio Grande protecting you from all these brown people,' performative opportunity that the GOP is now test driving isn't it?
  16. Most Americans know that for all the flaws, America has some advantages. So I look at the above screenshot and think about the plainclothed agents who grabbed the grad student at Tufts earlier and wonder just how many of those same Americans are looking at the future and realizing that today it's international students being hunted down but eventually it will be others. Where the rubber meets the road is that fear--fear of being disappeared into a private prison, out of options and out of reach that will lead some to inform on their neighbors to either buy time or to cave to the regime and its demands to obey. Those cheering these tactics because they assume they are safe and those realizing that the line in the sand shifts closer day by day. Such a deal.
  17. This politico is one of many that keeps on following the hot dog on the fishing line. I get it. But dude, pot calling kettle on the rationalizing if you think this is going to be the straw that broke the camel's yada yada. You ever see a parent that can't quite get the hang of not capitulating to toddler and school age children's extortion schemes? Yeah, you know who I mean because you've all seen them in the aisles at the HEB.
  18. Close Brisket, but female...
  19. Our mower is a push mower that is supposed to mulch and the last mow of the season I kind of work it like your father did except I rake them to the more weaker parts of the lawn to give it some natural organic material. One year it worked a little too well because I mowed a pile over and over right in front of the fence gate where the grass was trampled and the grass grew so well it was hard to get the gate open...
  20. That's pretty much how I react to posts made by certain Surly members. Works for me.
  21. I do. However our oak is a red oak with large lightweight leaves. Live oak leaves, which the wind deposits onto our lawn thanks to our neighbors surrounding us, are much harder to mulch with the mower. We do not own a leaf blower so I just rake the lawn or sweep anything that is against the curb or on another hard surface such as the driveway. One neighbor commented on it and I just said it was a mild workout. While it does take more time than a leaf blower, so does him getting in the car and driving to the gym to walk on the treadmill so we're even.
  22. The new county makes sense. Oklahoma had several cases and those were linked mostly to Gaines County so it's entirely possible that the folks in this community that gather for religious purposes are exhibiting similar behavior as those in the NYC outbreak several years ago did. The families there did not wish to stop socializing with family and friends and thus cases kept climbing. While Gaines County obviously has fewer people than a NYC burrough, measles gonna measles if you don't quarantine at the very least. Given that the news reported that many were on the record as not going to vaccinate, it's going to keep going just as the health department suggested.
  23. The few GOP that have bothered to hold town hall type meetings have made that perfectly clear. The derision and disdain they hold for citizens is not disguised at all. They fear their colleagues in DC and the power there, not the electorate. That is a tell. It's pretty much been on the table since the first go round with the clown show, but we got lucky then. Once they got a do-over, that was the chance for them to walk in and sweep the winnings off the table, overturn it, and take over the saloon. Some of them are insanely stupid or lucky or connected and some of them are smart and know how to conceal and hide their actions while letting others provide cover from the potshots that fell the stooge(s) perched upon the windmill. It's not all that different from the movies ya know.
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