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  1. We had some buttermilk I wanted to finish off so to answer the question, "Do gin martinis work as a cocktail prior to consuming pancakes and sausage (breakfast for supper)?"

    The answer is: "In our house, that is affirmative."

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Tesla has ten times the market cap of Ford. Why are they making bush league mistakes on extremely limited runs of cars if they're supposed to be worth more than the next five largest automakers combined?

    Recalls can make $$ for the dealer. While the accelerator issue may be legitimate, perhaps it's a way to keep some funds coming in to the folks that sell the trucks?

    https://www.wardsauto.com/dealers/dealers-can-reach-extra-bases-recall-field

  3. On 4/12/2024 at 1:07 PM, HenryJames said:

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    On 4/12/2024 at 1:13 PM, TexPx said:


    Thanks! Know where I’m going tonight.

    In The Music Man, there's a reason Professor Harold Hill sang "Madam librarian..."  if you know what I mean.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Yeah but why is this a thread and not in the Joe Biden or presidential election thread. 

     

    1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    Because somebody wanted attention. 

    And apparently was  high and/or perhaps lacks certain skills related to organization, comprehension, analyzing, and logic.

  5. 2 hours ago, safe sex said:

    Imagine thinking that most people don't use USPS

    I sure do! I take our clerks baked goods so they can deal with all the haters knowing that at least one person in the neighborhood likes what they do. Congress has really dropped the ball on what the USPS could've done for our country if allowed to modernize and provide cross agency services. They visit every single place in the US six days a week.

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  6. 22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Between Kari Lake and abortion, Arizona should be solid Dem for years to come.

    About that; here's something to give you pause...

    https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/092623_election_official_turnover/98-arizonans-will-have-new-elections-officials-2024/

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    Arizona has lost nearly all of its experienced election officials and 98% of the state will have new officials running elections in 2024 than ran the 2020 elections, a new report found. 

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    The state has also seen threats of violence towards election officials and those who help administer elections. Five recent cases from the U.S. Department of Justice were all from Arizona that included individuals who called for election officials to be killed and in some areas, such as in Yavapai County, one official ended up needing security from the local sheriff at their home.

    The report by Issue One, a nonpartisan political reform nonprofit, shows that 12 of Arizona’s 15 counties will have new election officials this cycle, many of whom are less experienced than their predecessors. An estimated 98% of Arizona’s expected 2024 voters live in those counties. 

    Arizona has seen a drain of 176 collective years of experience since November 2020. Additionally, the median amount of experience for officials in the 12 impacted counties has dropped from about 10 years to about 1. 

    Also:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1242811437/election-voting-officials-threats-turnover

    From that article above at NPR, here's a figure from the nationwide study:

    "The researchers measured whether a local election office changed hands over a 4-year cycle. In 2022 (the most recent year with complete data), the turnover rate was 39%, compared to 28% in 2004.

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    A chart showing election official turnover rate since the 2000 election.

    Courtesy of the Bipartisan Policy Center

    In recent years, as the attrition began to snowball, experts worried the impact on 2024 could be disastrous.

    New election officials tend to make more mistakes, and conspiracy theories about voting tend to focus on honest mishaps to try to build a false narrative that voting more broadly can't be trusted."

    The article does go on to remark that overall & especially in large metro areas the new officials coming in still have a fair bit of experience. But IMO, Arizona may be a bellwether for "issues" that YOU KNOW the RW media will play up into a storm like in 2020.

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  7. 3 hours ago, Pancho said:

    Good. Fucking. Christ.

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    Also:

    From a 2016 article by CBS reporter Jared Dubin, he talks about an interview Rodgers had with Bill Simmons (Any Given Wednesday) about his concussions...
     

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    Here's a partially edited transcript of the exchange about the first concussion:

    Rodgers: "I had a bizarre metallic -- one eye went metallic. I could only see out of my right eye."

    Simmons: "WHAT?"

    Rodgers: "Yeah."

    Simmons: "What happened?"

    Rodgers: "I got hit. We were playing Washington. I got hit by like three guys on a blitz. London Fletcher came around and he was one of three guys that kind of hit me. Side of the head."

    Simmons: "And you lost sight in your left eye?"

    Rodgers: "Yeah. It went out -- it was just metallic. It was like a silver metallic in the left side."

    HIS EYE WENT METALLIC. I don't even know what that means, but it sounds... not great.

     

    Rodgers hasn't been doing his brain any favors.

  8. It might, but honestly the thing with rolling dough whether pie crust or tortillas is that practice is sometimes all that is needed. I was making pies from a young age and whenever I went for a long enough spell w/o rolling crust, the skills got a little rusty and then would pick right back up. Get comfortable with rolling dough every week and you don't have to think about it, it begins to flow like a great jump shot.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    About the bill's author:

    • Fritts attended Liberty University and the University of Tennessee (I guess he didn't actually graduate).
    • On April 5, 2023, just weeks after a deadly school shooting, he voted to move a bill forward to arm teachers.
    • On April 11, 2024, Frits was one of only two house members who voted against bills SB 1917 and HB 2041 that would ban marriage between biological first cousins. 

     

     

    According to his bio and a couple of candidate forums, he does  have degrees; a multidisciplinary BS in Business/Chemistry from Liberty as well as an MA in Theology, an MBA from Tennessee, and a certificate from a leadership program from MIT. He's also a veteran (Army) and served in Iraq. His service was 1983-93 and then a re-enlistment in 2003. He defeated Dr. Jan Hahn, a family medicine physician, in the general election. (76.7%-23.3%) after roundly beating the other 4 R candidates.

    He appears to be a God, Guns, and *Gomorrah type of rep.

     

     

    *Everything "I" don't like or understand is wicked/a sin.

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  10. We had a lot going on this weekend and just finished with the kitchen clean up. Fish, grilled portobello mushrooms, etc along with gin rickeys during the prep and a French gimlet for afters. Both of those cocktails use fresh squeezed limes and I have to say having our own little lime tree is a nice bonus.

  11. Finished the Toobin book and am three chapters in on Disillusioned by Benjamin Herold. It's promising thus far and more than a little unsettling based on personal experiences (with respect to education).

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  12. 8 hours ago, bolverk said:

     

    A few days ago, I got curious about when the schools that Texas affiliates with (or will soon) began accepting Black undergrad students and was taken aback by how late some of them came around. This is what I found based on either Wikipedia or school websites.

    1948 Arkansas (first public school below the Mason-Dixon line)
    1949
    1950 Missouri, Tennessee
    1951
    1952
    1953
    1954 Kentucky
    1955 Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
    1956 Texas
    1957
    1958
    1959
    1960
    1961 Georgia, Texas Tech
    1962 Ole Miss, Florida, SMU, Houston, Rice
    1963 Alabama, South Carolina
    1964 Texas A&M, LSU, Auburn, Vanderbilt, Baylor, TCU
    1965 Mississippi State

    A&M didn't admit women without limitations until 1969 and that was due to $$$$. That school would've been around the size of VMI (~2000 students give or take) if Rudder and the regents hadn't seen the writing on the wall. Ah well, nevertheless.

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  13. 43 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

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    for the record I am completely down with fresh sourdough bread and sex.

    The ideal wife would garotte you for not knowing that there is no 'e' in the plural of tattoos.

    She wouldn't work outside the house because guess what? The house requires more work than you can afford if you contracted it out. She knows this and if you don't then you are fucking stupid so congratulations you have married someone that you should be thanking because when if she ever realizes this she is going to make you pay in all the ways your bitch ass will think is all because she is crazy when it's actually because you're fucking stupid to think this is what an ideal wife is.

     

    *I really need to stop posting after the post prandial drinkfest.

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  14. I know the (my) limit and I abide by it. Seriously, I work pretty hard at keeping it at a level that is very "aware" at what is healthy.

    That being said, we tried a couple of new things this weekend.

    I'd never bought curacao and decided to try it. A blue martini. TBH, it wasn't all that. Pretty, but a regular martini has better flavor. But the prosecco and creme de mure we had with supper? That was quite nice. A little sweet and a little bubbly.

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