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  1. Amy Coney Barrett is 51 years old and Brett and Neil not much older. So much fun to come let me tell you.
  2. Maybe add Fetterman to that list and make sure he understands to invade Johnson's personal space bubble while they're all talking.
  3. Huh, how about that. Kinda like a buncha 60+ year old white guys telling a woman how her ectopic pregnancy is no big deal or if she clinches her thighs together she can repress her menstrual blood and other nonsense they haven't the slightest clue upon.
  4. Welcome to my life, good sir. Have a seat, would you like the abridged version?
  5. Eighteen days in and WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! The Cloak Room Is Not So Bad thread is eyeballing its counterpart:
  6. I don't know but probably. I'm waiting for the library's copy.
  7. One of my kids is near Bridger-Teton (Wyoming/Idaho) and said that's also been an issue there.
  8. Our country does need more labor if employer and industry groups are lobbying legislatures to lower certain requirements for minors to assume dangerous jobs/work longer hours on school days. The "cheap" is something that is tossed around a lot but I believe (opinion!) that discussion is incredibly nuanced and not for this specific thread.
  9. I figured the publisher requirement was about $$. A religious or politically connected publisher given a heads-up could have materials set to go and force the other big houses to follow suit. Texas book sales are big money in education and the rest of the nation follows to some degree.
  10. I *loved that song. Have you read her book published last year?
  11. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953) 61 years ago George Orwell, 1984 (1949) 75 years ago Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here (1935) 89 years ago
  12. Taylor Swift's impact on a potential KC Chief's playoff win is NOT trivial. (Not to mention, the League ought to be thanking her because she's brought more eyeballs to their product by a demo that spends $$).
  13. Reporter James Bickerson (Newsweek) has been reporting from Eagle Pass and he had a short item about the Texas State Police have been arresting migrants (charging with criminal trespass) and detaining them. Someone who follows immigration law closely please chime in--wasn't this an issue before--by charging with a state offense it creates a migrant with a criminal record and therefore cause for inadmissibility to this country in the future? (Source for original article here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/greg-abbott-defies-joe-biden-as-texas-begins-arresting-migrants/ar-AA1nbeZV) Also: Texas DPS spokesperson's twitter account confirms with statement and video of arrests and detention. $$ flowing back into their pockets after they got their budget cut by $160 million...
  14. Under. 2.15" I almost went with 1.25" but it's warmer so may pull a little more moisture out.
  15. Doesn't surprise me. He sunk a lot of money into his pride and now he's going to rationalize and justify it. We all do that in varying degrees. SEE: Texas A&M University--- Football Coaches, Years 22018-2023)
  16. Ohhhhhh. It is all beginning to make sense with this "pod" reveal... How it's started: How it ends: "Proctors" coming soon to a neighborhood near you! /s
  17. Being offbase over a differing opinion would (ideally) be when a poster posits a view on US immigration policy as it pertains to the thread title, i.e. I agree with the governor's stance on deploying the Texas National Guard to control access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas which is a common BP processing area for immigrants crossing the Rio Grande or I maintain that the federal government and its agency, USBP is not doing what it needs to do blah, blah, blah. Those are, IMO, (SWIDT) opinion statements and can and should be discussed. When someone posts a comment, as LL did, about not believing everything one reads on social media, I would not disagree with that. Actually that is a good rule of thumb in general. However, when that statement is followed by two articles that omit certain details, then it is no less a travesty than the media sources bouncing around the events in order to catch eyeballs and outrage. LL wanted to do a drive by hit post and succeeded but when others tried to engage, using the actual materials surrounding the events, LL showed that was not the point. The point was to, essentially, raise feelings of superiority inside himself. Perhaps, because, the thought that denying monitoring access to the Shelby Park boat ramp so that BP might've noticed that a group of immigrants (consisting of mostly women and children) were in distress and that the Texas National Guard didn't do anything because they either didn't notice themselves (because they weren't monitoring crossers closely) or because they did not care if immigrants were in distress or died is something that might raise feelings of discomfort or horror. Or maybe it doesn't. Some people don't give a shit if people die crossing the Rio Grande trying to make it to the other side. That's my opinion. But the fact is, for the last two days leading to the victims' crossing, the BP has been denied access to the boat ramp where they monitor crossings and perform rescues. Also a fact: those three people are dead. The victims may or may not have made it to a better place, depending upon your beliefs. Finally, one can argue the point about the timing of the drownings, but the fact remains that the BP had been performing monitoring and rescues and processing prior to the TNG taking over the park and its boat ramp (see earlier posts). Is the TNG going to permit monitoring or are they going to sit on the banks and watch a game of "Survivor" in real time? It was already hazardous, but this is stomach turning and inhumane. That is also my differing opinion. SMDH
  18. We were concerned but refrained from asking so as to spare you any discomfort over your mass extinction event. Happy to learn that some of them survived.
  19. Wow, Julia Duffy has a doppleganger from the '80s
  20. He withdrew the bill and said it was an inadvertent mistake and will refile it per several news sources. https://www.wymt.com/2024/01/17/inadvertent-change-representative-says-incest-bill-mistakenly-removes-first-cousins-language/
  21. From Reuters (2/7/22): The large companies have found a work around: staffing firms. You will note in the quote above that the staffing firm shoulders the liability, not Perdue or Sanderson Farms or Tyson et. al. In addition, look at all the savings and profits one can rake in by docking pay and avoiding benefits, etc. It was "suggested" earlier that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the immigrant's healthcare...but it appears as if the corporations have decided that on your behalf because they sure as hell aren't paying for it and they sure as hell aren't going to stop using migrant labor. Where is the outrage against the exploitation of the so-called common working men and women?
  22. Set up a distillation device in your lil portico underneath your kitchen, plumb a diverter you can switch on so that you have a mix of gin or vodka coming into the lines and it will lower the freezing point. Um, you're an attorney so might want to figure out some legalese so you don't have any unfortunate encounters with authorities. Buy some limes, lemons, horseradish, ginger beer, and tomato juice. Because you should just happen to have those around.
  23. The statement in the docket that I quoted on the prior page explains that the BP was not allowed to monitor the area as of January 10th which was 2 days prior to the drowning of the three human beings. The BP couldn't have provided assistance from the US side because they had no vantage point from which to do so specifically because of the Texas State Guard. The article listed omits that because they can say, with no shame or compassion whatsoever, that Mexican authorities attempted a rescue (failed) and then reported to BP what had occurred for the news' outlets sole purpose of making it seem as if the actions of Abbott's decision had no consequences and that the BP was trying to paint Abbott and the people who report to him in a bad light. Since the BP was not allowed to monitor the area, it is futile to speculate that the immigrants would have drowned anyway. The BP rescued 249 people in water-related incidents (FY 2021, the most recent data). That same year, along the SW border (Texas to Cali) 12,857 people were rescued in total. (The type of rescue varies--heat/cold, etc). It is disingenuous to act as if Abbott's action was not a political maneuver, a maneuver to continue the narrative that his is the only solution to how this nation of immigrants treats latter immigrants who come to our borders.
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