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What’s the source for saying Harris is “difficult” to deal with?

Driving today my wife was on her phone and started to tell me about something regarding Dr Oz and I just shut it down. I’m tired of reading about all of them. 

I can’t imagine having to defend this.  Republicans are not normal. 

You can’t do solar in space. Haven’t you seen pictures?  It’s dark. 

Make no mistake, there is a decent bloc of Tiger "fans" who enjoyed what they saw in May because for some reason they have a hatred of Scott Harris... I see it as a combination of his youth and intelligence.  Many are not cut out to be baseball fans because it's every day and requires some balance.  You can't over react to every play and every game but talk radio and podcasters and twitter folks need something to talk about.

The Heinz museum in Pittsburgh has a great section on the Seven Years War.  I never paid much attention to it, just one of those things you gloss over in HS history class.  But it was fascinating to read about it there and it was quite complex.

11 hours ago, casimir said:

that year is the equivalent to the 1980 and 1985 seasons of SNL.  It was there but we don't really acknowledge it.  Between that stupid logo and the striping on the jerseys... hideous times.

What’s with the “4” patch?  Did Bobby Higginson die?

If I knew nothing about the candidates the guy on the right would look foolish. Who decided that was a good idea?

They don’t care.  The GOP cares in terms of electoral politics but the admin is outside of that now.  They just care about getting rich. 

I take the US/Soviet space race and project paper clip approach. “Our Germans are better than their Germans” 

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Somebody has been two busy self promoting to actually do a smidgen of research on the founders  view of Freedom of Religion.

Most of us critical of organized religion support the right to decide who and how to worship, not just blindly follow what the TV and most MAGA Church leaders want us to believe. Basically they hate educated folks

do they hate Jews too?  Or Buddhists?  How come those religions never whine about it?  It's always the Christian Nationalists.

SEriously... look through history. Every important social evolution that's taken place in our nation's history had protestant Christianity opposing it.  Slavery.  Womens rights. Civil rights.  Interracial marriage.   Gay acceptance.  

Yet they bitch anytime you call them out and pretend to be victims.  

calling a "freedom from religion" group a group that "hates Christians' is some of the biggest pussy ass thinking you can find.  Grow a pair.  Man up.  Stop acting like a victim just because someone doesn't want your theology shoved in their faces.  What a coward.   It really shows a lack of faith and confidence in your own beliefs to have to play victim all the time.  But we knew that.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

seeing that Stevens has pulled ahead in MI Senate race polls.  Is that good?  I ask you niggling purists?  

Hard to say... I personally don't really care as long as D wins the seat but I fear that Al Sayed's supporters will pull a Bernie and bail because, as MB said, Stevens isn't anti "zionist" enough or whatever.

progressives can be cry babies and the arab/muslim community is very tribal and once Al Sayed had a shot, if he doesn't get it, they'll see it as an anti muslim act and just sit at home... unless our local leaders show courage that they didn't in 2024, by pretending there's no real difference between a republican and a democrat.

Sounds like someone you’d like. 

A news story said the guy was looking for Tom  Cruise and made references to his father but it wasn’t clear whether his or Toms father. He was going the wrong way then slowly drove into the terminal. 

I think that was the McNamara terminal. This was the Evans. Wonder how busy that one is now with spirit gone. I used it once for United. 

I remember being sad that I missed 1976 because I was just under 3 years old.  I had 250 marked as something that would be awesome.  Now it's just meh.  That bastard will make it all about himself and show no dignity or grace.

Speaking of... Obama's library is opening up soon.  Those events used to be fun for bipartisanship.  You'd get all the former presidents together being friendly.  In one of my books they talk about Clinton's library opening and George HW Bush and Clinton had by that point become great friends. They were wandering around the halls slowly and Dubya, showing his hand as POTUS told a staffer "Will someone tell 41 and 42 that 43 is hungry?"

There's plenty of money to go around and really the only meaningful competition between the two regards the lunar lander and even as presented there's a lot of doubts.   At minimum the New Glenn's are needed to deliver rovers to the moon for use on any lunar landings, they were awarded $188M to do that this week.... Artemis's goal isn't just to go to the moon and back like Apollo.  If all of these systems aren't working then there's no point.   Artemis III is going to test out lunar landers in low earth orbit, allegedly next year.  I doubt it.

Martina McBride is playing our local homecoming festival this summer.  Good for her.

deja vu all over again?

shrugs

**** them.  They aren't just on the other side of my politics.  They are evil people.  The most evil people to have ever held office in our 250 years.  they all deserve pain and suffering and a lot of it.

I think Artemis II is going to be our peak in our lifetime. That’s why I enjoyed it so much as a space geek. Finally… I got to look at the moon that morning and get to say “there’s people up there”

Maybe the Chinese beat us back to it.  
 

That…. Sucks.  

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Maybe it’s just what gets fed to me but I see lots of anecdotal stories on there being second thoughts on corporate AI use.  You are basically putting your “employees” in a subscription model.  Instead of buying DVDs of your favorite movies just subscribe to streaming. Then we will keep jacking up the price and play around with “licensing” until you get pissed off and miss your DVDs which were yours.  
 I saw my companies license fees on our models. Some were minuscule but the more complex tools were not. Of course the die is cast.