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Yeah. I mean if you live in a blue county then you support cat litter boxes in schools right?

Yep. I knew all along if it were a "conservative" it wouldn't get out. If it were a liberal Ted Cruz would be on Fox immediately. They got quiet really really fast at some point when this first got out.

Well that just means he was in on the conspiracy

When we got married one of my best friends was a female. for our shower she got me a humidor and some cigars, along with a cutter. I think outside of our regular dishes it's the only thing remaining from our gifts that day, even if it's sitting in my furnace/work room untouched since about 2002.

I got the sense that McHale's job was to get the stadium built and to act as the liaison with the league because Ilitch was still sort of an outsider. McHale's got a family history in the game. I've said before that the strategy in the mid 90's wasn't flawed. You had McHale, Smith, and Buddy Bell all as legacy people running the team. Not a bad way to go. I wonder how things might have gone had they not built such a silly ballpark to begin with and never made the Juan G trade. There was also the issue of payroll issues. Rumors were the team had to get a loan from the league.

Weird you mention Dallas because her husband or ex husband Jim Lites left the org and went on to the Dallas Stars. He was instrumental in getting the Russians here for the Red Wings. There was a lot of weird things going on with that family.

well so many of them secretly like it as we learn over the decades...

Don't need mammograms and pap smears because they aren't for men. Women went without them for millions of years. Just pray on it and god's will prevails.

The republicans are fucked. They killed themselves from COVID, their base has shrunk. McCarthy is a hostage and any shenanigans they try to pull will totally backfire. Trump is powerless.

It reminds me of the time around the year 2000 when the right wingers opposed embryonic stem cell research. Then it just evolved into opposition to “stem cell” research. Their brains can’t process too many words so things get shortened. See also: Keystone pipelines.

What about Labrador?

Regarding The Queen's Gambit.... I'm not a chess person at all and I loved it so don't let that stop you. It hooked me immediately. The Crown on Netflix is good.

It could just be something that's not a priority right now. That's my hope at least... that it's not a case of someone saying "We think they're fine...." or "we won't spend the money" Then again who knows what goes on behind the scenes. Maybe they see the flaws we do and he's working on it. Does he still do other work? I don't listen to the radio anymore.

The occassional scratch offs are fine and make a great birthday/christmas present for adults. I've got like $40 in tickets to redeem and I usually get the $20 ones with those. I go into my local gas station nearly every day on my daily walk. When I go in for that or gas.... it's the same people buyig tickets after ticket. It's sad.

I struggled with Hamilton and it's my own doing I think. I like the subtitles on. Especially with singing I have always struggled with hearing what they say. But for Hamilton it was distracting because after 15 minutes I found myself just reading a very brief history of things I already knew. I was missing the "performance" of it all. So I turned them off and it was better. But.... I don't know. It didn't get me like apparently everybody else in the universe. I was "meh" about it. I'm not a musical guy at all. I think it's because of the aforementioned problem understanding what they are saying in the song. To me it's just noise. I can't pick out the word

Maybe but I detect some smokiness to it too. Perhaps the fine nature of the powder dispersed it more.

A while back I was making my pasta sauce. I always put crushed red pepper in it. I mistakenly grabbed the chili powder instead and didn’t notice. You have to shake hard on the red pepper flakes so I did that with the chili powder. I scooped most of it out and that was that. I also put in garlic powder and other Italian seasonings. I just use store bought sauce. I also water it down some because I don’t like it thick and it helps with acidity. Sue me. last week the same thing happened with the chili powder but this time I left it in. Everyone loved it. Today…. Same thing. I didn’t solicit opinions or tell them what I did. We eat pasta every Tuesday. I didn’t use a lot. Just a shake or two. I usually do 5 or 6 shakes of the other stuff.

We used our China once.... in 25 years. I think it was during the pandemic, the Easter when we were still locked down and it was just us and her mom. Wife wanted something "nice". I forgot we even had it. We also have a quesadilla maker, that came from our uncle who was addicted to the Casinos. He got it "for free". That free item probably ended up costing a family member $25K in inheiritance.

I wonder if the person could even hear you or was listening? I order taco bell every Sunday when I visit my mom. I use their app. "Grab and Go". They even have a nice display on the counter for those orders. Yet every week they don't put it there. I see it sitting by the workers. People busy, making stuff, getting things for the drive thru. I'm standing there. Nobody asks. In situations like this I like to wonder why it is that way and I imagine it's because people take the wrong order. Delivery drivers for the ubereats of the world etc. just grab whatever they see, assuming it's for them. But the apps are amazing. Especially for Chick Fil A by us. Its timed perfect in our situation.

the best and easiest advice I would give any young people starting out with their own place... if ever plan on doing any painting on their own, invest in some high quality heavy tarps. Get several shapes. Get more than you think you'll need so that you can fold them up into any combination of shape you require for that job. It might cost you a few hundred up front. But they will last. Get them as a "shower" gift if you must, much more practical than a bread maker, waffle maker, or fancy china. All that stuff just sits unused in boxes.

If Trump had backed someone other than McCarthy I don't think that person would have had a shot.

Millennials and Zoomers do not watch baseball. The only sports that draw them are football and baseball.

Yes. Always. We basically have a “pile”. Every few months I go thru it. I usually find auto and home insurance policy renewals. Old EOB medical docs. Bank statements unopened from accounts that we don’t touch. Medical bill. All the important things are stored elsewhere in a safe. I still have 2 boxes in my garage from when I cleared my office out after COVID. There were proprietary things in there but not anymore. It is amazing to think I had 2 file cabinets of papers I haven’t looked at in nearly 3 years.

I wonder if someone dug thru previous presidents papers they have what could be found? There’s millions of documents. The individual doesn’t do all of that. It’s staffers. Are they really being diligent? Do you just grab a stack of Manila folders from file cabinet A and shove them in a box without looking through each one? I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of thing happens all the time but given what Trump did by fighting it then it becomes news now.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-president-eisenhower-upon-signing-bill-restoring-his-military-rank he was restored to “active duty”. A technicality as he had no authority. Just an ego boosting ego thing.