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Our company gave it as a holiday when it was enacted but then immediately incorporated floating holidays. Part of the reasoning is good, why have Good Friday off but not Yom Kippur or an Eid or some of the Hindu holidays? And we can move them to a Friday or Monday.

The last one is definitely something they are itching for. “They already have MLK day”

A friends dad wasn’t even a US citizen. He was born in Canada, never became a citizen, joined the army, got out and slipped through the cracks somehow. The UAW guy either did some paperwork shuffling or nobody cared. Worked 45 years and is still going strong in his 90s.

I don't think Bill and Don were "good friends". They are NY people. That world has a lot of cross pollination. And Trump was always creepy, same as Bill, and we all know his history with real estate. But it wasn't until Obama's term and after the Apprentice that he went further into his conspiracy stuff. I don't know much about Tulsi but we have all seen how these people have switched to Pro Russia at a certain point in their career once they saw the opportunity. I don't know what the point of all this is. Am I supposed to hold it against Bernie b/c Tulsi went off the deep end? Should I quit watching Curb Your Enthusiasm b/c of RFK Jr's wife?

Yes. And those jerseys appear to be popular with the youngins.

In my job we deal with secrecy, both in terms of a proprietary nature and things that are not yet public knowledge and some things go beyond the standard internal understanding that you don't blab. We are a publicly traded company. SEC, etc. Meaning.... if we talk about subject A, we have to make sure the people in our audience are either NDA'd or asked to leave. When we have meetings we validate who is on the call. The meeting organizer is responsible ultimately but we all also do it. Nobody wants to talk to our lawyers. I've been involved in things I couldn't even discuss with my direct reports two levels up. I'm not saying that to brag or that I'm special... I'm not. I'm a non mangement grunt. But I go through these exercises and it's unbelievable that people at that level in our government are not doing, at minimum, the same thing. The invite was careless. I don't know anything about Signal but I assume you can see who else is on the chat. Everybody on that should have wondered who "JG" was.

I agree with you. I have tickets to every Friday game and that's when they wear them. So for me it makes me think of a nice evening in late May or June with a friend, thinking about the weekend, and where we'll go after.

And GenX will be the immediate losers. Face it, we're not young anymore. We're almost at retirement. Someone suggested going in and downloading your earnings statements. I have mine.

Does she represent any meangingful voting demographic?

But this president leads the branch of government charged with executing those laws and he himself was pretty much doing after his first presidency. Do we think Kash Patel of all people is going to be like "Ok boys, go get him." It's important and a big deal to people who care about such things but those people in charge of doing anything about it do not are about such things. What "we" want is irrelevant because "they" are the ones in a position to act. We can't make them.

There will be no fallout, except for the reporter.

I'm sure Congress will do their duty and investigate this.

If they don't win over those low information voters then the battle is already lost. The game is not played by the same rules anymore. The GOP are spread out shooting threes and fast breaking while the dems are doing set shots and pick and rolls. The purity of the game is lost.

On this day in 1965 Gemini III launched. It was the programs first manned mission. Gus Grissom, making his second flight and John Young making his first of six total flights. this was the first time we maneuvered a capsule to change orbits. It was a 4 hour mission. What made this flight interesting is Wally Schirra slipped a corned beef sandwich into the pocket of John young which he pulled out once in orbit for a few bites before crumbs began floating around. It was a prank but the serious people kn congress were not happy. It became a big deal. Crumbs are a no no. They can get in switches. Even today thy use tortillas for bread. Among space fans today is kind of a holiday where you eat a corned beef sandwich in his honor. John Young was my favorite astronaut. He dates back to 1962 and flew with Gus and he also flew the first shuttle mission which I remember watching. That gives me a link to the glory days. When you count leaving the moon he had 7 blast offs.

One thing about Mickey Stanley I learned is that this wasn’t something out of the blue that was down before the WS. That’s how it was presented to me all these years. Like Mayo Smith woke up and came up with the solution. They planned it down the stretch.

Dems need to stretch the truth and in some cases exaggerate in their ads. Show the DOGE headlines with the job cuts and presidents fat ass golfing. Show the plane crashes. The unemployment and market graphs. Quit worrying about being fact checked by a newspaper nobody reads or a TV show nobody watches. It works for the GOP it can work for the Dems.

It’s about who they are against. A variation of “own the libs”. They will support anybody who is the enemy of their enemy. They hate liberals more than they love people or Jesus.

This was a real concern during the Gemini spacewalks. Gemini IV was the first one and they had a hell of a time getting the hatch closed due to the suit pressurization. That was unexpected and the Russians had the same problem (they deflated Leonov's suit to a dangeous level) and of course they didn't share that info with us. Ed White was the strongest astronaut and if not for that they may not have gotten it. Then later on Gemini 9 for the next spacewalk, Deke Slayton pulled Tom Stafford aside and gave him the directive that if anything happens to Gene Cernan on his spacewalk he has to cut him loose. There's no way they could get a dead or incapacitated body back inside the capsule and close the hatch with just one person doing it, from the other side. Those capsules had two hatches, one for each person. Cernan did have a hard time on his walk as he did things White didn't. It was very exhausting. He would sweat and then the visor would ice over. He's using his oxygen. Comms were bad between him and the ship. He was very overheated and his heart rate got up to 195. He had to be ordered back in. All the things that seems like common sense now were being figured out. Like having footholds and bars to grab onto. They didn't know that. Otherwise, you touch something in zero G, then it pushes you away. You try to exert force and you just spin around (Think about sitting on a sit and spin as a kid, that's what it's like). Gravity is what allows you to open a jar of tomato sauce with your hands. Anyway.... in Stafford's book he said there was no way he would have done that, he would have fought it until the end and probably try to re-enter as best they could together knowing it was a suicide mission, rather than let two dead people and their ship orbit the earth. After the conversastion where he was told to cut him loose, Cernan asked Tom "What did Deke want?" "oh it's nothing"

I bet Florida loves that.

All the talk about going to Mars.... I'm still not convinced we'll do it as humans. The moon is roughly 240,000 miles. Mars, because of the different points in orbit between that planet and us ranges from 35-140 million miles. In perspective scale, shrink the earth to the size of a typical globe you'd see in a school... the moon is 30 feet away. Mars would be a mile away. That 30 foot journey took 3-4 days during Apollo. If people are willing to go there and stay... far more likely. You can find tons of discussions out there on the subject.

A spur of the moment of rage that overtakes logic and reason, like it's not even you doing it...... kind of like when Clemens threw the bat at Piazza in the world series.

Has there been an analysis done on the 2024 election to see who voted, who didnt, who switched, etc.? That's where we will find our answers. Did people switch from Biden to Trump? Did people vote for Biden in '20 then not vote? Did people who didn't vote in '20 come out for Trump? That kind of thing.