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oblong

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  1. I'm willing to bet I talked with more Muslims in the last week (since I was in Chicago for 3 days I have to extend it) than Archie has in his entire life. But go ahead man.... tell me what they are like.
  2. this is false
  3. Like in Apollo 13 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin go to sit with Jim Lovell’s mom in the nursing home during the flight. “Are you boys in the space program too?”
  4. Damn I wish I had gotten to the medieval stuff. I was getting tired. It was around 3.30 and we wanted to walk around outside some more. I have sensory issues and after a while things become a blur. Should have planned better. All the Asian stuff on the first floor probably overwhelmed me. I can’t shouldn’t read everything especially without my glasses and having to strain. But there was good stuff there. I got yelled at for getting too close to one of the works by Pollack. I looked at it from the side to see how thick the paint was and I crossed the taped threshold on the floor.
  5. But you also have some on the 'left' who won't vote for a centrist because they once used the wrong pronoun or maybe didn't explicitly condemn someone for making an off color joke in 1993.
  6. This is an absolutely brilliant spoof on Rogan's show. It may only make sense if you've listened to him. For some reason they just play music for first 2 minutes. My friend and I listened together last night and were texting back and forth. They nail it so well. It's not SNL where the jokes are obvious but if you have listened to his podcast you will get it... basically say a bunch of words for 3 minutes but don't really say anything...
  7. One of the bands I follow made an album a few years ago that had nothing on it. They asked their fans to stream it while they were sleeping. That went on for a bit before Spotify caught on and they used their "royalties", $20K, to fund a free tour.
  8. After the '52 election Ike promised that he would appoint Earl Warren when a vacancy on the court occurred. Before that Warren was a politician, ran for President a few times, and was on the ticket with Dewey as VP candidate. He was never a judge. He was pretty active politically in the GOP. (Like Kavanaugh?) He also supported Japanese internment. I really don't see any difference between saying you promise to appoint an individual or a "kind of individual". Was Warren the most "qualified"? I don't even know what that means in relation to a SC justice.
  9. Yes I did see the big red building. I forgot how much I liked Chicago. It's a big city but not too big. We had breakfast at Wildberry near the park, everybody suggested it. It was really good. Didn't need lunch. Went to the Art Museum to kill time and I've come to the conclusion that a lot of Art is basically the same thing as crypto currency and NFT's... something is great because they said it's great. An artist reaches a certain level and people just assume it's good and will believe any explanation. There was literally just a giant painting that was gray. That's it. Just gray paint. There was also a sink mounted to the wall... looked like a trough from Tiger Stadium or Joe Louis. It was art supposedly.
  10. I was wondering how it was outside of the city. We got in Friday and walked around the mile and went into stores to warm up and shop. Didn’t really go outside of a mile radius from state and lake except for a ride up the red train to wrigley just to see it. I didn’t see a single mask less person inside. The only time we were not asked for our proof was Starbucks this morning but I saw them ask someone else. Saturday around 4 we walked down state street to the Harold Washington library. I didn’t know that’s what it was and wanted to see what the building was. Things started to look a little shaky. Getting hit up for money…. that kind of thing. for some reason I thought stuff was further apart and probably didn’t need rhe 3 day passes. I anticipated a few bus rides. It was cold but not that bad.
  11. I spent the weekend in Chicago. They mandate masks indoors. And any place you consume food requires proof of vaccination. Starbucks. Restaurants. Donut shops. It was a good system. Of course I was downtown
  12. 2016 Lindsay Graham called. He gusheds on Childs. Seemed over the top but then I made the SC connection.
  13. People act like that this is the NFL combine and we are measuring their time in the 40 but ignoring it for the black lady.
  14. People who bitch about the pick “not being the best candidate” need to tell us who the best candidate is. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist. There’s hundreds if not thousands of equally qualified people out there. There’s no playbook or metrics that define the best candidates.
  15. No other bridged collapsed. Obviously it’s a false flag.
  16. Wishing all the best.
  17. McLendon is to the Tigers what Jay Leno was to NBC.... he just won't go away.
  18. She met a tragic end in the Hustler
  19. come up with the ruling you want and hire clerks to write a story to fake like you care...
  20. for sure... just pushing back on the "problem" of saying we need a black woman on the bench. The vast majority of our justices were picked due to their race and gender.
  21. this is painful to watch.... you wonder how some people can tie their shoes.
  22. You would need a distinct course on Christianity alone just to explain all the differences within. Otherwise it’s just very high level stuff you could scrape off a Wikipedia list. If anything make it a combo of history/geography/religion. Evangelicals live in a bubble. That’s by design. And to them it’s all normal. In their defense it’s totally logical to believe what they do because it’s been indoctrinated in them their whole life and they’ve often been sheltered from the world to not know any better.
  23. Until Thurgood Marshall every SC pick was chosen based on their race and gender.
  24. Don’t judge. We all can’t be George Clooney.
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