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I would add one what if to the current generation. What if Sean Taylor doesn't die? Our D has never been the same since, and our record might be far different if we had a D. Of course feels like I should be singing that to the tune of "If I only had a brain..."

That is why a jail broken forest icky is a must for watching these shows. You can get them all without having to subscribe to every platform under the sun.

Well for what it's worth, I acknowledge these situations exist. I don't let myself get caught up on a percentage for a goal. I just look for "better" with "better" being determined by how much better, for how many, and at what cost. I think this is the logic which got us the ACA even when many of us liberals would have preferred universal coverage. Iterative improvements is the name of the game...except when a sizable portion of the decision makers want to just burn it all down.

This is the exact reaction liberal areas of the 80's and 90's had to the million dollar Murray issue. It turns out that it is cheaper to rent/provide shelters for the homeless and provide them with social services rather than have homeless people take over parts of the city and then treat them when the inevitable uptick in emergencies happen. The problem comes 5 to 10 years down the line when people see Murray got his studio paid for and has a social worker despite never once paying rent out of his own pocket. How is that fair when Martha has to work two jobs while taking care of her kids as a single mom so she can pay rent? Yes, from a societal level, it makes a lot of sense to get these people off the streets, keep them clothed and even make sure they have food. It's how to sell it at the individual fairness level where it has problems. We are a society that celebrates our individuality and personal responsibility to the point where that is the level we reflexively go to examine right and wrong courses of action. We get stuck making decisions at the micro level even when deciding issues of societal import.

Even for a rich guy with a questionable business history, i bet it's not everyday he is sued for a quarter billion dollars in fraud. That is impressive. I doubt I could amass such charges against me if I tried.

Of course if not married, Buchanan did not cheat on his wife. Lol

I think you are ignoring the poison of 24 hour news willing to publish any dirt. How many people know that before Obama, there was only one president who never cheated on his wife? It wasn't considered news worthy. BTW, the one was Carter who only "lusted in his heart." Lol

I wonder how much the 500 would have to give or give-up to allow the 1's to have housing? I cringe because I think this likely comes down to a fairness issue where the 500 question why the 1 gets help with their lodging and they do not. It comes right back to the questions from the 90's raised with "Million dollar Murray." At some point, we can either fix the problem or be fair to everyone. Until we decide as a society that fixing the problem is more important than total equality, I have no faith in our ability to solve the problem of homelessness, a prerequisite to dealing with other problems in the homeless community.

It's as if they have never heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Nobody is dealing with personal stuff before food, shelter and safety are addressed.

I loved that trilogy starting with the Three Body Problem.

I had to laugh at these holiday tee-shirts. Warning, these are the NSFW shirts. Lol https://www.intense-swag.com/holidays

I am back to my every commercial break of the game doing 15 push-ups followed by a 30 second plank (left side, two hands in middle, followed by right side planks alternating pattern not doing the same one 2 commercial breaks in a row). There are a staggering amount of commercial breaks in a game...No singe break seems like too much, but by the end of the game I am not cheering for time-outs. I do those in addition to training my neighbor's dog to run. I have the dog to the point of not pulling too much after the first 100 yards, and it is good to go for the next 3-4 miles. I have him back in the 8 min mile range. It is a hyper dog that desperately needs a job around the house, but they don't have time to train him. At least when he runs with me, he doesn't spend the day barking at everything.

Martha's Vineyard must have changed since I went there as a kid. When I was growing up, Martha's Vineyard is where all the "old money" (usually more conservative) went and Cape Cod was slightly more low brow. If you really want to hit the liberals, send them to NY city or Boston or anywhere in MD.

That would certainly go as an all-time thread title, "The Anal Beads Chess Thread." It kind of feels like one of my younger kids' madlibs after it was filled out by my teenage kids.

All of the people who point to this play or that play to say the Jags could have or even should have won if only..., remind me of a quote attributed to Lombardi, "This game is going to come down to just a couple of plays. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which ones. So we will have to go play them all."

I want the Skins to win, but I have been a fan long enough to know the Skins have been dreadful for the past 3 decades. Thankfully, this is no longer the Skins. In a fit of optimism, I am going with the heart here. The Coms win 23-21 as the D makes a stand to keep the Jags out of field goal range. It's a new day, right?

or money laundering opportunity?

That maybe true. However having document folders with said markings can just be left overs of documents sent his way, a place to store them when they come to him. He may have legitimately destroyed whatever he got in the folders. The question is whether it was documented correctly or just disposed of to keep there from being any record of the information. The difference is between destroying government records (possible crime) and disposition of papers or copies of papers which is usually a requirement for printing such records (at least in my experience).

I think the Song of Hiawatha should be required reading. I remember really appreciating the story, myths and imagery. It still has the greatest ride into the sunset scene I have run across to end the story: "And they said, "Farewell forever!"Said, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"And the forests, dark and lonely,Moved through all their depths of darkness,Sighed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"And the waves upon the marginRising, rippling on the pebbles,Sobbed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,From her haunts among the fen-lands,Screamed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!" Thus departed Hiawatha,Hiawatha the Beloved,In the glory of the sunset,.In the purple mists of evening,To the regions of the home-wind,Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin,To the Islands of the Blessed,To the Kingdom of Ponemah,To the Land of the Hereafter! "

Is that 90 in the box. There are more throughout the listings. What surprised me is 33 boxes not 15. Granted, many of those boxes do not have documents labeled classified. However, that isn't a distinction which would matter in an espionage case. I do wonder what happened to the documents in the empty folders. I know at my work, I had empty folders where I had taken the documents out but still had folders with the labels for the next time I was dealing with documents on that subject. A common case for that would be folders I had with "training" marked on them. I saved the folders because I knew I would need them again, and why make another folder when i could just reuse the old ones. However, we had to keep a written record of the disposition of all sensitive materials. If he still has that, then there is no issue with empty folders. The folders isn't an issue to me. The lack of documents he should have in them may be.

On a funny note if only to my family, we were watching a show, Somebody Feed Phil, where a guy named Phil travels around the world eating some of the world's best foods. While we were watching last night, we heard one of the best attempts to sneak a fast one by when describing a food. The chef was going through the list of things he used to garnish the pork, and he said, "with a pickled cucumber." We hit stop, rewind and play again just to make sure we heard correctly....um, isn't a pickled cucumber a pickle?

I am reading the Expanse series, and then I saw the tv series. So I started watching it, and it is good. I like how they handle gravity and its lack in many of the scenes. The plot line is well done. Like most things though, I like the book better. Note, I will keep watching it and reading it. I am on book 4 of the books. It looks like the series may only go through book 1, at least for the first season. I have no idea if there are more seasons in the works.

I wonder how all the changes on Philly's D will translate on the field, especially in the first part of the season. So much of defense in today's NFL requires knowing who is responsible for what down cold. Then it requires good, timely communication, and neither of those are givens regardless of the talent levels on the defense. Think about our D last year after being praised up and down. Yes, we ran into much better QB play than the year before, but how many broken coverage TD or big plays did we give up? Great defense requires more than individual talents. Put me in the wait and see before I declare their D much improved. Now if those players had played together for years, I would bet on them being a very good D.

I remember being asked by a person higher up in our organization which of our managers would be least missed if they left tomorrow. I surprised him when I said, "Hopefully me." I then explained if I was doing my job correctly, everyone under me know why we do what we do. Even if they have to reinvent the how, they know the logic. Furthermore, I thought I had given them the knowledge to either use existing how's or invent new ones.... Long story short...everyone who worked for me and with me has been promoted and I have had the same job for 15 years. It's a good thing I have a good job where I am still learning cool things and skills with some great travel opportunities. The benefits and work life balance have been great too.

I feel a guilty pleasure constantly checking this thread. I feel like I am rooting for Ukraine with an almost sports fan like glee. Intellectually, I realize I am cheering for something which is life and death for Ukrainians which seems to belittle its importance. Still, I follow this thread reading each new post. I also think we underplay the impact Russia has had here and in Europe trying to impact elections. Further, I think they remain a real threat going forward as long as we lack understanding why they have done some of the things they have done and continue to do. For example, I still don't understand why they are still in Ukraine. What are they realistically hoping to accomplish? Is this all a face saving operation at this point? Is this an attempt to bleed out European and U.S. military stockpiles on hand and degrade European economies?