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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?

Reducing pay for work from home is silly unless the company is giving something else to set up the home. Granted, it's a win win for them if they can reduce pay. Then they pay less for the physical space to work and for the workers.

Two iconic roles in series at the same time...Han Solo and Indian Jones?

I would say there is an assault on our education system across the nation. In Anne Arundel County MD for example, due to a shortage of teachers, all of the staff is now required to teach. If that spunds like a good idea, consider IEP coordinators. Usually teachers get help with the writing and scheduling to make sure the actual needs of the children are written into measurable metrics. Now we have teachers needing to acquire another skill set and manage another schedule. Meanwhile, people who haven't taught in years/decades are being pressed into service to teach classes they aren't otherwise qualified to teach. Then there are the aides who are pressed into service and forbidden from moving jobs. We have one who would otherwise qualify to teach disabled children with a promotion. However, she is locked in current position and will leave the county to get the job for which she is qualified. So our county loses at both positions, special ed qualified teacher and an aide (like everyone else, we need both). We could have just been down an aide. The worst thing is these stupid decisions are all over.

They can summon Garland to testify over and over which can gum things up.

If he never learned to control his anger, it would just be another thing his parents tried in an effort to get him to control his anger. It wouldn't be the end of the story. Either the boy would suffer for his loss of control in some way or another way of teaching him would get through. Then the story would both be about learning to control anger and also the persistence parents need to have in coming up with different ways to impart life's lessons to our kids. Sadly, I fee like I live this parable trying to teach my kids. We are constantly left with the wreckage of failed teachings...and it becomes more a story of finding the ones that resonate with each of our four very different children.

I have to admit, I havent felt as positive about a rookie QB since I really wanted the skins to draft Drew Brees. So I dont normally have many thoughts on rookie qb's, even when we had the rookie of the Year. I just hope my hunch is as correct this time as it was way back when Brees fell in the draft. Note he didnt,fall nearly as far, so maybe my hunches are closer to some thing I ate.

As somebody whose grandmother was likely on a government list during McCarthy for being a liberal, I find his statement about "if your grandmother was a conservative, you could be on their list" rather amusingly ignorant of our country's history. She was one of the early members of the Women's League of Voters and regularly put out liberal position pieces for them.