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I would also add the NE OL with 2 rookie guards is handling the PHL DL. Without the PHL pick 6 they're losing right now...

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Good article...

Danny going away for a while...see ya scumbag! Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years in rape case: 'You are not the victim here,' says judge Danny Masterson was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison for raping two women at his Los Angeles home in the early 2000s. Masterson, 47, chose not to speak during the hearing — he didn't testify in either trial. Judge Charlaine Olmedo announced her decision following emotional statements from his victims and "verbally dismantled Masterson's defense," according to legal journalist Meghann Cuniff. https://news.yahoo.com/entertainment/danny-masterson-sentenced-30-years-rape-case-190238995.html

Huckabee: 2024 will be last election ‘decided by ballots rather than bullets’ if Trump loses over legal cases Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn’t win the presidential race because of his various legal battles. In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are part of a politically motivated scheme from the Biden administration, an argument touted by many in the former president’s orbit. “If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” Huckabee warned in his opening monologue. Huckabee accused President Biden and his team of trying “to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024″ and “to destroy Trump in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box.” He also alleged the Justice Department, the IRS and the FBI are “conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes, while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes.” https://news.yahoo.com/huckabee-2024-last-election-decided-201910814.html

Trump suffers another defeat in E. Jean Carroll case as judge makes key ruling against him Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Wednesday that writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump had largely been decided. In a 25-page opinion, Kaplan handed down another defeat for the former president by limiting the trial to damages only. Kaplan said Carroll had proved in the first trial that Trump demonstrated "actual malice." "The trial in this case shall be limited to the issue of damages only," the judge wrote. https://www.rawstory.com/e-jean-carroll-judgment/

How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated anti-capitalist Burning Man Burning Man, the desert confab that descended into chaos over the weekend, isn’t quite the scrappy, free-spirited revelry that it once was. For many watching the disarray of Burning Man from afar, the rain and mud that left 70,000 people stranded quickly became a symbol of the festival’s departure from its roots. Or, more simply: how the billionaires ruined Burning Man. The festival began as a small gathering in 1986 on a San Francisco beach, and eventually grew into a gritty countercultural community of “Burners” who eschew commercialism within their makeshift city, erected annually in a desiccated lake bed known as the playa. There’s no money trading hands on the playa — that’s core to to the community’s “decommodification” ethos. But there is, increasingly, a lot of money on the playa. Going to Burning Man is, in some elite circles, akin to having climbed Everest or taken ayahuasca on a meditation retreat — a spiritually transformative experience, undertaken with a considerable safety net of privilege. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, has been a regular at Burning Man, telling Recode in 2014 that “if you haven’t been, you just don’t get it.” Mark Zuckerberg flew in for a day in 2012 to serve up grilled cheese sandwiches and even set up his own tent, according to his friend and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In 2018, shortly after she was indicted on federal fraud charges, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes retreated to the desert and burned an effigy for her failed startup, she told the New York Times. One of the 10 pillars of Burning Man is “radical self-reliance,” and in that spirit most revelers haul their own water and shelf-stable food in for the week, and “rely on their inner resources” for survival, according to the organization’s website. For the one-percenters in attendance, however, self-reliance can be outsourced. The ultra-wealthy have been known to fly in personal chefs for the week, and pay as much as $50,000 to camp in luxurious tents, as the New York Post reported in 2019. A Business Insider reporter, similarly, wrote about so-called fancy camps around the playa that came with chandeliers, party rooms and outdoor showers. “Burning Man is the perfect example of how many rich White people recreationally manufacture hardship because they are immune from it systematically,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, this weekend. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ultra-wealthy-infiltrated-anti-capitalist-190205735.html

We've only stayed at Marriott related hotels in Manhattan: Ritz Central Park South & JW Marriott Essex House. Good location for our sightseeing activities, restaurants, etc.

The kicker from the article: "The election results aren’t official until certified and that won’t happen until this Thursday. So the lame duck board scheduled a meeting for Friday last week, with the agenda being to dissolve the school board, turn the meeting over to their superintendent buddy, then nominate and elect a new chairman. Essentially the lame duck board was scheming to overturn the election. The winners of the election barely managed to stave off the coup, by getting a restraining order Friday from a Bonner County judge, to delay all school board actions until after the election is certified. That’s how MAGA people work. They don’t want elections. They don’t want the people to rule. They want MAGA rule."

Before I retired, I was on the road weekly so hotel cards were a must to get the most points out of each trip. Plus as I said Hyatt & Marriott give you a free night a year on your card anniversary. My wife & I have 3 Marriott cards so we have 3 free nights/year. Lifetime Titanium at Marriott helps to get me bumped up to better rooms almost every place we go.

So every 2 years you cancel 5 Chase cards & then re-up for the same cards? I know Chase will only let you get 5 cards every 24 months regardless of where the cards are from (AMEX, Citi, etc.)

There's also the signup bonus for cards that makes it attractive. If you're married, get the cards separately to earn the bonus for each card. Also, some of the hotel cc's give an annual free night per card. We have 3 Hyatt cc's that cost me $285/yr. But I get 3 free nights that cost way more than that.

Things are heating up...

An incredible description of TFG 🤣

Thread...

A little bit of everything - a fielding error yesterday allowed MIA to tie it 4-4, Gray throwing 86 pitches in 4 innings (4 BBs) forced the BP to come in early, Finnegan couldn't hold the tie (6th pitcher in the game), 2-8 RISP. I missed it but Gray was pissed at the end of the 1st (he gave up 3 runs) but I'm not sure why he was mad.

Still not clear to me but legal learnings are lean. There are some other comments in this thread worth reading...