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  1. 1 hour ago, Angry Gorilla said:

    My wife and I went to Vegas a few weekends ago for our anniversary.  She texts me the morning we are leaving and asks if I want her to do anything.  I told her to charge one of our portable phone chargers since her phone is always dead.  I get home to grab my bag and see the charger on the counter.  It has the cable coming out of the output slot and into the input slot.  Not plugged into wall at all.

     

    While on the trip, we eat brunch in one of the shopping areas.  As we leave she wants to go into some store.  I go in with her and as she is trying on makeup I tell her I'm going to look at the shoes.  I come back 5 minutes later and tell her I'm going to the blackjack table and I will see her there.  She asks about the shoes and I tell her they were all shit and highly overpriced.  Fast forward an hour later she finds me at the blackjack table and can't wait to tell me how she got me something great from the store that is going to be delivered.  You guessed it, shoes.

    Did the shoes at least fit?

  2. 48 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     

    When they opened on 6th street in Austin, they were Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck -- I distinctly remember reading the description of their name and "weck" on the menu.  Now, that was 20 years ago or so, and they became BW-3 shortly thereafter, but when they opened, weck was a thing.

    Lawyers, man. I don't know about a bw-3 in Austin or when it was opened. Let's assume your memory is accurate. That would've been a corporate franchise with sauce made elsewhere, not in house. I don't know what their Buffalo chips were like. (They totally suck now.) Did you have their Weck rolls? What were they like?

    You mean they adopted the standardized corporate name of Buffalo Wild Wings shortly thereafter. Weck is the third W in bw-3. There wasn't a quick, clean separation in the transformation from one to the other. And RPM wasn't talking about some old Austin franchise that you could raise as a technicality to refute my assertion that bw-3 wasn't in Texas. (Jesus, I used to think I was anal retentive.)

     When I first ate there they had one store. They opened a second store on south campus that was 2-3 blocks from my first apartment. We used to get 10¢ wings on Tuesdays, take them home, and watch Moonlighting. My first apartment after school was not far from their third store (the oldest remaining -- the first two are gone). The changes started happening in the mid-90's. They were more noticeable in the new stores than in the older ones. As in any corporate enterprise dealing in volume, the small sacrifices of quality in favor of cost-cutting accumulate over time. 

    Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck was at its best when they were all locally owned and locally operated. Those days are long gone. That's the restaurant that doesn't exist anymore I was talking about. Jesus. 

  3. 20 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Yes, Florida again

     

    NEW SMYRNA BEACH — A social media ad buy in which one candidate says his opponent has passed on genetically defective breast milk to “unsuspecting families” has turned into an ugly campaign mystery.

    With some voters having already cast mail-in ballots and early voting starting Saturday, what isn’t clear in the race for New Smyrna Beach City Commission Zone 1 race is who is responsible for the offensive Facebook ad posted on Tuesday labeled “paid for by John Redmond Campaign”?

    Not Redmond, he claims. He said he never bought the ad and offered at least some evidence to that effect.

    “My Facebook account obviously was hacked,” Redmond said in a phone call Wednesday. He shared a screenshot of an email sent from Facebook at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, alerting him to a login “from a device or location you don’t usually use.”

    After lunchtime Tuesday he said he tried to stop the activity, but had trouble, and it wasn’t until much later that night, following attendance at a City Commission meeting, he decided to deactivate his personal and political accounts entirely.

    “I’m not a computer guy. It took me a long time to figure out what was happening,” Redmond said.

    Meanwhile, opponent Jessica Realin, the candidate attacked in the ad, and some of her supporters spent much of Tuesday posting on Facebook pages in reaction to the ad, leading to a change.org petition urging Redmond to drop out of the race. As of late Wednesday afternoon, more than 70 people had signed it.

    Redmond, a 57-year-old retired businessman and educator, did buy six other $100 Facebook ads since July 17. They all tout his political positions and pledges, including an anti-growth platform. None reference Realin, a 33-year-old public relations and marketing professional, or two other opponents in the primary, Peggy Belflower and Michael Kolody.

    Then came Tuesday and the breast milk ad, which showed photos of Realin, who in 2015 co-founded the Florida Mothers’ Milk Bank, which provides human milk to 33 neonatial intensive care units across the state.

    The ad reads: “Possibly due to genetic defects in her family donating her breast milk might pass on her inferior genes to unsuspecting families. Her son [name omitted] was born at 24 weeks of gestation in January 2012, and her daughter [name omitted] was born in December 2013 at 29 weeks. Notice the rainbow pin. This is an editorial comment.”

    The ad included the children’s names but The News-Journal has deleted them after speaking with Realin. She said she wears the rainbow pin in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting victims, as her husband was a first responder at the scene in Orlando on June 12, 2016.

    The ad was made inactive later Tuesday. Facebook media representatives did not, in an email, address direct questions about the matter.

    ‘A convenient story’

    Realin and supporters had captured images and were sharing them widely, calling the ad “immature” and “disgusting.”

    Jill Dempsey, for instance, wrote: “I don’t know this guy but he definitely has some boundaries issues. Better we see it now then when he is sitting on the city Commission!”

    Realin said she had attempted unsuccessfully to reach Redmond by phone Tuesday morning.

    “It’s a convenient story, in my opinion,” Realin said in a phone interview Wednesday about Redmond’s explanation. “Whoever hacked him had to want to pay $100. I honestly was hoping he was hacked, but either way — if he was hacked, why didn’t he just answer the phone calls?”

    Redmond responded: “My phone number is everywhere. I don’t have a phone call from her. I don’t have an email from her. I’m not saying she didn’t (try to reach me), but if she tried on Facebook, I don’t have that Facebook app on my phone.

    “I wish I would have gotten that message,” Redmond said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”

    Redmond said he will continue his campaign for the commission seat.

    “Of course I’m going to remain in the race,” he said.

    [READ MORE: NSB mayor Jim Hathaway ‘retiring from politics,’ won’t run]

    [READ MORE: 6 newcomers contend with growth in NSB mayoral race]

    ‘I don’t believe it’

    New Smyrna Beach Residents Coalition co-founder Sally Gillespie — a close observer of the race and of city politics — said it would be very much out of character for Redmond to attack another candidate in this way.

    “I’ve been to all of the forums,” Gillespie said. “He’s never attacked any other candidates. ... I just ... I don’t believe it.”

    The influential residents coalition, founded years ago as an advocacy group to give locals a louder voice in city government, has made assessments of all the candidates.

    It notes that Redmond moved to the city in 2014 and has “no record of public involvement in growth-related issues prior to his filing.” And it says the same thing of Realin, no record of invovlement in growth issues. While it notes she started the Mothers Milk Bank of Florida, it states she has “little knowledge or understanding of the issues being debated during this election cycle.”

    Realin, in another post, accused the coalition of backing Redmond.

    “We can agree to disagree on issues but; this gives me a taste of what he will be like if he is voted as our CITY COMMISSIONER,” Realin wrote. “Also, I let New Smyrna Beach Residents Coalition know about this and shared since I know this is the candidate they are behind. Just felt they should know what his character represents.”

    Gillespie said Wednesday that Realin is wrong about the coalition endorsing a single candidate.

    Realin’s friend and neighbor, Britney Gaither, said she noticed the ad in her Facebook feed around 2 p.m. Tuesday. At 9:53 p.m., it became inactive.

    “If (Redmond) was hacked and he can prove it, then that’s great,” Gaither said. “We can put this behind us. But if he wasn’t, ... I think that he should step down.”

    It remained unclear on Wednesday afternoon whether, or more particularly how, a potential Facebook ad-hack might be investigated. Who bought the ad? Might it be a campaign violation? Those questions remained unanswered by Volusia Elections Supervisor Lisa Lewis Wednesday afternoon.

    But at least some seem to think it is a mystery worth solving.

    Gaither never imagined a municipal race could get so unusual. She said it has many in town talking about how the ad came to be.

    “That’s what we’re all trying to figure out,” Gaither said. “How did it get this nasty?”

    Candidates from Zones 1 and 2 and the mayor’s race are all invited to participate in a public question-and-answer forum at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Sugar Mill Country Club inside the Sugar Mill subdivision at 100 Club House Circle.

    Redmond must be a Republican. 

  4. 15 hours ago, Aphelion said:

     

    Any proposition can be given as a positive or negative.  One can flip any claim to a positive or negative statement.  It is nonsense to base a burden of proof system on some trivial positive/negative categorization. 

      

    But that wasn't the case with hpslugga's statement. He wasn't framing a proveable positive assertion as a negative. He was very clearly saying, in effect, that if Jesus didn't exist then it can't be proven that he didn't exist. You seized on his wording of "you can't prove a negative" in order to take us on a little irrelevant tangent. 

    What's more relevant is that even if Jesus did exist, that can't be proven either. No contemporaneous official account exists, none of the New Testament authors ever met him. Every account of his life was written long after he died, assuming he is not an entirely fictional character which he very well could be. There is no evidence of his existence. I don't see the point in debate over the provability of his non-existence. 

  5. And while all this was happening, Arby’s quietly toiled away, ignoring the trend of being flashier, louder, bigger, and wilder. Slowly, surely, and without a lot of fuss, Arby’s became great.

    I wouldn't describe the "We have the meats!" media blitz as anything remotely quiet. Or without a lot of fuss. I'd say it's "flashier, louder, bigger, and wilder" than any other recent ad campaign of theirs that I can remember. 

    I'm not about to try their "brisket."

  6. 5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    what is this, a chart for ants?

    That's the wrong metaphor. It's a bird's eye view. If you want the ant's perspective, Google "bible contradictions" for an itemized list. 

  7. I'm not really sure why anyone is surprised by this. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of children have been abused by Catholic clergy all over the world for decades, and that's just the ones we know about, going back generations. You don't think it's been going on for centuries?

    If we had a board devoted to stories of child abuse at the hands of Catholic clergymen it would dwarf the old Bernard board. 

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