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  1. So how many OWGR points are you getting for winning against this murderers row? 

    GOLFER OWGR

    Dustin Johnson 

    13 

    Louis Oosthuizen 

    20 

    Bryson DeChambeau 28

    Kevin Na 

    33 

    Talor Gooch 

    35 

    Sergio Garcia 

    54 

    Pablo Larrazabal 

    65 

    Richard Bland 

    66 

    Matt Jones 

    68 

    Shaun Norris 

    69 

    Phil Mickelson 72

    Sam Horsfield 

    72 

    Lee Westwood 

    74 

    Ryo Kinoshita 

    87 

    Ian Poulter 

    89 

    Bernd Wiesberger 

    90 

    Hudson Swafford 

    90 

    Oliver Bekker 

    93 

    Jinichiro Kozuma 

    103 

    Scott Vincent 

    109 

    Justin Harding 

    111 

    Laurie Canter 

    114 

    Branden Grace 

    118 

    Charl Schwartzel 

    120 

    Sadom Kaewkanjana 

    125 

    Hennie Du Plessis 

    128 

    Phachara Khongwatmai 

    133 

    Sihwan Kim 

    138 

    J.C. Ritchie 

    154 

    Adrian Otaegui 

    162 

    Hideto Tanihara 

    173 

    Martin Kaymer 

    210 

    Jediah Morgan 

    235 

    Blake Windred 

    250 

    TK Chantananuwat 

    272 

    Wade Ormsby 

    276 

    Peter Uihlein 

    319 

    Graeme McDowell 

    376 

    Turk Petit 

    706 

    Oliver Fisher 

    979 

    Andy Ogletree 

    1324 

    Chase Koepka 

    1543 

    David Puig 

    1706 

    James Piot 

    1731

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  2. it just seems like the ability of the GOP to take an absolute insane stance on guns is possible because they know that no matter how ridiculous they are on that they have the anti abortionists and low taxes business owners. It seems a lot easier to take ridiculous hard line stances on things when you know there is no chance you lost your other single issue voters. 

    but this is probably well beyond how cloak roomy things should get on this board.

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    But a multi-party system is no better.  It just puts the same type of exercise into a less-formal coalition-building exercise.

    In America, if your one issue on which you're going to vote is the environment, then you vote Democratic. 

    In Germany, if your one issue is the environment, you vote Green.  But what then happens with your vote?  You get a few members in the Bundestag.  Great--good for you.  But to be in government, you have to join a coalition.  And who are you going to join with?  Right now, the Greens are in coalition with the SPD and the FDP.  The fucking FDP?  That's the fucking equivalent to a Texas Business Republican.  If you're a Green voter, you don't support a lot of what the Government of which your party is a coalition member does (that's even more true of a Jamaica coalition, where the Greens are in coalition with the CDU and FDP, which has happened in state governments).  But you're going to get some environmental shit done, which is what Green voters care about.

    All the American two-party system does is formalize that into pre-formed coalitions.  But fundamentally, neither the process nor the outcome is wildly different from what you get with a multi-party system.

    This post confirms that I don’t know enough about how multi-party democracy function to be able to really add much. But it sure feels like if from my perspective, having more choices would curtail some of the blatant partisanship. It also seems that it would make gerrymandering a bit less clear cut, but maybe not. 

  4. 31 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I'm terribly sick of this "oh, the two-party system is to blame" bullshit.  It's just pseudo-intellectual garbage for people who don't want to engage in the substance of an issue.

    There is one party that is dead right on this issue and one party that is dead wrong.  And it's just pointless sophistry to say "woe, but for the two-party system, . . . ."  Bullshit.  If you care about preventing children from being murdered in their classrooms, then vote Democratic. 

    If you don't, then don't.  

    But don't come to me and say "I favor background checks and an assault-weapons ban, but I have to vote Republican because of taxes."  That just tells me that you think a few bucks in your pocket is worth more than a child's life.  That's hardly the political virtue you think it is (speaking here directly to @BabaYaga and not you, Heso).

    And don't come to me and say this is the result of some peculiarity in the two-party system.  There are plenty of other countries with two-party systems that (1) have had no trouble imposing serious limitations on guns and (2) have very few mass shootings as a result.

    This is the result of something else entirely.

    That’s all well and good and I’m of the opinion that anyone still voting Republican is just a flat out bad person. And the legality of anyone and everyone to own anything more automatic than a bolt action rifle is just reason 1000. But the fact is that the two party system allows clean segmentation of single issue voters and “bus” voters to be convicted that the other bus is going in the wrong direction. Hardcore “the government should have no say in my life” libertarians and people that want the government to regulate the legality of medical decisions should never be voting in the same direction, but they do here in the good old USA where democracy is just red vs blue kleptocracy. 

    In general, I agree with you that this is a failing of the GOP evilly painting gun control as a freedom issue. I don’t think that is entirely separate from the complete inability of a legitimate 3rd party to rein in the ability of both parties to shape everything as us vs them. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

    Oven on warm does better at holding, imo, and you won’t burn up your fuel just to hold. 

    It’s an electric smoker and a gas oven. I figured the electric box would do a better job of holding. I think the lowest setting on my oven is 175 or 185, whereas the electric smoker’s lowest setting is 100 so I assumed that would have an easier time holding a low temp than the oven firing gas for a short period and then shutting off and cycling all night/morning. 

  6. Smoking brisket and pork butt today for lunch tomorrow. The meat will likely be done in the range of midnight tonight. 

    Should I rest it, then refrigerate it after it’s done and reheat closer to lunch time, or set the electric smoker to 160-170 and just hold it hot, wrapped in foil for 10 hours?

  7. 9 hours ago, miguelito said:

    Not sure, too much water?  How does the rest of the plant look?

    I don't think that's a sign of nematodes. 

    I don’t think it’s too much water, but I’m not sure. The rest of the plant is great, growing fast and strong. 

    8 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Perhaps a fungal pathogen as the culprit. If so, a fungicide may help. I use a spray on mine once in a while but I will need to go look up the label as I cannot recall the name. 

    Thanks, I’ll give that a shot. 

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    What is happening to my tomato plant’s stem? Of the 8 plants I have they all seem to have been affected by this to some degree. On some it’s just a section of the stem with no hairs. This was the strongest of the plants other than this section.

  9. Pens were dominating play early in the 3rd and Shesterkin made a handful of great saves. Rangers toss one from the corner towards the opposite circle and it hits one of the penguins in front of the net and bounces in. 4-2 rangers. 

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