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  1. "men for themselves . . . and maybe their family"
  2. What's interesting, if you look at "majority minority" districts, they generally aren't very contorted, the way a lot of Texas districts are. None of em look like this: Such districts tend to pose a limitation on other gerrymandering, rather than being an end unto themselves. Because, this America, man, we keep the minorities in their place, so it's real easy to draw a "majority minority" district.
  3. Reconciliatory statement. Bahahaha. Faye really had no fucking clue who she was voting for.
  4. We're not talking about a revenue sport with much in the way of pro career implications, except at the very tippy top of D1, which is sort of a prereq to Team USA/Olympics, but is far from a guarantee. At 3/5000, they're not taking spots from anyone with those kind of aspirations. At lower levels, it might mean a partial scholarship or admission to a school where it might otherwise be dicey, but after that, it's the love of the game and any possible career/resume enhancements that stem from being a student-athlete. At some level, there is a potential competitiveness issue, but it's not widespread enough to worry about. Now, if a team shows up with an RS, MB, and OH running 6-6, 6-7, and 6-8 that have the ability of Logan Eggleston, Madi Skinner, and Asjia O'Neal, then we can start to worry about competitiveness.
  5. Do you contend that most right-wing "misinformation" is an honest mistake?
  6. Forbes is downright liberal these days.
  7. But thatguy, they're just so icky that even this tiny problem demands a governmental response. And yeah, I'm gonna say this on a Texas sports site: it's just a game people.
  8. There's also value to finding the exact "fraud" in question in preventing it in the future, none of which is happening now.
  9. Kind of is worth noting that she points out Bozo's refrain that Dems have taken minority votes for granted. Still, as bad as Dems have been R's have been worse, and Trump's brand of R, worse still.
  10. Think Elmo's gonna find any of that? If he does, it will be a complete accident coming from governmental default on legitimate obligations.
  11. https://abcnews.go.com/US/rudy-giuliani-pays-148-million-fulton-county-election/story?id=119151328 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-florida-condo-world-series-rings-trial-defamation-rcna187881 It appears that the collection action was settled, likely with Rudy giving up claims to all of the contested assets, dropping his appeal, and agreeing not to continue to defame them. I'm sure that left a bunch of the $148M unpaid, but the likelihood of him earning much more at his age and in his condition is slim and the only thing worse than being on the wrong end of a judgment collection effort is being on the right end of a judgment collection effort.
  12. Only if they have LCD displays attached and are colored like Skittles.
  13. 80k since inception in 1990. So, yeah, no. And, as the program is currently operated, most of the payment goes to funding a business or governmental operation. That's the whole point. It's not revenue.
  14. Yeah, that's even what happened during Clinton-Gore. Actually, the people were rehired in the private sector where government functions were outsourced. And that was a measured, rational effort to reduce the federal workforce. I bet it cost us, both monetarily and in quality of service. I used to be a critic of government, but as has been pointed out relentlessly, efficiency can't be an end unto itself in government, as it can in the for-profit private sector, and the government does a pretty decent job overall given the competing stakeholders.
  15. I looked it up. Assuming the investment requirements remain the same (low-income areas, job production quotas), the "fee" goes from a current $1M to $5M. Seems mostly Chinese have been applying for it, ostensibly as a hedge against a CCP crackdown (in China or TW).
  16. Couldn't live in a world without YGIFS. RIP to both of em.
  17. Yeah, I have no experience with "supersteels," other than 440C and D2, which don't really count anymore. But yeah Buck steel is hard to sharpen, like the aforementioned. I'm a retrogrouch and see sharpening as an inevitability, so as far as I know, I'd rather just do it more often with a steel that I know I can get sharp af pretty quickly. Then again, I don't use my knives all that hard. Also, check out how that satin finish appears to to go evenly over the edge, like it was sharpened then given a final finish.
  18. Did he ever deny it or offer any explanation?
  19. I like Bucks quite a lot. Their 420HC is a bit above Case's and most everyone else's.
  20. I thought about that. Yes, perhaps across the board not completely socially liberal, but at least avoiding abject hatred of poors and other and cruelty toward same.
  21. Hell, I'd say a lot of them don't even KNOW what their faith teaches. But Jews, Catholics, and other "mainstream" Christians have been pretty reliably socially liberal for a good long time.
  22. Says a guy who isn't crowdsourced.
  23. Yes, it's fitting apportionment to a predetermined outcome when the outcome doesn't necessarily correlate to the actual preferences of the electorate. It's less common these days, because of gerrymandering among other things, but there are or have been states with governors and legislatures of different party than the state's voting for President. Further, should it be how they vote for Pres? Governor? Senator? Apportionment needs to be pretty much purely geographic/demographic. End of story.
  24. By a danger-Jew* high school and college dropout and former real estate agent. *apologies for any racist implications here, but the number of "religious" people (fundagelicals, fundy catlicks, and Jews) going against longstanding traditions of their faiths is something about this whole timeline that really disturbs me.
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