RDCanecutter

Dunno about recency, but I am always suspicious of tests that slam results neatly inside modern national boundaries. To put it another way, lots of common elements went into the mix of modern groups. Ancient Roman colonies were all up and down the Rhine, with Germanic tribes clustered up next to them before later settling in Italy and elsewhere. I have read that Hesse comes from the name of the Germanic Chatti (Latin word for them, ) they weren't complete strangers. Or maybe somebody adopted an Italian orphan. No doubt there are a bazillion long-term Germans who read genetically as more like Danes or French or Italians or Poles.

Well move on over and let somebody else get a glass.

Well, he is, but the restaurant can't break a billion-dollar bill. So maybe cover him this time then he'll get you back later.

I'd carry a gun too if I had some sappy-ass name like "Jace."

Bush and Biden = Swamp Creatures ergo Biden's fault, MAGA!-- Me on my future patriot eagle-screech radio program.

Accurate. Bet she knows her way around a pitcher of mimosas though.

Yeah, I pretty much give people 30 seconds to blather anything short of a Hitler speech, and then if they act normal, I cut them some slack. If they are a true ranter, we're done.

Katie Britt is Sally Field at the Oscars free-styling Ricky Bobby's Baby Jesus prayer.

You know when Big Ole Husband hears that whisper-voice, he's knows he's in deep shit.

I read those 5 in the NYT today. Sorry I don't know how to link a physical piece of paper.

Welp, you've got the US, France, UAE, Jordan, and Egypt flipping shit out of planes. My guess is that 2 of those 5 know how to do it.

I imagine that somewhere there are more guys with 5 pounds of gel in their hair yelling at giant screens, but personally, no change for me.

With the understanding that slavery was a benevolent work program that fostered a sense of community, provided structure, and whose aging participants were basically respected family members in charge of bringing up the young gentry. "Now Marse Neon, you know your Mama wants you to grow up strong so you better finish those beans child..." There really wasn't a need for Fugitive Slave Laws. Hell, people up and volunteered to work for free.

I think it's simpler than that. Just get a mannequin of a Black man, sit him there on the sofa as your VP. The actual Black people see that and feel safe, and all fly over and land on the ground close to you.

But you know you won't be around any peanut allergy kids, or their parents.

They have multiple political parties in Mexico, and also in other countries I imagine. Makes sense that once people put down roots in the US they'd support different parties here as well.

Well folks, I ate my lunch about 8 feet away from a guy who was wondering why somebody hadn't eliminated the president. And if you kill him, you know you gotta kill the vice-president as well. I eased around and saw a geezer in a motorized wheelchair. For context we were in the cafeteria of my Mom's assisted living center. Then Old Boy segued into how the main reason you wouldn't want to kill both the Prez and the VP is because the Mob Squad [his term] would be in charge. You know the Mob Squad, AOC and her crowd, they hate America. Then his table-mate changed the subject to how the turnip greens were pretty good but he'd added too much vinegar. Motorized Wheelchair has aged out of his days of dreaming (?) of church bombings. When we left he was sitting alone in a darkened room while the rest played Bunko.

You just made the list buddy.

... That made loans and gave credit.

Be cooler if it was a pawn shop.

But think how much safer the elderly would be with an ammo box full of Austrian 20 Coronas under the bed?

Call him Goeb.

Mississippi may be moving up a little. Don't get caught nappin'. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/18/23799124/mississippi-miracle-test-scores-naep-early-literacy-grade-retention-reading-phonics/#:~:text=Mississippi has seen large gains,students from taking the exam.

Those two bottom corners of the state have very little in common with each other. In the SW, Mobile's got that French/Spanish Oughta-Be-Louisiana vibe (with a civilized semi-Florida across the bay in Baldwin County.) All conversation centers around the price of shrimp. In the SE, called "The Wiregrass" (because "Strip Club Outside an Army Post" was already taken) it was settled relatively late by people from Tennessee who brought that twang. They used to shoot at Army helicopters. Moore's chunk of the district liked him better than Carl's chunk liked him. The two halves don't have a major Interstate connection between each other-- in fact, the fastest drive from Dothan (main town of the Wiregrass) to Mobile is to drop down through the Florida Panhandle, which is convenient for visiting Tommy Tuberville at his home. I did the drive on the Alabama side in the 80s in a VW Bug with crazed preachers blaring on AM radio, by the time I'd hit even a small town it was like seeing the Manhattan skyline. Moore will presumably be helicoptered about. He beat a felony rap ten years ago. There are two types of Moores in Alabama-- my doctor, who is normal, and all the rest, who are as crazy as sewer rats. Just a gut thing, but Mobile, even though it's a decent-sized metro, doesn't seem to be a great place for starting a political career outside of Mobile, Don Siegelman being the one governor I know of from there who succeeded, and who went on to a Federal position. Well he did. Federal prison is Federal.