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I sarcastically, back when I was drinking, said something like this to an Evangelical friend. "You know who committed the largest genocide in human history? Not Stalin or Hitler of Kahn. It was God." And the said, "The Flood wasn't a genocide because those other ethnicities didn't exist yet."

Does the Loomer have large talons? -What'd you say boy? Does the Laura Loomer have large talons? -Boy, I don't understand a word you just said Also the kid's wide collared, half-buttoned mint half-ass guayabera. Makes him look like the son of one of the Colombian bad guys in "Scarface."

Junior High Hitler and Female Saw Killer. Thanks for the nightmare fuel, assholes!

How many tens of millions of Swifties tuned into NFL games this past season to see Taylor in a box for 9 seconds? Last I checked Taylor didn't even get in on an offensive series. I think there'd be enough people willing to watch Caitlin play 5 minutes per game over 6-8 games (plus interviews and post-game). The USWNT is leaving so much money on the table for 2028, it's ridiculous. Maybe she's not worthy of the court time in favor of some veterans, but she'd set up a corporate windfall in the next 4 years that the game would absolutely reach its apex in 2028 Los Angeles. She'll still make that squad, but there's so much more power in getting it started as an 'already Olympic Gold Medalist." But yeah, the U.S. Olympic teams have never been about money.

shit, didn't notice that. Was going for more optical alliteration. Hey man, the fucking Koala started it.

Wouldn't the shark, assuming it was closing in range from 10 yards, also get electrocuted by the battery sinking underwater? Or does it have like X-SharkMan superpowers like "Elektrokenisis" where it can absorb and manipulate electricity. and not only remain uninjured but able to burst the electricity back at some other target? And wouldn't that presuppose then, there are other shark mutants with powers? Like, is another shark that can manipulate the metal of the boat/battery to make it sink in the first place? Is there another shark, using its fins---can hurl cards through the water and slash through scuba divers suits? I think we could have a comic book out about this within a week. Keep Eric engrossed in it until the end of the decade, and probably have movie rights within 18 months. X-Men meets Jaws. I'd watch that movie, especially the part where the President realizes his conundrum of doom like the other actual X-men movies.

He was already pulling this scheme with Nate Paul before MAGA was a thing. I stated as much way back when. For the umpteenth time, he cannot be touched while in office. So he bribes, schemes, and legally maneuvers (including MAGA favors) to maintain office. After that, it's trouble. This is not that complicated.

I, for one, look forward to 'Predator 6: Koala Killer Kollision"

Only way to tell if it was really Wade Boggs was to insist he sit next to Norm and drink 37 beers. I remember reading about his pre-game meal of chicken. So when I started getting serious about baseball, I would insist on chicken as well. Carried it all the way until I played walk-on Fall Ball for a D1 team. Then I got cut and began a pre-softball game regiment of dozen+ beers that I stuck to for 25 years. Onto trivia: On this date, without looking, with the advent of the DH almost 40 years ago, no pitcher had ever started a game at DH. Who was the first? Hint: Not Ohtani.

Do you even Flex, bro?

Literamaga. Do we have Literamaga?

That's not fair, why does she get the only awesome t-shirt? (checks notes) Oh, right, right. She came up with the slogan. Also, I know the look of a man trying not to get a boner in public.

Yeah, I'm not up on 2,000yo old Sanhedrin criminal statute law. He was 'convicted criminal.' But it was largely a show trial put on by Pilate. He was given a chance to speak and had some "legal advisers", but they basically just shouted accusations at him, asked him a few questions, no jury, just a directorate from Rome to crucify him. MTG should understand there's quite a gulf between that and a jury of your peers and a judicial system that gave his counsel ample opportunity to prepare a stronger defense. One of Christ's primary convictions was "healing on the Sabbath", basically helping sick people on a Saturday. Trump spent one Saturday raw-dogging a porn star while his wife was home breast-feeding their newborn and then another Saturday telling Cohen (on his Sabbath), to move some campaign funds and cut a check to her by Monday. To BamaATL's point below (upon edit), I think in the interest of fairness...I think you should give Trump TWO WEEKS to rise again.

Not directly related to Normandy, but quite monumental to the war effort. the very last USN battleship is commissioned in a few hours. It will serve primarily in the south and central Pacific. She will serve the USN intermittently for the next half-century. Last of it's kind BB-63. Some may know her better as the Missouri. And 15 months from now and Overlord......the war will come to a close on her deck with the formal, unconditional surrender of Japan.

CalNaughtonJr, "I like to picture young man Jesus like the guys in 'Stripes' in a tuxedo t-shirt, saying 'Convicted? No, not convicted'." Does MTG think they had like juries and evidentiary filings and a sketch artist 'n shit back then? I mean, there was a 'trial', but it had no merit. That was kinda the whole point, he knew it was a sham but he went through it anyway for us (well most us, everybody but Greene). Trump had 1000 different ways to get out of this but he welcomed it because he could make money off of it. I don't think Jesus is getting a cut of the schwag sales of cross necklaces and Mel Gibson movies.

If you were to just play the audio and tell him it's an 'Astonishing Tale of the Sea' involving sharks with freakin' electric boat batteries attached to their heads (and alter the speed of playback), I bet he'd give a listen.

Yeah, most likely he did it. Second, if it didn't do it, I can't laugh at him for not eating it because it was very likely spit in. But he's being a pussy by posting it.

Evansville is a nice little city. And the French Lick-Hanover rivalry is worth checking out. But yeah, once you get south of I.U., that state gets ugly and miserably cold.

I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I think the typical intra-dystopian movie about America has been done every which way. As such, I thought from kinda the perspective of the reporters/press was at least original and well acted. the other thing is that it very subtly hints, that the rest of the country either one side, the other, or neutral gives them a wide berth/protection because they all realize that to control the narrative is to control the people. It was one thing to have military press in WWII or Vietnam to broadcast back home what the brave men & women were doing to free oppressed peoples. Around Vietnam, you start really seeing war correspondents from MSM outlets ramp up, and they begin to tell all sides of the story. But again, people were more apt to absorb the information as credible but still side with the U.S. Military because "home team" and all. But I thought this movie is more clever in that all the press can be manipulated to present to certain factions just within our country depending on what needs to get out and what needs to stay quiet. My two cents.

"Son, what'd you say to that koala bear to make it attack you like that?" -I told them "You all look alike to me."

I hate Sioux Falls Nazis. /ElwoodBlues Funny, I was thinking the same thing before I scrolled down to your post. Surely over the course 55 years of incarceration, some wealthy fellow Jordanian oil tycoon bribed some people to get Sirhan a few conjugal visits There's gotta be a young adult out there somewhere in a state where you can buy an AR-15 with a DL that says, "Sirhan Goldberg." And daddy Sirhan's rattling the prison fence-line, "Avenge me, son! Avenge me! Take the shot." But then the son is like, "But I don't want to get the vaccine." Fucking simulation.

Yeah, it seems like they no longer make that announcement about "If someone in your row has a quick connection, please let them out and gather their belongings first." Or something to that effect. I remember flying into Sacramento years ago and this guy made a whole production of getting his shit first and shouldering down the aisle past people just patiently waiting to deplane. Mumbling about having to make his next flight. and the flight attendant looked confused and said sir, "This is SMF, almost nothing connects through here and it's midnight."

as somebody said above, which I didn't know...the youngest member of the roster is 26 for Paris. Median age is ~33-34. Meaning half this roster won't play in L.A in 4+ years. Not talking taking gold in France, I think that sounds like a lock. I'm talking about 2028. With so few known quantities on the squad after Paris, fundraising and sponsorships won't be nearly as robust. The program has a chance to make 2028 Los Angeles the biggest showcase of women's basketball in history with the right amount of funding and corporate partnerships. People can play mopup duty, others can get their feelings hurt, but this is just leaving tens and tens of millions of dollars on the table before Los Angeles. The difference in marketing "Former and Future Olympian XYZ" and just "Probably playing in the L.A. Games in 3 years) is night and day. It can literally be measured in the 8-figure range for the program. Sorry to look at it through that lens, but apparently sometimes sports is about money, or so every fucking WNBA player has said 9000 times.

Just realized after Texas and Georgia (biggest state in the Continental and biggest state East of the Mississippi and two very large populations have the most counties.....makes sense). But then Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas are next. Iowa and Tennessee are also Top 10. That would help explain the "You have to win the most counties mentality bullshit, or he won the most counties argument" I've been hearing more and more of as of late. Makes sense. I would have thought it'd be a Pareto Principle thing where 80% of Americans lived in 20% of the counties, and I know the Electoral Map like the back of my hand, but never really paid much attention to the county lines until recently when it became this weird badge of honor. It would seem Pareto does not actually apply here. There's about 3,000 counties in the nation (plus the parishes of LA and boroughs of Alaska). So I wonder how many live in the Top 600 counties then? Of the 5 levels of government I interact with regularly---Federal, State of Texas (everything from DPS to RRC), Travis County, City of Austin, and my ISD board/admin. My County government is about the only one that actually has some semblance of sanity, FWIW. Everything else from D.C. to the Capitol Complex to City Hall is fucking insane.

Top google hit shows both Bakersfield and Arlington median rent is ~1,400/mo. YMMV. I was surprised to see Stockton at close to $1,700/mo. It's an even bigger shithole but I guess closer to civilization. When I lived in the East Bay many years ago, I went out there a few times to meet up with a chick I met closer to me. She was pretty, intelligent, well-mannered, well-spoken, clothes/makeup, decent car, etc. Then I drove over to her neighborhood in Stockton and I felt like Jerry Seinfeld with the quote, "Well, good luck with all that..." I didn't where was