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nbmishoid

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  1. Sure, we wished for more last year. Plenty of rational talk about why certain games went poorly. But the simplest explanation for the Alabama and OU performances (throws) is that this kid has some vivid talent. It’s reasonable to expect relatively more vivid performances next season. Or, we wish for more.
  2. Mrs W, you are a treasure to this board. And this is the first I’ve heard of Shame Eater. A sadder term to learn than Ditch Pig, but both terms are now to be used.
  3. Was a thread on Music where Jimmy Buffet came in for some harsh judgement. Can’t help but thinking “ Come Tuesday, it’s gonna be alright”, for a moment.
  4. I think, or I wish cast, that preparations will be more robust going forward. Meaning, Police Chiefs etc are going to have to take extra precautions that their people will do their duty. That sure sound like a silly wish, I admit.
  5. My memory is poor. She did go there, and I conflated that memory with the rare good season memory. Now carry on, Mr 956, sir.
  6. I would say his commitment to better the world is his fundamental position, and that is not misguided. Secondly, his honest assessments of the goals and impacts of US policy have been mostly right, during a long time when much of us assessed the same with too much coloring in our glasses. And as you say, he is very thoughtful. None of this is misguided. True, he quite bizarrely sees any hierarchy as a means to evil power. He was never a Cub Scout den mother. And his views on epistemology are unreadable. Misguided is to be working for evil while thinking or being deluded by the opposite. That is our friends on the right. I would trade any of them for a bunch of Chomsky’s.
  7. In the case of desantis refusing extradition, wouldn’t the US Marshall’s, backed by about 200 federal agents armed to the teeth, just come and buscar the s.o.b. And force the SS detail to give him up or face arrest as well.
  8. One of my sisters was in grad school at SC In Columbia, the year they won it all back in the late 70’s. She said their main cheer was “Nobody can beat our ‘Cocks!” Carry on.
  9. So now we are rooting for tfg to NOT die, but to keep on keeping on. Life just gets stranger.
  10. Until that time, Twice, it is the only act, of our own, that feels a bit like justice. Please allow us that. Thank you
  11. Agreed on the monkeys. A trip to the cape in South Africa, as beautiful as it was, was a bit marred by the pitched battle in the parking lot among the monkeys and the folks trying to get in or out of their cars.
  12. But her intent was clear to all who had eyes and ears, and other perceptive capacity. She was doing her intent on live national tv. Same with tfg.
  13. Again, I appreciate the responses. I see what you both mean about procedural details. My layperson astonishment is that the stupidity defense actually has weight. Ignorance of the law is no defense, so the TV attorneys say. But stupidity is a possibly credible defense. Not asking you to change things. But does this not seem crazy?
  14. Not so stupid as to prevent a successful law school result. Not so stupid as to fail the bar. Are these not presumptive barriers to claiming stupidity? Same in Trump’s case, where thee freaking POTUS claims not to know the real election result. These seem to me just not possible. Thus transparently wrong as a defense. Help me ou gain, Twice. How ridiculous must a defense be to be, IDK, rejected, pissed on, etc, don’t know the legal expression.
  15. Well, I suppose the court cases will have to deal with whether, even under these new laws, they had real reasons to do this. Help, lawdogs. Also, my youngest grandkid will be entering HISD. I don’t want her groomed.
  16. In NYT this a.m., I’ll summarize. The National Science and Engineering Foundations have issued guidelines on genetics related research papers, to the effect that racial terms and parameters should not be used in papers, as they are poor and typically misleading proxies for true genetic diversity. It has taken longer than expected, but this is now the strong view of organized science. Next act by Texas legislature? Forbid state universities from having their faculties accept fellowships from these most prestigious of all science and engineering societies. Watch the exits.
  17. nbmishoid

    LBGTQ

    That’s your law degree steering you astray
  18. nbmishoid

    LBGTQ

    No, he is saying that the folks in question watch women’s sports only for the sexual appeal, and trans women, you know….
  19. nbmishoid

    LBGTQ

    Nailed it. Thread over.
  20. This is Brandon prepping for the general. The Pubs can’t get to his left on climate change, and he won’t let them get to his right on the supply end of the transition project. He’s having to break some eggs. When the alternative is the beginning of the Pub autocracy, ….
  21. nbmishoid

    homeless

    BC not being on this thread, one would have to interpret that as snark. Anyway, I’m trying for B_T level.
  22. nbmishoid

    homeless

    My compassion is for the hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens who are in this state of domestic impoverishment. The trip I recommended in Seattle I have taken many times, out of necessity. It has brought, for me, more real humanity to the picture. At the policy level, this problem has proved very difficult, for many reasons as discussed on this thread. One big impediment is lack of will on the part of the non-homeless citizenry to help out. But deaths due to homelessness are not even as visible as the pandemic deaths, and 35% of the population were/are hell bent to maximize that number. This consciously cruel perspective is hard to understand by those not afflicted.
  23. I will kill anyone who makes me change out the 36 or so HDMI connections, some fairly unreachable, in my house. To hell with that shit.
  24. nbmishoid

    homeless

    But you do have a problem with expanding your perspective on this topic. Something your response indicates is as fearful for you as a rattlesnake.
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