@kluurs said in Are you ready for ghost and goblins?: This is from last year when we had 180 treaters. [image: 1698801757248-e153f507-7578-4194-ab43-c22a9b08cf9a-image.png] We only had fewer than 50 this year. Why do you think that happened?

Their teeth are almost needle-like and will bite down to the bone.

Not so independent... https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/weiss-needed-approval-tax-division-bring-hunter-biden-charges-doj-tax?utm_source=justthenews.com&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators The Justice Department's chief tax prosecutor has told Congress that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss could not bring tax evasion charges against Hunter Biden without getting prior approval from his office, further undercutting Attorney General Merrick Garland's portrayal that the politically sensitive probe was completely independent. In an transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee reviewed by Just the News, Acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart Goldberg, the current chief of the DOJ tax division, also acknowledged that Hunter Biden's case got special attention because of his father's political stature. “Was the fact that Hunter Biden was involved here, did that require DOJ Tax’s signoff because it’s a sensitive matter?” a House investigator asked during the interview last week. “Well, without getting into the case, again trying to answer a question at a slightly higher level, there are cases that are sensitive, people – some would say sensitive, sometimes say significant cases. And those cases typically have closer supervision than other, more run of the mill cases,” Goldberg answered. Goldberg's account supports testimony from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that DOJ treated the first's son tax case differently and that Weiss could not bring the charges against Hunter Biden without blessings from the tax division and the U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, where the alleged crimes occurred. Both of those local prosecutors – Miguel Estrada and Matthew Graves – were Biden appointees and have already admitted they refused to partner with Weiss and bring charges against President Joe Biden's son. Goldberg's interview is the latest evidence to surface to support House and Senate Republicans' efforts to challenge the the veracity of Garland's testimony earlier this year that Weiss had independent authority to bring Hunter Biden criminal charges, free of political interference.

For sure he left his mark, and I had a bitter respect for him as a Purdue student in the 80s. But he could definitely take it too far and get out of hand.

I hope they got together with Le Soupe, an organization I have spoken with about volunteering to handle their IT.

I just looked it up: Russell was quoting William James. William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was: "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

Ax will be delighted

Where we lived in Ontario cottage country a surprising number of people were killed every year snowmobiling drunk. They'd wipe out because you couldn't see the wooden construction on the lake under the snow. I worked with a guy who used to be hired to dive to pick up snowmobiles that went into the lake after people misjudged the thickness of the ice. They used to dare each other to jump over the melted bit, with predictable results.

I thought he was behind a paywall when he moved to Spotify, but it's still free.

Ew. Especially ew since I'm cooking up a pot of clean-out-the-fridge beef vegetable soup.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-exterminator-dead-rat-bodies-carbon-monoxide-2023-10 Matt Deodato, an exterminator fighting the rat battle in New York told Insider that he collapses the burrows that rats reside in after killing them with carbon monoxide. Although, in the past, Deodato said he relied on companies to haul away the dead pests — or dear friends, to those who care — leaving them there has been beneficial, in his opinion.

My guess would be that the child died and one of their shoes was hidden as a way to remember them or to ensure that their spirit always knew where their home was.

@George-K Good for you. You are being what retirement should be.

@Axtremus said in Cop pulls over 2 year old driver: Gotta envy that Barney Fife small town vibe where the most newsworthy law enforcement thing that comes out of the town is this little traffic stop incident. Indeed.

Ok that’s good.

@Mik said in Denver Police's approach to reducing gun violence: if they have the resources Indeed. Too lazy to look it up, but I wonder what the staffing situation in Denver is these days, compared to before the death of St. George (Floyd). I can guarantee that in Chicago, the staffing resources are horrible.