Excuses, excuses, excuses...

She's more full of shit than a Christmas turkey.

I have 2 cousins dead from overdose, one second cousin in jail for dealing heroin, and most of that side of the family is hooked.

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I don't know about the nutrition, but there is a pronounced difference in flavor. True pasture raised are much tastier.

@Horace said in Considering a grand: The two Baldwins were pretty good. I liked the wood finish one most. The MH was comically bad in every possible way. The Steinway was pretty awful sounding too. In your neck of the woods, watch out for the Juarez Steinway rebuilds.

Fucking Elon.

Thanks dudes

@jon-nyc said in 0 for 23: Unfortunate they have to use this story as a way to insult teachers. Find the best teacher at Stuyvesant or TJ and tell me they’re going to make these kids shine. We as a society have started to believe our own euphemism: “bad school” when we really mean to say “collection of underperforming students”. The whole education narrative is equally flawed. But it’s essentially a religious fact that throwing formal educational resources at people will make them better.

@George-K said in It's gettin' sporty out here...: @jon-nyc https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/us-medical-school-enrollment-rises-30 U.S. medical school enrollment has increased by 31% since 2002, according to Results of the 2018 Medical School Enrollment Survey, a new AAMC report. Combined with first-year matriculation at osteopathic schools, medical student enrollment is now 52% higher than in 2002-03. In response to concerns that a projected doctor shortage could impact patient care, the AAMC in 2006 called on medical schools to increase first-year enrollment by 30%. That target was reached in 2018-19, when first-year matriculation reached 21,622 students. Osteopathic schools increased their enrollment by 164% during this same time period, with 8,124 first-year students enrolled. But schools ≠ docs “From a supply side perspective, what we really need to focus on now is the residency slots,” says Atul Grover, MD, PhD, executive vice president of the AAMC. “We’ve done everything we can on the medical school front to reduce the physician shortage, and I think the numbers bear that out. The federal government needs to resume covering its fair share of the costs. That starts by lifting the caps.” Residency training positions have expanded at a rate of just 1% a year, due in large part to a congressional cap on federal funding in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Most of the costs of residency training — about $171,855 per year, per resident on average, according to AAMC data — are supported by teaching hospitals and their faculty. Medicare (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) has historically paid for 21% of the training. However, that support has been largely frozen since 1997. A house bill introduced in March – the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (H.R. 1763) – would add up to 15,000 Medicare-funded residency positions over five years, similar to an AHA-supported bill introduced in April in the Senate. How do you feel about a back to the future approach to residencies? Where residents are assigned to a working practitioner with a weekly touchstone session with the medschool doc who is running herd on that particular batch? At the end of each year, swap practitioners.

@George-K said in SOTU: [image: 1676119891570-foyshpfaiaa5fuz.jpg] “Vilifies” Putin? Tells you something about the author of that card.

That is Excellent.

What I've seen more down here, are junkies hanging around the grocery stores in the poorer part of town. Guys (or gals) will hand them a shopping list in the parking lot, after the cash is agreed upon. The usual cut is about 50%. The junkie buys the groceries, pushes their cart out to the parking lot and exchanges the groceries for the cash. Many of these guys have "regulars", so after a time or two, the buyer knows how much he can spend and what he can buy at a predetermined rate. The junkie knows his customer and rate, so the there is an element of trust and it's a smooth transaction.

@George-K said in McCarthy: A subpoena is not a "request.": @Jolly well, there's the problem. We've seen the likes of Bannon get perp-walked, while people like Holder and Lerner skate away while defying supboenas. More from the article: The Justice Department and FBI have no excuse for temporizing at this point. They’ve known for well over a year that this probe was coming in the likely event that Republicans took control of the House. They should be fully cooperating with the Judiciary Committee’s investigation, not bucking it. Comparison to law enforcement’s response to the House January 6 committee’s demands is instructive. The panel was in a hurry because it knew it had a short lease on life. If it wanted to get its ducks in a row to make the partisan impact it was planning to make in the 2022 midterms, it didn’t have time for such passé niceties as deferential interbranch collaboration, negotiations, resort to judicial intervention in hashing out disagreements, etc. When Democrats decide something is opportune, immediate compliance is required. The committee thus issued subpoenas on tight time frames. Witnesses were held in contempt if they didn’t comply. They were castigated publicly if they dared rely on legal privileges to resist — the kind of demagogy that would result in a mistrial if a prosecutor pulled it in front of a jury. The outrageous omnibus budget bill for fiscal year 2023, enacted before the lame-duck Congress slipped out of town for the holidays, contained a mind-blowing $38 billion for the Justice Department, including $11.3 billion for the FBI. That is an increase of about $3 billion over last year’s budget, and of $6 billion over the DOJ’s budget when Biden took office. The administration claimed the steep raise was necessary for pursuit of such priorities as domestic extremism — you know, America’s parents. This is your government in action: The DOJ inspector general issues reports of scandal after humiliating scandal, and the political class annually responds by adding billions upon billions to DOJ’s war chest. Then let's get some of that money back. Congress controls the purse strings.

Fun indeed. Kinda hoped for an Easter egg after the credit starts rolling, Marvel style.

Porch pirates are getting pretty brazen. D4 had a couple of items stolen, so she's put up a dummy camera (with blinking red LED) on the porch. One time, somebody stole a package of books for toddlers. DIdn't want it, so they returned it the next day. I shit you not. Amazon (and Fed Ex) have a one-time passkey to the inner lobby of our condo. They (usually) bring it in, set it on a shelf by the elevators.