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@89th said in Looks like Finland will apply for NATO membership.: Guess I should be punished. Come and dance with me... https://twitter.com/VFinnishProbs/status/1560577542150569985?s=20&t=EzyYqUHk8Eoa1YUQUyglaQ The Lithuanians approve... https://twitter.com/GoVilnius/status/1560632873467531265?s=20&t=EzyYqUHk8Eoa1YUQUyglaQ

It's hardball politics down here, lad.

I’d take the 50% odds, as long as MS took the $1MM.

Seems like it is (but I really have not know much about that race. Just that the latest polls show he is ahead.) Obviously, the votes in November will give the final answer, but I recently saw a statement by Sen. McConnel that he is concerned that the Democrats may hold on to the Senate because of concerns about Republican senate candidates. In my very small opinion, that can be a problem that the Republican primaries are nominating people who are too far to one side and cannot connect with the middle 30-40% of the voters that decide the election.

Why do you say that Rep. Cheney lied? Or are you saying that Rep elect Hageman lied?

@Aqua-Letifer said in Find the duck: I hear Season 2 will feature Johnny Depp and they get more into the duck's back story. It will be interesting to get into the finer details of ducks' backs. We've all heard about them. But what's the real story? A duck's back is so much more than its water aversion.

It’s easy to imagine an objective score for beauty which had high correlation with subjective scores. But the more sperm for ugly people thing is wacky.

I think it's a good idea.

Finally!

@Jolly said in Remember Mr. Durham?: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/08/18/fbi_unit_leading_mar-a-lago_probe_previously_led_russiagate_hoax_848582.html Absolutely the best: Auten has been allowed to work on sensitive cases even though he has been under internal investigation since 2019, when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred him for disciplinary review for his role in vetting a Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier used by the FBI to obtain a series of wiretap warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz singled out Auten for cutting a number of corners in the verification process and even allowing information he knew to be incorrect slip into warrant affidavits and mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.

Happiness isn’t about where you are, it’s about where you want to be, and whether you feel you’re making progress to get there. Which means the secret to happiness is to be ambition free. But that’s boring.

@LuFins-Dad said in Ranked Voting: @Jolly said in Ranked Voting: Is this Alaska's last election with ranked voting? Why? Because Palin is a little behind in the special election? I don’t really get why they are bothering trying to fill the seat before the general midterm election in November anyway… It's not just Palin. Look at the mess with Murkowsky.

@LuFins-Dad said in This resonated with me.: Oh, so I should love others for selfish reasons? It is not possible to love anyone else more than you love yourself. So, yes.

Are they the most dysfunctional franchise in football?

Should be two fired pilots.

Olave will play Friday night at Green Bay. Andy Dalton will start. Might be worth watching the first quarter.

[image: BG9594C.JPG] If you lived a bit closer, I'd let you borrow mine. Shame about the peach, it makes good cooking wood for the smoker (I do mix it with some oak, though).