@Aqua-Letifer said in Clarence Thomas on the leak:

@Horace said in Clarence Thomas on the leak:

@George-K said in Clarence Thomas on the leak:

@jon-nyc said in Clarence Thomas on the leak:

Add to that the general lack of respect for institutions by the younger set and it’s not hard to imagine.

Which is, basically, Thomas's point.

Thomas’

#WinningPedantrySaturday

Not really an error. Put your game face on here, for shit's sake.

I’ve gone from POTY winner to Pedantry Saturday loser. That’s like Michael Jordan losing a pickup game at the YMCA. Whatever. I’m man enough to admit when I’ve lost. Which I never have, and never will. Cue the Rocky montage with Strunk and White.

#EyeOfTheTiger

I have no idea who either one of them are, but that is the most god awful ugly woman ive ever seen.

Instead of cherry picking items that give you the opportunity to bash republicans, why don't you spend a little time talking about the first administration in history to be made up of utter fools and the devastation being done to our nation by the corrupt and incompetent democrat party?

You cite one newspaper's opinion in one tiny region, but ignore the nation wide clusterfuck we face thanks you the democrats.

Greetings. I am Rich Strike, the horse half of the Derby winners, along with my man Sonny. My friends call me Ritchie. I have been given special permission to make a one-time post to your forum to correct a very unfair impression!

Sonny is typing this message for me because hooves, you know.

The thing is, Sonny didn't win that race by himself. Not fair to call Sonny the winner. Like what am I, chopped liver? I was there, too!

So not for nuthin, it wunt Sonny who ran his ass off for the win! Make no mistake, he helped, I couldn'ta done it without him, but it's me who's rocking the liniment right now, know what I mean? S0 how about a little credit where it's due, okay?

Just to show there's no hard feelings, here's a little horse joke for you.

Where do horses go when they’re sick? The horsepital.

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Thanks for the opportunity.

Your friend, Ritchie the Derby Winner at 80-1 Odds

I completely agree that elections should be seen to be completely free and fair. I agree with voter ID, and I think the Democrats insistence that minorities can't get their shit together enough to get an ID is patronizing in the extreme.

However, pretending this current obsession with voter fraud has nothing to do with Donald Trump is taking disingenuity to a whole new level.

@George-K

Because, unless you’re a coward like 90% of the media and 100% of the foreign-policy class in Washington, you realize now the furor that consumed the country for three years did not originate with Donald Trump or even Russia, but with a Clinton-sponsored hoax comments from a Trump foreign policy aid to Australian officials, which they reported to the FBI.

Fixed.

See, this is one I don't understand. Biodiesel is not hard to make and uses many products that would normally be waste. If I understand correctly, jets run on a kerosene blend...Kerosene is simply #1 diesel (trucks and tractors run #2).

In days past, seems like the breakover point for biofuels was somewhere around $60/barrel oil. We're way past that...

SOLUTION: Suppose that our solution concatenates the numbers from 1 to N. Then each of the digits 1, 2, ..., 9, 0 must appear an even number of times in the numbers from 1 to N, with at most one exception, in order for those digits to be arrangeable into a palindrome.

So a natural first task is to determine the least N with this property, and it turns out to be 19. The numbers from 1 to 19 contain 12 1's, 2 of each digit from 2 to 9, and just one 0 (which would thus have to be in the middle of our concatenary palindrome).

We don't know yet whether there is a concatenary palindrome made from the numbers 1 through 19, but let's be optimistic and try to construct the smallest one we can. We'd want to start the number with the digit 1, and thus it must also end with 1. Can we begin it with two 1's? Yes, but only if we end it with the number eleven, and begin it with the number 1 followed by something in the teens. So our number looks like "1 1x ... 0 ... x 11" for some digit x. So far so good.

We can't have x = 1, but x = 2 is OK, so our number becomes "1 12 y ... 0 ... y 2 11" for some digit y. Can y be 1? No, because the y on the right side can only belong to the number one or the number eleven and we've already used those. But it can be 3, provided that on the right it's part of the number 13. So now we have "1 12 3 1z ... 0 ... z 13 2 11," where z is some digit — which can be taken to be 4.

Proceeding in this manner we end up with

1 12 3 14 5 16 7 18 9 10 19 8 17 6 15 4 13 2 11,

also known as 11,231,451,671,891,019,817,615,413,211, or "eleven octillion something."

@Jolly said in The disappearance of the Russian Federation?:

I don't have a clue, but nothing I've seen hints at the people in Russia wanting to dissolve the Federation.

I'm not sure it will be the Russian people driving this, but powerful regional folks who see opportunity for independence from Moscow. There will still be a Russia, but it might look different than today.

The slippery slopers on the left are blissfully unaware of this slope. Shhhhhhhhhhhhocking.

Let's see what happens when they include pregnancy as part of the test.

I think the big problem with moon dust/dirt is that it is very abrasive.

There is no wind or weather, so the rough/sharp edges of the rocks stay rough and sharp.

The Apollo astronauts reported that this sharp dust got into everything. I wonder if it will turn out like the alien organism in Andromeda Strain that mutated into a rubber eating monster that dissolved all the air seals.

@Catseye3 said in But we don't let them vote, drink, or join the military.:

@Jolly No, seriously.

I'm being half-serious. Maybe more than that, given my religious views.

I know nothing of backstory, etc.

But even Mrs. George, who was an ICU nurse said, "That needs a plate and screws across the fracture, perhaps an intramedullary rod as well."

This might be a nothingburger - landing nothing more than a "lied to the FBI conviction."

But...

The judge who restricted what evidence can be brought in the trial said that, if the indictment is broadened, more evidence can be admitted.

IOW, he said, "cast your net wider."

@George-K said in Vetting Barnette:

I really haven't been following this story much. But, I just saw this on Twitter:

"If a year ago we told you that the GOP primary for #PASen was a contest between a black woman, a Muslim doctor & a Gulf War vet for the right to take on a Democrat candidate who chased down a black jogger with a shotgun would you think the race would look anything like this?"

The problem is that the last time she ran, they ate her alive on these issues. She either needs to come forward with a decent explanation or she needs to get out of the way.