Ghana’s on my list of places to visit. Delta initiated a non-stop to Accra a few years ago.

@mik Good luck. I hope that works out for you!!

@mark What cuties!!!

Interesting article. From my friends at PTT (semi national oil company of Thailand), they just wish for a stable price, regardless of what it is. LOL

@loki said in Was Tiger running late?:

There are more detailed accounts. He was pissed that some company was staying at and filming a series at the exclusive resort he was staying at. He let them know he was not told and wouldn’t have stayed there. He was 30 min behind and then his exit was blocked by the company unloading stuff which likely further spiked his stress hormones. He’s worried about his MRI and return to golf greatness. So he floors it in rage, insecurity and lateness and loose control of the vehicle. No time to even brake.

Why bother with this long story, a warning to watch yourself when you get upset. It can get a lot worse and even be career if not life ending.

I listened to Mark Levine talk about the accident yesterday.

He's no Tiger fan, but he was miffed that people kept saying Tiger was not impaired. His point was Tiger has been through rehab and has not had apparent addiction problems since. The "not-impaired" statements give credence to something that doesn't exist.

Levine is familiar with the road and said it is very easy to have an accident if speeding or not paying attention.

@jolly said in Hunter Rides Again:

@loki said in Hunter Rides Again:

So we have devolved to leaking people’s private lives. Texts from Cruz’s wife too and pictures everywhere and memes going viral.

We have trained the next generation so well. Civility? What a joke. I’m glad I won’t be growing up in that hell.

One thing we know for sure though now is that laptop is the real deal. Remember all the media around it’s authenticity? LOL

Why no Special Prosecutor?

Influence peddling and favors owed by POTUS ought to warrant a few bored attorneys.

Because it is so easy ignore when you control the communications tower.

A sane person knows better than to touch this, just pray it goes away and the odds are good when you can suppress it getting out.

@jolly said in Alberta?:

What's harder to winterize, a solar panel farm or a coal plant?

I failed to mention that solar is growing popularity here. It's not that it is problem to winterize the panels and associated faclities - hell, most of the panels are on the flat roofs of commerical buildings and private homes . Rather it is a problem having sufficient duration and concentration of sunlight this far north in the winter months.

Winter sunlight shouldn't be a problem for Texas.

Tucker usually gets it right.

To Horace’s point, I read that the biggest driver is people in heterosexual relationships that say they’re bi.

Also interesting is the disappearing lesbian. Masculine women that would have called themselves lesbians 15 years ago call themselves trans now.

Those ladders were probably good practice for the ones leading out of the trenches.

They have to get Quinto to talk through his mouth.

That whiney nasal sound is awful, really distracting.

@jon-nyc said in Perspective on the First Shots First approach:

By the way, we (US) could have given quite literally everybody over 65 their first dose as of about two weeks ago.

Imagine the current death rate and hospitalization rate if we had.

It’s a great point. To juxtapose though we know that younger people are superspreaders and those over 65 account for little spread. I saw something recently on this and the data was striking. I think at the end of the day you will find however if we protected the old from dying it would be a better route -and hopefully that would mean return to the next normal faster.

@jon-nyc said in So, who's going to deplatform Facebook?:

Why sadly? I thought you were against cancel culture.

True. I'm also in favor of consistency.

Pelosi vigorously fought a fence on the border, but wants fences to remain in Washington.

@george-k said in Cancelled:

“Why teach a book that may alienate some students when there are so many other books that can teach the same skills?”

One reason is so students can see the N word over 200 times and understand more about their heritage.

idiots

@lufins-dad said in Virginia GOP primary:

The only reason why this is getting media attention is because Amanda Chase is one of the two possible GOP Gubernatorial candidates. Chase is a Trumpster in the worst connotation. She’s doomed in a convention, but could win a populist primary. Hit opponent Cox is an establishment Republican that wouldn’t be nearly as exciting to the Trump crowd in a Primary. After 2020, there is an opportunity for Republicans to win ground back in Virginia, but not if Chase is heading up the ticket, so the media is going to make hay over this.

Sounds like the Virginia GOP is getting it’s act together. Love the media, dammed if the GOP censures a non Trumpster, damned if they find a way to prevent a Trumpster from winning. Lol

@xenon said in "F35 program has failed":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-force-just-admitted-the-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-failed/

There has been so much back and forth on this platform, that I don't know whom to believe.

By the way, is the naval variant still scorching carrier decks?