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  • EPA admits to altering science under Trump administration

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    I read the EPA report and importantly their recommendations. I was confused like did I get linked to a different case. Ax- tell me why the recommendation does not tell me how severe the transgression was. I mean it’s a different planet from your thread title.
  • Senator Scott asks CEOs what their objections to the Georgia law are

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    @axtremus said in Senator Scott asks CEOs what their objections to the Georgia law are: https://www.newsweek.com/georgias-new-voting-law-racist-opinion-1581772 https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-black-voters/index.html Note also that Sen. Scott (or his office) is the one who posted that video on his YouTube channel and turned off comments. It stands to reason to suspect they he posts only parts of the video that show him in the best light. It looks like there is silence because ... well, who knows what he cut out from the video before posting it on YouTube? Turning off comment also prevented any rebuttal right under the video. At best, you can only treat that video as a form of campaign advertising. Yes, they remove the Secretary of State as the chief of elections. It’s SUPPOSED TO BE A LEGISLATIVE RESPONSIBILITY, not an Executive. Yes, they can now remove an Election Official... IF THEY BREAK ELECTION LAW 3 TIMES IN 2 ELECTIONS!!! WTF?! Why aren’t they fired and going to jail and why the hell are Democrats so upset over this? This is freaking ridiculous... The rest of their assertions are just as bad.
  • Everything old is new again

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    Another recent example of Trump not holding up his end of the deal: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/27/trump-payroll-tax-deferral-491017 “Many of former President Donald Trump's political appointees got a nasty surprise when they left the government: A big tax bill. They've been ordered to immediately repay months of payroll taxes that had been deferred under a bid by Trump to boost the economy ahead of last year’s elections — levies he had assured them would later be forgiven.” Fool me once, shame on you ... If you got fooled over 30,573 times and still want to “contract” with him, you’ve got to be some special kind of special.
  • The U.S.-Soviet World War II Alliance: an Overlooked Legacy?

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    Thanks for posting this. I met Kotkin once at an academic conference. Loved his short book on the fall of the Soviet Union.
  • Working up to it for ten years..

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  • Wet Pants Denim

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    George KG
    @lufins-dad said in Wet Pants Denim: Why pay extra when you can just make your own? Temperature?
  • Musical Interlude: the Short-Tempered Clavier #1 in C Major

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    George KG
    @mik check out "The Bluegrass Cantata." Link to video
  • Ohio’s Governor Dewine

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    Isn’t it just redeploying dollars from one group to another? Sounds like a better use of the incentive pool but there are losers correct?
  • Bybon, son of Phola, was a badass.

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    Lol
  • Six Trillion

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  • Constitutional Carry

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  • The $700,000 Movie

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    @doctor-phibes said in The $700,000 Movie: Budget for Blair Witch Project - $300,000. It made $248 million. Budget for Blair Witch Project 2 - $15 million. It made $47 million. I think those are a generational phenoma, not to be repeated for awhile.
  • Flu Fighter

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    MikM
    Good news. I was wondering if anything related to COVID might be used to improve current fly vaccines.
  • Wash Deez Nutz

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    JollyJ
    Sadly, the gold-plated edition is sold out.
  • Vaccination Site Drive Through

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    If history repeats itself that woman has a life long history of significant mental health issues and these people always love fringe ideas, from the left and right. It makes them feel alive.
  • Rocky & James Bond

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    @jolly said in Rocky & James Bond: Watch your Prime cost climb. I think you are right. It won’t be a race to the bottom and the competition is for good content. There will be big winners and big losers.
  • Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go

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    @taiwan_girl said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @doctor-phibes said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @aqua-letifer said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @horace said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: Trump and Mickelson are neck and neck for biggest losers on the planet. Trump's not a loser, he's right up there with Franklin Pierce, Pehr Svinhufvud, Aden Abdulle Osman Daar, and other household names who have changed the world in their only term. Look how many times he won impeachment, Horace, Donald Trump is anything but a loser. Plus, he's never lost a game of golf, if you believe what you read. Would have been interesting if President Trump would have been able to play Premier Kim Jong Il of the DPRK. QUOTE One of golf’s greatest feats is to shoot one’s age. So, imagine how spectacular a day Kim Jong-Il had back in 1994. The North Korean dictator, who died on Saturday of heart failure at age 69, scorched the 7,700-yard Pyongyang Golf Course in a stunning 38-under par, 34. Now, before getting all bent out of shape that such a score is impossible or clearly the product of creative scorekeeping on the part of the “Dear Leader,” it’s important to note that witnesses attest to his great round. According to reports, Kim, who was 52 at the time, carded no worse than a birdie on any hole at the country’s only golf club. He also had five holes-in-one in the round, which was witnessed by 17 armed bodyguards. “He is an excellent golfer,” Park Young Man, the club professional, told the International Herald Tribune a couple of months after Kim’s historic round, which was widely-reported in North Korea’s state-controlled media. Good thing for Tiger Woods and his contemporaries Kim spent his time serving his people because clearly he could have ruled the PGA Tour too. UNQUOTE Supposedly, it was the first time he had ever golfed!!! (https://www.thestar.com/sports/golf/2011/12/19/kim_jongil_once_carded_38under_par_at_pyongyang_golf_course.html) Baghdad Bob must have been an understudy.
  • Trust Us

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    @aqua-letifer said in Trust Us: @loki said in Trust Us: @horace said in Trust Us: Known Republican Lebron James doesn't want to say whether he's vaccinated. https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2021/05/24/lebron-james-coronavirus-vaccine-nr-vpx.cnn How can you be woke and a social justice leader and refuse to say? I’d love to hear that argument. Depends on how shitty the people are who are asking, I'd guess. If I felt like the question was more like a pre-emptive attack I'd tell them to go to hell with their question, too. And yes I still think those who are capable and should get vaccinated but still don't are fucking assholes. Shucks, I'm still for open carry and let everybody say what they want to. Manners and assholes would soon even out.
  • Meanwhile, in St. Louis...

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    JollyJ
    @loki The point is that fully vaccinated individuals are capable of transmitting the disease, just like unvaccinated people. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the individual to take responsibility for himself. Being vaccinated may, or may not protect society in this case, especially the further you are from your vaccination.
  • Rural America Gets Bad Vibrations From Big Wind

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    CopperC
    Martha’s Vineyard is for democrats Nantucket is for republicans