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  • Hey your honor...

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    CopperC
    I assume the judge will add his fee to the medical insurance claim.
  • Thinking on her feet

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    George KG
    Presumably, she's already had the virus - anosmia and all that....
  • J&J Approved...

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    L
    AZ is 100% effective against serious illness, hospitalization and death. That’s some definition of suck based on what has happened over the last year to our people and our economy. But yeah people think it sucks. Weird.
  • Escape From New York

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    RichR
    @lufins-dad Yes and yes. Especially to point #1. The last 8 months or so, I've essentially gone from being a piano restoration guy that also does some piano moving, to a being piano mover that visits his shop just long enough to grab another dolly. Real estate prices locally have gone through the roof as tons of people from New York and Boston have moved into CT suburbs.
  • TWA Flight 800 wreckage in Ashburn to be decommissioned

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    L
    Pierre Salinger gave up most if not all of his reputation on TWA flight 800. That’s what I remember most.
  • "I am not a pussy..."

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    George KG
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  • China crushes democracy

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    JollyJ
    The dude from Iceland probably didn't gave a nuclear football in the truck seat...
  • The Pacific

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    JollyJ
    I've read the books several times. I wish the film would have stuck to one or the other.
  • Combating Racism by Instituting...Racism?

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    jon-nycJ
    My district isn’t (yet) insane with woke neoracism (though there’s a contingent trying hard to get us there), so I think the boy will be okay. Also he’s already a bit cynical about it, and it didn’t really come from me.
  • The Demon

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  • Vaccine Question

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    LuFins DadL
    Well, I’m planning on having the tests in April. Mostly I’m just curious to see if I had it at some point without knowing it. I doubt it will effect whenI get the vaccine since I will be so late in the game.
  • Eviction Notice

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    MikM
    The limits are pretty ridiculous. You can't get evicted if you expect to make six figures?
  • Our school district is *fully* reopening

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    jon-nycJ
    Well now they have people quarantine who were potentially exposed to the positive case. Sometimes that’s a whole classroom. So I imagine they’ll do more of the same.
  • Lifestyle brands - Apple and Target?

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    George KG
    Best Buy is the Amazon showroom.
  • One time, at band practice...

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  • Hey pet owners!

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    AxtremusA
    @Sidney and @Boris, your review, please.
  • Kasich on the $1.9T relief bill

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in Kasich on the $1.9T relief bill: I would have loved to have seen something much more targeted. Like federal employees? While millions of parents struggle to work from home with kids who are enrolled in shuttered or partially shuttered schools, and millions more left the workforce or lost jobs to care for their at-home children, evidently parents in the federal bureaucracy need their own, personal Covid-19 bailout. Buried on page 305 of the House bill released late last Friday night (included after the bailout details for states and localities), is a new Treasury Department fund called the “Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund.” $570 million in the new fund is available through September 30. Federal employees caring for others due to Covid-19 are eligible for paid leave. Among those eligible are those who are “unable to work” because they are caring for school-aged children not physically in school full time “due to Covid-19 precautions[.]” The new Fund allows a federal employee “caring for a son or daughter” to qualify for the paid leave, specifically: “if the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to Covid-19 precautions;” Under the bill as currently drafted, full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week. That’s 15 weeks for a 40-hour employee. Part-time and “seasonal” employees are eligible, too, with equivalent hours established by their agency. Gummint gotta care for its own, I guess.
  • Murderous Dognapping

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    Catseye3C
    @axtremus said in Murderous Dognapping: “Two days after thieves shot the singer's dogwalker and abducted Lady Gaga's beloved dogs Koji and Gustav, the animals were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police confirmed to the Associated Press.” Oh, good. Just as good: the dog walker is expected to make a full recovery. Happy happy joy joy all around.
  • "The Knick"

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    brendaB
    Amazon Prime has it.
  • Pass the popcorn!

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    LuFins DadL
    Isn’t she wonderful? https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1364341956676096001