The CW is also free, but you have to their app to watch. I use it mostly to watch the DC superhero series.

That’s great. And he will remember it better than we do...at least for a while.

I remember the Chicago flood. I was there for that. Very eerie to see the whole of downtown lights out during the day.

My then-girlfriend had to walk down the stairs from her office on the 83rd floor of Sears Tower.

He calves were killing her the next day.

@jon-nyc said in I finally get the 4D chess analogy:

Trump is still a Democrat. This is all one big troll.

Think about it:

Hijack the GOP - check

Discredit GOP establishment - check

Convince base that the GOP's signature foreign policy platform of the last 20 years was a failure - check

Convince base that one of its main economic policies of the last 2 decades was a failure - check.

Unite Democrats around a moderate establishment candidate, even in this era of radicalization - check

Turn purple states blue - in process

Turn red states purple - stretch goal.

I get it now. The man's a genius.

Jon, I'll add one more:

Destroy the Marxist leftist progressive educational gordian knot, by increasing online learning resultant from closing schools.

Do so by sternly telling everyone kids must go back to the classroom.

Result: all those affected revolt against the Cheeto Man, and keep their kids at home, where parents and grandparents are forced to become more involved in what is being rammed down the throats taught to their kids.

Sex Ed, Civics, History, Math(s), Science, critical race theory, social justice, etc.

"Mom, Dad, what does this mean?"

@Copper said in Meanwhile, in Taiwan:

If it's not NEGATIVELY related to Mr. Trump, why report it?

Kinda FIFY, if you don't mind.

@Horace said in Bari Weiss resigns from the Times:

@Larry said in Bari Weiss resigns from the Times:

@Horace said in Bari Weiss resigns from the Times:

I feel it necessary to concede that the only leader America will fully accept is a black person. I feel strongly that the right should proceed to elect one.

Any black person the republicans nominated will be labeled an uncle Tom and smeared.

There are so many highly intelligent, politically astute black people out there today who should be being held up by the black community as examples, but instead they are mocked, called names, and ignored. People like race baiter Al Sharpton, low IQ racist rappers, football players etc. Are the hero's, and the democrats kiss their asses in thanks for doing their part in keeping the black community on the plantation.

I think a person of the correct phenotype leading the GOP in presidential elections would do wonders to reduce the rhetorical ammo used in the messaging of the left. Of course they would try to dismiss the person's oppression bona fides, but it wouldn't be as effective as the messaging about, for instance, Trump being a racist.

Don't know. Look at the stuff hurled at Scott in South Carolina...

@Mik said in The Great:

@George-K the dialogue moves very fast

Finishing up The Shield (season 3) now. This will be next - with subtitles!

I have read quite a bit about the ongoing repression of Kazakh and Uiygur muslims in China in the non US press. There was even PBS Frontline special about it a couple of months back. Pretty well done I thought. Interesting though that all the Kazakhs interviewed spoke only Russian - even to their kids when at the playground. Odd, eh?

That could well be.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1068461

"The condition of the aging vessel, FSO Safer – officially owned by the Government of Yemen, but controlled since 2015 by Houthi rebels - is deteriorating daily, upping the risk of an oil spill that would wreck ecosystems and livelihoods for decades, said United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) chief, Inger Andersen."

All the above. That. Was. Hilarious.

As I said on FB: "This technique also works with (cheap) Scotch."

@Mik said in I WANT THIS!!!!!!:

You don't get a lot of party invites, do you?

He was talking about Jon and the girl.

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OK, since I have a ton of cherries - I already had bings and raniers in the fridge - and I am foisting off salmon on MFR (she does not like it, I love it), I will make this sweet recipe as she prefers fish with a little sweet.

https://keviniscooking.com/cherry-maple-glazed-salmon/

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@89th said in Hunt for the Red October:

@George-K said in Hunt for the Red October:

In the book, did they ever explain Connery's Scottish accent?

LOL, no. I loved the way Ramius Connery pronounced "хорошо." It came out sounding like "horrorshow."

In the movie, I think they said he was Lithuanian and therefore did not have a pure allegiance to the USSR.

Yes, and he was pissed at the USSR because they screwed up his wife's medical care, killing her. I believe he sent a letter to his father-in-law to that effect, explaining his defection.

Next they'll be tearing down statues of CDC heroes.

I would think it’s more than asterisk to describe what middle is.

I’m quite sure none of us know what to make of this. Since we only have screen shot we don’t know how 538 tackled it.