I still like connections although at times the obscure pop culture references escape me. I’ll have to try the others you mention.

@LuFins-Dad said in Asshole of the month award goes to…: Seriously, @89th 89th? It’s about basic human politeness and also a little self dignity. The whole idea that he can get to that ball quicker than she can so he deserves it is pretty much the philosophy of the asshole of the guy that grabbed the stuff away from the kid that started the thread. You can argue that it was about giving to kids, but maybe she was going to give it to a kid that wasn’t there? And even then, it’s a nice thing to do, but it’s not a moral imperative to do so. It doesn’t matter that he gave it to his kid or that it was the kids birthday. It was because his instinct said I’m big enough, fast enough, that I can get that ball before her and he chose to follow that instinct. That’s behavior that a polite society is supposed to frown upon. Not at all. A ball lands in the stands, it’s not “oh you go first” it’s fun to see who can get to it first. It landed in his row… in fact I think it’s a bigger sin to go into someone else’s row to get a ball, if there is any sin here at all!

I would love to visit Vermont. Seems quite pretty there.

@Horace Yes, welcome back!!!

On the other hand, I’m old enough that I don’t fight anymore but the idea of life in jail is nowhere near as scary.

Bless his memory. What a hero!

@jon-nyc said in Forum Issues: It says excessive load. Maybe 89 sat on the forum again. Couldn’t have been me, I delivered my load to your sister last night

The black pickup is the spitting image of my pick up. I’ve named her the midnight beast. And yes she is as diesel as they get.

I’ll take the checks and balances and presumption of immune, thanks. Inconvenient at times but necessary.

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True dat! and he conveniently forgets that corrections (both good and bad) have been something that almost always happens as more and finalized data comes in.

I mean, we know what AI would recommend. But we have carbon-based humans in Congress who still have to vote with their politically-scared brain.

If the guy took that initiative and determination and applied it to something legal he'd be rich.

I flew out of Boston today too, yes Boston on 9/11. Funniest part? There was an employee there whose name tag said “Osama”. No joke.

Massie? Thought he was smarter than that, unless he reason was purely to cut spending

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/11/ex-senators-wife-gets-4-5-years-in-prison-for-global-bribery-scheme/ Nadine Menendez was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars Thursday for her role in a yearslong international bribery scheme that landed her husband, former Sen. Bob Menendez, in a federal prison in June. She cried as she told U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein during her sentencing hearing at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan federal courthouse in Manhattan that she blames her husband for her criminal troubles. “I was wrong about my husband,” Menendez said in court, according to the New York Daily News. “I now know, he’s not my savior. He’s not the man I thought he was. I should have asked more questions. I should have known better.”

Looks like the side of his face is dropping. (Pic from yesterday 9/11 rememberance) [image: 1757633859124-img_3721.jpg]

I seriously doubt he did that though.