@Jolly said in VDH's Tuesday Takeaway: @taiwan_girl said in VDH's Tuesday Takeaway: QUOTE Biden also goaded young people to vote by temporarily lowering gas prices through draining the strategic petroleum reserve, offering amnesty for marijuana offenses, and canceling half a trillion dollars of student loan debt. He told young women that they would die without unlimited abortions. And most of that mud stuck. UNQUOTE I kind of laughed at this. Does anybody really think that any of the above (except for the last point) really made people go out and vote for the Democrat party? I may be out of touch, but I just dont imagine any of those policies having a major positive effect (for the Democrat) on this election. (Again, except for maybe the abortion) You don't think artificially lowering gas prices had no effect on the election? No I dont. From the Treasury report, if we assume the middle of the range, it equals USD$0.22. With US gas prices so high, I really doubt that gas prices going from $4.50 USD to $4.30 USD made any difference on voting from people. QUOTE According to an analysis from the Department of the Treasury from July, the release of oil from the SPR helped lower the price of gasoline in the US by an estimated range of 13 to 31 cents per gallon. This report covers the period from March to July of 2022.[2] This means that, without the release of crude oil from the SPR, gasoline prices could be anywhere between 13 to 31 cents higher per gallon. UNQUOTE https://usafacts.org/articles/did-releasing-oil-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-impact-gas-prices/

Impressive indeed!

Good, I was going ask about “friends” next if the answers for AirB&B and VRBO came back negative. Glad he’s taken care of. May he get well soon.

@LuFins-Dad said in Laxalt may lose Nevada: @Jolly said in Laxalt may lose Nevada: I have no problem with early voting, as long as it is with 10 or 14 days of the election, done in person at the courthouse or at a designated location such as a public library, etc. I’m even okay with mail in if you are going to be traveling or have a second home out of state or out of country… But I do expect that ballot to be notarized… Too high a bar for my taste. Nobody notarizes my signature when I vote in person.

Oh, good. I was not aware of that. My basic point still stands. Use the freed-up money to reduce the remaining debt faster.

Here's praying the GOP takes the Senate.

No clue. Here's a link to the post on FB. The whole thread is very much worthwhile. Or you could look on my page and go from there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1076593759190274/user/100006504039950

It’s use is receding, thankfully, but it’s not dead yet. I don’t see political ads living in a blue state with the priciest ad market in the country but I imagine they finally realized it doesn’t poll well.

@George-K said in We have a new election denier.: I believe A serious matter The View returns with new chairs for season 26 after Joy Behar fall "You touch it, and you're on the ground," moderator Whoopi Goldberg previously said of the show's swivel chairs that were replaced for the season 26 premiere. The View panelist Joy Behar has emerged victorious over the chair that tried to take her down in March. The long-running ABC talk show returned for season 26 on Tuesday, with the ladies — including new permanent co-hosts Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin — taking their seats on a new set of chairs noticeably different from the model Behar tumbled from earlier this year. The new seats do not have a swivel base attached to them, as the previous set did. Each chair has four tall legs fixed to the ground, while the earlier seating had one central leg with a rotating cushion. EW has learned that the season 26 table is smaller than it has been in the past, so new chairs were needed. However, when deciding on a new design for the set, the team kept the accessibility of the chairs in mind and ultimately chose furniture that was more stable. https://twitter.com/NineDaves/status/1499416812563402762?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1499416812563402762|twgr^60463f7e5834e4a01ac98dafd7502cc545d30faf|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Ftv%2Fthe-view-new-chairs-season-26-joy-behar-fall%2F

The devil is always in the details.

This time he’s running to be the Democrat Nominee… 6D Chess…

This almost belongs in one of the humor threads. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1590801094988685312?s=46&t=cCa5_ap-s3e_XkOEcOoh3A

The blue colour on the photo is amazing

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George, do you make Goulash at home? That was another dish my mom used to make that we liked. I'm kind of on a childhood food kick these days. Hers had sour cream in it. Do you have a recipe? Looking at this one. A lot of them I've looked at just look like Johnny Marzetti, beef, tomatoes and Italian seasoning in macaroni. https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/hungarian-goulash/ By the way, just looked at my mom's stroganoff recipe. Very similar to the one I made last night.

By the way George if Cats isn't available to respond to her posts, you can start making Hey Horace! posts instead. I think TNCR needs more of my posts, so it is good to have something queued up for me.

Yeah, but she married Dr. Evil.

I wouldn't kick a Hazy out of bed a bar, but I enjoy a good 6-7% American, usually northwest, using Citra, Simcoe, Centennial, and similar hops.