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@Klaus said in Hay Cats! Your "All the letters in the alphabet" post of the day.: Now I'm waiting for Lorem Ipsum to happen, too. LOL

I think Presdient Biden is not "all there", but I have heard him say previously that he believed that his son brain cancer was caused by exposure to the garbage burn piles they used. So, in a very roundabout way, he may be correct. (I think it is pretty much known now that those garbage burn piles left some really nasty stuff in the air for the soldiers to breathe.)

@LuFins-Dad said in Top Twenty: Just made me realize how truly awful the show is… I haven't watched it in decades. But I assume it is still true that if you get into the SNL cast you are all set, you are made. There is no longer any real need to deliver, it is SNL after all. Just show up, get your name in lights, then sit back and enjoy the celebrity.

@jon-nyc No interest from our son either.

@George-K said in Westworld?: @xenon being retired, I have the luxury of spending time recapping stuff. So, when season 4 dropped, I realized I had no clue of what was going on, so I rewatched 3 to get a sense of plot and continued straightaway into 4. Dolores...wow. Wild ride, to be sure, eh? It's one of those shows where I can't make up my mind about who I like and don't like. I like that.

Where’s the Extinction Rebellion when you need it?

Maybe you can get PP to stuff them full of dead baby parts. Consider it a two-fer.

This popped up in my feed - a blast from the past. How an FBI Team in Rome Gave Steele Highly Guarded Secrets The report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz details how a team of FBI agents in early October 2016 shared with Steele extensive classified materials, just weeks before the bureau cut off ties with him for leaking his own research to the media. The secrets included foreign intelligence information still considered so sensitive that the IG’s report refers to it even now only as coming from a “Friendly Foreign Government.” In fact, this is a reference to Australia. That country’s ambassador to Britain sent the United States a tip about loose talk by junior Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. The FBI has described that as the predicate for its Trump-Russia investigation. The IG report also discloses that FBI agents knew Steele worked for Glenn Simpson, whose opposition research firm Fusion GPS was paying Steele to dig up dirt on Trump for the Clinton campaign, and that Steele informed the FBI that the “candidate” – Clinton herself – knew about Steele’s work. Steele did not keep to himself the classified material he had learned from the FBI. Shortly after the Rome meeting, Steele briefed Simpson on what the FBI had disclosed to him. The FBI’s disclosures to Steele -- described on pages 114-115 and in footnote 513, and supported on pages 386-390 and footnotes 252 and 513, deep in Horowitz’s report – were violations of laws governing the handling of classified material, according to the Inspector General and experts in national security law who spoke with RealClearInvestigations. Oh, according to the IG, the FBI broke the law.

As soon as I saw the first boat I had an idea of the punch line. That is just how the internet works.

I’m embarrassed by the incompetence of it. “I’m going to end fissile fuels!” “Please don’t cut production!” WTF did he expect?

@89th said in The town that Fetterman saved: @Mik said in The town that Fetterman saved: Quite a different narrative than the one his camp puts out. I grew up in a town not unlike Braddock. Bustling small businesses lined the streets and everyone shopped there. We did not have a plant in town, but many worked at the steel plant a few miles away and the auto industry plants about 15-20 miles away. Then the decimation of small town retail and industry hit, like it did everywhere. So my little town turned to tourism, antiquing and the like, and as that faded and got overcrowded to boutique shopping and dining. We have several festivals a year, all successful. The character and architecture of the town has been well preserved and while it has grown, the town has retained its midwest charm. We have had Republican government since before I was born. Our city and county service departments are exceptionally citizen oriented. everyone you deal with - and I've dealt with them all in varying roles and capacities - will go out of their way to help you, often suggesting solutions and resources you had not thought of. I suspect my town is a bit of an anomaly, but it is an example of what can be done as times change. It would appear Fetterman did very little of that. This is random, but it sounds a lot like Bayfield, WI. Just was visiting there last weekend for an apple festival. It's right on the water, but it's basically a charming older town with beautiful homes and a few main streets with (what seems) to be various flavors of antiques or art shops, and places to eat. I heard from someone who lives there it was dealt a major blow during the pandemic because it's older, liberal residents and the mayor really hammered down with COVID policies. He told me "they nearly killed off the town completely". If they saved a single human life, it was worth it.

What I liked about the story is about his new-found success. A few successful albums, and he's doing concerts. (paraphrasing) "I can play in front of 15,000 people, and then, when I go to a pub to have a pint, nobody knows who I am." Best of all worlds.

@Copper said in Brain Drain?: ... abortion or a car that works, you can't have both. You sure?

"Well I guess to sum it up, you could say there are three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. There's Andy and there's me and [patting gun] baby makes three." - Barney Fife.

@Catseye3 Under the present circumstances there, that leaves me with no quantum of solace.