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  • Too cute.

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    jon-nycJ
    https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1581546160300646400?s=46&t=JWo5ZCZKa9CwgzR41Zpf1A
  • Contronyms

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    RenaudaR
    @taiwan_girl Or where I live, in winter people will say “we had a dusting of snow over night”.
  • This weekend's fun CT

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    LuFins DadL
    What does this have to do with Connecticut?
  • Democratic strategists respond to conservative Latino swing to GOP:

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    taiwan_girlT
    The democrat saying that all Latino are the same is like saying all Asians are the same. Crazy
  • Inflating the lungs

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    jon-nycJ
    Very cool.
  • Saturday evening snarky caption contest

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    RichR
    [image: 1665873451788-c9be8ce7-d904-46c2-99b0-06e8523a5178.jpeg] “I’ve got two words for you Don—Grab ‘em by the shoulder.”
  • On a server in China

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    George KG
    @LuFins-Dad [image: 1665868475868-imrs-34948169.jpeg]
  • This time the ‘meddlesome priest’ is real

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    MikM
    It does. It also shows has has no legitimate claim to his position, at least in any modern theological sense. If the powers that be ever kill Putin, he should be next.
  • Walker's Prop

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    MikM
    Props can be helpful. Who can forget the Voodoo Stick? [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fximage.c-spanvideo.org%2FeyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvMGQ1XC8xOTkyMTAzMDIwNTEzNjAwMS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjYzMCwid2lkdGgiOjEyMDB9fX0%3D&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b45d3738bde8214cab7e493c67df9e9476ee7c0caebed281b87983770b495e2d&ipo=images]
  • Grocery Merger

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    MikM
    I'd pick HEB any day.
  • "Bang" Brain and Body Fuel

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    CopperC
    And, according to the NIH, Cigarette smoking is good, sometimes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8746297/ Beneficial effects of nicotine and cigarette smoking: Evidence is growing that cigarette smoking and nicotine may prevent or ameliorate Parkinson's disease, and could do so in Alzheimer's dementia. A variety of mechanisms for potentially beneficial effects of smoking have been proposed, but three predominate: the 'anti-estrogenic effect' of smoking; alterations in prostaglandin production; and stimulation of nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the central nervous system. Even established inverse associations cannot be used as a rationale for cigarette smoking. These data can be used, however, to clarify mechanisms of disease, and point to productive treatment or preventive options with more narrowly-acting interventions.
  • The judge is pissed

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Renauda said in The judge is pissed: That is the common pronunciation of the word up here as well. Although from time you hear it pronounced as CREEtin. Where I grew up, it was "CREE-(hard stop)-IN"
  • Deadliest catch

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    MikM
    Not good.
  • This is great

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    LuFins DadL
    Mel still does voice work. He was in Toy Story 4.
  • Warnock's Church

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    George KG
    About that "tax exempt" status... Georgia has launched an investigation into a charity controlled by the church that pays Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) a $7,417 monthly housing allowance and owns an apartment building that is trying to evict tenants, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The Georgia Secretary of State Office's Securities and Charities Division on Wednesday sent a letter to Ebenezer Building Foundation demanding that the charity explain why it is operating in the state without an active registration. The Ebenezer Building Foundation has reported in each of its Form 990 tax returns filed with the IRS since 2011 that it is registered to operate as a charity in Georgia. But the Georgia Securities and Charities Division told the Free Beacon that Warnock's charity is not registered with state authorities. Ebenezer Building Foundation identifies Warnock as its principal officer in its Form 990s and says it delegates all management duties to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock pulls a salary on top of a lucrative tax-free housing allowance as he serves in the Senate. "The Division's records indicate that Ebenezer Building Foundation … is not registered as a charitable organization with the State of Georgia," an attorney with the Georgia Securities and Charities Division wrote in the letter to Kenneth Palmer, a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Board of Trustees. The letter warned Palmer, who also serves as the chairman of Ebenezer Building Foundation, that soliciting charitable contributions and operating a charitable organization in Georgia without an active registration or an applicable exemption are violations of state law and will subject the charity to administrative penalties. Georgia's investigation was launched after the Free Beacon reported Tuesday that the Ebenezer Building Foundation owns 99 percent of Columbia Tower at MLK Village, a low-income apartment building in downtown Atlanta that moved to evict disadvantaged residents during the pandemic. One lawsuit, which resulted in a court-ordered eviction, sought just $28.55 in past-due rent. The lawsuits were filed during the same timeframe Warnock attacked his political opponents for failing to safeguard struggling Georgians against pandemic-era evictions.
  • Potholes

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  • Hay Cats! Your "Kramer makes an entrance" post of the day.

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  • Blink 2022

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    jon-nycJ
    Looks like fun
  • Friday evening musical interlude

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  • A step forward for wind power

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    MikM
    I think I kill more birds. I really like poultry and especially game birds.