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Well, for one thing, Kap was hardly unknown. He was a starting QB in the Super Bowl. For another thing, a Donald Trump supporter should not be casting stones about a candidate’s sexual escapades.

@Jolly said in Pats win!:

Saints 47-10 over Carolina.

Yeah, your D helped me win a Fantasy matchup. I’m just taking whoever is playing against the Panthers…

Here’s my proposal

1. the first two years of a PELL Grant can ONLY be used at a Community College or Trade School.

2. Any student applying for a loan must pass an exam where they calculate out the monthly interest of the loan and show the the total amount paid over 10 years.

Steelers won, too! QB sucked, but we won.

I think @Jolly will appreciate the sermon, though..

By the way, I was only joking with my earlier post. The local schools only make ~ 5% of girls into boys, so odds are she’ll be fine.

Is she thinking of a foreign exchange student program? How much choice is one given in those programs?

I’m sure it will be a very fulfilling experience for the young man.

@George-K said in Doggie end of life decisions:

@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:

He's doing well. Resting at home. He's energetic again and doesn't seem to be in much pain, though he is on meds for that. He had some fluid around his heart which they are keeping an eye on. I got a call about it at 6 am while he was still in the hospital recovering. They said maybe I wanted to do a $1000 test with an advanced ultrasound, or he could just suddenly die. So I spent the 1k, because those are the sorts of choices one has at the vet. The test came back as trace amounts of fluid but maybe nothing to worry about. They wanted to see him again today, so we took him back and they did that test again, this time free of charge. The ultrasound technician waved his wand at his heart for 20 seconds, pronounced him no worse than he was yesterday. I guess that's what I paid 1k for.

What we do for our animals...he's lucky to have you.

Sometimes, I wonder about vets...

We had a dog with Addison's disease - her adrenals didn't put out enough hormones and we have to give her medications as a supplement.

When she got funky, I took her to the local vet - I was charged $90 to check her blood pressure. I was beyond outraged.

"If we don't do this test your dog could die suddenly" is such bullshit.

I don't question your judgment based on what you were told, but that's total BS. You can get a CT scan cheaper (if you're human).

Sorry for the rant, but your comment reminded me of what a scam much of veterinary care can be.

With Dakota’s tumor, they wanted us to have a $4500 test run that would determine the exact nature of the tumor. There were 3 possibilities. The treatment for the first two options was the same, and the third option was untreatable… We proceeded with the treatment for the first two without the test…

@Copper said in Nobody is going to get this for $10K:

@LuFins-Dad said in Nobody is going to get this for $10K:

The website says they are quite a bit more…

The $10,000 home "Starting at $60,000"

A bit more

And I wonder if the $60K includes shipping and assembly? The videos I saw showed a crane… Cranes ain’t cheap…

The website says they are quite a bit more…

https://www.boxabl.com/casita

I’ll have to dig in a little more, but that looks like just the thing to put in some riverside property I’ve been eyeing in WV…

https://teamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/855df2ff-ec95-4313-a50a-c04392a9d62b/en-US

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested a student following a tip about an online threat.

On September 6, 2024, at 7:42 a.m., HCSO's School Threat Assessment and Response Team received an anonymous online tip regarding a student threatening to carry out a shooting at Dowdell Middle Magnet School.

Carmen Roman, 13, posted a note from her Instagram account that stated, "im the one whos gonna shoot up dowdell middle magnet."

At 8:20 a.m., detectives responded to Dowdell Middle Magnet School, where they met Roman, who claimed the note was meant as a joke.

Roman was taken into custody and charged with one count of Written or Electronic Threat to Conduct a Mass Shooting or Act of Terrorism and one count of Unlawful Use of a Two-Way Communications Device.

No firearms or weapons were found in Roman's possession at the time of her arrest.

"It's horrific to see that, in just two days, we've had students making online threats as jokes. Let me be clear. These threats are not funny, and they come with serious consequences. I urge parents to talk to their children about the severity of their actions and the lasting repercussions they can have," said Sheriff Chad Chronister. "I want to commend the person who reported the threat, allowing our detectives to act quickly and ensure the safety of both students and teachers at the school."

This is an active investigation. Any updates will come from the Public Affairs Office.

66 different QBs started a game last season. It just provides an opportunity for everyone’s favorite player, the backup QB…

Joe Burrow missed significant time last year. The weird thing? He was playing like crap before and the Bengals had a poor record. He went down with the injury (personally, I think he was injured the whole time), his backup came in and led them to 4 wins and damn near got them in the playoffs.

Pittsburgh’s season was toast when they finally got to the 3rd string QB last season. He led them to 3 straight wins and got them into the playoffs, resulting in Pittsburgh completely dismantling their QB room, and causing a lot of people to start questioning Tomlin’s QB evaluation skills. It’s a great story.

Why should a particular favorite player dictate your interest in a team? I love TJ Watt. If he goes down, I am excited to see what Nick Herbig and Demarvin Leal offer in relief. It’s part of the game.

Well, he’s still not a convicted felon, and won’t be until after the election.

I’m sure the campaigns will respect that fact and be precise in their language.

Regardless, most people don’t give a rat’s ass about the actual decision to leave, but the method of that withdrawal. I’ll entertain the idea that it would have been the same officers making the same plans, I’ll even entertain the idea that the 13 servicemen and women would be dead and Afghani translators would have been falling off of airplanes. But I guarantee you one difference, Heads would have rolled at the Pentagon instead of everyone saying mission accomplished…

Did you read through those tasting notes?

Toffee sweetness, dark chocolate, vanilla, fudge, nougat, molasses, dates

That sounds like the tasting notes for a soda pop. Too sweet. I looked up the tasting notes for one of my favorite Rye whiskeys:

Spice and Leather

That’s what whiskey should taste like… How many westerns showed the cowboy get a glass of whiskey, stare down the room, then get excited because the whiskey had a font of toffee, and is that fudge? By golly, it is!

Bourbon’s the dessert of whiskey’s….

In all fairness to Ax, the deficit was falling under Obama and started going back up again under Trump, COVID not withstanding.

I’ve a sneaking suspicion that it wasn’t the first time he was rear-ended.