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Poop happens.

Good in theory but ain't gonna happen. There's no way to rule out stupidity.

You are living in the stone age.

Thank God for PVRs.

If memory serves, Pipkin has a rep of being resistant to coaching and going off script. Not sure if that would be a good fit for O'Shea.

Reilly earned every dollar and I wouldn't want to be him when he hits 60 years old. He is not going to have a single body part that will not hurt.

Russia is sending as much resources into the Donetsk region as they can, even WW2 equipment and untrained/undertrained troops trying to overwhelm Ukrainian defences with sheer numbers. They are also sending any missiles they can find because they can launch those from hundreds of kms away. The rush is to seize land and dig in before the bulk of game-changing western weaponry arrives.

Yu get what you pay for.

And Eli Tui has disappeared under the surface with hardly a ripple.

'Methodical' Merrick Garland 'fears no person' — and he's coming for Trump: legal scholar Like other forms of fascism, authoritarianism and reactionary politics, Donald Trump's so-called movement is a symptom of deeper problems in society, not the cause. Trumpism is not a boil that can be lanced, thereby ending the infection. It's more like a tumor growing from the bones. It's not exactly true that the Republican Party was conquered or "taken over" by the Trump movement, as many observers still perceive it. The seeds of Trumpism were planted in Republican soil decades ago, and found it a hospitable environment. It's more accurate to perceive Trumpism as the next evolutionary (or, more properly, devolutionary) stage of the Republican Party and the overall conservative movement. It's where right-wing politics were going in America, whether leading conservatives understood that or not. https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/merrick-garland-2657413761/

Basically a pyramid scheme with extra steps.

Architect of Trump election theft attempt is recruiting an army of conspiracy-fueled poll workers: report With the midterm election just months away and Donald Trump still eyeing a third presidential run in 2024, the New York Times is reporting that one of the architects of the former president's attempt to throw out the results of his 2020 loss is currently working on recruiting conspiracy-minded poll workers and watchers that have state election officials fearful of future chaos and disruption. According to the report, attorney Cleta Mitchell who rose to fame as a participant on Trump's infamous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where the former president demanded the Georgia Republican "find" 11,780 votes, is working with the Election Integrity Network which has financial ties to Trump's still-thriving political operation. As the Times' Alexandra Berzon writes, Mitchell has been busy traveling the country and meeting with far-right activists, instructing them on how to get deeply involved with the election process in their states, putting them in a position to challenge election results and disrupt certification of the votes. According to Berzon, no position at the state level is considered too small by Mitchell, who recently told over 150 conservatives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "We are taking the lessons we learned in 2020 and we are going forward to make sure they never happen again.” Pointing out that Mitchell was a participant in multiple lawsuits by Trump to challenge election results at the state level -- none of which succeeded -- Berzon writes that she is undeterred as her conspiracy theories are debunked and that she has the financial backing of several conservative groups. "In seminars around the country, Ms. Mitchell is marshaling volunteers to stake out election offices, file information requests, monitor voting, work at polling places and keep detailed records of their work," the Times report states, adding that an examination of her efforts reveals " a loose network of influential groups and fringe figures." Her supporters "include election deniers as well as mainstream organizations such as the Heritage Foundation’s political affiliate, Tea Party Patriots and the R.N.C., which has participated in Ms. Mitchell’s seminars. The effort, called the Election Integrity Network, is a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a right-wing think tank with close ties and financial backing from Mr. Trump’s political operation." .alternet.org/2022/05/poll-workers/

Ronnie Hawkins, Key Figure in Canadian Rock and Mentor of The Band, Dies at 87 -Getty Ronnie Hawkins, known by some as “the father of Canadian rock ‘n’ roll,” died on Sunday morning. He was 87. Hawkins’ wife, Wanda, confirmed his death after an undisclosed illness. An Arkansas native, Hawkins was known for having an eye for talent and credited with inspiring much of the Canadian rock ‘n’ roll scene. In the 1950s, he went on a Canadian tour and later moved to Canada, recognizing that he could have a greater impact in a country where rock was in its fledgling form. There, Hawkins formed a group of backup musicians that later became known as The Band, who eventually played with Bob Dylan and became iconic in their own right. The Band invited Hawkins, who went on to mentor more Canadian musicians, on stage for their final show in 1976, with the scene featured in Martin Scorsese’s documentary The Last Waltz. When The Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, guitarist Robbie Robertson said: “We should thank Ronnie Hawkins in being so instrumental in us coming together and for teaching us the ‘code of the road,’ so to speak.”

It is going to get worse in the US. Average family income is falling as is literacy. The rich as getting richer, the middle class is getting wiped out, and the poor are getting poorer and more desperate.

About 80-90% of the calls that police respond to are not critical and are usually better served by a mobile crisis team, leaving officers free to respond to more urgent/critical calls. There is a strong linkage between poverty, lack of education/employment and substance abuse- criminal conduct.

You may have noted that there is a very strong feminine presence in the bridge crew that was not present in any of the other series apart from the lamentable Discovery shows.

Shhhhsssss- you'll ruin it for the rest of us.

Sooooo...the Bombers have less Character than before? Agreed. Essentially, the new players are on probation and can be released if the colour of their shoelaces clash with their uniforms.

The war in eastern Ukraine in the Donbas region is not going well for Ukraine now. All of the troops and military equipment that was at Mariupol has been moved north in order to secure the Donbas region. The Russians are using WW2 tactics- throw wave after wave of bodies and equipment at Ukrainian lines expecting that the war of attrition will swing in their favour. Ukrainian military reported than in one day, they killed 500 Russians. Simultaneously, they are forcibly removing Ukrainians to camps in Siberia. Ukrainian supply lines are stretched with food and war materiel in shorter and shorter supply.

The family that loads together, explodes together. They must be sooo proud.

Good series except for the captain sporting a 'do that would take him about two hours before he emerged from his cabin.

Trump is unworthy to be referred to as a human being. He is a pile of excrement in a suit.

Oklahoma GOP gubernatorial candidate: Ban abortion nationwide because life begins 'before' conception Mark Sherwood, a Republican candidate for governor in Oklahoma, asserted that he is against all exceptions for abortion because he believes life begins "before" conception. "No life, even conceived in the most heinous or even less-than-ideal circumstances is a mistake," Sherwood told Real America's Voice host David Brody after revealing that his mother was likely a victim of rape. "As I sit here and talk to you, I can tell you unequivocally, even the people who are pro-choice are not mistakes. Everybody has a purpose." "So I believe life begins in God before it begins at conception," he said, noting that his "plan is to push the legislators on both chambers as per their Republican GOP stance in Oklahoma to present this bill to the houses with the people behind it." Sherwood insisted that he "will sign that bill because it's the right thing to do and we'll make it the law immediately to abolish abortion, no exceptions." The candidate admitted that women would continue to seek abortions even if the practice was outlawed. He compared illegal abortions to the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. "Is it going to stop abortion all the way by people's choices? No," he said. "But do we need to create laws that match the punishment, that match the crime? Yes. And if we do that, God's hand and blessing will be back on this land. And it's going to take hard calls. It's going to take some guts." https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/oklahoma-republican-life-before-conception/