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Congrats to my Bucs for their forward thinking and long term solution at QB. I'm sure they will get many years of productive play from Brady behind that porous offensive line. Well... he won't throw 30 picks, 9 of which were pick 6. So it IS an upgrade. I wonder what will happen to JW now? IDGAF really... as ling as it happens elsewhere.

Well, isolation at home is no problem for me. Hell if I didn't need money occasionally I'd never leave! But OOTP 21 just came out and I'm happily pouring many hours into it. I'm re-playing the 1961 season and the Mantle/Maris HR race is not turning out the way it did IRL.

Elephants break into a Chinese farm and get drunk on corn wine: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/coronavirus-elephants-break-farm-self-21719583 Dunno if it's good news or not... but drunken elephants is amusing

This one is very cool: A group of neighbors on lockdown in Spain sang 'Happy Birthday' to an 80-year-old woman from their windows

Let's face it friends... things kind of suck right now. The world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. But it's not all terrible. Every day people are doing good things. There are positive and uplifting stories in every news service. The great Hunter S. Thompson wrote " Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped like a priceless diamond" So let's spread some GOOD news stories for a change! Woman Gets 'Wrong Number' Photo Of Dog And Couldn't Be Happier

But you left all the DJ Bobo stuff!

None in Tipton county yet!

I haven't left the house or seen a human being (except the guy in the bathroom mirror) in a week. But this is nothing. I think my longest stretch without human contact was a month and a half. Robinson Crusoe was happy when Friday showed up. I think I would have freaked the f--k out. Suddenly that island would be too crowded.

OK, correction, no GROUP of people are inherently bad. Unless they are Yankees fans.

No people are inherently bad. 95% of the people in the world are nice folks who would otherwise get along with everyone just fine if not for their governments telling them whom they are required to hate. It's the same argument I've been making since I was old enough to think for myself. People are not inherently evil, governments are.

Not a bio-weapon. We knew that.. but still. A weaponized virus would likely be a LOT worse. https://www.studyfinds.org/coronavirus-origins-covid-19-wasnt-produced-in-a-lab-scientists-conclude/

They should not have been re-instated. Iran is a bad actor. Obama agreed to a deal with a nation that was and would continue to act in bad faith. It was a bad deal that, at the time it was abrogated, they had not openly broken. Trump should not have broken it. Not because Iran isn't faithless, and not because the treaty wasn't a bad deal. They are and it was. But because an agreement made with the United States should be honored by the United States. Presidents are beholden to the promises of their predecessors so long as the other party has held up their end. Otherwise any deal made by the US (apart from ratified treaties which are law by definition) is really just a deal with THAT President. Who would ever enter into such?

My black eyed peas and snap peas are starting to sprout! It took about 10 days. Fastest ever IIRC. Soil PH, it matters!

Meanwhile: https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Sorry but no. Roosevelt (the first one) was the last of the "progressive" Republicans. Taft, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover were all "hands off" type leaders. The GOP was much more laid back before 1932 than it had been previously with respect to the role of government. WW2 changed that somewhat with Eisenhower and Nixon being much more activist. Ford and Reagan were a bit of a throwback.

Oh that is not true at all. The GOP has, with some exceptions, been the "small government" party pretty much throughout the 20th century. At least on some things. Not entirely consistent, but mostly.

Typical Republican... not sure I'd say that. But what the hell IS a Republican these days? They used to be the party of fiscal responsibility and limited government. They are neither of those anymore. Biden will likely be an improvement over Trump. We are getting incompetence either way. At least with Biden we might do without self aggrandizing and willful lawbreaking. That would be an improvement. As long as no SCOTUS openings come up. I'd rather Biden were not the one to fill them. Unless it's Ginsburg. That would be OK if he picks her replacement. But, like you, if he gets there he's doing it without my vote. Not in my name.

If it wasn't for dog food I could live off my stores for six months comfortably. If I really had to I could "live off the land" so to speak indefinitely. Rather not have to but the option is there. Dog food is a problem though. The pups eat 18 lbs a week of dry food and one 12 oz can between them per day. Well, storing cans in no problem. I have 10 cases. 240 days. When Amazon or Chewy has them on sale (they do frequently) I buy a lot. Dry food is a bigger problem. I can only store 120 lbs of it at one time. 6 weeks worth. I was considering doubling my storage but space is getting tight. The food I feed them is holistic and has a three month spoilage. If I store any more I'll run into a problem off the food spoiling faster than they can eat it. But just a six week supply of any essential strikes me as being unprepared. Unless I got another dog.... hmmm then I can double my storage and stay ahead of the spoilage curve. Hmmmm….. OK, I must admit I consider myself to be a rational and well grounded individual. But I get nuts when it comes to "prepping". You'd think I was trapped on Mars with no resupply coming like the astronaut from The Martian. I have, easily, over 10k rounds of ammunition total for my various firearms. And I still buy a box of each every month. I will never live long enough to use all of it.

Yeah two of the big grocery chains here are doing that too. It makes a heck of a lot of sense whoever thought of it.