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another example? though in all fairness we haven't read anything but news stories as 'posed to the report itself. unfair to reach conclusions at this point. https://www.axios.com/senate-intelligence-russia-interference-971619a8-a806-470a-9de6-1416220ab35b.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics is 966 pages, so will take us some time. curious is fact fox is not doing their spin, at least not headline. usual if you have a report o' this length, it is not difficult to cherry pick, which is why we made our earlier admission. fact fox has not chosen to release a more trump-friendly reading o' the report is odd. HA! Good Fun! ps don't stop at the headline o' the axios story. is a whole lotta findings o' what an ordinary person would conclude is equating collusion, not to mention recognizing, as did mueller, how the President were not honest in his responses to a fed investigation... which should have us remembering more than a few republican senators who were justifiable angry when bill clinton lied about sexual relations with an intern as 'posed to collusion with russians to interfere with a Presidential election.

the thing which we find most interesting is how the basic technology o' rocket science hasn't changed at a fundamental level since late 19th century. refrigeration capable o' liquifying gasses occurred in the late 1800s and the thermoflask (which were invented by either james dewar in 1892, or possible a bit earlier by a french guy with a name we forget) to store those liquid gases for extended periods o' time, is what made it possible for three guys (russian, german and american, if your nationalism button needs a push) to independent and almost simultaneous invent "modern" rockets. honestly, other than size and efficiency, the core technologies o' multi-stage rockets have been little changed since the 1920s. we tend to think o' rockets capable o' breaking earth orbit as cutting edge tech, and on the micro level they are just that-- pinnacle o' what human ingenuity may accomplish. however, unlike computers and medicine and so many other human endeavours, little has changed 'bout rocket propulsion since the early 1900s. oh, and the physics which makes space trips to the moon and mars possible ain't the kinda wacky mind bending stuff o' lorentz, einstein and heisenberg (which curious is kinda where physics also plateaued) but the more basic newtonian math many o' us were exposed to in high school classes. "I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving right now."-- bill anders, apollo 8. HA! Good Fun!

would also help if he knew what is a strawman fallacy. oh, and just for funsies, am recalling a carlin quote which might be relevant. "So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today." george were a big fan o' soviet style oppression. *eye-roll* HA! Good Fun!

your narcissism is revealing. is not as if carlin were some kinda fringe comic unappreciated by the public in his own time. heck, in 1972, carlin's seven words you can never say on television were receiving national radio airtime and the resulting court case also garnered widespread attention. warning: sweary also 1972... not the movie, but the actual real life events. is as if some people forget what were happening in this country in the late 60s and early 70s. carlin were speaking to his time not in spite of it. think you are woke? *snort* HA! Good Fun!

housing bubble 2006 kinda a cheat on the date. "aught-six" is hyphenated, so... less practical? hmmm... "bueller life fast" at eighteen, we would understand the reference HA! Good Fun!

the thing is, am certain numerous persons from nevada, utah, new mexico, arizona, west texas, etc. look at the ca central valley situation and shrug with indifference. am recalling speaking with a uk journalist who followed the first obama presidential campaign and we asked him 'bout impressions o' the US. his First comments were 'bout the weather. tornadoes, hurricanes, mud slides, heat waves, blizzards, flooding, forest fires. etc. the reporter believed american psyche were affected not just a little by our extreme weather. we were kinda surprised by the answer 'cause we didn't genuine expect weather to be so prominent 'mongst his impressions o' the US. dunno. we got a unique perspective as we grew up in a place where winters were genuine lethal to many due to ubiquitous inadequate shelter and heat. with all kinda modern conveniences it is easier for many to ignore weather save for when the genuine catastrophic occurs. tough to explain the primal dread o' a multi day blizzard to most people who live in the burbs. HA! Good Fun!

don't forget all the cows and farms, but yeah, is not exactly ideal living. nevertheless, and in spite o' not nearly enough water to support current needs, the number o' new housing starts, even with covid-19 in full swing, is eye-popping. The Vision of John Wesley Powell--Explorer Foresaw Water Issues That Would Plague the West what a sane map o' the west would be if designed with water in mind more than a few californians seem to share the curious notion the state is the coast and perhaps 50 miles inland... with the sierra nevadas and tahoe existing in some kinda quasi alter dimension accessible only during ski season or for perhaps a summer camping trip. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, california is a big place, so hurl generalizing is a bit misleading. ca got a top 5 snowiest place in america as well as three o' top five places in the US with most +100 degree days... huge range o' variation. and we wish it were only 1 hot week per year in the sacramento valley. https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/d1be3e5aec1726d0df2d6c19f21655d886415ee60ff0e8f14afe8ff7f57c9e5d has been averaging 110F for the past week and is looking like next week will see a slight cooling trend so that by thursday/friday we may only be topping 100 each day. worst part is our dogs hate going for walks when is over 80 degrees-- lightweights. the thing is, it only gets down to 79/80 for an eyeblink length o' time at about 6am. the little white dog gets excited when we pick up the leashes, same as normal, but last couple mornings she has pretty much locked her legs as we get to the door to the garage. wants no part o' even the 6am walks. oh, and grass fires and forest fires, which make air quality so pleasant, is the norm in august and early september in the valley. last couple years we has started to see more fire tornadoes. ... am not a fan o' the ca central valley weather during the summer. is one reason we were considering retiring to our place in idaho, which is in the east portion o' state and gets negligible snow... at least negligible compared to stuff we is familiar with from youth. oh, and our allergies... *snort* am old, so should be expected when we complain 'bout the weather and kids these days and how the price o' _______ is outrageous. HA! Good Fun!

have had a few smart dogs, but smart is relative. beyond rabbits, deer, play time and dinner, am certain the smartest o' our border collies had little interest in topics which might make us curious. am satisfied our dialogues with canines will remain, for all practical purposes, monologues followed by dogie displays o' pleasure or guilt or whatever is appropriate. the thing is, in spite o' our certainty we would be underwhelmed by whatever ideas our dogs have on a whole host o' topics, we do wish they would be better at communicating the nature and degree o' their infrequent discomfort. when our pups is feeling unwell, they may not show it in overt ways, and even when we do notice, the dogs is not forthcoming with useful details. perhaps the little black dog is noticeable less enthusiastic than normal and does not wish to play as is his normal waking state. when we ask him what is wrong, he gives nothing. unhelpful. we would pay a fair amount for a mechanical device which would translate dog-to-english. could tell us it is his stomach which aches, or perhaps his head. feeling cold? feeling hot? any particular food would make him feel better? do we need go to the vet... well, am knowing the answer to that one would be "no," even if he had a massive wound and his intestines were literal spilling out on the faux-wood laminate we got in the hallway adjacent to the kitchen. *shrug* am interested not at all in the musing o' our canines, but we do wish they could talk just so they could tell us what, if anything, is wrong. *shrug* only bring up 'cause far too often we has wished our dogs could talk when they is not well. downside is am knowing if we could understand 'em better, we would need listen to incessant drivel 'bout snacks and itches and toys and... whatever. is why am wanting a mechanical translator-- so we could turn it off 99.99% o' the time. HA! Good Fun!

unsolicited advice: if you use mail for your ballot this november, ignore the pre-paid postage and instead affix a stamp. with our federal government purposeful diminishing the capacity o' the usps during a freaking pandemic, there will be delays in service. in most states, if a ballot arrives a few days late, as long as it is postmarked appropriate, the ballot will be counted towards the election results. the thing is, the pre-paid postage class o' ballots results in no date stamp being affixed to ballots returned in the provided envelopes. functional this means that your ballot, even if you mailed in a timely fashion, may not be counted. am predicting many thousands o' ballots, and perhaps millions, will not be counted 'cause o' postmark issues. such stoopid is not the kinda "fraud" trump describes, nevertheless, these predictable ballot fails is the result o' willful changes being made to postal service by the current administration. predictable does make the pitfalls avoidable. very few o' us pay for something we know we are not required to make payment. is no good reason you should need to affix a stamp to your pre-paid postage ballots. however, in these times when the democratic process is being attacked and undermined in new ways every time we check newspapers or watch wh briefings, it is going to be to your benefit to take a couple extra steps to protect your liberties. again, is Not your responsibility to place a stamp on a prepaid ballot, but you are now forewarned o' a seeming trivial and unobtrusive means by which potential millions o' votes will be suppressed this november. do not let anybody make it ez to steal your vote. HA! Good Fun!

you just don't get it. oh sure, it's a game and as a game it should follow some kinda logic, and yes, there is nothing particular compelling about a frustrating bit of design, but you clear do not understand the hardcore gamer response to every poorly balanced feature or ack jass built area/level/encounter. your complaints is proof o' verisimilitude. every mistake is actual gleaming moments o genius you are too dense to appreciate. *insert eye roll* HA! Good Fun!

am not certain why some kinda nebulous star trekness would be an essential quality for a best or favorite episode. chain of command, for example, were inspired not just a little by the movie closet land and had input o' amnesty international. watch closet land and tell us chain o' command were fundamental trek. just one example. we mentioned how we preferred family to best of both worlds--were a more complete and better executed bit o' storytelling than the more famous two-parter which preceded. no doubt amentep or some other hardcore film buff would be able to astound us with just how many tng episodes were remakes or heavily inspired by previous sci fi title from print or film. 'course again, am willing to admit we ain't the ideal audience as we prefer ds9 to tng and a large part o' the reason for our preference were the willingness o' ds9 to be different than trek and to play a bit loose with some o' what had previous been considered core values o' the trek franchise. HA! Good Fun! ps is noteworthy that the visitor episode, which has more than a couple parallels to inner light, would consistent make a Gromnir favorite ds9 list, though such a list would be a bit fluid and the order o' episodes would vary from year-to-year and perhaps even month-to-month. am a big fan o' ambrose bierce.

Trump's Senior Advisor Tried to Roast Kamala Harris with a Simpsons Burn. Marge Isn't Having It. ... will forgo our traditional exeunt in lieu o' something more appropriate.

dear lord. missing the forest. ny were left dealing with an international problem all on their lonesome. facing a crisis o' insufficient hospital beds, ny made a choice. you think situation woulda' been better w/o government input at all? if were left up to private nursing homes and private hospitals to decide who got limited resources, who do you think woulda' received limited resources? when the covid-19 outbreak first hit and there were literal less than 100 tests for all o' oklahoma for an entire week, the oklahoma basketball team managed to get tested, all of 'em. so, who gets beds and medical care. who woulda' received ppe which were in short supply? you suggest ny is some kinda cautionary tale and we marvel at your inability to consider what woulda' been the result w/o ny making choices as 'posed to state o' nature. yes, ny screwed the pooch, many times, and there is eventual gonna be an accounting for those mistakes. private business? they lose their contract and perhaps get sued... but you can only sue the corporation to the extent o' its assets, which has left many a plaintiff high and dry. btw, when ny shoulda' been receiving support and guidance from cdc and supplies from national stockpiles, they were instead scrambling to make sense o' unknowns with dramatic insufficient resources. precise at the time when they needed the benefits o' a national government, they were sent forth in gd's beloved state o' nature to compete against every other state and every other nation. btw, fact your story mentions nursing homes shoulda' given gd pause. private nursing homes w/o significant government oversight has been an enduring nightmare for many a family considering what to do 'bout an aged or unwell family member who cannot live alone. the for profit model tends to fail the old and infirm and the mental handicapped. conditions at many nursing homes is frightening bad in spite o' heavy-handed government interference, but we hate to imagine what would be the state o' a few such institutions if we just let market forces decide success and failure. the rest is just... weird. parks and libraries is economic losers is ok, but the post office and ppe stockpiles... so, if gd supports a program, then it deserves government support, but if gd doesn't... hubble telescope? literal no profit expected, though some imaging innovations ended up being applied to early breast cancer detection. go figure. every american at the time had to pony up approx $1.60 to make hubble a reality. leave up to gd to decide whether hubble is important enough? course not. so how does western societies tend to decide which programs deserve the collective resources o' a community or state of fed? they Vote. is the democratic freaking process which has gd and Gromnir and hurl and amentep and shady and countless other citizens coming to some kinda agreement 'bout which stuff is important enough. weird. HA! Good Fun!

public libraries is a waste 'cause is no profit in 'em. seriously gonna count on the good will o' the sooper rich to fill the void if government were to have abandoned such? need something more dramatic? child protective services? is not a profitable model. perhaps something which gd can appreciate personal. our national park system run as a for profit model? let disney and others compete for contracts and those parks which ain't deemed valuable enough by private enterprise may be sold as grazing land or perhaps tract housing development. literal thousands o' such services, and many government functions is happening everyday which go entire unnoticed. but god bless gd's america. god protect us from gd's america. the vast number o' government workers do their job competent. large businesses sure don't perform with less corruption than government entities, and much o' the complaints 'bout government inefficiency ignores how businesses doing same or similar jobs rare perform better, take prisons for example, 'cause privatization o' prisons were such a fabulous idea. wonder what level o' education kids in poor communities would find for their children if schools were complete run on a for profit model? but hey, its the fault o' poor parents if their kids is not better educated in gd's america. if this administration shoulda' taught gd one thing it is that rely on private enterprise in times o' crisis is hardly the surefire solution to any and all problems. whether is disaster relief in puerto rico or ppe production for covid-19, private industry and individual responsibility has proven to be anything but the solution. need another story 'bout jared kushner and his champions o' industry who were gonna solve 2020 ppe and testing crisis? at least with government running such there is increased accountability to voters... or at least there would be in any other administration. how gd can see pandemic situation and not recognize how naive (bordering on obtuse) it is to rely on individual responsibility for the making o' sensible long-term investments which will benefit society as a whole as 'posed to some kinda profit driven calculus is curious at best? is a whole host o' functions too large, too unprofitable or too temporal remote for private individuals busy paying monthly rent and businesses wedded to quarterly report to manage responsible. is government also failing to be proper forward thinking? sure is, but gd is instead advocating the trump model which has states and private entities fight 'mongst themselves for finite resources. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ gd looks at mistakes made by Congress with the post office or the fed with ppe stockpiles and his solution is to nuke it all and send us back to state of nature... and by now am certain you know what hobbes said 'bout the state of nature. there is a point where slavish devotion to just about any ideology will make a person appear foolish. look at current pandemic situation and how business and individuals has responded to a glaring needs and gd still manages to cling to his shtick. HA! Good Fun!

pre 2006, the post office were paying for veterans benefits of its employees. why? honest, we would need go back and look 'cause it were never o' particular interest to us. were an old rule which cost the post office billions. were a bunch o' post office issues such as the veterans benefits, as well as basic cost o' business practices, which made sense pre ww2, but were kinda poster child examples o' government inefficiency; had folks on both sides o' the aisle at a loss to explain why such stoopid were allowed to continue. is many complaints 'bout post office pension funding which is kinda being presented to the public distorted. pretty much every company needs cover pensions o' employees. 'course private companies can default, so it is a bit different. the biggest difference is actual how the post office covers employee medical post retirement and the need to fund the pensions in a ten-year period... a funding requirement which started right when the recession hit. many progressives don't like being critical o' socialized medicine and showing an example where the post office got kneecapped by needing to cover medical o' retirees does not play as well as blame bush or blame republicans. Congress fixed the post office in just the wrong way at just the wrong time and it ain't gonna be fixed regardless o' who trump appoints as postmaster or by executive order. Congress needs get off their arse and deal with the problems they created. HA! Good Fun!

Trump says he opposes funding USPS because of mail-in voting ... "nothing matters anymore." HA! Good Fun! ps @Maedhros there is a certain absurdity in expecting public endeavours be profitable, and our current pandemic situation should drive home such a recognition. ca and USA stockpiles o' ppe were allowed to become obsolete (jerry brown and newsome in ca, obama and trump for the US.) those stockpiles were never gonna generate revenue, but am betting all but the most hardcore libertarians agree such stockpiles shoulda' been maintained. sure, perhaps gd believes every hospital and citizen should maintain their own such reserves as 'posed to being forced by the government to pay for such, but such a solution is impractical and is actual less expensive for the government to procure and maintain as the governments may buy and store in bulk. count on individuals to be responsible leaves us where we are today. is what a libertarian victory looks like?

rich's number one wouldn't have made our top twenty (perhaps thirty,) but am admitting were kinda fun to be reminded o' a few good tng episodes we typical do not rewatch but maybe will. disaster? has been years since we watched, and compare to poseidon adventure would not have been a selling point. nevertheless, it were a solid episode, and perhaps better than we recall... maybe. will definite rewatch. am kinda happy we overcame our contrarian reaction to internet lists... and speaking o' contrarian, am thinking we actual preferred the post best of both worlds episode, family, to the more obvious choice. and speaking o' contrarian, ds9 is still best star trek. so there. HA! Good Fun! ps absence o' inner light makes sense, in a way, but am thinking it showed the rlm guys were perhaps trying a bit too hard to not just copy/paste every other internet top tng list.

after you conceded, you wrote: My understanding - which may be wrong - was it was authored by Republican Tom Davis and that a portion of the Republican party (and Libertarians) have wanted to get rid of the post office, hence my phrasing. the 2006 libertarians at the time were non existent in Congress save as perhaps having some small influence on Democrat legislators. there appeared to be continuing confusion on the part o' amentep. HA! Good Fun!

when buying pyrex at garage sales, look for capitalization. borosilicate PYREX is not same as soda-lime pyrex. unfortunately, is some post 1950s corelle glassware with the PYREX name which nevertheless uses soda-lime, albeit less likely. there is a european company which is still making PYREX with borosilicate. if you are serious 'bout getting the good stuff and don't wanna do ghoulish and look for obituaries o' old folks in hopes o' making a score at an estate sale, you could look for the european product, but we ain't never bothered to see if they ship to US. HA! Good Fun!

now name the libertarians in the 2006 Congress who followed such. we will wait. libertarians in 2004 and 2006 were shifting votes for democrat candidates on the national level. so the folks in Congress who woulda' been swayed by the hardcore libertarian platform woulda' been democrat or republican? the one independent in 2006 Congress who were kinda/sorta claiming libertarian affiliation were jeffords; he left the republican in part 'cause o' the patriot act and began caucusing with the democrats. HA! Good Fun!

Could Kanye West Be Charged With Electoral Fraud? the kanye candidacy has been a trainwreck. 'course so too were trump's, but he managed to get elected anyways. from payoffs to porn stars and colluding with the russians (and yes, there were plenty o' evidence o' collusion, just not enough coordination for criminal conspiracy) it is shocking trump managed to get elected and not be impeached for all the transgressions simple related to his campaign. am wondering when somebody is gonna double-check kanye's oklahoma application and signatures, 'cause if is anything like what is described from illinois and nj, then kanye and oklahoma both have some 'splaining to do. HA! Good Fun!

were a question based on a misguided premise. again, while the author o' the law were republican, the law were having almost universal support. were not a bill/law aimed at getting rid o' the post office. if there were any genuine belief the law would destroy the post office, there would not have had so much support from both sides o' the aisle. weren't some kinda trickery by republicans to catch democrats unawares or some other nonsense. had been seventy five years, or something similar, since rules for post office had been addressed in a meaningful way. democrats and republicans agreed changes were needed and, looking at USA in 2006, Congress came up with a reasonable and bipartisan plan to fix problems. republicans, and fiscal responsible libertarians previous to trump, were tending to be concerned with national debt and budget deficits. would be fair to say there has been a desire 'mongst many republicans to make the post office more self sufficient. nothing particular nefarious. house vote: 410-20 senate vote: unanimous consent initial, the law were working as designed, but then iphones and recession complete changed the post office business model. Congress made a mistake which didn't look like a mistake until 2009-2010. unfortunate, our national legislative body is so divided it is near impossible to correct even obvious blunders once such stuff becomes a national recognizable issue. am suspecting many Congressional republicans would love a chance to fix, but with trump driving a curiously notrepublican agenda on many issues, is no way we see resolution until at least january of next year. HA! Good Fun!

if you ask 'bout mail-in voting, you will get a different answer, but again, the Congressional act which led to the current snafu were not a gop initiative per se. were bipartisan... overwhelming bipartisan. 2006 mail were complete different than today. were not that long ago, but the usps model has changed in a short period o' time. is complicated, but i-phones and the recession bolloxed the assumptions o' Congress when they passed the postal accountability act. first class mail were a big money maker for the post office in those salad days. regardless, this is one evil attributed to the gop which ain't fair. now mail-in voting is a different ball o' wax. curiously, mail-in has received big gop support in previous years, 'cause that is how old people vote. old people actual vote, unlike younger people who complain on the internet but are too busy to get off their arse in november. the gop has a big advantage with old people. the gop loves mail-in... unless there is a pandemic. 2020 is different and has gop inverting their previous position 'cause they are doing everything in their power to suppress voter turnout. with a pandemic widespread in the US more than almost any other western nation, and people reasonable reticent to stand in lines such as were the norm for the wisconsin primaries, the gop assumes many more people than is typical will attempt to vote by mail. is not difficult to see why gop, which benefits from low voter turnout, would sudden be against mail-in voting. HA! Good Fun!

the act passed 410-20 in the house and unanimous consent in senate. as attractive as it might be in these polarized times o' political strife to blame a party for mistakes in hindsight, this were a bipartisan blunder. HA! Good Fun!