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mcconnell is a naked opportunist who would sell out his own mother if it benefited his political fortunes. "hypocrite" is almost meaningless when applied to mitch 'cause is utter inadequate to describe the degree o' his willingness to contradict what he claimed were bedrock principles only minutes past if he believes he can get away with such w/o consequences. so why has mitch sudden decided to defend cheney and kinzinger? why did mitch embrace the "insurrection" descriptor which has curious been verboten for members o' the gop? mitch is incapable o' a come to jesus moment; would require a soul. when tucker carlson berated ted cruz for using the terrorist label for january 6 protesters, something the senator had done multiple times previous, ted went to tucker and did his embarrassing genuflection on national tv. do not expect such from mitch regardless o' torches and pitchforks. mitch always calculates the angles. mitch isn't always right, but he always has a reason and his ultimate goal is benefitting mitch. perhaps mitch knows something most in the rnc does not regarding the viability o' trumpism going forward? maybe is something else? regardless, mitch knew exactly what he were doing when he described the events at the Capitol on january 6, 2021 as a "violent insurrection," waiting one year after the event to do so and seeming in response to a rnc censure action designed to appeal to trump and the trump base. HA! Good Fun! ps is ez to gauge what the trump base feels on an issue. read comments regarding the story as covered by fox https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-rnc-censure-resolution

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many times over the past decades we have been able to make money w/o having a job. am knowing the money is from a job when a large % o' what we had thought we earned disappears immediate and goes to the government. HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned previous how much o' a concern the shadow docket proliferation is: (from a may 2021 post) however, our biggest concern regarding the current Court has gone complete under the radar: the shadow docket. To get on the shadow docket, any litigant can apply to a single justice, who decides whether to forward the dispute to the full court. Five votes among the nine justices are needed to grant a request. No oral arguments are made but opposing attorneys can file briefs in opposition. To be granted, the request must meet certain criteria, including that the applicants would suffer “irreparable harm” if it is not granted. The public generally sees the court as sorting out matters of national importance through extensive briefing, oral arguments and lengthy rulings that explain the law. But the number of substantive shadow docket decisions rose dramatically during the Trump administration. In those four years, the government filed shadow docket applications at 20 times the rate of each of the two previous eight-year administrations. The high court granted the government’s requests in a majority of cases. https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-court-shadow-video/the-shadow-docket-how-the-u-s-supreme-court-quietly-dispatches-key-rulings-idUSKBN2BF16Q with acb's arrival those shadow docket cases is occurring at an increased rate and a majority is being decided 5-4 or 6-3, with no written explanation as to why the Court barred State action, granted relief or even executed a human being for all practical purposes. rulings just kinda happen and most don't know what is taking place or accept meekly the new norm the majority is establishing. ... am personal a textualist who +90% o' the time were in agreement with J. Scalia, but this Court is... is no real majority decision here precise 'cause is shadow docket, but Kavanaugh, in a footnote no less, recognized that either side might win if fully argued, which should put the burden on AL and as such complete undermines the granting o' a freaking stay. most liberals is gonna be enraged 'cause it looks like the Court is trampling voting rights, but this were inevitable as soon as the majority swung right. we tried to warn you all that the Courts which were rejecting trump campaign election lawsuits were gonna be supporting State efforts to marginalize minority voters using many o' the same arguments, so am not the least bit surprised save to note that J. Roberts, who has been 'bout as adversarial towards individual voting rights and fed limits on State efforts to undermine minority voters, is joining the more liberal Justices in dissent. you got no idea how extreme the infractions has gotta be for Roberts to join with Sotomayor on a voting rights case. even so, IF this case had gone through the normal process o' argument the offer o' a written opinion, we would woulda' predicted an AL win. saw this coming. however, and more concerning, this is yet another shadow docket case which diminishes the Constitutional Rights o' Americans w/o even the offer o' a majority opinion and even Gromnir who were early to raise alarms on this issue is surprised by how common is the occurrence o' what were once considered exceptional. this case is gonna get national attention, but media is gonna focus on the voting rights aspect. Americans got no idea how much o' a paradigm shift is the current exploitive use o' the shadow docket, and is no reason they should be concerned with the issue getting so little attention save from a handful o' con law honks. the freaking Court is arguable going rogue and they is able to do so in plain sight with hardly anybody noticing? am admitted surprised and inching towards genuine alarm.

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am a bit confused. level seven is when dogs become large and thus rideable for a medium sized character such as sosiel. if is sosiel's dog via animal domain, the critter should be rideable and at level 9. if the goal is to get sosiel and the dog into combat, then don't make sosiel bigger 'cause the dog is much faster than a large sosiel. when you go into combat mounted on the dog, you will be stuck with sosiel's initiative, but the dog and sosiel will get their respective attacks, including the dog's trip. however, there is lingering issues with tb mounted combat and reach weapons. sometimes your reach weapon character will be too far away for your mount to attack. is not an issue most times, but it still happens even after four months post release. if you are making sosiel bigger to squeeze every possible point outta strength for intimidation, then perhaps avoid mounted combat. even so, am not 100% clear on the issues you are having with sosiel and the dog. HA! Good Fun! ps other than a few lingering and annoying bugs related to tb mounted combat, our most significant obstacle when dealing with mounts, particular at lower and mid levels, is the sucktastic will saves o' animal companions. until you reach higher levels you will necessarily be constrained by your limited spell repertoire and the effort to insulate your animal companions from predictable will save failure is a noteworthy spell and feat cost drain.

multiple times, on this board and elsewhere. 'course, the liberty loving folks who sneer at mask or vaccine mandates justify by simultaneous diminishing the seriousness o' the pandemic. the government is exaggerating the severity o' the pandemic... unless you are in russia. and even if you do get covid is not as if you are gonna die 'cause the people who are dying o' covid is really dying o' heart disease and diabetes and auto-immune disorders, and so is a bunch o' hoopla and QQing over another fatty dying or some old person who were gonna expire in a year or two... or so the callousness goes until the somebody dying is not a stranger and then sudden the liberty loving mockers o' pandemic severity is offering their heartfelt best wishes that your grandma or immunocompromised child gets better asap, 'cause is not as if they is monsters, right? don't even get 'em started on how taking unproven vaccines, vaccines which enrich big pharma and the clinton cabal o' pedophile sex traffickers, is functional making self into a guinea pig which is double stoopid 'cause as already stated the pandemic is a big nothingburger that only the timid and overweight should be concerned regarding. etc. losers believe conspiracy theories. we has linked those bs receptivity studies more than once and one o' the frequent common factors 'mongst the people who believe conspiracy theories which validate their selfishness is loser status-- denotative as 'posed to connotative. democrats were far more likely to believe 9/11 conspiracy theories at the time, 'cause republicans were in power. in spite o' the fact republicans were in power during the trump administration, the qanon folks here in the US is tending to be the white and working class group who feels as if they has been getting a raw deal for multiple decades. if you see self as having received the fuzzy end o' the lollipop, then bs receptivity increases significant. is no different in other nations. the persons who is railing 'gainst mask mandates and vaccines is not championing their right to infect and kill others, 'cause the pandemic is not real and/or is being much exaggerated. you sheeple can go ahead and wear your masks and get vaccinated and get boosted, but QQing over masks and vaccinations is just proof o' your weakness and ignorance... +900k US dead and near six million worldwide is exaggeration and/or nothingburger. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, but ordinarily the issue is addressed via an implausible or too convenient hand-wave. X was on the lease when their grandma died, and the lease were rent-controlled back to prehistoric days. kate bishop is an heiress. mabel mora in only murders in the building is renovating her aunt's apartment. etc. or the issue is inverted reminded us a smidge o' elwood blues' apartment, though that is chicago... and carrie fisher is also in blues bothers which is no doubt why we were reminded. technical is a hotel room. jessica jones weren't too bad, with her office/kitchen/bedroom setup nowhere near reaching sitcom levels o' spacious. 'course matt murdock got the massive space, but were explained with the billboard across the street, as if that woulda made enough o' a difference to keep people away who could afford blackout curtains for nighttime. is only a few shows which get it even close to realistic, but am suspecting is tough to get right nowadays if for no other reason than that is hardly room for cameras and crew to squeeze into realistic apartments along with cast and do scenes which is anything other than filming people from waist up 'cause the camera need be near adjacent to the person being filmed. HA! Good Fun!

until recent we wondered if guys such as chip roy believed the conspiracy lunacy they were spreading or if they mere exploiting a weakness in the base. answer: am thinking it don't matter. cruz is smart even if he does dumb things. ron johnson may be as dumb as he seems. paul gosar may genuine believe his conspiracy crazy. is the differences 'tween the three meaningful if they is all speaking to and encouraging the same elements o' the base? Congress, particular the House, has always had its fair share o' idiots, nuts and skeevy hypocrites willing to exploit their constituencies. what is peculiar today is that the republican party has mainstreamed nativism, grievance and conspiratorial nonsense, which was a problem for the party back in the early 20th century. in 2010 we didn't expect such a resurgence o' early 20th century evils w/o a war. even the fallout franchise required what amounted to apocalypse to bring about similar kinda stoopid. ... what is embarrassing is this political and social regression happened so easy and in plain view. HA! Good Fun!

why? hospitalizations and case numbers has seen a sharp decrease in the past week or two. the omicron spike appears to be over. if nj takes a reasonable approach and reduces mask restrictions for certain groups, that would appear justified, if the science backs up such a move. current, n95s is the best option for those congregating indoors and unable to social distance, but keeping n95s on crumb snatchers is likely an impossible task under the best o' circumstances. fight a losing battle for nothing when actual infection circumstances has changed? yankee common sense as 'posed to obdurate and ignorant? not a hard choice. if six months from now we see reports o' a new variant and advice from cdc and elsewhere changes, am expecting the same 100ns will be talking 'bout yankee flip-flops or simillar nonsense... 'cause the past couple years o' this kinda stoopid has just not managed to change the minds o' anybody who dug in their heels and decided n95s is only for cleaning up the cat box. *eye roll* HA! Good Fun!

agreed. the thing is, we got folks in this thread seeing amazon's jack reacher and jack ryan as clones. am thinking jack reacher would work better if it were animated, then you could go full archer or venture brothers level with the silliness and audiences would recognize jack reacher is having more in common with brock sampson than dr. ryan. HA! Good Fun!

possibly went unnoticed, but at level seven, a dog gets embiggened. the pooch should now (assuming you is 10th level or so based on your lich status) be large and rideable unless you also enlarge your sosiel. HA! Good Fun!

wonderful indeed. mask wearing, vaccination, common sense social distancing, etc. all such stuff explains why wonderful deeply red county southerners has died at rates disproportionate to those know-it-all yankees and hippies on the left coast. so, congrats that you folks is over covid, but we, collective and national, recent had one o' the worst covid spikes since the pandemic began, and if southerners had a bit o' yankee common sense like folks in new hampshire, the rest o' us coulda' been enjoying a return to normal far sooner rather than just ignoring reality and pretending as if +1000 deaths per day is no biggie. HA! Good Fun!

the guy who current plays ryan is one inch taller than the guy who plays reacher. we didn't particular like the cruise movie (the internet tells us there were a second installment which we never saw) but the movie jack reacher were less comical... though the tv version don't seem to be going for camp. am thinking you need be a fan o' the books, or you must loathe tom cruise to prefer the current amazon tv iteration. ... the new jack reacher series is not our cup o' tea, and is yet another amazon series we won't be watching after trying to get through the initial offering. is one o' those not uncommon eye-roll worthy shows where the cops are incompetent and do not follow any kinda law as practiced in any jurisdiction in the US, and the show is stacked with improbable people in impossible situations while a moody sherlock holmes punches his way to justice. HA! Good Fun!

when we were gainful employed, breakfast was, as often as not, a weekend luxury. HA! Good Fun! ps we had coffee once, as a kid. don't recall specific other than it tasted vile. then we had again, once, in university when studying for midterms and trying to stay awake. our recollection o' the flavour is it were akin towhat water would tase like if it were run through a rusty pipe, over and over and over again. s'posed we were tasting "the good stuff," with the proviso, "coffee is an acquired taste." we didn't have the patience or inclination to acquire.

Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang That same year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally ordered a massive security campaign to extinguish terrorist threats by targeting the entire Uyghur ethnic group. Xinjiang quickly began constructing a sprawling network of detention camps and started expanding existing prisons. At least hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other historically Muslim ethnic minorities were sent to such "transformation through education" camps to study Chinese political ideology and the Chinese language, despite having no criminal record. In some of these facilities, Uyghurs also reported being mentally and physically tortured and the women sterilized. Uyghurs with a religious background or a history of international travel — people like the Kuçars — were sentenced to lengthy prison terms. ... the seven minute listen, if you don't wanna read, is worth the time. so, am expecting whataboutism, but perhaps just garden variety deflection will be the response. @Hurlsnot so our guestimate on +20 years, advanced degree, and other factors to be achieving six figures were more accurate than we expected. at 22 years is possible. nevertheless, we keep trying to explain how cost o' living (not limited to housing) is necessary context when comparing incomes o' those o' working in san jose or nyc as 'posed to rural tn or texas. am not quite sure how to explain different so it sinks in with a few o' the more obdurate... though admitted a good start would likely be to avoid calling folks "obdurate." HA! Good Fun!

current or historical? current am thinking kraft and jones deserve consideration along with snyder. kraft has been so successful people just kinda ignore a few o' his weirder shenanigans. am also believing anytime jones mentions the importance o' character when hiring coaches, drafting players or acquiring free agents, at least a few angels explode in a burst o' unholy flame. HA! Good Fun!

the internet is never wrong and it tells us six figures is possible. although hurl likely needs a doctorate, +20 years experience and something else? dunno. in case is not clear, am not serious 'bout faith in the internet. have no idea if the linked is accurate. HA! Good Fun!

am always rooting for salieri. he woulda' been a good model for trickster. and if trickster lethal "pranks" were reminding us o' peter shaffer's salieri, we would likely be on board... although salieri is decided not aiming for silly. unfortunate, wotr trickster were so haphazard and randomn as to which folks deserved death jokes. regardless, to keep with the animated/comic characters theme, no deadpool antihero is the trickster. is a d&d alignment bringer o' chaos who indulges in lethal humor... so more like joker? however, am clear not the audience for trickster, so... HA! Good Fun! ps (edit) am playing via steam and a week ago we received "prelate's nemesis" as a new achievement. we near never pay attention to achievements, but were so random as our current playthrough had us in act iv with our aeon, so am assuming some bug were addressed and not referenced in notes. we first beat the critter on core w/i days o' release, and have killed the beastie multiple times since. so...

A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment unfortunate, the npr article misses the punchline Threats from QAnon conspiracists have forced a butterfly sanctuary in the Rio Grande Valley to close The harassment escalated in late January when a right-wing congressional candidate from Virginia, Kimberly Lowe, visited the nature conservatory, Treviño-Wright said. Lowe demanded the center give her access to the river “to see all the illegals crossing on the raft.” Treviño-Wright said Lowe tackled her when she asked Lowe to leave the premises. The center closed last weekend during the We Stand America border security rally. Former state Rep. Aaron Peña had informed Treviño-Wright that the center could be a target during the rally and that she should “be armed at all times or out of town.” Attendees of the rally, largely composed of staunch Trump supporters, did stop at the conservatory. Ben Bergquam, a contributor for the far-right site Real America’s Voice, posted a minutelong clip on Twitter, repeating false claims about sex trafficking. ... am personal not the least bit motivated to search for mr. bergquam, (sounds like a character from a vonnegut novel) in hopes o' finding a link to his video, but feel free to do so at your leisure. HA! Good Fun!

sounds fun. our current preferred sosiel caster build is to take one level o' cross blood sorc and go cold. is a relic shield which adds 1 point per die on cold damage spells. is wintersun armour which provides +1 per die elemental damage (including cold). through mythic feats, am gonna get 2 more per die damage for cold and am of course having ascendent element cold as well as the water elemental bloodline power which converts all energy spells to cold. 4 pts per die unavoidable cold damage maybe doesn't sound great until you do the math. quickened cold hellfire rays is resulting in +360 bonus cold damage in a round. HA! Good Fun! ps "maybe" were placed wrong

somebody is not paying attention or perhaps is aiming for willful obtuse. "loophole" is an inappropriate way to describe if it were determined that hurl and his wife paid $3k more than were appropriate. what hurl references were a settlement and not a punitive damages situation, which means hispanic and african american borrowers on average were likely cheated considerable worse than the $3k. and have had this discussion previous regarding cost o' living in places such as nyc and why the guy in san francisco who cleans p00p off of sidewalks made $70k a year as base salary. live in san jose is so expensive that hurl has little more disposable wealth than the teachers in rural tn and tx receiving a relative pittance. only monetary advantage for hurl over tx teachers is probable retirement 'cause he and wife may take their money earned over decades and then go live in brownsville, tx. HA! Good Fun!

our opinion is kinda reversed from yours, but that sure don't make us right. explanation: one reason blasters is popular in wotr is 'cause they do not rely on spell dc, and 'cause is ez to overcome high sr. touch ac is often a negligible hurdle to overcome . yeah, particular later in the game as you want your siroccos, chain lightnings and storm bolts to reliable do damage or prone and/or stun, the dcs for blasters is a real concern, and you may simultaneous raise your dcs o' at least one other school via the expanded arsenal mythic, but practical speaking, is only a few highly specialized wotr caster builds which is focused on generating high dc. the stat bloat kp laments requires highly focused efforts on behalf o' the player at generating proportional caster dc bloat. converse, an oracle angel may ignore dc entire and spam bolt and storm o' justice for wins, precise 'cause dcs is such a non factor for the angel spellbook. we went for eight levels o' court poet with seelah for our azata sorc run, and the sorc benefited only marginal from the dc increase o' +2. with a full court poet we coulda' managed a +3 modifier to charisma (and int), which ultimate were not worth the effort in our estimation as eleven levels o' paladin resulted in seelah having mark o' justice. worked out well enough for us particularly as seelah's mark of justice and smites were improved by her own court poet inspirations... and lann's celestial velociraptor also benefited. if you go the blaster route, ember only benefits a little from the dc boost and her hexes is so fantastic 'cause there isn't saves. converse, go enchantment with ember and and any dc boost is vital. is possible to make nenio an excellent blaster, with levels o' arcane trickster and a single level o' crossblood sorc, in which case dcs is again a nice bonus but not essential. instead go the illusion route with nenio to maximize impact o' phantasmal killer and weird makes court poet boosts valuable. etc. court poet is fantastic, but is the skald variation one need be most concerned 'bout building the ideal party to exploit. vanilla skald, on the other hand, is gonna benefit just 'bout any party. for example, if you got a party o' melee combatants, then the extra natural attacks and stacking bonus to natural ac (barkskin and the beast totem stuff stack) is gonna be a meaningful upgrade, and is not as if you are limited to animal fury and the beast totem powhaz. three extra natural attacks and pounce, all o' which make a crit more likely. if you built your party to take advantage o' seize the moment and ever ready, all those extra attacks is making essential crits more likely, yes? the lethal stance stuff is also representing a noteworthy increase in damage output for your party. we seen how folks mention that the only way to get 24 hour benefit from haste is with a lich build. not true. admitted is a capstone feature o' skald, but master skald simultaneous perma hastes and and removes any negative rage penalties, so even your casters is free to enjoy skald stance advantages at endgame. other skald stance stuff is gonna be useful although beast and lethal is our favorites. am less a fan o' the fiend totem stuff, but am able to see benefits. smell is underrated 'cause it acts like echolocation. the reckless stance line is underrated as is one o' the ways to generate stratospheric ab bonuses. unless it has been nerfed, inspire ferocity, which seems like a wasted ability for a skald, functional doubles the benefits o' reckless stance. so at level 20 you are seeing +12 ab? skald is kinda insane with the shared stances and is gonna benefit a large range o' party loadouts, however, if you is having dc focused casters and paladins in your party, then court poet is a serious contender as the best option. HA! Good Fun! ps am admitted still grumpy 'bout our waterfall fail with our azata sorc. was such a good plan to max conjuration dcs to exploit waterfall, and the spell works fine 'gainst mobs as the end game low 30s dc is more than enough to achieve cold vulnerability. however, as waterfall is an azata spell, you are not gonna get many casts per rest, so is not a spell to waste on mobs unless they is accompanying a boss. the reason we wanted waterfall were to up our boss killing game, and maxed dc 35 just weren't what we had envisioned. 35ish is not terrible, but is not reliable boss ending dc. is not as if there ain't a whole lotta excellent conjuration spells which were improved by our dc boosting efforts, but with a chance to do over, we woulda' gone with enchantment/evocation or illusion/evocation for our dc boosting scheme.

a skald is gonna be able to multiply natural attacks for your entire party, though chances are you are disabling rage for your spell casters. now admitted 'cause o' the way pathfinder works, your critters is likely to get the most use from extra natural attacks 'cause they are the ones who is gonna have the appropriate weapon focus and critical modifying feats and whatnot. regardless, greater magic fang is particular useful with a skald buffing your party. as to trickster, we wouldn't have a problem with trickster if it were deadpool v. my little pony. unfortunate, trickster ain't some kinda wisecracking anti-hero but instead is philippe pétain, benedict arnold and regina george all rolled into one... w/o the funny aspects o' those three. the wotr trickster handbook would be titled, how to win friends and then betray them when it is convenient. we only played trickster in the beta and have no urge to play again. is no question the trickster mythic path is gonna be op for many builds, but we would prefer to chew aluminum foil than play a trickster. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm. am thinking you are misreading. the chart shows a correlation 'tween lower credit scores and purchasers in high minority areas. is not claiming credit companies adjust scores based on whether a consumer lives in an area with high minority population density. am prefect happy to rage at credit reporting agencies, but your criticism, even if were valid, is not valid 'cause o' the chart you linked. HA! Good Fun!