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You can often find them at dollar stores and save yourself 4 bucks.

Happy Birthday, unclevlad! It is my brother's birthday too, and he was also thrilled with the gift.

I'm claiming the obvious joke. "Mr Trump, you're fired!"

If it isn't too bad stay home, but don't be stoic. Earlier in the pandemic, someone here (Old Man?) posted a chart of the differences in the treatments of people who survived serious Covid encounters and those who didn't. The course of treatments were almost identical, but the survivors got the more aggressive treatments one day sooner. Yep, that was it. The doctors reaching for the big guns one day earlier in a significant number of cases made the difference between life and death. How, we treat Covid has changed considerably in the months since that chart came out, but I would not be surprised if basic take away remains unchanged. If things start to go south, do not hesitate to seek and demand aggressive treatment. It can make a world of difference.

I agree that blue on black violence is a serious problem, and certainly, black lives matter. That being said somewhere in the neighborhood of 9000 black men die each year of diabetes and close to 14000 die of strokes annually. So, you will need to produce some receipts to convince me that police killings of black men get anywhere near those numbers

No, the heart of the Ukraine scandal was Trump and Giuliani. They made it very clear that what was important to them was that Ukraine announce that they were investigating the Bidens, and that they were willing to withhold approved aid until they got the announcement. It was the announcement that was important to them, not evidence of wrong doing or exoneration. The important thing was to score the political hit. Speaking of exonerating evidence, Joe Biden has been exonerated of wrong doing in Ukraine by multiple parties. This includes a Republican led Senate investigation that concluded just last month. Link So if the Senate Republicans found him innocent in an election year, you can best believe that Biden is a pure as the driven snow on where the Ukraine is concerned. As for the new "evidence" of "Hunter Biden's" laptop, Fox news wanted nothing to do with it and the laptop because they viewed it overly suspect. Indeed the New York Post writer who wrote up the story had his name removed from the byline because he did not view his own story as being credible. Giuliani is known to be a target of Russian intelligence efforts. Everything about the story stinks like 5 day old five day old halibut. So no this not about Biden or his son. This is about grifters, and gullible people who are choosing to believe them

Yep, sounds like libertarians.

Good luck.

I have a personal rule against ever rooting for death or disease. This news is really putting that conviction to a test.

Dark comedy?

No. It is only that way if you choose for it to be. The people are there and the will is there to reclaim our country. Over a month ago I put in for time off from work after election day, so that I can go to Washington to participate in evicting the current of occupant from the White House if it comes to that. You can bet your bottom dollar that if it comes to that, I will not be alone.

I think that you misunderstand who their client base it. 😏

They did. That is why all the future games are going to made for XBox and PC.

The article that I read indicated that Bethesda would be making games for XBox and PC, with the decision on whether to make versions for other game consoles being made on a case by case basis.

Yes, it is barbaric. I was sure that this had to be illegal under US law, but so far I have not been able to find any evidence that it is. In 1927 the Supreme Court ruled in Buck vs Bell that state statute permitting compulsory sterilization did not violate the 14th Amendment. This ruling has never been overturned. Nor, as far as I can ascertain, has any federal law forbidding forced sterilization been passed in the intervening 97 years. California has as state law against it, but that was passed in 2013! Forced sterilization is not illegal under Georgia law. Though IANAL much less one with a license to practice in Georgia, so I can't say that there aren't any laws on the books in Georgia that these women might be able avail themselves on in the pursuit of justice.

Letitia Wright

Gods, I hope she wins. 😈

Personally, I consider Wakanda to be a more important character than T'Challa. A king on a continent that has long since started moving towards democracies, magic herbs and animal totems. I have no idea how Africans view these things, but on this side of the pond it seems rather backwards looking. However, an African nation free of the trappings of colonialism, proud, strong and with technology that doesn't equal western nations but surpasses them, well that is something. That is a powerful idea today, and back in the 60s when Lee and Kirby invented Wakanda it must have seemed mind blowing. So, when blacks across the globe say "Wakanda Forever", I take it at face value. Wakanda forever, not Black Panther forever.

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Strong disagreement. T'Challa has spent the vast majority of his career as a c-lister, only occasionally ascending to the b-list before tumbling down again with the next writer. Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler took him to the a-list, but did so by fundamentally changing the character. They toned down his arrogance and softened him and made him more likable. They made him less Bruce Wayne and more Peter Parker. IOW, they made him not the jerk we see in the comics most of time. The fact that they had to do such a major overhaul to make him palatable to movie audiences shows the weaknesses of him as a lead character. So, instead of making him into a character that he never was in comics, pass the mantle. Let someone else play Wally West to T'Challa's Barry Allen.

Both T'Challa and Killmonger got to sit down and talk to the ancestor that that they most wanted to talk to. Shuri has to settle for following some panther around? I'm glad that you have a lot of faith of Marvel studios, but personally I don't think that would work for me. I guess they could kill off Queen Ramonda and then give Shuri the opportunity to talk to her, but I would really prefer that they didn't kill off a good character just to bring her back later for a brief conversation on the ancestral plane. Really, the "heart shaped herb" doesn't seem worth all this bother. First, they have to finds some more of the stuff and then they have to work out the whole ancestral plane problem. That seems like a lot of wasted screen time when Shuri can just declare that she doesn't need the damn thing to be the Black Panther and then prove it so.

You mean besides the actor who plays him not being around to play the role?

I've been thinking kinda of the opposite about the destruction of the "heart shaped herb". Its absence allows other people to take on the mantle without a super awkward trip to the ancestral plane, where they get there and T'Challa is nowhere to be seen. Shuri would be reliant on her skills and her technology as she took up the role of Protector of Wakanda, but in her case that would be sufficient. Admittedly, without the ancestral plane connection people would likely consider her claim to be the Black Panther weaker than those who came before, but that could be a plot point.

I don't know. From a story stand point, it is pretty straight forward. Shuri is next in line to be the Black Panther and has worn that mantle in the comic books. Moreover, I think that Letitia Wright has it in her to carry a big budget film. However, without Chadwick Boseman there to do the handover and the shadow of his too young death hanging over picture, I don't see people emotionally accepting the film. In order to make it work, they would need to the film about loss, pain, grief and ultimately rebuilding from there. Are people willing to go to a super hero film where they won't just be expected to just get a little misty-eyed, but instead will be called upon to actually cry and cry a lot?