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Two detectives, surrounded by officers, look down the gully onto the bizarre murder scene. One turns to the other and hesitatingly asks, "Is, is that a clown?" The other detective continues to jot notes down on his pad and says, "No, that's a mime." The first detective sighs, shakes his head, and says, "A mime is a terrible thing to waste."

Do the Bronco's have a competent enough offensive line to ensure the starter is likely to make it all the way through the first regular season game? Asking for a bookie...I mean, a friend.

I'm sure it will show up on Twitch streams as a dare done in exchange for donations or subs.

So say we all.

I got two of my 15 daily prescriptions filled. One was $361.00 and the other was $391.00, three month supplies for each (thankfully). That's my cost, with the Humana/Medicare part B insurance plan picking up well more than $1200.00 on each one, I don't remember the exact numbers on what the insurance paid. The good news was that the doctor discontinued one of my prescriptions so I'm down to 14 (not including my asthma inhaler). When I got that one filled a few weeks ago it was $1.51. Why is it that I never seem to not need the more expensive medicines?

Disney is trying to exploit what they see as a flaw in her contract to keep from paying her part of the money that she earned. I see no reason for other studios to avoid her just because she and her lawyers want her employer to live up to what they see as the contractual obligations. It's pretty simple to avoid this kind of problem if both sides want to. Or work out this kind of problem is both sides want to. And not every studio even has a subscription service that they sell their movies on.

Don't remember whether I've discussed it here or not but the other possible scenario for it to affect the midterm elections is if the Taliban decide to hold our Afghan allies and a scattering of Americans who didn't make it out hostage. Then release video their gruesome executions in the months leading up to the election. Though I can't imagine they'd think that helping put a bunch of war-mongering Trumpsters back in office would be better for them than helping re-elect the party of the president who gave them a country and thousands of Western-allied hostages. (But trying to think like a bunch of Pakistani Islamic fundamentalists who want to roll the clock back to the 10th century isn't my forte.)

A man accused of helping to coordinate a self-styled militia’s incursion into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was released Monday to home confinement after arguing his wife would keep him from falling back into extremist views. “She has no tolerance for that kind of talk,” federal public defender Angie Halim said. Only after a federal judge agreed to release Joseph Hackett did a prosecutor mention that his wife, Deena, hosted a political podcast. While the prosecutor did not describe the show’s content, a Deena Hackett co-hosted two episodes of a podcast called “A&D’s Patriot Battle Cry (Rub THAT In!!)” in which she described her husband as a “political prisoner” who was “trying to preserve … this country.” The podcast also includes references to far-right conspiracy theories. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oath-keeper-wins-release-from-jail-after-lawyer-says-he-is-no-longer-radicalized/ar-AANEl7k That's a novel legal defense for the Trumpsters to try....

After the first time it happened to me, I certainly wouldn't rush into things. And I'd certainly have asked Peter what he wanted from the world-altering spell I was warned against casting before I actually cast it. Especially since there didn't seem to be any time pressure on either one of them so that they needed to "cast the spell right now before something disastrous happens!" I mean seriously: who casts a spell which alters the entire world without knowing the desired outcome from casting the spell? You'd basically be casting the spell at random then randomly hoping that it does something that's vaguely like the intended effect, whatever that might or not not be? 😕 ==== "I'll cast a Wish spell." "Okay, what do you Wish for?" "I don't know, I've never really thought about exactly what I'd want from a Wish spell. Gimme something and we'll see what happens." ==== And then you cast the world-altering spell that you need to concentrate on without asking the talkative New York teenager to keep his mouth shut during the casting?

There's a marked difference between "some innocents dying" and someone made choices so that the result would be that "some innocents died" plus "your friends died" plus "the guy who saved your life, repeatedly, died". The first is a tragedy. The second is a very, very personalized tragedy. ==== Also note there's a difference between "personal" and "personalized". "Personal" is that it means something to you. "Personalized" is that someone intentionally did this so that it means something to you. Innocents die in the Kobiyashi Maru, it's a test of character. Failing the Kobiyashi Maru so spectacularly that you personalize the tragedy for the cadets under your command and vigorously defending your very flawed decisions without apparently learning anything from them would be an unforgivable flaw in a command candidate. Finding that unforgivable flaw before you make the mistake of giving that person command is the apparent reason, in-universe, that test is given toward the end of the cadet's command training rather than at the beginning ==== Unfortunately we don't live in Star Trek. And Trump's host of flaws outweighs Biden's, even at this point, by several orders of magnitude.

Thanks. I sometimes come up with awesome ideas. Figuring out how to lead the PC's into being able to solve the mystery, unfortunately, is the tough part. They all tend to turn out like: Investigator #1: "So Mr. Green did it in the Conservatory with Ms. Scarlet." Investigator #2: "Okay but the subject is trying to figure out who committed the murder, not figuring out who did it with who."

Afghanistan, Again, Becomes a Cradle for Jihadism—and Al Qaeda https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/afghanistan-again-becomes-a-cradle-for-jihadism-and-al-qaeda The article lays out the continuing presence of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan including statements from Bush, Obama, Trump, and as recently as Biden last Friday that it's been defeated and is no longer there. And, on Friday, Joe Biden told the nation, “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with Al Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, as well as getting Osama bin Laden. And we did.” All four Presidents have been proved painfully wrong.

During a Sunday sermon, Pastor Greg Locke at Global Vision Bible Church — located in Nashville, TN — delivered some fiery warnings to pro-PPE philistines looking to shut down his church, and how he plans to clear his pews of anyone who adopts the Mark of the Least. “If they go through round two and you start showing up (with) all these masks and all this nonsense, I will ask you to leave,” announced Pastor Locke, recounting previous calls for his church to shut down over lack of masking and social distancing. Since the start of the pandemic, the church leader has vehemently defied mask mandates assigned to gatherings. He has also preached common sense to fellow pastors who have been duped by thirty pieces of silver’s worth of public health advice. “We are staying open,” Locke said in his past Facebook video. “You ain’t gotta wear a mask. We’re not social distancing.” “They will be serving Frosty’s in hell before we shut this place down,” he said. https://www.outkick.com/tennessee-pastor-giving-boot-to-members-of-congregation-in-masks/

IBC Root Beer was wildly popular at my dad's college (he went back to do college after I was an adult). Of course, that might have been because the college's initials were IBC....

Not to be indelicate (and you're aware I've been supportive of your personal journey). But if your day-to-day life were chronicled in comic book form, did your realization come as a bolt from the blue at the end of issue #1224? Or was there some process of gradual internal realization which the readers could have seen from reading your thought balloons in the issues leading up to #1224?

OnlyFans takes a substantial cut of the money the content producers makes from their content. They seriously couldn't hire people to fast forward through porn that was just posted looking for legally problematic content? Heck I could show them the broad concept how to do it on the cheap. 1) Hire people as contractors. 2) Their pay is to get to watch the pay-for-porn for free. 3) They get paid a bonus for finding each item that has to be taken down from the site. 4) Monitor the contractors to make sure they're watching a certain amount of porn per week and to make sure that each one is eventually reporting questionable content to someone for review (in order to make sure they aren't just watching the porn rather than not doing the job and to make sure they're using good judgement in what to flag for attention to their superior.) 5) Content producers who have to have too many items removed from the site get banned. Weight the "seriousness of the offense" so that posting kiddie porn isn't treated exactly the same as much less damaging behavior.

What are you spending the year doing? If you were to spend the next year doing what we've been doing the past year, which was pretty much nothing, then waiting another year wouldn't have accomplished a thing other than letting a large number of people continue living for another year. On the other hand, if we spent the next year arranging permanent places of refuge internationally for women and girls who wanted to get out... Arranging for teachers and journalists to get out... And above all, arranging for the translators (and their families) who've been helping our military, journalists, and charities to be able to function in the country to get out (as our government had promised to do for them), in that case, another year could have made a tremendous difference over the long run. Right now, the 500 members of the Afghan military who are still working with us inside the Kabul airport haven't even been guaranteed a seat on one of the evacuation flights, much less all of the people who are stranded at various places outside the airport gates, inside Kabul, and across the country. Heck, forget about another year. What if that effort had been made just from inauguration day through today, how many thousands or hundreds of thousands would we not be worrying about right now?

"How dare my supporters listen to what I've been saying!"

Who the hell knows? The CDC went back and forth on whether you can mix and match between the first and second doses. WHO recommended against it. Canada says it's okay. The CDC page doesn't seem to have any recommendation on mixing the booster or not. I'd advise you to wait until you're eligible to get the booster then check the CDC website, your doctor, or your pharmacy (roughly in that order of competence and adding in your national healthcare system if you aren't in the US). And if you can't get an answer from any of them, come back here ask the question again and I'll try to look up whatever the guidance is at that point in time (eight months after your second dose).

RC Cola is quite good. It's like Coke except that it has a strong cola flavor. And, no, that last sentence wasn't a typo of some sort. And their cherry cola was the best I've had outside of hand-mixed at a soda shop. Their Diet Rite variant is quite good in that it has no sugar, no aspartame, and no sodium so it's good for restricted dietary requirements (like mine). Back decades ago, the RC people were responsible for Grape Nehi and such. I believe Dr Pepper bought them out in the 90's. I'm not sure how widely RC is distributed these days.

Be careful buying those Marital Aids....

If anyone can buy a spell that can do most anything, that's going to make a hash out of figuring out murder mysteries and other whodunnits. For all the adventurer's know, the murderer's great-great-grandfather could have bought the spell which did the deed over a century ago and it's been sitting forgotten in a trunk in an upstairs attic.

If this story showed up on your feed, would you be breastfeeding?

I predict that someday nostalgia will make a comeback....

Contrary to rumors, turkeys can fly. But it helps if you don't freeze them first....