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You used to be able to buy a Barrier which was totally transparent to physical damage or energy damage. Sounds like you could buy both and get what you want.

That shows the effect of a lack of a Mitch McConnell to hold the Republicans together in opposition. I say we be generous and send our Mitch McConnell to Oregon permanently. You know, to "help" the Republican Party there.

If you'll remember an article I brought up last summer, Florida was counting COVID deaths of only those people who had a Florida residence (like driver's license, utility bills, etc.) rather than counting the people who died in Florida of COVID. That completely missed counting the homeless, illegal aliens, tourists, etc. The state argued that the dead should count toward the death totals in their own states or countries. But conveniently, it also had no mechanism for reporting those deaths to agencies in other states which might add them to those state's death tolls (reporting those deaths might have started an argument over which state's totals they should be counted under rather than allowing the deaths to be forgotten because it was politically convenient to understate the COVID problem).

I think I had 500 year old pizza on my last vacation. That's the only explanation I can come up with.

It's easier to to carve dice from wood. Or to dig the bullets out of yourself then melt the lead down into dice and miniatures.

I don't know a lot about vehicles. But based on watching TV shows about antiques, when there's a mismatched serial number of some sort, many times it's a Frankenstein object where some earlier owner combined parts of two or more pieces as part of a refurbishing project. Here's a list of links from a IH fan site which might come in handy either for information or for obtaining parts for a restoration. http://restoringcornelius.com/links/

Hey, if everyone deleted their dumb rants, we wouldn't have much of a thread. It's not like we can depend on President Trump anymore to do five stupid things daily to talk about.

Ah, but what is your amount of willpower to eat more dessert?

That's heavy.

On the bright side, it almost spells San Diego Comic-con Biceps Resurrection system.

I must admit I'd prefer Quantum Bands or a Green Lantern ring....

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Tuesday, "I understand from what's been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM [Bureau of Land Management], you want very much to work on the issue of climate change," Gohmert said to Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the National Forest System, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. Gohmert said to Eberlien, added that a past director of NASA had once told him that orbits of the moon and the Earth were changing. "Is there anything that the National Forest Service, or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun?" Gohmert asked Eberlien. "Obviously they would have profound effects on our climate." "I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert," Eberlien responded. "Well, if you figure out a way that you in the Forest Service can make that change, I'd like to know," Gohmert added. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/557558-gohmert-asks-if-federal-agencies-can-change-earth-or-moons-orbits-to-fight Sure, we'll get on that right away. Just as soon as we make sure Guam doesn't capsize.

The police will have the place roped off as a crime scene after players throw their spare dice at the GM.

I get up multiple times per night plus have to flip end-to-end. So getting my BIPAP set up perfectly consists of having to do it over and over. There's a lot of times that I don't manage to get back to sleep because of all the machinery on my head before I start hurting enough to have to do another end-to-end flip.

Considering it's Marvel, I expect they're mandating the designer use a 616-sided die (with no consideration that no player or GM would be able to see the die result when rolled).

I kind of figured that living in collective housing was probably the only familiar part of the experience....

The Washington state agency charged with overseeing the legal recreational cannabis market will allow licensed retailers to give free marijuana to those who receive a coronavirus vaccine at in-store vaccination clinics. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/557239-washington-state-to-allow-free-pot-with-vaccines You know, I feel really stupid for getting vaccinated early rather than waiting and getting entered in million dollar lotteries, drawings for free groceries for a year, free beer, free pot, or whatever else I could have gotten if only I'd waited a few more weeks. I know I'm living in a dream world but I'd really like to see a giveaway to reward people who did the responsible thing and got vaccinated as soon a humanly possible (rather only rewarding those who are having to get bribed to do the right thing).

“We’ve been fighting inflation that’s too low and interest rates that are too low now for a decade,” Yellen said, adding that “we want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment https://thehill.com/policy/finance/557160-yellen-says-higher-interest-rates-would-be-a-plus That's Treasury Secretary Yellen. 1) We haven't been "fighting" an inflation rate that's too low or an interest rate that's too low, much less fighting it for a decade. 2) A normal interest rate environment would be an interest rate on a 10 year treasury bond of around 6%. Currently we're paying only 2.2% for those and our yearly interest on the debt is $378 billion. To give some context, that's 7.8% of the entire federal budget just to pay interest on the existing debt. So Yellen is saying that we're fighting to intentionally increase the yearly interest on our debt from $378 billion to $1.03 trillion. Um...that's not what's been happening over the last decade. And it's not something that we should be looking forward to happening. It might at some point be an unfortunate side effect of what happens. But there's no one in government who is wanting that to happen since that'd trigger a massive governmental crisis due to lack of money to pay interest on the debt. IMO, someone needs to work with her on communication.

There's a number of people, including family members, who I no longer discussion politics with (and no I didn't end a sentence with a preposition). I don't think it's worth cutting myself off from family completely. It's kind of the only family you get even when you don't like their ideas on race, politics, religion, or whatever. And I hold out hope that when they see something screwy going on that they'll bring it up in conversation and we can have an ever-so-delicate discussion about it that'll open the door to other discussions. As for cancel culture, it existed long before "cancel culture" became a catchphrase. Liberals would get together on college campuses and protest when conservatives (pre-Trump conservatives) were invited to speak. And if the college didn't give in and uninvite the person, the liberals would show up to the event and make so much noise that the speaker couldn't be heard. That's been going on at various campuses for at least the last 35 years. In the pre-Trump years when we were all democrats, I disagreed with silencing efforts because bad ideas deserved to be heard, discussed, and rejected. And the rare good idea which was put forward by an objectionable person deserved to be considered despite the source. In the Trump era when so much political speech is anti-democratic and anti-republican crap but people swallow it without thought, I'm much more open to the idea of pre-emptive silencing. (Note that neither "democratic" or "republican" was capitalized because it wasn't a reference to the political parties but to the idea of democracy and the idea of a republic.)

We've talked here about how Trump is being investigated by a DA in Georgia for intimidating and pressuring an election official to use his office to overturn the election. So... The Georgia Republican Party passed a resolution on Saturday to censure the official for not going along with Trump's scheme. Really. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/557141-georgia-gop-censures-state-official-who-criticized-trump I'd think any sane organization would wait to see whether Trump was indicted for his actions before censuring the victim of his actions. But I guess we aren't talking about a sane organization....

"But I thought you said we were going Flamenco dancing, not flamingo dancing!"

So few people make the attempt on the internet these days that any little bit helps. < Cabot, Cabot, Cabot >

If you don't mind, I'll take your word for it.

A spoon full of sugar helps the Mormons go down! In the most delightful way!

After his speech for the North Carolina GOP, it's official: Trump is on the no-fly list. https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-pants-backwards-kris-kross/