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I would like to have presidential candidates do a multiple choice scantron that exclusively covered material in their presidential briefings.

They could drop the turkeys from a helicopter over the field

I didn't know cruise ships were allowed to do that.

Lol...I was thinking:
 
1" Flight then buy Megascale advantages until you spend 30 points.
 
Seems like the total raw distance moved would be...interesting.

I think the Broncos have a real chance in week 2 and week 9....

Random comment from the Book of Face:
 
 

I feel compelled to point out that changing the Constitution is not unconstitutional. It's a feature. The guy wants to enact an amendment to modify a prior amendment. Doesn't seem well considered, TBH. He probably read Starship Troopers and thought "neat idea!"
 

"Materially false"  What that means is that it's illegal to falsify your financial disclosure forms because that's the equivalent of a affadavit or sworn testimony.  You can lie in session all you want.  

It is a civil case, so I would be surprised if it did.

I think a pig would be better than a chicken.  And at the end if your pig was evil?  Devilled Ham, Baby!

There's likely a jurisdiction problem, for a federal crime.  That said, they could contact ATF, who does have jurisdiction.  But I agree that calling in the feds...ANY of them...doesn't seem likely to happen in Texas, for a gun violation.
 
But, what does Texas law say?  In a sane jurisdiction, this would violate state laws.  OK, we're talking Texas, so the gun laws aren't sane, but...

OK, research time.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons  -- 5th bullet:  illegal aliens.  So, yes, it's a violation of federal law.
 
https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/firearm-prohibitions-in-texas/
So it doesn't appear to be a problem in Texas.  Yet they complain about illegal immigrants all the time.  Hey, how about closing a loophole that wouldn't impact your citizens in the slightest?  And how about helping enforce laws ON the books, even if they're federal???  

EDIT:  wait.  It's possible ATF would want local assistance...they may well not have the manpower to check each individual potential violation, their mandate tends to be on a larger scale, like the DEA's mandate isn't the street-corner dealer.  It's not hard to see how this would fall apart, with nothing being done.  

Oh, and another thought:  was the shooter run through the system?  Cuz you'd THINK his illegal status should pop up...and INS may well sweep him up more readily.  (Again, tho...possibly with local assistance that might be a problem here.)
 
What a freaking mess.
 
 

Beneath Flanders Fields, by Peter Barton, Peter Doyle, and Johan Vandewalle.  About the British and German mining and countermining war on the ridges south of Ypres in WW1.  Includes pictures taken during the war and some from about a hundred years later (some of the old tunnels are still there).  The geology of Passchendaele Ridge was critically important, and though the Germans had the high ground most of that time, that was not to their advantage in the mining efforts.  Watching the surface and looking for color mismatches between the surface layers and the excavated stuff around the other sides dugouts and fortifications turned out to be really important.  Pick-and-shovel work was slower and noisier than "kicking" -- reclining on moveable boards, almost chaise-lounge in attitude, and stamping (as you lay back, so you're digging sideways with a stomping sort of action) into the clay layers with blades fixed to your boots that pointed perpendicular to your boot soles.  The "kickers" seemed to go three times or so faster than the pick/shovel guys in terms of feet of tunnel opened per day, and they were much harder to sense by listening.  (In the hard chalk layers -- not much of that near Ypres -- you had to use the pick, though.)  Then, load a gallery with tons -- looks to be as little as three tons, as much as 25 tons -- of explosive (and set a reliable initiating charge and fuse) and backfill it in with sandbags so the blast didn't merely come back out your tunnel towards your side.  At the intended time, blow the charges and hope the surface forces could take advantage of the destruction the blasts made.  Lots of detail and good info (if nearly all of it from the British side), it is another excellent recently-written work about aspects of WW1 that seems to have been written by men my age in memory of their grandfathers or men of their grandfathers' generation.  Side benefit: a useful discussion of the withdrawal of the Belgian army from their initial stations, then into Antwerp, and finally west to Ostende, and a discussion of the flooding that was done to make that last position unattackable by the Germans.

Another story I've read has Sherriff Capers attributing the slow response to having only 3 deputies to cover a very large area. Everyone was simply far away at the time. This is plausible, but... Stories also say this was not the first time neighbors complained of Mr Oropeza's gunfire, and police had talked to him before. I suppose that's one for the "Get your own gun for home defense" side. I would prefer a policy of taking guns away from people who use them irresponsibly, just like taking licenses from people who drive irresponsibly.
 
Side note: Gov. Abbott brought up the alleged immigration status of both Mr Oropeza and Mr Garcia's family. Props to Sherriff Capers for saying firmly that this does not matter. Murdering children is murdering children.
 
Dean Shomshak

Well. That's gross. 

If she was throwing down like the silenced Marg Greene, I can see it. if she wasn't, then the speaker overstepped. The problem is we don't know from this story. We need to see what happened for ourselves like C-Span
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I tried a couple of times to establish contact, but long story short, NG shut me down.  The final "blow" came last Thursday when NG told me in no uncertain terms to butt out.  I am not 100% innocent of wrongdoing in this whole thing, and I've tried to admit that as a step toward reconciliation.  NG is having none of it.  In his words, I didn't just reject the character, I rejected, betrayed, and sabotaged him personally.  My arguments to the contrary are of no avail.  Never thought I'd see the day when a friendship collapsed over a clash at the game table, but I'm guessing it's because said friendship was already weaker than I thought by the time the clash took place.
 
Thank you all for your patience as I've tried to sort through this fiasco.  I've finally accepted in my own head that we are not going to be friends again any time soon, if ever.  I also got some feedback from the DM as part of my own mental "post mortem."  At least our D&D group (sans NG) is back to rocketing along as joyously as ever.  We just finished our first major story arc and are about to start another.

The scythe we had when I was a kid was made probably sometime in the 1920's (like many of the older things we had lying around) and was massively made.
 
Also, I'm about 5'7" now (and maybe a bit shorter back then) and it's very likely the thing was made for a somewhat larger person. So my perception of how well-balanced it was and how much strength it'd take to use it all day might be affected by that. 

I can imagine a couple of T-Rex's wearing sunglasses and sitting around smoking pot. One of them looks at the other and says, "Coo, man. Coo."

Holy Carp! Jags trading picks away twice! Not sure how I feel about that. Gotta see the full haul.
 

Just five more days until the Raiders screw up another draft!

So the league is going to suspend players for gambling, while simultaneously taking in millions of dollars in sports book advertising revenue?
 
All righty then. 

I know what you mean.
 
I started, as a joke, typing, "At least Tucker Carlson would be a better president than...."
 
I not only couldn't find a way to finish the sentence but I got nauseated and the room started spinning a little. Counterclockwise.

I thought "Years of Hell" should have been the Voyager story from beginning to end.
 
They're at the other end of the galaxy with no allies, no maintenance facilities, and most of the crew dead. So there should have been a visual progression of the ship breaking down.
 
Maybe at first just random crewmen tripping over frayed carpet and maintenance panels being left off the walls or no longer fitting right. A lot more "does anyone on the ship know how to ______?"
 
Then a progression to cables being strung across the corridor, ceiling panels missing, weird and clearly alien technology being plugged into random places in the ship to replace broken Federation tech, etc.
 
More of having to detour looking for supplies needed to keep going. More moral choices about what they needed to do in order to get whatever they needed.
 
Honestly, that was what I was expecting from the premise of the show as presented in the first episode. I was disappointed and consider the while thing to be a bait-and-switch (especially as we started to get bipolar Janeway behavior as a replacement for well-written stories).

I recently watched the Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Year of Hell", parts 1 & 2. Also known as 'Kathryn Janeway's Descent Into Madness'. 
 
Strangely enough, I don't remember seeing this story before. This was about when scheduling by UPN made it difficult for me to find Voyager episodes when I was actually at home. This one was pretty well done, although the Status Quo Is God ending was a bit of a letdown. I understand that at one point there was talk of extending this storyline beyond two seasons, perhaps even for a full year. Enterprise later did this with the Xindi war, but it could have been interesting with this storyline as well.