Voltaire

Wordle 922 4/6 🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My son "helped" this may have been a three.

I've been busy since I have had to scramble with a lot of last minute BS to deal with. My plan to attach a trailer hitch to my SUV blew up when I learned the rear end of the car had been in an accident and could not support a trailer hitch. Cosmetically it looks fine and mechanically otherwise is good but I needed to find a plan B and settled on renting one of these and see my stuff in 8-10 days: https://www.uhaul.com/UBox/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=ubox&utm_content=20140202-howmanyseatsare Aparment is rented, taking the family down early in the morning, not going to be online much in the near future but the next time you hear from me, it'll be from Florida. It's late December and winter has still not arrived in Detroit. Its been nice and mild this whole time. I'm amazed at how Autumn has been hanging around longer than ever.

I stopped trying, but have long been open to it.

Botched coin toss? Another one in this lifetime? I hadn't thought it was possible untilJerome Bettis and/or the officials that day couldn't get on the same page. Now we have another?

I told about how I was finally moving to Florida in the morning and watched the first two games but I didn't actually post until Baltimore/SF.

Wordle 920 3/6 🟨 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wing and a prayer. luck is back Wordle 921 3/6 🟨🟨 🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Only saw the one word.

They stopped kneeling but the BLM inspired slogans are still in the endzone. The Lions had one of the wokest teams in the league, but are under new management with hardly anyone is left from that era. It also helps that the Lions have a compelling team for once. Unlike Comrade Stafford, Jared Goff never knelt while he was in LA during the height of the BLM bullsh*t.. He did put his hand on the shoulder of a kneeling teammate though, so mixed signals, as opposed to an Alejandro Villanueva-type middle finger to wokeness.

Me? Really? It was all in the morning and late in the evening. Not going to have much time in the next few days.

Happy Festivus

We've kept up with your career with semi-regular updates. Too bad this site got you in hot water, it's a warning to us all.

Mom: "It was marked down 75%, a real bargain."

That was a weird Chiefs / Raiders game. Chiefs looked awful and the Raiders won with gawd awful QB play. Hopefully Giants/Eagles follows the same trajectory. As for 49ers/Ravens, barring injury, we'll see likely them both come February.

Sure I'd love to do a Geek meet. Since most all of my time was spent in China, I've only ever met two of you guys: nobody and CDub100. If you're in the area, let me know. Same as MLCKAA, let me know. I don't have that problem with my wife. To get to understand the US better, my wife gets her US and world news from a US-based Chinese language social media platform. Whatever they discuss there, she invariably comes back taking conservative positions on pretty much everything. People who grow up in Communist countries can see through baizuo bullsh*t better than people from the US.

Wordle 919 4/6 🟨 🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Two yellow vowels. That's all I was working with. Amazingly, despite this, when I started to actually look for the word, it came to me rather quickly

oops wrong thread. I wondered where this went.

Wordle 919 4/6 🟨 🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Two yellow vowels. That's all I was working with. Amazingly, despite this, when I started to actually look for the word, it came to me rather quickly.

I don't want to get too specific because what happened between Rusty and HT has me spooked, but I'll be tucked just under Alabama and voting to re-elect Matt Gaetz come November. ------ Florida's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida, covering the state's western Panhandle. It includes all of Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa counties, and portions of Walton county. The district is anchored in Pensacola and also includes the large military bedroom communities and tourist destinations of Navarre and Fort Walton Beach and stretches along the Emerald Coast.

Over the years, Putin has made some poignant and reasonable assessments of the situation in the west, actually lamenting the decline and us not living up to our ideals and moral standards. I found them to be remarkable accurate. Obviously, I could never warm to him though for various reasons: lack of democratic reform, he'd been in a couple of smaller border wars, assassinated dissenters in western countries, and friends with some sh*tty international players. Really, he's an astute observer with an outsider's take of our situation with really amazing insights that resonate. The man is an autocratic despot but he really hits themes that are compelling and to me, him and his mentor/colleague/spiritual Sherpa Alexander Dugan really hit like the 2020s version of Alexis de Tocqueville, if you're familiar. I'm trying to find a youtube video but it's difficult to locate. What I'm looking for is maybe 5+ years old and everything I search for is in the last two.

Merry Christmas to me. I was pretty freaking naïve as to how confusing, time-consuming, and exhausting the hiring process works. The teacher shortage is real enough but there's no need at all for Social Studies teachers in Florida. Believe me, I tried. I got certified to teach Social Studies but those jobs get filled quickly. IT was when I got certified to teach math... BOOM! ... immediately ... that's when not just the emails and phone calls were returned, but headhunters appeared. Lions aside, 2023 has been a total sh*t year for me. For most of it, I took a job driving a wheelchair access van because it came with a vehicle. Strap people in and take them to doctors appointments or therapy mostly, but also grocery stores or the bank or the movies. It didn't pay much and I continue to not be getting any help since my wife's green card application has been held up for 11 months and counting. When I'd finally saved enough to buy a car, I switched to substitute teaching, which I can only do in Michigan, Florida has the program to put veterans into classrooms and is why I'm moving there. Been living with my sister, getting government assistance - so thank you taxpayers. I despise relying on the system and I wouldn't need it if they'd just process my wife's green card, who is anxious to get to work. She's a shoo-in once they get to her application, she entered legally, she's been married to a US citizen for seventeen years, and has three American citizen children, but the backlog is incredible. I'm rather proud of my kids. The three are all straight A students, including amazingly my son, who has turned everything around after being wrecked and confidence destroyed in the Chinese school system. He's also on the JV wrestling team. His sisters had thrived in the Chinese pressure cooker system which has now put them light years ahead of their peers (except in English), the youngest is only now getting on par in English. My oldest has already surpassed her classmates in English too, let alone everything else, she's loaded up with AP classes despite only being in 10th grade. She's absolutely amazing across everything: academics, art, sports, (looks too). So, anyway, when school re-opens again after the Christmas/New Year holiday, I'll be in the western Florida panhandle, teaching eighth grade math.

Ten years ago, I thought I was a centrist. Now, I'm far right and all these looney toons leftwingers are claiming the centrist mantle. OK then, color me far right, I don't care. The left labels everything and everbody that disagrees with them far right, alt-right, racist, Nazi, homophobe, whatever. Slap me with those too. Those words, like "women," "justice," and others have all been hijacked by cultural lunatics and no longer mean what they meant ten years ago. They can label me with whatever they want. Yeah, keep telling us we're all Adolph Hitler, Richard Spencer, and David Duke fans over here and fock right off.

Yes we did. I just wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas in this thread too in order to ensure the message gets a wider distribution.

Merry Christmas.

They think we're all as stupid as they are.

Pats almost blew it but Denver choked after coming all the way back to tie.

1) Baltimore Ravens 12-3 (2) 2) San Francisco 49ers 11-4 (1) -------- ------- 3) Miami Dolphins 11-4 (4) 4) Buffalo Bills 9-6 (3) 5) Dallas Cowboys 10-5 (6) 6) Detroit Lions 11-4 (7) 7) Cleveland Browns 10-5 (9) 8 ) Philadelphia Eagles 11-4 (8) 9) Kansas City Chiefs 9-6 (5) '''''''''''''''''' ---------- 10) Los Angeles Rams 8-7 (13) 11) Houston Texans 8-7 (11) 12) Seattle Seahawks 8-7 (14) 13) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8-7 (21) 14) Jacksonville Jaguars 8-7 (10) 15) Cincinnati Bengals 8-7 (12) 16) Las Vegas Raiders 7-8 (20) 17) Indianapolis Colts 8-7 (15) 18) New Orleans Saints 7-8 (16) 19) Green Bay Packers 7-8 (18) 20) Minnesota Vikings 7-8 (19) 21) Chicago Bears 6-9 (22) 22) Pittsburgh Steelers 8-7 (23) 23) Denver Broncos 7-8 (17) 24) Atlanta Falcons 7-8 (25) 25) New York Jets 6-9 (26) ----------- 26) Los Angeles Chargers 5-10 (28) 27) New York Giants 5-10 (27) 28) New England Patriots 4-11 (30) 29) Tennessee Titans 5-10 (24) 30) Arizona Cardinals 3-12 (29) 31) Washington Redskins 4-11 (31) 32) Carolina Panthers 2-13 (32) My criteria is if I were a .500 team with a league average offense and a league average defense, who would be hardest team to beat through who would be the easiest pushovers.