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  1. We do have a lot of Muslims; what we don't have is a lot of sh*t blowing up. Credit that to the FBI or the local Muslim community themselves or some combination of the two. The article mentions the FBI is involved and that prosecutors have brought a" slew" of cases against Hamas affiliated charities and individuals. That does not apply to Europe. Europe has it's own issues.
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    Iceland Valcano Eruption

    Maybe seeing half of them snuggle up with Hamas will smarten up the other half to recalibrate who the bad guys are, but who knows, they've already proven willing to blame cops and coddle criminals, embrace perverts and reject churches, reject what they see with their own eyes in favor of Biden regime talking points.
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    Happy Thanksgiving Geeks

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
  4. A perfect example of why we want Californians to stay in California ... you can live like that, fine, but we don't want any of this to spread to where we live. The focking UCLA basketball team famously goes to another country to play a goodwill game and steals things because its second nature for teenagers from where they grew up to do so and the UCLA football recruits rip off stuff from the locker room of the Colorado players for the same reason.
  5. You ought to know since you live there (or close enough). The prosecutor there doesn't put thieves in jail and so the robberies get more and more brazen. He is so famously soft on crime, that what's left of the sane voters in LA county tried to recall him.
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    Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election

    And another "Thank You" to you too. You guys are on it.
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    Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election

    Thank You for making the obvious point.
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    Wordle scores

    Huh... interesting. Were I to do that, I'd have to totally overhaul how I think about this. I've made my own challenge. Currently, I view four as neutral, fives as failures, and sixes as calamities. Not actually solving the puzzle has never happened. As a challenge, I like to maintain/achieve (such and such) ratio of 3s to 5s and 2s to 6s. It's why fives, and especially sixes, cause me so much pain and why I went to such great lengths to solve 'pixel' in 4 with only an i,e,and l to work with. Also, this sounds like a great way to parts, warts, darts, carts, tarts your way to complete failure. Whenever that happens to me, I try to get three of the letters.... like "wiped." to stop the hemorrhaging. Strapping myself in for a slide into oblivion would make my head explode.
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    1. Caption this photo 2. Why do....

    Who farted?
  10. I worry because they didn't look very carefully at the sizes nor try anything on first.
  11. Not if he stole less than $950.
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    Wordle scores

    Wow. That's the total opposite of what I do,. I'm not terribly interested in turning yellow vowels into greens, I'd take that "e" and set it aside for later. I'm mostly hunting for consonants and the 'v' is almost never a priority. Today, I did try to turn yellow vowels green. After two, I had two vowels plus an extremely common consonant. I figured "there's probably only two vowels in here. I'll take a crack at a birdie, probably won't get it because there's a few dozen words it could be, but I can kick the tires on a couple more consonants and maybe something green will show up." I got none of that. No help, I had three common letters and knew two spots for each where they didn't go. then every word I thought up just didn't quite fit in. Oh, it was madness.
  13. TDS suffers have lost their minds. Here's Thomas Edsall at the NY Times is not holding back on freaking out over Trump possibly doing to the Democrats what the Democrats are already 100% doing to Trump. This drips with insanity. Oh my God, what joy it would be to see sh*tbags like this heads explode if Turmp wins again: https://web.archive.org/web/20231122133418/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/trump-danger-rage-psychology.html/ Corrupt insider corporate shills need to get a grip. People already know what a Trump would be like because we just had one, it turned out very well, except for the COVID thing, and even that was handled much better in GOP states than Dem ones. We can compare Trump's presidency directly to what Joe Biden and his handler have been up to and figure out which one we like better. Even 18 year old first time voters weren't born yesterday.
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    My Week 12 NFL Power Rankings

    I was just reading about Aaron Rodgers being ahead of schedule and wanting to come back in a few weeks and it got me to think about where to rank the Jets if that happens. Talk me off the ledge here... I'm thinking all the way up at six just behind the Chiefs and Lions where DeShawn's Browns were and would still be. That's a scary team and I wouldn't want anything to do with them... of course that O-Line is even more dinged up than week one and his ankle makes him more gimpy than that week was well... We (or at least I) spent the preseason wondering how good these Jets were going to be. Well, things didn't work that way but the ship can be righted.
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    Wordle scores

    Wordle 886 4/6 🟨 🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Brutal word that gave me fits. Went for it on three, learned pretty much nothing except more places where stuff doesn't go... which helped, I suppose, because everything I could think of frustratingly didn't quite fit. You know you're close but just not seeing it.
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    Question: I’m Now A Grandpa

    Congratulations, Bunny. As for advice, I'd just have him call you whatever you called your grandfather.
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    Willie Hernandez dies at 69

    Ex-Detroit Tigers star, 1984 AL MVP Willie Hernandez dies at 69 (freep.com) He was incredible that year. RIP
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    Useless Facts 11/21/23

    Um... something is wrong here.
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    Wordle scores

    Wordle 885 3/6 🟩 🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Another unusual vowel combination kinda gave it away.
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    My Week 12 NFL Power Rankings

    I know this wasn't addressed at me, but I did use the phrase "hot garbage" myself and to be clear that comment was only addressed towards the WR corps. Overall the team is still as good as any other top shelf team. Also, while I'm at it, to restate things, earlier in the year when the Lions played the Chefs, I only predicted the Lions to win because Chris Jones was hodlding out and Travis Kelse got hurt. A team that can't beat the Chiefs in those circumstances isn't a contender, and I knew the Lions were the better team going in. Play that game now with the Chiefs plus Jones and Kelce and the Lions minus CJGJ, Vaitai, and Houston and the results would likely be different.
  21. This is awful. Your mods are out of control. I'd appreciate it if you reined in the mods and put it back to how it was. Thanks.
  22. I think the cracks are showing. In backing Hamas, we have some massive hypocrisy to point out if/when they go back to whining about micro-aggressions.
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    My Week 12 NFL Power Rankings

    True and true that it was a windy day and that things did snowball, but there's no excuse for what happened to them that day. As for the Ravens we'll be able to see what their game later this year with SF brings.
  24. Consider how long Joe Biden has been in office. For all the things that happened in JFK's presidency, it was at this point, on November 22nd deep into the third year of his single term, that JFK was shot.
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    My Week 12 NFL Power Rankings

    I knew GB is getting bit badly, saw they lost two RBs on the same drive, but not just how badly. Detroit had been banged up and the bye came at the right time. Long term they'll get James Houston and maybe even get CJGJ back. Moseley is done for the season and likely Vaitai as well.
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