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In my model, some vindictive Veruca Salt-like "real Republicans" vote for Jeffries just to spite their party mates. These are people who care about "being right," even if that means guaranteed losing and never being able to implement your "rightness." I'm not sure what you call it, it's not a pyrrhic victory. Maybe a pyrrhic defeat? Meanwhile the dems unite behind Jeffries, much like they united behind Biden in 2020 while throwing Sanders under the bus. People will say that was wrong, but here we are, under President Biden. My party would rather lose so they can whine about it, than win and actually accomplish some things.

Not exactly an ass whooping so far

I just had a thought... one of the articles I read in providing Rusty his links said something about another SARS virus coming from this wet market in 2003. What if... China put this lab in Wuhan for exactly this situation -- a killer virus gets out, and they have plausible deniability by blaming the wet market. I'm not sure what our relative relationship was back when the lab was built, but we're clearly China's biotch these days and will gladly swallow whatever story they tell us to believe.

Amen bruthas! I've got Pacheco in the league I just lost Jefferson, I need some magic from him!

He'll probably just shake it off.

I agree with all of this, including being IN. As I said above, I'd love to do the WM since I'll be there drinking errrr... watching golf a few days, and I may have the opportunity directly encourage players on my team to do better. But if not, no worries.

No, he doesn't. That is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. He needs to get enough consensus on important issues to move the needle a little bit at a time. I'm waiting for the vindictive little whiny biotch "real Rs" to vote down someone like Scalise and end up with a Dem speaker, behind whom the Democrat party will give all of their votes and support. Because they understand how to win.

Great take. As an engineer, we often talked about women in our field being "engineering hot." Seinfeld?

To be clear: when I say debunked, I mean that this statement in your link: "Definitely the culprit" is categorically false. Raw data became available some time later (apparently to the chagrin of China, as it soon was deleted). But that data showed only that Covid and animal (and human) genes were all found in the stalls, not that there was some ground-zero animal that was tested. Had an infected person from the lab visited the wet market, they would have found the same evidence. So I'm not saying it was definitely a lab leak; I'm say that it was NOT definitely a wet market origin, given current data. The following may be the article I read a while back, from NYT. It seems familiar anyway: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html US agencies are also split on the origins: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/28/1160162845/what-does-the-science-say-about-the-origin-of-the-sars-cov-2-pandemic

That time between the scan and the results is the worst, isn't it? Mayo has an app where they post them before my appointment, so I usually know how it went (I've become an amateur radiologist report reader. ). I sit there F5'ing the app for an hour or two. I've always had treatment after my appointment so I never got liquid courage before. Maybe next time now that my treatments are done...

I think you'll find that any actions by Israel which jeopardize let alone harm civilians will be met with harsh criticism by the MSM. I'm interested to see if Israel finally says fock it and bombs the hospitals etc. where chicken shiot Hamas hides after attacks.

To me, the difference is that Ukraine desperately needs our help, whereas for Israel we mostly just need to not object to them going Kaiser Soze on Hamas.

Tell your wife I left my electric toothbrush there while you were in Sacramento.

I imagine so, at least for chubby lovers like @BunnysBastatrds

Man, I am so, so happy for you! You were tremendously helpful during the early, difficult parts of my own journey. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

You know this has been debunked, right? I believe the latest is "we aren't really sure. Allegedly."

The vaccine definition was always what it is. And we've always been at war with Eastasia.

Dang, she was rocking the 7/4 beat!

Ah thanks, I was confused by the two events as well, this is the one I was thinking of. Either way, good for you for persevering, ya old bastage ya.

IMO it is too kind to label it overzealous. By the time the vax was available, there was no medical reason to vaccinate young children. Zero. It was nothing but downside risk. Yet the CDC continues to this day to recommend it down to 6 months. Since there is no medical justification, the only reasons are selfish, mostly from the government wanting to placate the sheeple whom they spun up on Covid being a lifetime superkiller (I guess you can call this overzealous), and/or to maintain their control over the masses (more cynical but no less likely). And selfish for big pharma of course. Cha-CHING!!!

The problem is we get stuck in these false dichotomies: The vax was GREAT! Not really. The vax SUCKED! Not really. Like most things in life, the answer is nuanced. The problem is, the government does not think the populace is capable of nuance, so in this case they pushed it for everyone. They may be right about our inability to deal with it as a populace, but armed with the knowledge that this is how the government approaches things, we can seek out the nuance and act accordingly.

The vax saved a lot of lives and severe illnesses for the elderly and folks with comorbidities. The vax was at best a wash for young, healthy adults, and arguably a negative for young men because of lingering heart issues. Once it was clear that it wasn't stopping transmission, it should not have been suggested for this demographic. The vax on young children was unjustified, criminal, and people should go to prison for pushing it. There it is in a nutshell. HTH

My daughter recently bought the Toyota Corolla Cross and loves it; it's a step down in size from the Rav 4. One downside is the engine does not break any performance records, so if that is your goal, you might want to stick with something like the Mazda. IIRC, the comparable Mazda crossover was the highest rated of whatever site I was looking at at the time, mostly because of its performance. As somebody mentioned above though, it had a tiny screen which wasn't touch. I currently have a Lexus ES 350 without the touch, and while the screen is decent sized, I'll never go without the touch again.

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She's got bewbs She is in Washington Heights. Her roommate is a good friend from here, and is going to Columbia med school for physical therapy, so the location is great for him (he's ghey btw) and she is around the corner from the 1 train which goes down to the fashion district. Also it is rent controlled.