FWIW and since I'm technically in charge of such things, the answer is yes to the first - and we have shown that and in fact will be running a Trump endorsement piece along with a anti-Trump piece tomorrow - no to the second - and we have shown that.
Large swaths of North Carolina/South Carolina haven't had a full receeding of waters from the tropical storm earlier in September. For example, the Cape Fear River's flood stage starts at 35', and normal for this time of year is 12'ish. While the last storm only got up to 31ft, that was still enough for loca/road flooding, but the river is only down to 21 feet as of this morning. Any kind of rain band, and there is one on the radar when this storm swings to the west, is going to cause flooding. Also, large swaths of Appalachia have been in drought, so Tennessee, Kentucky, SW Virginia areas are going to be prone to flash flooding. Ungood situation
I've played FM for years, as something that you do a few things then it runs in the background it's a great "distraction" for someone who spends way too much time on a computer. Jaybird touched on it but this is probably the end of the road for me and the game, the changes they are going with are away from what I like and use it for, so getting 2024 for free was something I jumped all over.
After all their public bellyaching over the end of their season, I am very much enjoy the Karma enema the Florida State Seminoles are currently experiencing with an 0-2 start with both loses on national TV. May the ghost of Bowden forgive me, but I am enjoying it greatly.
This has become a huge issue in the New River Gorge in WV since it became a National Park. The old Fayette Station road, which is what the now-world famous bridge replaced, that winds down into the canyon and back up the other side is really only a one lane road for modern vehicles, with a bridge that can only take one vehicle at a time down at the bottom. With the increase in traffic they made it a one-way road (on the four lane modern road and bridge the entry and exit points are only 1.5 miles apart) to try and help with the crush but folks taking RVs down - despite posted signs not to - and pulling over to take pics where there is no room to pull over has made it all but impassible in the summer and especially the fall when the leaves change and rafting season really kicks up and the rafting company buses add to the fun.
I liked when my kids went to school in Vegas, where the law is school runs from first Tuesday after Labor Day until the Thursday before Memorial Day. Now, granted, they don't have to worry about losing days to weather and such, but that's a darn good rule.
George W Bush openly talks about how he was a fall down drunk during a period of his life before he turned to faith and got his act cleaned up. Barack Obama openly talked about experimenting with drugs. Voters outside the Very Online Political Bubble don't care about this stuff being in the back bio of long ago, especially for a VP pick
With the exception of Georgia because of Atlanta the South won't be electing a Democratic presidential candidate anytime soon...NC will come back around but that will take a while.
When doing my commentary/media I've been saying wait till the first of September before the polling will really be of any use. I suspect VP Harris will ride pretty high on the new excitement wave through the DNC and the roll out has gone about as well as anyone on Team Blue could have hoped for with switchover from President Biden. Trump is going to shoot for a repeat of 2016 and won't be able to restrain himself from making it a nasty race, his crowning achievement being defeating Hillary and berating her as he did it. But this isn't 2016, he isn't the 2016 Trump, and the optics and vibes (the word of the moment I don't like but does get the point across) of him going hard, nasty, and personal after Harris will be very different and hit the public different. IDK that the 2020 map looks all that different when this is all said and done.
I understand the technicalities of primary, but the revisionist history that there was going to be a successful primary against an incumbent president without some real act-of-God type interference is just not reality. Not-Wilson Phillips forgot party politics is a two-edged sword that you have to wield not just by the letter of the law but the spirit of what the party wants. The quick coalescence around Kamala Harris should end all such arguments other than professional chin strokers who ruminate on what might have been. It was going to be Harris, it had to be Harris when taken in context of everything going on, it is Harris.
Its the 178th AW he was touring and various units therein, probably either the LRS or Aircraft MX logos. Full uncropped image is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Senator_JD_Vance_Visits_178th_Wing_(2).jpg
I got a walk-through explainer of this film from a film critic buddy who was privy to the advance screening and filled in on my own issues with certain films that can be problematic, as I tried to decide whether to watch it or not. He suggested not and I ended up agreeing after a spoiler-filled walkthrough of the plot. I'm one of those folks who understand Paths of Glory isn't a war movie as much as a movie about middle management, so the actual subject matter doesn't make it a no, its the approach and reasoning for it. "It doesn't matter what happens or why as long as the brave journalist protagonists gets to experience it all" is a special kind of niche navel-gazing nihilist pron cosplaying as a film plot I think I can do without.
We have enough real-life dead journalist killed trying to tell stories very bad people do not want told. Go make some movies about that.
On “What If Trump Wins?”
FWIW and since I'm technically in charge of such things, the answer is yes to the first - and we have shown that and in fact will be running a Trump endorsement piece along with a anti-Trump piece tomorrow - no to the second - and we have shown that.
On “Lone Star Rising”
Fake news, God is not in the failed maintenance cycles of the ice cream machine...
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/23/2024”
FYI Post now up with the full text of Eric Adams indictment on the front page
https://ordinary-times.com/2024/09/26/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-indictment-read-it-for-yourself/
On “Livestream: Hurricane Helene”
Large swaths of North Carolina/South Carolina haven't had a full receeding of waters from the tropical storm earlier in September. For example, the Cape Fear River's flood stage starts at 35', and normal for this time of year is 12'ish. While the last storm only got up to 31ft, that was still enough for loca/road flooding, but the river is only down to 21 feet as of this morning. Any kind of rain band, and there is one on the radar when this storm swings to the west, is going to cause flooding. Also, large swaths of Appalachia have been in drought, so Tennessee, Kentucky, SW Virginia areas are going to be prone to flash flooding. Ungood situation
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Football Manager 2024 is this week’s Epic Game Store’s Free Game”
I've played FM for years, as something that you do a few things then it runs in the background it's a great "distraction" for someone who spends way too much time on a computer. Jaybird touched on it but this is probably the end of the road for me and the game, the changes they are going with are away from what I like and use it for, so getting 2024 for free was something I jumped all over.
On “Russian Interference Is Back”
Your detailed explainer who Tenet was the front for money transfers and not for services rendered is noted and appreciated.
On “Russian Influence Indictment: Read It For Yourself”
Unfair comparison...What did whores ever do to be unjustifiably lumped in with this lot of amoral grifters?
On “College Football, and I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With The Game Clock”
After all their public bellyaching over the end of their season, I am very much enjoy the Karma enema the Florida State Seminoles are currently experiencing with an 0-2 start with both loses on national TV. May the ghost of Bowden forgive me, but I am enjoying it greatly.
On “Group Discussion: Banning Social Media Influencers From Small Towns”
This has become a huge issue in the New River Gorge in WV since it became a National Park. The old Fayette Station road, which is what the now-world famous bridge replaced, that winds down into the canyon and back up the other side is really only a one lane road for modern vehicles, with a bridge that can only take one vehicle at a time down at the bottom. With the increase in traffic they made it a one-way road (on the four lane modern road and bridge the entry and exit points are only 1.5 miles apart) to try and help with the crush but folks taking RVs down - despite posted signs not to - and pulling over to take pics where there is no room to pull over has made it all but impassible in the summer and especially the fall when the leaves change and rafting season really kicks up and the rafting company buses add to the fun.
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/19/2024”
I liked when my kids went to school in Vegas, where the law is school runs from first Tuesday after Labor Day until the Thursday before Memorial Day. Now, granted, they don't have to worry about losing days to weather and such, but that's a darn good rule.
On “Gormless in the Machine: On Running AI and Meat Avatars For Elective Office”
Thank you Greg, I do try. Borrowed that from one of our UK friends
On “Tim Walz Tapped to be VP Kamala Harris Running Mate”
George W Bush openly talks about how he was a fall down drunk during a period of his life before he turned to faith and got his act cleaned up. Barack Obama openly talked about experimenting with drugs. Voters outside the Very Online Political Bubble don't care about this stuff being in the back bio of long ago, especially for a VP pick
On “Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate”
With the exception of Georgia because of Atlanta the South won't be electing a Democratic presidential candidate anytime soon...NC will come back around but that will take a while.
On “Political Dreams and Electoral Nightmares”
It's an undeniable truth in theory, but the practical application he himself applied that wasn't too much fun. I remember, I was there...
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This was a timing issue more than anything, so hoping in the future this comes back around.
On “The Race Is On, And It’s Getting Weird”
Oligarchy is the term, if we are being honest about it.
On “The Problem of Political Commentary”
When doing my commentary/media I've been saying wait till the first of September before the polling will really be of any use. I suspect VP Harris will ride pretty high on the new excitement wave through the DNC and the roll out has gone about as well as anyone on Team Blue could have hoped for with switchover from President Biden. Trump is going to shoot for a repeat of 2016 and won't be able to restrain himself from making it a nasty race, his crowning achievement being defeating Hillary and berating her as he did it. But this isn't 2016, he isn't the 2016 Trump, and the optics and vibes (the word of the moment I don't like but does get the point across) of him going hard, nasty, and personal after Harris will be very different and hit the public different. IDK that the 2020 map looks all that different when this is all said and done.
On “Linky Friday: Outrages, Outages, and Outliers Edition”
I understand the technicalities of primary, but the revisionist history that there was going to be a successful primary against an incumbent president without some real act-of-God type interference is just not reality. Not-Wilson Phillips forgot party politics is a two-edged sword that you have to wield not just by the letter of the law but the spirit of what the party wants. The quick coalescence around Kamala Harris should end all such arguments other than professional chin strokers who ruminate on what might have been. It was going to be Harris, it had to be Harris when taken in context of everything going on, it is Harris.
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I've refused to fly Southwest, and this is the first thing to make me consider doing otherwise
On “President Biden Addresses the Nation Regarding Not Seeking Re-election”
well played
On “Eton’s Ethically Equivocal Entrance Exam Essay”
Here in America, historically, we give Redcoats who shoot protestors a fair trial, then elevate the lawyer that got them off to be president.
On “The Next Candidate To Be Dumped?”
Its the 178th AW he was touring and various units therein, probably either the LRS or Aircraft MX logos. Full uncropped image is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Senator_JD_Vance_Visits_178th_Wing_(2).jpg
I couldn't resist Vance framed in orange...
On “On Civil War”
Thank you, I do try
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I got a walk-through explainer of this film from a film critic buddy who was privy to the advance screening and filled in on my own issues with certain films that can be problematic, as I tried to decide whether to watch it or not. He suggested not and I ended up agreeing after a spoiler-filled walkthrough of the plot. I'm one of those folks who understand Paths of Glory isn't a war movie as much as a movie about middle management, so the actual subject matter doesn't make it a no, its the approach and reasoning for it. "It doesn't matter what happens or why as long as the brave journalist protagonists gets to experience it all" is a special kind of niche navel-gazing nihilist pron cosplaying as a film plot I think I can do without.
We have enough real-life dead journalist killed trying to tell stories very bad people do not want told. Go make some movies about that.
On “Updated: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns”
When you have MTG's official account retweeting AOC because they agree with her, the jig is up.