Point of order, the American in The Band - the late great Levon Helms - has died so they are, indeed, an all-Canadian band now, although The Band is down to just Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson.
I love Sid Meyer's Pirates from the original, to the Sega Genesis, to the really good PC remake in 2005. Love that game very much. Actually, might get that reloaded off steam and play it
I'll disagree about the Tennesse Three: Because of the total overreach of going straight to expulsion, and the fact Rep Jones is already back in his seat and Rep Pearson will probably be there by the end of the week, the TN Republicans took what they did completely off the table and made national media superstars out of them. Plus brought national media attention not just on TN politics but digging through the backgrounds of GOP House members. So, for the cheap pop of expelling them for a few days at best, the TN GOP looks - at best - like incompetent vindictive fools, has emboldened the members they claimed to be disciplining because good luck expelling them again, put two very charismatic progressive politicians at the front of TN politics, and guaranteed national attention on all TN assembly business for the foreseeable future. Plus, you just opened an outside money faucet for Team Blue fundraising. Bad strategy, bad politics, and wrong on the merits for the TN GOP.
The "Unternehmen Revier” program in the Ruhr in Germany is something a lot of folks are looking at for places like the rust belt in America both in what to do, and what not to do, and what lessons can be taken from it.
Legacy media's "high on their own supply" is why they are turning to the MTGs of the world, they are getting less and less of a high off Trump and need the next thing to keep it going. So you get someone who openly does business with Nick Fuentes and is barely hiding her horridness publicly as the better cut product for ratings high.
WWE and the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship will combine to create a $21.4 billion sports entertainment company, the two companies announced Monday.
A new publicly traded company will be formed that houses the UFC and WWE brands. Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. will hold a 51% controlling interest in the new company once the deal is complete. Existing WWE shareholders will hold a 49% stake in the new company.
The new business will be lead by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel. He'll also remain as Endeavor CEO. Vince McMahon, executive chairman at WWE, will serve in the same role at the new company.
Large group, maybe a majority (you'd hope), of GOP probably do not equate "Soros" the buzzword to anti-Semitism
There are a bunch that do, and yes, it's absolutley a porch light to those kinds of people who want to be anti-Semitic on purpose without saying it too outloud
There is nothing being talked about labeled "Soros" that is not anti-Semitic (as the piece does with donations and moeny trails) that cannot be explained in a multitude of ways without using "Soros" as a pejorative
If you are using "Soros" in that way, purposefully and multiple times, you are opening yourself up to the charge, making it a "you" problem at the very least
The Hardy thing was really bad. Anything involving Bray Wyatt is an instant turn the channel moment. Sami being the most over thing in years is just amazing but well done.
The money is the story here. It is so blantant you wonder if they didn't think this guy would win and was just moving money through his campaign for other purposes.
Pete Buttigieg and his husband are now a registered voters and "permanent residents" in Michigan, and I suspect will be running for office there in short order.
My loathing of Vance is well documented here so I'll just go with the thumbnail relevant to your point; Vance - by his own admission, he openly talks about how one of his law professors discussed this with him as the genesis of Elegy - wrote that stupid book because without it he's just another Ivy League lawyer and aspiring tech bro with no discernable qualities that made him stand out. Now he's probably going to be a US Senator not on any merit or ability but because he matched up a trend line at the right time. The "illogical thoughts and embrace absurdities" of a Cruz or Vance is them reverting to their natural states as the initial public personas wear off. In Cruz's case remember he spent years cultivating this Evangelical Christian savior schtick for his POTUS run where he announced at Liberty only to have Trump blow up his entire raison d'etre, ripped his carefully crafted political soul out through his nose, wear it as a hat, and proceed to spend years having Cruz publicly compliment him on what a fine hat it was. Of course Cruz is resentful and thinks his own base is stupid for rejecting his awesomeness, and he can just marry that to what he already was and you get what he is - bitter, hateful, resentful, petty, and mostly known now for being Daily Wire's favorite senator. Talking to those rubes who did that to him as if they are stoopid fits multiple purposes, not the least of which is because to a least some of those folks, it works.
Sunak went to Stanford on a Fullbright Scholarship in addition to being Oxford educated, FWIW. He's also the richest MP in the UK, FWIW. And he's only 42, FWIW.
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Point of order, the American in The Band - the late great Levon Helms - has died so they are, indeed, an all-Canadian band now, although The Band is down to just Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson.
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That poem has caused more trouble than it is worth...
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I love Sid Meyer's Pirates from the original, to the Sega Genesis, to the really good PC remake in 2005. Love that game very much. Actually, might get that reloaded off steam and play it
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....I'll allow it.
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Shocked that Oklahoma is in the south, tbh...
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To be fair here, Burt, you've been boycotting Bud Light on general hoppy principle for a long time...
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I'll disagree about the Tennesse Three: Because of the total overreach of going straight to expulsion, and the fact Rep Jones is already back in his seat and Rep Pearson will probably be there by the end of the week, the TN Republicans took what they did completely off the table and made national media superstars out of them. Plus brought national media attention not just on TN politics but digging through the backgrounds of GOP House members. So, for the cheap pop of expelling them for a few days at best, the TN GOP looks - at best - like incompetent vindictive fools, has emboldened the members they claimed to be disciplining because good luck expelling them again, put two very charismatic progressive politicians at the front of TN politics, and guaranteed national attention on all TN assembly business for the foreseeable future. Plus, you just opened an outside money faucet for Team Blue fundraising. Bad strategy, bad politics, and wrong on the merits for the TN GOP.
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Fun part about this is MTG could read the entire thing to the person in the mirror, and it applies perfectly.
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The "Unternehmen Revier” program in the Ruhr in Germany is something a lot of folks are looking at for places like the rust belt in America both in what to do, and what not to do, and what lessons can be taken from it.
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There are more daily views on this site than miners working underground in WV today
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Legacy media's "high on their own supply" is why they are turning to the MTGs of the world, they are getting less and less of a high off Trump and need the next thing to keep it going. So you get someone who openly does business with Nick Fuentes and is barely hiding her horridness publicly as the better cut product for ratings high.
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Oh, that's why...The Endeavor merger is done:
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Over under Cody not winning on the deflation meter?
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Large group, maybe a majority (you'd hope), of GOP probably do not equate "Soros" the buzzword to anti-Semitism
There are a bunch that do, and yes, it's absolutley a porch light to those kinds of people who want to be anti-Semitic on purpose without saying it too outloud
There is nothing being talked about labeled "Soros" that is not anti-Semitic (as the piece does with donations and moeny trails) that cannot be explained in a multitude of ways without using "Soros" as a pejorative
If you are using "Soros" in that way, purposefully and multiple times, you are opening yourself up to the charge, making it a "you" problem at the very least
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How much of a thing is it now for gamers to just go "I know it's going to be a mess, I'll wait..." on big releases like this now?
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The Hardy thing was really bad. Anything involving Bray Wyatt is an instant turn the channel moment. Sami being the most over thing in years is just amazing but well done.
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This rant needs to be a full post
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MTG wants her committee assignments back and this is the price
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The money is the story here. It is so blantant you wonder if they didn't think this guy would win and was just moving money through his campaign for other purposes.
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The Twitter whistleblower report reads like it was written to specifically fit into proposed congressional regulation. Because it was.
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Pete Buttigieg and his husband are now a registered voters and "permanent residents" in Michigan, and I suspect will be running for office there in short order.
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*Nicholas County Geography Bee Champion, 1994 right here...
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My loathing of Vance is well documented here so I'll just go with the thumbnail relevant to your point; Vance - by his own admission, he openly talks about how one of his law professors discussed this with him as the genesis of Elegy - wrote that stupid book because without it he's just another Ivy League lawyer and aspiring tech bro with no discernable qualities that made him stand out. Now he's probably going to be a US Senator not on any merit or ability but because he matched up a trend line at the right time. The "illogical thoughts and embrace absurdities" of a Cruz or Vance is them reverting to their natural states as the initial public personas wear off. In Cruz's case remember he spent years cultivating this Evangelical Christian savior schtick for his POTUS run where he announced at Liberty only to have Trump blow up his entire raison d'etre, ripped his carefully crafted political soul out through his nose, wear it as a hat, and proceed to spend years having Cruz publicly compliment him on what a fine hat it was. Of course Cruz is resentful and thinks his own base is stupid for rejecting his awesomeness, and he can just marry that to what he already was and you get what he is - bitter, hateful, resentful, petty, and mostly known now for being Daily Wire's favorite senator. Talking to those rubes who did that to him as if they are stoopid fits multiple purposes, not the least of which is because to a least some of those folks, it works.
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Sunak went to Stanford on a Fullbright Scholarship in addition to being Oxford educated, FWIW. He's also the richest MP in the UK, FWIW. And he's only 42, FWIW.
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Good Lord...