Bahnd Rollard

Shnoz berries taste like shnoz berries?

Happy thoughts my dude.

Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)

Woot

At the time of posting, he is ~5 hours out from the record.

Edit, 3 hours, I cant read clocks…

Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

I guess it is in a traditional sense, but they are very infrequent these days due to the senates rules and their collective lazyness.

IIRC the current version of the filibuster is a combination of two rules (procedural rules of the senate, not laws).

1. Votes on bills cant be done while a senator is talking.
2. You cant force them to give up their speaking time (which is how ever long they want it to be) unless 60 members of the senate vote to get them to stop.

Back in the day, you actually had to be talking the entire time, but in the senate’s lazyness they changed the rules to streamline the entire process. Someone to just say they are going to filibuster something and they have the vote, to see if the matter gets dropped or not. I think its a squares vs rectangles sorta thing, a filibuster is done with the intent to kill a bill by not allowing the voting process to go forward, this appears to be doing the same before they brought anything to vote on. The outcome is still the same, the senate does nothing.

This pokes at one of my biggest gripes with it, if there is a big guy with pearly gates upstairs, and doing good in life is a reward, does that mean you only do good things because your paid? It cheapens the entire philosophy and moral compass they proport to have.

On that topic. Religions does have philosophy, but it requires more effort than just showing up to what ever service you attend, I personally only know 3 religious people who have even read Aquinas (which is sad, because his work is a good read even if christiantiy aint your jam). For everything else religion is a crutch, its easier to scare kids into not steal things and acting with good-enough morals than it is to plonk a tomb of Plato or Confucius in front of them and tell them there will be a quiz on ethics at dinner.

Source?

I know there have been similar reports recently, if your going to meme about something, back it up.

Thanks… I hate it.

IANAL, but because this was done on a third party encrypted chat app, doesn’t it also violate the federal records act or something? If this was any other administration they would have been launched out of a cannon for that alone, not just the breach in security.

Explain!

Trebuchets are just medieval siege artillery from the trebuch region of France, everything else are just sparkling catapults.

Looks like the CA Govinator race is going to be interesting this year.

(I do realize that Arnold doesn’t have the job anymore, but the title of Govinator is too good to not continue using)

We dont, but we will be watching for scabs that vote for it anyway.

When you stare into the void…

And the void bleb’s back.

Having read that book, you may technically be correct (Inferno is hillarious, Dante was a mad lad for writing that when he did) The big guy down stairs is munching on Judas (betrayed big J), Brutus and Cassius (betrayed Caesar, did we mention Dante was very Italian). Traitors of lesser degrees are frozen under the lake at the center of Dis.

It would be poetic for a modern telling of Inferno to include 47 there, given current events, he may even be lunch.

To your first point, there is a high likelyhood that the GOP will defund the programs the Dems want to keep anyway, or they will get DOGEd after the fact.

They can not expect promises to maintain social safety nets to be kept, so why bother trying to work with the right, let them get a taste of their own obstructionist excriment.

You would think after his last time in the news cycle I would stop reading his name as Michael Bolton… Apparently not…

Because your logic is flawed coming to that question. It insinuates that one is needed over the other. This is not a fair comparison because toothpaste and fluoride suppliments are purchased and flouridated tap water costs almost nothing to consumers of municipal water. All sources must be taken into account for public health programs like this.

Because adding fluoride to tap water provides measurable benifits regardless of socioeconomic status.

In addition, other countries where municpal water is not as developed, they will add fluoride to salts and other consumer products.