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Girard442

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November 17, 2022

Over at predictit.org, you can trade (or bet if you will) on various things, like....

...individual Senate or House races or control of the Senate or House. You could at one time bet on Trump being indicted before 9/1/2022. Obviously, that market is settled. I can't seem to find any market trading in Trump being indicted any time in the future. It's almost like no one takes the possibility seriously.

November 15, 2022

I know we're all wondering if TFG announces tonight.

I suppose it's exciting, but making sense of his thought processes is like looking at bugs in a box.

November 14, 2022

Is it true that Nancy Pelosi remains Speaker until a new one is elected?

So, would it be true if hypothetically speaking, the R's have a tiny majority in the House, but can't unify behind one candidate and keep kicking the can down the road until they find a way somehow, Nancy remains Speaker the whole time?

November 10, 2022

So has Mar-a-Lago been ground into soggy sawdust yet?

Asking for a friend.

October 31, 2022

Stand on the accelerator, folks.

Take your cue from "Hot Rod Lincoln."

My foot was glued like lead to the floor.
That's all there is, and there ain't no more.


Our driver was running on so-so tires, nearly outta gas, up against the guardrail and (probably) threw a rod.

But he won.

October 28, 2022

Question about recovery from minimally invasive lung surgery to remove a tumor.

I had the surgery early Wednesday morning and got home Thursday afternoon. Basically doing well, although my chest feels like Sandy Koufax has been hurling fastballs at it.

One thing: I've got the little plastic incentive spirometer that I'm supposed to be using on a regular basis. Baseline number presurgery was about 2500+. Now it's around half that. Seems like an awful big loss given that a fairly small amount of tissue was taken. The good news is that I'm sleeping OK, bringing up mucus OK, and my SpO2 is around 94%.

Anyone have any experience with this?

October 14, 2022

Am I the only one who thinks Biden should call up Garland...

...and demand either an indictment or a resignation by the end of next week.

Yeah, I get that politicizing the DOJ is very bad. Maybe not as bad as a full-on fascist POTUS.

October 7, 2022

If you read the Bible (especially the OT) with the idea that it's meant be taken literally...

...or even metaphorically seriously, you rapidly come to the conclusion that it's pretty messed up.

Fundamentalists believe that they believe the Bible wholly and literally, but they don't really believe. If they did, they'd have to be confined as a threat to themselves and others.

October 6, 2022

So has Ron DeSantis gone the full Kim Jong-il yet?

"There have been very few casualties and very little property damage from Hurricane Ian due to the brilliant leadership of the Most Very Enlightened Ron DeSantis. Anything you may hear to the contrary is despicable lies of running-dog Liberals."

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