Oh, and states can already go to permanent awful ("standard") time if they want. ONLY Arizona has done that...

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-12-19 10:40 AM

And Hawaii...

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This will be Trump's consolation prize to the American people since he will not be able to lower the costs of groceries, insurance or gasoline. So we'll just have to settle with getting rid of daylight saving time and be happy that we're getting this.

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This is what the leadership of a MAGA Congress looks like, Lilly white males...

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Trump insisted that Democrats were working to keep the Electoral College.

"The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections," he wrote. "They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!"

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-12 05:59 PM

Well, duh...

Presidential elections are already based exclusively on the outcome of the Electoral College votes and have been since the very beginning. Trump has no idea whatsoever what he's talking about.

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Some people have just way too much time on their hands ;-)

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Are you kidding? Same date as mine. But I had the "normal" replacement because my rotator cuff was in excellent shape.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Yea, my rotator cuff was destroyed.

16-years ago I severed the supraspinatus tendon, which is one of the major tendons in the rotator cuff, and they had to replace a section of it with a cadaver tendon. The surgery was a complete success and I had no problems with it until this past summer when we were on vacation and I grabbed a suitcase at the wrong angle and tore it again. The doctor said that it wasn't worth the effort trying to fix the rotator cuff again what with the arthritic shoulder, so they opted for the full 'reverse' replacement:

Normal shoulder replacement or reverse? I'm a little over a month in on mine.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Reverse, my right shoulder and I'm right-dominate. Surgery was October 24th. I just finished my third week of physical therapy with at least three more weeks to go. We're getting into the more-painful phase of the treatment.

If this works out OK, I might get the left shoulder done sometime after the first of the year, maybe by spring time. Osteoarthritis can be a drag. So far it's really only affected my shoulders.

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I was at physical therapy today (for my shoulder replacement surgery) and we were talking about the game and how the Chicago coach wasted the last minute trying for a win when they could have easily tied the game with a field goal and forced it into OT. The therapist said that the coach wasn't long for his job. When I walked out and my son picked me up, I checked my phone and I saw the headline that the Bears owners had just fired the head coach. The therapist nailed that one.

Yea, Detroit has got to work on their game for next week. Green Bay is only two-games behind them and is coming off a three-game winning streak. At least they're playing at home and it will be televised as it's the Thursday night game of the week.

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Lions football at 9:30am (PST) and then Thanksgiving dinner for five at one of our son's restaurants (or at least one the 25 or so that he's responsible for as the corporate brand executive) at 2:00pm.

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Yes, 'Alice's Restaurant' has been on my iPod Plus (which is connected to my SUV's entertainment system) for years and whenever we take a long road-trip, it invariably comes up at least once or twice, all 18+ minutes of it.

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Our #4 granddaughter, who's attending my alma mater on a full scholarship, is already a Junior after only two semesters (she had 46 AP credits) working on a double major, Chemistry and Math with a minor in Physics. Anyway, she doesn't 'write' anything but prints with a very small hand. We just got a post card from her which contained as much as most people would have used a full letter-sized sheet of paper for. And the printing was impeccable. And she can print even smaller as I've seen some examples. Now, having been an engineer for 49+ years, I never wrote anything in cursive either, except my signature. I started my career before we had computers and printers and you had to write your reports and stuff. Granted, we had 'secretaries' who we would type-up our more formal memos and reports, but anything else that I had to produce which became part of the permanent record was printed free-hand, and that was pretty standard in the engineering world where it was important that written material be unambiguous, not open to being misinterpreted.

Now I've never seen her signature but if it's anything like mine, it's only good for just that, a 'signature', which I've always seen as a sort of the 'mark of a craftsman. Signatures really only need to be 'recognized' (and acknowledged), rather then 'read'.

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Yes, with slide rules, and pencil & paper...

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This is the sort of thing that Trump and the right hopes the average person will never hear about. It sort of takes the edge off of Trump's 'drill baby drill' proposal, as if we could possibly produce more oil and gas than what we're already doing.

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People who make loans with that sort of interest rates, they don't turn deadbeats over to collection agencies, they take a more personal interest in collecting what's owed them.

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I'm surprised that there hasn't been more instances of stuff like this.

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So when Biden/Harris took office in 2021, this was already Bureau of Prisons policy, eh?

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I read one item (not sure that I could find the link again) where there are some people who are actually questioning whether Musk really wants Trump to win. Now it's not that he would necessarily like to see Harris win, but that he wants to take control of the Republican party and the best way for him to do that it to have Trump lose and then he will be there to pick up the pieces, and while he himself can't run in 2028, he could be the king maker.

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And Trump defamed them while being watched by millions of Americans. And it's all on tape, which will be 'Exhibit One' when this goes to trial.

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If Trump loses the election, will he even still be in the country on November 7th?

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Trump will have to dismantle NATO, otherwise Putin won't be able to invade Poland.

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Yes, and he also wondered why Lincoln allowed the Civil War to go on as long as it did. Trump suggested that he should have agreed to a settlement with the Confederacy.

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I guess when the top of the ticket has been found guilty of 34 felonies, has had multiple civil judgments concerning sexual assault and defamation and is currently under indictment for attempting to prevent the certification of the duly elected president of the United States, a little tax law violation by the VP nominee isn't even going to ruffle the hair at the IRS.

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And based on the figures reported in the referenced article, it appeared that the state of Oklahoma was prepared to spend close to $55 per Bible, which we've recently learned are being printed in China for less than $3 each.

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Perhaps Trump needs to look in the mirror...

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Seems only reasonable...

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