The Swamp

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Johnnie wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:51 am

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:36 am
Well, at least the Sears Tower lives on.
About that...

(Unless that's a joke.)

Yes, but it's actually a meta joke because everyone keeps calling it the Sears Tower anyway.

Damn right, Sears.

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Sabo wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:26 am
We bought our washing machine from Sears about 6-7 years ago.

Same. (Of course, we're the old guys.)

Well, at least the Sears Tower lives on.

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wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:29 pm
Crew appear to be staying in Ohio. Thanks to the Art Modell law and local ownership options stepping up. Precourt now will work on expansion in Austin.

That’s great news.

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It isn't the "dumbest thing" voter apathy because someone is supposed to win has altered a lot of races. The SuperDelegate lead altered the Democratic nomination (Hillary probably still would have won, but you never know) and it altered the general election as well. We thought Hillary was going to ...

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Mr. D, I agree that any selective application of purging or strict reviews is wrong - in fact, I think it should be a serious crime. But is that what is going on right now? Strict review is what's happening now. Whether or not that would be if a large portion of the 50K new enrollees were from a ma...

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The articles I've seen is that if ANYTHING is off in terms of cross referencing the election registration system and what is stored with social security, it's getting pulled. So a dash or a dot out of place, you're getting your registration pulled. And without getting into all the different scenari...

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Can we play the "what if Obama" game and ask "what if old white people were being purged from voter rolls under Obama"? How nefarious is this purging? Presumably they are purging folks from the rolls whose registrations are several years old and who have not voted in recent elections - is that righ...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:10 pm
Tyndall AFB got absolutely smashed. I wonder if it will end up the way Homestead AFB (now an Air Reserve Base) did.

Edit:

The weather site there still isn't reporting, and hasn't since about noon on Wednesday.

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But historically, once one candidate becomes a clear leader or winner, they start getting nearly all the votes. Did that not happen in this primary? I thought it did. My reasoning is that if more people truly believed that Bernie had a chance for a longer period of time - and if the party hadn't so...

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wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:30 pm
Mexico Beach, FL looks like it got crushed. And the first thing that went to my head is will Trump realized Mexico Beach is in the US.

Well, Omaha and Utah Beach aren't. It's all so confusing.

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I wouldn't say we're hardcore by any means, but we just discovered an actual board game shop in town, and I had no idea there was so many quality games beyond the regular crap at Target or Toys R Us. It's basically like living in a world of Coors Light and then discovering craft beer is a thing. Wh...

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Not to threadjack too hard, but since someone mentioned Hive... Do we have any other swampers that like board games? Specifically Euro games or anything of that sort? We've really gotten into it the last 2 years or so and play tabletops regularly. I wouldn't say we're hardcore by any means, but we ...

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Joe K wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:52 am
I can’t believe people are still saying “it is what it is.” I first noticed how common that expression was becoming about 11 or 12 years ago and it drove me nuts. I always just wanted to be a dick and respond by asking, “what is it?”

What it is. Haven’t you been paying attention?

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Not to threadjack too hard, but since someone mentioned Hive... Do we have any other swampers that like board games? Specifically Euro games or anything of that sort? We've really gotten into it the last 2 years or so and play tabletops regularly. I wouldn't say we're hardcore by any means, but we ...

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Kinda eerie. I was checking out some of the hourly observations on various Panhandle Weather Service locations. The site for Panama City stopped reporting at about 11am yesterday. They still have a big warning about what Michael is “forecast” to do.

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Shit. I use all of these.

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I think the first time (or among them) I heard "a minute" used to mean a long time (which, really is a dumb bit of slang), was right here on this board when Hood used it. I was confused at first. Like a lot of American slang, it seemed to come out of the black community first. OK, because I think t...

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My inlaws are north of Fort Walton Beach. Luckily the storm ended up pretty far east of them. They've had a lot of rain but not much else.

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The version out here is "hot min."

But according to my teenage daughter, a "hot minute" is a long time. I would think it would mean a very short time. But then again, I'm an old guy.

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Now I'm not talking about you (degen) here so keep that in mind, but people can't have it both ways. Either the Democrats have their fingers on the scales to nominate the person they want (Hillary) or it's a process where anyone can get the nomination regardless of how outside the party mainstream ...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:34 am
Playing off of a fb post by Brian...

Didja notice that today, Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day, we saw losses by the Redskins, the Indians, and the Braves.

And the Blackhawks lost on Sunday night, Indigenous People's Eve.

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mister d wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:20 pm
Hate to "go there", but this is going to be you after tonight's game.

Hm. Your prognostication streak appears to be over.

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Avenatti has delivered on literally every claim he's made. Cohen flipped directly because of him and his strategy. But it's his fault the Democrats are trash? FOH. Did Swetnick turn out to be legit? I thought some stuff came out to make her seriously questionable. But I stopped paying real close at...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:19 pm
But, as I've said a few times - watching bad TV is just something you do when you're married.

Funny, my wife says the same thing.

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Avenatti has delivered on literally every claim he's made. Cohen flipped directly because of him and his strategy. But it's his fault the Democrats are trash? FOH. Did Swetnick turn out to be legit? I thought some stuff came out to make her seriously questionable. But I stopped paying real close at...

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Pretty much done. 4' x 6'. Fits 6 people easily. I need to buy chairs. And I need something to cover the seams. I'll also probably add some Alexa enabled LED lights too. Under the table is a surge proctor with USB inputs. Those random pieces of wood are half inch wide spacers. I misjudged the inser...

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Shirley wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:02 am
Steve just had his Tweet replied to by Eric Idle.

Biggest fucking day of my life.

And a shout-out to Howard - he was the one who pointed out years back that Marx was correct about that.

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Republican politicians that weren't Republican enough got primaried. Yes, and this helped the Democrats hold the Senate after the 2010 elections. Through primaries, Republicans replaced Republicans-who-weren't-Republican-enough in a couple of states with complete whack jobs, who then lost winnable ...

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Can't wait to reap the benefits of Manchin voting yes. Gonna be amazing. The piss tape is going to get released and then Manchin will cast the deciding vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial. But it’s vitally important that he gets re-elected. Please. You're saying 66 other Senators are goin...

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Can't wait to reap the benefits of Manchin voting yes. Gonna be amazing. The piss tape is going to get released and then Manchin will cast the deciding vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial. But it’s vitally important that he gets re-elected. Please. You're saying 66 other Senators are goin...

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I mean, Collins is making Ford's case in a lot of ways with saying how hard it is to come forward with an allegation. Even listed all the ways Ford's behavior is typical of someone who was assaulted. So it must be that she just doesn't care. Yup. Collins has remained a Republican for the past 25 ye...

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A_B wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:43 pm
I mean, Collins is making Ford's case in a lot of ways with saying how hard it is to come forward with an allegation. Even listed all the ways Ford's behavior is typical of someone who was assaulted. So it must be that she just doesn't care.

Yup.

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Chicago jury finally convicts a cop for shooting an unarmed black kid. It's about damned time. (Wasn't he wielding a knife, but walking away when he was shot 16 times?) That's the one. Apparently the only reason that one came to light is because a couple of local journalists sued the city to get th...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:33 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 12:12 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:52 am
It's a Jewish conspiracy.

It always is.
I used to joke that if there were a Jewish media conspiracy, I would be making more money.

Really. As a grandson of Hungarian Jew, I think Soros owes me a shitload of money.

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Well, that's that.

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brian wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:00 pm
Chicago jury finally convicts a cop for shooting an unarmed black kid.

It's about damned time. (Wasn't he wielding a knife, but walking away when he was shot 16 times?)

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My warm take: the Astros-Indians series is a total mismatch and lots of people are vastly overestimating Cleveland’s chances based on their performance in 2016 and 2017. I don’t think a 103 win team from the AL West and a team that went 42-44 outside of the AL Central are remotely comparable. Houst...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:52 am
It's a Jewish conspiracy.

It always is.

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And my point is why is it bad to play realpolitik with this one Senate seat for this one vote? If the 51 Republicans all vote to confirm, then Manchin's vote is meaningless anyway. So if he makes it 52-48, but it increases his chance of winning his Senate seat from 60 percent to even only 65 percen...

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The Longmire books are outstanding. What are those? Longmire's a sheriff in Wyoming. Recently widowed and best friends with a Native American who helps him solve crimes. Suspenseful and hilarious. There's a TV show based on the novels as well. Like, 6 or 7 seasons of a show which is quite good. The...

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