The Swamp

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Yes, it will look the same, because Election Day and early in-person votes will be counted first, and mail-in votes will take longer. Probably not as long as in November because there are fewer mail-in votes, but more than a day for sure. I would look out for whether Election Day turnout, which we'...

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Giff wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:30 am I mean, isn't that what got OJ?

Yup. Armed robbery and kidnapping.

Prosecutors said Simpson's ownership of the memorabilia was irrelevant; it was still a crime to try to take things by force.

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It's illegal. But, and once again, laws are only words on a piece of paper. If no one will obey them or enforce them, they are meaningless. In all honesty, I don’t see how anyone could prosecute that without evidence that Trump knew the stuff he was saying is false. In the words used on the call, T...

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I mean, if I rob a bank, I can say that the bank got that money by defrauding poor people. I might be right, but that doesn't make me less guilty of robbing the bank. Yes but the statutes that criminalize bank robbery don’t require knowledge or willfulness on your part or rely on your saying or doi...

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I think the evidence that he's lying is when he says he needs the 11,780 votes. That implies that he knows he lost by that much. Everything else is just "my dog ate it". Well, yeah. We all know the *officially reported* figures say that Trump lost by that number. But those figures are fra...

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"I just want to find 11,780 votes" when the margin is 11,779 sure doesn't sound like simply asking for a correction. Right, but he said that in the context of all the other statements about how he won by hundreds of thousands of votes and how there were so many fraudulent Biden votes from...

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It's illegal. But, and once again, laws are only words on a piece of paper. If no one will obey them or enforce them, they are meaningless. In all honesty, I don’t see how anyone could prosecute that without evidence that Trump knew the stuff he was saying is false. In the words used on the call, T...

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Happy new year all. Trying to figure out where to grab takeout tonight (might end breaking with the family choice and get some tacos) and what movie(s) to watch with the kids. We always do an appetizer night. So cheese tray, veggie tray, poor mans charcuterie (pepperoni and salami), buffalo chicken...

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I just finished Season 2 of After Life. Holy hell what a bleak show. It mixes in just enough comedy to keep you going, but then continually breaks your heart. It's well written and has a lot of great character actors, but man, I wonder what drove Ricky Gervais to make that. Yup. If you're feeling a...

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I think Sosa over Palmeiro because one aspect of the Hall of Fame is the fame part. Hitting 600 homers is a bigger deal than hitting 569 (over 2000+ additional PAs). And hitting 60 homers three times is a bigger deal than never hitting 50 even if Palmeiro was a slightly better hitter overall. Sosa w...

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BSF21 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:37 am So RE: rass' post. My buddy's girlfriend had her cat converter hacked out of her car last night.

JFC.

I guess since no one carries cash anymore, and electronics are too cheap to be worth stealing, criminals have to be more creative?

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Kicking myself for missing my chance to post this ...

That song came up on my playlist yesterday too.

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TB, have you looked into the state laws and regulations dealing with car sales? I think something like "has a replacement engine that they didn't disclose" might be something explicitly covered by a lemon law. If not, I think you'd have a good claim to rescind the contract. Even if they di...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:27 pm

You know the Professor was getting after that...

Probably my first celebrity crush. Damn.

But man did I get squicked out yesterday to learn she was my mom's age.

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Am I going to have to look up who Hilaria Baldwin is?

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Did he even have a near-death conversion like Christie did? Or was he a reality-denying murderous asshole to the end?

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Eric the Car Guy with a really simple fix. Use a hose clamp to tie it back on! Might not know where it goes since it's completely off, assuming the part you picked up fell off of your car. It does seem like a catalytic convert shield after watching this video. I love watching Youtube videos and fix...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:41 pm Gus is such a good looking boy!

And my son the car expert (ish) says that the part looks like a catalytic converter heat shield.

Yup on both accounts.

That piece looks a lot older than what I'd expect to see on a 2013 ... but maybe I've just forgotten how cars age back east.

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My car is a 2013 model and like your mom I’ve driven it hard, so when I heard a bit of a rattle after dropping my kid off at track this afternoon I worried about it for about as long as it took to turn the radio down and verify the noise was originating from my car. A couple of hours later when I w...

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My car is a 2013 model and like your mom I’ve driven it hard, so when I heard a bit of a rattle after dropping my kid off at track this afternoon I worried about it for about as long as it took to turn the radio down and verify the noise was originating from my car. A couple of hours later when I w...

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Padres have signed Ha-Seong Kim and are close to signing Yu Darvish. Going all in. Yup. The Cubs and Padres finalized their trade. The Cubs have thrown in the towel for 2021-22. They were reporting on MLB Network the fact the Cubs invested so much in the area around the park (hotel, the rooftops, e...

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Did you guys know V8 is good? Had no idea. Gotta go with the spicy V8. I go through phases of drinking it. Mostly, see it at BJs and think a case is a good idea. By the time I get through the case, I'm over it for another 3 years. I used to crave tomato juice on airplanes and think it's an odd choi...

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degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:30 pm Padres have signed Ha-Seong Kim and are close to signing Yu Darvish. Going all in.

Yup. The Cubs and Padres finalized their trade. The Cubs have thrown in the towel for 2021-22.

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So...does anyone know how the short-range radio standard, Bluetooth , got both its name and its symbol? King Harald Bluetooth Gormsson, ruled the Norse and Denmark and introduced Christianity to them. The Norse runes, for H and B superimposed upon one another (known in the Viking culture as a bind-...

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Fuck.

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Merry Christmas, All. We’re watching it now ... yes Mary was stunning hot especially after the graduation party ... but it just dawned on me that she killed Peter Bailey. She makes her wish and throws the rock at the old house. Her wish is to marry George. Ten minutes later, Peter is dead and George...

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Those pardons of Trump’s co-conspirators don’t bother me too much. We knew they were coming, and now those assholes can be compelled to testify.

But the pardons of those Blackwater war criminals are egregious. Literally, the logic behind those is “Arabs aren’t people.”

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Last night I heard a father of a girl in my son's class died of COVID. Feeling horrible for the kids. Father was in the hospital for 2 weeks, and their mother has been in and out of a mental institution for years. 14. 16 and 19 or 20 yo girls, the oldest is autistic. Then this morning I heard a wei...

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“Now”

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:47 pm

What's the angle here? He can't be growing a conscious with less than a month left. Is he just bullshitting?

He wants the adulation. Plus his name on the checks I’m sure.

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:18 pm
Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:14 pm "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Sad that I only know that as a Simpson's reference... That was half of my arts, literature and film knowledge in high school.

It's also a line in a Dylan song.

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Damn that's some cute dogginess. I am so glad we adopted a pre-trained adult dog. Not only would I suck at putting in the time to train a dog properly, but no way could I discipline something that cute. I would only consider getting an adult or adolescent but trained dog at this point. My wife has ...

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Our democracy is basically in a prevent defense, hoping to run out the clock until January 20.

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Damn that's some cute dogginess.

I am so glad we adopted a pre-trained adult dog. Not only would I suck at putting in the time to train a dog properly, but no way could I discipline something that cute.

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Good lord, when Pat Robertson is the voice of reason, we are so far around the bend.

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Anyway ...

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Yeah, I don't think I'm all that comfortable with the attention that story is getting. It sounds like she is somewhat delusional, and we are getting our jollies by laughing at her.

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tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:49 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:58 pm So, Rudy Gobert sure got a big contract ...
He did indeed. I guess they had to and what not, but, yeah, big contract.

I had figured that their signing Derrick Favors, plus rumors of discord between Gobert and Mitchell, meant that they were not going to sign Gobert.

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wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:01 pm Kyle Beckerman retires. Solid career. Amazed he played longer than his dreads .

Damn.

I mean, sure, it was time. But he's been my daughter's favorite forever.

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