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Post by epaul on Mar 17, 2024 11:15:53 GMT -5
I like to drop a couple soft-boiled eggs into my oatmeal. It's a complete meal deal, and a winter mainstay.
(another option is oatmeal sprinkled with a healthy dose of cinnamon.)
Morning!
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 17:04:38 GMT -5
Sometimes elections get lost in the mountains or get stuck in the snow, then they need to be rescued. As elections don't often go hiking or drive cars, the term is usually a confusing metaphor. But, sometimes they really do. Anyway, once they are rescued, however so they are, they are then referred to "a rescued election".
We have had seven rescued elections. Four were metaphors, three needed a tow truck, and one a helicopter. Wait, that's eight rescued elections.
Montana once lost an election during the great November blizzard of 1883. And Iowa misplaced one in 1903 for reasons no one ever understood, just carelessness, I guess. Those were "un-rescued elections". Fortunately, the un-rescued ones are quite rare.
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 14:37:14 GMT -5
Wisconsin upsets Purdue in the Big 10 tournament 76-75 in OT!
(a drive to bucket in the face of the big guy with 4 seconds on the clock was the winner)
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 13:27:14 GMT -5
Happy Birthday! For the man who has everything... except a 67 Ford pickup!
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 13:08:37 GMT -5
All those Republicans voting twice makes up the difference, and more.
(I found the proof of those extra votes on youtube, proof every Secretary of State, of every single state regardless of party, missed... missed despite checking the numbers twice, recounting twice, and then recounting the recount. Sloppy buggers. They should have just gone to youtube. )
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 13:02:20 GMT -5
Sunny day.
I went to the section finals last night. Glad I rousted myself out. Great game, marvelous athletes... dunks, alley oops, great passes, 3pt bombs. The skill level just keeps increasing. When I was in school, only the rare 6' 6" guy would do a simple, two-hand dunk while standing under the basket, now 5' 10" kids (if you can still find one that short) come flying down the lane doing wheelhouse slams.
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Post by epaul on Mar 16, 2024 12:11:49 GMT -5
There is no rational reason to hold that the only way Biden could have gotten more votes than Obama was due to a fraudulent stolen election. An increase in the voting population of 37 million rationally accounts for the fact that there were more votes cast in 2020 than there were in 2008. Well, that plus a record high turnout of 66.7%... and a whole bunch of Republicans voting twice. (hey, they get to make up shit. I got as much proof as they do)
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Post by epaul on Mar 15, 2024 13:11:40 GMT -5
I have no problem letting my wife lead and I depend on her to figure out what's going on. I love it that way. Frees my mind up for the really important stuff, like which comic book to read before naptime.
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Post by epaul on Mar 15, 2024 10:58:49 GMT -5
Morning.
After musical practice I think I'm going to head over to TR and watch the Region 8 BB finals. My team is out, but I got to see the two finalists play the other night and both are really good and really different. The matchup is intriguing and it should be a fun game.
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Post by epaul on Mar 14, 2024 23:24:10 GMT -5
I was looking at the 2020 popular vote results as they have been compared to the 2016 results.
Typically, the comparison is focused on Biden, as in "Joe Biden got 15 million more votes in 2020 than Hillary did in 2016, how can this be unless Democratic operatives were padding his vote total dishonestly".
Well, when I took a look at Trump's vote totals from the same 2016 election, I noted that Trump got 11 million more votes in 2020 than Trump himself got in 2016. That's a crazy huge jump in votes as well. And Trump's jump over his 2016 Self is even more puzzling, if you are wont to puzzle, than Biden's jump over Hillary!
If there there were to be a contest for the most unpopular female politician ever in the history of the universe, Hillary would be the odds on favorite to win. Is it such a great surprise then that twinkle-eyed, likeable Joe Biden would be able to get 15 million more votes than Hillary, Queen of the Shrews!
But, how did Trump manage to get 11 million more votes in 2020 than he garnered in 2016. He is the same guy. He is being compared to himself. Granted, 11 million isn't the same as 15 million, but it is close and it is a hell of lot. Where did all those crazy 11 million more Trump votes than a short four years ago come from?
And Trump can't play the Hillary card.
Where did those crazy 11 million extra Trump votes come from?
Expert analysis suggests only two possibilities:
1) There were more people voting.
2) The bastard was cheating.
We can discount the first one, more people voting, as that has already been discounted as a factor accounting for Biden's stash. That leaves cheating. There is no honest way Trump could have picked up 11 million more votes in four short years, YET HE DID!
Biden, at least, can point to his huge gain over Hillary by saying, "Hey, it was Hillary. It wasn't that tough". But, Trump has no Hillary to explain away the huge margin of votes he racked up. He can't say, "Hey, the only reason I got so crazy many more votes in 2020 was because the guy in 2016 was a real asshole".
Biden got the most votes in history in 2020. Trump got the second most votes in history in that same 2020 election. Both smashed the old record. (and both both beat the impossible to beat Obama totals)
Where did all those record smashing votes come from? Where?
Were both candidates cooking the books? Or were there simply more people voting in 2020 than ever before? Whichever one you go with, the same tail has to be tied to both record breakers, Trump and Biden. Unless your brains have been replaced by a "GO TEAM!" bumper sticker.
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Post by epaul on Mar 14, 2024 22:20:53 GMT -5
Don't worry Democrats. Biden won by fraud and cheat the first time, he will win by fraud and cheat again. What hallucinogen are you adding to your Wheaties. Hey, I was just translating, without the fuzz, what Millring said... and has said often. John maintains the election was cooked, that Biden's vote total was padded, augmented, crookedly tilted in the Democrats favor. He has maintained this repeatedly, in this thread and others. In the section quoted below, as clear as bell, what John, translated, said was, "Don't worry Democrats, the same forces that conspired to steal the last election for you by padding Biden's vote total will do so again". His words are smoother than my translation, but the meaning is the same and my translation is dead on. Read the original wording below ... It's Democrats here who fear Trump's chances, not me. And I'm saying they have nothing to fear. They DON'T believe there was anything wrong with the 2020 count. The numbers favor them. The very guy who got all those votes is still the candidate. He should easily win again.
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Post by epaul on Mar 14, 2024 9:29:51 GMT -5
Warren lost last night. But, it was a pretty good run for a team that was middle of the pack all year. I think I will head up to watch the finals, East sub-section vs. the West (we're the West). Fertile (West) has good size and a couple really smooth guards. Red Lake Reservation (East) is loaded with a stream of really quick run and gunners and typically hit the mid-90s. It will be lively game. The Rez will fill half the arena and they light it up.
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Post by epaul on Mar 14, 2024 9:19:21 GMT -5
Todd, we didn't know. But, now we do. And last night we voted to cut your fine for missing practice on the 10th by $5. We want you to know the Duck Band is in your corner.
(and get well by our practice on the 29th, I don't know if we can swing you the same deal twice.)
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 16:46:00 GMT -5
Don't worry Democrats. Biden won by fraud and cheat the first time, he will win by fraud and cheat again.
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 16:21:14 GMT -5
Coach, the only reason Millring is saying Biden is the most popularly elected president in history is because, as he has repeatedly claimed and believes, the only way Biden could be in that "top" position is because the election was stolen and all those Biden votes are tainted by fraud. That is a faith-based claim, a faith-based belief.
I don't think that is what you meant to "like".
There is no rational reason to hold that the only way Biden could have gotten more votes than Obama was due to a fraudulent stolen election. An increase in the voting population of 37 million rationally accounts for the fact that there were more votes cast in 2020 than there were in 2008.
But, Millring is deep in the stolen election conspiracy and is party to the screwy twists, fictions, and desperate distortions and maneuverings that fuel that damaging nonsense.
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 15:54:32 GMT -5
I suspect that you read what you thought I wrote instead of what I wrote, or your sarcasm wasn't in response to my pointing out that Biden is the most popularly elected president in history. Playing cutsie? I read and responded to exactly what you wrote... and baldly inferred (based off a faith-based claim you have made repeatedly on this forum). As Russell would say, Pull the other one...
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 12:47:13 GMT -5
Once the Chevron dust settles, it may well prove to be a measured decision that makes no one happy and effects only minor (and possibly even welcome?) changes. Outside Roe vs Wade, this court hasn't gone off the rails disruptively in its decisions.
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 12:30:48 GMT -5
Biden, Trump, Trump, Biden...
Mark my addled words, come November, the ticket of Robert Kennedy Jr. and Aaron Rodgers will darn tough to pass up.
Finally, a ticket that will address the core issues this country faces, like the faked Moon landing and the Russian infiltration of our medical establishment.
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 11:21:56 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Peter!
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Post by epaul on Mar 13, 2024 10:45:28 GMT -5
Biden got more votes in 2020 than Obama got in 2008. Nothing super-suspiciously strange there. There were 252 million people in this country over the age of 18 in 2020. There were 215 million people in this country over the age of 18 in 2008. That's 37 million more "over 18s" in the 2020 election than there were in the 2008 election. 37 million. 37,000,000. Yet some find it so super-suspiciously strange that Biden got 1 million more votes in 2020 than Obama got in 2008. So super-suspiciously strange that they call fraud and cheat as the only plausible explanation. As if 37 million more voting age people can't possibly account for an increase of 1 million in Biden's vote total over the 08 Obama. That electoral cheat and fraud is the true explanation. Not 37 million more people over the age of 18. But systemic cheat and fraud by "those other people"! That kind of logic is super-suspiciously strange. usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/democracy-and-society/elections/presidential-voting-age-population/(graph interactive. place curser on line to reveal year and total.)
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