In my state you don’t have to register with a party in advance of the primary. You just ask for the ballot you want when you go to vote.

I think part of the problem is also that turnout for primaries is pretty low. Motivated voters show up in force, and they are often at the fringes.

I found this little bit of history about how primaries have evolved over time. It’s a Vox piece that was written in 2016 before DJT got the GOP nomination.

https://www.vox.com/a/presidential-primaries-2016-republican-democrat

@Cindysphinx is right. We need some changes.

@ChatGPT don't quit your day job.... 😄

@ShiroKuro said in Blood pressure cuffs:

we're not the professionals here, so there may be things we don't know to advocate for, or don't know how to.

I have never let this stop me and offer my medical insights and opinions to my doctor on a semi-regular basis. 😄

Fortunately he takes it in stride and manages to find ways to help me correct any erroneous ideas I might have, and to nudge me in the right direction. If I persist, he lets it drop without making a big deal about it. He's a really, really good doctor. Stays on top of things and is always looking out for the best interests of his patients. I think he's a rarity and I'm lucky to have him as my PCP.

We had one of those rock hard gel packs too. They’re unusable. I’m pretty sure that one was from Walmart too. We switched to Ace bandage brand ice gel packs and had good luck with those.

I used to use those packs all the time for migraines. As it happens, switching meds (almost two years ago now) was life-changing for me and I can’t remember the last time I had to lie in a dark room with an ice pack on my head.

/threaddrift

I was pretty sure it would be really good; the combo of salmon and that sauce is a natural.

And I hadn't noticed the feta in the recipe for the sauce but I agree with leaving it out.

I haven’t been to Zion since 1969. I’d like another look for sure!

Mine too. Lol.

I narrowed it down to #2 and #3.

I chose #2 because it seemed minimalist to me in a traditional sense, I liked the land (talk about privacy), and I liked the out buildings, including their arrangement on the property.

@dolmansaxlil yeah, it could work with two, but would not be as much fun.

@Steve-Miller said in Whatcha doin' for Turkey Day?:

@Mik What are your thoughts on Coopers Hawk? They just opened one near us and we want to try it.

Interesting food, not crazy about the wines. One would think since that is their schtick they'd do something special. Last couple times have been for lunch, so iced tea, no wine. Friends brough their Lux sparkler over a few weeks ago. meh. Sweet and uninteresting.

The wines may have gotten better, it's been two or three years since I tried them. Again, the food is good.

I have been on BlueSky for a little while. It's a lot better than Twitter (X). No bots. No trolling (so far). I got on some "starter packs" so my follower count is moving up nicely among the people I really want to talk to .... reporters, economists, and people who study higher education in general.

@Steve-Miller said in How to dismantle the press, Putin master class:

@wtg

It would not be difficult to find 5 liars at Mar a Lago and they think it makes Trump look good.

That's my take.

@CHAS said in Happy Halloween!:

Going to see jazz singer Samara Joy.

I saw her here in Pittsburgh a few months ago. I'm pretty sure you enjoyed the show.

We haven't had trick-or-treaters at our house for a number of years since the children who lived on our little road grew up. We're the last house on a dead end and pickings are slim so no children come around from other neighborhoods anymore.

Big Al

Both are well known (about the residents, and about Texans traveling to NM). It's creating a problem for women in NM who are competing for limited physician time.

A reasonable woman should ask any new (young) OB/GYN if they were trained in a state that prohibited them from learning standard of care. If the answer is in the least bit equivocal (well, I did some reading on my own blah blah), seek care from someone else.

Kennedy is right about some things and wrong about others.

His position on Palestine is bought and paid for.

He went on Jimmy Dore's show (I'm a fan of Jimmy Dore), Jimmy asked him questions about Israel and Palestine. Jimmy showed him deference by not debating him after asking his questions and then Max Blumenthal responded to the interview with an analysis of it that proved Kennedy's ignorance (almost certainly feigned i.m.o.) as clear as day.

He's not in the same league as his father or uncle.

They must be rolling over in their graves.

A thread begging for cheese gags.

That's a Tunworth of cheese.
The thieves'll go crackers finding enough biscuits.

Certain you can all do better 😊

These English muffins look good.

https://www.pantrymama.com/sourdough-english-muffins/

Not a holiday theme, but around this time of year the NYC Transit Museum brings out some of the old train cars and runs them on a short route from a subway station in the lower east side of Manhattan.

Done!

@Steve-Miller said in The Department of Government Efficiency:

I find it amusing that there are two people in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency.

😆😆😆😆

@AdagioM

We own a mobile home together in a well established, very nice, and very well managed mobile home park. Our mobile home is estimated to be worth over $200,000 by Zillow, and even though I think this figure is ridiculous, we bought it five years ago and prices have gone into the stratosphere since the pandemic.

The title is recorded in such a way that we'd both have to agree to a sale or one of us could sue the other, the asset would be held by the court, then sold off with the proceeds being divided between us according to terms decided by the court, in a process that would take a year.

I have no interest in either option.

It's true that his behavior often amounts to what my indomitable late sister once described as a kind of metaphorical predation.

It's just he lacks the intellect that would be required to overcome my instinct for survival and ability to defend myself. He has never been able to beat me in a fight.

The best example of this dynamic is he put my name on the title conjoined with "or." Maybe a year later he just announced that he wanted me to leave meaning move out. I asked him if I could stay. He said yes. He did the same thing a few months later. I ignored him. He did it a third time and I took his name off the title. He, his mother, and his sister panicked. I told him I'd add his name to the title conjoined with "and" and that he would pay the fees involved. That is exactly what happened.

He can do whatever he wants but I will remain adamant about not giving up what I have achieved after the instability and humiliation of being "just a renter" as they used to derisively say in Hawaii, especially given the astronomical cost of rent in this state.

We don't own the land so we.have to pay a pretty much nominal monthly rent. A 2 bedroom apartment would rent for twice the price.

He was the love of my life but became extremely narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled after loosing his last job in Hawaii and then spending the night screaming and crying.

He was still loving then but over a period of weeks he withdrew into his thoughts and feelings to a pathological degree.

The worst part of it is he's much too intelligent to not know that these drugs are weakening his body and shortening his life.