This is my nightmare.
Posts made by Quirt Evans
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Only in Ohio
"Everyone’s Talking About Ohio. It Has Nothing to Do With Ohio."
"The Buckeye state is now stand-in slang for anything weird, cringey or random"
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ohio-slang-meme-gen-alpha-8c69a9e6?mod=e2tw
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RE: Peggy Noonan's Take
The problem, as I see it, is that the middle of the country is slightly (or maybe a little more than slightly) right of center, based on the definitions that were used when we were younger. For Democrats to win on a national level, they need a candidate with exceptional qualities, like Obama or Bill Clinton, who can pull a coalition together.
Or they need Republicans to nominate someone so awful, so utterly lacking in moral character, that even LIZ CHENEY can't stomach him.
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Peggy Noonan's Take
"Kamala Harris’s speech was fine, and delivered with assurance. I prefer “Ask not what your country can do for you” to “Never do anything half-assed,” but tastes vary."
"There is a small but persistent cloud that follows her, which can be distilled down to the idea that she was swiftly and mysteriously elevated to her current position, that we don’t know everything about how that happened, and that people aren’t fully comfortable with it. I don’t think she succeeded in lightening or removing the cloud.
"The convention itself was a great success, with some sharp and memorable moments. The crowd chanting a full-throated “Bring them home” when Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg made an eloquent, pitch-perfect appeal for the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, including their son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23. Seventeen-year-old Gus Walz crying, pointing at his father at the podium, and saying, “That’s my dad” was another. The fabulously human and hokey roll call of the states—unexpectedly, my eyes filled as they played “Born in the U.S.A.” and Gov. Phil Murphy spoke one of New Jersey’s unofficial anthems: “We’re from Jersey, baby, and you’re not.”
"The convention’s overall impression was summed up by a relative who, watching on the second night, observed: “This is what they’re saying: ‘We’re a grand coalition, we’re more of a vibe than a party, and we’re not him.’ Plenty of people will want to join that.”"
"This week she appeared before some smallish crowds and gatherings, holding a mic, walking along a stage, and speaking publicly in a way that might have been planned but wasn’t scripted. And here you saw her limit as a public figure: Unscripted, she’s word-saying. She isn’t having a thought and looking for the right words to express it, she’s saying words and hoping they’ll amount to a thought. She isn’t someone who never had a thought. She seems more like someone who has learned to question whether her thoughts should be expressed.
"She’ll have to get over that. She just did a pretty good job of talking to America. Now she’ll have to do it every day."
"Trump supporters have too much invested in what a disaster Ms. Harris’s campaign was in 2019, and it was. They expect a repetition. But five years ago she was a lone rider out there on her own. This time she’s vice president, with a wholly committed party behind her and a deep bench of expertise. Trump people assume she’ll have a series of gaffes, and they’ll just have to say, “See?” They think in the Sept. 10 debate he’ll walk in like the Hulk and squish her like a peanut. I’m not sure this will happen. She’ll show discipline this time.
"Her people will figure out how to finesse the question of giving interviews. Maybe they’ll start with a star-struck and sympathetic local reporter, to build her confidence. Maybe they’ll graduate to a sit-down with a rising network star (old phrase!) who very much wants to be a White House correspondent and tailors his questions accordingly. As for news conferences, maybe there won’t be a big one, or three, but a series of five-minute “impromptu” ones, perhaps near the plane, where reporters won’t get to plan or strategize questions. Maybe the relative regularity of it, and the unofficial character of it—her hair blowing in the wind—will start to give the impression she does a lot of press conferences.
"In any case, her weak points aren’t really what the Trump people think—popping off in arias that go nowhere, fumbling when pressed. Her real weak point is policy. She will be perceived by many voters as farther to the left than they want to go."
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RE: DNC
@ShiroKuro said in DNC:
I just can't read... evidently.
It was ambiguous and, as AdagioM points out, the author could have avoided the ambiguity with better drafting.
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Who Needs Elections?
If you don’t like the way people vote, stage a coup.
https://x.com/js_kaplan/status/1824765450925785377?s=61&t=rpsGA8rCUVVYw60Ig-qNlA
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RE: A plea deal?
Never happen. He will always keep fighting, it’s his nature.
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RE: Rockhouse
Annual taxes less than $4000 on a million dollar house?
Wow.
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RE: Preventing heart disease
I think I have mentioned before, but I have genetic high cholesterol (unmedicated, it's in the 300's). Several years ago, my lipidologist put me on an injectable med called Repatha. It's an every two week shot you self-administer (kind of like an EpiPen).
That, in combination with a low dose statin, has my total cholesterol in the 90's, and my LDL at 21.
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RE: Neffy, an EpiPen alternative
@wtg said in Neffy, an EpiPen alternative:
Neffy’s shelf life is longer: 30 months, compared with about 18 months for autoinjectors.
There will be doctors.
My allergists have never allowed an EpiPen that is older than 12 months (which I think is generally the expiration date on the box), and they subtly encourage you to get a new EpiPen every six months.
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RE: Vice President
I know that Kelly isn’t as charismatic as some of the others. But he has a lot of the right measurables that will make people comfortable. Military background, wife is Gabby Giffords. Yeah, he’s a straight white dude, but a large percentage of the country is straight white dudes … probably a higher percentage than anything other than straight white women. A black Southeast Asian woman is on top of the ticket. Let’s get her elected and do whatever we need to do to make that happen.
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RE: Holy shit, he did it.
This needed to happen. The car was headed off the cliff.
I don’t know if she can win or not. But she has a chance. And, if she doesn’t win, the Democratic Party gets a chance to move on. Assuming we ever have another free and fair election.
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RE: Trying to figure out the gas oven....
I really like convection. It speeds up the cooking process. But I know it’s not supposed to be good for baking.
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RE: Blitz Primary!
I winced every time he got a name or a title wrong.
I thought the "Trump is on the golf course filling in his scorecard before he hits the ball" line was a good zinger, and it'll land with the audience of one.
He had a pretty impressive grasp of facts and foreign policy. And he's at his best when he's being human, making jokes or relating to people. Maybe that's why foreign leaders are supportive of him. But he also did a lot of verbal stumbling, and he seems old. He's not going to get younger over the next four-and-a-half years. Decline is progressive. The man he was four years ago is not the man he is today, and the man he is today will not be the man he is four years from now.
Still far, far better than Trump. Trump couldn't hope to hold in his head (and wouldn't try) all the facts and details that Joe rattled off last night.
But Trump also covers better for his dementia. He has a version the "for a variety of reasons" ducking and bobbing that a former boss of mine employed when he was on the ropes down pat. And almost all of his voters seem not to care when he babbles nonsense about batteries and sharks, or U.S. airports, or the danger to tourists who visit D.C.
People want to say that the press holds him to a lower standard, but really it's the public. If the press harps on Trump's gaffes, most of their readers yawn. They're giving readers what they want to read, and for some reason they want to read about how Joe seems really old and in decline.
I don't see how Biden wins, and, if he wins, I don't see how he serves four years. Even so, miles better than Trump. But I think we need to switch horses.
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RE: Have You Ever Gone Nose-to-Nose With a Deer?
@wtg he’s on a preventative and supposed to get the Lyme disease vaccine … which, for reasons that are not clear, has only been developed for dogs and not for humans.
I asked my vet why once, and he said there wasn’t enough money in it.
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Have You Ever Gone Nose-to-Nose With a Deer?
Phil has.
Walking down the street early this morning, we saw a deer in a yard behind a waist-high fence. The deer looked at us. We looked at the deer. I took my phone out and took a couple of pictures.
And then the deer ambled over to us. It reached down and almost touched noses with Phil. A micro-second later, it biunded about ten feet away and then stopped to stare at us again.
Only a few blocks from the downtown area.
I have a pic of the deer but I cannot figure out how to post it … it told me the upload was too big. Wtg will no doubt show me the error of my ways.
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RE: My experience w local piano movers
One additional detail to Mary Anna’s story.
In the midst of the kerfuffle, before it was confirmed that the piano disassemblers were coming, one of the guys headed into our bedroom.
“What’re you doing?” I asked.
“Taking the bed.”
“No, you’re not.”
“Why not?!?”
“If the piano/exercise equipment people don’t come, I have to sleep here tonight. If I sleep here, I’m sleeping in that bed. So, until those people show up, the bed stays.”
“Can’t you sleep in a different bed?”
“Nope.”
That was when the intensity of the phone calls to arrange the disassemblers seemed to increase.