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@BreakingNews
I'm going to enjoy watching McCarthy trying to get anything done with that slim margin.

" A wheelbarrow full of frogs"
-- John Boehner

@Render
I think Being in Florida is already a bad idea.
(sorry @killagator )

@princesscarolyn
"I used her and she used me and neither one cared." - Bob Seger

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@Render
I'm reminded of the time I was struggling to open a bag of potato chips and punched myself in the nose.

@Museek
"Problem Definition" is something I'm spending a lot of time working on with some really smart people (i.e. NASA, Army & DOI execs).
Surprising how hard it is.
We do need to respect that we often don't understand the problem and we should before we offer solutions or opinions.

I think talking more about the problem is a better place for common ground than arguing about solutions.

@Alt_Human
It also gives Manchin the opportunity to vote against the Dems and use it to get re-elected in deep-red West Virginia.

Manchin is more of a gift to the Dems than a pariah. He shouldn't be getting re-elected, but he does.

@Render
Now Poland can also start executing subversive missions deep into Russia.

Maybe we'll start seeing more train bridges mysteriously going out of commission?

@Museek
I was thinking about the emotional impact that lingers from being isolated from friends for a year. It's like all the kids went to jail and we're expecting everything to be OK with them now that they are back in school.
When they are adults they are still going to feel the impact of COVID.
I really feel for those kids that didn't have a high school prom and graduation ceremony. In our culture, those are "sacred" events enabling transitions to adulthood.

@Museek
It is especially important since the COVID experience.
I doubt that, since the Spanish Flu pandemic, has humanity's children been collectively, emotionally impacted.
Childhood is hard enough in 2022. But, that period stressed everyone beyond many people's capacities.

And it still is.

@Museek
If by "child" you mean "under-20", then Yes. She was not close, but her death had consequences to my family.

Sunday morning
Finally resting.
Funeral was on Friday.
My wife's Family flew in.
Mine didn't.
I did her eulogy.
Didn't expect to get choked up.
She was my mother in law.
She did not like me until her final weeks.

I organized the entire service and reception.
I got the Zoom conference set up for the 15 remote people who could not attend.
I set up the reception hall with rented tables and orchid decorations.

My brothers-in-law never said thank you.

David Brin's blog post covering how we might force Russian citizens to recognize the Ukraine attrocities and why Peter Thiel is (mostly always) wrong about progress:
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/11

Boebert seems to be going down.
Please proceed to add in your latest pun.

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