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by River
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:03 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

WEF = World Economic Forum. The Davos crowd. Not that that helps make any sense of Moreno's campaign pitch.
by River
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Four years ago today I was basically sheltering in place because of a rampant virus. Today I am basically sheltering in place because there's over a foot of snow on the ground. The latter will get plowed within the next 24 hours and either melt or sublimate off in the coming days. The former is stil...
by River
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
Replies: 269
Views: 26499

Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia

Has anyone checked to see if Bradley's got some sort of vendetta with either Willis or Wade? Or if he was expecting some sort of pay off for all this? I saw something in a reddit thread about Bradley leaving Wade's firm after a sexual assault accusation. I spotted something confirmatory in the local...
by River
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

I think she needs to step back from national politics and spend some time with her family. Don't mean that to be snarky either. The Boebert household needs tending to.
by River
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
Replies: 269
Views: 26499

Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia

Interesting that I Fleishman is now less bullish about Willis being disqualified than I am. My feeling is that Bradley's testimony and his text messages to Merchant are not by themselves sufficient to prove that Willis and Wade lied about when the affair began (and whether Wade spent the night at W...
by River
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
Replies: 269
Views: 26499

Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia

How precise and accurate is the cell data? Like, does it really put him in her home or just in her neighborhood and the rest is people making assumptions? Asking because there was a murder case around here recently in which the suspects were identified using cell phone tower data. However, because t...
by River
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:47 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
Replies: 269
Views: 26499

Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia

I was a little surprised about the cash and then I thought "Of course." Regarding when the romantic relationship started, I am suspecting that they were acting real friendly towards each other before they decided they were officially an item. In other words, people around them suspected th...
by River
Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Replies: 991
Views: 90606

Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

I read last night that the Speaker doesn't want to vote on it because there are no border security measures. Except he didn't want to vote on those either. His dishonesty is tiresome.
by River
Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:38 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Although it drifts even further off topic, I just can't resist noting a new report that Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia. That is in fact something I caught that J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia contributor doing (although most of that long encyclopedia entry lifted instead from Humphrey Carpenter). Jus...
by River
Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: World News Thread
Replies: 766
Views: 177937

Re: World News Thread

Iran has been increasing security on its borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan as a result. This could get interesting.
by River
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:32 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Rep. Lauren Boebert, the handsy Republican of Colorado, has announced that she instead of running for reelection in her state's 3rd Congressional district, which she won by only 546 votes in 2022, she's running to represent the 4th Congressional district. ("Boebert doesn’t have to live in the ...
by River
Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Replies: 1945
Views: 243045

Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)

Was it organic, raised outdoors, and sung to as it died or something? Or is he including some fancy single-malt he bought with the turkey? Kinda like the guy who complained about the price of his airport lunch...that included a glass of single-malt whiskey.
by River
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:30 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
Replies: 1064
Views: 95320

Re: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes

I guess the difference between owning a mistake and trying to lie your way out of a problem of your own making is too subtle for some to appreciate. I wonder how many of the people buying into Trump's schtick on this one also make a habit of trying to shift/evade responsibility for their own decisio...
by River
Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:36 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
Replies: 303
Views: 21815

Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel

I am not a fan of Netanyahu and what he's turned Israel into in his desperate quest to cling to power and avoid jail. That said, the more I look at Hamas, the less I understand how anyone with a firing synapse could possibly sympathize with this particular organization. With Palestinian people, yes,...
by River
Tue Nov 07, 2023 6:50 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Myers-Briggs, redux
Replies: 170
Views: 126888

Re: Myers-Briggs, redux

So when you first mentioned it I was intimidated but then, watching the video, I've decided it looks like tons of fun and a great exercise in spatial reasoning. Which I happen to be good at (even by the standards of my peers). As for the quiz itself, eh. I can force myself into pretty much any type ...
by River
Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
Replies: 303
Views: 21815

Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel

The Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip includes sea access. Israel maintains the current naval blockade that has been in place since Hamas took power over Gaza and the blockade is supported by the Palestinian Authority ( source , the bit about the PA was news to me). The ICRC considers ...
by River
Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:03 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Replies: 1945
Views: 243045

Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)

To be fair, it would be suicidal for the new Speaker of the House to make any move that looked like he was interfering with Comer et al's passion project.
by River
Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:49 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Replies: 991
Views: 90606

Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

And Turkey is finally in the process of approving Sweden's NATO membership (which came about as a result of Russian's invasion). Seeing as invading Ukraine utterly failed to stop NATO expansion, maybe Russia can just stop already? :P NATO controls the Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, and North Sea. NATO a...
by River
Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 888
Views: 64252

Re: The much too early 2024 election thread

Yes, it did have the flavor of "I was at a shawarma shop eating hummus, and overhead a group of liberal naturalized Arab Americans..." Like they used to publish about mythical inner city, or university town, Starbucks where apparent liberals proclaimed their love of Trump. And then, when ...
by River
Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:28 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
Replies: 303
Views: 21815

Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel

You're being careful about claims and I'm still stuck at the babies... Again, what is Hamas's end game here? This looks like an organizational version of suicide-by-cop. And all these civilians are being taken along for the ride.