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[AndyinPA]

Not quite sure where to put this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... -rcna16811

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-Minn., died Thursday night at age 59, his wife said in a Facebook post. He had been battling kidney cancer.

"While nothing can accurately prepare you for the unimaginable pain, intense sorrow, suffocating grief and seemingly never-ending emptiness that engulfs the entire body, soul and spirit when your forever love passes away; at least we can smile knowing Jim is smiling from heaven encouraging us to keep chasing our dreams, loving unconditionally and fighting for the country," Jennifer Carnahan said Friday.

She also said that her husband "loved our country and loved representing the people of southern Minnesota."

"Every moment of every day he lived his dream by serving others. There was no stronger conservative in our state than my husband; and it showed in how he voted, led and fought for our country," Carnahan added.

The congressman tested positive for Covid-19 in January. He said he had been vaccinated and was experiencing mild symptoms. His wife didn't say what caused his death.

[raison de arizona]

The covid probably didn't help, but the cancer reportedly reappeared last summer.

Anyway. Here is where I am at. I'm functioning. Barely.


Bonus Texas sink:

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Also- what is Vindman saying?

Colonel Vindman is scaring the shit out of me.

I heard him on @PoliticsGirl podcast and he scared me too

[raison de arizona]

[AndyinPA]

White power.

It wasn't really that tough to figure out.

[Lani]

So here's something different. Has anyone used postmark, mercari, etc. to sell clothing?

I'm thinning out my closet as I get ready to move and retire. Local resale stores basically sell WalMart and Macy's stuff. I have better brands like Lafayette 148 NY, Rebecca Taylor & DVF. Some still have tags b/c when I was sick in 3/2020, I suddenly lost weight. From 120 lbs to 104. I haven't been able to put much back. So I might as well sell them and add the bucks to my retirement account. And buy smaller clothing....

I'm already using craigslist to sell off household thingees I won't take with me.

Moving sucks. But my kid and I will be happy to live nearby. It's been very difficult to be so far apart.

[mojosapien]

I report back for Pi Day 3/14. Large civil case SORI vs. The Opioids

[raison de arizona]

So here's something different. Has anyone used postmark, mercari, etc. to sell clothing?

I'm thinning out my closet as I get ready to move and retire. Local resale stores basically sell WalMart and Macy's stuff. I have better brands like Lafayette 148 NY, Rebecca Taylor & DVF. Some still have tags b/c when I was sick in 3/2020, I suddenly lost weight. From 120 lbs to 104. I haven't been able to put much back. So I might as well sell them and add the bucks to my retirement account. And buy smaller clothing....

I'm already using craigslist to sell off household thingees I won't take with me.

Moving sucks. But my kid and I will be happy to live nearby. It's been very difficult to be so far apart.

The wife did postmark once, I want to say that they didn’t want most of her stuff and the stuff they did she hardly made any money on. I’ll ask her for details when she wakes up. My recollection though is that she had a much better experience with a local consignment shop.

Also, congrats on moving closer to family, that is always nice. Even though moving sucks.

Also, I saw this and it gave me a giggle.

[Lani]

I gave a lot to charities here, especially to the Alzheimer's Association. But it would be nice to increase funding for my retirement. I'm interested to hear from your partner.

I've been downsizing for awhile, but now it's serious. I'm planning to move to Honolulu within a few months.

When I was so ill in March 2020, my son was terrified. He tried to fly to my island, but he would have been quarantined for 2 weeks before he could help me and 2 weeks after returning to Oahu.

The good thing about covid is that we realize what is important for us.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Fogbow needs a merch store. We could plagiarize in the proper trumpian style and sell a gazillion of those manufactured as yard signs or gold embossed framed signs to hang on your door. Then our devious engineers can develop sensing equipment to create black hole traps a la Bugs Bunny for those undeterred by the signs.

The sign needs to add, "If you are selling something, preaching, witnessing or carrying religious material of any kind get off my lawn.

[MsDaisy]

The wife did postmark once, I want to say that they didn’t want most of her stuff and the stuff they did she hardly made any money on. I’ll ask her for details when she wakes up. My recollection though is that she had a much better experience with a local consignment shop.

Also, congrats on moving closer to family, that is always nice. Even though moving sucks.

Also, I saw this and it gave me a giggle.

[raison de arizona]

She didn't do poshmark or mercari as it turns out, she did thredup. Which she says is similar. She sent a big bag of clothes in, good stuff, and out of the whole bag they only picked out one skirt and "donated" the rest. She questions the whole donations thing because she read something about scrap dealers and resellers and I dunno, something to look into I guess. The one skirt netted her $12, but due to various snafus, she has never seen the money. Although, now reminded, she is composing a strongly worded email.

So she decided that was for the birds and the next time she took her big bag to a local consignment shop. They went through the clothes together with her, so she knew why they picked what they picked and why they passed on what the passed on. They took about half the bag, a couple months later the wife picked up a check for $134.

[Volkonski]

Chaplain C, Memento Mori
@TheRealRhllor
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2h
Waiting to compassionately extubate a COVID patient until their 7 year old could read them one last bedtime story so, "Daddy can sleep and not be scared."

This is the normal now. Endless death and suffering. Is it urgent enough for you?

[Phoenix520]

Lani, eBay.

[Lani]

Lani, eBay.

Well, I did just sell a Johnny Was dress on ebay! So, yeah, that seems to work.

[Uninformed]

“The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60387324

“The Zoom call had about 40 people on it - or that's what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company's newest recruits. Its name was Madbird and its dynamic and inspirational boss, Ali Ayad, wanted everyone on the call to be ambitious hustlers - just like him.
But what those who had turned on their cameras didn't know was that some of the others in the meeting weren't real people. Yes, they were listed as participants. Some even had active email accounts and LinkedIn profiles. But their names were made up and their headshots belonged to other people.
The whole thing was fake - the real employees had been "jobfished". The BBC has spent a year investigating what happened.”

Being unkind, I don’t think I would want to employ anyone that desperate/naive.

[bill_g]

Today is Monday the 21st. Tomorrow is Twosday the 22nd. 2/22/22

[RTH10260]

Dang - another long wait until the church bells strike 22:22 hours

[AndyinPA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine ... p_magazine

Yet in January 2021, after more than 40 albums, the Steps announced that they “simply weren’t built to survive going a year or more without live performances” during the pandemic. That got me thinking about the Steps’ unlikely origins and their considerable success, and about how growing political polarization made their middle-of-the-road approach to comedy harder to sustain — especially in the Trump era.

Political humor had changed. It was less lighthearted, more snarky and sarcastic. Washington had changed, no longer a place where Democrats and Republicans would rib one another without too many hurt feelings. Moreover, America had changed, probably forever.

I can't remember if I knew if they had retired or not, but I'm sorry to hear it. I saw them in person a couple of times, once in Washington DC and once here with them on the road. There was a noticeable difference. In the late 90s in DC, it was hilarious, equal-opportunity comedy that everyone seemed to enjoy. It was maybe 10-15 years later when I saw them here. Politics had continued to become ever more divisive, and much of the comedy fell a little flat. And it seemed to be the "conservatives" who had lost their sense of humor. Some of their stuff was probably not PC by today's standards, but on the radio or in person, they rarely failed to hit the nail on the head.

[roadscholar]

Tomorrow's 02/22/2022. And it's a TUEsday!

[raison de arizona]

[RVInit]

That is impressive.

[neonzx]

https://twitter.com/ava/status/1495929134685765632?s=21

That is impressive.

I could do that ...

[MN-Skeptic]

Happy Twos-Day!

2/22/22

[Volkonski]

Beekeepers turn to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise

https://apnews.com/article/technology-h ... _medium=AP

For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state’s most valuable crop.

But as almond trees start to bloom, blanketing entire valleys in white and pink flowers, so begin beehive thefts that have become so prevalent that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to protect their precious colonies.

Hive thefts have been reported elsewhere in the country, most recently three hives containing about 60,000 bees taken from a grocery chain’s garden in central Pennsylvania. They happen at a larger scale and uniquely in California this time of year because bees are most in demand during the largest pollination event in the world.

In the past few weeks, 1,036 beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were reported stolen from orchards statewide, authorities said. The largest heist involved 384 beehives that were taken from a field in Mendocino County, prompting the state beekeepers association to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to their recovery.

[RVInit]