Fogbow

If you drive long distances the auto-stop-start only activates very occasionally so saves negligible fuel (but isn't very annoying). If you drive short city routes with many junctions the auto-stop-start activates more frequently and annoys you (and possibly increases wear on some components). Sound...

:think: Presumably if a non-involved lawyer he believes his interpretation of the law :boxing: to be super-critical and fears it might be missed by everybody in court – oh the injustice! – his correct line of approach is to either (1) just STFU, or, if he cannot restrain his enthusiasm (2) pester th...

Diamonds are cheap to mine. The days of them being difficult to extract and hence ultra-expensive are long, long gone. It's the De Beers cartel that keeps prices artificially high, bullying or buying out anybody selling diamonds at their true value, restricting global supply, and marketing to ensure...

:snippity: From that link and the decision: Mr. Laity did not appear at the hearing, and no testimony was offered under oath verifying the assertions in his filing Shirking his merkun duty. :P :shrug: Whoda guessed that Laity would be an indolent, cojones-free crap-flinger? Wot, everybody? :o

So the view here is that "the only good Republican is a dead Republican"?

Shrouding birthers is newsworthy! :towel: Oh c'mon bob! "Shrouding" implies a deliberate act of not engaging with someone trying to promote an argument. This is simple indifference, nobody cares; insofar as they are noticed at all, the birthers are tossed into the same "are they stil...

Why yes, fuckhead, you can most certainly respond freely to what Ms. Daniels said. Farcical. Katie Phang's comment on Twitter was that Trump has the option to respond to Stormy's narrative, yes, he is free to testify in the trial, those are the rules and that is his right. I'm sorry, my hearing's, ...

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:15 pm This story is a political career killer. It is worse IMHO than puppy/goat executioner.

RFK jr killed a worm!

Being a Trump-supporting lawyer does not immediately suggest a mind that is razor-sharp and business-like, does it?

chancery wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:37 pm "Oxbridge"?

Effin' tacky name.

Perhaps Camford Academy was already taken?

Therein lies one of the sadnesses of American life: perhaps this argument could happen anywhere, and anybody in any country can lose their temper, and some will will progress to violent intentions or actual violence. But because guns are accessible, instead of a fist fight, a complaint to authoritie...

To be honest, I’m surprised more trials don’t end in acquittals. But I don’t think jurors really understand (or care about) reasonable doubt. Not a lawyer, not a juror, not a jurist, but that might well be true. I'm not a complete fuckwit but I'm sure I'd struggle with managing the evidence and arg...

Checks, personal or otherwise: organizations typically allow directors and staff to purchase items or services with personal funds and later be reimbursed by the organization. So a personal payment is not direct evidence of a payment by the company. But but but … if the organization's records show a...

P&E: Speculation Growing over Trump’s VP Pick : On Monday’s “The Benny Show” hosted by Benny Johnson, a donor meeting held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this past weekend might have provided a hint as to who the 45th president and 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee will choo...

p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 4:36 pm Can't wait to see how they try to get around "Grossing up" for "Tax Purposes".

Oh, I think most reasonable people thing Trump is gross!

That's sad. I can't claim to have known Gregg as a flesh-and-blood being but I enjoyed his posts, his explanations, his attitudes, his opinions.

My sympathy to those closer to Gregg whose loss is so much greater.

With regard to Sunday school teaching, Kristi Noem probably misunderstood then diligently implemented Matthew 19:14 (tone of voice: action hero growl): Jesus said: "Suffer, little children!"

Good luck with it Foggy! "Sweet sorrow" seems to be the operative phrase. Even for non-believers, it works well to devise a memorial service that not only works for the living participants (giving them joy, closure, acceptance, snacks, whatever they wish) but also one that you think the ma...

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 3:09 pm He's holding his ear so his brains don't leak out. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I don't know where my brother in Oregon is finding these, but I love them.

These days you can buy an applicator to insert more sawdust into a leaky cranium if you find your IQ dropping.

How or why the Neanderthals and Denisovans disappeared about 40,000 years ago is the subject of speculation. Sadly, I think we were very, very mean to them, to the point where we wiped them from the face of the planet. :blackeye: Indeed. However, that hypothesis is not proven (yet?) and there are o...

With coffee and nothing better to do via ex-mormons I found myself at Baptist News Global. It has a piece by Robert P. Jones Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle . Jones' main point is that political attention is directed mainly at the religious extremes and falls to adequately consid...

keith wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 5:01 am One of my long ago roommates grew up next door to one of the LDS Presidents.

So he had discount codes for the magic underwear?

Interesting views, thanks all. I hadn't considered the English (? I don't know its history) pantomime tradition. Of course dames are cross-dressing and thus (arguably?) drag, but doesn't raise the same doubt in my mind, probably because it is so cartoonish. Probably Barry Humphries too. Anyway, the ...

There's a natural tendency to look at the past where the pews were full and think that the expression of doctrine in services back then was the cause of that. One of the biggest traps in logical thinking is mistaking correlation for causality, so it's pretty natural to think that if you resume Lati...

Is that similar to Barbara Billingsley speaking jive in Airplane..... Still one of my favorite scenes in any movie, and that's all I'm going to say. Those of us without a lifetime's knowledge of US tv missed the clever disjunction of using Barbara Billingsley for that scene … and probably similar r...