The Frankish Reich

I was really not looking forward to this game. But now that it may be the Epic Keenum-Diggs Revenge Fantasy blockbuster we’ve all been waiting for, count me in!

Keepin’ the Spleen Meme alive! Yes! She seems to have some pretty healthy donor ligaments for Josh.

My mother in law was one of those poll workers into her late 70s. My comment was meant to be an amusing take (hey, not everyone was amused) on people finding something sinister about a complex machine breaking and a bunch of well-meaning but technologically challenged people trying to fix it. Not every screwup is evidence of a sinister plot …

I love me a good foodie joke!

Not vice versa. Dems deserve to lose the House - they took a narrow Presidential win in 2020 and acted as if they had a mandate to enact a left agenda. The course correction was inevitable. But Republicans can’t be trusted with the Senate. If some Democrat (I hope not Biden) wins the electoral college in 24 we can’t risk the Senate trying to negate the will of the people by post-election shenanigans. I’m sorry it’s come to this. The pre-2020 me would’ve been happy to see a Republican majority in the Senate now. Not anymore.

You mean getting hit in the pocket in an unlucky way? Come on. Nothing here about Allen’s style of play has anything to do with this particular injury.

Or it could be telling us (him): You’ll need surgery, but there’s a chance you’ll be able to play with it without risking further damage, and you can the surgery in the off-season. In other words, we just don’t know.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2022/film/news/disney-plus-subscribers-164-million-1235426552/amp/ umm, another post that hasn’t aged well. Looks like Disney swatted DeSantis away like the mosquito he is.

How dare you call your former mentor “crap.” He will crap 600 pages of analysis all over you!

So what was the income/revenue cutoff for PPP *loans *not really a “loan” because it was forgiven if you brought your employees back I don’t like the student loan forgiveness, but yes, they are comparable.

Thanks. The 4/5 being over 80 was just a joke. But suffice to say there’s a lot of older Americans - generally really good people trying to do a good job -in charge of the on-site polling places in our retirement communities. Your overall point strikes me as correct. Problems will arise, fixes will come, mostly just random stuff (“printer out of ink!”) that will taken care of. I’m just highlighting the leap to wild conspiracy explanations of ordinary issues coming from both sides. That’s America today.

Mesa = Probably Mormon = Republican. Just so you know whose vote is being diabolically suppressed this time!

Drop off your ballot! But reserve your right to complain. Over and over again. #AZRetirementLiving

I had a retired in law who lived there. When I say “there” I don’t just mean “in Maricopa” or even “in a Maricopa retirement community.” I mean in Anthem retirement community. Right next to the outlet mall. RIP. Old folks getting involved in everything. Go see for yourself.

Now THIS is a good point. Estonia - Eseffintonia! - votes by internet. Meanwhile we take a week and a half to count scantrons.

What, PPP ain’t good enough for those snobs?

How can 1/5 of the voting machines not be working in a county where 4/5 of election workers are 80 years old? Beats me. In the early internet days there was supposedly a code word for this: PEBCAK “Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.” Yesterday’s PEBKAC is today’s Arizona/Florida poll worker.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924527679/why-do-nonwhite-georgia-voters-have-to-wait-in-line-for-hours-too-few-polling-pl https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smartphone-data-show-voters-in-black-neighborhoods-wait-longer1/ all part of the new wave of “setting up your election challenge long before we even know the results” It was overblown then, it’s way overblown now. Plus: the best thing that ever happened to Anthem retirement community. Combines their two favorite activities: complaining and standing in unnecessary lines (ever heard of early voting you people with absolutely nothing else to do with your time other than bothering doctors offices and scheduling pickle ball courts?)

People need to chill. It’s mid-morning MST. Many, many hours to get problems fixed and ballots submitted and counted. A glitch is not a conspiracy. That goes for both sides. Every election we have those “long lines, people unable to vote” stories, and usually from the Democratic side. And by the time the polls close it’s all fine. Have you seen some of our election workers in a place like Anthem (read: retirement community) AZ? Do you really think they’re all tech wizards?

2020 draft looks great in retrospect. 4 key contributors without a first-round pick. And Moss was for a brief shining moment #5.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1128771511/florida-governor-eases-voting-rules-in-counties-slammed-by-hurricane-ian but, but, but … I thought that ANY deviation from the rules prescribed by the state legislature was improper and just part of the big steal? (I’m not slamming DeSantis here - the law shouldn’t be interpreted to require us to ignore the existence of a hurricane. Or the worst pandemic in 100 years.)

Agree. It exposes a weakness (basically the same one as last year). I wasn’t concerned in the 2nd half of the GB game. Fine, you’re down a bunch of points, you want to take the ball out of the reigning MVP’s hands and grind out long drives, have at it. But given the state of the Jets passing game and Wilson’s propensity to make mistakes the inability to stop the run (or was it the lack of will to commit to stopping the run) was definitely cause for concern.

I love that “check your 401(k) thing. Your 401k was growing by leaps and bounds during peak COVID because the Fed held interest rates at ridiculously low levels to stave off a depression, continued to inflate the money supply, and Trump signed massive COVID cash transfers to inject money into the economy. So you all felt rich. And now the party of fiscal discipline demands that the bubble economy be reinstated? Yep.

I’d say “mixed returns.” Elam has been what we expected - a guy who can hold down a key position as a starter on a good team. Benford has been a very pleasant surprise and a key contributor. Cook And Shakir have shown flashes. No draft pick is a clear bust. “Mixed” however because we’ve seen good O linemen drafted after Cook. And that was clearly a position of need. Good teams sometimes have to deviate from best player available and draft for need, and I’m afraid guys like Cook and Shakir may turn out to be luxuries that in retrospect we couldn’t afford (instead of, say, packaging picks to move up to fill positions of immediate need)

Rivers was pretty damn good! Not in the playoffs, of course.