DrW

As to your idea, in many cases you can find interesting match-ups. In other cases, not so much. Who do you want to play the Jags? Carolina in the "expansion-team-from-the-same-year-which-also-has-a-large-cat-as-mascot" bowl? Or take the Falcons in their current state. Do they play the Texans in the "MLB-world-series-revenge" bowl?

Well, that was just a matter of time when this discussion would gain traction. In a town hall meeting here in Lubbock last Thursday, US Representative Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock) first thanked the SCOTUS for confirming that abortion rulings should be left to the individual states. However, just a few minutes later he stated that he would work on federal legislation to ban abortion in the US, hoping that his efforts would gain more traction after expected gains for the GOP in the 2022 elections. Giving the power back to the states now seems just like a lip service by some Republicans.

And here is the perhaps earliest female rock drummer... Maureen "Moe" Tucker. Camera by Andy Warhol (demonstrating that an artist excelling at some expressions of art can suck at others).

Actually, this was surprisingly good. However, it was more mainstream and less influenced by the music in their home country.

He will read it and then explain to us why BillsFan4 is wrong.

17-year old Lucy Landymore plays Zappa's "The Black Page" Today, Lucy is percussionist in Hans Zimmer's orchestra (they do lots of movie scores) and does tutorials Zappa's percussionist, Ruth Underwood, explains aspects of Zappa's "sound":

I have no direct data on this, but I highly doubt it. First, in Europe (as in the US and most other places on Earth) gue to rotation of the Earth the predominant wind direction is west to east, favoring the transport of atmospheric gases from the Netherlands to Germany, not the other way around. Secondly, the Netherlands have a very high population density (nearly twice as high as Germany), leaving not much space for farming land. Thus, the agricultural areas are highly fertilized, producing nitrogen oxides. I think you overinterpret the pic with the empty shelves in the grocery store. It is simply supposed to show you that the tractor blockade by the Dutch farmers is successful, nothing more.

I was aware of that. The plan does not include bulldozing of existing structures and the building of ghettos. These are just imaginations of a conspiracy-afflicted mind.

Well, you had here an interesting topic, and it should be worth discussing (especially for the Dutch people) if farmers should be required to reduce fertilizer use or livestock numbers. But then you could not help yourself and had to add the last quote: With that quote, the credibility of your post went right down the drain. For one, they got their chemistry wrong. NO2 is really unstable, but is also very reactive and will be converted to a number of different nitrogen oxides, none of which are good for your health. More importantly, do you really believe the TriState City conspiracy? Do you really believe a politician, as bad as they might be, imagines a Judge Dredd-like future? For whom do they build 30,000 square miles of ghetto?

You might want to look for a source that goes beyond 2010. It took me two minutes.

Here is what I posted earlier in this thread.

Well, there you found a really "fair and balanced" source of information. Daniel Turner worked for the Koch brothers and several Republican campaigns. He appeared not only on Fox News, but also on such pillars of unbiased reporting as OAN and NewsMax. "Power the Future" claims "We are the voice of energy workers advocating for their jobs and communities, and pushing back on the radical environmental movement which uses their vast power and resources to advance their agenda."

More on Prager U, this time from the Weather Channel. https://features.weather.com/course-climate-misinformation/

I know. I just googled it and it surprised me too. Apparently, some EV drivers want to have to do something with their hands. My first car way back in Germany was actually a "super beetle" with a 1500 cc engine and a 2-speed transmission.

This is not quite true. For $101,000 you can get an Audi or for nearly double the price a Porsche with a 2-speed manual transmission. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-manual-transmissions/

The problem with bison in places like Yellowstone is that they are for many visitors the only species of large mammal they see (except for the enormous herds of fellow humans). Thus, they want to document the encounter so that they have something to show to their family and friends. Bison are the only species that usually does not hide from man. When I was last in Yellowstone with my son 6 or 7 years ago, there were bison galore, but we did not manage to see a single moose. However, we saw some wolves (from very far).

Unappealing to the person who drinks or to the person who is confronted with a beer drinker?

I agree that it is difficult to imagine to cover all the World's energy needs with renewables (well, at some point when we run out of fossil fuels and nuclear fission material, we might have to). But that does not mean that renewables cannot be a large part of our energy sources. In Germany, since 2018 more than 40% of the electricity has been provided by wind and solar. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/renewable-energies/renewable-energies-in-figures To fully appreciate that, you have to consider that Germany has a much higher population density than the US (twice the number of people living in California in a country smaller than Montana), meaning less space for wind and solar farms, and is much more northern than the US, meaning less sunshine. And when I grew up in Germany, we never had steady strong winds as we have here in the West Texas desert.

The definition of Vietnam vet is a bit murky. For many purposes it is enough if you served in the US Armed Forces between 1964 and 1975, independent whether you actually were in Vietnam or not. Personal story at the side: Several years ago I went with my daughter to the LBJ Library in Dallas. When we were about to pay our entrance fee, the guy asked me if I was a veteran. I joked that I had been in the German army, but that would usually not count. Well, he said, today it counts, and he sold me a "Former Military" ticket. This made my day - I still have the ticket.

Very interesting - we never hear much from bands outside of the English-speaking countries, especially if their sound is not mainstream but incorporates elements of music from their own country (I don't think the Scorpions adding elements of Polka music would have been a hit.). Overall, I find the quality of the songs a bit uneven, and the sound would have benefited from a better recording studio. Still, the two tracks "Meshkalina" and especially "Jews Caboose" are outstanding. Thanks for posting!

I can't answer for GF, but science tells me we have a soul. It weighs 21 grams. From Wikipedia: "In 1901 Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment in which he made weight measurements of patients as they died. He claimed that there was weight loss of varying amounts at the time of death; he concluded the soul weighed 21 grams, based on measurements of a single patient and discarding conflicting results."

For all of you who see the US as based on Judeo-Christian principles, perhaps you should listen a bit to the "Judeo" side. Here is the statement of the National Council of Jewish Women on Judaism and abortion. https://www.ncjw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Judaism-and-Abortion-FINAL.pdf

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx What I found interesting about this poll is that an overwhelming majority of men and women who consider themselves pro-life would allow abortion under certain circumstances. E.g., in May 2022 33% of women and 47% of men considered themselves pro-life. However, only 12% of women and 14% of men are against abortion under any circumstances.

What is the basis of this statement? This recent poll indicates otherwise. https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx