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The 1st 5 are in order; after that, no particular order to them: WKRP in Cincinnati Cheers SOAP The Bob Newhart Show Taxi Police Squad Arrested Development The Odd Couple The Dick Van ***** Show Newhart Hogan's Heros Barney Miller It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia The League My Name is Earl Green Acres News Radio Wings (through 1st 3-4 seasons, then it went downhill) Mary Tyler Moore Show M*A*S*H (through Winchester's 1st season) Get Smart Family Ties (prior to Courtney Cox season) Freaks & Geeks & haven't watched it since being a kid: Gilligan's Island. Married with Children
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The bolded could be difficult when facilities that have the tests are still performing a triage on actually performing the tests even when somebody has a doctor's order to get the test performed. There are people here that are getting turned away from being tested after their doctor has decided they have a reasonable chance of having contracted it and are exhibiting multiple symptoms. ("We have to save the tests for the REALLY sick people" is what they were told when they were turned away & then told to voluntarily quarantine for 14 days.) -
The Thread To Vent On Nancy Pelosi & Her Hubris
Taro T replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
She'd better be writing them early in the AM, because if she waits until after that morning mimosa then there's no way anybody'll be able to read 'em. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Not sure if he still considers himself a lefty (probably does, but in more of the classical liberal vein), but in 2016 & earlier DR was a lefty. Hoping there is more to this story than what was on camera. But that is an extremely bad look for the cops (especially the fat 1 in the Yanks cap), and could see where that second guy (at minimum) will be getting a large sum of money from a jury. And could see at least 1 of the cops behind bars for a while. (Again, we only have a snippet of the story, but it looks bad on 1st blush. Hoping for the cop's (& our sake) that there was legit justification for their actions before the video started; because if there isn't he's (rightfully) screwed. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Wtf? Not going to click that one to avoid giving her additional views, but please anybody that did view it, please tell us somebody asked her to pick out a couple of family members (can't believe she's got any friends) that she's ok with killing themselves because of the despair of having no job for months and no way to put food on the table (even if they can scrounge money for it) after the supply chain for food breaks down a few months into this shutdown. That, and she's an order of magnitude or possibly 2 over the death rate & she's assuming an awfully big family or network of friends to have 1 or 2 people being 1-2% of their family/friends. Of course, that tweet doesn't give much reason to believe she has even a rudimentary understanding of math. But we digress. -
Everything Joe Biden--Gaffes, Miscues, Touching, Songs
Taro T replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Biden claiming that Reade never raised issues with supervisors a couple of days after his staff have reviewed the U of D records raises questions about what papers did people walk out with in their Sandy Berger underwear. -
Agree with a difference for a lot of disaster relief funding vs pension bailouts, but the flood insurance program is so flawed that it makes hurricane and flood relief comparable to pension program mismanagement IMHO. By having premiums significantly lower than the probability of payout would indicate they should be, we basically subsidize mansions on the oceanfront to a large degree and we shouldn't, again IMHO.
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Think we figured out where the CARES Act funding for the NEA ended up.
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Democratic 2020 Presidential Primary Thread
Taro T replied to snafu's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Wouldn't she need to start out with some modicum credibility in order for any credibility to be destroyed? -
OK. Didn't Covington get a couple mil in legal fees from Flynn? Pretty sure he'd been better off buying lunches and paying the tuition bills for a year for a high end undergrad mock trial team to work his case rather than hiring the white shoes he did. Plus he'd have spent an order of magnitude less in legal fees. (And that's using kids that haven't even hit law school yet.)
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The Babylon Bee, America's Newspaper
Taro T replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Those are good. But the yacht one would've been better if a word were mispelled. -
The schedule this year will be harder (at least on paper) because of the divisions the AFCE plays this year. It isn't because the Bills have a 2nd place schedule vs a 4th place version. That accounts for all of 2 games (they face last years 2nd place finishers from the 2 AFC divisions they aren't scheduled to play all 4 teams), but they also get 2 games vs the Fish that the Fish don't get to play. Plus, the Bills had a 3rd place schedule last year; not a 4th place schedule. They were 3rd in the AFCE in '18.
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That's what the air force engineers expertly avoided by not keeping all the planes on 1 side of the island. They performed a truly remarkable balancing act. But now that all that weight is gone, there'll be nothing to hold it in place anymore. Especially if the wind picks up it could get blown half way to Orehon before we know it; and then it won't be good as a bomber base anymore since the planes will all be too far from places in Asia, like Hawaii for instance.
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Did the force of the last plane leaving cause it to sail away now that it does have the weight of all those bombers holding it in place?
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Democratic 2020 Presidential Primary Thread
Taro T replied to snafu's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
But that was more than 1 entire year ago! It's ancient history, and anyway what difference does it make at this point anyhow? And silly wabbit, don't you know Tara Reid's accusations weren't center stage back then so there is no hypocrisy at all. None. At. All. -
Democratic 2020 Presidential Primary Thread
Taro T replied to snafu's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
What do you mean by "should be?" So far, it is. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
One thing that would be interesting to see is what would the normal rate of EMT calls & hospitalizations for items such as heart attack & stroke be for March & April in NYC and what is the survival rate when treated vs estimates of survival when untreated and what those rates are currently. We're being told that those are down significantly though it makes sense they'd still be occurring at traditional rates and that a significant portion that are now untreated are dying from them. Would presumably not make up for the full increase in deaths in NYC area as many are dying from the virus; but if those deaths (and from other untreated fonditions) are substantial perhaps even in NYC it is time to change at least how the hospitals are operating. Hopefully policy makers have that info. -
A N95 mask properly fitted and worn DOES help prevent the spread of the virus from you to the surrounding population. Few in the general public have access to masks of that quality. A cloth bandana strung across ones face like a 19th century train robber might reduce the velocity with which the virus expels from you but doesn't keep it out of the air. It provides minimal reduction of transmission at best and at worst creates a false sense of security for those around the wearer. THAT is what most places are considering effective masks. Just because they're effectively ineffective is no reason not to wear them though, right?
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Po-tay-toe - Pa-tah-toe.
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
He also has to be exhausted by now from all of this. When people are exhausted, they ask stupid questions or say stuff to the effect of 'there are 57 states.' Cuomo should be given a pass for telling people that want to go back to work that they should become essential workers and then they can. He's exhausted too. Laugh at 45 for asking a dumb question, but don't make it out to be his telling people to drink (or even bathe in, hi Mrs. Cuomo) bleach. He asked a question. (A few actually.) -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Probably better than being diagnosed with Bryan Cox. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The southern cities, excepting for a few like New Orleans, which has severe geographic limitations also are more spread out than their northeastern counterparts. Which also should help them with "social distancing" relative to NYC. Places like Houston are far more suburb-like than somewhere like Boston even though the metro population is greater. Will be really interesting to see what the experts come up with for why NYC got hit soooo much harder than anywhere else in our country (and hopefully no place else gets hit the way it did). Population density & continued use of mass transit seem to be likely culprits, but still would like to see what the official explanation ends up. (And still hope that when all is said and done we get better data than simply 'everyone that didn't die from bloodloss since February 1 was a victim of this Corona virus' that we seem to be getting. It'll go a long way towards determining what actually happened and how to better deal with it next time something like this springs up.) -
WNYTBDGPS Socially distanced draft plates tailgate
Taro T replied to Just Jack's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Will probably be late, but pretty sure - IN!