Friday, November 22, 2024

So completely has Erik Spoelstra's invention of positionless basketball taken over the NBA that, look at this, the box score does not even denote the position played anymore, just name and number.



BTC 99,436.67USD

Well, it's Friday...

 

Game Day is tomorrow. And I'm going to Brazil late tomorrow night and will be distracted during the day. If I'm going to play, it should be now. Fine.

Note to self: +$20/season.

$5 on the University of Our Lady of the Lake to cover 14 at home vs A*.

JFK Was Assassinated 61 Years Ago Today at This Time

ZOOMING! BTC 99,143.17 USD

Pickens Out!

"I don't really think the Cleveland Browns are a good team at all. I think the conditions kind of saved them today." 

Pickens, who finished with four catches on seven targets for 48 yards, also blamed officials for the loss.

Pit. wide receiver George Pickens after his "Steelers" lost to that not good team last night.

With all the talent in the world, Pickens still besmirches the "Steelers" franchise. Be gone!

Snow Ball Last Night



Magical delight.
BTC crept near the summit again overnight but did not reach 100k. It has now fallen back (again) and stands at $97,950.98z

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Last call on BTC: 98,833.79 USD

I think sometime while I am asleep its price will hit the wondrous, symbolic $100k per coin milestone and I will wake up to that wonder and praise my son for investing, I think in 1/8th of a coin when it was at ~$800 many years ago. Never did that then very young man ever foretell with greater accuracy. He amazes me.

Good night my pageviewer friends and interlocutors.

FT "Browns" (3-8) 24 "Steelers" (8-3) 19

A typical, ugly, entertaining, magically snowy game in the North. The typically dystopian offense by Pittsburgh. The typical roller-coaster ride when Jameis Winston is the QB of any team. Those defects in the two teams will not go away. Cle. is going nowhere this season and have their hard-fought, fraught win over their hated rival. Pittsburgh is going to the post-season where, unless the O becomes functional, they will go one-and-out.

Just one. FT Brown Snow 24 Steel Gray 19

3rd and 1 Cle. 35 :06

Time for two end zone shots.

3rd and 1 Pit. 45, :27

Pit. ball 1st down own 36. They need a TD.

Climbing again: 98,907.73 USD

touchdown brown snow, :57 left, 24-19

2nd and goal at the 2

They went for it and got it. 1st down Pit. 14.

I don't know what's going on. 4th and 1 at Steel 24, 1:55, Steel FTO

There was a penalty: 3rd and 6 from Pit. 29

4th and 1 Pit. 24. I'd kick it.

 


3rd and 1 Pit. 24, 2' warning

They went for it and got it. 1st down Pit. 25

Cle. 4th and 3 Pit. 38, 2:36 4Q

Cle.'s kicker cain't kick.

Oh FUCK! In a blizzard (no lie) Pit punts for...16 yards. Cle. ball Steel 46,

INTERCEPTION, WINSTON! STEEL BALL OWN 24, 4:22 4Q

They did and it failed. 18-19, 6:15 4Q

TOUCHDOWN "STEELERS"! 18-19 pending pat. Go for two?

 🎵We're from the town with the great football team duh duh duh duh

We cheer the Pittsburgh "Steelers"! 🎵

CLE. FUMBLES, WINSTON! STEEL RECOVERS AT BROWN ICE 27!

Brown Ice 18 Steel Gray 13, 7:57 4Q

98,663.81 USD. Lord! Okay, it ain't gettin' there tonight, I don't think.

98,735.17USD Now, it's in temporary free fall

 


It got a step from the summit and retreated slightly

 


Holy Christ, Brown Snow 18 Steel 0, 10:10 4Q

99,134.18 USD

99,089.43 USD

98,940.95 USD

98,870.71 USD, 10:16 pm ET

BTC $98,791.88

I bet we wake up, hell, maybe before I turn in, it hits the $100k mark!

Eerie 10 Dystopia 0, End 3Q. Eerie on Dystopia 27, 4th and 1

HT Cle. 10 Stillers 0


🤣

 

‘Do you sell cars?’: Jaguar’s rebrand prompts mockery, confusion online

British luxury automaker’s advertising campaign features models of varying ages, genders and races – but no cars.


British luxury carmaker Jaguar is under fire over a colourful new advertising campaign that promotes inclusivity but lacks one key ingredient – any reference to cars.

Released across multiple social media platforms, the 30-second clip features models of varying ages, genders, and races accompanied by phrases such as “live vivid”, “delete ordinary,” and “copy nothing” as a minimal techno soundtrack plays.

Bryce Underwood, No. 1 recruit for 2025, flips to Michigan from LSU (Espo)






It wasn't me



Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

😂👏



Only the best in Florida, huh? Only the best🤦‍♂️

 

Trump chooses Pam Bondi for attorney general pick after Gaetz withdraws (Apie headline)

!!!!!!!!!!!🥳🕺🥇

Pep Guardiola signs Manchester City extension through 2027 (ESPN)

The Association: Injuries, Age, Subjectivity

Khris Middleton has been medically cleared to play for Beer "for a period of time" per Shams, ESPN. Middleton is "ramping up". He will play when he feels "his best self." The org. is on board with this subjective test, "but his absence has lasted much longer than people around the organization anticipated."

Beer's Big Three of Giannis, Middleton and Damian Lillard have played only seven games together under Doc Rivers. Giannis is 29, not old for a basketball player, right in his prime, Middleton is 33, Dame is 34. Khris had double ankle surgery off-season. He is not too old that he shouldn't have tried playing by now and he hasn't even participated in five-on-five scrimmages yet, only three-on-threes, which he's been doing "consistently...over the past several weeks." 

The subjective test puts player and org in a tough spot. What is the org. supposed to do? The player has been medically cleared. On the other hand this player is essential to on-court success. For the player to make the call alone makes him the bad guy when, as here, he's solely responsible for not playing. Back on the org.: How can anybody else know how a player really feels? You want to piss off one of your Big Three? Back on the player: There's a difference between being injured and feeling discomfort, even pain, or feeling you're not ready because you cannot do 100% of the things you did pre-injury. Middleton is 33 years old, he doesn't have too, too many years left. You are under contract, you're extremely important to the team, you have to be available to play. A 90% Middleton is better than no Middleton.

I don't know how and why this subjective test became the standard. It leads to the above back-and-forth and creates ill will. It is exactly what happened with Justise Winslow and 601 Biscayne. The latter finally gave up on the former and traded him. He's now playing in the G League at age 28. He's done.

GAETZ WITHDRAWS

Gaetz Withdraws

😳

The Sixers were supposed to be competing for a top record in the league and a championship following their off-season acquisition of Paul George.

However, that move wasn't enough to appease the face of the franchise. Instead, he preferred to reunite with a teammate he spent less than one season with, according to Vince Goodwill of Yahoo Sports.

“He wanted Jimmy Butler," Goodwill said. "He told the 76ers, ‘Go get my guy'… I don’t think Joel Embiid has been happy, even though they wound up getting Paul George. He wanted Jimmy Butler back over there.”

...

“Jimmy is Jimmy,” Embiid said after Monday’s game against the Miami Heat. “He does everything, scoring and passing the ball. … On both sides of the floor, he’s one of the best players in the NBA, probably top five, probably the best actually – the best player in the league.”

Oh my goodness, I didn't know this

Mike Sielski
@MikeSielski

It’s not just that the #Sixers are on their way to 2-12. It’s that they haven’t won a game in regulation yet, and if this deficit holds, 10 of their losses will have been by double figures. They’ve provided no reason to think they can salvage their season.

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"No reason to think they can salvage their season"?! This season CANNOT be made unsalvageable! This is one of the favorites for the NBA title. This is systemic and when a season is at risk for general rot, the man in charge of the system must be replaced. Nurse Nick must go!

Paul George John Ringo hyperextended his left knee

Like Erin, I saw no indication off that on replay.

Erin Grugan
@eringrugan

Here's the play/replays of Sixers' Paul George experiencing some sort of pain in his left leg once he lands. Hard to see exactly what happened but PG walked off to the locker room.

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Of course, George had hyperextended his knee in a preseason game against the Atlanta Hawks and missed the early portion of the season as a result, as he recovered from the bone bruise.

George has not impressed at all so far this season. He has averaged 14.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 rebounds in 28.9 minutes after playing 8 games. His efficiency has dropped significantly as well, as he has shot 38.3% from the field and 27.8% from three-point range.

It is already looking like the Sixers made a mistake handing George a $212 million, four-year deal. He is not making enough of a difference on the court and is struggling with fitness issues as well.

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The Sixers entered the season with the league’s oldest average age, according to NBA.com. None of president of basketball operations Daryl Morey’s ultra-experienced offseason pickups have thrived.

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He's 34 years old. He has played a game on a hard surface all of his adult life. His work schedule is 80+ two-hour games a year plus practices, pre-season games and exhibitions. It is too much and yes, teams need to be careful giving $50M/year contracts to used Ferraris with 200,000 miles of wear on them.

Bitcoin 🚀

This week, Trump named Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive Howard Lutnick, who claims to "have hundreds of millions of dollars of exposure to bitcoin," to be his Commerce secretary.

way, way, way higher—sometimes lower—you just have to have faith," Lutnick, who is the U.S. custodian for Tether's $130 billion stablecoin USDT via Cantor Fitzgerald, said earlier this month.
...
David Bailey, the chief executive of Bitcoin Magazine publisher Bitcoin Inc and advisor to Trump on bitcoin strategy, has said he believes Trump could appoint senator Bill Hagerty, a bitcoin and crypto advocate, as his Treasury secretary.

"If it happens, back up the truck and dump everything you own into bitcoin," Bailey posted (https://x.com/DavidFBailey/status/1859440650057343070) to X.
...
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas added that "$1.9 billion is unheard of" for the a first day of trading after earlier telling Yahoo Finance a bitcoin could be on the verge of a price "tipping point."
...
Earlier this year, U.S. senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced The Bitcoin Act to Congress, calling for the creation of a strategic bitcoin reserve to reduce the U.S.'s spiraling, near-$36 trillion national debt by buying 1 million bitcoin over five years.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Hidden Hands

The central theoretical underpinning for both capitalism and democracy is the "hidden hand". Millions of individual choices made in the choice-makers rational individual self-interest result in the greatest good, the most wealth for the individual and the society and a government responsive to the majority collective wants and needs. Don't laugh, you know enough of Adam Smith and enough of one man-one vote to know that this is true. So I won't laugh. I will bring up one problem with hidden hand economics and politics. I will illustrate the problem by personal example.

I am of the most privileged economic, and the most powerful political, cohort in America. I am a WASP man. I am retired in material comfort. That fits. I am a Democrat. That does not fit. I didn't pursue wealth for most of my career either. I worked for the government for 27 years; for myself in private law practice (in which I did pursue, but unsuccessfully, wealth) for eleven years. I was always a Democrat.

We all know also that neither capitalism nor democracy guarantees individual acquisition of material or political desiderata. There are losers in the pursuit of happiness. We accept that for the sake of argument. My question is:

Was I anti-capitalist for working for the government for 70% of my life? Since I didn't pursue wealth did I go against the very foundation of capitalism? Each of us, our Declaration of Independence told us, has an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness granted us by our Creator. In the 19th century, a God-given right was argued to impose an obligation on its use. Use it or lose it kinda thing. Don't piss off the great Giver. No, I don't think I was being anti-capitalist in choosing a public service career and sucking at the teat of the government for material sustenance. Adam Smith was not an anarchist, he envisioned some government overseeing all of those hidden hands. The overseers are essential and have a right to be compensated

But in another aspect, I think I overdid it. I give away some of my money, in one case a not insubstantial sum to a person I did not know. Made me happy, but shouldn't I have plowed my surplus back into the hidden hands that create more wealth? A rising tide lifts all boats? (don't laugh). Is there a place in capitalist theory for altruism? Yes. I don't think Smith meant that charity was bad. It is not capitalist behavior, though! 

I confess that I am not a good capitalist in another respect: I don't much like money. I mean, it's okay, but don't stuff me full of it. I have enough, I don't want anymore. (God right now is pissed at me.)

How about this?:

It’s difficult work for the one-woman show; she is often outside at 5 a.m., sowing seeds, weeding, or harvesting, and she spends weeks preparing for the two weekends a month she is open. ...Her cooking is craftsmanship, with keen and careful attention given to every ingredient. For now, I isn’t looking for more of anything. “I can barely keep up with my usual clients,” she says.
 

...There is something refreshing about I’s acceptance of her limitations. She isn’t looking to grow her business...—there’s a constant, buzzing churn toward more. ...it can be exhausting and overwhelming, representing a capitalistic overindulgence that often prioritizes quantity over craft. It makes I’s desire to fly under the radar feel welcome, even noble. 

Is I a bad capitalist? She has a business but "isn't looking to grow" it! What's up with that, I? This was going to be a one-theory critique but that article got me on another of my critiques. So just en passant: Capitalism always seemed to me like the legend of the shark, it has to keep moving (to aerate it's gills) or it dies. Businesses have to grow bigger...Why is that? That is not self-evident to me, or I. Or capitalism is a perpetual motion machine, that's the other analogy that also recurs to my mind. Perpetual motion machines violate the laws of physics. The hidden hand of capitalism is always grasping, pursuing its prey. Doesn't seem like that is sustainable. Doesn't seem human. Seems inhumanely predatory. Ah, predatory capitalism.

Now democracy and me personally. As a member of the elite political cohort in America I should be a Republican. I'm not. Never have been. I'm a Democrat. I don't vote my personal interests, economic or class. Voting your personal interests is the hidden hand in democratic theory. Am I a bad democrat for being a Democrat? In democratic theory I am. Fine, then I'm a proud bad democrat. I vote for candidates who would impose higher taxes on me. Not in my economic self-interest. I vote for candidates who don't want to keep me and non-WASP males on their privileged pedestal. One time I even voted for a Jamaican Black South Asian woman for president! I want people who are different from me to have the advantages that I got for no other reasons than my race, the religion that I do not practice, and my gender. I will even sacrifice and protest when I get too much and they get too little. Very undemocratic in theory.

Is there a place for empathy, the most sublime of human emotions, in capitalist theory and democratic theory? Actually, it's hard to shoe-horn empathetic behavior into either theory. If there is not, then I am a proud anti-democrat, anti-capitalist. But I think there is. I think the hidden hand theories require behavior that in practice makes others' lives more solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. I'm proudly disobeying those theories.

Good night.

Murder Inmates Having Baby Without Contact

Joan Depaz: “I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight.”

Daisy Link: “He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through. From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there and then from there, yeah, I administered it.”

https://wsvn.com/news/investigations/shes-a-miracle-baby-miami-dade-inmates-describe-secret-way-they-got-pregnant-in-jail-without-meeting-each-other/

Oh there it is

 

Yeah, it's an ankle turn. Man, I've seen WAY worse ankle turns than that. Whatever, he should be fine and they should NOT have lost that game. No fucking way. Nurse Nick has got some answering to do.

I watched the replay a couple of times and I didn't see Paul George John Ringo turn his ankle and he was immediately hobbled. Couldn't put weight on the foot. I think it's more serious, one of those plantar fasciitis things.

Yeah, FT Memphibians 117 212ers, formerly 211ers, ne 76ers 111.

Joel just turned it over down 4 off a rebound of a missed 3, :17.6" left. God.

I'm gabsmocked about Phil. Joel tonight has 33 points and counting in 32' (and). Paul George John Ringo only played 17', sounds like he's on a limitation (HOPE he didn't get hurt), and was terrible, 2 pts on 1/6. I KNOW Electric Maxey is hurt. What? No, he played! He was terrible too, 20' 8 pts, 3/13. They have C-Mart, they have J. McCain. What is the fucking problem? Oh Paul George John Ringo DID get hurt, looks like he turned his ankle. Whatever. They should not be losing to the Memphibians--WHO DON'T HAVE THUG MORANT!

211ers fittin be the 212ers. Memphibians 115-101, 3:5 left.

Male Deer! Male Deer! Male Deer! FT Male Deer 122 Male Cows 106. The "Bucks" ARE coming.

Male Deer 98 Male Cows 90, End 3Q

I'm sure under the Doctor's care that the Male Deer have this one in hand.👀

Memphibians 63 211ers 56, 9:33 3Q

Memphibians without Thug Ja Morant and were 4.5 home dogs--To the 211ers!

Male Deer 89 Male Cows 82, 2:13 3Q, Cows Full Milk Break

HT Pockets 62 Racers 53

Did I say the "Bucks" were coming? The "Bulls" are running! 82-80, 3:28 3Q

The "Bucks" are coming

Winners of three of their last four, they lead tonight the Male Cows 66-48 in Beer.

In one of the strangest quirks of NBA scheduling I have seen, the 45's, last played Monday night, have the rest of the work week off until Sunday. (?)

Pockets 16 Racers 11, 5:35 1Q


The Big Game is Saturday!

 Stanford at Cal, The "Golden Bears" are 14.5-point favorites.

Inflated Pork Bellies Futures Investment Cogitations

I am not feeling it this week! Strange. There is usually a game or three that piques my interest. (I like three; one is hardly worth it, two is liable to be a wash, three breaks a tie. On the other hand if you lose all three...). I'm up $20 on the season.

Games I'm looking at:

No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5.

ElleEsseEw -7.5 Vandy. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.

Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.

Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in their own head with a loaded six-shot revolver.

ND -14.5 A* tempts me the most. Lakers would have to win my 15 for me to win. Further cogitation.


Always beside me.🥹🫶

The air has always drawn earth-bound humankind, led us to imagine, to dream; filled us with that greatest of human emotions, wonder. Basketball is the greatest sport because it is the only sport played in the air. 

Every night in the National Basketball Association there is something. Even on a Tuesday night in November there is something interesting and the potential for more. Last night it was Dalton Knecht. Behold.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dalton Knecht

"To succeed in L.A. you not only need to win, you need to be entertaining when you win, and you need to have star power.”


"They didn't 'find' DK. The other 16 teams fucked it up. Did anybody watch him? Shit. They just didn't fuck it up. You don't 'find' a SEC player of the year."--LeBron James.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Kyle Lowry called the 76ers team meeting last night

The 76ers are teetering on a red zone with this one.

It tickles me that losing to the "Heat" is "red zone".

The odd thing is there is no clear resolution to their struggles as of the moment, as the squad has just consistently looked unsynchronized on the floor, really, on both ends.


That's exactly what I got just from reading the play-by-play.

 If there is one thing this game proved to everyone, it is that Nick Nurse has become an absolutely flummoxing figure for the team all season long.


When you get blown out by the "Heat" (?!), there's a BEEG problem😂

Before this game, 76ers fans had started bemoaning the decisions of Nick Nurse this season. Unlike in years past, the champion head coach’s imprint on the team this time around has been of the negative variant for the most part.

I'll be DAMNED. What happened to Nurse? He IS a championship-winning coach (Toronto).

ALL respect to the Blood and Pus

FT Beans 120 Cle. 117. Cle's first L on the season. In Boston. Down TWENTY-ONE, getting embarrassed, they outscored the champs 40-28 in the 3rd, pulled to within tyoo twice in the 4th Q before succumbing. 

Donovan Mitchell had 35 for Cle.; Tatum & Brown 33 and 17 for the bile and mold.

HT WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON "BEANS" 65 cleveland "CADAVERS" 48

I've always like "Beans".

Beans (11-3) 34 Cleve (FUCKING FIFTEEN AND 0) 30, 8:04 2Q

The bottom five teams in the East. Who would have thought that?

Did Patrick Mahomes transfer to Kansas. A week after upsetting no. 6 BeewhYEw as a slight road dog, the "Jayhawks" are 2.5-point home favorites agin' no. 17 Colorado. Ain't touchin' that game with a 10' poll.

Leww (18) is -8.5 over my Beloveds at KFC Place.

No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5

Whaddya think the line is on ElleEsseEw-Vandy? I'd a guessed a handful, I think. -7.5 is a little bigger handful. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.

Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.

Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in the head with a loaded six-shot revolver.

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

Temple: Stan Drayton

Charlotte: Bigg Poffi

UMass: Dan Brown

Florida Titanic: Tom Herman


J-E-T-S FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

Owner Woody Johnson, after axing HC Robert Saleh several games ago, today dropped the axe on GM Joe Douglas. Who deserves firing, retiring, or benching is ancient, entitled, loathesome Aaron Rodgers.

"76ers" tense team meeting after losing to "Heat"

Losing to the "Heat" is that traumatic😂

Electric Maxey criticized Joel Embiid for always being late to practices and meeting, "for everything", and pointed out the effect on team morale.

Players told 76ers coach Nick Nurse they want to be coached harder...

That fits with my note last night that the team is sloppy and undisiplined. Coaching harder probably includes not tolerating lateness. I'm surprised. Nurse Nick is a championship-winning veteran, not the type I would think would be deterred from calling out even an MVP.

Embiid accepted the messages sent in the meeting, sources said...

He would. Joel is a consummate professional.

The "76ers" Big Three, Joel, Electric. and Paul George John Ringo have yet to take the floor together due to injuries. 

Monday, November 18, 2024

FT "Heat" 106 "76ers" 89 👏🥳

You's be lacking in one of humankind's best emotions if you didn't have empathy for Philadelphia. From GM to coach to their best players, those are quality people in that org. 

Boy oh BOY. 97-77, 5:38 4Q

Boy oh boy, that 19-point lead Phil. had in 2Q? Mia.'s lead is 16 end 3Q. smh. 88-72.

Jimmy is having a superb game: 24, 7, and 5.

Holy hell, PHILLY LED 49-30 IN THIS GAME!

There's a player named Guerschon Yabusele


80-69, 2;45 3Q :o ("Heat" 27-13 3Q)

Phil. doesn't have Electric Maxey but does Paul George John Ringo and Joel. They have a good coach, Nurse Nick. But they are 2-10 and they are playing very poorly in this game. They have 10 t.o.'s (Mia. 11) and fouled Tyler shooting three a minute ago. Sloppy, dumb ball. I don't know the issue(s) but there is NO WAY this Phila. team should be 2-10.

Hot 3rd Quarter (20-12)! 73-6, 4:44

HT Mia 53 Phil. 56

Jimmy is game high with 19, Paul George John Ringo and J. McCain lead Phil. with 12. The "Heat" were turnover-prone in the first half with 10. Phil. had more shooting attempts as a result and were more accurate, 48.9%-41.9%. Teamies C-Mart and K-Low started for the bad guys. Caleb had 10 points but Kyle had no Effect.

9-9, 7:42 1Q

This is a fucking reunion of old teammates!

Starters.

Phil:

Paul, George, John Ringo
C-Mart
Joel
Kyle
J. McCain. Thought he died. Rather, he's in Philadelphia.

 

Mia:

Duncan
Highway
Jimbo
Bamo
Herro

0-3, 11:24 1Q

Mia 0 7'6"ers 0. Very early.

 

Trump confirms he will utilize US military to conduct mass deportations

President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinet

 Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration “will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program”.

2-10? Don't know what's going on in Phil.



Every time I take Eleven to the vet for shots, the ending to A Farewell to Arms involuntarily comes to my mind. The wife and baby both die in child birth and he has to leave their bodies in the hospital and walk home in the rain alone.


Miami HEAT
@MiamiHEAT

#PHIvsMIA INJURY UPDATE: Jimmy Butler (ankle) is available to play in tonight's game vs the Sixers. Terry Rozier (right foot discomfort) and Jaime Jaquez, Jr. (ankle) have both been ruled out.

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This was the scene and the reconstructed course of chaos of Queen Korat the 11th.


Her Majesty's recent favorite napping place is on the green Publix bag obscured by the cat icon next to the kitchen window. This was the Original Position.

My role in the mayhem was unwitting co-trigger. I walked into the kitchen for reasons obliterated from memory by what followed. Simultaneous with this provocation, a neighbor's door closed heavily. Eleven then took the course described by the parabola, immediately doubling back over the stove, leaping onto the counter and finally spinning out on my papers knocking a quantity of them to the floor and looking up at me accusingly. "Are you an insane animal?" was what I thought to say.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Eleven? Oh ABSOLUTELY! Totally normal cat.

This is simply one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

💭"Fucking offense."

"What?"

"YOU FUCKING SUCK, THAT'S WHAT!"
"YOU'RE ASS AS A COACH!"

🤣

"This is who we are."

On the Democratic side, members have been so despondent about a second Trump victory — and, in particular, Trump’s resounding win of the popular vote — that the public reaction has been just a sliver of what it was to after his first win in 2016: no massive protests in major liberal cities or on college campuses and no major corporate denunciations of Trump. ...

“Because now it’s very clear who he is. Like, ‘We don’t care that he’s a felon and we don’t care that he’s a rapist. We don’t care that he’s corrupt.’ Whereas before, the jury was a bit out, and now we know. And people are saying — like, literally by voting — they’re saying, ‘Yeah, those things don’t matter to me,’” said Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March. ...


"We are NOT a better people. This is who we are."


 The economy Donald Trump said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans  soared.

Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.

...

...Anti-Trump Republicans, who either voted for Harris or sat out the election altogether, are grappling with whether the more traditionalist, Ronald Reagan strain of the party is even worth fighting for anymore, and many of them have lost an appetite for the resistance-style efforts they launched during Trump’s first presidency.

“I think that people who have been opposing Trumpism have viewed this very existentially — not from a policy perspective, but from a character perspective, from the hope that we are a better people than this,” said Mike Madrid, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and a longtime GOP strategist. “At a certain point, you can compel people to speak to their better angels, but if they don’t want to, you’re never going to win that fight. We are not a better people. This is who we are.”

FT Ind. 119 Mia. 110

Third quarter again. Pace Cars 33-26. Ind. led 76-60 with 3:50 left in the quarter and it was done.

So the "Heat" complete their midwest road trip 2-4 and are 5-7. They play tomorrow night in the Bus agin the 7'6"ers.

They're in...guess?, yep, 8th place in the Eastern Conference, right where they were seeded the last two seasons. They are what they are: the 45's.

Okay, so I looked up "warm bowl of milk for cats" because that's the image!


While cats enjoy the warmth of milk and it can soothe their throats, milk is generally not healthy for cats and can cause gastrointestinal problems: 
  • Lactose intolerance: Most cats are lactose intolerant and can't properly digest milk.
  • No. It may seem like a good idea, but “milk can cause GI upset, and adding it to your cat's food can cause them to fill up on milk alone and not consume enough food to meet their nutrient needs,” says Purinanutritionist, Karina Carbo-Johnson, MS.
  • So I don't add milk to Eleven's food and she doesn't fill up on it. I just let her lick the whipped cream when I buy key lime pie, which is like 6 times in my life. She has never gotten sick: no diarrhea or vomiting.
    If you want to give your cat milk, you can try these tips:
    • Offer in moderation: Limit milk to a couple of sips at the bottom of the bowl.
    • That's what I do.
      From reddit user equivalent-cry-5175 1yr ago

    Look at it as a treat and don’t do it often.

    Back in the day when there were a lot of farms feral cats used to hang around because there was an abundance of food for them. When a cow milker would spill milk they would lap it up it has a lot of fat in it and they developed a taste for it. However they are lactose intolerant still and it plays havoc on their digestive system but if you only let em have a lil bit occasionally and he gets a regular proper diet I wouldn’t worry too much.


    That's exactly what I do.