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I loved those balsa wood gliders. I may pick one up this weekend for a kid I know. Thanks.

This seems appropriate in this thread ... JFC.

That was about as much time as I wanted to spend in it. There is a narrative that the MSM is out to destroy Christmas or at least take the Jesus out. The primetime airing of Linus' speech shows that may not be the case. Here's another primetime show that speaks to the meaning of Christmas. Secular but still hits the point.

Man, one crazy night when I was a lot younger I got drunk in Moscow and ended up taking a girl back to my hotel room. To my shock, I found out the next morning that she was Lithuanian. Talk about your fake Russian hox.

Can you edit your post and remove the quoted pics? People don't need to scroll past all that again. I wouldn't wear a MAGA hat. Can't help you there, kid.

I'm white, male and oldish. I skew conservative in some things, liberal in other. My guess is that I'm pretty average in that. I don't feel persecuted but then my self worth isn't affected by fringe internet warriors. Here's the mainstream media furthering their war on Christmas. NBC primetime ABC primetime NY Sun editorial

Your initial point was "attack" then it became "attack in are (sic) lifetime" now it's "civilian attack." Can you work through to your end point and save us both some time?

I have to think you're trolling as no one can mistake "are" for "our." But what the hell ... Just big picture stuff but in my lifetime we've (the US) has seen Vietnam, The Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afganistan, Iraq. Do you want a worldwide list? I keep hearing this but I'm not sure where the evidence is. I live in Sodom and Gomorrah - NYC - and in a particularly churchy part of the city - Harlem - and I see nothing but full churches and people free to worship. If you can walk the streets of NYC with a forehead of ash in this city of left wing Jewish pornographers and not get hassled (as I saw dozens do on Ash Wednesday) I'm sure you can do so anywhere in the country. Other than a few morons (which every side seems to breed), where is the condemnation?

Over $500k in nine days. This guy is getting stronger.

I think it's more like 1200 gallons or about 10000 pounds. That's a hell of a lot of weight to crash down on a compromised structure even if they could target the drop.

You may want to go back to the history books if you think no attack has killed more people. They are not comparable when you consider intent and lives lost but may be when it comes to what they represent to the people they affect. Referring to something as "911" is simply a way of communicating via a shared cultural event. The WTC site was referred to as "ground zero" many times then and to this day. Were those people equating the deaths of 3000 innocents to the deaths of 200,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? No. They were reaching for an easily understood figure of speech that expressed the scale, despair and heartbreak of a tragedy. Christ, even Picard understood what the hell Dathon was talking about when he said, "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra." He didn't argue about whether Tanagra was equivalent to the current situation. Fortunately, it doesn't look as if the damage was so severe that the cathedral will have to come down. It will be rebuilt, as was lower Manhattan, as was Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I think I would do well on Half Wits.

Going to be hard to top Ken Jennings' 74 wins and 2.5 million but if anyone can do it this guy can. Lots of fun to watch.

Sorry to hear. This is the best essay I've ever read about the loss of a dog. It was written by Vicki Hearne who was a dog trainer, author and philosopher. She trained with Dick Koehler whose father, Bill, was the great Disney dog trainer and author of numerous books. It's long so here is the cleanest link I can find. http://atpeacewithpink.blogspot.com/2016/02/oyez-beaumont.html Hope it helps some.

Tell him to throw it up on https://bringatrailer.com/ They seem to get great prices.

It just gets better ... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pregnant-whale-plastic-pregnant-whale-washes-ashore-italy-nearly-50-pounds-of-plastic-in-stomach/

I know, right? Iron Eyes Cody wasn't even an Indian!

The world produces about 299 million tons of plastics annually, and up to 20 million tons of it ends up in our oceans each year Estimates suggest that by 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight. Already, in some ocean waters plastic exceeds plankton by a factor of 6-to-1 Research suggests the average person swallows up to 68,415 plastic fibers each year just from the plastic dust particles landing on their plates during meals The average person also ingests about 100 plastic particles each year from shell fish — remnants of microplastic water pollution Tests have revealed bottled water contains on average 325 pieces of microplastic particles per liter — contamination thought to originate from the manufacturing process of the bottles and caps

Maybe we should line cotton bags with single-use plastic? Best of both worlds! I think if you ran a cotton swab across life you may find it loaded with bacteria, but aren't cotton bags washable?

It doesn't seem an unreasonable question if this is a situation where tempers are running high and one guy is drunk (if that's what "blown out" means). Not unheard of for someone to leave a fight, go home get a gun, and come back to kill someone. The cop offering to drive the car is ridiculous.

Come to my place. Still 8" of snow on my road.

I think this is less about a ban having an appreciable affect in oceans, etc, though certainly fewer bags alongside NY highway would be great, and more about education. We don't need so many single-use bags. My grandmother who was born in 1889 - dirt poor in the Ukraine and emigrated to Canada where she was also dirt poor, but better dirt. She lived through a couple of world wars, the depression and mini skirts, and all the time, hoarded plastic bags. They were a marvel to her as they had multiple uses and could be reused again and again, and above all were free. I can't tell you him many times she reused bags, each one was carefully folded after use and replaced in the drawer. They eventually developed deep wrinkles where they were folded until they literally disintegrated in her hands. That is fair use of a plastic bag. The grocery clerk double bagging a loaf of bread (already in a convenient plastic bag) for a two block walk home were it is tossed because I'm overflowing with bags isn't. It's a really small thing to find another way to convey you stuff from A to B.

Albatross chick dead with a stomach full of plastic. Plastic pulled from stomach of dead whale. I don't want to know that my Wegman's bag ended up in the guts of a dead animal. It's a small step but a relatively easy one.

Have you considered putting your name forward for Sec of the Interior? I'm sure the current administration would appreciate that kind of straightforward no-nonsense approach to environmental issues.

I haven't gone too deep into this but on the surface, I'm all for it. I've been to too many countries and oceans where single-use plastic is devastating the environment.