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Agreed. For the Senate race, Katie Porter is the progressive choice, endorsed by Elizabeth Warren.

https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2024/02/07/katie-porter-is-the-progressive-choice/

Her competitor, Adam Schiff, is the old-school Nancy Pelosi choice. He has been running ads that boost the Republican Steve Garvey in an attempt to eliminate Porter from the race.

Sorry -- it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.

Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge ... tracts of land!

And no singing!

Not since about 25 years ago. It was spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. And in fact it was not called Yum until sometime later than that -- it was never Yum under PepsiCo.

Edit to add: I still don't go there, of course.

What do non-Americans think it is?

I was sure that Buddy had done this, in "Elf", but I looked it up and that had been maple syrup. This looks even better.

I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.

That's an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making -- quite nicely.

Me too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

I, for one, had not known that (tho' I am not Jewish). Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

If your employer is a great corporation then they will not mind paying a fair portion of their profits toward taxes.

So ... we were supposed to skim instead of read. Mea culpa -- I was reading instead, trying to understand the arguments and get the points. I was weary by the time I got there.

Aha! So YOU are the reason AltaVista died!

I don't think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.

Lovely spell.

Google for "Intuit lobbying."

It's not literally bribery; it's corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

... and chips (Frito-Lay).