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Vizzini concurs.

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. - Benjamin Franklin

Nebraska went to the Big 10 Championship game in 2012, where they were stomped by Wisconsin. That's the last time they had any notable success.

In 2016 I reached out to Kristi Noem's office for help with a recalcitrant office not processing my separation in a timely fashion and got a complete resolution within 18 hours. It sounds like South Dakotans are electing people who aren't messing around.

I was in CA the last couple weeks and the whole "armed guards in grocery stores" thing is wild.

I hate the Container of Nightmares. I have to take the same damn test for my civilian job and I can always hear my heartbeat and wonder whether I'm imagining the faint tones. I'm not claustrophobic, but I hate that damn hearing test.

Not doing this is my absolute number one professional regret in my career. A LOT of other shit went wrong, but this one I could have controlled and did not.

Imagine being the poor bastard having to explain to a four star that not only has he been ratioed and then dragged on Twitter, but that he has become a meme on a subreddit. Then imagine trying to be that poor bastard's supervisor trying to turn that nonsense into an OPR bullet.

You can literally see where the city limits are by the presence of the homeless.

I flew three different aircraft and jalapeno corn was a thing in all three.

In 2016 Kamala had a higher profile as the state attorney general than her opponent, Loretta Sanchez, a backbencher congresswoman. She also had higher profile endorsements than her opponent and raised a lot more money. No-one would mistake Kamala Harris for a great campaigner, but she started with all the advantages and turned that into a 23 point win. Newsom in 2018's only real competition from the Democratic Party was LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. This was a similar outcome in that Newsom started with big advantages in name recognition, endorsements and funding and cruised to an easy victory in the primary.

They don't make as much, but transaction fees charged to merchants every time you swipe add up.

This was all I could think of when I saw dude got the axe before he even got to the ceremony. https://www.duffelblog.com/p/air-force-change-of-command

There's probably a governor named Ronald running in 2024, just saying.

IIRC he was dumb enough to pay for it with a credit card as well.

The reality is the RNC and Republican establishment does not have the pull to pick a candidate. It was screamingly obvious they wanted someone, anyone else but Trump in 2016. He consistently got around 35-45% in the competitive primaries. If the "establishment" had the power to force candidates out of primaries, they would have done so, allowing one of the more traditional candidates to consolidate the remaining 55-65% of the primary vote. Instead, multiple candidates stayed in the race and split the vote allowing Trump to win. Additionally, the previous GOP President left office with horrific approval ratings and does not have any pull with the party, unlike Obama for the Democrats. If W had called Rubio and Kasich and 2016 to tell them to get out of the race so Cruz could consolidate support (like Obama did to Mayor Pete and Klobuchar after Biden won SC in 2020), I suspect they would have laughed at him.

I left for a contractor job, so I see the Air Force every day. I do not miss it in the slightest.

This is it right here. Our sports culture prizes physical toughness. The legendary performances are mostly people pushing through illness and injury to win: Jack Youngblood playing in the Super Bowl with a broken leg, Michael Jordan dominating in the Flu Game, Kirk Gibson clobbering a home run in the World Series on injured legs, Kerri Strug sticking the landing on a busted ankle, Byron Leftwich leading a comeback with a leg injured so bad he had to be carried by his linemen, Ronnie Lott having part of his finger amputated so he could go back in and on and on.

FCS has 24 teams in the playoff and it works great. For the FBS, I'm pulling for TCU. Any team going hard with HypnoToad memes deserves to win the whole damn thing.

The mechanism is getting passed over for promotion twice. Then you're a free agent. It worked for me. I loved telling people that I had two years left on my ADSC while I walked around with a beard and polo shirt and hands in my pockets. That said 20 year contracts are unconscionable.

Somebody's gotta work mids.

I saw a dude on a Unicycle wearing fully functional Christmas tree lights at Kandahar in 2011, is this the same guy?

I think we're looking at a Democratic Senate and a Republican House. The GOP picked some profoundly unready celebrity candidates (Dr. Oz & Herschel Walker) and likely thrown away a couple of very winnable races. We'll see in a couple of weeks.

You're not wrong. IIRC the complaints about USAA correlate with when they started advertising.

This seems like we need a statute of limitations.