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    How About This Weather We've Been Having?

    This dynamic is notoriously difficult to predict and there is nothing but more uncertainty and extreme events that outstrip our experience on the...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM in forum: BBS Hangout
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    What will it take to make you seriously consider an EV?

    Looong article on the Tesla Files and problems with the cars. Some damning excerpts:...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM in forum: BBS Hangout
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    Cam Smith: The Aircraft Carrier

    Some others to not play in the minors that I don't believe have been mentioned: Bob Feller Mel Ott George Sisler Frankie Frisch Gil Hodges...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM in forum: Houston Astros
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    Cam Smith: The Aircraft Carrier

    How can you guys forget Eddie Gaedel, who never played a game in the minor leagues and has a record 1.000 on base percentage for his MLB career....
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM in forum: Houston Astros
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    Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

    Putting this here because visitor's season at national park has always been a low-key rolling disaster that is rarely noticeable beyond NPS...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

    Happy #249. Here's some bits written by Mr. Paine to remind us of what it is all about: THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Immigration law inquiry

    I'm not a lawyer. That said, I think it's clear that the law we think we have is not the law we have right now. If that is the worst thing that...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Big beautiful bill] MAGA add 6 trillion dollars in debt while kicking off 17 million off Healthcare

    Think of everyone you know and pick out the people you would least trust with secret police power. That is who they will hire.
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Big beautiful bill] MAGA add 6 trillion dollars in debt while kicking off 17 million off Healthcare

    And yet in the long run, the most important thing will likely be the near-complete repeal of all of Biden's climate initiatives and the...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

    Well, we just made the world a hotter place--and with it, accelerated every bad thing that is related to climate instability. If you haven't...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Big beautiful bill] MAGA add 6 trillion dollars in debt while kicking off 17 million off Healthcare

    Unbelievable, but sadly, believable....
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    What will it take to make you seriously consider an EV?

    I'm a big EV guy, but this sounds horrible. No thanks.
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM in forum: BBS Hangout
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    [WaPo] Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says, ‘We’re shutting it down’

    Until this post, most people were unaware that there were line items in the budget for money laundering and corruption--at least you acknowledge...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Big beautiful bill] MAGA add 6 trillion dollars in debt while kicking off 17 million off Healthcare

    A lot of folks on Medicaid may not now realize they are on Medicaid, but they will soon enough. [IMG]
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Tillman apology thread

    I'll only think about apologizing when he brings back our championship uniforms. It's obvious we've been a cursed franchise since we went away...
    Post by: rimrocker, Jul 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM in forum: Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves