The Hall of Fire

ivare wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 5:36 am Hi, thanks for the welcome and for resolving the issue so quickly!

Also, sometimes material gets classified long after it's generated, so some of the material found in Trump's, Biden's, and Pence's homes might not have been classified when they took it home but is considered classified now (this was also the case with Hillary's emails). I *believe* the issue is th...

Alatar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:35 pm What the hell is the backstory here?

It's a somewhat-famous-in-some-circles piece of marginalia from medieval manuscripts. There is a lot of that kind of art in them, and there are differing opinions on why and what it might 'really' represent.

I want to do the one with the cat running away from the nun with the thing in its mouth.

So... all the camera footage that would show... where lawmakers sheltered, their route out of the building, etc? That kind of footage?

As lately mentioned here, unemployment is below 3.5% and hasn't been this low in 54 years. As Dave Weigel of Semafor notes at that link, in 2012, one of Mitt Romney's campaign promises in 2012 was that as president, he would get unemployment below 6%. Unemployment did drop below 6% in 2014, during ...

Debating the house rules on the floor today, and the first amendment offered by a Republican is about making stricter the rules of what women have to wear in here. Yep, the caucus that lost their minds over the suggestion that they should wear masks during a pandemic to respect the safety of others...

The blankets have very fine fibers added to the wool from the thin cambium layer between the bark and the wood of the tree. It's flexible and has a high tensile strength, and can be split down to threadlike pieces and added into wool as you spin it. Is it added to keep bugs out of the wool?? I was ...

Oh but see, Biden is president now, and he only had to think that those documents were declassified and magically they now are. So clearly there is nothing here.

Another condition the renegade Republicans have apparently gotten Kevin McCarthy to agree to is the reinstatement of the "Holman rule," which was in effect from 1876 to 1983 and from 2017 to 2019 and which allows the House to amend appropriations bills to cut the salaries of specific posi...

Malice and incompetence are not mutually exclusive. True. And I think that's what's driving the current situation. If it were competent malice, we'd have a Speaker by now. No but that was my point - competent malice can *look* like incompetence if you aren't in on what the goal is. If the goal is a...

Inanna wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:32 pm I think they are just disorganized nincompoops.

This should make the democrats appreciate Pelosi even more than they currently do!

Despite the admitted appeal of that assessment, I think it's dangerous to dismiss them as merely disorganized.

So what are the chances that the Republicans are actually doing this on purpose to distract from something else going on?

Specifically my thought is distract from Trump/Jan 6th investigations, but is there another possible event that they're trying to draw attention from?

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/11449263 ... suit-trump

Fox News' Sean Hannity says he knew all along Trump lost the election

Might be too early to cheer but...

Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement

"Don't eat the fruit of that tree"

excitedly: "oooh, what tree, where!?"

Dave_LF wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 4:11 am Seems like as good an explanation as any:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

... I noticed how not one option was "maybe we shouldn't do this at all"??

RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 4:16 pm ... but are we surprised? (no) I truly believe he does not think laws apply to him (as is the case with many narcissists).

Well, and they largely haven't up till now so...

I really wish it had gone further, but maybe they couldn't get the support for it, but it's frustrating that it only says that states have to recognize legally performed marriages, not that states are required to make marriages legal in their state. :nono: But it *is* something. Just feels like a st...

Joseph Mawle comments: https://twitter.com/realjosephmawle/status/1598380117872545818 I loved my time exploring middle earth and diving into Tolkien’s mythology. I’m so honoured that the character was liked. He cared deeply about telling you his story. Though as an actor it remains my wish, my job ...