I’m all in on the getting rid of Cammack part.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Dumbass Donbas

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

It's been a good month with the sunny skies and mild temperatures. So far, we've sold back more that twice as much electricity (481 kwh) as we have bought (195 kWh). About 18% of the usage for the house came from the grid since we keep a 20% buffer on the batteries rather than letting them go to 0.

It's on our home wifi, so no big deal for it to check the weather forecast. I'm assuming it checks what's left of the National Weather Service. It will, of course, do this for tropical storm/hurricane warnings, too.

Got a notification last night that since today would be a red flag fire warning day, the batteries with our solar panels would charge to 100% from the grid and stay fully charged until the warning expires. That's a nice feature and gives the maximum buffer against the grid going down.

In a nutshell. 😊

Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…

And lo, it came to pass that the 18th anniversary of the greatest local news story ever told came upon us, and we were sore amazed

I’m having PTSD from my California days when I go outside and encounter smoky conditions from the wildfires here in Gainesville.

Here's an answer: DoorDash Grandma can deliver McDonald's to the starving crews of the aircraft carriers!

Section 702 has been a black mark on the US and all that supported this law for decades now. If you are outraged by ICE agents going into people’s homes without warrants, you should take equal umbrage at Feds intercepting communications from or to US citizens without even secret court approval.

Just yesterday we were exchanging raccoon penis recipes!

Or forget...

Hmm. Trump says Israel is "prohibited" from bombing Lebanon. This could provoke an interesting showdown when Bibi disregards it.

Future CPSC PSAs will be, "Secure the carpets in your home to make sure your home robot avoids trip hazards."

Awesome! I stumbled around and got a 5.

Who wants to buy a corner anyway?

He’s in for a treat.

And now my lips are sealed.

With the castle at the end of the rainbow!

(I remember that view.)

Gonna buy myself a sexy car and rename myself Vehicular.

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Indeed.

I'm thinking they did a voice to text of the postgame interview and fed that into AI with instructions to write an article. There are several spots where it has the coach saying things that are the direct opposite of what he must have said. Then it was posted without taking a look at it.

I suppose it makes sense, though. Since the team mailed it in last night, the writers might as well.

Wow. This article never had a proofreader look at it. I'm betting it was straight AI with voice to text without a second look to see all the errors.

Sad.

And does anyone believe that was actually his money?

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

Terrific sign-off by the Pearl Jam poster lady and her family.

#antiquesroadshow

I was really hoping I had heard that wrong.

An Eames Henry Miller rocker on display at Antiques Roadshow.

We have the dark grey Eames chair. It’s older than this 1960 one. My wife was rocked in it as a baby.
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