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Re: lights out?!....upcoming Broadway shows closing.... - 2 days ago

Both Harry Potter and Aladdin required masks be on while inside the theater. I think that is standard policy for Broadway shows.

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Re: Just following what rights we have left. SCOTUS opinions. NY 2A case out too - 6 days ago

Didn't appear here, but a couple of days ago SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that Maine has to give taxpayer money to private religious schools as well.

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Re: Kell (quelle) surprise?!....Kellogg's shares rise on news it will split into 3 companies.... - 8 days ago

The cereal division/new company better retain the "Kellogg's" name, as W. K. Kellogg discovered and created the 'Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company'. Snacks and other items came a lot later.

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Re: Toyota sucks! (And ATT! And others!) - 12 days ago

Quotebfd QuoteAllGold QuoteSpeedy I remember the days of windfall profits taxes under a Republican president. You don’t hear cries for that anymore. You do hear some cries for that from "radical" leftist liberals. Yes, always the "radicals". When did reasonable become radical? When the country shifted further right. When Obama and Biden are considered more right-wing

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Re: jagged little pill?!....Mick Jagger has COVID -> 1 show canceled / Hugh Jackman tests positive after 'Tonys'.... - 14 days ago

We saw Hugh Jackman briefly Saturday as he arrived to get ready for The Music Man. My daughter and I were standing in line to get into the Stardust Diner (we were there on a tour of NYC with her former high school) when screams arose, we turned around and briefly glimpsed him at the entrance to the theater.

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Re: Difference between AR-15 and weapon of war - 21 days ago

What happens when AR-15 rifle bullets tear through the human body: (Too bad the Smithsonian removed the video.) QuoteBGR“One looks like a grenade went off in there,” University of Arizona trauma surgeon Peter Rhee told Wired when comparing the damage done by AR-15 bullets and 9mm handgun bullets. “The other looks like a bad knife cut.”

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Re: How many deer hunted with an AK-15? - 22 days ago

QuoteDeusxMac QuoteRacer X Because YOU buy your food at the store does not mean each and every other person in the US does. But you know that to be true. Completely missing the point (yet again)... You don't NEED to shoot your own food. You're killing for entertainment only. Nope, no, the average hunter is not killing for entertainment. Animal population control is a huge reason that peop

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Re: Broken record PSA: Astonishing how easily our phones alter body image - 22 days ago

I don't get the attraction to big breasts and huge bottoms. Look at a few of those posts and a lot seem to be enhanced to created huge bottoms. Do these young women really think that attracts men? Then there are the Asian "enhancements"...teeny tiny heads on wide square shoulders with pin width waists and mile long legs. WTF? Who is attracted to that? It's almost as if these women wa

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Re: Yeah. More COVID... - 22 days ago

See? We don't need no vaccines. They don't do anything anyway. /s

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Re: A Democratic ‘Contract With America’ for 2022 - 23 days ago

Quotehal "A Democratic agenda like this won’t be credible, particularly to voters who aren’t hardcore Democrats, if implementation relies on the same people who have long been in charge. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) have been in party leadership almost

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Re: Because of newly passed "open carry" in OK, cops could not stop this guy until he started shooting - 26 days ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! QuoteRacer X QuoteN-OS X-tasy! QuoteRgrF Matt moved from Wisconsin to the Big Apple, who knew? Did you and Steve G do a house swap? Wait - when did that happen? now who's not paying attention! (in this case I kid. I just have a great memory, with some minor gaps) So do I — I just never read where he moved out of WI. News to me. Same here. I thought he moved from New Y

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Re: Aaaand another: 2 adults, 3 children murdered in Centerville, Texas - 26 days ago

Quotepdq They suspect an escaped inmate. Details are sparse, but I’d bet he didn’t stab or bludgeon 5 people to death. QuoteKBTXTDCJ suspects Lopez took a firearm from the residence he broke into.

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Re: New iPhone 13 !!! - 27 days ago

Awesome! iPhone Leader! I'm waiting until this fall when the iPhone 14 comes out. My 12 Pro is doing just fine. Lately Apple has been releasing phones in my favorite colors, I have the blue 12Pro, but I also really like the green and violet ones.

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Re: SCOTUS poised to expand gun rights? Because the frying pan's not hot enough. - 28 days ago

If the SCOTUS justices were truly "Originalists", then we wouldn't be having this discussion. They would read the whole Second Amendment and not just half of it as the Heller SCOTUS did. They would know that the original intent of the 2nd Amendment was to supply a ready-made army (the militia) for the state, as the Founders were afraid of an overarching federal government whose military

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Re: Heart's "What About Love" video: An 80's masterpiece of cringe-worthy? - 29 days ago

Quotefreeradical This video is a little bit better. Much better. Rock and rollin', not sappy.

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Re: GOP congressman says he would support assault weapons ban - 29 days ago

QuoteTed King Quote$tevie We can solve this in a heartbeat by resurrecting the original Black Panthers. White people pooped in their pants and even the NRA wanted more restrictive gun laws. Because POC with guns are much scarier than white guys with guns, amiright? QuoteThroughout the late 1960s, the militant black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of Californi

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Re: Worth reading - 4 weeks ago

Our school system for the most part already does this, and the schools that don't have a secured entrance are having their entrances redone. Also, all exits in the schools are latched to only allow exit. Sure they can be propped open, and they are when there is the Halloween parade in the one elementary school, but 99% of the time the doors closed and locked. Even during recess time. Our high

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Re: a well-armed citizenry can defend against any home invasion - 4 weeks ago

I heard that Ukrainian farmers are having a sale on tanks right now.

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Re: Curly hair - Florida - 4 weeks ago

This is the kind of code people used to need for political dissent in Communist Eastern Europe. Also lifted from Twitter comments. Let that sink in... People living in The Land of the Free now have to operate as if they lived in a repressive, autocratic Communist country.

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Re: Oklahoma governor signs nation’s strictest abortion ban (women's rights? what rights?) - 4 weeks ago

Quotepdq A letter-writer (not me) in the local dead-tree paper today had a suggestion, which while not new, was pretty well formulated. If the government is asserting control over a woman’s body, it should remember that it takes two to get pregnant. Women should have the right to prove paternity by requiring the father to submit to genetic testing. If the man is confirmed as the father, he p

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Re: Here is a list of the 27 school shootings that have taken place this year - 4 weeks ago

Quotepdq :::snip::: Frankly, I think we need to stop nibbling around the edges. We need to update the second amendment. It’s failed. And you can quote me on that. No, what failed was the Supreme Court. They failed us with the District of Columbia vs Heller ruling. SCOTUS essentially deleted the first half of the Second Amendment: QuoteA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the

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Re: Oh f#ck it IS at least 18 children and 2 adults, in shooting at Texas elementary school - 4 weeks ago

QuoteDeusxMac Quotedeckeda Firearms are a popular hobby,.. There's the crux of the problem; using weapons designed and built for quick, non-contact killing, as leisure entertainment. BS!! That is NOT the crux of the problem. How is a gun different from a bow and arrow or a crossbow? The only purpose to both of those is to kill as well, yet both are being used for "entertainment" as

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Re: Got my second booster this past weekend - 5 weeks ago

The comments are idiotic.

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Re: Trying to Understand iCloud Photo Storage - 5 weeks ago

Quotevision63 For the time being, check out the pros and cons of "Optimise Photos" in the iPhone settings. I've been meaning to fully check out how Apple implements this feature. Settings General iPhone Storage Enable "Optimise Photos" It should reduce quite a bit. The photos are still stored on iCloud and the phone photos are replaced with smaller versions.

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Re: A nice writeup on the burgeoning theocracy - 5 weeks ago

QuoteLemon Drop Meh. She fails to mention the single most important anti-abortion activist, IMO, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B Anthony group. She is a brilliant political strategist (Duke grad) who is winning this battle politically. I fear people like Marjorie Dannenfelser, but not the Bishops and preachers. I am more worried about plutocracy and voting rights th

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Re: Ibuprofen or Aspirin for mild arthritis inflammation? - 5 weeks ago

QuotergG Quotepdq The wife (apparently) has degenerative arthritis from oddly-angled hip bones, which has now manifested itself primarily as pain in the knees. Appears to run in her family; they’ve all had joint replacements as they aged. She had one hip replaced last year, and the knee on that side is now far less painful, although now the other side is acting up. Anyway, she swears by a

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Re: Camera for Amateur Naturalist? - 5 weeks ago

This site recommends the Olympus TG-5 (now TG-6): The problem I have with a lot of the other recommendations is that they are mostly DSLR's which need lenses, but there are no lens recommendations. One option would be to get a used or inexpensive DSLR like the Canon T-series and add a 55-200 lens or so. This won't give you macro, but will give close ups that may be good enough. Look at

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Re: ‘ Captive medic’s bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupol ‘ - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSpeedy QuoteRgrF Amazing woman! Yes, she was. RIP. She's dead? I can't find anything on the internet regarding this.

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Re: Will it ever stop? Cawthorn calls on “Dark MAGA” to rise up and avenge him. - 5 weeks ago

A fringe right wing neo-nazi element that is trying to unite all of the fringe extremist right wing groups and get mainstreamed.

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Re: Amber Alert on AirPods damaged teenager's hearing, lawsuit claims - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSpeedy If I were Apple, I would claim the kid had the volume cranked dangerously high often. Only 12 y.o. … The Entitled Parents address that in the lawsuit: QuoteIt also goes after the iPhone maker for not issuing a warning about the potential for hearing loss or damage. Are people really that stupid? They really don't know that loud sounds can cause hearing damage and now demand a

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