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I watched a video where the guy was saying no way is SEC not represented in the playoff. So Bama got in. I'm a Bama Fan. I am happy for Bama, although I don't necessarily think they deserve it. They have been off all year and played a horrible game against Auburn that they should have lost but won. I thought the same would happen in the SEC championship for GA. But Bama beat them and it was close. Anyway, I'm glad Bama is in but not so happy about FL State not being in. TX is a one loss team same as Bama. It might have looked weird to include FL State and make TX the only team with a loss. I think FL state should be in there and then I don't know. Bama or TX. That is the choice. TX beat Bama earlier in the season so they are an obvious choice. Bama showed glimpses of brilliance this season but also showed glimpses of mediocrity. I say they are lucky to have been 12-1. But I'm guessing they beat Michigan and then TX or WA. Either way, I root for the Huskies or Tide and I have both in the playoff so I am quite happy about that. WA has had some scary wins and they are the PAC-12 champ but they almost lost some games they should have blown out. Tough year for the CFP honchos to choose. That said, I think it should be GA,MI,FL State, and TX or WA or AL. That's my 2 cents. mspart

Sign stealing in Wrestling is a fantastic topic. Really funny stuff guys!! mspart

Swimming Schwimminig. mspart

Maybe they'll even be on opposites sides of the bracket. mspart

Thanks for the updates. Bigger brackets than I anticipated. mspart

Furnace gets replaced on Monday. mspart

House is warm now word. mspart

I replaced the control switch. mspart

The discussion was about the initial shutdown the feds and the states did due to covid. Newsom was pointing out that DeSantis followed the "science" and shutdown the state. What Newsom failed to say was that DeSantis also followed the science and lifted the shutdown as one of the first in the nation to do so. Thus the argument. mspart

Ouch!!

Didn't watch it. For those that did, what did you think of the format, intrusiveness of the moderator, and the time allowed for the debaters to make their point? Is this a template for future Primary and General election Presidential debates? mspart

House is 51F per thermostat. mspart

Definition of a first world problem!! mspart

Yes, Let's talk the brown stuff. mspart

And when the government is advising the business of which content should be censored? Then that becomes part of the question. And that is what happened as demonstrated by the Twitter files. mspart

I joined the local neighborhood swim team my junior year to stay in shape over the summer. They did a 500 yd warmup. I think I got maybe 150 yds and the warm up was done. By the end, I was up to 350 yds for the warmup. My first race was a 100 yd medly. I came in dead last and could hardly get myself out of the pool. I'm not a great swimmer, but the one thing I did learn was how to relax while swimming. I could have done 500 for a warm up given enough time. But they were impatient. I do remember some 8 year old girl had the most amazing butterfly stroke I had personally ever seen. It was a thing a beauty. I tried it and it was horrible, way to much energy and drowning with that stroke. mspart

I could never even do that. Maybe any 10 meters after her 500th. mspart

The above is not to say that BigBrog is wrong. On the contrary. The less we can pollute the earth, the better. I do my fair share of air pollution (cars, house, lawn mower, weed whacker, chain saws). But I use those things rarely except the car and house and the car is a diesel and gets 35+ miles per gallon routinely. Not as good as a hybrid, but pretty good. Right now my house is without a furnace so you'll all be glad to know I am not polluting with my house yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow. And it is cold here in PNW these few days. mspart

Interesting intro to this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice-age-changed-history It is easy to forget just how variable the climate of the earth has been, across the geologic time scale. That is partly because the extent of that variability is so difficult to imagine. A world entirely covered in ice, from pole to pole—the so-called snowball earth—is something we find it hard to get our heads around, even though the longest and oldest period of total or near-total glaciation, the Huronian glaciation, lasted for three hundred million years. A world without ice is also hard to visualize, though it is by comparison a much more recent phenomenon: perhaps only thirty-four million years ago, crocodiles swam in a freshwater lake we know as the North Pole, and palm trees grew in Antarctica. The reality is that our planet oscillates between phases with no ice, phases with all ice, and phases in the middle. The middle is where we happen to be right now—a fact that is responsible for our faulty perception of the earth’s climate as accommodating and stable. mspart

Ouch is right. Splits with that kind of weight on you!! I'll bet he was feeling that the next day. mspart

You don't know nothing about wrestling, your name is true. mspart

This might be transformative. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/battery-crushes-teslas-tech-unveils-160816090.html New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge mspart

I assume you mean for here in Seattle. Can you state with authority whether it was or was not? That's right..... Didn't think so! mspart

And there will be sunlight. Hunter is trying to circumvent the subpoena. Congress dictates the terms, not the person under subpoena. As noted in the Turley article: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., quickly disabused Hunter of the point of the subpoena and said that he will indeed appear in a private session before a public hearing. That is precisely what the Democrats have done, including with dozens of witnesses in the January 6th committee. So why is this a problem? Because D's know what they did under similar circumstances with regard to leaks and such and are wary the same will happen here. And they are concerned about what could happen. Too bad. mspart

If this were a dire emergency, the money would be allocated and spent. Obviously this is neither a priority or an emergency. mspart