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True, and I was among the first to say AL should not have been in the playoff, although I was glad they were there. They have not played like the Tide for some time. Moot point now, both TX and Bama are out. mspart

Basket ball is such a silly game. mspart

It talks about beasts and stuff. Is Grambling considered a beast in women's BB? mspart

Undefeated should go in before defeated. Especially if they are from one of the big conferences. FSU should have been in the playoff. which of TX and AL should have been in the playoff. Tough to say as both lost. mspart

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Women play dirty!! mspart

Just like athletes exhaling way too much CO2. mspart

The upside is that Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Boeing are in the Seattle Area. At least Facebook has a presence. But as you know, Boeing has outsourced production to S Carolina, Amazon famously had a new HQ competition. So Seattle and WA are not all that great. With the rising incomes from people working at these places, due to the laws of economics, everything else is rising in cost. More money to throw around = higher costs. Same as inflation causes higher costs. Another upside is the natural beauty of the area (aside from the homeless camps and graffiti all around in Seattle. They used to call Seattle the Emerald City. No longer. Fortunately, Seattle City Council is no longer majority nut job. Only one nut job left after the last election. Unfortunately, one of those nut jobs is now on the King County Council. Kshama Sawant, the local socialist agitator city council member decided not to run for reelection, knowing she would lose (she just barely survived a recall election 2 years ago) is now out. Thank goodness. Another upside is the Cascade range with unlimited hiking, lakes, fishing, volcanos, and sheer beauty. It is a blessed area that has been ruined by political leftists. Jay Inslee, Gov of WA for the last 11 years has overseen the de certification of the only mental hospital in the state, has overseen the state ferry system collapse under the weight of his mismanagement to the tune of 13 of 21 ferry boats are operational. That's right, 8 boats are currently unusable. There are currently 6 initiatives that have enough signatures to get on the Nov 2024 ballot and they are: 1. No state, county, city, village, outpost income tax. 2. Get rid of the Capital Gains tax that is actually illegal per the WA state Constitution. The WA SC decided that Capital Gains are not income and therefore property and that it can be taxed. The WA Constitution says property, tangible or intangible, must be taxed at the same rate. Hence we have no income tax because it cannot be graduated. The WA SC decision necessitated both items 1 and 2. 3. Reinstate police pursuit. Currently a car can crash into a store, steal goods, and leave and the cops cannot pursue because they are not an imminent threat. Crazy right? There is a case where this happened and the cops showed up and they bad guys crashed their car into the police car and got away because the cops couldn't pursue. https://komonews.com/news/local/washington-state-police-pursuit-law-chase-car-vehicle-seattle-shoreline-crime-crisis-initiative-i-2113-legislature-legislation-jay-inslee-sheriffs-deputies-troopers-freeway-dangerous-violent-burglary-smash-and-grab Last month, Dunn Lumber was the victim of a smash-and-grab — one of a tremendous number of businesses in the region that have been crashed into this year. Criminals used a vehicle and backed it right through the front doors before swiping merchandise and running off. Surveillance video provided by business president Mike Dunn shows a coordinated effort involving multiple people. Then it shows two vehicles speeding off, one of which sideswipes a police car. Dunn said the criminals got away, were not caught and that’s why he wants the pursuit law changed. “The police let them go because of the no-pursuit law,” Dunn said. “What if there’d been people here? We have night crews. What if they’d been in there? “Obviously the current policies are not working for protecting people’s property." Dunn estimated the criminals caused more than $100,000 of damage. 4. Repeal the carbon tax - This carbon tax has raised gas prices to almost the highest in the nation. It is a dollar more than in Idaho and Oregon, our two closest neighbors. The carbon tax obviously raises the cost to purchase anything because it is all hauled by truck, car or train. All use carbon based fuels. Cost for heating homes has gone up too because of this. Twice in the last 4-6 years WA state said no to carbon tax in referendums and the Ds ignored them. 5. Make it mandatory that parents see what is being taught in school. This stems from the state having a law which allows them to harbor children, not tell parents where they are, if the child says they want to change gender. And all the stuff in the schools that support that. In fact, there was/is a state survey in schools asking kids when they first became sexually active, what gender they were assigned at birth, etc. That is wrong and parents should know what is being taught and presented to their kids in the schools. 6. Opt out of the mandatory state long term care tax. The state instituted a tax to pay for long term care for everyone. It pays 36K max and can only be used in state. No retiring and moving out of state. It is a mandatory W-2 tax on everyone that gets a W-2. The initiative will allow people to opt out of it. This provides minimal coverage as long as you live in WA and is mandatory. Unlike a pension or SS, you cannot move out of state and still get the benefit. I helped gather signatures for these and signed them. Needed was 325K sigs. The sig count was 425K - 465K for the 6 initiatives. And signatures came from across the board. Dems in Legislature don't know how to react. I guess we'll see which ones pass. I hope all 6 do. Anytime you get one party rule, you get chaos. You need healthy opposition to steer the ship of government to keep it on the straight and narrow. This is why split government is good. mspart

Bo getting it right to the old noggin!! Can you tell I edited this real photo!! mspart

Yeah, if SAT tests are controlled, then we are a little better in math but not as good in critical reading. mspart

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL090539 1. From this graph, it looks like water content in the atmosphere has risen 200% since the industrial revolution. 2. Exhaling - I was just being cheeky. It's tough to say that we should get rid of people or animals because they breathe. 3. Beings get carbon from the food they eat. Perhaps we should remove food from the planet. From the link: SWV is Stratospheric Water Vapor SST is Sea Surface Temperature Conclusions Using several data sets, we find an increase in SWV in the past 100 years. Simulations show that SST warming mainly directly caused the increase in SWV. Using sensitive experiments, it is found that SST warming over the tropical Indian Ocean and the western Pacific has resulted in a drying of the stratosphere. It agrees with previous studies. However, tropical Atlantic Ocean warming has resulted in a significantly wetter stratosphere, since the responses of Rossby and Kelvin waves over the Indian Ocean and western Pacific to Atlantic warming have led to a warmer tropopause temperature, resulting in more water vapor entering the stratosphere. The transient experiments show that tropical Atlantic Ocean warming is the main contributor to increasing SWV in the past 100 years. This work implies that more attention should be paid to the contribution from the tropical Atlantic to changes in lower SWV in the future. The underline is mine. mspart

I have to say that the new engineers I work with are pretty sharp but not especially hard working. They know more than I did coming out of college (which was a few years ago) but work ethic is a bit lacking. Interesting chart about SAT scores from https://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-scores-over-time mspart

Georgia coach was correct in what he said after the game. Shame for the FSU players that had to suffer that kind of loss because players made themselves unavailable for the game. Something needs to be done unless this is what we want to see in college football in the bowl season. He's right. Something needs to be done. FSU had the chance to show why they were an elite team and their own teammates let them down. Just a shame. That should have been a much better game. mspart

Iowa needs to get rid of AJ. I had no idea what went on htis weekend, just saw it and that behavior needs to not be tolerated. mspart

AJ needs to go. Period. mspart

Oh that was it. mspart

Yes, very interesting. Everyone has to recuse? Nothing shady going on here. mspart

PJ is right. Since when has CNN and MSNBC had motivation to be more correct? I have not seen that. mspart

Wow, those are interesting allegations. Is it possible for any of them to be proven true at this time? Quite a few people giving their observations of what went on. Raffensperger was not happy with those folks being fired. https://sos.ga.gov/news/secretary-raffensperger-condemns-political-firing-calls-rehiring-fulton-county-whistle-blowers mspart

I'v e gott 6 kidds so my sperling must be very really turribles. mspart

Yeah its a chuckle alright, depending on how you look at it. Happy New Year to you too WR. Best wishes to you and your family. mspart

So what is better about our education system since the inception of the Dept of Education? How has education gotten better? How has it gotten worse? mspart

You are making the case that I was correct by saying, "One side says there is something to look at here and the other says, no there isn't." Yet you are arguing you are not. Very interesting. mspart

The lizard knows about that!! mspart

Semantics. One side says there is something to look at here and the other says, no there isn't, because it has been looked over again and again and again. Hence there is no reason to look at it. You are trying to suggest that there is a difference here. There is not. Just because it has been looked at, does not mean that side wants it looked at again. They don't. Which if you take what they are saying at face value, they should welcome the opportunity to discredit the allegations. So why don't they want it looked into again? Thank you for making my point for me. mspart