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important poll after rollllll.... -- nm - amanda jones state university May 4, 06:42
4 US states considering the switch to the Atlantic Time Zone -- (link) - Beaker May 4, 06:29 3
- "The transition from regular time to daylight saving time is dangerous and uncomfortable and nobody likes it!" McGuire said. - Diva May 4, 06:33 2
  - "P.S. I am NOT a crackpot!" -- nm - Ender May 4, 06:39
  - yup -- nm - Beaker May 4, 06:34
Obama has just endorsed Emmanuel Macron (is this normal? to endorse in foreign elections for POTUS/former POTUS?) -- (link) - ty97 May 4, 06:19 1
- And yet we complain about Russia influence in the 2016 election -- nm - budice May 4, 06:24
I would say this healthcare bill is making me sick to my stomach, but I don't want to be dinged for having a pre-existing condition. -- nm* - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 4, 06:09
The only thing I can content myself with is Mitch McConnell didn't play dirty to lose his majority on a bill this flawed. - Will Hunting May 4, 06:05
Some info for NYers to plan for Trump's visit to NYC today - ty97 May 4, 05:58 5
- why is he coming to NY? (I don't have a NY times subscription so can't read your NYT links) -- nm - amanda jones state university May 4, 06:05 2
  - There are 10 free articles per month (perhaps you've hit that limit). Meeting with Australia PM Turnbull aboard the Intrepid - ty97 May 4, 06:09
  - An event with the prime minister of Australia. It's to commemorate a WW2 battle. -- nm - Krusty May 4, 06:09
- Don't tell me he's not flying into JFK for the simple fact that he think's it's more prestigious. -- nm - Mel Profit May 4, 06:00 1
  - Crossed my mind, but I'm guessing there are security and/or traffic impact reasons that made SS suggest JFK - ty97 May 4, 06:01
May the Fourth be wiith you. Wore a Star Wars t-shirt to work today :) -- nm - Beaker May 4, 05:48 3
- Apparently the 8th grade orchestra at my daughter's middle school performed with neon bows this morning -- (link) - oblique May 4, 06:03
- We have a science teacher at school today in full Jedi regalia. Robe, shirt, pants, boots, saber. -- nm - volnelk May 4, 06:00
- I have a Chewie Howl set to go off on my phone if I am paged for work. - Mel Profit May 4, 05:50
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged -- (link) - ty97 May 4, 05:47
A Little-Noticed Target in the House Health Bill: Special Education -- (link) - ty97 May 4, 05:43 8
- "It's their own fault they're there, they made bad health choices that got them there." -- nm - . May 4, 15:46
- just to put this into personal context. I benefited from a program I am sure was funded from something like this. - Mel Profit May 4, 05:54 1
  - Sorry. We decided that we don't have to care about that anymore. -- nm* - America May 4, 06:12
- WTF America? -- nm - Beaker May 4, 05:51
- It's all shit. Complete and utter garbage. -- nm - Krusty May 4, 05:49 3
  - don't y'all just feel *great* (again) ? -- nm - Andie May 4, 06:19 2
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    - *dirty look* - ty97 May 4, 06:31
*pets his 7 star R2-D2* -- nm - Spawndroid May 4, 05:35 3
- How'd you get him that high? - Will Hunting May 4, 05:37 2
  - I got 75 shards and that's all the further I can go. Not enough 4-star empire to proceed. -- nm - Baronspringa May 4, 06:40 1
    - same here -- nm - decline May 4, 06:42
Happy birthday, Strongbad! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty May 4, 05:33 12
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- Happy birthday -- nm - decline May 4, 06:28
- happy bday dude -- nm - budice May 4, 06:27
- HBD SB! -- nm - Diva May 4, 06:26
- Thanks! -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 06:21
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Roger More May 4, 05:53
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 May 4, 05:49
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker May 4, 05:46
- *runs in...nekkid and crazy...covered in red tinged Georgia dirt...with haphazard red, white and blue paint streaks slathered on...running by everyone - Nekkid Crazy Birthday Mel May 4, 05:38 3
  - Heh! -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 06:22
  - that is going to leave a stain -- nm - Epiphany May 4, 06:01 1
    - he should offer a dry cleaning voucher as a birthday gift. -- nm - Mel Profit May 4, 06:07
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- I had heard her conviction was more for her behavior after she was asked to leave? -- nm - Spawndroid May 4, 05:36
Sarah Kliff with a thorough explainer about the bill -- (link) - ty97 May 4, 05:31 2
- I read this stuff and I swear I'm closer to stroking out with every word. -- nm - Mel Profit May 4, 05:44
- Horrendous. -- nm - Krusty May 4, 05:43
Little-Noted Provision of GOP Health Bill Could Alter Employer Plans - ty97 May 4, 05:28 7
- pay attention to what the GOP is doing... - Mel Profit May 4, 05:34 2
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    - that's definitely part of it. - Mel Profit May 4, 05:49
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  - Believe me, it takes a lot for me to not adopt this tact sometimes, but I just refuse to become that person. -- nm - ty97 May 4, 05:40 1
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  - I almost want them to repeal Obamacare... -- nm - Mel Profit May 4, 05:40
Sad. Inventor of the finger spinner struggles to make ends meet -- (link) - oblique May 4, 05:26
TV PSA: Grey's Anatomy, MasterChef Jr, Supernatural, BBT, Superstore, Married at First Site, Chicago Med, Flip or FlopVegas, Riverdale, 2nd Wives Club -- nm - Beaker May 4, 03:26 1
- Swamp People, Mom, Scandal, Life in Pieces, Dark Net, Lip Sync Battle, Blacklist, Catch, Amazing Race, Unprotected, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 4, 03:27
So basically Prince Phillip has just decided to retire in 6 months. -- nm - mafic May 4, 02:39 3
- I have to think that with the whole emergency meeting, there must have been an incident of some sort. He deserves -- (edited) - Andie May 4, 04:17 2
  - I mean, he's going to be *96* in June. Dude definitely deserves to retire! -- nm - ty97 May 4, 05:53
  - But like, nothing too dire, or he'd probs stop right away. -- nm - mafic May 4, 04:57
Delta kicked a family off an overbooked flight because they wouldn't give up their 2 year old's seat... -- (link) - . May 4, 02:20 3
- 2nd offense they beat the baby -- nm - Beaker May 4, 05:49
- not as outrageous but I'd be upset if, as they did, I paid for that seat. - Mel Profit May 4, 05:02 1
  - They apparently paid for the seat for their 18 year old, not their baby, though the details are little confusing - ty97 May 4, 05:59
Ev.er.y. -- (link) - Beryllium May 4, 00:57
Agents of SHIELD ... - Beryllium May 3, 23:56 1
- I've always hoped - spoilers - Beaker May 4, 05:50
who wants to tell me if Burkina Faso has a tax treaty with Australia? -- nm - mafic May 3, 22:57 4
- Google? - Beryllium May 3, 22:57 3
  - they're not helping! -- nm - mafic May 3, 22:58 2
    - I meant more like ... do they have google? -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 00:51
    - and found it. they don't. -- nm - mafic May 3, 23:07
just under 90 minutes until we should find out what is going on at Buckingham Palace. -- (link) - Peglegpete May 3, 22:37 7
- update -- (link) - Peglegpete May 3, 22:53
- Also Twitter is suggesting to me that this might be all ado about nothing, but we'll see -- nm - ty97 May 3, 22:42
- Based on a recent article, I know they have protocols for this kind of thing, but BBC News having nothing on their page about it all still strikes - ty97 May 3, 22:40 3
  - if there is a royal death, it will be nice to know the household can keep a secret -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 22:44 2
    - The Brits really seem to respect their formalities, however unique -- nm - ty97 May 3, 22:47 1
      - that's one of the reasons I like them -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 22:50
- if there has been a Royal death, 8 am is the traditional time it is announced. -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 22:40
Every few months I hit this angsty mood where I'm itching to build something but can't articulate it in a meaningful way. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 22:31
stolen game. -- nm - Reagen May 3, 22:10 3
- fucking hell. of the 4 Ducks goals - goalie interference, offside, (good goal), icing -- nm - Reagen May 3, 22:14 1
  - nmbl -- (link) - Gary Bettman May 4, 05:53 [Backboard]
- "but prove it" -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 22:12
well here's an email I'll no doubt respond to in a hurry. - mafic May 3, 22:00 8
- "Also, I am the world's leading expert in structural ore controls of vein systems and my new book will prove it." - amanda jones state university May 4, 05:50 1
  - He reminds me of the asian prince dating guy. -- (edited) - Mel Profit May 4, 06:10
- Ooh, what a charmer. -- nm - kelly May 3, 22:13
- Well, at least he said poor and not humble. - Beryllium May 3, 22:13
- I got a call tonight because I 'stayed' at one of their locations recently, and won a free trip to Florida & the Bahamas. until I said I did not have - Peglegpete May 3, 22:06 3
  - oh no, this is from a real guy. I've even met him in the distant past. -- nm - mafic May 3, 22:08 2
    - (he's always been an ass) -- nm - mafic May 3, 22:09 1
      - :) -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 22:15
tonight's Fargo was astoundingly good. -- nm - mud May 3, 21:53 1
- we watched the previous episode which I liked a lot. I loved the call back to the movie...[spoilers] - Mel Profit May 4, 05:06
This is making the rounds again, because of the Andrew Jackson mindreading garbage. - Beryllium May 3, 21:41 1
- "Trump...questioned how historians could dispute the battle. "How would they know?" he told the Times. "Were they there?"" -- nm - Max May 3, 21:50
Under the GOP's health plan, sexual assault would be considered a preexisting condition -- (link) - ty97 May 3, 21:27 9
- More accurately... - Mop May 3, 21:35 8
  - What I posted was accurate. -- nm - ty97 May 3, 21:48 7
    - You're both right. -- nm - . May 3, 22:34
    - if the insurance companies decide to make it so. They could choose not to. -- nm - Max May 3, 21:51 5
      - The law will define it a pre-existing condition. The states will have the option whether to remove pre-existing protections or not. - ty97 May 3, 21:53 4
        
        Where is the text of the amendment with those definitions? -- nm - Max May 4, 01:49 2
        
        Ask the GOP please. -- nm - ty97 May 4, 05:12 1
        
        Don't you fucking shout at me and call me pollyanna and claim your statement is accurate if you don't have evidence to back it up. - Max May 4, 08:02
        
        But appreciate your Pollyanna view of insurance companies' caring nature -- nm - ty97 May 3, 21:53
"the Republican proposal would effectively end enrollment in the insurance markets for families that make less than $75,000 a year." -- (link) - ty97 May 3, 21:25
Ugh, updated info in our power outage...went from an estimated restoration time of 9pm to...7am. - IrishStephen May 3, 20:58 10
- Is this the outage that hit northern San Jose today? -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 21:19 2
  - No, looking at the power outage map it looks like there were quite a few outages today. -- nm - IrishStephen May 3, 21:21 1
    - "Thanks, Donnie." -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 21:41
- Ha! And then power comes back on around the originally anticipated restoration time. -- nm - IrishStephen May 3, 21:15
- How are you posting if you have no power? I caught you! - Mop May 3, 21:01 5
  - No, the power outage wasn't anywhere near work. - IrishStephen May 3, 21:20 2
    - No worries about ventilation and a/c at the shelter in the event of an outage? -- nm - Mop May 3, 21:37 1
      - Our kennels are outdoor, and the shelter's kennels are indoor/outdoor. - IrishStephen May 3, 21:47
  - he's a mutant -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 21:05
  - no you haven't. i could be arguing in my spare time ... -- nm - call me Ishmael May 3, 21:05
LYC: Reached level 24 in Pokemon Go. -- nm - Qale May 3, 20:53 5
- I finally got to level 27 a few days ago. -- nm - kelly May 3, 21:14
- So close to 31 - ty97 May 3, 20:59 3
  - I still have a couple of lucky eggs, but I play so much more haphazardly than you. Catching, evolving rather randomly. -- nm - Qale May 3, 21:19 2
    - Yeah, I rely on the mass evolve on lucky egg pretty heavily -- nm* - ty97 May 3, 21:20 1
      - I can't even be assed to get a 7 day streak of PokeStops though I know I really need to else I'll never evolve stuffs. -- nm - Qale May 3, 21:23
Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler will cohost a six episode straight to series reality woodworking reality show on NBC. -- (link) - Mop May 3, 20:53 2
- he's stiff and she's sorta wooden? -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 02:11
- they really are running out of ideas, aren't they? -- nm - call me Ishmael May 3, 21:27
uh, no thanks. -- (link) - Reagen May 3, 20:49 1
- He's saying "Admit you've failed as a country and let someone else run things for a bit." - Mop May 3, 20:57
Bill "appears to still include a waiver exempting members of Congress and their staffs" -- (link) - ty97 May 3, 20:36 11
- Didn't ACA do the same? -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 03:59 2
  - Nope -- (link) - Roger More May 4, 04:36 1
    - Awesome, thank you! -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 05:07
- the other side of this is that they from all accounts don't even have 25 votes for this in the Senate. -- nm - Reagen May 3, 20:40 6
  - question is if they can put together some sort of 'fix' that the Senate can pass - ty97 May 3, 20:42 5
    - They barely have enough to pass the House -- nm - Amoxy May 3, 20:51 4
      - We'll see if they even have that. But the thought all along has been, if they do, the Senate will change it and they can 'fix' via reconciliation. - ty97 May 3, 20:54
      - Exactly. Reconciliation would kill it. The moment the make it easier for the public to swallow, House GOP flee. -- nm - Mop May 3, 20:54 2
        
        I want it to die, but the thought is that the House could vote for it here and say they kept their pledge, then go along with the recon. - ty97 May 3, 20:55 1
        
        Universal single-payer healthcare? Well, it's not what we wanted, but we promised to repeal and replace! -- nm - Mop May 3, 20:58
- Sounds like Bill's a hypocritical asshole. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 20:39
Curiouser and curiouser ... -- (link) - Beryllium May 3, 20:34 2
- I say this unironically: it was fake news. -- nm - Mop May 3, 20:59 1
  - It wasn't news, it was a rumour. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 21:18
Trip? Interference? Oh heck no -- nm - budice May 3, 20:27

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