Blackhawks sled hockey season ends after the Disabled Hockey Festival in April, but for the second year I was invited to attend the Hendrickson Foundation National Hockey Festival in Minnesota. This tournament has all types of adaptive hockey (Sled, Blind, Warrior, Special) all in one weekend at the Super Rink in Blaine.
Eight sheets of ice in one building means no driving from rink to rink
Last year the Alaska Avalanche was short players so they asked me and another Blackhawk to fill in. There were three sled tiers, and we played in Tier 1 but didn’t do very well. So this year they moved us to Tier 2. Except this year Alaska was even more short of players, so four of us from the Blackhawks filled in. In fact, four of the eight skaters were Blackhawks A team players. Knowing who we were bringing, we asked for Tier 1 again, but for some reason we were denied. The results were, well, interesting.
Thursday
I’m hitching a ride with one of my teammates, so at 8:45 I leave home and head for his house. I’m about 45 minutes later than I expected, and this becomes a running joke the entire weekend. Everything that goes wrong is blamed on my late arrival. It takes about 6.5 hours to get from his house in Illinois to our hotel near Blaine, MN. We have dinner at Pizza Luce, one of several places we revisit from last year. The pizza is as great as we remember. After dinner we head to the airport to pick up another Chicago teammate, who had to work and couldn’t drive up with us.
Our hotel is one of those “Home 2” places. We have a big room with a sitting area, full size fridge, and a dishwasher full of dishes. We watch some playoff hockey and head to bed.
Friday
The hotel breakfast is underwhelming, so we head to Dunkin for a breakfast sandwich and coffee. Some of us take advantage of free donut day.
11am: Game 1 vs Carolina Hurricanes
In the first period it’s obvious we are in the wrong division. Our entire team is much faster and the puck hardly gets to our zone. The final score is 6-0. Not wanting to be jerks, we stop trying to score after about the first period. Still, the shots on goal are 40-2 in our favor. Their goalie is fantastic, and the only reason the score is so low. After the game he angrily tells our coach not to ease up on them next time.
Getting ready to kick some tail
After the game we get some food at Invictus Brewing, a cool brewery/restaurant right by the rink. We have time to watch some TV at the hotel before our next game.
Invictus makes this insane milkshake with cheesecake on top
6pm: Game 2 vs Sioux City
After one period we’re up 5-0. We ease up and try to keep our shots lighter but the pucks just keep going in. The final score is 11-1.
At the hotel we watch more playoff hockey, and get to bed later because we’ve got a later game tomorrow.
Saturday
For breakfast we visit Fat Nat’s, a place Tundra recommended last year. Once again, the food is just as great as we remembered. We’re 3/3 so far with food. Next we grab a Caribou Coffee, head back to the room, and watch the Obi Wan Kenobi series before the next game.
3:15pm Game 3 vs Central Illinois Thunder
The Thunder are in our B team’s division so we know them well. Enough to know that the four Chicago A team players are going to have an easy time. They put up a good fight, and there is no score after one period. But we win 6-2 (though one of the 2 was an own goal – not due to me this time). Attending this game is our own Pope Jimbo, who is the third Glib I meet at a hockey rink (hat tip to Tundra and Grosspatzer). He is just as delightful as the rest. (Did I say that like we practiced Jimbo?)
For dinner we go to Big Bowl at the local mall. The food is great but there is a rather active mouse running from table to table. I’m still undecided if that would keep me from returning. Finally, it’s back to the room for more playoff hockey.
Sunday
11:00am Championship Game vs Carolina Hurricanes
We’re back against the Hurricanes, and we decide to honor the goalie’s wishes and not let up. He’s still great, but the final score is 12-0. I get a hat trick and several assists. The trophies for this tournament are hand made, and this year we get a big wooden Viking sword that will head back to Alaska with our coach. Pope Jimbo is back to witness our victory.
Coolest trophies ever
Next we shower, take our teammate back to the airport, then return to the room to play some Nintendo Switch before we drive home tomorrow. Strangely, when I get out of the truck at the hotel I realize I have lost a shoe, probably at the Qdoba parking lot. This is added to the running joke collection.
In Conclusion
Despite the lack of any challenge, this was nice way to end the season. The hosts do a great job at this tournament, and this year we had a perfect schedule. I got to play four games with some of my favorite teammates. During the weekend we all decided we’d put together a Blackhawks team next year and play in Tier 1. I’ve since talked to our coach and it sounds like he’s willing to pay for rooms. Next year Alaska’s loss will be Chicago’s gain.
While we’re done with games until October, the offseason continues. I’m still working out, and our team still skates twice a week. Before you know it I’ll be writing about another trip to exotic Peoria.
Sounds like a fun time, TOK! And I agree, that trophy looks damn cool. Is it hand carved, solid wood?
Yep.
Those euphemisms are off the chart.
I’m sorry I could be there, Mr. Gere.
/you know the reason.
/smiles quietly to himself.
TOK’s sorry you could be there, too. :-p
could not
/damn vodka!
Hope that went well…
;^)
You got laid?
Only the vodka knows for sure.
Attending this game is our own Pope Jimbo, who is the third Glib I meet at a hockey rink (hat tip to Tundra and Grosspatzer). He is just as delightful as the rest.
So they’re all puck bunnies?
Kevin is very striking. Don’t judge, bigot.
Kevin is very striking.
He hits you in the face with the puck?
Eight sheets of ice in one building means no driving from rink to rink
I played in mens league there for years. Fantastic venue. Giant parking lot for postgame BBQ/drinking.
After the game he angrily tells our coach not to ease up on them next time.
This is the correct response. Every single time. Good on that dude.
What a great weekend! I sure wish I could have been there. Pizza Luce and Fat Nats made me kinda wistful for home. Kinda.
Hopefully, we will see you guys in Denver. Congrats on the big win! The sword is ridiculously cool.
Hopefully I’ll be in Denver next time. I was on a family vacation this last season.
Awesome write up. And legit LOL on losing a shoe.
How I imagine TOK
Home2. I’ve become a fan of extended stay places when traveling by car. Love being able to do the dishes overnight or when I go to work when it’s a multiple night stay, and a full size fridge. Since most chains are still doing housekeeping on request only or not at all, the no housekeeping for a week isn’t a big deal anymore.
I love that chain. Cheap an much nicer than I would expect for the price, and we travel with a hoard, so the big rooms are nice.
I almost didn’t. I stayed at the one by the Denver airport and it felt like a locker room. Bare concrete floor, terrible cheap furnishings. The furnishings aren’t much better elsewhere, but they aren’t concrete meat lockers.
OT it appears David Byrne’s voice has been reincarnated as J Pop.
https://youtu.be/PL9-6rClgXs
Needs moar chicken stutter.
The Fools?
Based on the recommendations of the hoard here, I gave umbrella Academy another shot. Season 1 was a slog for me. I kept wanting it to be good. It seemed like it could be good. So I slogged through season 2. Again. hints of a good show.
Thanks to you guys, I watched the third.
Ok. Much better. Even with the bizarre gender change in order to accommodate Elliot Page, it was pretty good. The bits about his transition really seemed tacked on. And I am not sure why a girl pretending to be a boy who is an actor cannot play a girl character, but fine. It was still the same character, just with a new haircut and an ill-fitting suit for the final act. The role was to be the vulnerable waif that you want to protect who is also the super powerful and dangerous weapon… And he still plays it the same way, regardless of gender. So it didn’t wreck anything.
The story is !uch more coherent in season 3… And I agree, stuff from prior seasons comes together now that the whole thing is in play. The characters are finally fleshed out enough for the storytelling to move along.
So, if you gave up like I almost did, you might give it another shot. It ain’t Citizen Kane. Despite the Rosebud reference, but it was enough to keep me entertained while I did housework today.
I tried watching it too and had the same reaction as you-why isn’t this better?
I am not going to waste that much of my life to get to an okay season.
It just never ends
Fire every one of them.
I’d be slightly kinder and just say “no” if you don’t like the door is right here.
They are so used to getting their way they don’t understand how to be an adult.
This, they didn’t run down the company like the Tesla idiots, they just made some stupid suggestions. “Thanks for the input, we’ll consider it” *tosses letter into circular file.
Just FYI I posted my score right above TedS’s in the AM lynx. no chumping (well, close to chumping, ouch)
Got it, your chump free streak is safe.
You know, one could have some fun pretending to be an Amazon employee and seeing what kinds of crazy woke shit you can get your “coworkers” to endorse.
Their goalie is fantastic, and the only reason the score is so low. After the game he angrily tells our coach not to ease up on them next time.
🙂
The games sound like a good time.
I really enjoy reading these. Thanks TOK.
You’re welcome, glad you like them.
Good Stuff, Kevin. Do you have any idea whether you’ll be traveling to the Pittsburgh/Eastern Ohio region again next season?
Probably not, the big tournaments are in St Louis and Anaheim next year.
That sounds fun as fuck, and exhausting. Sorry you didn’t get any real competition. Maybe next year they’ll see the error of their ways in assigning Tiers.
We’re taking a Blackhawks team and insisting on Tier 1.
That milkshake almost killed me just looking at it.
It wasn’t mine, that’s more sugar than I eat in a month.
Nom nom nom.
OMG it was a good day when the HS cafeteria had those.
RIGHT?!
Scooter Crunch Bars FTW! One of my fondest memories from the Miami U dining hall – the perfect dessert after shrimp crispies and Noodles Romanoff! 😋
What the fuq?
NDSU never had THAT kind of food?!?! I feel cheated.
Other favorite memory: asking Eleanor (our favorite server) for a chicken tit on a bun.
Eleanor liked tits?
I mean, I like tits…
Looking at our route to SP’s memorial we are going to pass right by Young’s Jersey Dairy so we will have to stop for milkshakes.
Nom, nom, nom, indeed!
You’ll be within spitting distance of my favorite winery! Stop in for a glass or a bottle (or a case!) 🍷
(Assuming you can spit 3.2 miles.)
You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit someone within spitting distance.
OT, but in Taibbi’s latest post, he includes a link to an hour long conversation with Ben Shapiro. It’s pretty damn good, a nice cross-politics interview. At around an hour, well worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAxbhC9UyOM
Oh, and damn fun article TOK!
I’m 15 minutes in. It is good.
Did you like Invictus?
Yes, food was pretty good. Plus it’s within site of the rink, The prior year someone noticed we had a lot of vets with us so they paid $100 for our drink tab.
Very cool stuff, TOK. I’d be interested in hearing how the strategy varies with the other hockey.
Sled and regular are about the same. But in sled we try to keep moving because it’s hard to get going from a standstill.
Sounds like Golden State’s offense.
Got a flat on the bicycle commute today. Had about 10k left to work and I was in no man’s land. I see a bus going the right way and chase the mfer down the street, but he just blew past the bus stop because no one was waiting. Pretty sure he saw me. Ugh. End up walking about 3k to the nearest station. 45 minutes late. 🙇♂️. At least it’s high 90’sF and I’m drenched in sweat.
I THOUGHT JAPAN WAS CIVILISED!
/shakes head
If you were a Firster, you would have the ability to arrive wherever you want regardless of circumstance before everyone else.
But you are a lost cause and even I couldn’t teach you the Art of The First.
I see a new glib serial… straff’s inaka chronicles
Firsting is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
These absent anti-vaxxers give Red Sox no shot in Toronto
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/27/sports/these-anti-vaxxers-give-red-sox-no-shot/
Youngish and healthy people who got “vaxxinated” are idiots unless getting jabbed was their only way to survive. I know some of you don’t like to hear it but it is what it is.
I started to read that and though, “jesus, this guy writes like an asshole”. Of course it’s Shaughnessy.
It’s a mystery to me that anyone enjoys his columns.
Shaugnessy can kiss my unvaccinated ass.
Scare Quotes 101
I could not proceed any further.
His sorry ass would never even think of questioning the virtue signaling politicians who put the rules in place that won’t allow some baseball players who will be in town for a few days to compete. The blame must surely lie with the individuals who chose, correctly, not to buy into the hysteria and propaganda that demanded everyone get vaccinated regardless of their own personal risk profile. Said writer would never question whether he was in any way, shape, or form misled by such propaganda efforts.
It gets even worse. This lown writes
He claims his argument isn’t about politics, and mocks players who are willing to put their personal convictions over a chance to play in the MLB. No, this is quite clearly about the writer’s personal political beliefs which are so vacuous that he can’t even begin to comprehend how personal freedom maybe has more value to many Americans than he can even begin to comprehend. And he compares it to serving in WW2. What’s the implication there? Quite clearly that these players have a duty to get the shot, and not because it’s what’s best for the team. He just doesn’t want to come out and say that directly.
Now ask the same writer about Kaepernick’s sorry ass.
Shaughnessy is a longtime shitbag, incorporating all the worst traits of modern sportswriters – huge ego, a tendency to make the story about himself, injecting politics in everything.
He’s also a reliable mouthpiece for any bit of dirt the Sox ownership wants to put out there.
I hate that guy.
He could be Taylor Lorenz’s father.
Crazy that they’re allowed to ban players in Toronto. Seems they should make the blue t jays play somewhere else if they can’t accommodate the players like every other venue.
I’ll read the article in the morning, TOK, promise.
*burp*
OT: https://youtu.be/iRODMqKQIbQ
Possibly my favorite live blues performance… also possibly the fifth time I’ve shared this link here, don’t care.
Great writeup, TOK, really enjoyed reading it! And congratulations on being the champs!
Trying to think of something cool to do with the walk up way to our front door. Wanna keep the side bushes all tall and phallic. Ideas?
https://ibb.co/7y9w5fV
Put hats on them.
Giant googly eyes. It’s the only way.
The true walkway plant for a Glibertarian.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/d8/d3/f9d8d392c93d6e270a23091924f9c191.jpg
All you need is a doormat reading “Get a Warrant” to complete the effect.
No, for reals this time. dbleagle gave me the idea.
Sedum instead of grass and in between pavers. Looks like succulents, feels like velvet. That variety sedum sod is just GORGEOUS. It grows like grass. You can mow it, but you don’t have to. It will propagate itself via rhizomes (I think, but I’m tired and not looking shit up).
Now, that website says it’s for USDA zones 4-9 and I looked it up and Tokyo is zone 10a. I still think you’d be okay.
Jesus, Tokyo is that hot??
Wild, that’s downright tropical.
Having been in Tokyo in September, can confirm it’s tropical.
It was uncomfortably hot and humid.
I read somewhere that the right coast of Asia’s weather is similar to the right coast of North America due to ocean currents. So “hot and humid” seems about right.
Good news everyone!
https://www.zipair.net/en/notification/116
Having never had sex, I find this Vanilla Ice song to be accurate.
Brave to admit that you like vanilla ice. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
I spent most of the day in one of the bedrooms I never use, where I now have my PC set-up because the problem now seems to be maybe in the battery back-up I have in my set-up. But it was kind of like a mini vacation, somewhere I usually don’t go. Although this is only a 3 bedroom house when I go into those other rooms I feel like a person living in a mansion who doesn’t go ‘in that wing’. 1989 Batman mandatory.
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I got so excited about my 5-star Waffle yesterday, I forgot to post my lackluster Quordle score of 23.
Today’s:
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Never used the UL word in my life.
What annoys me is I considered it — but there were at least 3 possibilities even at the end and I thought… “Naw… that one’s a little more out there”.
grumble bitch moan complain….
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Broad daylight home invasion with a happy ending.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/06/27/2-attempted-robbers-killed-south-philadelphia-police-say/
That’s some mighty fine gun control, as the one dude was tagged 15 times.
Home invading is a dangerous profession. Getting Swiss cheesed is always a possibility.
But if they run from a narrow gaze — they’ll be considered a piker.
Mornin Glibs.
Thank you for not calling it good after the cluster-fark I posted above. 😉 Morning to you as well, purveyor of jelly babies…
https://www.fox29.com/news/texas-mexico-border-chaos-at-least-20-migrants-found-dead-in-san-antonio-inside-18-wheeler-reports-say
Joe Biden’s America.
Jesus, that’s a shame. Given PPP’s border policies, you’d think they wouldn’t even bother with the smuggling. Just walk across, claim amnesty and get your free bus/plane ticket anywhere in America.
Insert the usual soapbox rant around here (preaching to the choir, I know) that it sure would be nice if these issue-peddling morons would make it easy for migrant workers or whatnot to come here legally since obviously businesses want it, they’re going to come anyway, etc. So they don’t die doing this, can be properly vetted, can integrate into the economy instead of the black market / shadow economy, etc… *Not* amnesty on my part (I feel there should be a cost to willingly breaking the law — but I’m fine with “you’re now at the back of the line”), but acknowledge reality, stop businesses from blackmailing these people into crappy jobs (of course, stop making the labor market such a mess that they feel they have to would be nice), etc.
Y’all have all heard it before, I know… but it is still early, and I’m ranty now. 😉
Is it really blackmailing? Isn’t it more of giving them what they came here for? They can go the fuck home otherwise.
Ok, phrased that poorly. The jobs themselves? Yeah — I was thinking more about the “Don’t raise a fuss about conditions or I’ll call ICE on you” type stuff that happens.
Yeah, but I bet some people withhold pay, etc. Or lock you in a trailer and let you die.
If the migrants came here legally, and were subject to the same labor laws as legal employees, they would be far less attractive and in demand from businesses than they currently are. How much so? I can’t quantify that, but I’m going to guess it would not be an insignificant amount. And every progressive politician knows full well that they are undermining their own work and minimum wage laws with their immigration stances. It’s why in 2016 Bernie was still staunchly against open borders as a true believer, unlike his more cynical counterparts in the Democratic party. He only reversed course when he realized that shit wasn’t going to fly in current year with the current crop of completely fucking ignorant Democratic voters who are fully propagandized to support completely contradictory policies.
The Dems only support a mass influx of migrants if they firmly believe said immigrants are going to vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
I remember when migrants would go back and forth across the border. They’d come up for agricultural work, then go home.
https://6abc.com/philadelphia-carjacking-philly-gun-violence-olney-shooting-suspect-shot/12000302/
5 of 5 on target.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vm6squ/the_most_addictive_foods_according_to_science/
Lol @ broccoli.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/homes-evacuated-as-authorities-discover-large-cache-of-illegal-fireworks-in-azusa/
Now they just need to seize some illegal beer and some illegal hot dogs and hamburgers and they’ll be all set for the holiday.
Yup — the county elite just got a free donation for their party. I’m sure they’ll score some more stuff by the weekend.
From that bit — either someone was planning one hell of a private exhibition or it sounds more like they were manufacturing to sell. Probably because their friends got sick of the lame-ass stuff California officially sells (which, I have to admit — given the wildfire issues out where-I-normally-am, I can understand being worried about). Our neighbors sure still seem to find some significant stuff — always worry that they’ll light the weedy, scrubby back “yard” I have on fire this time of year..
Too many possibilities
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Preach.
@TOK…cool write up and nice trophy.
Tulsi Gabbard on the NYSRP case
Off to the gym.
The town is ripping up one of the roads I drive on to get there. The contractors have done a shitty job with their temporary patch. I have no idea when the town will finish the work. I’ll detour around the roadwork.
Since when the fuck does Tulsi Gabbard support gun rights? Because she sure as shit wasn’t talking like this when in office.
I always thought that was one of the few things she was good on.
https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/tulsi-gabbard-totalitarian-demands-guns/389654
Various links that could be provided, but she most certainly did not campaign on being pro-2nd amendment. She was in lock step with her party on all gun control measures proposed.
She’s no different than Liz Cheney, besides being attractive. Just another snake that sways to whichever political wind fills in her sails.
I don’t know if I’d describe either that way, necessarily. In this instance, Gabbard certainly seems opportunistic and to be taking advantage of her new found popularity on the right. To what purpose, I don’t know. Her political career is basically over. The left despises her more than they do Rand Paul or Ted cruz at this point. But I don’t think she planned to nuke her standing in her own party just to cozy up to the right. Which is what she did in 2016. She was genuinely willing to buck party trends and I get the sense that at least in some of her positions, there was real conviction in doing so. Like, being anti-war the way she was doesn’t exactly endear you to the left or the right at the time she took that position.
In the case of Cheney, I think she’s driven more by a pure hatred of Trump and some twisted sense of loyalty to her father (who also, I’m sure, hates Trump – he’s not a R who will continue his warped legacy). I’m sure being in the spotlight doesn’t hurt and she’ll fall comfortably on her feet when she gets kicked out of the GOP, but she could have continued her political career safely and securely by just not going against MAGA country.
I could see your point on Cheney, except that she’s now started asking Dems in Wyoming to temporarily switch their party affiliation to vote for her in the GOP primary. I don’t know how you can be more of a political snake than that.
Straff – I vote for giant googly eyes. Doubles as an earthquake detector.
I think you should do some research on how to make peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips in them and then write an article on it. I’d First on that article, even though I am very conscious of how I use my Firsting powers given my fragile state as a pregnant person.
Or, if you’d rather, I’ve seen peanut butter cookies that have actual peanut butter inside of them. This also would be acceptable.
I just birthed a brobdagnagian ‘grocery snake’ that will make whatever is expelled from your broterus seem tiny and frail.
In fact, I felt my back crack during labor.
You are a frail old man who will be broken one day have intercourse with a BBW.
I am a fit, healthy Firster in the prime of his life.
To think that you could produce anything with the majesty of The First is ridiculous. So much so that it transcends being offensive.
“…day have intercourse with a BBW”
Uh, in case you haven’t read most of my comments, that’s kinda my thing.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey, Tulip, Bro, DEG (::waves as he speeds off to his AM workout::), Sean, SDF-7, Stinky, TARDy, Teh Hype, and Lack (up there somewhere)!
Routine dentist appointment first thing this morning – otherwise not anticipating anything remarkable about the day. Second day of the work week always has the least mail to sort, so….yay!
TOK – curious about how they adapt hockey for the blind. Beeping puck? How do the players refrain from colliding? And congrats on your awesome outcome! Hope next time is at the more appropriate skill level.
Routine dentist appointment first thing this morning
Had one of those yesterday. Today, a two hour session to fix what can be fixed. Come August, two extractions followed by some extensive restorative work. Hope you have a better outcome.
Take care of your teeth, peeps. I’m thinking of moving to West Virginia someday, I should fit right in.
Morning, Glibs.
Ugh, I thought it was later than tuesday.
Mornin’, reprobates.
TOK, sounds like you had a good time despite the lack of competition. I am, however, disappointed that you failed to register an own goal. Have you no respect for tradition?
I would absolutely devour that milkshake and that trophy is bloody awesome. Thanks for a great article, TOK.
Quordle was rickdiculous; off to a stellar start but then that upper left… DAMN! Upper left is not a real word.
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My seed words were useless today, and you ain’t kidding about top left.
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I’m not playing but several have said this now so I got intrigued. … It is in my dictionary but it is not word I’ve ever used nor likely ever seen.
I was going to make a pun until I realized it might give a clue to the word. *sigh*
spoil?
I’m not saying.
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Meh. Made a distracted mistake. Shoulda been a sad 23, not a sadder 25.
Here in Casa Patzer we are celebrating our biennial plumbing emergency wherein the basement is flooded due to the roots of the lovely old oak tree on the front lawn working their way into the sewage pipe. Plumber will be here in an hour or two, in the meantime I asked everyone not to flush. Five minutes after I asked, the youngest Patzer had a brain fart. Lotta nerve, co-opting my old age privilege.
You need one of these.
Or kill the tree.
You left off the best option.
Divert the drain. The current one is already compromised and will just keep clogging. To keep to clear they’d have to dig it up and replace the broken section anyway.
Yup. Since this is NJ, I would likely need an Environmental Impact Study which would amount to 3x the cost of the actual work with no guarantee of getting a permit. Fuck me.
At that point, it’s cheaper to get a new house in a free state.
Great minds think alike….
Is that so you can run the dishwasher to make sure they’re clean?
Today’s the NY Primary election. Gotta pick someone to run against Governor Harpy.
Any red flags about the current crop of also-rans?
Local NPR approvingly notes one of her challengers is “progressive.”
Which one?
The chick.
Well, I’m not registered for whatever party she’s in, all the Pubs are dudes.
Oh, I thought you meant running against her in THIS election.
Where has Brett been?
Florida Man Gives New Meaning To “Porch Pirate” After Trying To Steal A Porch
Are we talking more of a stoop, or a verandah?
The article seems to be lacking that degree of detail.
What is it with these journamalism schools turning out people who won’t ask the important questions?
Sounds more like a NIMBY type who thought they had a right to dictate to their neighbor what they could do with their property. Though I’m obviously just speculating.
That guy is 51?! Dude.
Last couple of days NPR has been running “two women on opposite sides of the abortion issue who have changed their minds.”
Yesterday – devout Christian lady who has adopted multiple children who now thinks abortion is not that bad.
Today – devout Christian who got pregnant, had an abortion, and now thinks abortion is not that bad.
Today’s woman got tired of all the negativity around abortion in her church so she quit and became a Methodist.
Looking forward to the formerly pro-choice woman who now thinks abortion is murder.
That’s next, right?
They could maybe do a profile on Norma Mccorvey, even…Nah, we all know that while she was as pure as the freshly fallen snow when she was the plaintiff in Roe, that she was corrupted by that evil pro-life money later in life.
It’s refreshing to see what diversity in viewpoints our public broadcaster brings to the table.
Flathead County crime update.
Sounds like they reported the Glibs planning session:
11:45 a.m. “Three bums are sitting in the weeds.”
Same people?