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- Weekend thread……
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Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.0 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.8 / 51.0 | -5.2 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
78 responses to “While we wait for polls….”
Good Friday always depresses me.
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cruel.
Federal Judge Threatens to Punish Imprisoned J6ers by Adding Enhancements to Remaining Convictions if SCOTUS Reverses ‘Obstruction’ Statute
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In other news, the Mets are tied with the Phillies and Braves for first place in the NL East.
They all play their first games today.
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Just saw a clip of Trump after the officer’s wake. I was happy to see he went the somber route, rather than the anger route. Effective, imo.
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No Polls.
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Make some up, goddammit.
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I got an email from Trump last night.
I feel better now and not so guilty.
“I love ALL of my supporters.
If you can’t afford to donate because Joe Biden DESTROYED our country, DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT – I still love you and I always will!
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Nineveh News: “The Israeli military plans to drop leaflets all over American cities to explain the truth of what happened when they were attacked, and why Hamas propaganda in the American media should be ignored.”
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“A convict serving a 16-year sentence for a home invasion and aggravated assault was released early in Illinois in early March, and the very next day, he invaded the Chicago apartment of Laterria Smith and stabbed her and her 11-year-old son, killing the boy.
“The killer, Crosetti Brand, 37, who was previously in a relationship with Smith, was let loose on March 10. He was cut free even though he’d sent threatening texts to her in January and had a long rap sheet of domestic abuse”
So the guy is not interested in being free, starting a new life, never going back to prison, all that BS that is the mantra when people like this are paroled.
He is just interested in continuing to be a criminal and not worried about going back to jail one day later.
But he will probably be back on the streets sooner or later.
The parole board members that authorized his release have resigned after Pritzker threw them under the bus.
“It is clear that evidence in this case was not given the careful consideration that victims of domestic violence deserve, and I am committed to ensuring additional safeguards and training are in place to prevent tragedies like this from happening again,” Pritzker said.
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The first time I read this post I thought it said llama propaganda. That’s Jason’s job.
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“The Israeli military plans to drop leaflets all over American cities to explain the truth of what happened when they were attacked, and why Hamas propaganda in the American media should be ignored.”
Rumor is they are going to outsource the job to Chinese balloons because there is no risk they will be shot down.
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Bunu you and your Nazi Party friends should go out and gather the leaflets and burn them before anybody can read them.
If any of them fall in fenced in yards with “beware of the dog” signs don’t worry, remember dogs are a man’s best friend.
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“Rumor is they are going to outsource the job to Chinese balloons because there is no risk they will be shot down.”
Excellent. I should have thought of that as part of the original. I guess that’s why Nineveh News will never catch up to the professionals at Babylon Bee.
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Firt McCormick ad…
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Even better the second time.
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Where is NYC?
WE ARE WINNING!
“Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) signed a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain commercial licenses for jobs that initially required citizenship.
Inslee signed House Bill 1889, which allows immigrants to get professional licenses using individual tax identification numbers instead of social security numbers, according to Washington State Standard.
“This bill will open doors for careers in teaching, healthcare, accounting, and many other professions to those who are ready to join the Washington workforce,” Inslee said upon signing the bill.
Democratic state Rep. Amy Walen, who sponsored the bill, said the legislation would allow everyone to “participate in our economy,” according to the Center Square. “
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Various thoughts to get the discussion going today:
2. In much of WV coal being shipped overseas WAS using the port at Baltimore, what rail lines will now have to be used to ship the coal to other east coast ports (Norfolk, etc.)? (Asking for a friend.)
3. The Key bridge that collapsed…why in the world would you build a bridge like that in 1973 in one of the busiest ports on the east coast that would serve a lot of big container ships and could be collapsed be a single direct strike on one of the bridge supports WITHOUT HAVING BRIDGE SUPPORTS BEING PROTEECTED BY MAD MADE BERMS, AND WITHOUT A RULE SAYING THAT TUG BOATS MUST BE USED TO HELP THE SHIP CLEAR THE BRIDGE?
4. LASTLY, ssq texted me wondering about the shooting down of all the drones in the middle east and Ukraine. She is worried that if too many drones are killed off, there will not be enough drones to mate with the queen bee and worldwide pollination of crops will suffer.
She also says she does not believe that life begins at the reception. I guess she means wedding reception.
She also was confused about Cash Cow’s poem posted yesterday. She asked why would Trump need a screw, or any other hardware, from Stormy Daniels. She thinks Trump is wealthy enough to buy whatever hardware he needs from the hardware store.
I do not have time to respond to her as I am busy with the fence. One of you will have to give her a call. Her number is 682-DUM-BASS.
Off to do more power washing…
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I saw one story that was saying the bridge collapse was a warning about our aging infrastructure. Uhhm, it was hit by a huge barge with tremendous force. But it does beg the question why there was not a barrier of huge boulders extending way out around the base of the support, so that any ship would run aground rather than just ram directly into the support.
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Finally a new poll…wait…its a poll for the 2025 Virginia Governor GOP primary race.
Did I go into a coma and awake two days ago in March 2025? That would explain why there has been no more 2024 polling.
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The fence power washing and painting project may break Walt….
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D WITHOUT A RULE SAYING THAT TUG BOATS MUST BE USED TO HELP THE SHIP CLEAR THE BRIDGE?”
Tug service is expensive. The bridge is miles down the river. You can’t plan for every eventuality. They did have a pilot aboard, two actually.
As far as berms I doubt they would have stopped a ship that big. And boulders in a waterway are a hazard to shipping I doubt that is practical, any amount of boulders that would stop a ship that size would also sink it and block the waterway.
You can’t plan for every eventuality, the cost of doing so would render the shipping industry unfeasible.
The odds of a complete loss of power at exactly that moment were infinitesimally small. At the end of the day, it is probably the kind of risk you have to live with.
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Such boulders are used in Hampton Roads. Go to google maps, satellite view, and zoom in on the manmade islands where the tunnel entrances are located, and you will see the huge boulders around it. Not saying that even these boulders would have stopped a direct hit from a ship.
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The Key bridge that collapsed…why in the world would you build a bridge like that in 1973 in one of the busiest ports on the east coast that would serve a lot of big container ships and could be collapsed be a single direct strike on one of the bridge supports”
I think you answered your own question. It’s been over 50 years and nothing happened, thousands and thousands of ships have gone through without incident.
How much more are you willing to pay for transported goods to “foolproof” every bridge and waterway in the world/ When you saw how much you would have to pay, you might accept the risk of a bridge collapse every 50 years.
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and you will see the huge boulders around it.”
It’s probably a wider passageway. This span is very narrow, to put boulders around the supports would probably make it too narrow.
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it appears narrow in that picture, but in reality, if google maps is correct, the span between the two supports in the middle of Key bridge were around 700 feet apart.
The large container ships are about 160 feet wide. So it would seem that there would have been plenty of room for protective boulders.
But its also true that the closer together supports on the approach could also be easily damage and a direct hit on any of those would have brought down the structure. And it appears smaller boats pass through these gaps.
So yes, there is no way to protect against any eventuality, but wow from that picture, those supports looked really vulnerable.
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Key bridge were around 700 feet apart.”
Yeah but when you add what would be lost by boulders on either side plus a safety margin from boulders on either side of the 160 ft yard ship you are pretty much down to nothing. Even at 700ft once you put 160 ft in the middle you are already down to only 270 ft on each side.
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The other problem is boulders would pretty much close the other spans, in a truss like construction you lose one support you lose them all.
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Frankly I have not heard for years Fetterman say he is not a progressive, but heck, I won’t look a gift llama in the mouth.
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The boulders around the manmade islands in Hampton Roads form a barrier about 20 to 40 feet wide. Not sure if that’s enough to fend off a ship that huge.
But the opening for ships to pass here in Hampton Roads is huge compared to the Key bridge. Much more room for error here in Virginia.
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Bitter – Brutal comment about the Mets. I thought this was a safe space.
DW/Bitter – logo sent!!!
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It would have to be a lot larger than 20-40 ft for a ship that size, the momentum would keep it moving over the boulders, not to mention a collision with boulders would probably rip the hull of the ship apart and cause it to sink in the harbor and cause a huge ecological disaster. I doubt any shipping company would accept that risk and it would probably make that port unusable to large container ships. Frankly I don’t see any barrier that can withstand 200,000 tons moving at 10 knots.
So why can’t the ships move slower? The answer to that is you need a certain speed to keep your heading, otherwise wind and currents will prevail.
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I have never understood Mets fans. I grew up in North Jersey and never knew any until 1986. Sane people preferred the Yankees because they won.
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It is a really nice museum, and it is the Met not Mets.
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If I lived in NY I would root for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I am depressed because I can’t eat meat today.
Oh wait, is that only for Christians?
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“Tug service is expensive. The bridge is miles down the river. You can’t plan for every eventuality. They did have a pilot aboard, two actually.”
ssq texted me again about the above statement.
She says…” it is stupid to have pilots aboard. They fly airplanes at fast speeds. What do they know about water transportation. Oh. Maybe one of the pilots was the one who landed the airplane in the river in NYCity. I guess if he was on board, that makes sense.”
Someone really has to call and talk to her.
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Cash Cow here.
From the safety of the house, I just watched Walt finish power washing 7 more 8-foot sections of the fence.
The wind is something fierce. Large trash cans and small children were being blown around in the air. Water blowing everywhere. Walt got drenched. Looked like he had been swimming with his clothes on. He is using words I have not heard him say for a while. And not church words either.
Poor soul. I wish there was something I could have done to help, but it was just too windy out there for me today. Plus, I am working on more poems.
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Walt here.
Glad to see some of my morning musing got some conversation started!
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Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest (msn.com)
Of course, the Dems say it is racist.
“The bill also spells out what constitutes “probable cause” for upholding challenges to voter eligibility, which could lead to voters being removed from the rolls. Probable cause would exist if someone is dead, has voted or registered to vote in a different jurisdiction, has registered for a homestead exemption on their property taxes in a different jurisdiction or is registered at a nonresidential address.”
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Very draconian I would say. (snark)
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Jon Stewart is getting slammed for ‘overvaluing’ his NYC home by 829% after labeling the Trump case as ‘not victimless’ — but here’s what his critics are missing (msn.com)
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Global Strategy Group (D) finds the following in NE_02 (Omaha):
Vargas (D) 46%
Bacon (R-Inc) 43%
They don’t say whether or not they polled the critical Trump vs. Biden race there. If Trump wins that district, but loses the rust belt, it could be a 269-269 tie.
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What? You can’t vote if you’re dead? What’s this country coming to?
As Yosemite Sam once complained, “Its gettin’ so a man can’t make a dishonest living any more!”
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ssq is texting again.
This time about Trump.
She says she “read where Trump was asking 3 friends something about shooting a round at a golf course.”
Go the golf course and shoot A round? Or shoot around? She doubts that Trump would stop with firing just a SINGLE round.”
SSQ says “Trump is obsessed with guns and shooting.”
She “wonders if the story was that Trump and his pals were going to shoot a round AT golfers. Or was it Trump as going to shoot AROUND some golfers? (probably to scare them).”
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PLEASE, one of you have to call ssq.
I am too busy with the fence.
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Cash Cow heere.
Did I mention that Walt was pulled over by a cop coming home from the bar the other night?
Cop asked Walt, “I want to know how much you have had to drink, and when did you start drinking?”
Walt said, “I can’t tell you how much I have had to drink, but I started in 1967.”
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Montana high court declares 2021 voting laws unconstitutional (msn.com)
The Idaho law was “struck down by a district court judge in Billings. Those laws ended same-day voter registration, enacted new vote identification requirements, prohibited paid third-party ballot collection and barred county election officials from distributing mail-in ballots to minors who would be eligible to vote by Election Day.”
Who is the judge?
Bozo the Clown? Bozo the Loon????????????????
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Human activities are changing Earth’s spin so much that it might affect how we keep time (aol.com)
In response, President Biden has just issued new executive orders for all Americans to address this critical issue:
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–Move slowly when you walk around. (The president said, Move slowly–like I do.)
–No unnecessary jumping around. And he also stopped basketball players from dunking.
–Stop throwing large objects.
–If you are a “plus sized” person weighting more than 400 pounds, you can no longer just plop into an easy chair. You will be required to buy a solar powered, 100% recyclable and edible, union made recliner that will move up to meet you big assed rear end when you sit.
–Does not allow too many Americans to congregate on one side of the country or the other.
(there is an exception if you are either protesting something or rioting. And crowds of more than 1000 illegal immigrants crossing the southern border are also exempt.)
–if you take any object more than 100 pounds from one location to move it to another, you have to replace the object with another object of equal weight.
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Is anybdy out there?
Where did everyone go?
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me. I’m already in mourning for a season lost.
we managed one lousy hit today. One. I see a 100 loss season on the horizon. I already hate the Stearns hire. They should have kept Buck as manager
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Walt said, “I can’t tell you how much I have had to drink, but I started in 1967.”
Zzzzzz…..
Everyone knows Walt was fermenting mead as early as 7000 BC.
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Cash Cow here.
I think Walt must have gotten a little too much sun today while working on the fence. I’ll give him some pills and put him to bed for a while.
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Walt here.
I signed up to be a poll worker on WV May primary election.
I have been appointed as a commissioner, AND as a messenger! I get to go get the voting materials early in the morning and set them up at the polling place. And get to pack it all up and take the equipment AND THE BLALLOT BOX AND VOTES back TO THE COURT HOUSE when voting is over on election day. I get paid $300 for this. PLUS, they SAY I will get EXTRA pay for being a Messenger.
I get to go to a training in April to find out what I am supposed to do, if I can carry a sidearm or not, can I throw people out of the polling place (r hopefully shoot them as long as I ire off a warning shot first), do I have the power to tear up somebody’s ballot, can I pat down women voters, can I tell people how to vote if I whisper and nobody else hears, etc.
The letter is not real clear about whether I am being paid $300 for the training, AND $300 for the work on the primary election day… But I am still waiting for the WV State Forestry Division to pay me the $2.25 they still own me for volunteering to fight a mountain fire way back in 1961 or 1962. (75 cents an hour was the going rate back then. That was 3 hours of hard work for a 14- or 15-year-old fellow. Plus, we never were provided any snacks or water or anything to drink, no 15-minute breaks…)
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did they have money coined yet when you battled the blazes from Vesuvius?
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okay, now I have to figure out how to scale the logo to be smaller.
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that’s better
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Thanks for putting it up DW. It will be interesting to see what everyone thinks.
He went out and got the exact color palate from the American flag and used that for the colors of the logo
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if you need it smaller sized, he can send it over
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I don’t like the logo sorry. What is it, a tornado?
How about a hedgehog or a llama?
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well. It’s not set in stone and he can work on it to make changes
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What is the logo supposed to be?
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A win for the 2nd Amendment in PA.
You can do tours in Afghanistan, get married, have kids, fly a fighter jet, but you can’t take your gun to the firing range.
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/03/29/third-circuit-refuses-en-banc-of-safs-pa-18-20-year-old-open-carry-ban-case-n1224369
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There is a dirty joke just hanging out there.
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It’s deep, man. Deep.
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lol. He says I always sound like a tornado when I yell at the screen when hhr is up…especially at the rabbit (Bunu). So he thought that represented the whirlwind of ideas here
btw. He’s 10
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Jackie Onasis and Mr. Onasis agreed that if they ever had any female child, they would NOTY name her Patti.
Everyone would call her patti o.
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I think we need to put cement barriers to protect bridge supports.
I seek concrete solutions.
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I went to get a haircut but there was no barber in the barber shop. I may not go back.
I think it is a clip joint.
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Cash cow thinks the addition of a cow would improve the logo.
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Ah ok it is a whirlwind. Fine with me.
But not to nitpick, why would it be on its side?
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It’s artistic interpretation of this freak show, mf-era.
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it’s on its side because he’s 10 lmao
honestly he’s real good about not having an ego. Any suggestions to make it better are welcome
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How about an upright whirlwind maybe over some terrain.
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Over Machu Pichu?
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i might try a change to the background behind the logo tomorrow
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Maybe put a GFY in the logo.
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On its side it looks like a tumbleweed.
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Damn. Jason is going to war with a 10 year old graphic artist. What an A-hole.
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I guess he could have just put an H H and R in a font type and mailed it in. He said he’s going back ti the drawing board
he asked me what an A-home was, then he read Jason’s comments and said, “don’t worry…I know now”
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a-hole
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