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Using the traditional option for dislodging potential avalanches—explosives—would be difficult, given the timing and the aircrafts the sheriff's office had available. But the night before, at a high-school basketball game, a utility worker with Pacific Gas and Electric Company happened to tell a local sheriffs deputy about an unusual method of dealing with risky slopes. Three years earlier, the company needed to rescue employees and their families who were snowed in at a power plant, and approval for explosives was taking too long. So PG&E had tried dumping water on the slope using a firefighting bucket, Pete Anderson, the senior manager of helicopter operations, told me. It had worked well, and they kept doing it. By Friday morning, Anderson was on the phone explaining the technique to Haack; a few hours later, one of the company's UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters was dangling a 660-gallon bucket full of water from a nearby lake and dumping it on the avalanche slope. The helicopter made seven drops, until the water in the bucket started freezing. Then it dragged the bucket through the slope, like a wrecking ball. "That was pretty effective too," Anderson told me.

Cancel everything, flying a wrecking ball through an avalanche is now my only interest

Stephen Miller’s wife is Jewish. Does that mean that Stephen Miller can’t be a fucking Nazi?

Gastrointestinal Surgeon (and small-town doc, county coroner, county commissioner, school board member) on one side.

Businessman who started with dry cleaning, moved into bowling alleys, and eventually real estate. Did a lot of cancer fund raising in retirement, convicted of fraud as part of it.

I blame the death of in-person scalping.
It was worth it to blow off work for a early-season day game, buy a good seat for $25 from the scalper, and go watch as much of the game as you wanted. If it got cold, who cares, you paid $25 and you're 10 rows back.

Does he not consider that Turkey might have strong objections to this? Like strong enough to get involved, militarily, against the Kurds? Great, a multi-front, multi-polar regional war in the Middle East. That sounds like it's going to turn out great!

Is it possible that Matt Walsh really is exactly as, just stunningly stupid as he appears?
Is he the one person so fucking stupid that his continued breathing is a medical fucking mystery?
Is there any other possible way to be shocked at MAGA (or any Conservative) hypocrisy?
Liars lie, idiot shocked

Huge difference between floor at 74% of cap and floor at 50% of cap. Especially when the cap is like 70% of the largest current payroll.
And I’m not sure “worked out perfectly” applies given the 2012-2013 lockout.

Damn it. I’m a certified Max Hater from the start, but please don’t say stuff you know isn’t true.

A salary cap does you no good without a salary floor close enough to the cap to make teams competitive. And the same shitty owners who don’t spend now won’t spend then. They’ll make more money, your team will suck more, and players will get a smaller share.

We should have stuck with Usenet. A decent reader and a good blocklist and it was fine. You could still have flame wars with your nemesis, but everyone else could mute the thread.

Honestly, I’m not sure. My kids aged out 3 years ago. (Really 4 years ago, but someone dropped out of a Florida Keys sailing trip and one of my boys rejoined just long enough to go on that trip.)

One of the Scouts in my twins’ troop has younger twin sisters. One is the biggest Girl Scout stan ever; the other is huge into BSA but wanted to join the existing troop, rather than start a girls troop.

Our troop had a Scout earn their Eagle as she was transitioning. (We didn’t have a girls troop.)

I even certified as a Scoutmaster & Wilderness First Aid so that we had enough certified leaders that we didn’t have to rely on outsiders for big events.
And my local Scouting council absolutely took the sexual abuse stuff seriously, and trained on spotting abuse constantly.
Scouting for leftists!

But I also left Scouting in 7th grade after the first meeting in the local Mormon Ward House.
Probably wouldn’t have had my twins join if I wasn’t already friends with the entire leadership, and our closest friends pushing us to support progressive, including Scouting.

Let’s just say the Eagle Scout projects that I am aware of were largely focused on preserving Black History in our area, increasing disabled access, helping the local library, or improving the local volunteer ambulance service (which is mostly run by local
HS students, really).
Leaders matter

I’m glad my twins were members of a progressive, activist Scouting troop that accepted gay & trans kids, and also was one of the first troops to allow girls.
They got some insane experiences (Florida Keys & US Virgin Island sailing trips plus all the camping & hiking & skiing) and gave back.

How is it now Joey Chestnut/William Howard Taft?

I would also (grudgingly) accept Andrew Jackson, just because of his inauguration Bacchanalia.

So does Turkey decide to support the Iranian regime because of their opposition to any Kurdish homeland?

I’m honestly not sure if he thinks he’s being profound, or if he’s suffering a stroke.
WHAT THE FUCK DO THOSE WORD *MEAN*, MOTHERFUCKER? IN THE REALITY-BASED WORLD, CLAY!

Fucker is aptly named. Dumb as dirt!

I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Carter considered himself a born-again Christian. (Yes, he doesn't exactly fit the mold, but I can remember my parents being very worried about him as an Evangelical vs. Ford as a Republican.)

Are we sure it’s an Episcopal Church, and not the “Anglican Church in Notth America”, which is the conservative part that schismed off to form their own church, with hookers and blackjack? Oh, right, not hookers & blackjack, they want sexism, homophobia, and racism. And no woke Pope, fascist Ok.

How do the Poles view garlic? And do they ferment their cabbage? (I'm thinking that a kimchi pierogi might be pretty good, though I'm not sure I would add the traditional dollop of sour cream.)

Hit him on having a Nazi tattoo, hanging out with Nazis, working for Blackwater or whatever. Those are real issues. Having a business selling stuff to other people, some of whom are family members, is really just “having a business”.

Granted, this relative was a lefty hippy type, who raised very confident and competent daughters, and AFAIK he was one of those old-school rural lefties, but if you saw him in his oystering gear, you would think conservative white male.
Hit Platner on Nazi stuff, not selling oysters to mom’s shop.

If your business is providing supplies to high end restaurants, and your family works in high end restaurants, you’re probably going to deal with family. If you live in a remote area with limited customers, the odds are even higher.
It’s tough work, takes years to build, but can be lucrative.

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Not a defense of Platner at all, but a relative of my wife really was an oyster man in Fanny Bay, BC. He made a really good living at it, sold some to the restaurants were his kids were chefs, but that’s because Fanny Bay oysters are a big deal worldwide, but especially in BC/Vancouver Island

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I assume their first dance was insanely epic.

…that’s just unconscious knowledge.