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January 7, 2022

Uh oh. Ted Cruz and Tucker going at it.

Tucker - you use words more than anyone I’ve ever known.
Cruz is bombing. Defending the 1/6 prisoners.

Tucker took him on about “terrorist”
Cruz is trying desperately to take back using it.

Cruz references BLM and Antifa.

Grade C - for both.

January 6, 2022

George Jetson was born July 31, 2022

George Joesph Jetson (b.July, 31, 2022) is a fictional character and the 40-year-old father of the Jetson family in 2062. He is the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy and elementary school aged son Elroy.

https://warnerbroscartoons.fandom.com/wiki/George_Jetson

January 6, 2022

Ohio toiled 15 months on license plate, missed backwards plane

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/04/ohio-wright-flyer-license-plate-mistake-15-months/

Designers at the Ohio Department of Public Safety fussed over details like the colors and the plate's rural and urban themes. The Ohio State Highway Patrol tested for readability. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, were also involved, right down to deciding the breed of the playful dog used in the design. DeWine told Public Safety officials at the plate's unveiling that his wife “probably drove them crazy” with her input.

Not once did anyone point out the backwards plane.

“Y’all leave Ohio alone,” tweeted the Department of Transportation in North Carolina, where the Wrights first achieved powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. “They wouldn’t know. They weren’t there.”

Not only that, but the incorrect license plate went into production. Columbus, Ohio's CBS affiliate 10 WBNS found out that the state had produced 35,000 examples of the license plate. Apparently they will be recycled, and the corrected design was put into production after the mistake was discovered.
January 6, 2022

Purely speculative but - fully electric cars stuck in the I95 mess?

I can’t find any actual information one how long EV’s could last in such a situation. Sitting still but producing heat.
Lots of people were caught unprepared whether in gas, hybrid, or electric.
I can’t find any story with an interview with someone in a fully electric car.
Is it just a situation that few cars are designed to do what was needed?

I found this article by Charles Lane at theWashington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/04/imagine-virginias-icy-traffic-catastrophe-with-only-electric-vehicles/
Again this is purely speculative.

DU thoughts?

January 4, 2022

FYI ESPN's pre-season NFL playoff analytics predictions. 😳

Missed it by thaaaaat much



January 4, 2022

Shatner..... and Larry King. 4 minutes.

Love these bits with Larry. The last minute is hilarious.

Thank you Captain.

January 4, 2022

Newport News couple learns they were never legally married 26 years after ceremony

https://www.wavy.com/news/strange/newport-news-couple-learns-they-were-never-legally-married-26-years-after-ceremony/

This past May, Valerie went to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get an updated Virginia driver’s license but was told she needed her marriage license due to her maiden name being on her social security card.

A concerned phone call to William and a letter to Richmond’s vital statistic’s record-holders later — the couple would learn their marriage license was never filed.

Which is why the couple gathered Thursday, 26 years ago to the day, and said those vows for a second time. Some faces who were there for the original wedding are no longer with us today, but still with family members in spirit.

“We’re gonna hand take it down to the courthouse to make sure that it gets there,” the couple said together.

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I refuse to subscribe to the idea that the poor and the powerless are the ones organized to screw me over. Truth, Justice, & the American Way - that’s all we ask.
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