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    04-01-2023, 08:16 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Marjorie Traitor Greene in The Bilge
    I am put in mind of a quip I read the other day about Trump. "I'm not saying that he should die in prison. I'm saying we should give him the...
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    03-31-2023, 10:34 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    The answer is no. Not for ranking Republican politicians, at any rate. They're being incredibly clear about that.
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    03-31-2023, 10:32 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Canada's never had enough population to defend the territory - or the coastline. We're way too big, and way too small. Large enough though to be a...
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    03-31-2023, 09:33 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    What pisses me off is that living next door to you guys will make us incidental casualties, in some measure, to your civil war. Hot, cold, or...
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    03-31-2023, 08:49 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    A quick scan of comments from politicians last might shows that only one, single current Republican elected official said "the Rule of Law applies,...
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    03-30-2023, 07:39 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Yeah. Apparently 34 counts in the indictment, largely with fraudulent business records.
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    03-30-2023, 07:28 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    So, we'll see how they deal with the witnesses, when it goes to trial.
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    03-30-2023, 07:07 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    CNN apparently reporting there are 34 counts. Conversations are underway about when the arraignment would happen, and whether the indictment should...
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    03-30-2023, 05:26 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Apparently he had a prepared statement, just read a minute ago on CNN. Says something that he had one prepared, rather than written in ketchup.
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    03-30-2023, 05:23 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Confused on the etiquette. Do the number of candles on an indictment day cake match the # of counts, or does the number only grow with the # of...
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    03-30-2023, 04:56 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Delighted. Happy 1st indictment day, to all who celebrate.
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    03-30-2023, 06:48 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    Sure, improvisation is fiendishly hard to transcribe too. I don't imagine any of Chopin's "Impromptu" pieces were ever played the same way twice by...
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    03-29-2023, 08:46 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toast is almost done. in The Bilge
    News tonight is that Alan Weisselberg may have tired of sitting in Riker's. He is no longer represented by Trump attorneys, reports say, which may...
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    03-29-2023, 03:50 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toast is almost done. in The Bilge
    Who knows, eh? It's hardly standard for prosecutors to do rock-paper-scissors to decide who indicts first, but we don't live in ordinary times.
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    03-29-2023, 11:27 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    Bill, there are a couple of reasons I stopped doing music for money. First, in my particular niche I wasn't quite good enough. My voice is...
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    03-29-2023, 09:47 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    Brilliant, Bill. I'm a bass-baritone, and sang semi-pro in regional stuff, decades ago when we lived out West. Opera bit parts and chorus in...
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    03-29-2023, 08:45 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    Yay Bill! What type of music do you sing? What range?
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    03-29-2023, 08:26 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    I'm all for getting off the paper, for performing. But in an era without easy ways to record music, writing it down was the most reliable way to...
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    03-29-2023, 06:52 AM
    TomF replied to a thread estonian workbenchs in The Bilge
    Depending on what one does, and with what tools, benches vary. I haven't used one like the guy in the picture has, but I haven't used a Scandinavian...
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    03-29-2023, 05:59 AM
    TomF replied to a thread What its the best Gin ? in The Bilge
    There's a craft distillery in Gagetown, about 40 minutes away, specializing in gin. It's been a revelation. For their base spirit, they're...
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    03-29-2023, 05:53 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Nuke the Tumors in The Bilge
    My prayers are with you, Fitz.
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    03-28-2023, 08:56 PM
    TomF started a thread Ronny Jackson seems to snort a line ... while sitting in the House of Congress. in The Bilge
    https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1640830716266319874?s=20 You remember that White House doctor, Ronny Jackson? The guy who reputedly drank on the...
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    03-28-2023, 04:11 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toast is almost done. in The Bilge
    to wit, she's just been slapped by the current MAGA-friendly Twitter content review folks with a 7 day restriction on what her account's able to do. ...
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    03-28-2023, 02:03 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Toast is almost done. in The Bilge
    You're gonna have a bunch of violence . The Trumpists in and out of Congress don't care that he's crooked. It's a bonus, by now. That's what the...
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    03-28-2023, 01:58 PM
    TomF started a thread Toast is almost done. in The Bilge
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/politics/pence-testify-jan-6-grand-jury.html?unlocked_article_code=lNOR8rDxjoSqmfhpITBV1yJmcjCOjTCKxiUe26DmyRZwI...
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    03-27-2023, 07:17 PM
    TomF replied to a thread I Drew An Art. It’s Not A Boat Art. in The Bilge
    What Elf said.
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    03-27-2023, 07:15 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Sight reading music without an instrument in The Bilge
    Singer, cellist, pianist, flute and Irish whistles too. Yeah, I'll read without an instrument for any of them, but it's a whole lot easier with...
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    03-27-2023, 02:05 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    If the book is about how to build a nuke in your garage or make and set an IED using stuff you'd buy at local stores, yeah. Etc. There must be,...
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    03-26-2023, 08:48 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Waco rally in The Bilge
    https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1640167188035166210 Look at the clips from Israel. Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets...
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    03-26-2023, 08:13 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1640000667149295617?s=20
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