Sunday, November 3, 2024

Why do they keep referring to it as a 'surprise visit'?

 How can her 'visit' to SNL have been a 'surprise', when we all knew about it since the beginning of last week? Plus, it wasn't original or funny. Juss' sayin'...   
 
Kamala Harris' appearance on Saturday Night Live instantly drew comparisons to Trump's stint back in 2015, but even more so it was compared to Hillary Clinton's ill-fated performances on the show in previous elections. The vice president laughed throughout her skit with Maya Rudolph on Saturday's episode, putting on a similarly giggle-filled performance to Clinton in 2008 and 2016. At one point, Harris even repeated a joke from Clinton's sketch opposite Amy Poehler, as she asked Rudolph: 'I don't really laugh like that do I?' 
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How I feel every morning any more...
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It really is kind of frightening how many people buy in to shit like this, but then again, they may be the same people who made that guy's squirrel an internet sensation. I guess there really is no accounting for the average citizen any more, is there?
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Casual elegance defined.
Click on this picture for more information on this bracelet my wife made.
It's only $ 55.00 and the shipping is free.
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There's a whole new dynamic about to kick in now that so many people are voting early - some say as many as 70,000,000 have already voted. That means nearly half the people in the country are being subjected to insipid, hateful, ridiculous ads long after they've already made up their minds. Look for the ad cycle to get much longer going forward. Oh, joy...
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Speaking about the billion-year-old water the other day, I realized that I may be breathing the same air Hitler and Stalin did. Dammit...
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5 comments:

  1. This is not the first election where early voting has been big and the ads really started after I had voted.

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  2. amazing: too much wine and yet the price of a bottle continues to rise; that defies economics as I understand the word

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  3. "90% of US bills are contaminated with cocaine". How, exactly, do we know that? The studies I can find use ridiculously small sample sizes (287?? Really?), are repeated endlessly by media with proven bad records for reporting science (eg, Scientific American, Nat Geo, etc). The statement might be true- but the cited studies aren't good enough to support the statement.

    With around 54 BILLION US bills in circulation, a statistically valid sample would require 1)bills from every federal reserve district (12); should reflect the geographic distribution of currency with regard to quantity and denomination; and should reflect the relative frequencies of each denomination (which vary by at least a factor of 5) and properly sample each denomination. At least. There are more variables to control (eg, time of sample during the year, age of the currency). A one-in-a-million sample size would require 54,000 bills, or about 5000 per federal reserve district. Given the other potentially important variables, one quickly gets to sample sizes too small to be meaningful to both a citizen of small town Nebraska and, say, Washington DC.

    The statement sounds as if it should be valid. It is, instead, a good example of bad science and worse reporting.

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  4. That veteran thing-a-ma-bob is nice until you get to the last line.

    Signed: John, a proud US Marine Vietnam veteran.

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  5. Spoil sport, a good story is always fun!

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I don't remember seeing this Dean Yeagle cartoon before, have you?

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