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Republicans just need to make sure that they stay evenly balanced throughout the island. Don't need too many on the east side...might cause the entire island to capsize because of the expanded presence. Just ask Rep. Hank Johnson.
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DSA candidate Tim Denson tries to sell the crowd on “democratizing the workplace” and says Walmart should belong to the workers.
Big mistake. The guy 6 ft away from him grew up in Venezuela. And he’s heard this communist fairy tale before.
DANIEL DI MARTINO: “So you want to take it [Walmart] from its owners and have the workers do what?”
TIM DENSON: “I want the workers to own it and get paid better and have better benefits and be able to provide better lives for their families.”
DI MARTINO: “We can buy shares in Walmart right now. In fact, all of the SpaceX workers became millionaires overnight.”
“You can start a workers’ cooperative right now. It’s legal, but under a socialist country, you’re not allowed to own your own property and start your own private corporation.”
Denson tried to refute Di Martino’s point. Then Di Martino dropped this line on him:
DI MARTINO: “It’s very easy to be a socialist in a capitalist country. It’s illegal to be a capitalist in a socialist country. That is the difference.”
[audience applause]
Then it got personal:
DI MARTINO: “When I had to go to the grocery store, Tim, I had to put my fingerprint in a scanning machine so that they would tell me what I was allowed to purchase.”
“And I could only go Mondays and Saturdays because we have to ration food, because that’s what happens when there’s no profit motive and the farmers, their food is confiscated because they had to sell it to the government and everybody else at the price the government tells the farmers.”
“My mom made chocolate bonbons for parties.”
“Well, people have a right to chocolate, so we had a price control on chocolate.”
“So my mom had to buy counterfeit chocolate, put it in black bags as if we were cocaine drug dealers. That’s what socialism was in Venezuela. That’s what worker ownership of the means of production is.”
“Where has it ever worked?”
Denson had no answer. Because there isn’t one.
Time to put the Deacs in the Top 10. In a year where no one has looked impressive, the Deacs just continue to steamroll opponents.
Next week on the road vs. SMU looms large, but since the 1st half of game vs. Miami, the Demon Deacons have been on a mission.
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Season No. 53 started for @PillowAcademy girls basketball coach Durwin Carpenter and he won his 1,228th career game.
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Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
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💚💛 Congratulations to Langdon Dyksterhouse on being named to the Class 4A All-MAIS Cross Country Team! We are so proud of you!
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A look inside North Carolina Tomorrow’s 25.
25 coaches from different sports and communities, united by shared values and a commitment to growing as leaders.
Different experiences. Shared purpose.
This is Tomorrow’s 25.
#Tomorrows25 #NorthCarolina
cc: @NCCoachesAssn
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WATCH WHAT @60Minutes DIDN’T SHOW YOU.
Here’s the FULL, uncut interview with @DHSGenCounsel James Percival.
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Different communities. Shared values. A commitment to getting better.
Today, T25 coaches in Arkansas and South Carolina gathered to explore Difficult Conversations, Mentorship, and External Partnerships.
Local in scope. National in reach.
#Tomorrows25
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Explosive plays made minus allowed, per game:
Miami +3.00
Georgia +2.57
Wake Forest +2.43
Ohio State +2.29
Indiana +2.00
Wake's been playing with the big brands all season. Took the media seven games to notice.
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When U.S. Ryder Cup rookie Jim Gallagher Jr. took down Seve Ballesteros 3&2 on Sunday in 1993. 🇺🇸
#GoUSA
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One of the greatest live-TV mistakes in sports broadcasting history.
It's 2007. ESPN's Rob Stone is doing a pregame spot at New Mexico State's Chile Pepper Institute before Nevada vs. New Mexico State. His host holds up a tiny pepper: "This is the Bhut Jolokia, the world's hottest chili pepper."
Stone bites it before the sentence is even finished.
Then comes the fine print: "A million Scoville heat units." Stone: "What does that mean?"
He finds out fast. The milk doesn't help ("I don't even taste the milk"), and then he asks the question every viewer is asking: "How long is this gonna last?" The answer: "For some people, five, six hours."
"Information I could've used a while ago."
The sweat, the tears, the pro trying to stay on camera.
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In 2006 the commanding general of the US Marines in Iraq banned his men from wearing the most popular sports shirts in America, because of what the burns surgeons were finding.
It was 50 degrees in Anbar province. The issued cotton T-shirt was soaked through in minutes, so Marines had been buying their own. Tight, light, sweat-wicking tops in polyester, the kind every gym in the country is full of. They were cooler and they dried fast. Nearly everybody had them on under the body armour.
Then the roadside bombs started. A bomb under a vehicle produces a flash of fire lasting a second or two. Cotton scorches in that time. Polyester melts.
The Navy doctors at the field hospitals described the result. The shirt turned to liquid and set again on the man's chest and back. A burn that should have been survivable became a far worse one, because there was now a layer of plastic fused across it that had to be cut away.
In April 2006 the order went out from Camp Fallujah. No synthetic athletic clothing outside the wire. It named the brands.
The Marines then went looking for something that wicked sweat, dried fast, did not stink after a week and would not melt. What they found had been grazing in New Zealand the whole time. Fine merino wool is now standard issue next to the skin for troops who expect fire.
That is twice in 25 years, in two different services, that plastic clothing has been tested on young men by an explosion. Both times the answer came off a sheep.
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LSU ranked 11 for no reason to start the season.
Ole Miss beats LSU and climbs to 4.
Florida beats Ole Miss and climbs (13 spots!) to 8.
Florida gets boat raced by Mizzou and South Carolina.
Maybe we should stop assuming mid SEC teams are elite when they beat each other?
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Building soil P is expensive. The math and the field don’t agree.
Just jumped in the combine helping the family farm . Bean yields around here have been pretty good. Can’t speak for everybody, but overall solid. Quality’s a little off.
I was listening to a video saying phosphorus needs to be 50 ppm, preferably 100. We just finished a field that made over 60. Around here most APHs are 43 to 45. Mother Nature gets the credit. She did the work.
That field tested 3 to 10 ppm phosphorus. Do you really believe another 10, 12, 15 bushel was sitting there just because the soil test number was higher?
I ran the math with Grok on building this ground to 50. 11-52-0 at $1,152 a ton is $1.11 a pound of P₂O₅. University data (Iowa State, Minnesota, SDSU, Tri-State) says it takes about 16 to 20 pounds of P₂O₅ to move a Mehlich-3 test 1 ppm. From 5 ppm to 50, that’s roughly $900 an acre on paper. At pH 7.2, calcium ties a lot of that up. Figure 40 percent fixation and you’re closer to $1,500 an acre before you even count crop removal working against you every year.
Then ask how many bushels that takes to break even. Chasing that ppm, I’d go broke — or I’d be better off buying more land.
We foliar fed this field several times. No check strip, so I can’t prove it paid. I believe it did. Exudation drives phosphorus uptake, stimulation and plant health drives exudation. The more you stimulate the crop, the more phosphorus gets in the plant. - both are important soil P and Uptake. Can’t spend it all just to get it applied to the soil.
I’m not anti-phosphorus. I want P in the field. I’m anti-losing money chasing a magical ppm.
South Dakota cash beans are about $12.40 tonight. At that price, $1,200 an acre is 97 bushels. $2,000 is 161 bushels. Spread over five years, you need an extra 19 to 32 bushel every single year just to get your money back. Not once. Every year.