5543

I live in an area with wild turkeys. Those fuckers can certainly fly.

5544

And there werenā€™t helicopters involved?

5545

Ahh I did miss that, awesome!

Biggest family I know of is 9 people(2 adults and 7 kids).

5546

My brother and I were driving back from a concert on a freeway in Montana. Weā€™re blazing down the road at 75mph and one of those things comes sailing out of the bushes in the median and flew across the road in front of us. I was the passenger but there was no time to react. I saw it in slow motion. It passed over the hood. If the windshield hadnā€™t been there, I could have touched its feet as it passed in front of me. Iā€™ve never come so close to being impaled by a flying turkey.

5547

Thatā€™s not a sentence I expected to read in this lifetime.

5548

The turkeys in my area near the Sacramento river will cross the road in front of cars and make the cars wait. I guess they were here firstā€¦

5549

So why did the turkey cross the road?

5550

It chose dare instead of truth.

5551

Yah. Same here. Whole flock crossing the road. They are as mean as geese.

5552

House voting on BBB tonight?

5553

Wow, impressive if so. I guess the fact that we donā€™t know whatā€™s in the final bill is on purpose to prevent media from scaring off ā€œyesā€ votes.

5554

Unless it has extra goodies for coal company executives, severe means testing for disabled single parents who seek a $10/week SNAP benefit and provisions for weekly puppy kickings I expect ā€œMaserati Joeā€ Manchin will vote against it in the Senate.

Yes Iā€™ve become cynical.

5555

Well they did strip out anything that might annoy big pharma.

5556

Quelle surprise!

5557

It passes the House. Folks opposed will vote for it to not get crucified for being anti-Biden, knowing the Senate will butcher it more now.

5558

About time to watch that scene again. Les Nessman is live at the scene.

5559

Yeah, Iā€™m not sure there was ever much doubt that the BBB would pass the house.

5560

I actually mentioned that scene from WKRP in my eulogy for my Dad. I never saw him laugh harder in my life and that memory of him always stayed with me.

5561

Has the House had a chance to vote on the BBB bill? Or is Kevin Fucking McCarthy still engaging in delaying tactics?

And of course Manchin and/or Sinema will be Lucy with the football.

Jeez this country. Weā€™re fucking doomed.

5562

CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would result in a net increase in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period, not counting any additional revenue that may be generated by additional funding for tax enforcement.

This is kinda good news.