The FBI has been trying to get out of that building for at least eight or nine years. The intention was to move to a new building in the DC suburbs but Trump killed that plan in 2017. He wanted them in that building because it was near his hotel, I gather. The FBI then put forward a plan to modernize the J. Edgar Hoover building but the cost estimates on doing so appear to not have been, shall we say, entirely accurate. I guess the new plan is just to dump the D.C. office all together. Trump is making enough on meme-coins that he doesn’t care about the hotel revenue.

I honestly cannot help but assume that the Trump admin has some nefarious scheme in motion that will somehow hurt the American people and undermine the nations security, they always do after all, but that building has been falling apart for well over a decade.

Amazing.

Interestingly, apparently no one knows where the phrase comes from. This is a rather interesting article about the topic that lists a large number of possible origins. Two of them could be very loosely interpreted at killing someone, or well someone dying anyway.

In the days before a safety fence was installed on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, people would commit suicide by jumping from it. The deck was on the 86th floor.

and

There are those who claim the term refers to 86 inches, the standard depth of a grave in the U.S. So to 86 something is to bury it.

That second one isn’t likely very true. Graves have always been referred to as 6 feet deep, which is 72 inches. Also, they’re not dug that deep anymore in the USA.

None of the others could in anyway be considered a threat. I suppose it comes down to usage though. If people in some region have been using it as a threat, then maybe it could be construed that way when used by someone from that region. But it still seems like a huge stretch to me.

Fair point but I’m not sure that naming every permutation is possible. We might be better off trying to make do with charts or something.

It is. I’m just surprised they included so much. If you can get by with 100 pounds or 50 pounds, why wouldn’t you? Every ounce matters when getting to orbit. No one expected 50 years from these things, did they?

How long until the threaten to arrest O’Donnell for pointing out the obvious?

No I haven’t, actually. I was stopped by the price-tag before I ever got near one. I didn’t realize they were that big.

Damn, they sure built things to last in those days. I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that they had enough fuel on board for the thrusters to last 50 friggin’ years.

“The head of the FBI, [and] he doesn’t know what 86 somebody means?"

He seems to have a better idea than you or any of the conservative talking heads. To 86 something means to throw it away. 86ing someone means to throw them out, or for the bartender to cut them off. I have never heard it used to suggest killing someone.

Staffing issue. Do these people not even hear themselves?

Please always remember, this woman took an untrained one-year old puppy, that she herself failed to train, to a gravel pit and shot it to death because of the fact that it was untrained. She also wrote about it in her book because she thought it was something to be proud of.

First, I would like a Ford F-150 Lightning. I looked at one once but there’s no way I could afford it.

The other think I wanted to say is, GMC Hummer EV…? An EV Hummer? Really? Who is buying these? Someone who feels the need to take up as much space and use as many resources as possible but still wants to hang out with the cool kids who want to save the planet?

I think trying to define it is fairly pointless. We love what we love and we lust what we lust. Rather than defining it, I wish we could all just accept that and stop hating people for having different preferences.

It’s expected to be 6.7 million kilometers away from the Earth at its closest approach. The average distance to the moon 384,400 kilometers. It will be well outside that, around 19.5 times the distance to the moon?

Honest question, if the moon isn’t a threat, and the asteroid’s path is confidently calculated, is this really a dangerous asteroid? Or is it only considered dangerous because in some distant century it might hit Earth?

Thanks. I did read it. Hence my comment.

“Whereas I have never met the truth and have no relationship with it at all.” He probably went on to say.

Exactly. I’d doesn’t say convicted of participating in an insurrection. It says if you participate in an insurrection you are automatically intelligible for office unless the disability is removed by congress.

Personally, I’ve never heard the expression to “eighty-six” something to suggest violence. It just means to get rid of it or throw it away. This is a huge waste of time, but I guess that could be the title of the memoir anyone working in this administration.

Thanks! I did not know that.

Sorry, misunderstood.