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I go out to biker bars and some rando dude is telling me I look like I can kick some azz.  I don't just look it too.  I'd be fine on carnival.

You'd fit right in.

And that, is how we do it.


"...Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in D.C. found not guilty of misdemeanor at trial..."

You'd fit right in.

I fit in most places.  I am fine in shorts or jeans and a t-shirt, but I dress up if the occasion calls for it.  I have so many clothes in my closet.  I got rid of a bunch of my bigger stuff too.

NOAA showing 50% chance snow Sunday night.
Weather Channel high for Monday is 36.

Nope, git a friend whose husband is a meteorologist, he said not happening.

That's a hint!


"...Republican Ousted in Pennsylvania Borough That Has Voted GOP For 113 Years..."

 Federal judge orders Trump administration to make full November SNAP payments
 

 “People have gone without for too long,” US District Judge John McConnell said during a hastily called hearing Thursday. “Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable.”

Nearly 42 million Americans receive food stamps. Payments are made on a staggered basis over the course of a month.

But the US Department of Agriculture took the unprecedented step of halting benefits for November, saying the program had run out of funding amid the government shutdown.


Despite the judge’s ruling, however, many beneficiaries may have to wait a at least few more days to see the assistance. States send food stamp enrollees’ information to vendors every month so they can load funds onto recipients’ benefit cards, often days or weeks before the new month begins. Those steps need to take place before benefits can restart.

McConnell’s order comes days after the administration, in response to an earlier order from him, said it would provide only partial food stamp benefits for November by using $4.65 billion in a contingency fund maintained by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps.

The judge said the administration had not worked fast enough to ensure money reached the program’s millions of recipients and that it had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it decided earlier this week that it would not provide the full benefits this month.

Under McConnell’s new ruling, the government must tap into billions of additional dollars held by USDA in a separate pot of money so full SNAP benefits can be paid. The judge said those payments needed to be made to states, which administer the program, by Friday.

 The administration said earlier this week that it opposed using the nearly $17 billion left in the child nutrition fund because it would endanger the nation’s free and reduced-price school meals program, which serves about 29 million children a day. (The agency has transferred $750 million in tariff revenue to the WIC food assistance program for pregnant women, new moms and young children.)

But McConnell ruled on Thursday that the administration’s choice not to make full payments by dipping into the other pot of money at the USDA did not reflect reasoned agency decision-making.

He pointed specifically to the USDA’s decision to pull money from that pot to the fund the WIC food assistance program, saying that move “undermines” their argument against using it for SNAP payments.

“A rationale premised on such legal errors must be set aside as arbitrary and capricious,” McConnell said.