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National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
Anyway, as people age they do tend to look back to a past "Golden Age" when giants walked the earth and mighty deeds were done. Happens every generation. (Because most things seemed a lot more wonderful when your body just worked, you had energy for days, and disillusionment hadn't set in. ๐)
I think it's far more important to read books that reflect the world they know and understand, that speak to them in voices that don't need translation from a past culture that no longer exists. They're interesting to see how we got here but they aren't a map of where we are.
I came to the same conclusion after a discussion with my nephew. I loved those books growing up (I'm in my late 60s, he's 21) but they're period pieces now. Many were already losing relevancy when I was reading them but I understood the world that produced them; my parents grew up in it. ๐งต
Don't have to, already there. And I am unique. ๐
Bannon. He looks like a heart attack on legs.
Nah, he looks as if he's serious about his health. His politics put him on the list, his age and physical condition clinched it. They were going for longevity.
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"...repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attack..." ...who were trying to keep a bunch of invaders from occupying their ancestral homeland. Oh, wait, no. Obviously the clueless natives had refused to acknowledge the innate superiority of the European colonizers by simply moving elsewhere.๐
My deepest sympathies in advance.
When those long trains come through people turn onto the road paralleling the tracks over to the underpass. No problem as long as you know how tall your vehicle is. (NCDOT did a lot of work on it. When I lived there it was a narrow road with the standard yellow road sign above. Lots of scrapings)
I lived there for several years. There are grade crossings a block away on each side. The chances of a train coming through while you're heading/leaving downtown aren't all that high but if one does come through it's likely to be a lo-o-ong freight train. You'll be sitting there a while. ๐งต
"Storrowing", yes. It's a verb. ๐
Someone did try. It didn't work. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_...
Oh no, that's if he has an excess of sanguinary humors. He doesn't appear feverish. Certainly an excess of choler, though, in which case a small dose of ipecac to purge him of yellow bile. Some warm milk after, perhaps to stem the frequent deficit of melancholic humors. ๐
country = county I don't know if my brain glitched or the spell checker did. No, there is NOT a dedicated bike trail running the length of the US. Err, at least not that I know of. (It was a walk and bike trail until the e-bike hordes showed up. Greenhorns go too damn fast. Dangerous. *grumbles*)
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China's an autocracy. If they decide a rail line is going to run through your town & the folks in this apartment block need to move to another to make way for it, that's what's going to happen. I can't say that wouldn't be the end result in the US but there'd be a LOT more law suits involved first.
We had an old rail line running the length of my country. The right of way for that defunct line is now an extremely popular bike trail. It's not getting converted back.
No argument here. Wealth inequality is dangerous and destabilizing.
Not defending him, just other people with medical conditions. Point is, his color and size are irrelevant. He IS a cruel, narcissistic, lawless, rapist, regardless of whatever unimportant physical traits he has in common with any number of other people. THOSE are what deserve scorn and mockery.
Even if it's governed by an independent Board of Trustees, the mere fact of that huge funding influx gives him an outsized voice in its affairs. That's one of the arguments against private philanthropic foundations versus a smaller but steady governmental wealth tax on high net worth individuals.
Also if he funds the CTA, how would that be structured? Who owns it? Has he donated the money? Is it an endowment? Is there a legal structure that provides for this? Is it even allowed, legally? Or has the system been privatized and now he owns a controlling share of it?
But theirs and their billionaire cohorts' assets exist in an uneasy ecosystem. If one of them suddenly liquidates a really substantial chunk of their assets, it sets off economic waves that echo through the markets, because someone else has to buy them and others will be trying to profit off it.
Answering seriously, rich people are mostly "paper rich". They have huge amounts of assets but much of them aren't particularly liquid, i.e. they don't easily convert to spendable cash. They can sell off some of them, they can take out loans against them, they can move them around, within limits.
Well, all Black women. But it gets worse if they are doing things he thinks White men should be doing, and considerably better than those pathetic White failsons he's trying to replace them with, too. The humiliation is enraging.
Oh no. Nope. POTUS really, really, really hates educated, competent Black women. They terrify him. There's a clear pattern.
Ahem. "look" = "lose"
"Rural voters" aren't a monolith. Lots are OK with trans folks, or could be once they stop being afraid. Or we could try to convince _them _to compromise because it's more important to save our democracy and economy than to squabble over choices other people make that they are free to decline.
They aren't worth it. You'll look those you need solidarity with for those who will desert you when it becomes inconvenient. There are some things you can compromise on. Others are huge red flags. This is one of them.
Anyone who compromises with those who are anti-trans is a closeted fascist. It's a sign that they've decided they are OK with violating bodily autonomy and suppressing individual choice. "But just in this one instance..." doesn't work. If you're OK with it once, you'll keep bending "just this once."
*drip, drip, drip* OK, Indian food, not ragweed. But still drippy and sniffly. Ah, the joy of histamines.
Today I got all 5 of my calls in. Legislators were duly nagged. Chatted with my State Rep's aide. Boy howdy, DeS is NOT popular with the FL Legislature. The _overwhelmingly_ GOP FL legislature. (He is not a team player, to grossly understate matters.)
NB, Not "all over fake tan". Facial make-up, covering up a medical issue. Rosacea results in very bright red splotches from broken capillaries. Eventually they are permanent. When he was young it was thought to be a result of alcohol abuse.(It's not.) As he doesn't drink, he'd hate it even worse.
Rosacea is a chronic skin condition. Wearing make up to cover its red splotches is a mild quirk compared to his other vanities. And 1 in 12 men have defective color vision. It probably doesn't look like a weird color to him and he's too bullheaded to listen to anyone about it. Again, mild quirk.
I'm a DD cup, even after lumpectomies, my mom was an AA, except when she was nursing us. (Err, yes, I do favor my paternal grandmother.) Mom found mammograms quite uncomfortable, me, I never had much of a problem. Understandably, it's a lot easier when there's more to squish, you see.
By the time I could have felt the tumors they'd have been a lot bigger & a lot harder to treat. It's not 100% but it worked for me. NB I have dense, cystic breast tissue. I needed ultrasound follow up. Even easier than the mammograms. Cold goo, it sometimes tickles, it's a bit sticky. No biggie.
The machines _have_ improved a LOT. I've had two* bouts of breast cancer, both caught quite early because of regular mammograms. Treatment wasn't pleasant but it was straightforward, it worked, and my docs and I aren't worried about it coming back. *Different kinds, 1 L, 1 R. Not a metastasis
My brother used the dial-up to-the-mainframe, stick-the-hand-set-into-the-cradle-at-the-modem-squeal set up Dad had in the 1970s I didn't learn BASIC/Fortran because my brother was an a$$hole and hogged the thing. (We let him because when he was on it he wasn't being an a$$hole in other ways. ๐)
Dad had one of the early IBM PCs set up in our dining room. Early 1980s. Used the Lotus-123 word processing program and told him "I'm in love..." ADHD; I have _no_ internal editor, term paper drafts were literally cut & paste collages, studded with 3 & 4 layers of Wite-out, arrows, & scratch-outs.
I lived in CT a long time, teens through much of my young adulthood. Miss it. Want to go back. Lovely place. Food-wise, quite decent pizza. Oh yes. Highly edible. Widely available. Pizza _capital_, err, no. Sorry.
He may claim they're real gold but he's a known serial liar. They are exact matches for styrene plastic decorative elements being sold on the Internet.
2016 presidential election results by county, weighed by population density. engaging-data.com/county-elect...
Even with the urban disadvantage, the population density of large metro areas will tip states Blue. Of course the structural advantage in voter suppression allowed by the gutting of the Civil Rights Act skews that. Otherwise GA would be solidly Blue on the strength of the Atlanta area, TX as well.
It's not really a Red State/Blue State division. It's a rural/urban divide. All Blue states have Red counties. Broken down by county, almost all cities and inner suburbs are Blue; rural and exurban areas are Red. Excepting the former Confederate states, Red states just have smaller metro areas.๐งต
FL has had net Red population growth but it's not _that_ Red. Their voter suppression is viciously effective.
You can't gerrymander statewide elections but you can suppress the vote juuust enough to eke out a win. DeSantis big re-election win in FL was a fluke, the result of a tsunami (well, a hurricane) of factors that came together. The last statewide elections before that were less than 1% difference.
That look of betrayal. How could you bring that into his sanctuary?
It does need to be cleaned occasionally but wiping it down every month or two (more often if there are, um...incidents) is a vast improvement on daily scooping.
I love my LitterRobot4.
To win a suit on those grounds requires interior access for documentary evidence, which FL and ICE are (illegally) blocking. It's much easier to document external environmental harm. There are years of records of those effects, as well as clear laws against them. You use the tools you have.
They may be going home and screaming into cushions over what they have to do but the decor _is_ the Prez's prerogative. If it's OTT tacky he wants, then OTT tacky he gets.
Unless they were vocally anti-MAGA (and White House staff try to remain apolitical) the staff decorators & capenters are likely low profile enough that they've kept their jobs. They're pros and know how to safely make temporary changes to suit the current occupant
Glued, I think.
Kill many, die gloriously!
It would help a lot if they would chuck Chuck.
Supposedly it's got a built in sunset provision after the 2030 election, which is when the new Census is taken. It reverts to the redistricting commission for the next Constitutionally mandated redistricting that will apply to the 2032 elections Will the voters believe that will happen? Who knows?
Resist: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've had a forwarding address for years so not a big deal to move. Just need to find the right service. I know a lot of people like ProtonMail but Proton has been a bit iffy recently. Ech, I hate researching this stuff. #AIsucks, #dumpGmail
OK. It may be Greek to Gmail's AI. It's DEFINITELY not Greek to me. *smh* I haven't migrated from Gmail because I'm lazy, it worked well enough, and I figured my privacy has been pretty well compromised already. And there's stuff I just don't send through email. Idiotic AIs? Nope. Time to move on
His dad was a POS.
Ah, so we can destroy the few remaining old growth US forests to make crappy furniture to throw in a landfill after a few years to break down into yet more CO2 to pump into the atmosphere. Thanks Mr. Prez. Your name will be (in)famous for the brief time our civilization and species have left.
*giggles*
I'm...not shocked. Anyone? Bueller? *crickets*
I do miss my native New England but the housing market being what it is, I'm here for a while. Mr. Air Conditioner Is My Friend. ๐ And hey, I'm not breathing wildfire smoke. You take what you can get. ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
It's what you when you live on a peninsula ("almost island") sitting in the middle of three bathtub-warm bodies of water.
Congratulations but damn yo that is such idiotic reasoning. "Yes, the medication works, so you don't need it anymore..." No my dudes, bodies don't work that way. It's not an infection. Or even (some types of) cancer. There's a huge difference between "curing" something and "managing" it. ๐
Fortunately the thin, clear Nexxcare bandages/wound covers don't set it off. I have something available so I don't have to bleed all over the place. At least so far. I haven't needed transdermal meds yet. Due to said adhesive issues, I hope I won't need them. ๐ I hope your skin calms down quickly.
Looks familiar, sadly. I'll be OK with bandage/tape for a few hours but after that my skin freaks out and keeps reacting until it's completely healed up again. It was so Not Happy during chemo, they were taping needles on me all the time and the adhesive choices weren't as good back then.๐งต
Regardless of what time your procedure is scheduled for? Happened to a friend. She had a 4 PM slot!!
I need em dashes. They're a necessary relief from all the semicolons and parentheses.
Yup. In person, single day voting is an excellent way to keep the poors from voting.
Fan. Seriously, I usually carry a folding fan with me. Start waving it not too close to said insect, so the breeze hits them and suddenly their alarms start signaling: "Turbulence! Turbulence! Change course, hazardous flight conditions!!" They don't connect you with the sudden wind.
I expect the next HHS initiative will focus on making sure people have balanced humors. An imbalance of any one of the four can have terrible health effects. *sigh*
Narcissists are by their nature complete assholes. If they could stop they wouldn't be narcissists.
I'm not certain that 24/7 bodyguards can be classified as paranoia in his case. After all, he has such an incredibly punchable face. You never know when someone's impulse control will fail in the face of such temptation.
Meanwhile he's reading through, at his leisure, "classic/well known" books he figures he'll have to read for classes, giving him a chance to enjoy them instead of despising them because he has to race through reading them in a week. It's been _highly_ entertaining listening to his "book reports."
My beloved nephew is taking time off after getting his AA degree. He's planning to substitute teach to see if his ambition to become a teacher is something he's not going to wind up hating before he's invested in it. Plus he gets paid. ๐ He'll likely major in English/History or both at University.๐งต
This is usually after walking directly across me when there is a clear and unobstructed path across the foot of the bed. (They generally manage to land on my stomach during a GERD flare or bang on the hip tender point when it's particularly achy. Idiot beasties.)
"Really, cat? REALLY? I mean, seriously, what is _with_ you?"
Naptrons. There was a paper on the phenomenon publish back in the late 1900s.
He's really desperate to find something that will generate a new media cycle, isn't he? People keep talking about what's in those unreleased and unredacted Epstein files. Or when they do change the subject, they grumble that his tariffs are trashing the economy and fueling inflation. a.co/d/5SDZaF5
Something like this with a separate large convection oven? Hey, cast iron burners, sounds pretty durable. a.co/d/5SDZaF5
A dog trainer I know informs me the technical term for any and all types of doodles is "mutts".
You could come down and have a dip in the hot tub that is the Gulf of Mexico. Water temps are now in the 90s F. (One reason we have so many swimming pools.)
*Not necessarily accurate answers as they barely remember their freshman year 8 AM Intro to Linguistics course they scraped a "C" in. But they'll deliver them with great confidence! Oh indeed, I find the assurance of having "the equivalent of PhDs" answering my questions so persuasive. ๐
Yes, the PhD in Classical Latin Poetry answers your questions on biochemistry while the PhD in Nuclear Physics will give you an in depth explanation of 18th c Russian politics. Got some questions about linguistics? No problem, we have a PhD in Art History who can confidently provide answers.*๐งต
Just finished it. Loved it!
I just read it. It's lovely!!
Ooh, and West Virginia sold its original location to *mumble mumble* (I wouldn't want to admit to having bought it either) and took over BOTH Ohio and Maine. Wow, such a deal!
Universities are now run by corporate drones who think in spreadsheets and bottom lines. Quislings.
I assure you, most of the places on your border where there are any appreciable numbers of people are uninterested in acquiring any part of you. Joining you, possibly. You'd sensibly decline, of course, we'd be far too much of a PITA, to deal with.
NB modern mozzarella for pizza is made from cow's milk though buffalo milk is best. Mozzarella's distinctive texture is because it's a pulled cheese. The curds are stretched, wrung, and folded like taffy to create long thin strands of milk protein before being pressed into shape, drained, and aged.
Poor townsfolk OTOH would rarely if ever get it except as charitable leftovers or magnanimous displays. There weren't that many of them, comparatively. In pre-/early industrial societies, the urban population was rarely more than 10-15% at most -- it took a LOT of farmers to keep a city fed.
It was common to sift wheat flour through increasingly finer sieves, resulting in bran to feed horses and other uses, a coarse, darker flour for everyday use, and finely sifted flour either to save for use on feast days or for barter or sale if necessary. ๐งต
Fine bread would be a treat, not unattainable. Peasants often could grow wheat on their own plot while also doing so on their lord's land on days owed to him. If they'd enough left after giving the miller his share, they could get fine flour from the whole meal flour. It was just a lot of work. ๐งต
It isn't.
"...the logo's supposed to evoke both a rising sun and the crown of the Statue of Liberty." To me it's evoking the rubber cover over my garbage disposal. Hmmm. That may actually be a very appropriate logo after all.
Obviously those are the ones who need the extra help. The rest of us just find some places for the kids and their friends/parents to show up, feed them, and give them some way to entertain themselves.
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