I'd leave if I could afford to. In fact, there are towns in Ontario where I'd be closer to family in Michigan while living outside the USA.
I'd leave if I could afford to. In fact, there are towns in Ontario where I'd be closer to family in Michigan while living outside the USA.
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When I see a banned-books list, I consider it a high-priority TBR list.
Obvs, border collies are born to make sure everyone is where they're supposed to be.
Expanding the tax to all income (no maximum) would solve the problem. A no-brainer except of course to leaders with no brain.
How so?
We're the only developed country that clings to this idea of a "right" of every individual to own a gun, and our Supreme Court, by one vote, upheld this fetish by choosing the widespread misreading of the 2nd Amendment. I wish we could just align our gun policy with similar Western nations.
Standard processes, if these are even in place anymore, will not work. Neither will waiting for 2026.
I think bust is needed. ASAP. Enough of "Oh, well...gotta wait; that's how the system is set up." These are extraordinary circumstances.
Pet of the Year. Owner of the Year!
We both love soup, and snow peas. We could talk or not talk for hours.
It's an entirely different kind of flying...altogether.
"Hey, I look nice!"
True, plus it's a very diverse, blue-voting neighborhood that knows DEI is a good thing.
The sudden change was dramatic at our local Target. It still never looks nearly as busy as it used to.
I loved the rest of her bit about "Conservative voices are being silenced" as she points out all the dozens of media outlets where she's been able to voice that message, twice in some cases. :)
I like it a lot. About USA government branding, the less said the better.
Imagine a USA with a clear policy on guns that's in line with other Western democracies, is unambiguous and well understood by all, and can't be misread and twisted by a one-vote Supreme Court majority. Our gun fetish is a historic national failure.
If I had to care what Stephen Miller eats, I'd put a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger with my toes. [to paraphrase Mallory Archer]
And I remember it mostly for not watching it correctly, because I assumed the twist thing from the beginning. When it was revealed toward the end, I wondered, "Who didn't know that?" It's about time to rewatch and catch the rest of this great movie again.
So an arrest and arraignment, then, right?
It fascinates me to read about Wikipedia authors (and there are so many!) who've written thousands of articles each and had many singled out for recognition as Good or Featured articles. I'd love to do that. For now, I need to go kick in some $ for the learning I gain there daily.
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
We also started having commentators in addition to lectors. Commentators read scripted explanations of what was about to happen. "We now hear readings from Scripture and listen to what God has to say to us." One lady pronounced it "scrip-chore" for some reason. And "We now pray the offertory song."
On the same weekend in I think 1969 (First Sunday of Advent), our parish started a Saturday evening Mass, started using FM wireless microphones that weirded out Father's voice, and started using the new all-English liturgy in the monthly missalettes. I felt like we had been taken to another planet.
Reminds me of WJR Radio in Detroit: "News on the hour; bulletins at once!" Anyway, I've also heard comprehensive leaflets called "missalettes," but I experienced the advent of missalettes in our RC parish circa 1970, and those were literally a subset of a missal for the current season or month.
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.
In line at a theater, and a guy asks if anyone knows how the White Sox are doing, and it's Tim Kazurinsky. Also, I'm walking downtown and an SUV is waiting to pull out into the street, so I wave for it to go ahead, and the driver's window rolls down, and Queen Latifah shouts, "Thank you, Sweetie!"
I'd suggest his staff brief him with the first several paragraphs of the appropriate Wikipedia articles before meeting world leaders, but then I doubt he'd understand. Facts don't always break through a shell of bigotry.
Someone prove this wrong.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Glad to hear the correction from a world leader. They need to quit playing nice and correct all error with truth. Lecture him if necessary. Don't act like he's a normal, qualified participant in world leadership.
I remember the moment I heard about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, my first thought was, "Ukraine needs to reduce the Kremlin to rubble for this."
Let's have some good news today. A breakthrough, even.
We need a shadow secretary to give the better advice based on science.
As the tyrant in power does exactly the opposite. I don't want to hear one empty word from him "honoring" the fallen.
I don't want to hear Word #1 from him about Memorial Day. They died for principles and foundations that he's tyrannically tearing down. We've never been at a lower point as a nation.
Do it anyway. One ghoul at a time.
The U.S. has—had—one of the top intelligence operations in the world. What a resource to make informed decisions. Yet we have an ignorant WH occupant who relies on fringe conspiracists to spread false information. What a danger. What an embarrassment. What a tragedy.
They never have. 11 of 12 recessions from 1953-2025 have been under Republican Presidents. The GOP has been the least fiscally responsible party for over 70 years. They have only ever cared about enriching themselves and maintaining power. Their depravity knows no bounds.
But rather than be outraged, so many of us have an "Of course; that's how Trump is" attitude. That's our downfall.
The utter stupidity, mixed with malevolent intent, is sick-making. Our nation is hitting bottom.
Mine never has done anything bad. It immediately ended my profound "sinus" headaches and within a day or two put my BP in the perfect range. I'm glad to have them take my BP at the doctor's office now; I feel like they're going to give me a gold star on my forehead or something.
By all means do a weekly live sketch show, written and performed by UK-based writers and performers. But be entirely original. Or it'll make as much sense as a US version of Just a Minute or the Oxford Debating Society.
World leaders, especially in non-US venues, need to dispense with the standard respectful treatment of the US president as long as it's Trump. I can understand showing some restraint as a White House guest, but there's a time and place when they have to say the harsh, true things. Summit meetings...
I enjoyed every episode of S7. It's the first season I've seen in its entirety.
You're wise, faithful, learned, and kind.
I'd love to be sitting behind him and in the camera shot, rolling my eyes and shaking my head. And turning my back, and leaving early.
Certain marketing, menu, and packaging language needs to be banished: (1) "to perfection" as in "broiled to perfection." That's whatever the cook decides it means. (2) "creamery butter"...as though there's another kind. (3) "farm fresh eggs" ...it's a corporate operation, not three hens in a barn.
Language peeves of late: 1. "We need to write to our capabilities," and "I'll talk to our priorities during this presentation." Are our capabilities and priorities sentient beings who can be talked to? Is the word "about" too long and unwieldy now? 2. "Ticked and tied." Stop it! Just say "done."
Sorry, Sharon. It's free speech, and in this case, it happens to be correct.
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
I keep thinking this situation signals to nefarious actors throughout the world, "Now would be a good time to launch your plan." (Heaven forbid.)
I've got to believe the current situation is a tantalizing target for nefarious entities around the world. That's what's so dire about it.
It's the area I grew up in, and it's been depressing to see it align with the right wing to the extent that it has. Not surprising; when I was in school there, it was rather monochromatic, not diverse. That has changed a lot, and so, I hope, is the political scene.
Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.
I sure hope someone's keeping track of all the things that will need to be fixed and put back.
These things are overdue and should have been going on instead of the general pearl-clutching and concern-expressing we saw so much of. They're not operating within the norms; neither should the rest of us, except the rest of us can focus the disobedience where it will change things.
As I toasted two halves of a bagel this morning, I thought of the American Dad joke, "Does the Bagel button on the toaster really do anything or just put you on a list?" It's actually imaginable to be put on a list, not likely from using the Bagel button, but as a target for something.
He hasn't got the adult words to just say he disagrees and explain why. As normal leaders would.
It's great to say we "won't allow this anymore," but how exactly do we go about not allowing it? America's perhaps fatal flaw is that all the ways of doing that are gone at the moment. So we just sit and watch and shake our heads. That's all we can do. We have to allow all this, apparently.
I was in high school and "got" the song but even back then was annoyed by "a appetite."
I was in a two-week summer music program/camp for high schoolers at Michigan State University and we were getting ready to play a bicentennial concert at a town hall (outside of course, while we baked in the sun). I had a radio in my dorm room, and it seemed to play this song every hour.
A tyrant commits crimes in front of us every day and there is nothing to stop him. This is the final, fatal flaw of this sorry nation.
sad that the real american exceptionalism turned out to be stupidity
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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What he's doing is good, but yes, much more is needed. Disruption of bad decisions, raucous pushback, even rule-breaking (since the regime isn't interested in rules). Extraordinary times demand extraordinary actions, both symbolic and direct.
Good point. Separation of powers was supposed to protect us.
You may well be correct on this. I feel like it works well-ish for Germany now. It doesn't look foolproof, and I hope it continues to serve Germany as it is.
I keep wondering if our combined head of state & government is part of the problem. Most other western democracies have these roles separated. An independently elected (by a giant federal assembly, every 5 or 6 years) would focus on protecting the constitution and national values.
I'm going to need to hear very soon that there is something that can be done and that there is someone who can do it. What, I don't know. Something.
I'm very cautious on Facebook (I keep an eye out for the dreaded Public globe), but on Reddit I have an alias so I can ask any question or comment freely on anything. And there's a subreddit about absolutely every imaginable subject.
Sneering woman's demonstrating the ugly face of bigotry.
Apparently all the country can do is stand there and watch all this happen. All safeguards, countermeasures, and pushbacks have fallen away. Overthrow is needed, but is anyone planning that?
You already said this nonsense above. It doesn't make any more sense this time.
Feeling hopeless...it's one thing after another. Deeply hoping for a breakthrough about SOMETHING.
And the officer's without a job now, right?
UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:
I keep thinking of the well-regulated militia the Founders wrote the 2nd Amendment about. It was meant for times like this.
Thank you. Enjoy all this! It sounds wonderful, with that exception. :)
'Daily Mail, luv. Is that Vivienne's yer wearing?' -AbFab
I know. Whenever I read a messed-up headline about a UK happening, I check the source and it's usually The Mail. Gossipy at best; slanted and wrong at worst.
That...sounds...fantastic!
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Not big or small government, but good government. Government that gives structure for fairness, and uses our pooled resources prudently to help all of our people.
Everything is now determined by and subject to two man-children playing with their toy country. Shame on us for allowing this to happen.
I've always thought that's the point where the guns come out.
Yes, there is FW&A in Medicaid. There are also systems and processes to detect it and deal with it every day. Do these measures catch all of it? Probably not. But hardly a reason to deny benefits to the vast majority receiving benefits honestly and healthcare from honest providers.
During its second airing, colleagues and I started a daily cherry pie and coffee break every day at 3.
I think of Foghorn Leghorn: "I say...I say...Wer-sester-shar Sawse."
OMG. I called my gastro MD's office to set up a colonoscopy appointment, and they answered, "Sup?" I'm glad their staff has turned over since then, but it's amazing this ever happens. I remember getting scolded in the music store I worked in, for a small error in what I said when I answered a call.
I recently renewed my library card at our neighborhood library branch and promptly checked out a well-used copy of Orwell's 1984. Downtown at the main library, there are 59 people waiting to use the six copies.
Any president needs to shut up about the news media. Unless they break laws, of course. But recognizing the value of a free press to a democracy is basic civics.
We can't have one because husband says we don't use the Instant Pot and he's right about that second half. We would use an air fryer. I've only ever done butter chicken in the IP.
In the morning he explained to me what had happened after asking me if he had walked into my room. He had gone back to his room and eaten something there once he got his bearings. Scared me...and it obviously scared him, too.