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Nigel shot me an email letting me know where it moved. Happy to be back!!

One of my favorite signs from the local protest.

Too bad things are far more complicated at the level of international relations than simple tit for tat by a simpleton will fix. Better might have been to adopt a tax policy that penalizes US companies for the jobs they create in other countries so as to sell their products at inflated profits here in the US. Apple really doesn't need to be a Trillion dollar company, for example, with gross margins of 47% to be an investable success.

Hi dogyks, When was this? I was stationed in Europe 61-63. The Germans would pay the highest for peanut butter. Far more than the Brits or the French. A lotta guys in the barracks made a decent 2nd income from flogging peanut butter. Jerry Baumchen

That would take out most MAGA supporters.

I saw the heat graph on Bluesky that shows the incidents of measles over time, in about 30 states. The drop-off after kids started getting vaccinated was like turning off a water hose -- an initial decline and then a near immediate stoppage across the board. That dramatic of a drop is not a correlation it's causation. I haven't yet seen the story, but I heard on my way in to work this morning that Kennedy has had a change of messaging and is going to be encouraging vaccines now -- at least for measles. Looking forward to reading more reporting on it.

Which has absolutey nothing to do with how Trump's tariffs have been worked out. But hey, Trump calls them reciprocal and that's good enough for you - no need to check anything below the surface. Being associated with a global economic catastrophe might end up being the thing that springs to mind.

People in their 70s, 80s shouldn't be put in a position of having to make critical decisions to protect their retirement savings from the whims of a guy who bankrupted a casino..

I was jumping an Eclipse with a Icarus 365. Our rigger sewed a type of leg lift strap to put on the student's legs, so they could pull their legs up and hold them + I am 6'6" : )

Nothing to worry about. It'll disappear as soon as summer comes. Just like that other disease (cough cough cough).

Minnesota "nice" is irrelevant. That's your invention and nothing more. The passage from the interview is: He asked her where she was from and she told him she was from Pennsylvania but was living in Minneapolis. He replied that ‘Minneapolis, Minnesota is very nice country’. The reference is places, not people! Tina and Cooper's exchange relates to places, not people. He said nothing about the people of Pennsylvania or‘Minneapolis, Minnesota. He specified 'country'. Country refers to land, water, sky, and geographical physical features. Moreover, you are far more interested in winning a political dispute you started, than truth. Damned near everything you say and do is "political"!

I feel like the opportunity to halt the decline is rapidly fading away. It needs the democrats to grow some spine and leadership, and a few republicans to break rank and say enough is enough. I quite like the Bernie, AOC and Waltz rallies that are getting coverage.

Your emotional dislike of her is not a good reason to conclude that she is an idiot. Comments like that are just blowing smoke. Stupid is as stupid does and the current clown show in DC makes it pretty clear who the idiots are. And you can be sure of one thing, the Trump regime will not decrease the debt, rather it will increase the debt as right wingers always do.

Installing DUI candidates is working out soooooo much better for us as a nation. /s

Hi folks, Are we starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel: In a district that went to Trump by 15 in 2024 and has a 23-point Republican voter registration advantage, [ a Democrat ] victory is a loud and clear rebuke to Republicans Democrat James Malone upsets Josh Parsons, flipping Pennsylvania Senate seat We must turn the GOP out of office next year. Jerry Baumchen

Not being a Tesla/space x follower, the Thai incident is the first time I noticed Musk, I’ve never liked him. I won’t deny he is good at making money, but dunning-Kruger and life experience tells me that someone who claims to be genius level at every aspect of physics and engineering is full of BS.

In my lifetime which is now quite long, GOP administrations have added more to the debt than Dem ones. That included Reagan (tripled the debt) and Trump 1, both of whom railed against deficits. If you think Trump 2 will do anything different, I have a nice bridge for sale.

Singapore owes more per person than us and can afford awesome food courts and clean streets. National debt isn't a bill divided up after dinner. It isn't great but it also isn't such an immediate thing that aggressive and indiscriminate whacking in all directions is the best solution. The idea that innocents must suffer en masse because we'd never get enough money to service the debt by fairly taxing the morbidly rich shouldn't be made unless first the morbidly rich were fairly taxed as a matter of fundamental fairness. That should be step one not putting them in charge of raping the middle class to get even richer.

Hi dogyks, For many yrs, I have believed that we should reduce the size of the fed gov't. Disclaimer: I spent 30 yrs for the fed gov't & am now a fed retiree. However, IMO a proper reduction [ subjective? - of course ] requires a scalpel and not a sledge hammer. And, yes: Trump is batshit crazy. I do not believe that down deep Trump really cares; remember, his first attempt at the presidency was as a Democrat. His true desire is just to himself in the news; the center of attention. Jerry Baumchen

If you want to know what is coming just read project 2025. It's all there laid out in detail.

Can’t believe that Trump politicised a plane crash while recovery efforts were underway. He’s a despicable excuse of a person. Not even to mention that he had fired aviation safety officials less than a week before, because Elon complained they were too strict and hampering Space X with their safety requirements.

Can't fault your logic on that. You know what though, odds of a new born baby stabbing you with a knife may not be very high, but its never zero. But I see what you are saying. For my family, myself, and anyone at my house at least, its the right thing to do though. You can choose differently. Its a great country! Your right is to be able to choose differently. My right is to do what I'm doing.

Firstly, defending isn't necessarily killing. The FIRST thing I think of is situational awareness, and a contigency plan. As far as Billy is concened, I have no idea what their situation was, do you? What -DO- you imagine? Please describe in detail your imaginings wrt Billy and his wife and two daughters. I'm jonesing to hear this.

I guess I just don't understand the mind set of someone that wouldnt defend their family, or themselves. I wonder if its because they have never had to go through a situation that requires it, injury and/or death would result if they didn't.

What does it say about you if you arent willing to do violence to protect what's yours?

The second amendment doesnt "lead" to anything. That is the people. The benefit is long list of things like freedom and liberty and the ability to protect ones self and family.