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That’s an unbelievably hard, near impossible one to deal with. When nothing makes sense how can you know what to say? I’m hoping for you, and believing you have the heart and tools to make it through.

Ditto

Of course - Putin is everything Trump wants to be in life. He's richer, more powerful, better at embezzling and wrote the book on transforming a democracy(ish) into a one-man authoritarian state. Trump meeting Putin is like a teenage girl meeting Taylor Swift.

Nope. Nope. My comments were not meant to insult you. You insistently maintain a false view of emergency rigs. After unsuccessfully trying several times to correct you, my comments were to state that people who have a more accurate view of them might make decisions about using them that don't make sense to you. Nope. I do not have an opinion one way or the other how the money got rounded. I was referring to the way you handled the conversation. Nope again. I am objectively callin' it like I see it. From someone who until recently had nothing but the highest respect and regard for you, I beseech you to review and reconsider your recent attitude toward everybody. Other than being an ugly old fart, I'm comfortable with what I see there.

If the money was ever on the bottom of the Columbia River, and there is nothing to suggest it ever was, then it stayed on the bottom. There is no magic way for it to get off the bottom and up on the Tena Bar beach.

Yep -- I have two words for you: Abu Ghraib. How many of the personnel who took part in the blatantly illegal acts there looked back and were appalled and disgusted with themselves? We can look from the outside and say unequivocally that those actions were so far outside the realm of OK that how could they not have known? But 1) you will likely find that one or two whose own "Overton window" is far afield of what is acceptable, and 2) those others who are easily convinced that they are right. These days, with the influence of Fox, OANN, etc., the second group is larger and easier to convince.

What do you call a book club that's been stuck on one book seemingly forever? - Church