She'll be fine. Pistachios are supposed to be green anyway.

lol

LOL. Reduce staffing by creating another department which adds staffing. 555 ...the Army Installation Management Command, or IMC, created in 2006 and chartered to “reduce bureaucracy, apply a uniform business structure to manage U.S. Army installations, sustain the environment and enhance the well-being of the military community.” IMC is headed by a lieutenant general, with a major general as deputy and brigadier general as chief of staff. IMC includes a workforce of 30,000 soldiers and 70,000 civilians.

@Mik said in Cold Case: I won’t do it. No confidence in confidentiality. The thing is, even if you dont do it, there is probably some relative out there somewhere who has. So, they probably would be able to track you somehow. I am not too worried yet, as I dont think the testing is too popular in Asia................ yet.

That is very cool!!

Those turbine blades are huge!!

IF they were going to spend that kind of money, I would have thought they would have put solar panels and some sort of battery for each house. That would prevent the situation from a storm that they describe. Also, bury power/transmission lines generator for each house Be "off grid" for 98% of the time. When there is a natural disaster, have a back up like generators.

Agree, but there has been ALOT of opposition to the Marines in Okinawa from the Japanese residents there. Politicians there for the last 30 years or so have been campaigning on this. One of the main initial points was the rape/murder of a young girl in Okinawa by three marines in the late 1990's or so.

There was a scene from one of the shows where his wife was supposed to make a trick pocket pool shot. I guess the plan was to cut the scene with a real pool player who would make the shot. Turns out (somewhat) by accident that she made the shot on the first try!. https://9gag.com/gag/aqyjezQ

@jon-nyc said in Kennedy’s lawyer petitioned the FDA to withdraw approval of the polio vaccine: That’s one way to avoid the question. But avoidance it is. That’s needlessly insulting, as I have already told you I haven’t studied up on his history. Do I trust your twitter feed to provide an accurate survey of RFK’s opinions? Of course not. But I am looking forward to the hearings, and I am sure the greatest dunks on RFK will be well represented. There’s a chance your twitter feed will have some reasonable points to be made.

I had no idea that this was originally meant for Bowie and Jagger. Honestly can't see how they would have made this better.

Someone told me a joke that Chinese eat everything on a pig except the "oink"!

@Copper And the Democrats still dont seem to understand part of the reason they lost the election.

Quite good! The whole group sounds good.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd0zz5edqo Although not confirmed this is actually from Assad Assad's reported statement was put on the Telegram channel belonging to the Syrian presidency on Monday, although it is not clear who currently controls it - or whether he wrote it. In it he says that, as the Syrian capital fell to rebels, he went to a Russian military base in Latakia province "to oversee combat operations" only to see that Syrian troops had abandoned positions. Hmeimim airbase had also come under "intensified attack by drone strikes" and the Russians had decided to airlift him to Moscow, he says.

I particularly liked that grand piano. And his playing in the 4th minute. He co-hosts a Channel 4 UK TV show called The Piano, where they set up a nice steinway upright in various railway stations and see what turns up. Series 3 is imminent and the other night a Christmas special aired. A 94 year old gent stole the show playing an accompaniment to some woman singing Mel T's The Christmas Song. Simply lovely, forgot everything for a couple of minutes as I entered his musical world.

Word of anything spreads quickly in a school. If there was to be a fight after school everyone knew about it, but they were never staged nor serious.

https://x.com/sommecourt/status/1868595984055558451?s=46 Full text of the poem: The Hills of Bastogne The crops should be full in Belgium this year, The soil should be fertile, but the price has been dear, The wheat should be red on the hills of Bastogne For its roots have been soaked by the blood of our own. Battered and reeling we stand in their way, Its here we are, and here we will stay. Embittered, wrathful, we watch our pals fall, God, wheres the end, the end of it all? Confident and powerful, they strike at our lines, But we beat them back, fighting for time. Berserk with fury, they are hitting us now, Flesh against steel, we hold, but how? For each day that we stay, more mothers must grieve. For each hill that we hold more men must we leave. Yes, honor the men who will some day come home, But pray for the men 'neath the hills of Bastongne. -Bernard J. McKearney 101st Airborne