@Mik said in Lunch with Senator Portman: I did. He appeared puzzled. Way to set me up, George. LOL.

Good. The sooner they fail, the sooner sanity returns.

Now, having said all that, I'm reminded of Axe's comment on the aluminum mill thread...The one which talked about aluminum and steel mills shutting down because of energy costs. America can compete on a level playing field without having cheap labor, if they have cheap energy. Without one or the other, the U.S. has a hard time fighting off subsidized steel or other metals. But...Just like computer chips, things like steel, oil, lithium, titanium, etc., are all strategic materials. The question becomes what should we do about materials we must have? Yes, we can create jobs in sectors that look good on the unemployment numbers, but nobody works in commercial aviation, when you don't have the materials to build the planes. Nobody works in the hospitality industry when there is not steel or lumber to build the hotels. And nobody works in the computer industry without chips and copper.

2022 August 8, near the White House : https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/05/two-dead-white-house-lightning/ “Three people, including a Wisconsin couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary, have died after a lightning strike Thursday evening in Lafayette Square, just north of the White House, D.C. police said Friday.”

Also depends on the monitor she is buying. I have a cheap old one, and did not realize that it needed an old connector type. It did not have a HDMI connect on it.

Every day our USPS person leaves two milk-bones on our mailbox for the dogs she sees watching her through our window. Not sure what it does for the dogs, but it sure brightens up my day.

That was a given.

Meanwhile, on the Nevada-Oregon border... https://www.ijpr.org/environment-energy-and-transportation/2022-08-04/company-scraps-lithium-project-in-oregons-alvord-desert

Wow. Whatever happened to Rutan?

@Aqua-Letifer said in A Nation In Decline: @Jolly said in A Nation In Decline: That's not quite the way he says it, but it's the standing joke. To be honest, I like regional accents and phrasing. I was driving home the other day, listening to a national news broadcast. The lady most definitely had a New Yawk accent. Thought it was refreshing... New Yawk accents are, categorically, obnoxious as fuck. They don't seem so bad if you live near Boston.

Chinese hypermissile.

Aluminum and steel mills shutting down is probably more important than the Hilton adding on two more maids and a bellman.

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