@aqua-letifer said in MILF: Madrigal Italian Octave Limerick Flamenca But what does the t-shirt look like?

So you say there's a correlation between the social opportunism of making all the facile virtuous noises, and the practice of economic opportunism? Hmm. That's just crazy enough to be true.

But at least: Had 911 been contacted in a timely manner, police personnel would have been able to attempt to intercept those involved. We would like to remind everyone to stay vigilant and not to engage with people like this when a crime is occurring,” police said in a press release. So CT hasn’t become SFO

@jolly said in Andrew Sullivan on the Media (Rittenhouse edition): And, of course, @jon-nyc would hit that. Sullivan, Greenwald or Gabbard? Too lazy to get spit-take gif...

@jolly said in The Most Trusted Name in News: How about a Tank For Trump? A reelection of Trump in 2024, shucks even an ascendency in 2023, would make for gangbuster ratings Wouldn't that just be a hoot? CNN, Fox, et al, always are looking at what would make the most money. Go for it, CNN!

@jolly said in Even CNN says Dems are toast in 2022: Long time until 2022... LOL, remember when "90 days is forever in politics." We're still a year away.

Looking forward to it. Think the Mrs. and I will start listening to this box set tonight in preparation. [image: Mo-Fi-1982-The-Beatles-The-Collection1.jpg]

@doctor-phibes said in American Thinker du jour - Fairytale Edition: @george-k said in American Thinker du jour - Fairytale Edition: @jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Fairytale Edition: race essentialist What the actually HELL is a "race essentialist?" It sounds like a very important job in an F1 team, like the guy who makes sure they’ve brought enough tyres and oil and stuff Perfect!

@mik said in 111 and rising...: Not if you are shipping from east Asia. Apparently, the Panama Canal won't accommodate these new superfreighters like the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal. There has been some little movement with the new fining system that's being set up where they fine the shipping company $100 for the first day a container isn't picked up, $200 for the second, $400 for the third, $800 for the fourth, and so on... A big part of this logjam is still getting enough unionized trucks that match AB5 so the shippers are having to cave which is going to cost them the consumer billions of dollars.

@mik said in Where does it rank?: Nah. Live And Let Die is right up there with Goldfinger. To my thinking it’s last really good song Paul McCartney wrote. My top choices are: Thunderball You Know My Name (Casino Royale) Goldfinger Live and Let Die You Only Live Twice As well the instrumental theme from OHMSS is kickass in its own way.

Stinks to high heaven.

Of course anecdotal "news" is instructive mainly of what the purveyor of the news wants others to think and feel.

@bachophile said in How Many Countries Recognize Taiwan as a Country?: @mik I don’t think any administration will go to war over Taiwan. Not after 15 years of Afghanistan. Which means it’s only a matter of time that China makes a move. The Chinese are quietly eating up the world (esp Africa) while Americans argue about mask and vaccine mandates in the name of freedom My only question is will China do it my lifetime or my children’s. I agree with you, all except what it is we are arguing about that's a problem. Basically, you're saying that it is the issues that involve defending our freedoms and our constitution that is our problem. Well, it's not. The things we are arguing about that is going to be our demise are where do we piss, claiming anyone who doesn't subscribe to leftist views are racist, inventing whole lists of genders, and all the other bull shit being pushed on us by the Marxist Left. I t eresting that you didn't mention that, but instead chose to o after basically the same thing the Marxist Left goes after - the fabric of our nation. Freedom. I wore a mask. I've been vaccinated 3 times. But not because the government ordered me to do it. I understand those who don't like being ordered around by government. I don't like it either, and had I been ordered to get a vaccine shot I'd have told them to kiss my ass. I flat refuse to be smeared by Leftist thought. I know where to piss, I know the difference between a man and a woman, and I know what it has taken to build the USA. And, I know what's killing it. It's NOT masks and vaccines.

@bachophile said in Who Dis?: Too obscure in my option. Of COURSE it's obscure. I was just amazed that these two actually met. And not one of you guys commented on my hint: Link to video *The loveliest girl in vienna Was alma, the smartest as well. Once you picked her up on your antenna, You'd never be free of her spell. Her lovers were many and varied, From the day she began her -- beguine. There were three famous ones whom she married, And God knows how many between. Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous. Which of your magical wands Got you gustav and walter and franz? The first one she married was mahler, Whose buddies all knew him as gustav. And each time he saw her he'd holler: "ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!" Their marriage, however, was murder. He'd scream to the heavens above, "i'm writing das lied von der erde, And she only wants to make love!" Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous. You should have a statue in bronze For bagging gustav and walter and franz. While married to gus, she met gropius, And soon she was swinging with walter. Gus died, and her tear drops were copious. She cried all the way to the altar. But he would work late at the bauhaus, And only came home now and then. She said, "what am I running? a chow house? It's time to change parters again." Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous. Though you didn't even use ponds, You got gustav and walter and franz. While married to walt she'd met werfel, And he too was caught in her net. He married her, but he was carefell, 'cause alma was no bernadette. And that is the story of alma, Who knew how to receive and to give. The body that reached her embalma' Was one that had known how to live. Alma, tell us! How can they help being jealous? Ducks always envy the swans Who get gustav and walter, You never did falter, With gustav and walter and franz.*

I know. But the Part D savings offset the Part B increase, which is good. Deductible for B is going up $30 too. The thing is it's all speculative. CMS has not yet determined whether or when they will cover Aduhelm. The increases in the 2022 Medicare Part B premium and deductible are due to: Rising prices and utilization across the health care system that drive higher premiums year-over-year alongside anticipated increases in the intensity of care provided. Congressional action to significantly lower the increase in the 2021 Medicare Part B premium, which resulted in the $3.00 per beneficiary per month increase in the Medicare Part B premium (that would have ended in 2021) being continued through 2025. Additional contingency reserves due to the uncertainty regarding the potential use of the Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, by people with Medicare. In July 2021, CMS began a National Coverage Determination analysis process to determine whether and how Medicare will cover Aduhelm and similar drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. As that process is still underway, there is uncertainty regarding the coverage and use of such drugs by Medicare beneficiaries in 2022. While the outcome of the coverage determination is unknown, our projection in no way implies what the coverage determination will be, however, we must plan for the possibility of coverage for this high cost Alzheimer’s drug which could, if covered, result in significantly higher expenditures for the Medicare program.

Can't we all just get along?

@copper said in $59: Bayonet: Spike Bayonet In case the ducks attack? Also known as a cruciform bayonet. Russian SKS rifles have attached bayonets, but most of the Chinese Type 56 has the spike. My personal SKS wears a synthetic aftermarket stock , because the Chinese issued wood stocks have a short length of pull and no bayonet. The SKS holds 10 rounds in a box magazine and I have used 7 of them at one time. Result was a couple of dead deer (one running). The 7.62x39 is a bit less energy than a 30-30 at the muzzle, but because it uses spitzer bullets, the energy is about the same at 100 yards. It has very little recoil and is more accurate than the AK-47, which uses the same cartridge. I find most will shoot around a two inch group. Some are collectable. The one you really want is a Vietnam trophy return, with the issued synthetic stock. I think one of those with documentation would bring $5000 or so.