@Axtremus said in Better wine, more lamb to eat. I like this idea.: @Jolly said in Better wine, more lamb to eat. I like this idea.: If all imports ceased tomorrow, could a wine afficiondo survive on American wines? Don't see why not. I suspect, if put to a double-blind taste testing, the wine aficionados can consistently tell American wines apart from foreign wines. I can.

Works for me.

There is something to be said about being a decent person. Not the biggest winner, not the coolest guy, not the person with the most money or the person with the hottest chicks. While playing against the woke mime Donald Trump turns out to be the ultimate post modernist icon. Good for him. To his credit he never said he was anything different.

I bought one years ago in Cancun. We were on vacation there but my wife was getting her MBA at the time and all she did was study. We bought a timeshare. $5,000. Never went there, never used it. They charged us some money for "whatever" and we never paid. We got a blanket from the deal. It's around the house somewhere and it's called the "$5,000 blanket."

Possibly. Here is the dashboard. If you go back a level in the breadcrumbs and click on CAROL you can build your own query. I started to try but decided I wasn't sure how they classified "commercial" so I decided to let you have fun! You can thank me later. https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx

They're coming...

@Horace 555 That was my goal!

@LuFins-Dad Good points!! [image: federal_lands.jpg]

@Renauda Wow!!! Glad that you were okay. It is weird how some things happen, and if you were there a second/day/week earlier or later, the outcome would have been very different.

@Mik said in This is not right: As I said, I have no issue with reducing the federal workforce but it doesn't have to be done in a capricious and unnecessarily harmful way. I've said this before more than once, but I find the fact that Elon Musk appears very much to enjoy doing this to people really distasteful.

@Doctor-Phibes lol

I believe he was a former Navy SEAL or something too. Sometimes there's too much oxygen begin given to internet trolls.

89 is the worst, I've heard

The timeline is interesting. But let's see a show of hands...who here believed the CCP would really allow democracy in Hong Kong?

...and an equally funny follow-up - read the entire thread https://x.com/shockproofbeats/status/1247520505789210625

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[image: govspending_totalSpending-_700px.jpg] Sorry, the captions did not post. Not sure why. The above graph is federal spending starting Jan 20 for 2023 (gray line), 2024 (light green line) and 2025 (dark green line). Federal spending is UP USD$154 BILLION compared to the previous two years at teh same time. Of course, maybe it is early in the process.................... . https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-spending-increases-5903992d

@Tom-K 555

@jon-nyc said in Just now at Newark airport: I walked into an elevator in Boston, I think, where, unbeknownst to me, the Georgia basketball team was staying. I got into an elevator and I was the shortest one on it. Hasn’t happened to me since I was 12. Weird, a penis length contest in an elevator...