Spywalled from phones. Will check when I’m on a computer.

I actually think it’s less of a hassle for President Trump to attend the Super Bowl than it is for Candidate Trump to attend Sunday Night Football. The security at the SB is already incredibly tight.

China has a bilateral treaty with Mauritius and must be eagerly waiting to get a foot in the door. There'll be a spy centre built before you can say fortune cookie

Now, do Biden.

Pope John XXIII was asked how many people worked for the Vatican. He responded, "about half."

That article references the 1890's. Back then, the technology was just around the corner.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Man down!: The more interesting question is why they seem so reluctant to retire. People love power? Some think they are doing good. Who knows. I'm going to retire as soon as humanly possible... hopefully the stock market will get artificially inflated by Trump and Vance for 12 years and then in 2035 I'll just switch it all to bonds before the Great Depressing Recession! MAGA more like MDGA!

I worked at AID for about a year in 1980 and remember little of it. At that time the big regime change took place in Iran. Did the Shah's fall influence the end of Mr. Carter's presidency? Without question. Did AID or the CIA plan Mr. Carter's fall? I doubt it, that affair didn't look like anyone planned anything.

Trump turned the phrase "blowing people's minds" into a literally true thing that actually happened to millions of people. I listen to the bulwark sometimes, but it's tough sledding these days. People's psychologies can apparently easily get stuck in a local maxima of self-congratulatory, self-righteous moral panic. Doesn't appear to be any off-ramp from it, and it doesn't seem to be a pleasant place to be.

Sounds too familiar...

Guy’s, he’s going to Silicon Valley. What’s the homeless situation in San Fran, again? They obviously hired him as security.

I had a long talk with him afterwards. We exchanged cards. We’re going to meet up soon.

@Horace said in Jesus H: They are not the same culturally and cannot coexist. All the dirty water will eventually leave on it's own. And brand new water takes it's place every day. According to NASA, approximately 1.35 trillion tons of water leave the atmosphere daily through precipitation, which is essentially the same amount that enters the atmosphere through evaporation, maintaining a balanced water cycle on Earth; meaning the amount leaving is roughly equal to the amount entering each day. Key points about this: Water cycle balance: The amount of water entering the atmosphere through evaporation is roughly equal to the amount leaving through precipitation, keeping the total water content in the atmosphere relatively constant. Small atmospheric water content: Although large amounts of water cycle through the atmosphere each day, the actual amount of water present in the air at any given time is a small fraction of Earth's total water supply. Ocean dominance: Most of the evaporation and precipitation occurs over the oceans.

You can frame the lunatic fringe progressive ideas as the culprit in their loss in 2024 in any number of true ways. Not least that Kamala, a very weak candidate, would not have sniffed the nomination if she hadn't been lifted up out of the undistinguished masses of Dem politicians solely due to her gender and skin color.

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I’ve seen old age. Past the early 80s it generally doesn’t look too attractive.

If NPR is breaking the law, I would prefer it be done that way. Then the opposition would be left with the weaker rhetoric that the courts are all ideologically captured. The rhetoric that the GOP hates liberal media, and will use the legislative branch to destroy it, is stronger.