@George-K said in The Difference Between Campaigning and Governing: Now USA has to insert the age of the President-elect...because TDS. Well it’s also pretty historic. He will be the oldest person ever to be sworn in to the office. By a number of months. lol

I haven’t either but when AO discussed the case they mentioned who he was.

Maybe someone more focused on the mission than the politics is what the doctor ordered.

I'm all for it, but the devil, as usual, is in the details. Will it be an effective bill, or will it just put a veneer over the issue.

@jon-nyc said in It didn't work: In my case it wasn’t a big deal but if I lived there I’d definitely make a habit out of getting it delivered from Amazon rather than go through that every time I need a toiletry or OTC med. especially since AMZN is cheaper. Actually, I did have a couple of conversations with pharmacists about this. Both noted all the footage devoted to cosmetics, food, toys, etc., is killing them. Both mentioned online shopping trends as being the reason. A note about drugs...One of the pharms I talked with is a local guy that graduated high school with my son. He runs a very busy independent pharmacy (400 scrips/day) and is making a decent living. His business approach? Just enough OTC stuff for some people's conveniance...We're talking fifteen total feet of single-sided counter. He will somewhat discourage his customers from the latest and greatest high-dollar meds...Walmart or Walgreens can get that for you faster or cheaper. He deals mostly in generics or older drugs still under patent (his profit margin is higher. For some of the new stuff like Mounjaro, he can actually lose money on a scrip). The guy works very hard to ensure his customers get the lowest price on their scrips, sometimes advising them to use a card like GoodRx rather than their insurance. He's very good on service issues andtalking with providors.

Gotta purge the Reaganites. The funny thing is he tells Turner there’s too many headwinds from mar a lago then smiles to the camera and says ‘it’s a House decision’ and went on about what a great job Turner did. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t remember firing anyone who was doing a great job.

@LuFins-Dad said in My nephew in the Rose Parade: The military bands are so vastly underrated. Link to video

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I was working with a neurosurgeon who was extracting some of these cysts from the posterior fossa of a patient's brain. As he pulled one out, he purposefully let it fall to the floor and yelled "This one's MOVING." The circulating nurse just about fainted. Of course, it wasn't moving, he just wanted to freak Maryanne out. He succeeded. Good times.

Interesting and quite "on time" article. I remember hearing that letting there be some small fires is better in the long run.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/oakland-fbi-investigation-ex-mayor-sheng-thao-indicted-amid-sprawling-public-corruption-inquiry/ar-AA1xkZJl A federal grand jury has indicted Oakland’s recalled Mayor Sheng Thao, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the Bay Area News Group — a stunning development in a federal public corruption inquiry that touched the highest levels of East Bay’s political class. The indictment caps a monthslong federal grand jury inquiry that shook the region’s political circles just months ahead of a recall election targeting the first-term mayor. Thao was booted from office by more than 60% of voters in November. Reached early Thursday afternoon, Thao’s attorney, Jeff Tsai, said he and his client had not been contacted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and they were unaware of any movement in the federal investigation. The development comes just a day after FBI agents raided the home of another East Bay politician, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, who, along with Thao, was among several officials who visited Vietnam as part of a trade delegation two years ago. The original inquiry burst into public view June 20 when agents with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service raided four addresses across the city, including Thao’s home in the Oakland Hills that she shared with her partner, former City Hall council aide Andre Jones. Also raided were the homes and waterfront business offices of David and Andy Duong, the father-son duo who own and operate the city’s recycling contractor, California Waste Solutions.

#firstworldproblem

Genocide and famine, apparently.

The grifting senile old fart just cost you another $12.53. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/education-department-cancels-another-42-billion-student-loan-debt The latest round of relief provides $1.26 billion for 85,000 individuals who attended schools that allegedly “cheated and defrauded their students;” $2.5 billion for 61,000 borrowers with total and permanent disabilities; and $465 million for 6,100 public service workers, the U.S. Department of Education said on Monday. This latest action brings the total student loan debt canceled since Biden took office to $183.6 billion, benefiting more than 5 million Americans, according to the White House. In 2022, the Biden administration finalized a new borrower-defense rule designed to provide full relief to borrowers who had received partial forgiveness under the DeVos-era policy. However, the rule has been put on hold since the summer of 2023, following a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. That court granted a preliminary injunction in April, citing “numerous statutory and regulatory shortcomings” in Biden’s policy. The appellate judges also called some provisions “certainly unlawful” and criticized the rule’s “vague, brand new standards” for holding colleges accountable. “The unbridled scope of these prohibitions enables the department to hold schools liable for conduct that it defines only with future ‘guidance’ documents or in the course of adjudication,” the judges wrote in their opinion. “Simply put, the statute does not permit the department to terrify first and clarify later.” The Supreme Court has yet to say when it will hear oral argument "No one is above the law." Oh. My. Sides.

Good thing he’s knows some good lawyers.

Obviously impossible to judge the size of the meteorite, but I wonder what it's terminal velocity is and how fast it was going at impact.

I would have been stressed when young because I wouldn’t have known what I was doing. I’d be more stressed now because I still don’t know what I’m doing AND my hands have a bit of a tremor from tacrolimus.

@Axtremus said in The moment you knew you picked the wrong partner: Pppffft ... you know that list is hopelessly biased when you don't see "when I found out s/he voted for Trump" on the list. Actually, a more accurate representation might be "When I found out that s/he 'unfriended' someone because of the way that person voted."

@George-K said in He’s just babbling: power in the hands of a few ultra-wealthy people How could that happen?