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  • Get Ready

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  • Mo Money

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  • Why is my flight delayed or cancelled?

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    JollyJ
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/thousands-holiday-weekend-flights-cancelled-161150587.html
  • Meanwhile, in Michigan

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  • VA Tech player acquitted

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    MikM
    Might not have deserved to die, but had a serious whipping coming. Picked the wrong guy.
  • Bacon - it's not just for pigs anymore

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Sheep. Like pigs, only better looking.
  • Equality & Equity

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    Catseye3C
    @Copper said in Equality & Equity: You can't continue to favor one identity over other identities. The others just won't stand for it. Especially if the others are the majority. And then the minority will end up in an even deeper ditch. Drop the identity politics, it is doomed. And drop the equal outcomes nonsense. Earn the better outcome or prepare for a lesser outcome. You can't prop-up losers forever, they are losers, they will lose.
  • A contrary view of Finland in NATO

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    RenaudaR
    Much to think about how wrong Kinzer is. He is among the likes of John Mearsheimer but more isolationist in his thinking. Even Gwynne Dyer understands the rationale to bring Finland and Sweden into the NATO alliance: https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/gwynne-dyer-farewell-to-neutrality-sweden-and-finland-arent-going-to-wait-around-for-russia-to-come-knocking-100733492/#.YpJQjPxbb7Q.mailto
  • Well, duh...

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    JollyJ
    Well, ain't that sumthin'.
  • An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be

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    JollyJ
    Back then, kids had a daddy.
  • Perfect morning…

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    JollyJ
    Got up this morning, drank two cups of coffee, wandered out to the garden and picked a five-gallon bucket of snap beans. It wasa nice morning, about as cool as it gets for us in May. Came in, cleaned up and managed to make church on-time. In Sunday School, discussion tuned to the recent shooting in Texas. In church, the service started off with a discussion of the SBC report. From the sublime to the somber, but still welcome.
  • A little humor for Sunday

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  • Interesting piece on Steve Earle

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  • My New Word

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    Catseye3C
    @Mik said in My New Word: Good idea to have a backup. There is always semaphore, but that requires visual distance. But think what you save on Pigeon Chow.
  • Suit to end the State of Emergency in Ca

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    AxtremusA
    @jon-nyc said in Suit to end the State of Emergency in Ca: I imagine he’s going to lose that suit. And he should.
  • Hay Cats! Your "Have a seat!" video of the day.

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    HoraceH
    Strange how the least exact part was the dismount. They had to move the mattress to catch him.
  • "It's OK, you're wearing a helmet."

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    George KG
    @Mik Charlie Behrens is a hoot. I first became aware of him from his "Manitowoc Minute" videos. Link to video Cooking tips: Link to video Outdoor sport tips: Link to video
  • Do we need a new Dickens?

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  • Money from streaming

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    JollyJ
    Depends. I subscribe to Deep South Homestead. Danny King's channel is mostly about gardening, farm animals, food preservation, etc., and has about 210,000 subscribers. He's most likely making $1600-$2000/month from YouTube. He's also making money from Patreon. That's not a great living, but he's retired and the channel allows him to plug any other business ventures he has, along with picking up some freebies to test. Things like garden seed or a manual weeder (Hoss Tools). Since I've been following him, he's built an off-grid cabin, two hoop houses, a farm pond, bought two small new tractors, reworked some of his barn and bought some Dexter cattle. Looks like he's plowed all his YouTube profits back into his place and increased its value. Another guy I subscribe to, does videos on tanks and other modern armor, modern being WW1 on up to present. His day job is with a video game company, but he's also an officer ( light bird, I think)in the National Guard. He puts out less videos than Danny, but his views are about double, so his money is about double. And he's used his channel to flog a book he wrote on tank destroyers, along with cementing him as an authority on many things armor, especially WW2. So a YouTube channel can help a person create their own brand or niche, besides making a bit of side money.
  • Gingers

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    MikM
    Real ginger. Accept no substitutes.