I can't read the article, but I seem to remember she had a lot of problems with eating disorders, alcoholism, and a truly horrendous mother pushing her.

I suspect his chairmanship will be declared over by his successor.

@Mik said in Stranger Things: I watched a couple episodes over Christmas. Meh. Reminds me of Lost vapid and spins and really goes nowhere. They had 3 years to get it right… I wonder if that was actually too long? They were reportedly still writing the last episode during filming. Maybe they had too many ideas and got indecisive?

And yes I'll die on the hill that the Ossia Cadenza is MUCH better than the cheap Tocatta Cadenza.

Personally I'm impressed that @moonbat is able to capture these thread that overlap with his area of expertise (e.g., scientific research) out of left field. No pun intended.

You already can take a low interest loan out against your 401K for a home purchase, and the interest is paid back to you, and it happens before taxes are withdrawn. Beyond that, there are so many first time howler downpayment assistance options out there, that you would have to have to nothing in the way of a downpayment to have the downpayment be your obstacle.

I remember him getting cucked while he was a politician, by an elderly female who called him out in some town hall. That probably stung. We talked about it here at the time.

We warned you.

Yeah basically a return to the way it was in the 19th and early 20th century.

It is funny how reading something like this posting can trigger a memory. Long long long time ago, I was kind of remote location and the office had a library and one of the books that I read was "The Marsh Arabs". It focused on the people in Iraq rather than Iran, but there were probably a similar group in Iran also. I hadn't thought about that book in years. LOL During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq—long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein—Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy, and moments of pure comedy in vivid, engaging detail.

Even the “small” gambling called Fantasy Sports completely destabilizes trust.

@Mik The list ought to have included Halliburton alongside SLB. Also, there are deposits of light and medium crude outside the Orinoco Belt area. Some in the Lake Maricaibo region but elsewhere as well. That wildcatter, Hamm, could make tons of money in short pay back timeframe if he could latch onto some of those reservoirs.

It's just another tax on motorists. London has an inner Congestion charge, an outer ULEZ (ultra low emission zone). We are taxed for use of the road, on buying insurance, on buying petrol/gas, now taxed for just being in certain places and for polluting certain places.

Production in the United States resulted in approximately 2.4 times higher costs. Tariffs will fix that, right, right?

Skilled comedian, obviously juggling well within his limits. I've seen him do his motorbike juggle, classic clowning

Very nice.

It could certainly reduce routine PCP visits.

Yeah, the mullahs are great guys who only want peace (as long as we all convert).