Your IQ is excellent, but you are allowing your EQ to drag it down. No sense in asking something that most likely will not happen vs. something that might be as high as 1 in 3. Do a bit of study...You watch older people when they go into serious decline...Things tend get really bad within eighteen months of physical impairment. (Walking, etc.)

@Mik said in For all pedantry: The pedants are revolting. Probably smell bad too.

Captain Ray told me that his B-25H required TONS of maintenance, something was always breaking and parts were scarce. It cost hundreds of dollars per hour to fly.

@Jolly said in Spouses and Children Next: Are judges, in their private conversations, supposed to remain neutral in all things? In a case like this, where it was a "public" event (private just because you had a buy a ticket to get in) and they were talking with someone they had no idea who they were, I would say yes, they should watch what they were saying. How many times do we hear about (or see) someone saying something stupid and they think it is a private conversation, and then it is broadcast on the internet. End result is those people typcially lose their job.

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It’s already zombie precedent at the SCOTUS level but it makes sense to end it formally and I suspect they will.

Had a customs agent in Montreal fast-track me years ago. I was in camo and carrying my rifle in a guncase (bolt in separate luggage). He was just curious as to how well I'd done hunting. Nice to have a U.S.Customs agent born and raised in rural Georgia.

Saw it years ago (with subtitles of course ). It is supposedly the most influential foreign movie of all time. The plot of The Magnificent Seven is a pretty close copy.

"Stupid is that stupid does".

Not quite, but President Carter has almost been an ex-President longer than he was president when elected. (He was 52 when elected).

I had trouble hearing what he answered. Something about being a Christian coach?

@Horace @George-K I think the brown building

@Jolly said in Dining rooms going away. More Americans lonely.: meal time was pretty much set and we ate together. Agree. Good thing to do. I also agree with your comment about mental illness increaseing as people are more isolated.

Here is to 25 more years Sydney!!

@George-K said in Southern Baptist Church - on women pastors and IVF: @Axtremus said in Southern Baptist Church - on women pastors and IVF: The Southern Baptists voted to: Oppose IVF Reject a tighter ban on women in pastoral posts Their religion, their choice. THat's how it works, isn't it? He also forgot to mention that SBC churches have a lot of autonomy.