@Jolly said in Is our children learning?: I understand some healthy skepticism, but this stuff is being fought out in schoolboards across the nation. I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt and we had groomers decrying the removal of some books from school libraries. They got heard and then they were ignored. As parents said...You want your child to wallow in crap, buy it for them yourselves. Okay, this is confusing . . . the quote you're responding to here is what I posted to answer a point Lufin made believing I had misunderstood something. A clarification IOW. I wasn't making any point of my own. Might not be worth clarifying.

Bury that bastard. I hear McDonald's is hiring...

@Mik said in Seen at O’Hare: GreaT idea. City employees probably can’t afford weed on their salaries. Bennies are bennies.

This was my late morning espresso shot. [image: 20230402-125631.jpg] And my latte I made earlier... [image: 20230402-114414.jpg] I'm experiencing a rather regular existence.

For construction, ya gotta have nailers. I've got 18g, 16g, 15g, stapler and a framing nailer. My 15 & 18 are oiless. Don't last as long, but they leave no oil residue on the board. I'm no woodworker. I butcher a piece on occasion. My dust collection system is a broom and a dustpan.

@Ivorythumper said in Who is that?: @LuFins-Dad said in Who is that?: @George-K said in Who is that?: @LuFins-Dad said in Who is that?: My second cousin. The hell you say. I always found the genealogy of "second cousins," etc confusing. My Mom’s cousin… The Stoney’s Brewery Fortune nearly fell to our side of the family instead of hers… Oh well… So David and Shaun are 2nds once removed? She looks great— just turned 89. Happy Birthday! Shaun is, David is her stepson, so no technical relation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/04/02/rippling-svb-payroll-collapse/ Story on one company that does payroll processing that cuts checks using money deposited in SVB. Many of the payroll company’s clients are not even in Silicon Valley, the average income of the workers getting paychecks processed by this company is around $55k per year. 80% of the workers are outside of California. Lots of rank of file middle class people would have gotten hurt had the government not step in. Bailing out the depositors, but letting SVB’s bond holders and stock holders suffer the consequences, and firing SVB’s senior management are the right things to do.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/24/manchin-senate-republicans-2024-00088620

Fantastic!

Aw-w-w-w.

Turley: I recently wrote about the outburst of Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., screamed about gun control. After one member asked him to stop yelling, Bowman shouted “I was screaming before you interrupted me,” which could now go down as the epitaph for our age.

I guess letting them work from home is not an option?

If he's elected, he can continue Lightfoot's work. Soon there will be no wealth in Chicago at all.

We will put ours out 4/16. Sadly our bluebirds continued their migration. but we had them for several days, a first.

"I shouldn't have to beg for this for God's sake."

Looking that way.

Hanon has a special place in the soul of every virtuoso.

I was going to point out clear bias toward the blue state.

Just wait. They're only going to get more persuasive.

Funny, because there's some truth to it?