That's pretty cool. HW looks like a muppet.

@Horace So a Ukrainian thinks the West’s goals should be exactly aligned with Ukraine’s goals. Duly noted. Good catch and I trust you have no issue with that fact. Now that you have duly noted it and brought your astute observation to the attention of everyone here reading this thread, I encourage you drop a letter to the editor at Atlantic Council of your discovery.

I've got a couple of ollie-knockers I'll let you have...One for free or two for nuthin'.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Academy Awards - Will Smith Edition: @George-K said in Academy Awards - Will Smith Edition: A year later: Here's Why Chris Rock Deserved That Slap Though it’s clear a lot of folks still think that the star should be able to joke about whoever (sic) he wants, it seems like they’re ok with it because he is known for going after Black women. You see, it's all about racism. Never mind that the guy who got hit was black, he deserved it. Words have consequences and the consequences should be violence. A quick Google of the woman who wrote that would indicate that she spends her entire life writing, talking and presumably thinking about race. She must be a riot at parties. Sorry, I didn’t mean to say riot. She wouldn't pursue that sort of writing if it wasn't socially advantageous. I'm sure she does just fine at parties.

@Mik said in Hay George: https://thatoregonlife.com/2023/02/cannon-beach-resorts/ We considered the Stephanie Inn. It's a ways south of town, but that's not a problem. It was, however, quite pricey. Great views of the ocean and Haystack rock. We also considered The Inn At Cannon Beach. Much more reasonable than the Stephanie Inn. But...it's not ON the beach. It's a block away, and though nice, I would prefer a better view. The Ocean Lodge would have been our choice - good location, on the beach/ocean with great views. Again, a bit south of town. For our two stays, we were at the Hallmark Inn. We were able to get a 1 bedroom suite, facing the ocean. Our view was right outside of haystack rock, and walking distance to the center of town. A five day stay, all taxes, fees, etc included, in July was about $2500. The only downside is that there's no restaurant on-site. Our room: [image: 1676827552401-img_7442.jpg] The view from our balcony: [image: 1676827561498-img_0010.jpeg]

They look like Pixar characters.

@Mik said in For Aqua: [image: 1676821243961-e340462c-3c5e-4d80-a9e7-44578f481269.jpeg] Fuck!

Look at the comments after this story Skin color has become too important https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-mother-shot-death-front-young-children-kroger-parking-lot

@Axtremus said in American Thinker Du Jour - Health Ethics Edition: @Jolly said in American Thinker Du Jour - Health Ethics Edition: For argument's sake, let us postulate that the ED doc is a devout Christian and does not believe in elective abortion. Can you override his religious liberty, forcing him to terminate a baby (or fetus if it makes you comfortable) using EMTALA? While on a job with regards to performing a job function, the worker's religious liberty should definitely take a back seat to performing the job function. The reasons and analogies/example are already given in my second reply in this thread. Job functions are not enumerated in the Constitution.

Will Medicare cover it? Interesting idea.

The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the “U.S. intelligence community”: These and at least a dozen other newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months: Then House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen. The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news! And it goes on to list further examples. But remember, kids, both sides are equal, both parts of government asked for favors, and there's nothing to see here!

@Axtremus said in Biden's Health Report from His Physician (2023): Ah ... person, woman, man, camera, TV. So, how did Biden score on this. Oh...

@Tom-K said in Hey Yoko!!: Only the good die young. Hi! Hey @Tom-K —- IT and MS send our best!

@Jolly Definitely.

@Mik said in Speaking of new tools: Aqua, you have taken the fun out of this thread. Most unlike you! Well, Ax had plans today.

@Axtremus said in President Biden just endorsed School Choice…: Who, besides the College Board, offers AP courses (more specifically, the curriculum and associated testing and reporting of test results to higher education institutions)? McGraw Hill for one. There are numerous smaller publishers in the Homeschool market. Reminder, College Board has 2 parts to this. The coursework and the test administrations. The coursework is irrelevant to taking the AP Tests. You do not need to take the courses to take and pass the tests. Florida schools can purchase Curriculum from McGraw Hill designed to pass the College Boards AP Tests in other states. You can also hire another Test Administration Company for Florida State Colleges to administer their own tests based on similar standards. There countless out there It would also be easy enough to produce new curriculum and tests in state, especially from a state university that already offers DE curriculum. Now Ax, do you find it disingenuous of WaPo to present it that way?

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/working-papers/17-13.pdf ... When immigrants are assigned the marginal cost of public goods, their fiscal impact is actually significantly less negative than that of natives. Immigrants’ tax contributions cover 93 percent of their publicly provided benefits while natives’ contributions cover only 77 percent of theirs. The dreary overall fiscal scenario is due to large public deficits and high national debt; problems that were much less pronounced in the 1997 report. In addition, natives have grown more costly over time because they have become an older population; their health costs impose a disproportionate burden on the federal government because it pays for Medicare and subsidizes related expenses such as nursing homes. Meanwhile, immigrants are more costly than natives at the state and local level because they have lower incomes and more minor children; this means immigrants are particularly burdensome to state and local governments which pay for public schools. ... The above is from a 2017 Minneapolis Fed report. It gives numbers for immigrants without breaking out the numbers for illegal/undocumented immigrants. The NY Post article says "the lifetime cost to taxpayers of each illegal immigrant is over $80,000." It says only that it got the number from a study "a few years back" without proper citation and without specifying which year. So, taking the numbers from 2018 (before COVID): 2018 US federal deficit was $779 Billion. Divide that by 330 million Americans = $2,360.61 per capita. Multiply that by 75 years of life = $177,045 That's a lifetime net fiscal impact of negative $177k per American! If we take the NY Post's quoted figure of negative $80k per illegal/undocumented immigrant, it would seem we are getting a bargain with the illegal/undocumented immigrants compared to the average American. Heck, the average American's net fiscal impact is more than twice as negative as the average illegal/undocumented immigrant's net fiscal impact.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Revival: @Jolly said in Revival: @Aqua-Letifer said in Revival: “It has absolutely been social media that is the mechanism that people found out about this,” said Mark Whitworth, Asbury University’s vice president of communications. Thoughts? Heck, I dunno. I think it wouldn't be right to read too deeply into it. Almost certainly that'll lead to false conclusions that say more about what the speaker believes than the matter at hand. Seems cool, though, and I'm glad people are getting something out of it. What I thought about when I read Aqua’s post was how the printing press put a bible in nearly every home, along with a stack of Hustlers…