@George-K said in Aladdin: The good thing about grandkids is that, when you get tired, you can send them home, LOL. Sometimes.

Absent having been caught in a fire, or attacked by an monkey, all that stuff seems so silly. That said, it was nice to see price transparency in a (sort of) medical setting. I'd hate to have a 'Brazilian Butt-lift' just to find out I could have saved.

@89th said in Minnesota Dems won't show up: the whiny cheeseheads who tried blocking stuff in Madison, WI Yup, they ran off to Illinois to avoid being dragged back across the cheddar curtain. Fleebaggers, remember?

Sorry for your family's loss, Mark

@89th said in Two Hornets: Haha everything is better, EXCEPT the speed (1.8 mach for hornet, 1.6 for super hornet). That was my point, LOL.

Having won Having lost the hearts and minds of the Syrian locals: “The Russians based nearby often raided our neighborhood,” he says. “We were terrified of them, especially the Chechen fighters. We avoided interacting with them, but it wasn’t a peaceful relationship. They were monstrous. They would often come to our market and just take whatever they wanted. But what could we do?” Abu Salmun, an elderly man standing nearby whose face is scarred by an explosion during the siege, interrupts Latif. “Under the 2018 agreement, Assad’s forces couldn’t enter Ghouta. So it was the Russians who handled security,” he explains. “Assad had the Iranians behind him, and the Iranians had the Russians behind them. In the end, it was the Russians who called all the shots.” https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/22/they-destroyed-everything-with-russia-gone-syrians-begin-a-long-painful-process-of-rebuilding-a87684

@89th said in Manchester, the 51st State....?: Ok @George-K guess we are at 2 out of 30,573. Trump is on his way! I loved the ending of the article. In short, that it happened first in 1919, and also a milestone in 1932, "none of which happened in the US", lol. I failed a physics exam in the Rutherford building, so have a real connection to this momentous event.

IOW, back to their primary mission.

@Mik said in A boy and his mom…: I was 29, but in any fair world it would have been earlier. For her or for you?

It makes sense to me too. Good stuff.

@taiwan_girl Don't know. If the stars align and the flights connect, I'll ask her tomorrow.

You know how you can use the word "Buick" as a euphemism for puking? Yeah....

@Doctor-Phibes said in On the birthright citizenship EO: @Copper said in On the birthright citizenship EO: To be a Christian all you really need is to say "I'm a Christian", you don't even need a witness. To be fair, the same thing applies to being an asshole, although typically it's other people who say it. Or so I've heard. LOL

Clinton was the same way. Visibly buoyed by the energy of a crowd. I do a lot of public speaking in my role (much smaller scale obviously). I’ve experienced that sensation, but it’s far from automatic. These guys start feeling it before they even walk out.