I wonder if it will cause a measurable move towards dividends rather than buybacks.

No no, it was just his usual whining about the downsides of gigantism.

Actually...I see a lot of similarities in the way public health approached AIDS and how they have approached monkey pox. They trod on eggshells the first time, modifying medical science to fit a segment of society. It was wrong then and it's wrong now.

If ever there should be a meritocracy, it should be in the healing arts. When your life, or your loved ones lives are on the line, who has time for woke?

@taiwan_girl said in Hockey: @Catseye3 said in Hockey: @taiwan_girl LOL. You don't think the other team would object? LOL Dont know. Maybe they would install a maximum weight rule for goalies or something. 555 At one time, a baseball team fielded a midget dwarf small short person. The "strike zone" was correspondingly small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel

@89th said in Rare video of Warren: At first I thought that was fake, but verified it's true. I thought so too. Here's another real one: Trump celebrating. Link to video

@89th said in GOP Primary Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results: https://dnyuz.com/2022/08/03/kari-lake-cried-foul-at-election-results-then-she-started-winning/ Well, this is awkward. She may end up winning but has already declared the election results cannot be trusted. LOL When the initial votes in Arizona started rolling in Tuesday night and Kari Lake was trailing, she and her fellow MAGA allies resorted to a familiar election-night tactic: They cried foul. But overnight, Lake made up the ground she’d lost to Karrin Taylor Robson, her main rival for Arizona’s GOP nomination for governor. Now, on the cusp of winning the hotly contested primary, Lake and her allies found themselves squirming to explain how the election she was on track to win was still, somehow, as corrupt and fraudulent as they’d already claimed it was. “There is no path to victory for my opponent, and we won this race, period,” Lake proudly declared to a group of supporters, but that didn’t stop her from cautioning them that fraud was occurring. “But there’s a ton of problems with the system,” the candidate warned, before immediately predicting victory again. “We are going to win this when the votes are counted,” the candidate said. “We are not going to take our election systems being this messed up.” Before Lake even spoke, MAGAworld pundits were already at work spreading rumors, without evidence, that election wrongdoing was underway. See Maricopa county remark above.

@George-K said in The Following (TV Show): @89th I first became aware of him when he played Marc Antony in HBO's "Rome." A fantastic, historically-accurate, series that was cancelled because of budget. Interesting. In 2005 I was in Italy and met a local who took us to the set of Rome, which was being filmed on the Cinecitta Studios log. Really cool to see.

@Catseye3 said in In Oz...: @Aqua-Letifer Sooo . . . basically you were a bin chicken chicken? Not screwing around with Australian wildlife is a very good general rule.

@89th said in Happy Birthday 44!: @George-K Was he? Figured he was talking about his mother? I missed the grandmother part. https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/obama-proclamation-on-national-grandparents-day/ Barack Obama, of all people, is aware of the vital role grandparents have played, do play and will play in the lives of millions of young Americans. His grandparents basically raised him in Hawaii after his return from a childhood in Indonesia. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-grandmother-typical_b_92601 "... .. The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it..." - Senator Barack Obama

Interesting read, thanks for sharing. Baltimore currently isn't the best place to live (although I have lots of family there), but there are some good nuggets, such as the graves of Booth, Poe, et al.

@LuFins-Dad said in Shelved: @Jolly said in Shelved: I just wonder when the current obsession with comic book movies Westerns will dissipate? Westerns have. Look at the number made in the 40's and particularly in the 50's.

@George-K said in Nanchang: @Jolly said in Nanchang: Ought to be. It's got a butt-load of our technology. You misspelled "boat-load." You say tuh-mah-toe, I say toe-may-toe.

Watch those sharp corners. That thing does not flex.

Mr. Jones and his business have spent more than $15 million on the Sandy Hook lawsuits, according to filings last week. So he paid $15 million for his lawyers? Looks like they are worth every penny.

I suspect that billion-dollar box office will change what is being made.

Is Isabel Vincent Trans?

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