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I think most of the movie goers will be rooting for the evil queen… https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/entertainment/snow-white-stars-gal-gadot-and-rachel-zegler-divided-over-israel-palestine-conflict/

@Horace The other hope would be that the tariffs are a negotiating tool which will motivate more advantageous trade agreements for America. Take dairy. Hypothetically Canada caves and gets rid of its supply management that assigns the US a tariff free quota for dairy products. We too revert back to a government subsidy system as in the US and EU, to keep our domestic dairy industry viable - you know, the Support Your Local Farmer ethos. The problem though is that consumers here are so pissed off at the US that they refuse to buy US produced dairy products. Canadian distributors and suppliers stop importing because the demand is not there. Consumers would rather pay a premium for Canadian or EU made products because they are not of US origin. Once again I come back to the statement, you cannot fool the market.

So they have implemented the death penalty. Always one step ahead.

Cybertruck deliveries suspended due to build quality issues. https://electrek.co/2025/03/13/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-are-on-hold-as-trims-are-flying-off-the-bulletproof-truck/

LOL. On another note, I still remember reading about a story when President Reagan met Premier Gorbachev in Iceland. From the airport, there was Gorbachev and about 50 vehicles heading into town. There was Reagan with about 50 vehicles heading into town. And at the end, there was a pickup truck driven by the President of Iceland driving himself into town. LOL

But there were almost 1MM/year in the 1990's. Crazy Bill Gates and his anti malaria work.

Caravaggio. The freckles look a little off this close up (though I bet they look great a little further away). But damn. Look at that detail. The little moisture in the corner of the eye. The curvature of the nostril. Amazing. [image: 1742141273526-img_3670.jpeg]

She should have frozen her eggs, too.

I could go to 97 Irish pubs without leaving NYC.

No. AG Bondi herself told the free press it’s not about him having broken any laws.

To be fair that’s an opinion piece. I doubt most of the editorial board is there yet. But at least they no longer treat asking the question as a hate crime, so, progress.

VOA was broadcast from an array of antennas couple miles from my home for most of my life, but they shut that down 20 or 30 years ago. It's been whittled down repeatedly over the years. Suggestions to shut it down have been made repeatedly. From Wiki: Cuts and expansion The Arabic Service was abolished in 2002 and replaced by a new radio service, called the Middle East Radio Network or Radio Sawa, with an initial budget of $22 million. Radio Sawa offered mostly Western and Middle Eastern popular songs with periodic brief news bulletins. The Arabic Service expanded to television with Alhurra on February 14, 2004 (and later to various social media and websites).[69] On May 16, 2004, the US government's international English language TV service Worldnet, became part of VOA as "VOA TV". Radio programs in Russian ended in July 2008.[70] In September 2008, VOA eliminated the Hindi-language service after 53 years.[70] Broadcasts in Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bosnian also ended.[71] These reductions were part of American efforts to concentrate more resources to broadcast to the Muslim world.[70][71] In September 2010, VOA began radio broadcasts in Sudan. As U.S. interests in South Sudan grew, there was a desire to provide people with free information.[72] In 2013, VOA ended foreign-language transmissions on shortwave and medium wave to Albania, Georgia, Iran, and Latin America, as well as English-language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan.[73] This was done due to budget cuts.[73] On July 1, 2014, VOA cut most of its English-language transmissions to Asia,[74] as well as shortwave transmissions in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, and Uzbek.[74] The following month, the Greek service ended after 72 years on air.[75][76] Proposal by DOGE to shut down In February 2025 the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) put forward a proposal for VoA and Radio Free Europe as two government-owned media agencies, to be considered for closure as a cost saving measure for the U.S. federal government.[77] The latest proposal comes after previously made suggestions by other government officials to shutter the agency.[78][79]

Then go be a Navy pilot on a carrier.

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@jon-nyc said in Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like: By the way, how did we miss the Granger story with all our talk about politicians straying past their sell-by date? In December 2024 it was discovered she had been living in a nursing home in Ft Worth, TX for the previous 6 months. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Granger Funny you should mention that. You must have talked to this magazine. LOL. Here is the follow up. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/14/kay-granger-dementia-dc-media-00210317 I guess just another example of the media overlooking Democrat politicians mistakes. Oh wait, she was a Republic. LOL Given that the U.S. Capitol is one of the few buildings in America where the reporting corps hasn’t been totally devastated, it was a confounding miss. Granger wasn’t a nobody. She’d been in office for over a quarter-century, and had been the top Republican on the Appropriations committee until last April. Her face was familiar both to her colleagues and the reporters who roam outside the House chamber. Curiosity might also have been triggered by the fact that she’d voluntarily stepped aside from a plum position that most members of Congress would have to have pried from their hands. There were also at least some opportunities for journalists to find out what was happening. Granger may have been absent from votes, but she briefly returned to the Hill for a retirement salute to her last November, well into the period where her son acknowledged “dementia issues” and just a month before the Express story broke. At the chummy event, speakers included House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, as well as Democrats Rosa DeLauro and Nita Lowey. Nobody mentioned anything awry when Granger, still an elected official, reappeared not for an important vote but for a laudatory send-off. During the tribute, Granger sat and looked on as her official portrait as a former Appropriations Committee chair was unveiled before a large audience of congressional colleagues and staffers.