The New Coffee Room

Random thought. What if someone robbed a bank in the area right around the time of the riots. Maybe they could come up with some creative excuse as to how it was related to the riots and then claim the pardon applied to them.

@Jolly said in Stargate!:

Oracle is already building a 500,000 sqft building in Abilene, with more to follow.

Thank you president Biden!!!

555. Just kidding. Mega projects by companies takes years and usually span multiple presidents.

Foxcom Wisconsin

@George-K said in Aladdin:

The good thing about grandkids is that, when you get tired, you can send them home

I saw somebody with a shirt that said that. LOL

Well at least President Trump has an excuse not to go back to church.

How much was the internet expansion supposed to cost by President Biden?

@George-K said in Mr. Clemency:

Have all the charged been tried?

Yes.

From the White House info
(a) commute the sentences of the following individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to time served as of January 20, 2025:

(list of names)

(b) grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

What is this map? I think this one will be quite difficult

@Jolly I saw in another post that your daughter was at an airport.

Is this one going to Thailand? How did she like it?

@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

@Jolly said in On the birthright citizenship EO:

And ... Does anybody know where those two Bibles Melania was holding came from.

I think one was Abraham Lincolns and the other was President Trumps grandmother.

I think it should go both ways. If people are going to "bash" President Biden for pretending to be a Catholic, then it is only fair that the same people "bash" President Trump for pretending to be a Christian.

I think that people who work in offices utilize businesses in the area more, which in turn pay taxes, which in turn pay their salaries.

Now, I understand that this is probably more localized. Government workers help businesses in Wash. DC

@Horace 555

I agree with @LuFins-Dad

Brrr!

It is so true that cold is relative. If it gets down to the 60's in Thailand, people get out their winter jackets!

@Jolly stay safe!!! It will be a good stay for you to stay by your fire and post here!!!

She does have a nice voice. I am not a big fan of opera, but I think that opera singers are probably the most talented of all types of singers.

(BTW - I had heard the song before that she analyzed, but had never heard the original (I dont think))

A couple cliche, but still true:

You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.

No one on their deathbed ever said that they wished they would have spent more time at the office.

People are tipping less at restaurants than they have in at least six years, driven by fatigue over rising prices and growing prompts for tips at places where gratuities haven’t historically been expected.

and

Restaurant servers know customers are annoyed about how often they’re now asked for tips. Payment systems on digital tablets prompt them to add gratuities, even at businesses like airport concessions and gas stations.

“I can see tipping culture in the U.S. cracking,” said Jenni Emmons, a server at an upscale Chicago restaurant. “People are being pressured to tip for things they didn’t used to, and I feel my income is under threat because of this.”

Some worker-advocacy groups maintain that servers, bartenders and other tip-earning workers rely too much on gratuities. They have taken aim at the tipped-wage system, in which many states permit restaurants and other businesses to pay tip-earning workers less than the minimum wage—so long as income from tips makes up the difference.

and

Fritz Brogan, who co-owns five bars and restaurants in the city, said the higher payroll costs have led him to raise menu prices by around 10% and trim employee hours. His Mission Navy Yard now charges $15 for an espresso martini, according to the restaurant’s website, up from $13 in 2023, according to an archived version of the site.

He is considering adding service charges next July, when the minimum wage for service staff rises to $12 an hour. That would add some $400,000 in costs across his 350 hourly staff, he estimated.

Brogan said the fees can leave diners confused and wondering whether they should still tip. “The last thing people want is to be doing calculus at the end of the night,” he said.

(NOTE BY ME - then have the prices be "all inclusive (price + tip + tax)!!!)

Mohit Ganguly, a Washington resident, said it’s easy to miss the mandatory fees that most eateries in his area have tacked onto their menus. “Tipping 15% to 20% on top of that feels superfluous,” Ganguly said.

https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/restaurant-tip-fatigue-servers-covid-9e198567