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12-1-24, 7:49pm
I'm wondering if anyone has experience printing their own Christmas cards. I'm thinking about a folding card with envelopes rather than the postcard...
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11-30-24, 8:41pm
NPR had a feature today about making gumbo from the carcass. They said most people throw it away and made it sound pretty special for a gumbo stock....
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11-28-24, 10:50am
I've always like the stories of a guy who gets pancakes at IHOP and leaves the especially pleasant waitress a huge tip. Not exactly in my budget,...
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11-28-24, 10:38am
I'm got lucky with an invite to a woman's home who has a reputation as an exceptional cook. Small dinner party and people were asked to bring a list...
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11-27-24, 10:44pm
I get an envelope full of coupons every couple of weeks and also a bundle of ads from local stores once a week. Addressed to current resident. I...
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11-27-24, 7:49pm
I don't know how people get my name or address for catalogs, but it gets especially troublesome this time of year. I spent a few minutes today...
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11-27-24, 7:15pm
I see where China has suggested, "supply chain warfare". That could work. Might work for Mexico and Canada, too.
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11-27-24, 7:00pm
I think there are two problems with different solutions. Allowing people to come into the country illegally is one and has been handled poorly for...
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11-27-24, 1:05pm
If I remember from the last Trump regime of promised deportations and his medieval wall, rounding up of any purported illegals is the sole...
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11-27-24, 11:45am
I imagine Elon gets some ego building by expressing how powerful his riches are. I think he is basically motivated by insecurity. Maybe Bezos will...
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11-27-24, 11:43am
I don't like wine, but enjoy the varieties of craft brews these days, within some sort of healthy limits. Anymore there are so many local breweries...
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11-27-24, 10:32am
I'm wondering if this is just some sort of Trump flexing his muscle in some sort of bluff or a deal bargaining power. It just seems like an...
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11-27-24, 10:15am
Denver is a sanctuary city and the city's mayor has been featured in the news lately saying he would not cooperate with the deportations and would...
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11-26-24, 1:14pm
News says there will be a similar tariff on Mexico as Canada. If I understand things, there can be an application for tariff exemptions, but doesn't...
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11-26-24, 12:59pm
Hopefully the resistance will coalesce into a united front. The glass may have a little water in it, but it's not even half full.
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11-25-24, 4:03pm
I am starting to wonder about the large energy requirements that the giant servers require to feed us all of our personal and industrial digital...
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11-25-24, 11:04am
Sometimes I get the impression that less consumerism for the benefit of the environment is a dead issue for most people. Possibly more so with the...
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11-23-24, 10:01am
Apparently Elon claimed on X that Bezos warned people to sell Tesla and and Space X stock before the election, which Bezos has denied. The titans...
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11-23-24, 9:28am
So I heard that if a person takes a government job, even if it's with token pay, they can sell assets that would constitute a conflict of interest...
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11-23-24, 9:01am
There are times in our history when we've basically been a one party nation. Probably not the best place to be.
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11-23-24, 8:47am
Deportations are nothing new. One can look up the exact numbers, but there is speculation Obama deported more that Trump in his first term. It...
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11-22-24, 7:35am
The WSJ had an opinion piece yesterday by Elon and Ramswamy themselves. A friend forwarded it to me as I can't get past their paywall, but maybe...
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11-21-24, 9:38pm
I really enjoyed the recent movie, Jules, from the local free library platform. It’s about an alien craft that crashes in an old man’s back yard. ...
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11-20-24, 8:52pm
The large packing plant in my region has been raided by ICE at lest a few times. My guess is that another raid might turn up a few illegals, but the...
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11-20-24, 8:32pm
I picture e-verify used by employers to confirm their prospective employees are somehow a citizen or here legally. My impressions is that immigrants...
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11-20-24, 1:59pm
Of course there is also Occum's Razor that states often the simplest explanation is the most accurate. For what it might be worth.
My take is...
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11-18-24, 9:57pm
Possibly a little preliminary to discuss. I remember Trump's promise in previous elections to deal with a mass of illegal aliens with no real or...
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11-18-24, 4:17pm
The news is calling it the diplomat divide, although there probably are confounding statistics. It makes better sense to than the elitism of Harris....
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11-18-24, 10:34am
I see where a person can now get a test kit that tests for both Covid and flu. They are saying they cost about $15 and I'm not sure about whether...
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11-18-24, 9:46am
A report I saw said Fox news viewership is up considerably since the election and MSNBC is down. Two news sources I never watch. I've not seen any...
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11-15-24, 2:12pm
No, he didn't see the alien. If I recall his story, it's been a few years, there was a six man armed military escort of a coffin like crate the the...
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11-15-24, 1:57pm
As in the case of RFK Jr. subscribing to the theory that Sirhan Sirhan had a second shooter. In this case the two sides might be, well he's an...
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11-15-24, 1:42pm
I once met an older man who claimed he was once in military intelligence and served on B-36 crew on a secret mission to transport an deceased alien,...
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11-14-24, 3:06pm
I was surprised to learn that Stephen Miller is Jewish. He has always sort of reminded me of Himmler, and may still on certain issues. I can learn...
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11-14-24, 8:30am
People can overdo cowbells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
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11-13-24, 10:57pm
I suspect we will see a resurgence of antifa. I recall there were conspiracy theories blaming antifa for the attack on the capitol. I think Donald...
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11-13-24, 9:46pm
I had a thought that Gaetz is some sort of loyalty test to see who might go against Donald’s wishes, but there is probably more to it. As they might...
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11-12-24, 11:14pm
No regrets. Retrospectively, some humans ain't human.
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11-12-24, 9:12pm
I knew Cathy.
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11-12-24, 6:02pm
I used to have his "Souvenir" CD back in the day, but could not listen to it without getting misty eyed. But you are right, he has songs that are...
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11-12-24, 5:56pm
The long cold quiet nights are a great time to catch up on more difficult book reads as well as other reads. I like waking up mornings after a fresh...
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11-12-24, 12:53pm
As Sam said near the end, you can easily find a few lies in the NYT, but the "X" lies by the Trump group were a virtual firehose of disinformation. ...
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11-12-24, 12:49pm
A good friend went to a Prine concert and said she cried all the way through it, which seems like a poor allocation of money and time. Some of his...
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11-12-24, 11:48am
I frequently disagree with him, but find his podcast thought provoking. On thing Sam Harris said in the latest podcasts is that this is the end of...
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11-11-24, 8:15pm
In a twisted sort of way, it might be good that Trump won. Had he lost, but would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, I think the odds of an...
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11-11-24, 2:01pm
Civil disobedience or resistance does require paramilitary. As my financial adviser says, past performance has no guarantee for the future. These...
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11-11-24, 12:01pm
A lot of the pbs masterpiece theater features don’t appeal to me, but I’m several episodes into Vienna Blood and have been enjoying it.
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11-11-24, 11:06am
I suppose realistically the blue states would be far from forming some version of a new union. Probably the next big battles will be in the courts...
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11-11-24, 10:28am
Of course we are much more civilized now. I'd think of it more like breaking up a monopoly.
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11-11-24, 9:14am
Not only are the populations of the states somewhat evenly divided, but red and blue seem to be polarized to some extreme. I've wondered if the blue...
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11-10-24, 2:54pm
I heard a bit of an interview with Yuval Harari who wrote a favorite book of mine, 'Sapiens". He said, there are no bad people, only bad news. I...
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11-9-24, 7:46pm
That is a good list of guidelines for either party and one could speculate who needs it more. Being the die hard environmentalist I take exception...
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11-9-24, 9:36am
Were people here illegally ever receiving those entitlements and has Trump promised to deport people here legally? I think there may be some...
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11-7-24, 9:09pm
Other than this forum and a brief excursion into a few others I don't use social media. I have told friends who have wanted me on Facebook that I...
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11-6-24, 9:03pm
I don't think she should worry too much. I did not see her name on the long list of his enemies that he would like to prosecute for treason or...
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11-6-24, 4:08pm
I recall the term Trumpbump from another election. I see Tesla stock is up. It would seem like Elon would be looking at some conflict of interest...
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11-6-24, 1:05pm
One can point fingers at the dems, but Harris really wasn't all that bad. Trump is a chronic liar, a criminal, a bully, a climate denier, most...
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11-6-24, 11:43am
Could be any or all, but I'm putting some ownness on Biden. It was a last minute scramble to put a campaign together and find a person to run when...
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11-5-24, 5:42pm
I think my last bill for cleaning by a dental hygienist was $175. However, if it’s been a while since bite wing X-rays that is an add on. And for...
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