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Thanks to all who have served! This branch of the armed services chose their mascot, a bulldog, wisely. This is the 16th Chesty who took on his...

I like the minion inflatable down the hill from us. It is funny.

Yes! Those are great plants to work with.

I don’t think Jerry’s standup is especially funny, but he has been doing important work in the comedy world, speaking out about i intellectual...

Often these threads meander in topic. is that not OK?

the British people are as a whole, not sympathetic as to what happens to Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson.But they ARE extremely concerned...

”ridiculously low” is the market value in your region, the wholesale market value. I would be happy if the stuff sold at all. Many years ago when...

so, do you think the Democrats in Congress should vote the bill forward so that government employees can get paid and snap benefits distributed? ...

on the topic of natural decor: I use a lot of dried material in floral displays not only for holidays but for regular times. While I love to use...

Besides the official food bank in our community, we have a couple of little food pantries that operate like the “ Little Library”kiosks. One of these...

Right, the teddy bear stuff is ridiculous.* i had heard about it years ago. One of his security officers, now retired, spilled the beans on several...

it’s a nice surprise when you can go to a craft market and find crafts that are interesting. There’s two still too many booths of granny crocheted...

Pinkytoe that is funny because yes, neighbors are indeed a good object lesson for tolerance.

i’m not a fan of 95% of the blowup items. Once in a while I see one that I think is cute. Fortunately, in my former neighborhood, people have refined...

I am surprised they aired that on CNN. I guess we can be happy those Snap recipients are choosing to feed their family rather than throw them to the...

I am fashioning two topiaries of dried eucalyptus with touches of natural cedar, so there will be some natural decor on the fireplace.

You can always use the spinner as a draining colandar, doible use.

If I recall correctly T. Spagnolia was her boss/boyfriend. By the time she died she had moved on from our workplace.

Please let us know how much you get for the rings. I’m pretty sure your jeweler didn’t know about the sudden popularity of Old Mine Cuts and he was...

well. These photos are not the warehouse I went to because I couldn’t find photos of it online, so there’s more visible green in our warehouse, but...

no, this is not a retail store so they don’t have customer friendly stuff like that. It has cement floors and pallets piled upon pallets But their...

Great post. It’s good now and then to stop and appreciate what we have compared to what we used to have because it is often way better. I’m...

Wow sweetana that is super interesting!I hope this attorney stops doing estate work.

Your timing is good then since this style is suddenly very popular.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-diane-pangburn/23301029/ Bobby you would probably like the stigmatized MGM Grand Hotel...

Bobby, I am somewhat into the current British royal family and their woes. The formerly-known-as-Prince Andrew debacle is quite bad for them. You...

haha! But I think it is an old bloodhound who guards them thar woods these days on Orcas.

If Taylor Swift's ring is an Old Mine cut then her engagement event will propel this cut to high popularity. Of course, the marketers will take...

If it's at least a carat, it might be worth his time, but the market is the market. Go to 3 different jewelers and ask how much they will give for...

Today NPR had a segment about the ACA where they featured someone from the Kaiser foundation and the health reporter. A collar mentioned she was an...

Oy! That article! So demand is up for silver, but supply is down for several reasons, including US tariffs. That's hard on householders who want to...

Good news Sioux

One of our friends had a binge eating cat who would eat so many things including bread. They had to out locks on their bread storage cabinet.

Yes, those match the Kaiser Foundation numbers I have seen. SNAP benefits go to a higher percentage of the vulnerable, children and elderly. ACA...

we had a cat who loved zucchini. Sometimes he would eat practically an entire zucchini of small amount of size and his sides bulged for the next few...

Yeah, I really don’t understand why the Democrats didn’t make them permanent. But OK, they roll the dice and lost. What I really don’t understand...

Wash U is rated number 20 in its class and my family alma mater is rated number 13 in its class. But, one is a fairly large University with some...

Yes, the tuna oil might be the deal maker, but I can see my ungrateful little beasts turning up their noses at this after I go to the trouble of...

My internet was down for a day so I had to read a book. Searching for Sylvie Lee is by Jean Kwok who wrote Girl in translation, the latter a...

We waste very very little because we have a dog. Just the other day I bought “chicken sausage “which DH can eat, but then we read that it has pork...

Here. Here’s why from Richard Dawkins: “…I believe Hooven got interested in the question when FIDE, the international chess federation, recently...

this is ridiculous. Pharmacists need to know so much about the human body, how drugs work on them, how drugs interact with each other, etc. ...

I have wondered about that too, given the quality education of prep schools. That’s a pipeline for those Ivys and those applying must be pretty well...

Years ago, I read An essay that claimed the real grade inflation, or maybe it was dumbing down of the curriculum, took place right after World War II...

I think Donald would consider it winning.

I am sorry!

TMS reminded me of Boxer, the horse in Orwell s Animal Farm. He thought any problem could be solved by working harder, grinding. It appeared to me...

No! I couldn’t tell. You hide it so well.

Our friend who taught bio-chemistry at a college of pharmacy was forced out of his job for refusal to pass students in the new age of diversity...

I’m not concerned about riotingin most places although in some populations any excuse to cause chaos and break windows to steal stuff is a common...

There are usually pushbacks or “corrections” to large political philosophies and actions, but what we are left with still will be more authoritarian...

Your “ one case” could grow to be the “one case “of other people and that’s how uneven laws and apparent disparity in justice happens. No. As for...

Thank you Alan. Sad news.

A few hours ago, King Charles of England made a bold move with his brother, the disgraced Prince Andrew. Charles removed all of Andrew’s...

This is terrible. All this breast cancer in these young women is just awful for your family.

another is Meals on Wheels which gets federal funding and is carried out by by the Department of Health and Human Services.

I always assume there’s a certain level of mental illness, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, in the chaotic lives of people who make consistently...

this doesn’t answer your question and I’m sure you don’t want to pay for YouTube premium, but I’m paying for YouTube premium and it is not cheap....

I’m playing around with looking into senior citizen housing supplemented by the government just for my own edification. I learned that a housing...