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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...

Six “feed the people programs “are not enough. We need more. /s

I never know why some of my photos display the way they do, but this one is enlarged so at least maybe you can see some of it.

you bet! It is the middle one, shown at the Chicago botanical gardens, Chicago Botanical Gardens gives plant societies great support, unlike...

From this thread I’ve learned there’s at least four feeding programs sponsored by US taxpayers at the federal level, There may be more for all I...

Another Rave, this one a brag: I received a request from the premier lily breeder in my region asking for one of my species bulbs. My lily has ...

My little town is so great! There’s so much here to do for guests. One of our friends came for the day and we didn’t have time to hit most of the...

Where you live, a gas fireplace would be fine for warming up a room. Where I live, it is inadequate to keep the pipes from freezing, it is only a...

I’m going by what ChatGPT tells me the government counts as “housing costs “ for purposes of collecting food benefits. So for that, property taxes...

Is smoke pollution not a problem where many of you are burning wood? when pH fell our little force of scrub trees, he put the wood out by the...

this is the time of year when Boy Scouts in this region do a food drive. They drop off to all households a brown paper sack with instructions to put...

yes I know they’re different programs. I’m curious how SNAP and the temporary food bank program intersect. I could see situations where people...

is your father on a SNAP program? I asked ChatGPT to run a scenario where a single senior citizen (like me) earning $30,000 a year from Social...

yes, that was what she was referencing. I thought that was one of the funnier memes to come out of that no King’s March.

Catherine, Imam sorry to hear this. Wishing your family well.

That’s good Tradd. A lot of charitable organizations have trouble getting across a message that cash is king and there are reasons for that. The...

in my very red congressional district I’ve already detailed some of the food pantry options here, but we also have two “little food pantries “in...

No one in Missouri or Kansas should watch Caleb Hammer’s latest podcast where he gives financial advice to a single mom who is hell-bent on digging...

After going through several instances of that I gave up and I no longer even try to give away free stuff. Not worth my time.on FB. There WAS two...

I binged Season 3 of The Diplomat. Season 3 was strange. The season ended with a cliffhanger as season one and season two had ended, but the...

There are times to use the phone, and times to use email. I used to tell my staff “if you can’t solve it within two email messages,, pick up the damn...

Are you kidding? Give them cash. The average American loves buying objects and carting them to the food bank. If you give cash, they will buy...

i’m glad you caught that. I wrote it with you in mind.

oh, I would’ve spent that much to get a good seat at the recent Rolling Stones concert, no problem. When they came to Missouri, a couple of years...

We have had drama concerning limestone pavers at my house so I sympathize with Donald and Melania! Our drama was a little different. The last time...

I had a friendly argument with our friend from our old neighborhood who is visiting today, and funny that she was always the one who was dismissive...

The Entirely Truthful Mainstream Media claims Trump will name the ballroom after himself. Who knows, they might be right.

The Rose Garden at the White House has been desecrated with 1. “Concrete courtyard” (Newsweek) 2. “Concrete slab”. (People magazine) 3. “ paved...

It pains me so much to say: you have a point here about renaming buildings and historic monuments being torn down is ok as long as it suits one’s own...