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[p0rtia]

Republican* plan to fix this: fewer immigrants!

[raison de arizona]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1512460259171962884

Republican* plan to fix this: fewer immigrants!

Don’t forget, in Republican USA, unemployment is at… historic highs.

[Phoenix520]

Hope springs eternal.

One of my favorite online handles was a person from Hope Springs AR .
HopeSpringsATurtle


(This is from the Jan 6 thread. I’m trying to be responsible and not threadjack.)

[RTH10260]

I hope those are empty cartons they have taped together.

FIFY

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[RTH10260]

Cause the Gridiron evening was only mentioned in relation to the pandemic

POLITICO Playbook: A night of laughter and cringe at the Gridiron

By RACHAEL BADE
04/03/2022 11:53 AM EDT Updated 04/04/2022 09:46 AM EDT

New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu stole the show Saturday night at the annual Gridiron Club dinner by saying out loud what most Republicans in Washington privately whisper about Donald Trump. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo

INSIDE THE RETURN OF THE GRIDIRON — New Hampshire Republican Gov. CHRIS SUNUNU stole the show Saturday night at the annual Gridiron Club dinner by saying out loud what most Republicans in Washington *privately* whisper about DONALD TRUMP.

“You know, he’s probably going to be the next president,” Sununu said of Trump, musing about his “experience,” “passion,” “sense of integrity” and the “rationale” he brought to his tweets. As the room quieted to see where he was going with this, he paused, then yelled: “Nah, I’m just kidding! He’s FUCKING CRAZY!” The ballroom roared with laughter. “ARE YOU KIDDING?! Come on. You guys are buying that? I love it … He just stresses me out so much! ... I’m going to deny I ever said it.”

It didn’t stop there: “The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don't think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”




more at the link https://www.politico.com/newsletters/pl ... n-00022578

[Volkonski]

[RTH10260]

The Bin Laden Papers: al-Qaeda’s secret documents – and delusions – finally revealed

Saul David
Fri, April 8, 2022, 3:04 PM

In the early hours of May 2 2011, a team of Navy Seals discovered and killed Osama Bin Laden – the leader of al-Qaeda, architect of 9/11 and the most hunted man on the globe – in a raid on a domestic compound in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad. With their strict 30-minute deadline almost up, the Seals requested more time on the ground because they had found “a whole s--- ton of computers and electronic gear on the second floor”.

Permission was granted, and during the next 18 minutes more than 470,000 files were recovered, including “nearly 6,000 Arabic pages of internal al-Qaeda communiqués that were never intended for public consumption”. But for the Seals’ “courageous efforts” during those perilous additional minutes, writes Nelly Lahoud, the Bin Laden papers would never have come to light.

The papers – recently declassified and now analysed in detail for the first time by Lahoud, an Arabic-speaking expert in security and counter-terrorism – offer an extraordinary insight into the inner workings of Al-Qaeda, both before and after 9/11, and lay bare the terrorist organisation’s closely guarded plans, ambitions and frustrations.



https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bin-lad ... 12427.html

[bill_g]

I hope those are empty cartons they have taped together.

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Oooo! Gurl got skillz. Saving that one. Thanx!

[jez]

Fascinating article RTH. Going to have to try and get a copy to read the whole thing.

[raison de arizona]

That's not a sturgeon, it's a sea monster

[RTH10260]

Ahh - the cousin of the Loch Ness monster

[Phoenix520]

I should know this.

I’m sitting here reading, puppies wrestling next to me. They jostle me I drop the phone. When I pick it up, all posts from here to infinity are marked as “read”.

What did those dang puppies do?

A culprit:

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[Flatpoint High]

HAPPY 90TH, JOEL GREY!!

[Flatpoint High]

HAPPY 90TH, JOEL GREY!!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Phoenix520-the doggies read the posts!

[tek]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/homes/us ... index.html

With home prices skyrocketing by double-digit percentages over the last year, it would be no surprise if property taxes jumped too.
But surprisingly, the average property tax on a single-family home rose by just 1.8% last year to $3,785, increasing at the smallest pace in the past five years, according to a report from ATTOM, a real estate data company. That has resulted in an effective tax rate of 0.9%, down from 1.1% in 2020, the report found.

Fundamental misunderstanding of what property taxes are.

tax rate = (budgeted spending)/(total property valuation)

So, in the absence of an increased budget, one would expect the rate to fall as valuations rise - resulting in the same overall tax bill, and (subject to local fluctuation) the same tax bill to each homeowner.

[MN-Skeptic]

My sister just got back from visiting a friend in Uganda, and texted me that if I had been born in Uganda (I was born on Christmas Day) I would have been named Emmanuela. Apparently all baby girls born on Christmas are named Emmanuela. Boys born on Christmas are named Emmanuel.

[Phoenix520]

Do you think OrlyL and Maybenaut have run off together?

[MN-Skeptic]

Do you think OrlyL and Maybenaut have run off together?

Along with zekeb?

[AndyinPA]

Do you think OrlyL and Maybenaut have run off together?

Along with zekeb?

And fiercedpanda?

[Estiveo]

Do you think OrlyL and Maybenaut have run off together?

Along with zekeb?

And fiercedpanda?

They started their own forum called Truth Anti-Social.

[northland10]

Do you think OrlyL and Maybenaut have run off together?

Along with zekeb?

And fiercedpanda?

Stormy (Maybenaut's kitty) has been posting away which have killed me with cuteness.

FRP's job has probably kept him really busy.

[John Thomas8]

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
-- Tecumseh
(1768-1813) Shawnee Chief

[Phoenix520]

Thank you JT.

[raison de arizona]

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Job offers you get when your title is "Clerk."