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…a horses ass.

If anything, she is but one of the many standard bearers of what is wrong with what should be (but aint) our congress.

At least once per month we did fire drills where we kids were marched single file outside.

We saw no smoke so we knew nothing was up.

The Duck and Cover drills OTOH, saw us kids crouching under our desks, hands covering our heads and speaking for myself, they scared the holy hell out of me!

It always felt like an eternity for the P.A. to…[Read more]

No sarcasm here, both meanings of “Offensive” intended.

An intriguing thought occurs to me:

What if teachers of school children did a passive pushback of the Neo-Liberal Cold-War by bringing back those old Duck and Cover Drills.

While this might have the early result of raising the eyebrows of their sleeping parants, as these kids grow up into…[Read more]

While it has been a long time since my old geology courses in college, I was unaware of any plate tectonics going on in the Caribbean.

Very interesting, I’ll be keeping track of this now, thanks for heads up Cold Mountain Trail

On this day in history, April 8th, eons past that date where candidate Biden promised us $2000, I got $1400 direct deposited into my bank account.
☺

Not that it would’ve matered here in my blue state…

…but maybe this disabled vet would’ve gotten that $1400 by now.

…so I can only imagine that the Pentagon, duly warned, now has intentions of sending a full blown carrier fleet into the Black Sea!

Amateurs!

As a kid growing up on Ft.Lewis Washington, my only chum and I bicycled all over the base… including into areas we should not have been entering.

We may have been in 4th grade perhaps.

Ft.Lewis was among other things during this time frame, a place for young soldiers to do Basic Training.

Up in the forests, way behind the Officers…[Read more]

Which is more important?

The cheerleader or the corporation?

It’s all a matter of perspective now isn’t it.

Relevant here and for the record, the egg came first..that is where the first chicken came from.

Logically, this critter’s parant’s could not have been the first chickens, …they were politicians instead.

Politicians are a unique…[Read more]

“If it works, tinker with it until it doesn’t…
…then claim that it was destined to fail anyway!”

Two examples come to mind.

First, our government’s actions towards the USPS.

Secondly, my brother’s rabid destruction of his once perfectly functional lap-top. (I saw the poor thing bounce a number of times after being chucked hard across his…[Read more]

We’ve focused here an size. I agree that size matters but was it size that caused Ever Given to become stuck?

There are claims about the wind as a contributing factor. Even a kayak can be subject to the wind.

Container ships can definitely be subject to the vagaries of the wind. Their tall flat sides can easily act like sails.

Watching the…[Read more]

I expected that it would be here for this disabled Vet on or before April 1st.

Ha! The joke was on me. Very funny President Biden, very funny… or did you just forget about us vets?

In the imortal words of Sheldon Cooper, “Bazinga!”

…it was that “silencing doubters” bit that told me there was something fishy with this headline.

Oops, sorry about the gender misidentificatio.

We have an ancient term for that:

“My bad”

@jbnw

It is good to have outsiders look at us and give us their thoughts.

It is also good for those same outsiders to show us how things are in their country(s).

My hat is tipped to your friend from the Ukraine for the thoughts he presented us in this thread, jbnw.

If your friend chooses to do so, his further wisdoms could be a worthy addition…[Read more]

I heard or read somewhere that the primary difference between Constructivism and Progressivism* can be summed up:

“Yes I Can” vs “Yes We Can”

FWIW, I will always argue that two minds are better than one and three better than two. For that reason I lean more to the “Yes We Can” side.

That said, I do not like being told what to do so in that case…[Read more]

No, I did not even get past this OP’s title before becoming offended.

As a card carrying male, my response to any other male who would say such a thing:

(ok so I am at loss for words here…that headline…ugh!!! what I truly want to say is not really printable so I need to rethink my response)…

Ah: “Sit down, open yer eyes, shut up and blow…[Read more]

…and get his ass in free!

Exxon must die.

That said, someone equally scrupulous will most likely fill the void.

Well that’s what I think at any rate.

Decades ago we had a song:
“What do you do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor early in the morning?

Put him in charge of an Exxon tanker, put him in charge of…[Read more]