HassleCat

I would wave goodbye to Boris Johnson and his xemophoic clown show. Scotland could be part of the EU. It would be fun to set up a hard border with England. “Yer peppers! Lemmee see yer peppers, Limey!”

We know that NY and FL jimmied the numbers to make it appear they were dealing with the virus more effectively than they really were.

Even north of itself, they say.

Revolutionary war artillery commander General Knox had his HQ in New York. We had a trivia questin about him.

@jimlane You are more polite than I am. I regard the article as dangerous propaganda from a discredited website.

@lownslow This is exactly what high income earners do when we discuss income taxes. They complain about the theoretical rate being too high. Then, when it’s reveled they pay a true rate lower than the average person, they switch to the gross amount. “I paid a million dollaes in taxes!” This is what the article does with the discussion of absolute…[Read more]

But, you know, a cat.

Guessing from th name.

Advise the Palestinians to martyr themselves, probably with no effect.

Open everything, but be ready to shut it down again in response to sudden spikes.

I don’t think Indianapolis is unique, or even special. There are several things that could be at work here. Some lenders are motivated to undervalue houses when they re-fi because a lower value allows them to offer less favorable terms. Racism could be involved if the appraisers are racist, or somebody at the finance company is racist. The loan…[Read more]

Drove me nuts when I lived in Virginia. Major arterials had five or six different names because they passed through multiple jusrisdictions.

@coldmountaintrail hits on the reason that might not be enough. A vaccine effective this year might not be effective next year. We will find out in a few months.

The homesteading families at either end of the road.

It’s common to name a road according to the places it connects. So Kitchen-Dick runs between Kitchen and Dick. I think maybe those are just family names representing two farms, since the road is only about two miles long and there are no towns or villages with those names. But there may have been at one time.