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obama did not earn his in any meaningful way. giving one to trump for what? ridiculous.

a few nominations for medicines sans frontieres and for the cuban medical teams who have been on the front lines of ear and disease for decades.

we shall never see his like again

is there anything left to pay the medical bills?

i have traditional medicare, need to back it up with blue cross for deductibles, co pays, and drugs. my wife has an advantage plan. it has covered everything so far, but i do not trust any corporation that can declare bankruptcy and leave us with pre existing conditions.

@Ohio Barbarian dueling is a great incentive to stay in shape.

when the constitution was written many of these “free speech” issues would have been solved by the dueling code. since dueling no longer serves to keep everyone “politically correct,” i think some remedy against gate speech and other toxic 1st amendment aberrations needs to be found.

their answer. “i’m sorry mr president but you do not have a ‘need to know'”

so now you know the one question i asked the former president as we were rebuilding after katrina. btw, i still get a christmas card from plains ga.

trump is as close as he will ever be to jail or exile. he will never plead guilty and no jury can be seated that will not have at least one of his crazed followers.

the question is “why are they revealing it now?”

it would take trump to jump on a novel coronavirus as a grweat idea to reduce a population of “useless eaters.”

the culture war shifts from abortion to birth control.

if this is close to the real story i don’t see it as a failure at all. if co2 scrubbers are needed, so be it. and, of course, human interrelation goes with the humans.

politicians at every level are happy to comply.

if an employee asks for a raise, or, heaven forbid, begin to unionize, a simple phone call to thge border patrol and the problem goes away.

it was an injustice picking the claiborne ave area to build the interstate. the alternative (along the river through the french quarter and garden district) was opposed by powerful interests.

now, 1/2 a century later, there is still no alternative route for i10, and tearing down the elevated expressway would be expensive and disruptive. any new…[Read more]

many respected journalists were used to deliver the cold war/vietnam era propaganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

i am also never excited when a “journalist” is held by iran or murderer by terrorists. i figure koreans and such have as much right to execute spies as anyone. “journalist” is a good cover story.

there are numerous wats they can use their “limited liability” and the bankruptcy laws to keep those executive bonusses rolling.

and now we can share that video with the board.

i could never have guessed it without all of the hints and process of eliminating wrong answers from our fellow posters.

italy ,maybe milan?

i returned from vietnam with a marijuana and alcohol problem and ptsd that my wife was not prepared to handle. i managed to live in the car (stage 1 homelessness) until i managed to get a minimum wage job and check into a $50/week motel room (try to find one of those these days.)

thanks to @kelly for a thoughtful post

“everything is bigger in texas”