Well, the election would have to be 100% rigged it he were to do that, and, win. There's no way he's electable. Will he? I don't know. Yeah, he's a first born son, so it might seem logical, but I don't follow stories about him closely enough to know; I have to hit "stop" if I see his face.

No, no. Spaghetti in chili is heresy.

I use AnyList for recipe management. I have been on the lookout for a good recipe app for literally decades and this ticks all the boxes for me. If you copy and paste ingredients as a block of text it separates them into individual things. There is a share function from blogs and recipe sites where it formats the recipe by just sending it to the app. (NYT Cooking plays SO well with it!). It allows you to sort and categorize and the search function is great. We use it to meal plan (and it tells us when we last cooked something - you can even have it suggest ideas based on how long it’s been). Once it’s in our meal plan I just click add to shopping list and it brings up all the ingredients for the week. I tick off the ones I need. If there are duplicates (one lemon in this recipe and two in that one) it will consolidate them to one list item. We have been using it for several years and they continue to add new features. There is a slimmed down free version but we pay the $15 (CAD) subscription to have all the features. Highly recommend!

@Bernard said: Garrick Ohlsson Oh cool!!! I know his playing, just not his face!

Anyone who underestimates Russia's military capabilities is an idiot. But I guess we're meant to believe Ukraine is causing a crisis for the continued existence of Russia. Ok, then. The sainted Ukraine which massacred 100,000 Poles in 1943. The absurdity of it all reminds me of Trump's military parade. Maybe Cold War style military parades are just anachronistic and dumb.

Well, the war isn't winnable. If one defines "a win" (and Trump has dementia; he hasn't defined "a win") then whatever "win" equals, it doesn't equal anything militarily realistic for the US. I'd add Trump's doesn't have guts. He is a cognitively impaired con artist who is frightened half out of his mind that he will be assasinated by Iran. The irony is Iran never planned to assasinate him until he assassinated Iran's head of state. He isn't going to finish anything. He doesn't even know what he's trying to do let alone how to do it.

Hahaha!

Donald gets in Camilla's way. Link to video

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My opinion is not an argument nor a disagreement with any other opinion expressed in this thread or in any other thread. My opinion is Fetterman is a tool of the Israeli lobby. I think he's a fool and an ass, when he belligerently waves his Israeli flag, the flag of a foreign nation, at anyone and everyone, in the halls of Congress.

@AndyD said: women need general anaesthetic and a 3+ days stay I missed that it said 3 day stay but am puzzled as to why someone would need to be hospitalized for that long. I'm assuming that keyhole surgery is what we on this side of the pond call laparoscopic. I had my gallbladder out that way and I was in by 9, home by 2 the same day. Yes, definitely general anesthesia. I was never in a hospital room, only in the operating room (theater to you!) and in recovery for a few hours. Did take two or three weeks before I felt pretty much back to normal.

@Daniel thank you!!

Middle Eastern version of our old saying Red sky at night Hormuz alight; Red sky in the morning US stock crash warning.

Yeah, me too. Charleston, SC is a big deal in the US, though. It's a rare Southern "Old Money" enclave with a very claustrophobic and strange society, imo. I want privacy and would no matter the price point. Charleston is anything but a privacy oriented place.

Nothing will be done until the Dems have a majority in both houses, if then. Why not focus on the themajority first?

There was another, "assassination attempt." It got worse reviews than Melania's movie.