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Politics is all promises these days. Back in the good old days you were paid up front before voting.

Link to video Peridot. Richard Yard. It reminds me of the old saying about the Tiffany's counter- if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. I thought that slogan was silly at the time- but it made a point.

Happy Birthday, jon!

@shirokuro It is fun to pretend! My Android Magic OS options are around $1,500. I can pretend I need one or want to buy one. It's a minor, pleasant distraction for me.

Of course. Lol, Joe.

Link to video Ok, I lell my HS story. My best friend Hara and I were the two alternates. We couldn't serve well enough. We had no game to speak of. We didn't have the knowledge needed to get through a match. If we had the experience we would still not have the stamina. So we enjoyed hitting with each other. I loved hitting in the concrete "courts" they have for this. We spent a lot of time together at city parks for tennis. We listened to music (Broadway, Streisand, almost every album). No disrespect to Streisand at all, but when I hear her voice now, I switch it off. It was definitely a brief musical phase for me though. We talked outback dating (others, not each other, lol). Good times. I wish I could have done more in HS but there wasn't much opportunity for playing tennis in inner city Tampa, and more to the point, I didn't have the opportunity to take lessons. So yeah. Glorified waterboy. Lol!

My new audiobook is ‘Six Days of War’ by Michael Oren. It’s said to be the best single volume treatment of the 67 Arab-Israeli war.

And control. They want to know who is pregnant. They want to know who has guns. etc.

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

Republicans seem to believe that the bad consequences will not affect them.

@wtg Seems to be, "Our product will kill us all." Not the best sales pitch and unusual coming from the seller. I tend to believe things like that.

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@jon-nyc I don't disagree. I just think the military budget is absurd. Not that voters have any control over it.

I bet they were just glad not to be trekking.

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