I'm sad to say I have to agree.

Ontario friends are on a Viking cruise on the Danube. We have an airline credit from the fouled trip to Japan. Where are Americans being welcomed? Places to avoid?

Nice!! Florida has a very detailed statue about knives and which ones are legal to carry. I can't remember where I read this but it stuck (sic) with me.

Well, this is a mess six ways to Sunday. Yuck.

I've said pretty much said what I wanted to say about it. It's an illegal war. It constitutes multiple crimes against humanity. It was ill advised. It's backfiring militarily. It isn't and never was in the interests of the US. It's wreaking havoc on the global economy. It's especially objectionable to me that US service members are being required to fight and die in it. That's all.

It's all Greek to me. Thanks so much, Ax! I know wtg is admin. Thanks so much, wtg! This place means a lot to a lot of people.

In London for a few days: [image: 1774792038708-20260329_123037-resized.jpg] [image: 1774792044946-img-20260329-wa0005.jpg] I think this front garden hedge will be bright yellow in a few days

Somehow this thread reminds me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's bit about all the dolphins having left Earth just before Earth's demolition.

It’s a great program. Dolly Parton is a wonderful human being.

Well, that sucks. BTW, it was a court in the constitutional court (there are about 800 judges) who broke the law (they can judge based on law, they have no basis in law for upholding or overturning an appeal verdict based on the initial trial's findings of fact- as you can see, it's a three tier process) when they overturned the appeal verdict upholding the initial trial's verdict finding of Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend guilty of rape and murder. The boyfriend's family were mafia from Bari, Montreal, and occasionally the Dominican Republic. The court at the constitutional court in this case was controlled by the mafias from the South aligned with the late Prime Minister Berlusconi. In fact, Berlusconi arranged for his office space to be occupied by the defendants' defense attorney. The Knox family (the father) hired a now defunct PR company in Seattle (who also worked for Boeing). It might or might not sound hard to believe but the PR company handed talking points American media outlets. The American media outlets repeated them. This is how the myth of Amanda Knox as a victim of the Italian judicial system was born. A hard look at the evidence and readings of the professionally translated initial trial's transcripts and judges' written verdict (and the same for the appeal) reveal it was an open and shut case. Italy fascinates me (everything about it) but I'm too "Northern European" to have an ability to assimilate. This is academic because I have no way to become a citizen in the first place.

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2019 Hyundai Accent | Carvana https://share.google/t3bMNOiKr6cqln5Wm Practically the same car for sale after last one sold. I'm glad this decision will easy and quick. This is apparently a sub-segment of the market for this year, make, and model. I was talking to a neighbor I know at the pool. We decided to leave at the same time and he offered to give me a ride home in his BMW 3 Series convertible. He's a retired aircraft mechanic and it's his pride and joy. I've never driven or been a passenger in a BMW. I was very pleasantly surprised. I liked his car very much. It was all spontaneous and fun. Oh, and before we left, I complimented a man on his watch, necklaces, and cross pendant. He asked me if I had any watches. I told him about my Casios and told him they don't go under water. He said you like watches? Then he took his Amitron off his wrist and gave it to me. Extraordinary. I felt like I had been blessed.

I'm so sorry, wtg. Do you have any updates?

Those blocks Steve showed are very popular around here. I see them often. I didn’t know they were a Home Depot (cough, Trump donor, cough) item. But likely available elsewhere.

@CHAS said: Would like to take a citizen of that time around today's world. let me know when is convenient for you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video generation service. Since the platform's launch, Sora made $1.4m in global net in-app revenues, compared to $1.9bn over the same period for ChatGPT, ... ... it was "a resource black hole" with "limited monetisation". "The platform struggled to prevent the creation of non-consensual imagery and realistic misinformation, not to mention major copyright infringement," ...