Oh, but we can't. The UK and US have made laws making criticizing the state of Israel a criminal offense. This is a direct, de facto violation of the US Constitution. It is no more right for the UK government to have done this in a free society. Now I ask-- were these aberrations resultant of the influence of the state of Israel? Or were they influenced by do-gooders who happened to be so taken by the welfare of Jews in free societies that taking away free speech in those societies became an Orwellian agenda? In addition, the United States Constitution includes the separation of church and state. Citizens in our countries are legally prohibited from expressing negative political opinions about a foreign state? What kind of madness is this?

I swam with spinner dolphins in the open ocean off the coast of Hawaii Island. Honestly, it was a glorious experience. And, they didn't try to molest me. Lol. They swam huge circles around us underwater and then would jump far into the air. Maybe because they were wild but they only wanted to interact with us. They didn't want to be touched.

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

Wonderful! Wow. I couldn't have gone anywhere, haven't been to one, and the only one I heard about was at The Villages of all places. I live in an evangelical Christian neighborhood in Clearwater. It's not an experience I plan to have again. I'll bet there was one at USF in Tampa.

The main industry in Hawaii if you don't count land trusts (and you shouldn't because these are the trusts that used to own agricultural production all of which is gone) and real estate (and you shouldn't because the market has become heavily weighted in the favor of billionaires) is tourism. For one thing, the tourism industry is seasonal in the best of times. It nosedives in times of trouble (e.g. 9/11, The Great Recession). I don't know how it's doing now but my gut instinct tells me it's not a good situation. Dol, I'm sure you're familiar with the iconic American late night comedy show Saturday Night Live. I distinctly remember watching it one night as a child. The skit was that it was Christmas Eve and the American military let it's guard down because it was such a peaceful time. It was then that a fictional Canada chose to invade the US. It was such a good performance. I think it's sad how times have changed. It makes it even worse to me that I can't think of any good reason why it had to happen.

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," ...

Well, it's pretty clear where his loyalty can be found.

Link to video I understand they have to cover this, and in fairness I saw what it said, and then skipped over it. But this is only the surface layer. Of course, this woman is deranged. The point is that it was almost certainly an attempted hit job. I have followed these crimes (i.e murders) in this industry starting with the killing of Tupac Shakur. It took me years to solve his murder to my satisfaction. In fact, I put the final puzzle pieces together very recently. The context of this deranged woman's crime is much more clear to me. I want to wait until more facts emerge before saying anything else. I'm relatively certain that I know who set this up but at this time I don't want to go out in a limb. I predict that the truth will come out and many people will be surprised. This was a terrible crime against a very significant artist, and it sucks.

The Active brand. Pretty sure we had the Dirty labs one before but never paused the washer to give the enzymes longer to work. I do use the Dirty labs dishwasher powder and that's been working well.

Florida draught explained at start of local weather broadcast-- Tampa weather | Tuesday morning forecast https://share.google/FcOBx5oGsS7cgzmKs I hope the water continues and along with it human habitation. 🤪