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These cats are so cooperative. Mine don’t like hats!

In a lengthy dissent, Oldham complained his two colleagues were second-guessing Trump’s conduct of foreign affairs and national security, realms where courts usually give the president great deference. Silly man. The courts usually do lots of things, but he only needs look at the Roberts court to see that it doesn't make any difference. They'll decide what outcome they want then piece together a "history" to justify it.

That's cool. Spirograph. I want a wood lathe. Went to buy one this week but they weren't in stock. Still very interested in getting one and I'm checking Craigslist for used ones.

@Axtremus said in All Magic Has A Price -- at Disney's: Based on what we earn, we see different ads, stand in different lines, eat different food, stay in different hotels, watch the parade from different sections, and on and on. What’s profitable today is not unification. It’s segmentation. Yes, and it’s hard not to think that this is part of what’s contributing to all the other social and political division we’re experiencing

Froome is a great in the cycling world. Sad this happened. Just to make this about me; I bought a mountain bike in Tucson. Read that a guy my age asked about bike crashes. He was told, "You might live." Think I will consign the bike when I get back to Tucson.

Add Mexico to the list. Mexico said Wednesday its postal service was suspending package shipments to the United States ahead of an end to the exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages by the Trump administration. The announcement follows similar moves by postal services from the European Union and several other countries to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the U.S. measure. It also comes during monthslong negotiations between the Mexican government and the Trump administration to avoid wider tariffs. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/28/mexico-suspends-postal-shipments-to-united-states-over-tariff-confusion-00533242

It's horrifying. And getting worse and it's happening everywhere. So when it's in my neighborhood it seems even more real.

Waiting for a quote on putting basement back together, house was painted early this month, huge window will be replaced 9/18 and we made big progress in the garage yesterday. We will get both cars in this winter!

I want this platinum bracelet. https://7879.co/products/forte-chain-bracelet?variant=45074201182385&metal=platinum Notice the links are oval and the top and bottom of each link is flat. This is my favorite style of chain. Notice it has a lobster claw clasp and Is 4 mm. The 7.5" platinum bracelet is around $1,700 with the discount code. I don't know why I have experience taste. The 18 kt gold one is $3,000 before the discount. People seem to want gold badly these days give the economic system is thought to be under threat by many people for multiple reasons. I don't know how close to market price per weight these pieces might be. I haven't looked at it. I think it's something of a gimmick.

@Bootsy Thank you!!

@CHAS No, but you should see his electric bill!

ICE detained 2 in this county yesterday. Not surprised. The ski industry would collapse without immigrants. Restaurants patrons objected. Neighbors objected. "They are hard working people and cause no problems." Of the many immigrants in the county, I know one who walked from Guatemala. She became a maid at Keystone resort, and has worked up way up from that to a management position, married, had kids and is well respected. I don't know her official status as an immigrant.

Funny thing is, they were getting lunch from local Indian stalls. Of course they were probably legal UK citizens selling the onion bhajis, but there was a touch of irony. If we forcibly removed all nonwhites our society would undoubtedly collapse. However Illegal immigration is a problem and that rally did little to help solve it.

Innovative, but not something I would want.

Uncle Tom’s laundromat … Link to video

This is totally dumb. These averages tell you nothing about the political (red/blue) drivers of financial stress. Poor states have more people in distress than rich states. Just so happens that there are more poor red states than blue states. Duh. The people who write this stuff are usually weak journalists who have a shiny degree in communications or literature. The kind of people who will nod when they hear "correlation isn't causality" without having a clue what that means.

Send your professionals over to the US to oversee brand new multi-billion dollar investments and watch them, and your company, get harassed by ICE to keep the headlines off of Epstein and off of another stinky jobs report. Maybe they'll pick up some "undocumented" Germans in Spartanburg next. I wonder if the acting head of the BLS, a career labor department employee, will now be summarily hanged for overseeing the bad jobs report.

Rolling over is what Columbia and Harvard do best.

The whole party is utterly lost. The electorate has seen ten years of their kill Trump by any means necessary. This was followed by propping up Biden and hoping no one noticed. When that failed they anointed their Harris without a primary, then claimed to be the defenders of democracy. There are good people in the party but they are overshadowed by the geriatric leadership that simply refuses to go away. I’m particularly impressed by Gov. Shapiro and my Congressman Greg Landsman. Moving farther to the left, a la Zohran, will simply put them deeper into the wilderness.

The comedians were already onto it; an example from early June: Link to video