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His story is pretty tragic. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-cybertruck-bombing-matthew-livelsberger-letter-mental-health-crisis/ While the photo with the Musk/Trump caption is funny in one respect, I'm regretting a bit that I posted it because after reading his story I can't stop thinking of him dying in the vehicle. :

Odd that it is new construction and also for sale. I wonder what the owner was thinking? Big Al

I contribute through actblue.com. If actblue is not used I question why. My contributions go to candidates or the dccc via actblue. I get solicitations from organizations I have never heard of and wonder where the money is going.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return to the United States of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there. The decision on Thursday was a rare win for those challenging the administration's deportation orders, but the court sent the case back to the district court judge to clarify one aspect of her decision "with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs." https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision

@AdagioM said in I FOUGHT: @CHAS That was good, but what about this version? https://x.com/ResisterSis20/status/1796533014924771722 I just sent that to about ten people. Best one I've seen so far, and I've seen a bunch of stuff.

@Steve-Miller said in Who’s in the heat wave ?: Amazon sells battery packs that will not only charge your phones but will also jump start your car. From what I can tell you can charge phones dozens of times before you have to recharge the battery pack. I keep one in each car. @Lisa recommended this one. The price goes down to $75 or 80 pretty routinely. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079FSPRXM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8

Or, once you gain Dick Cheney! He's a war criminal! Yikes.

I hope Mr. WTG heals quickly! Sorry to hear about the issues you had with the process. If anyone can set them straight, it's you. I wish you all the best in that endeavor!

An associate of Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, who for a nearly a decade drugged his wife and invited dozens of men to rape her, admitted to copycat abuse of his own partner on Wednesday, blaming his mentor and a troubled childhood. Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal's wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/associate-frenchman-accused-mass-rape-wife-admits-similar-abuse-2024-09-18/ And of course there is the arrest of Combs.....

• Suspect will be tried as an adult: Colt Gray, who is being held at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, is slated to remain there while in custody until he turns 17, Glenn Allen, the agency’s spokesperson, told CNN Thursday. Under Georgia law, a juvenile aged 13 to 17 who commits a serious crime is automatically tried as an adult.. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/us/apalachee-school-shooting-georgia-saturday/index.html

@AndyD Thanks @RealPlayer Hi @Steve-Miller, I remember you too. Things are OK thanks. I didn't comment in your thread about Rory but I found it very interesting. I hope he can overcome his challenges and make the most of his talents.

I was in a hotel close to the cathedral in 1977. Once I visited there, I was so captivated, I went there every single day of my Paris visit. I even attended services there. I found the atmosphere in Notre Dame just very powerful and inspiring. Yes, I did explore a lot more of the city, but the Notre Dame Cathedral was my daily touchstone. Have no idea if I would feel the same way about the rebuilt cathedral, from looking at the broadcasts. I don't think the qualities that moved me could be captured on film.

If one has a solid account at Little Greene and a good budget it could shine.

@AdagioM sounds yummy!

@Steve-Miller said in Mr. Jodi made the NYT (sort of) : What happened? We're becoming the next Jackson Hole. People are being driven out of their homes because taxes increased astronomically because of the increase of home valuations. Young people can't live here or raise their families here. Businesses can't find workers because the rents are so far beyond the ability of working people to pay. In 1992, I paid $500/mo for a 3 BR, 2 bath duplex apartment here. Today, that unit would easily rent for $3,000/mo. We could easily rent out our current home for $5k/mo.--2,000 square feet. People are spending the winter living in uninsulated campers. The RV campgrounds are full. In winter! My doctor and my physical therapist have lost their staff because they moved away to more affordable states. Even the hot springs resort near Jodi had to close to day users--you have to stay in the hotel to swim there--because they can't find employees. This affects everyone. Except of course the ultra wealthy whose Montana trophy homes sit empty most of the year. And don't get me started on the corporate landlords who have snatched up what used to be affordable housing by paying full cash and outcompeting local buyers. Then turn that housing stock into AirBnBs, or jack up the rents to astronomical levels the current tenants cannot pay. Late stage capitalism isn't pretty.

Made the bean soup tonight. Too bland, so I added more salt and pepper plus some liquid smoke. Tastes pretty good with an unfussy Bordeaux and sourdough toast.

Link to video I forgot to mention the University of North Carolina connection. The evidence is voluminous and experts (and laymen) have known about it for a long time.

Is there a banjo and player on the boat? Riverboats need banjos. Glad you are toasty and warm. Hope you have a great time.

I've enjoyed visits to caves a number of times over the years. I think the last was Ruby Falls near Chattanooga. When I was in college, I went spelunking in caves with the Explorers Club. I had to slither through some tighter spots. There's an extensive sandstone cave system in western Pennsylvania, Laurel Caverns, that may soon become the state's first underground state park. Elevators don't normally bother me; what I find frightening is unconfined high places. Those two things once intersected in a downtown Pittsburgh building where I worked. I was stuck between floors in an elevator and learned that a side panel could be opened for access. The maintenance people stopped the elevator in the adjacent shaft next to the one I was in and opened the access panels in both to get me and a couple of other people out. There was nothing much but air in the intervening space, except for a steel beam about shoulder height that we had to pass under to get to the other elevator. I gripped that beam so tightly as I ducked under it that it should still have fingerprints indented in its surface. Big Al

I'd agree. We've just about got a society accepting homosexuality, equal rights etc. But sport ought to be drug free. Have another 3rd option where anything goes. Extra testosterone, cocaine whatever. See what records are broken! As long as they're naked and I get a front row seat for pole vault