I think the Gex X guy has an excellent point.
Personally I'll take being accused of being bourgeois over being accused of being a bum any day of the week.
I'll pass on the living off the grid part though. Ironically that would take a lot of money to be able to afford.
My 2 cents.
This is why we had the New Deal. The FCC is a shadow now of what it used to be. Sad.
I keep telling people CNN, CBS, Fox, et. al. are state media.
The same is true of broadcast.
The same is true of print.
The argument I hear back is that they have, "prestige."
Well, they might have it. Legitimacy, not so much.
It's hard to tell. One with leverage is one too many.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/06/new-supreme-leader-anti-iran-us-propaganda-reformists
Yes, that will happen.
Or not. 
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pensions 75 years in advance. It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the USPS with the goal being to privatize it.
So here were are bleeding the patient like Doctors in the past who didn't know what they were doing.
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5768230-postal-service-losses-steiner/
I guess I should mention we're in a severe drought.
Did you like it or not? I'm curious. I've heard about it but haven't seen it
I like the radiators (perfect, imo) and fireplaces. I like that its stone built to keep out the elements.
The closest we have to this in Florida is concrete block.
Concrete block houses, apartment buildings, and hotels will stand up to hurricanes, if the there is no ground floor flooding, and if the roof doesn't fail, and both of these risks can be mitigated by researching the flood zone designation and the roof's age.
In the case of ground floor flooding in a concrete block built building, the damage can be fixed.
These buildings have the added advantage of being sound-proof.
I'm ruling out any apartment building that's not concrete block built in the '60's or '70's.
The only thing I don't like about this house is it's two stories without a stair lift or a small elevator like a tube elevator.
It's not ideal for "age in place." I've observed that sooner or later, nobody can walk up and down stairs.
I already mentioned living in a remote location, and especially on an island, isn't for the faint of heart.
This is a nit-picking, academic criticism, since the chances of me being able to move to the U.K. and afford this house are approaching zero.
Maybe it's perfect like it is because it was built this way.
I'd move to the UK if I had $$$$$.
I'm not sure what good it would do but at least I could live in a Georgian house with gardens or in Andy's Grade I listed tower house with an elevator.
This might well turn out to be the biggest foreign policy own goal of any American president.
Every president including even Biden refused to attack Iran.
"In war, truth is the first casualty."-- Aeschylus
Oh, Ok.
So, is Ukraine defending itself well? I'd say, no, when it's kidnapping conscripts off the streets.
So, is Ukraine winning the war? Maybe it just needs more time, foreign weaponry, and foreign money.
So, will Ukraine defeat Russia? It's Russia. Ukraine will never defeat Russia.
Yet more Western media happy talk about yet one more bloodbath, IMO.
This is great. It's like thinking recycling plastic will save the oceans. The problem is out of control. Plastic doesn't only wash up on beaches in South East Asia. It washes up on beaches on Hawaii Island. There's no way for the U.S. to stop it. How are much poorer countries going to stop it?
Carry on.
Well, in fairness to RFK, Jr., for whom I have no respect or admiration, these chemicals should be taken out of American food. The same corporations have to take them out of food in Europe, and they wouldn't be able to put them in American food if the FDA were not a captured agency.
Carry on.
I don't see what expertise Ukraine would possess.
I don't have any such option. It sounds great and so easy.
Yay!
I'm kidding. I despise it.
Anyway, the PSA is set your clocks forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.
We didn't have this in Arizona or Hawaii where I lived a total of 22 consecutive years.
My experience is that changing the clock twice a year is an exercise in physical and emotional stress.
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5' x 8'
$550
It would be some time before I could consider spending $550 on a rug, but I like it. I don't know anything about rugs, but this one is close enough to the design of one I'd like to own.
The only problem is that Britain's complicity in sinking the Iranian ship made the U.K. a legal target of Iran.
It doesn't seem that a lot of thought, it any, has gone into the decision to wage an illegal war against Iran.
