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Just read Netanyahu's letter about it. Who the hell is he?!

My one indulglance will be a solid wood desk (solid wood, not wood veneer glued over wood planks glued together) 60" wide and somewhat deep (maybe 30").

I'm buying it from an Amish company that hand makes furniture in Pennsylvania.

It has simple legs and a "pencil drawer." Or three if you want.

You choose the size, the wood, the stain, matte, semi-gloss, or high-glass, the fixture tones, and the actual fixtures.

It will be my work surface.

It will be 1/2 the price of their similar tables because it's a basic table. It doesn't have a particular style, e.g. Mission.

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Treason.

I can hear the gallery-- Politico says it isn't true and Jimmy Dore is a comedian?

We'll see what becomes of it if anything but it's already creepy AF in my book.

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This is just another journalist falsehood/ conspiracy theory until six months or a year from now when the public will finally realize it's something else.

with its "detention centers" and everything else.

But it was a "win" for Schumer because the "ballroom" and "slush fund" were cut out of the bill.

Now the House will quickly pass it.

Maybe the Democratic Party, Inc. (no, not a joke) should be dissolved.

Dissolution can be liberating, or so I've been told, and the Democrats have become abjectly worthless.

We thought in the '80's (and the early to mid-80's and beyond were more like the '50's than the present times, and there was the AIDS epidemic that was hardly understood at all, too) that commerce (capitalism) was the reason we were moving forward. Everyone's money is green. I still think that there was a lot of truth in it.

Are you trying to put us to shame? Just kidding. I installed Pong on my phone again today. There was a void in my life.

Love your hobby projects.

I'd rather have my eyes gauged out with a blunt knife so it's safe to say I didn't watch it.

It has a jumbled effect for me.

@wtg Amazing basilica.

But what a way to go (sic).

My guess is the sixth guy is the only one who knows how to do the task that needs to be done in the hole. 🤪

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Research by economists generally shows that publicly financed stadiums are not a good deal for taxpayers.

I have yet to understand why taxpayers should be subject to extortion by sports organizations.

100%. The taxpayers in Tampa were put through the wringer again and again when I was growing up. The only thing that's changed in this metro is the teams' extortion demands get more lavish and outrageous with every new stadium.

She doesn't have any journalistic integrity. What she does have is a loyalty to Zionism and to the founder of Oracle, the man who bought and paid for her.

So, apparently Tulsi is telling [some] tales out of school. Nothing about a book or anything like that. I can't predict what she'll say or do in the future. I'm not trying to keep up with what she's saying because I have a lot to do now. I'm not trying to flippant. Also, I don't know what could interest me (or not) in the future. I'm not feeling any kind of way about it.

I hate the building. And the statue would be at home in DisneyWorld.

Parenthetically, I bought a car, funded an investment account with a practical amount of money for which my trustee has no fiduciary duty, and bought a place with a handshake today. It still has to be paid for and close. Lol. My car is being delivered next week with a plate that makes it legal to drive in FL for
30 days. I'm giving my trustee a well earned time off until my car arrives and my funds are available in my investment account. Life is moving forward!

It's a problem.

Ok, Let's break it down.

Princess Michael, married to a first cousin of the Queen's, lived next door to Diana in Kensington Palace, formerly a German Baroness, and a Catholic.

This is from Wikipedia. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but I will-- she's a Nazi from back in the day and her best friends were David and Wallis.

"Early life and ancestry
Princess Michael was born Freiin (Baroness) Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz[1] on 15 January 1945[2] in Karlovy Vary, then part of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and officially known as Karlsbad in the German-populated Sudetenland, now in the Czech Republic. She was born at Jagdschloss Inselthal, the family estate inherited from her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz (1878–1918), the eldest daughter of Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, who served as the 11th Minister-President of Austria and was President of the Imperial Council from 1895 to 1918.[3][4][5]

Marie‑Christine was born into the Reibnitz family, an ancient (uradel) German noble house from Silesia whose lineage can be traced back to 1288 with Henricus de Rybnicz.[6] The ancestral seat of the family was Burg Läusepelz, today Rybnica in present-day Poland.[7] On her paternal line, she descends from the Burggrafen of Dohna, Herrand III von Trauttmansdorff, and the Nostitz family, lineages that also appear among the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II.[8]

She is the younger daughter of Freiherr Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz (1894–1983) and his second wife, Countess Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walburga Bernadette Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár (1911–1988),[1] the daughter of Count Friedrich Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Saint Petersburg at the outbreak of the First World War.[9] Through her mother, Marie‑Christine descends from the House of Lobkowicz and numerous other Austrian princely families, connections that link her by blood to her husband, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.[10][11][12] She is also descended from Henry II of France and his wife, Catherine de' Medici, and from Henry II's longtime mistress and rival of Catherine, Diane de Poitiers, a connection she has noted in her historical writing.[13][14][15] Through this line, she also descends from Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat who was knighted by both the Habsburg and Stuart monarchs.[16][17]

Marie‑Christine's father was a member of the Nazi Party and served as a cavalry officer in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War.[18][19]"

She famously said, "They bred Diana like a racehorse."

This is the first fact that should probably be understood clearly as the essential basis of the Queen's relationship with Diana.

I should add that according to an imminent historian, the Queen was never intimidated by any woman, except Diana. She was intimidated by Diana, among all the women on earth.

She didn't like Diana, certainly.

They weren't "enemies" in the beginning.

It's not a secret their relation lost control and slid sideways.

To put everything is some perspective, at the time Diana famously visited the hospital and shook hands with AIDS patients, the Queen had specifically told her not to do it, and even though Diana felt hurt by this, Diana shrugged it off and the rest is history.

Diana couldn't be bossed.

For Diana's part, she loathed the Windsors, the whole lot of them, except her husband.

She once famously wrote they were akin to a viper's nest and said the Queen Mother was the head viper.

Thank you for reading forum!

And now a word to kids today...

Don't be distracted by shiny objects in a story more that full of them. Start from the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana and work forward until you feel you understand the characters' perspectives and then you will be able to piece together a realistic narrative. You weren't there. The media started out telling a ridiculous fairytale. The media are still at it. Nobody is blaming you. But today's pedantic thought is don't take things out of context.

Yeah, there is a good solution. Withdrawal. Full stop.

It's not a legal hypothetical, as you know.

Tiresome.