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@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. 🤪

@Bernard said:

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.

They took the video down right in those few moments!

It said-- Diana' butler told "me" she wrote him a note saying she longed to hug the Queen. How can tell "me" she hated the Queen.

Diana wrote a lot of notes to her butler.

Later!

Link to video

The teaser.

Kids today.

Later!

Link to video

You can't make this up.

I'd don't object to the quality to many of the interior materials and extra points for the tennis court.

I'd have to take part of the house (would need more information to choose which) and built an apartment with foyer and locked door to rest of house and its own entrance.

I don't know what I'd do with rest of the house so not the house for me.

Thinking about this more, it like the rule you clean from top to bottom. The dust, dirt, etc. naturally is stirred up into the air and then sinks to the bottom. The last thing you do is clean the floor.

I told this story but I had a five hour routine for cleaning my bedroom when I was six. It was like clockwork. It involved tasks like removing window screens, vacuuming them, washing the windows inside and out, polishing the furniture, and so on. It always ended after five house with me brushing the fringe on each side of the wool rug.

I think it's a blessing and a curse to have this OCD and almost a need for minimalist organization and maximum cleanliness. I think it's a curse because it takes a lot of energy but I see it as more of a blessing far and away.

It has given me and will continue to give me the ability to create the minimalism I like and use minimalism to design functional and beautiful, if I do say so myself, interiors (for instance, an audiophile's music listening room combined with a private college dorm room, something I have done, or to design a study from my imagination, my next project.

And as unusual as this might sound or be, I've known actual hoarders, and I wouldn't trade places with one for love or money.

I love the rain. I'm glad the rainy season in here. We're in the worst draught since before I moved home to Florida almost 10 years ago.

Thank you for your posts. I don't always agree with what you post but I almost always find it thought provoking.

Well, "science" is a interesting topic but like any sub-branch of any epistemological system, science is not an exact science (pun intended).

Questions like these aren't "solved" and then set in stone or displayed in a glass case.

"Measurements suggested the giant planet's rotation rate was changing over time, as if Saturn were somehow speeding up or slowing down. That puzzling result left scientists searching for answers."

I'd venture to say it appeared to be "changing" in fact because it was and is always changing. This isn't so much a mystery as it is the nature of the universe.

I just posted about this topic in my Chronos and Kairos thread.

https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3681/kairos-the-ancient-greek-art-of-knowing-when-to-act#:~:text=Kairos%3A The-,ancient,-Greek art of

We human beings have to be vigilant continuously about what Karl Marx (the writer whose work is canonical among intellectuals, not the "communist" we all love to hate) called reification. Reification involves setting up a continual feedback loop where we "play back" what we think we know in a way that the only outcome is our belief, whatever it was when we started believing it, can only end up being fallaciously reinforced.

The planets, the galaxy, the universe-- are never static and if a human being truly wanted to map their machinations, he or she would die trying...

Highd up to 89, scattered showers. Lows around 80, but for some reason the lows are are going to drop to low to mid 70s for several days.

That will be nice.

Not worried about hurricane season. I'm actually more worried about tornadoes after experiencing one.

I'm a layperson and even I can tell you the applicable law is as plain as day.

The fog rolls in here off of the Gulf. It's thick and reaches much higher than a human being stands. If happens at night and at dawn before the sun's heat inversion lifts it away. It doesn't happen often. It's very beautiful.

Speaking of dawn and dusk, our sunrises are more beautiful than anything I saw in Hawaii. The sky is a mixture of blue, white, purple, and pink. A lot of the natural beauty of rural Hawaii was beyond comparison but not the rising or setting sun as far as I remember.