WTF-Beta

@andyd Thanks for the reminder not that it was your intention.

I have leather bags (from Time Resistance, hand made, Florence, highly recommend), a backpack and a sling bag (such a primal, ancient shape, like a bag for holding seeds in the field- my favorite) AND the leather requires a certain type of balm.

You can buy it from the company or elsewhere. I've decided I will buy it from the company.

I'm remiss for not doing it already.

The other day I saw my backpack in the sunlight.

I wiped it down with a solution of light vinegar and water. Then I dried it immediately.

Love it!

This country was founded on Enlightenment principles.

But good luck arguing with a Christian nationalist. Smashing your head against a concrete wall would be a better use of your time.

They believe in a metaphysical power, as the professor said, and they also believe that their point of view constitutes absolute truth.

They are theocratic and their metaphysical views contain some very strange ideas.

All of this would be fine, if they understood that their religious beliefs were their private concern.

But, no. They feel perfectly justified in trying to create a world in which an apocalypse would happen.

I live in a Evangelical Christian neighborhood.

Let's just say that hell will freeze over before I'll be inviting any of them to my home.

I guess I'm beyond the culture shock, and there are good and bad people in any group, but, in general, what I have encountered is appalling to me.

YMMV.

@bernard I would say definitely Jeffries, and, I would say, anyone else, including Fetterman, who has been bought and paid for by AIPAC, and is doing the bidding of a foreign country.

Well, into every life a little rain must fall. Pilots do an amazing job, every day. They're awesome. My guess is that they'll handle this like the professionals we know then to be.

Pilots? Respect!

Welcome to the club.

It will be a report. I'm all for that.

I'm afraid it will affect nothing, though.

I know!

These are the plain, cold, hard facts.

With all due respect to Franks, in my humble opinion, he has lost the plot.

I respect the fact that he intends to show the sincerity of his views, given the facts and circumstances.

I have no ill will toward him, and wish for him what I would wish for any good person-- a painless transition from this world to the next.

However, I can not agree with his politics, in general.

It's been de rigueur to attack the left for as long as I can remember.

It's not productive. It's counter-productive, and, considering the numerous, various sources over the years-- it's a sad, if not a pathetic phenomenon akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, Franks will go down in history as something of milquetoast politician.

The American people want the New Deal as much as they have always wanted it, no matter the wrecking balls that have been taken to it.

Democrats should 1. stop their internecine warfare; 2. stop supporting these foreign wars and; 3. truly focus on the need the American people have for a functioning society.

Speaking out of both sides of his mouth, patronizing, cloying, dishonest, and bearing false witness.

We're doomed.

Was there ever any question?

Why would that be necessary? It wasn't like that before. Different phones have different battery needs. People are just tired of expensive phones becoming bricked after three or four years. It's a scam.

He has a diminishing number of cultists. And his base in general has turned on him. They believed in his "America First" campaign. They are furious. Also he's virtually lost independents with an approval rating in the 20's.

@CHAS said:

Not today. Today is all about an assasination attempt.
8 shots fired in a country with many guns. Some attendees continued eating, on photog took pictures without putting his drink down. Many guns, few good shots.

Another false flag. The drama is getting old.

This video was taken in the West Bank, but this house/ land/ farm theft has been happening on a recurring basis in Palestine since 1947.

He'll have help in terrorizing the residents of this house, forcing the residents out, or killing them.

It's ostensibly based on the idea that God promised this land to Jews, in practice, mainly Jews from Eastern Europe and Brooklyn, who aren't even Semites.

Is it at a Western value to believe in and/ or support a theocratic, let alone a supremacist government, in the first place?

This is a debacle.

Oh, yeah. Some people, as I understand it, and I could be wrong, are loosing everything. They can't pay the assessment(s) and the condo complex evicts them.

I think there is legislation in Tallahassee to extend the time the owner has to pay the assessments from one year to three, but I'm not sure what's happening with it (something else I should know by now).

I'm only looking at condo buildings and complexes that were built between '68 and '76 (I could go as far as '77 but I really don't want to because a type of synthetic pipe material and pipe connection that became notorious for failure was introduced around '77).

I'm not looking at new construction or any frame construction. I don't want it unless it's concrete block.

My grandparents' house in Tampa was concrete block. They bought it '63 and and it wasn't new.

Concrete block houses in Florida started in the '40's as far as I can tell.

These interiors are virtually sound proof. They don't excel during fires. They don't excel against floods if they're single story. But above the first or second floor in a concrete building is where you want to be in a hurricane. And the virtual silence and privacy in an urban environment can't be found any other way here.

I plan to have a buyer's agent and need to have a real estate attorney. I plan to methodically pull together every piece of information available on every unit I might buy.

I don't view this as an industry necessarily made up of people you can trust. I'd rather trust myself to do my own research.