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NZ All Blacks? Refers to the uniform, no doubt.
"Cato, my little yellow friend, I'm home."
https://clip.cafe/the-pink-panther-strikes-again-1976/cato-little-yellow-friend/
That's a good read, @Mona.
Here's another item, for reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sanctions_involving_Israel
and from Slovenia:
https://serbia.news-pravda.com/en/world/2025/07/17/11697.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-signs-stablecoin-bill-into-law-capping-string-of-crypto-week-victories-192642044.html
"All issuers would be required to hold reserves in cash or US Treasurys, undergo regular audits, and publicly disclose their h…
The stablecoin accounts have 24/7 access from anywhere in the world & may be great for international travelers. They would also lead to democratization of the dollar in that dollar-backed stablecoins can be held by anyone anywhere.
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...Just tried LIBBY. They show Don Glickstein's book. (Yorktown.) I was invited to get a card. (My own library system HERE does not have the book.) But the lovely tool will not let me leave Michigan. Ork? What to do?
Disgusting, jettisoning the non-partisan character of SSA. Between the Repugnants and Demublicans, SSA remains underfunded. They'll finally do something (stupid) at the last minute, before it defaults. Same old same old.
Murkowski, you say? Feels "cheated?" Grow a spine.
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/
Trump Trash with badges hiding their faces. Motherlovers. Sharing personal addresses of Medicaid patients? Utterly CRIMINAL. But his fellow tong members up on The Hill are going right along for the ride. Motherlovers, too.
Alt National Parks are the good guys, operating a shadow website so that the truth can be exposed about ....everything. Their comment about this stuff? Trump's lawyers will have to deal with a procedure called "discovery." Grab the popcorn.
It will take the country several decades, and deaths, to dig out from the ethical squalor we are in, just since January of this year. And the slime-show continues unabated. The Dems are not saints, either. I've not seen such conscience-less shenanig…
Maybe Canada for that dual citizenship, but they don't easily accept US applications. And we might try to "annex" them at some point in this administration anyway.
Some Caribbean islands are virtually SELLING citizenships and passports. But It's n…
There are, I suppose, ways to actually move one’s assets abroad. Beyond my scope. But ISTM if you are doing so as a U.S. citizen they still are subject to many U.S. laws including those of the IRS. I did read in either Barron’s or the WSJ a couple m…
@BenWP - the HBO miniseries 'Chernobyl' does an excellent job of portraying that very situation with an authoritarian government. Great series, detailed, and at times heart-ripping....
I actually watched that one. Authoritarian: yes, re: sunken su…
@hank. I appreciate your description and links. About the radioactive waste: I know a guy who works, dealing with it every day. He was at West Valley in Western NY south of Buffalo. That task somehow got completed, I think. He went to the Savannah R…
Someone explain, please? How playing with nukes for power is a different sort of playing with nukes for weapons? Still gotta be radioactive waste produced, eh? What was the hubbub about the NO NUKES concert, then?
I know nothing about science, as …
Syria has criticized Israel's claims of protecting the Druze, stating that Israel is using the Druze as a pretext for its actions.
That's my take, too.
The United States is also involved, attempting to navigate the situation and encourage normali…
at derf. They mailed it to an address that was not the address on my statement. My bank uses FISERV and they could have caused part of the problem. But it all started with Citi, which at least for now is not accepting ACH PAYMENTS.
In this day a…
