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The appearance of a golden statue depicting Donald Trump and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as doomed lovers from the movie Titanic is confronting Washington with a murkier mystery.
The nearly 12ft sculpture, unveiled on Tuesday on the …
Why you be dissin' Mr. Obama? He be up for a lotta that blame too! Him an that ol' Health Care fraud he worked. He be leavin' us hardly no money for poor ol' Pete Hesgeth to be spendin'.
Maybe Iran didn't target Greenland because they did stand up to him! So in Trumpthink that makes Greenland an actual enemy, to be taken care of right after Cuba.
An interesting new factor being introduced to this farce of a play- France President Macron says that they are sending a "large" navy detachment to the Gulf of Hormuz to escort shipping there. Why wouldn't Iran start shooting stuff at them too? Then…
@Observant1- I asked Claude about Nick Schifrin's background as to education and experience:
Claude:Nick Schifrin is one of the more impressive résumés in American foreign journalism. Here's the rundown:
Education
Schifrin grew up in Los Angeles a…
@Observant1- Thanks so much for reminding us about that program. It was just excellent- what an intelligent and erudite group of observers and commentators. I've long been an admirer of Nick Schifrin's outstanding reporting from and about overseas m…
I just asked Claude about the possible legal paths for all of this-
Are decisions by the US Court of International Trade appealable to the Supreme Court?
Yes, but not directly. Here's the path:
US Court of International Trade (CIT) → decisions ar…
Iran’s Chokehold on Persian Gulf Waterway Strains Shipping
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The threat of prolonged attacks on oil tankers and other vessels is giving Iran an advantage, analysts say.
The oil tank…
Quite the contrary: Iran's main strategy right now is to cause the maximum possible financial damage to the world economy. That will have a direct impact on investments.
Given the overall condition of the world I wouldn't be surprised if "God" turned out to be a Trump forbear. That would also go a long way towards explaining Trump himself.
No, not "fixed" at all. Merely temporarily patched to limp along. The Vanilla software that supports MFO needs some very serious modification or replacement work.
As David has mentioned in another post, the "GDN_Comment" module of the Vanilla software becomes intermittently corrupted evidently due to the MFO site having reached the limits of available memory in the Vanilla software.
@Chip- maybe ask Claude for some ideas? I don't work with anything as complex as you do, but I've found Claude to be very flexible in helping to solve problems.
You probably know this, but there's a Claude module optimized for dealing with code, al…
Or he will simply claim it is "cheaper than ever".
Nah- not his style:
UNLIKE the PITIFUL PERFORMANCE of the Previous BIDEN administration I HAVE NOW CAUSED GASOLINE AND FUEL PRICES to be the VERY LOWEST since the Beginning of this GREAT COUNTRY.…
Our mortgages were originally with the Hibernia Bank here in SF. Hibernia eventually wound up being eaten by BOA. Shortly after that I walked into the friendly old Hibernia bank branch, was grudgingly allowed to address the surly new BOA manager, an…
I was a happy WaMu customer since 1991 or 1992.
Same here. Now I'm a semi-happy JPM customer, as they took over the big bank building one block away,
We were also a very happy First Republic customer. JPM ate them too.
My father worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad all of his life. As early as grammar school in the 40's I loved to read the full-page Timken Roller Bearing ads in the Saturday Evening Post, especially as they showed lots of pictures of those bear…
