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Ser Scot A Ellison reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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The Small Stuff That Doesn't Need a Thread. #8
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They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives. Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/03/18/pandemic-covid-bidet-sales/ Bidets are another good reason one loves going to Europe. -
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This issue of Heather Cox Richardson's "Letter From An American" provides a succinct, coherent account of what we get with Biden, vs the gangster. It's an excellent template for those of us who continue to hope we might possibly inform, correct or change the minds of those with whom we interact who are either saying "I'm not going to vote," due to Palestine (and we all know my stance on this issue!), or that "the gangster is grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr8". March 18, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON MAR 19, 2024 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2024? She begins with the economy. The Biden administration's focus on women's health and medical issues in These Times in which the gangster's alliances are determined to rid women of all autonomy and personhood is fundamental for women voters -- which women will not be if the gangster gets in, which he will if we "undecideds" don't get out and vote for Biden. Also correctives to other medical issues and costs in the USA have been enacted. So on and so forth, these are the counters to what the gangster offers, which is "bloodbath" while selling off the USA to Russia and China. So which do you want, affordable inhalers or thugs pounding on your door, demanding you sign loyalty oaths including that your neighbors are "not human beings"? The choice is really this stark and consequential. ....
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maarsen reacted to a post in a topic: History In Books -- Fiction and Non 2
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Metropolitan real estate/buildings are drags on the ledger these days. Everywhere, particularly in NYC. The developers/real estate moguls are desperate. Which says something about the failures of their minion, the mayor of NYC, Eric Adams. Who, btw, got hit again, with a sexual assault charge. This one from way back when he was a honcho in the NYC police dept.
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Only because Orban, Putin and the Saudis bail him out. We all know the collateral they will receive in return from Our Country.
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Ser Scot A Ellison reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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Someone, not me, Elsewhere says, "... where I'm familiar with legal practice (a west coast state that doesn't border on another country), it's advisable to recite, in detail, the "diligent efforts" that were used to try to secure a bond. That is, naming the bonding agencies that you contacted, what they said, and why you couldn't meet their requirements for a bond. It can be rather humiliating for a wealthy judgment debtor to explain, chapter and verse, why he ain't got the dough he publicly brags about having."
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Sez sumpin' sumpin' about sumpin' that his SIL isn't just loaning him the half bill out of his own 2 bill fortune, thanx to Saudi.
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Zorral reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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Ser Scot A Ellison reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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How about prison?
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Except this particular sum is a court judgment, not owed to a creditor, a bank, not even a law firm. So much of what you say isn't necessarily applicable.
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Street protests in Cuba because of lack of power and food. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68595885 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/cuba-hundreds-protest-long-blackouts-tight-economy Developments Under the Headlines in the Israel-Hamas War https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/developments-under-the-headlines-in-the-israel-hamas-war
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Gambia May Overturn Landmark Ban on Female Genital Cutting If lawmakers in the West African country vote to repeal a 2015 ban, Gambia would become the first nation to roll back protections against the practice. Shared/Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/world/africa/gambia-female-genital-cutting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.0Lfq.tbCyG8aBUOsa&smid=url-share
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How many dogs have government jobs? What about sea lions? Share/Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VlwpnU
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Zorral reacted to a post in a topic: History In Books -- Fiction and Non 2
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And also talkin' bout these ain't the 60's anymore so don't bother recalling what happened then, well, golly gee, there are those who do recall and do see repetition -- the January issue of The Nation was a lot more interesting and worth perusing than most issues of The Nation are these days. Among the most valuable pieces was Palestine Is In Asia by Viet Thanh Nguyen: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-asia-orientalism-expansive-solidarity/
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So much foreign money going into the xtian fascist dominionists with the objective of taking over the USA. Not only Putin. Lookin' at Orban. March 17, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON MAR 18, 2024 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-17-2024? "Michel noted that it was “nothing short of shocking” that Orbán declined to meet with administration officials and instead went to Washington, D.C., to meet with a right-wing think tank. With Roberts’s appointment as head of Heritage in 2021, the conservative organization swung to the position that its role is “institutionalizing Trumpism.” " "In the January interview, Roberts told Garcia-Navarro that Project 2025 was designed to jump-start a right-wing takeover of the government. “[T]he Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start,” Roberts said. “And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”"
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Zorral reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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Not to mention those, who like the Gracchi, were done away with, who saw what was happening, particularly the foundational sector of Roman society that made it so successful in war and peace. The independent small farmer - land holder, who had received the land for being the army, and his sons after him, were, like the entire rural regions of small freeholder farmers, were gone, replaced by slaves who literally were worked to death, as there were so many slaves from the wars, it was cheap to do so. That entire rural population was hollowed out by a few very wealthy people who had gotten around the strictures of only so much land could be the property of a single man. As well they were able now to get hold of the public lands that were to go for farms to retired soldiers and those who returned from campaigns. And now those people were in the cities, impoverished and desperate. Rome was a pretty ugly place. Alas, it looks so familiar to our contemporary eyes now ....