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Zorral

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  1. 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.
  2. Only because Orban, Putin and the Saudis bail him out. We all know the collateral they will receive in return from Our Country.
  3. 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."
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. How many dogs have government jobs? What about sea lions? Share/Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VlwpnU
  9. 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/
  10. 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.”"
  11. 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 ....
  12. 3 Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68484524
  13. Being a part of the EU helps all the countries in it, from what I've seen, and that includes France as well as Portugal, Slovakia, Ireland etc. As far as Spain goes, we were in 6 cities, one of them twice. We had to spend some time in the parts of cities like Granada and Sevilla which are the contemporary, non-tourist, medieval cities, and those were equally spotless. The highways were in perfect maintenance, well as the bridges. The truck stops terrific. The trains great, as well as the connections and transport to and through the airports to get to where one needed to be. What then did get kind of messy though, is boarding, at least for Iberia, which airline seems not to be working so well. It can't be that it doesn't have money because the flights are always fully booked.
  14. Not Vietnam and the 1960's, here is what latterly the US wars have accomplished -- only evil for the people we tried to use as justification for aerial warfare and killing them. The Open-Air Prison for ISIS Supporters—and Victims Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into Al-Hol, a giant fenced-in camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences. By Anand Gopal March 11, 2024 Look and sound familiar by chance? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/the-open-air-prison-for-isis-supporters-and-victims You know how we know it isn't the 1960's in the USA? The registered Republican voters are all in with the USA having dictators and loving Russia, and among the USA registered Dem voters, Israel is viewed as the Bad Guy. So by all means continue educating me in the historical changes from the Vietnam era as to just why eradicating massive numbers of innocent people from the air win hearts and minds and wars, and so why we must drop nuclear bombs into the bargain.
  15. Same as in Madrid and everywhere else. Then, back in deteriorating, dysfunctional, dirty, ugly NYC, with all those so-called dining sheds which are rat condos ... good grief. (Saw not a single rat in any of the 6 citiies we were in. Not even at night.) Not to mention the over-the-counter remedies one gets in the Spanish farmacias, for instance, cold symptom medications that actually work and don't turn your brain to mush -- just for starters. And the food! All ingredients fresh and local! The fruits! The vegetables -- the lettuce! The wine! The cerveza! And there's nothing like drinking top o' the line brandy and sherry and vermouth at a distillery where it is made and aged from the local grapes, which they've been doing since the teens of the 18th century. Nothing here that is classified to o' the line here compares. Not even the organics.
  16. The Strongman Fantasy And Dictatorship in Real Life TIMOTHY SNYDER MAR 17, 2024 https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy?
  17. Waiting for me upon home arrival is a copy of Tana French's latest novel, The Hunter, sequel evidently, of sorts, to the preceding French novel, The Searcher (2015), which was supposedly somewhat modeled on John Ford's famous, The Searchers, film (I didn't buy into that, particularly), featuring, as does this one, Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago cop in a small Irish village. Ha! I started reading it this weekend, w/o realizing this weekend is St. Paddy's Day. Seems appropriate. Glad to have it as I'm still discombulated and exhausted from these weeks traveling.
  18. Though hope springs eternal that fools aren't eternal. But fools prove eternally they are fools eternally.
  19. Yes, but the same old shyte keeps going down in the same old ways by the same old (and not so old, and young) idiots, jerkwaddies and reality deniers and those who fervently believe if I say so it is so.
  20. Authors Withdraw From PEN World Voices Festival Over Its Response to Gaza War More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/books/booksupdate/pen-world-voices-festival-israel-gaza.html
  21. Don't know where to put this, since opening a new thread seems to be silly, as there can't be that much discussion about the subject as none of us were there. Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event’s floor plan. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/books/london-book-fair.html
  22. Go back to the first pages of the covid threads. It is is all there.
  23. You stated that those who believe they suffer from long covid are invested in believing in long covid, which your ilks keep saying doesn't exist. The people in the example above refute that political and ideological mendacity. Also don't think anyone's forgotten that you argued that elderly should just be allowed to die, as attempts to keep them safe was terrible for the economy and so very inconvenient. Nobody will ever forget your cruel -- and also medically and scientifically ignorant and false -- positions on the pandemic and attempts to stop it.
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