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"Lack of testicular fortitude" to put it succinctly. I'm keeping an eye on Amy, I think it's getting to her. In that judgement made public last week she actually sounds frightened. I get the impression that cult she's part of does not accommodate the hypocrisy (for the most part) that has become a trademark of US evangelicals. Who knows, when all this comes to pass she may be remembered as the American Joan of Arc. He probably picked up a Bible only once in his life As for the seven deadly sins, well, three of them: sloth, lust, and gluttony sounds some good plans for the weekend. Well, if I was 40 years younger . . .

I can picture it now: "Charles, be a dear and remove his head for me, will you?"

American conservativism is really being held up to the light by the DT chapter of US history. Not just because of him directly, but by others on his side. For example, the recent SCOTUS judgement about not keeping DT off the ballot was defended by justices who claim to be originalists even though there is no original text for them to point to for backing up this judgement. This is just one example. All of the three justices appointed under 45 lied right there at the appointment hearings, at least one of them smirked while doing so. On the bright side, it would appear one of them might be suffering a crisis of conscience and I'm hoping she does something brave.

I haven't been following this, when I saw the headline I thought it was about Robert DeNiro's former wife. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007958/

Strap in, there is going to be a lot of this on the GOP side this summer. And here comes the general https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michael-flynn-reawaken-america-tour/

Dad?

Couldn't find bacon being sold?

Kind of funny when you look at it. DT considers the Dems his political enemies, but he is tearing down what is remaining of the Republicans. Him and his DIL are ransacking them down to "the last penny." What keeps coming to mind is an episode of the series "Billions" when a rich guy took possession of a small town that was put up as collateral on a deal gone bad. They sold off everything down to the office furniture in City Hall. DT has furthered the humiliation down to what used to be their spoken principles; well, he's just one doing such, as the gun lobby and the pharmaceutical industry beat him to it. What those two entities are doing is more like the final scene of The Magic Christian.

For many years now it occasionally gets reported that the beef used by many fast-food burger chains contains some nasties, but these are eradicated by cooking. Raw meat, raw fish, count me out.

Not a beauty parlor, but a beauty clinic. Enhance your clinical beauty? Gotta wonder who their customers were -- Russian exiles/draft dodgers getting plastic surgery to help change identities?

I think you caused a surge in hotel bookings with that one.

IMO the joke here is that ANYONE would ever think to cover this

Been 20 years since I checked out HH. Horse rides on the beach! And that evidence horses leave behind in sand and surf. And soi dogs following them eating it. So much for that.

Usually people who do that end up starting their own religions I hadn't appreciated the ultra-barreness until reading your post. I took buses across the Cordillera from northern Arg, and in the high desert there would be the occasional fellow with his llama. Just weeks before we saw the first pictures from Mars (2004) and damned if it didn't look like what I was seeing from the bus window. The one thing I was amused by was, in Iquique at night there were written messages in the sky! Turned out there were words spelled out in lights across the mountains, which themselves were not visible at night.

Is that the area where it never rains? I made it as far as Iquique (sp?) once. The smell of the barren landscape is quite unique, but for me was not inviting. What sort of foreigners disappeared into the wilds of South America after 1945? I wonder how their descendants feel about, let's see, people who celebrate sabbath on Saturdays?

Confucius said "two bald men put their heads together make ass of themselves"

Ok, so they take away his visa. Then they arrest him for not having a visa. Sense? Sense has nothing to with it, this is law enforcement.

For when you light the spliff

Let's not forget Fats

Sounds Catholic.

Joe did great. It doesn't matter if the right applauds, or doesn't applaud, there is no human consideration there -- they just do what DT tells them to. Hardly a spine on the whole right side. Violators will have the dogs patriots set upon them. "A vote for me is a vote for T_____!" should be the required disclaimer on all their campaign announcements.

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If he was only working for bar fines would he still need a work permit?

He was such a gracious gentleman at his first trial what reason could they have for not giving him another? It's not just a matter of stalling on the payout, but would also give him more opportunity to flap his hands and whinge about political persecution and, of course, beg for $$$. He's tapping his fans dry, I'm waiting for him to say stuff like "sell some of your guns and send me the money." And those poor, poor kids. Ivanka has hubby to make with the $$$, but the two eldest sons must be distraught at watching the fortune they have been waiting all their lives to inherit frittered away on lawyer fees and settlements that Pop needlessly multiplied by acting like the spoiled 10 year old he seems to be mentally stunted at. When Lara says she's out to get "every penny" she's talking about her own future. I've always been suspicious of the circumstances regarding Don Jr and his divorce -- could there be some sort of ploy involved to preserve part of the fortune in the event of something like these settlements coming to pass? He's been engaged to Guilfoyle for 4 years, maybe that is part of display.

Took them from Singapore to Darwin some years back, they were at least 50% less than any other airline. However, and maybe this has changed, there was a steep overweight charge for the luggage, and they didn't allot you much to begin with. While waiting on line to check in I noticed everyone was getting hit with it. I had already been stuck in a similar way on a different SEA airline, so I learned my lesson and read the fine print and bought the extra weight in advance for much less. You've been warned.