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If my auntie had balls, she would be my uncle. Appeals courts do not overturn lower court verdicts unless there are quite extraordinary miscarriages of justice. Trump lost on trial by jury. Twice. Appeals court judges are highly experienced jurists, and Trump's lawyers have no new arguments to present.

I did have an eidetic memory in my teens. I have definitely lost some of it with age. If I play a round of golf, I can still recall my score on each hole, and each club I used, for several days afterwards. The round gets erased by the following game. I guess we remember what is important to us, and forget what is not. I don't think it is possible to erase my memory of the OP.

If someone tells you they never forget anything, the obvious question is how would you know?

When did I say I was smarter than everyone else? Please quote a post where i have said that. I am not worried about a couple of hundred dollars. It's more the principle of not allowing someone to cheat me without retribution. Given the political statements you have made on other threads, it's obvious you and principles are complete strangers.

IIRC, Trump said only mobsters take the Fifth, then proceeded to invoke it 400 times.

Deflection. AFAIK Biden is not pretending to be a golf champion.

I'd call it tragic when you buy a derelict golf course, re-open it, then play a couple of rounds, and claim you are the inaugural club champion. People who are the real deal consider that pathetic, everyone in the golfing world is laughing at his pretensions. Have you ever looked at his golf swing? It reminds me of someone digging for gophers.

Agreed, I don't suffer fools gladly.

Any other masterful pearls of hindsight you want to share?

From my contact with the manager, he was in complete denial he could have had his security penetrated in any way. Telstra and Medicare are big companies in Australia that have been hacked. His security is better than theirs? Yeah right. I am in contact with the bank's fraud department, and they are in the process of disputing the fraudulent charges, and reversing the charge of the car company. They say Uber is not co-operating in providing details of where the food orders were delivered to. It will probably take a couple of weeks for everything to shake out.

As I understand it, Trump's pattern is to pick up failing businesses, then persuade investors and contractors to put in their money, time and materials. While he takes on huge debt to finance improvements to the businesses, very little of it is his own money. He then extracts large salaries and management fees while the going is good. When the business starts failing because it cannot service the debt, he walks away, having made money by swindling investors, bondholders and contractors. The New Jersey Generals was a really special case. Not only did he bankrupt his own team, he also sent the entire league broke. I should imagine most serious investors would be wise to him now. As you say, he is radioactive in most quarters. It's actually quite tragic he is reduced to selling cards and gold sneakers, probably to people who can least afford it. You reap what you sow.

I was smiling when I posted.

Motherhood is genetically programmed into most women. There are even some who will voluntarily be single mothers.

I can see this thread will be a rich prospect for the comedians.

Nothing. I am simply demonstrating there is more than one person on ASEAN, apart from you, who skipped science classes and digs themself into a hole with their posts.

I found a cheaper place to book another car AFTER I cancelled the booking with the first company. Maybe it does not make sense to you to cancel business with a company that has compromised your cybersecurity. It certainly makes sense to me. I have since confirmed, by scanning Google reviews of the business, that the manager and presumably his employees operate their phones within the sight and hearing of customers - and anyone else. The manager seems to be a Jekyll and Hyde character, getting some favorable reviews, and some scathing ones. If the mobile phone was compromised at the Thai end, it does not explain why the fraudulent food orders were placed with an Australian business, and paid for in Australian dollars. Any Thai involvement would identify the location of the charge in Thailand. You may be right, there may be more to this than meets the eye. However, not in the way you are attempting to imply.

I can recall a very senior policeman in Australia saying " We can't arrest our way out of the drug problem". IIRC he was referring to methamphetamine, which is a scourge in rural Australia. How many billions has America spent fighting drugs? How far has it got the authorities there? The evidence from places such as Portugal and Sweden indicates the crime statistics improve significantly when drugs are made legal. There's no money in it for the criminal element anymore. I am in favor of legalizng all drugs, with one caveat. Commit a crime under the influence of any of them, get tried as if you were stone cold sober. No BS about mental impairment.

Carbohydrate is the correct term. The closest I can get to carbon hydrate as a scientific term is a clathrate, which is a compound of methane and ice found in permafrost. Be that as it may, obesity and weight loss can be viewed as a combination of genetics and diet. If both one's parents were obese, the odds are pretty good their offspring will be obese too. There may be a range of other diets which achieve weight loss. All I can say is that from my extensive reading, calorie restriction ( carbohydrates and sugars ) seem to be the most common path to success in achieving weight loss. When I was a child, sweet things were a special treat, restricted because they were known to cause tooth decay. This was in the days before fluoridation improved dental health for millions. I think it is fair to say one can't walk into any supermarket nowadays, without being surrounded by sugar. It's in damn near everything. Not hard to connect the dots from there.

That's all Trump has too. Let's see, there's Crooked Hillary, Ron DeSanctimonious, Lying Ted Cruz. Crazy Nancy, Wacky Omarosa, and Governor Newscum. Sleepy Joe Biden morphed into Crooked Joe Biden after Trump got trounced in 2020. It's called ad hominem argument, attacking the person instead of the issue. Dishonest as it comes, which probably goes for most of your posts as well.

Never seen you post well either.

However good a friend the OP thinks he has in the local bank manager, rule one in business is never trust anyone. As a lawyer once told me, money brings out the worst in people.

I find the sanding of greens here very annoying, because the greenkeepers don't know how to do it correctly. Greens should be cored thoroughly prior to sanding. The process is intended to break up any root mat, and promote better drainage with sand getting into the core holes. Sanding without coring is useless, and moreover kills greens when dry sand desiccates the grass. T&G's comment about random gardeners reminds me of a Jack Nicklaus story. Nicklaus was teeing off when a dog ran across the tee in front of him, in the middle of his backswing. Nicklaus hit his drive 300 yards straight down the middle of the fairway. As he walked to his ball, a spectator asked him " Didn't that dog running across the tee put you off?" Nicklaus replied "What dog?"

More data to demonstrate how misguided LL's assertion is. Thank you Gemini. "Gasohol is made from the 95% azeotrope of ethanol and water, not absolute alcohol. Here's why: Absolute alcohol, also called anhydrous ethanol, is 100% ethanol with no water content. However, ethanol and water form an azeotrope at around 95% ethanol. This means they mix together in that specific ratio and behave like a single substance when it comes to boiling and evaporation. Separating absolute alcohol from the azeotrope is an additional energy-intensive process. Since gasohol only requires the ethanol component, using the readily available 95% ethanol azeotrope is more practical and cost-effective for production." The average petrol tank has 50 litres capacity. A 20% ethanol blend in petrol is 10 litres of azeotrope. I.e it has 500 mL of water, capable of dissolving 1 Kg of sugar, plus 9.5 litres of ethanol which will dissolve 85.5 grams of sugar. As I said before, science is not LL's strong point.

Quite obviously, neither can you. It's an infection picked up from your lying leader.

A clean bill would also be stymied by Trump and his MAGA stooges. It's the only feather he has to fly with. Unprecedented employment, a booming economy, stable government. He is on record as wishing the economy would crash. Trump was killing two birds with one stone with the existing bill. Keeping border security on the hot plate, and sucking up to his buddy in the Kremlin. As for auditing, spare me. Audits of his crooked businesses are avoided at all costs. The first President in American history who refused to table his tax returns.