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Actually, when I looked it up the figures I got were for 2022. So for the present I'd say 75% of the average median wage.

Not only is your comment utterly irrelevant, but good luck trying to find me commenting on that issue. If the hunt keeps you away from the forum that would be a plus.

I'd say 90% of what the current medium wage is. Which varies depending on what part of the country someone is working in.

So where does their income ultimately come from? Do franchise owners pay it by renting parking spaces?

Over 70% of the American diet consists of ultra processed foods. So maybe their judgment might be looked at a bit skeptically?

I remember a time when people thought that workers shouldn't be paid a living wage. For you, that time is the present.

Only if you misunderstand what The adverse events report indicates and what it doesn't indicate. Basically anybody can report any adverse health event that occurs after a vaccination. It doesn't mean that the vaccine caused the event just that it occurred subsequently. Epidemiologists monitored the raw data to see if anything looks suspect. If it does they subjected to statistical analysis to see if it shows significance. Well, at least that's how it used to be. What with the recent slashing cuts at the CDC, who knows how that department has been affected.

Good point. I also remember them in an uproar when Bloomberg banned the use of trans fats in New York City.

It's a pretty good bet that the Supreme Court feels differently. They took the unusual step of intervening to stop the deportation of those Venezuelans to El Salvador.

What vast majority would that be? Trump didn't even win a majority of the votes, much less a vast one.

Who are these rich rivals that were shut up? The series was a hit in Ukraine. Are you claiming that it lost money? As for your earlier comment about Trump and his peformance art...I'm sure he meant it as a compliment when he called Zelensky a dictator, Suffering as Trump doess from dictator envy.

McDonald's reported its worst quarterly sales for the United States since the height of the pandemic in 2020, the latest restaurant chain to be affected by America's turbulent economic environment. The burger giant reported U.S. same-store sales fell 3.6%, the largest three-month drop since Q2 2020, when they plunged 8.7%. Forecasts had been for a decline of just 1.7%. "Consumers today are grappling with uncertainty," McDonald's Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said in a statement, as the chain cited lower guest counts. "Consumers today are grappling with uncertainty," McDonald's Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said in a statement, as the chain cited lower guest counts. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mcdonalds-us-sales-drop-pandemic-middle-income-consumers-pull-back-rcna204032 In completely unrelated news, RFK Jr pops open a bottle of champagne. Or would have if that stuff wasn't POISON!

More like let's be bizarre...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/02/hegseth-works-hard-portray-himself-man-of-troops-they-might-not-be-buying-it.html In military social media he's being referred to as a DUI hire.

son https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/GFRYVTHTNVAPXPH7KZ6BR4V5QI.jpg?auth=e7547405f35b338a6435fc5032437945693abf61037b37887c98d7294c9eabff&smart=true&width=300 When asked how the attorney general arrived at that number, the Department of Justice provided a formula to the Daily Beast: 3,400,000 grams of fentanyl multiplied by the “current purity level” of .1518, divided by .002, the lethal amount per gram. The result: 258,060,000. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-makes-head-spinning-claim-trump-saved-258m-american-lives/?utm_source=chatgpt.com So, yeah, she said it and she meant it.

Did Trump ever promise not to attack Iran? he was definitely ambiguous on the subject leading open the possibility that he might attack Iran if circumstances warranted. And he never left any doubt about his over-the-top; support for Israel. As for Green's comments, I agree with number one pretty much. As usual, she gets it wrong in number two. Zelinsky did not cancel elections. The Ukrainian Constitution forbids elections during wartime. As for number three... It is to laugh.

The people of the United States elected a President. Not a dictator.

The will of what people? Apart from abortion, Trump is pretty much carrying out the plans of project 2025. During his campaign, when public reaction became clear, he was lukewarm on it to say the least. So he may be carrying out the will of hardcore trumpists, but not the rest of Americans.

Following each vote, Cummings said, smoke is sent up the Sistine Chapel's chimney. If the smoke is black, that means the cardinals are still deliberating. But if it's white, "We have a new pope," Cummings said. https://people.com/conclave-pick-new-pope-will-be-short-predicts-cardinal-11727629 And if the smoke is pink, that means we have a gay Pope? He probably wouldn't be the first one. For all sorts of reasons, the Catholic priesthood tends to attract gay men.

Thank you both for your profound and penetrating analysis of the situation.

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional and permanently blocked the administration from enforcing it. In a 102-page decision, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of the firm and said Mr. Trump's directive that sought to punish it sent the message that "lawyers must stick to the party line, or else." "Using the powers of the federal government to target lawyers for their representation of clients and avowed progressive employment policies in an overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints, however, is contrary to the Constitution, which requires that the government respond to dissenting or unpopular speech or ideas with 'tolerance, not coercion,'" Howell wrote. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-perkins-coie-law-firm-unconstitutional/

As an article in the Wall St. Journal pointed out in Apple's case, just because a company claims its investments are because of Trump, that doesn't make it so. There's such a thing as spin. How many of these investments were planned anyway? Do you believe that these companies would have stopped investing and expanding were it not for Trump?

And joining the Mexican and Venezuelan governments, the drug cartels and the Democratic party in their nefarious plot to undermine America is none other than the Trump administration! Trump administration praised ‘life-saving’ naloxone, then proposed cuts Public health experts are worried by the proposed cuts to naloxone programs. One called the overdose antidote a “silver bullet” against the opioid epidemic. https://archive.ph/Rzg2w

Banana Republic should sponsor the event.

I'm the one who doesn't understand. You are the party who wrote this: "Fifteen million illegal aliens in the USA and each and every one of those people is entitled to a due process hearing with full appeal rights? Imagine how silly that is." In fact, as already pointed out, the issues raised by the Venezuelan deportation have no bearing on the vast majority of illegal aliens. The issue in question concerns the legitmacy of deporting people who were in the US legally and/or deporting people not back to their countries but to a foreign prison where the US has no jurisdiction Nothing at all to do with most illegal aliens.