"Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada"

To be accurate, these need to be represented as a 35% tariff on Americans.

#15 | Posted by Danforth

Absolutely! Everyone but the wealthiest among us are getting a big tax HIKE thanks to Trump's tariffs.

Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada ... where farm fertilizer, building lumber, and so much more are imported from.

Interesting article.

Farmers are also being hit with huge increases in the price of fertilizer thanks to tariffs on Canada, where the vast majority is imported from.

Builders are watching the price of lumber (2x4s, 2x6) rise much, much higher. Also primarily imported from Canada.

These tariffs are gonna hurt a whole lot of people. All of us will be paying more for everything in most segments of our economy.

#47 | Posted by cbob

70's radio had a really diverse musical spectrum. James Taylor to Led Zeppelin.

I discovered a new artist named Benson Burke. 22-years-old. very musical, and sings his --- off

This year at Coachella, he did his worldwide smash, "Beautiful Things" and Bohemian Rhapsody with Brian May on guitar. Really talented.

They (Kansas), like many other states ...

Kansas must be an entirely different world.

Posted by Zed

They come out like dozens of other states, have warning sirens all over to warn of tornadoes.

It would have cost a million dollars to put sirens on the Guadalupe River in Kerr county. For as much as right wingers claim to value life, they certainly don't where the rubber meets the road regarding health care or spending to keep citizens safe in known flood zones in Texas.

#31 Corky

I had a delicious girlfriend in my early twenties. One nip on her shoulder was all it took and her clothes came flying off.

Bird flu is next.

The heroin
-addled line of RFK Jr says we should just let it spread.

Bird flu is next.

The heroin
-addled line of RFK Jr says we should just let it spread.

#40 C0RI0LANUS

I know they do their own printing on mugs, tee shirts, jackets etc etc at their own facility. Not sure where they source their blank items from but I can bet they'll be paying more. Since their clients are corporations, it may not affect them too much.

And so long as he keeps his war going, the legal things he may have to face are postponed?

NuttyYahoo and his wife are both under indictment for corruption, which is why he ran for PM again. Like Trump.

This ought to speed up security lines

#29 | Posted by Miranda7

Thanks for the reply and further info

#35 Too bad your friend couldn't make it to 20 years with the US Army and earn retirement pay ...

He found out they were going to ship him to Afghanistan. They had 3 teenage kids by then, so he said, "Uh, uh."

They're thriving with their business venture making swag for corporations.

#26 | Posted by Miranda7

The State of Texas refused to fund a $1,000,000 grant for a siren warning system in Kerr County after county commissioners refused to fund it, saying they couldn't afford it.

All while the state government of Texas slashed property taxes by $54 BILLION.

That $1 million grant would have been 1/54000th of that amount.

What more needs to be said? Republicans love to give tax breaks and cut services to the people who pay them.

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

We have it through my wife, whose dad retired from the AF after 30 years, starting in WWII's Army Air Corp.

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

I have a friend who went into the Army after a few years of gigging on guitar. He spent 16 years, all of it on guitar in an Army band that played dances and did the full range from rock to R&B, sometimes with a horn section. When they cut his band (among others) he and his wife started a business they're still running.

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Thanks for the reading suggestions. I'm a big reader myself and am sure I'll enjoy them.

BTW, I've read three of Velikovky's books. Interesting premises and interesting reads. I recall, for instance, he linked ancient Greek mythology to the time Mars entered the sun's orbit and looked as though it had a beard and horns from an electrical field... tropical vegetation found in the Arctic to bolster the theory the earth's axis shifted, etc etc. I also recall reading back then that his books were once required reading at several Ivy League schools.

Just another insult to America's "suckers and losers."

Just like how the 30,000 VA layoffs just announced (many of them veterans) will negatively impact services to vets, hospitals to suicide prevention.

Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got what they voted for'

Posted by freewilly at 2025-07-07 04:21 PM

I'm never for victim blaming after a catastrophe.

Facts are, electing Trump and Republican governments have led to massive cuts in FEMA, the NWS, and Texas refusing to fund sirens along the Guadalupe river for $1,000,000 at the same time they slashed property taxes by $51 BILLION.

My greater concern is the avalanche of porcelain figurines and knick knacks that will descend upon the world when boomer inheritances are divvied out.

#3 | Posted by jpw

LOL! Most boomers I know don't have a single figurine or knick knacks. They mothers and grandmothers, maybe.

Someone should make a Trump Chia Pet. Instead of sprouts, using something that grows long and thin so grannies can do their own uber elaborate combovers with an included instruction booklet LOL

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

We have USAA as well. Great company.

Years ago, my wife and I almost bought a different house than our current one. It was on 7 acres in a great area of the city. We balked because the driveway access went across someone else's yard with an easement, and we'd have had to spend oodles to get direct driveway access from the road that sat 20' above the property. We ended up so grateful we passed on buying it because of that.

When a 100 year flood happened years ago that house was completely submerged.