#5

The article says it's alimony.

And while Ghouliani should go to jail, it shouldn't be over alimony, which should not exist any more.

No children from the marriage should result in a one-time equitable split of assets, a one and done ending. Not one adult paying another years after the marriage has ended.

So, that article is a bit out of date. The new boosters aren't targeted at BA.1, they're targeted at BA.4 and BA.5. The BA.1 booster was never approved.

It's not likely to be a 'one and done' booster, but until there's a new variant they should be good enough for a while.

As of now, I'm probably going to stop wearing masks in public at least temporarily in a couple weeks, once the booster I got a few days ago has time to kick in.

Everybody going on about a draft is forgetting one very important thing: The military DOES NOT WANT THAT because it would decrease readiness.

We don't do cannon fodder any more. That's not a thing in the US now. More bodies just means more people who are not in any way useful to an operation.

And that's before you even get to the part where forcing people to do a particular job is a form of slavery, even if the courts don't see it that way yet.

That's sad. I was hoping it would happen in my lifetime.

Ugh, my stomach was already upset this morning, then I read this.

WTF is wrong with people?

I can't read cursive any more. I definitely can't write it.

It was always a hassle, so much harder to read than print. But as I'm not a historian, constantly researching old letters, I'm now so out of practice that it's actually nearly impossible to read. Only the computer generated cursive is even remotely readable now, and as it's always spam I don't bother.

I'm not gen Z. I'm over 50.

And I'm honestly incredibly happy that they've finally stopped teaching that horrible waste of time to elementary school students. Most will never need it, never find it actually useful in their lives. I know I didn't.

Leave that ancient script to the experts, to those who find reading and translating old texts interesting. There will be plenty of them. I can't read Vietnamese. I can't read Korean. I can't read Chinese, traditional or simplified. I can't read hieroglyphics. What's one more script really matter?

Putin has already lost the war.

What's happening now is just a really messy mop-up operation. Putin can end it immediately of course, all he has to do is withdraw all troops from Ukraine, including Crimea. At this point, that would be his smartest possible move, it would save many orc lives.

But the war is already permanently lost for Ruzzia. The attempt to delay NATO expansion failed, Sweden and Finland already joined, and once the orcs are forced out, Ukraine will too.

#4

You'd be hard pressed to find a real Klieg light still in use today. The company's been gone for decades, lighting technology has changed a lot since they went away.

Maybe at a small community theatre.

From a medical perspective, he's right. There's a small statistical increase in the danger of birth defects for children of first cousins. But since sex and marriage aren't about children, that's not a valid reason for the government to be involved even when it comes to first cousins. And for relations more distant than first cousins, that risk isn't even there until you're talking about multiple generations, like heavily inbred royals.

Doesn't mean there's not an ick factor, there certainly is. But your or my ick factor isn't a valid basis for laws regarding the behavior of other consenting adults.

But what about AMD officials?

(BAD headline writer, do better next time.)

Beto says during a lunch break. "And I just knew that if I were to be honest with Marcela, the answer is nobody needs to have an AK-47. Nobody."

Then take them away from the pigs first. Until the pigs don't have them, EVERYBODY needs them.

Completely ridiculous.

We already have a center-right party, the Democratic party. What we don't have is any party on the left.

Would I love to see a functional left like a Socialist party and a Green party? Of course. But first we would have to fix our broken elections that only really allow for two parties, and right now those parties are the center-right Democrats and the extremist right wing Republicans.

The only other alternative is to utterly destroy the Republicans by voting for nothing but Democrats for years so that a new leftist party can emerge as the second party.

Why are we helping small town pigs go after a small-time shoplifter who only took from a massive corporation?

I used to want a Tesla. With the center screen only idiocy of the 3, the yoke idiocy of the S, and the all-around idiocy of Musk, I don't want one any more.

I've got a Ford plug-in hybrid now. I think I'll stick with Ford next time around and get a Mustang.

In any case, this plug-in hybrid will be my last gas car of any kind.

Why would it be a surprise that a Chinese company is doing better in China than a US company?

The fascist Chinese government has been demonizing everything American for years. Most Americans who were living in China have already gotten out, the ones who haven't are shilling for the government to survive.

This is the kind of crap I expected from Biden, why I voted for Bernie in the primary, and why I held my nose when I voted for Biden in the general.

He's the kind of center-right Democrat we've been trying to get rid of for decades.

Every penny of remaining 'wall' money should have been used to remove what had already been installed and restore the landscape, not put up more.

#20

The courts generally never see it. The pigs investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

#6

Exactly. This is an incredibly stupid and short-sighted bill.

The RWNJs have more guns than they need. It's time for the left to arm up, and these center-right idiots pass bills to try to keep that from happening.

It's well past time to replace TANF with AFDC.

Bill Clinton was as evil as Ronnie Ray-gun.

Don't blame me, I voted for Bernie.

(Yes, in the primary, yes I voted for the milquetoast in the general.)

Biden was exactly who we did not need - another center-right establishment Democrat. As expected, the RWNJs despise him anyway, and he's doing nothing for the people who actually voted for him. He was never going to be anything but mediocre, and that's exactly what he's delivering. At another time, he might have been fine, a do-nothing caretaker president to keep things moving smoothly.

But what we need now is a hardcore leftist to counter the Overton Window shift. We need somebody who will at least attempt to solve major problems like healthcare, not pander to corporations. We need somebody who will push to expand SCOTUS, somebody who will send an executive order over to the FDA to remove all restrictions on abortion drugs by mail. We need somebody who will fire DeJoy and order the post office not to ever purchase another gas or diesel vehicle. We need drastic action on climate change. We need drastic action on reducing the prison population, like mass pardons and clemency. We need someone who will order the DEA to deschedule cannabis.

Biden should not run again. If he tries, we need to take him down in the primary. He's not the right person for the job.

The kids didn't die from videos. What a stupid headline.

wE DOn'T nEEd raDaR or LIdaR, caMEraS aRe goOD eNoUgH! - That idiot Elon Musk.

Keep the senate? Nonsense. Democrats are going to sweep the senate. Manchin and Sinema will be irrelevant once we hit 52, and that's going to happen.

The problem is that won't make a difference if we lose the house.

#11

It isn't "almost impossible" - you just have to use different tools.

This is stupid. The only non-snoozefest in baseball is when they fight over calls.

Might as well be golf if they do this.