I have a LibreOffice document of my favorite quotes that I have gathered over the years (actually, more like decades). An excerpt from the first page follows ...
Americans think cash rules more of the political system than it should -- a concern that crosses party lines as midterm spending is projected to once again shatter records.
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.
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But then there's this ...
How Iran used US ceasefire to replenish its depleted missile stockpiles
www.scmp.com
... Tehran likely added Russian-made weapons to its missile arsenal during the eight-week truce, according to intelligence assessments ...
Mr Musk seems to be responsible for much grief and suffering in the world.
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid and says he's giving away his wealth (2025)
www.nbcnews.com
... Bill Gates accused Elon Musk of killing poor children as he announced Thursday that he would donate his remaining fortune to his charity, the Gates Foundation.[emphasis mine]
In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, Gates addressed Musk's recent cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal agency responsible for distributing foreign aid around the world. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, effectively shut down the agency in February.
Gates, 69, criticized the shuttering of the agency, accusing Musk of risking a resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio.
"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," he told the Financial Times.
"I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," Gates said of Musk.
A representative for Musk did not immediately reply to a request for comment. ...
It's quite conceivable that humanity is a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.
--- Geoffrey Hinton
I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years. --- Bill Gates Remarks at COMDEX (November 1994),
Source: quotepark.com
"Teamwork makes the dreams work."
--- Dalen Spratt
"Fame in show business is not in proportion to actual achievement."
--- Peter Deuel
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
--- Edmund Burke
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
-- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical_Essays, 1928
"polyfocal blend of functional skills"
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
--- Pete Seeger
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
--- William Inge
Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
--- Adolphe A. Berle Jr.
I'm always looking, like a child, for the wonders I know I'm going to find, not every time, but every once in a while.
--- Richard Feynman
@#8
and ...
Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com
..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...
"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," Pres Trump said...
@#7 ... They will prevent counting actual votes? How obscene. ...
I have not said anything about counting actual votes.
What I have said was about the apparent prevention of those votes being cast.
For example ...
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
@#161
Yup.
Kudos to S&P for not placing SPCX in the S&P 500.
SpaceX blocked from early U.S. benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules
www.cnbc.com
As I noted on a back-page thread ...
Local coverage ...
Knicks win first NBA title in 53 years
abc7ny.com
... For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.
The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories. The deficit was 16 on Saturday night. Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed. ...
Local coverage ...
Knicks win first NBA title in 53 years
abc7ny.com
... For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA.
Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.
The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories.
The deficit was 16 on Saturday night.
Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed. ...
@#9
Agreed.
But then there's things like this ...
Trump plans to accept plane to replace Air Force One from Qatar as personal gift (2025)
www.wcnc.com
... For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.
"I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer," the Republican told reporters on Monday. "I could be a stupid person and say, No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane.'"
Critics of the plan worry that the move threatens to turn a global symbol of American power into an airborne collection of ethical, legal, security and counterintelligence concerns.
"This is unprecedented," said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law expert at Loyola Law School. "We just haven't tested these boundaries before."
Trump tried to tamp down some of the opposition by saying he wouldn't fly around in the gifted Boeing 747 when his term ends. Instead, he said, the $400 million plane would be donated to a future presidential library, similar to how the Boeing 707 used by President Ronald Reagan was decommissioned and put on display as a museum piece.
"It would go directly to the library after I leave office," Trump said. "I wouldn't be using it." ...
@#6 ... Subtle difference ...
Yeah, subtle or technical?
US begins preparing Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One (2025)
www.bbc.com
... News that the US was accepting the Qatari plane earlier this year sparked fierce and immediate backlash from both sides of the US political spectrum - including from Trump's conservative base.
"I think the technical term is 'skeezy'," said conservative Daily Wire commentator Ben Shapiro on his podcast.
"Qatar is not allegedly giving President Trump a $400m jet out of the goodness of their sweet little hearts," he said. "They try to stuff money into pockets in totally bipartisan fashion."
Laura Loomer, an influential right-wing social media influencer, has said that accepting the plane would be a "stain" on the administration. ...
Dig - Whose Side You On? (1996)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com