@#7

If the tax bill is so good, why is the GOP trying to hide it?

More from the article...

... Why it matters: It's another reminder that diseases once thought to have been eradicated are showing up with increased frequency in clinics and ERs, posing challenges for younger physicians and health workers who thought they were relegated to history.

- - - Lingering vaccine hesitancy and distrust of the medical establishment stoked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are leading some health systems to add training on old scourges that were practically wiped out by immunization campaigns and increased surveillance.

"You're taught these things in medical school, and you're taught from a very academic perspective with the sense of measles was eradicated in 2000," said Nicholas Cozzi, EMS medical director at Rush.

- - - "Now we're having a resurgence, the highest in 25 years, and you might have not reviewed that since the first year of medical school," he added. "It's a new paradigm and a new normal that we have to adapt to."

The big picture: The focus is particularly acute on childhood illnesses such as measles, chicken pox, invasive strep pneumoniae and pertussis, experts told Axios. ...

@#4 ... Big win? You MAGAT ------- are f@@king DESPERATE....

Exactly.

The only reason this looks "big" is that it is one of the very few "wins" Pres Trump has had in his trade negotiations.

What ever happened to 90 trade deals in 90 days? Those 90 days are up in a couple weeks.

From the sub-summary ...

... NFU farmers from Ontario discuss the difficulties of this year's growing season due to extreme climate variability. ...

You'd think that the GOP, whose base has many farmers in it, might be more concerned about the extreme climate variability that GOP policies seem to be causing.

Instead, the GOP seems to be enacting policies that may make that variability even worse.

@#15 ... The threat of violence ...

Typical MAGA? Threats of violence against those it disagrees with.

OK, maybe one more that just popped up on a playlist here ...

Dang, I forgot to remove the genius ads ...

Oh well ...

OK, my last one on this thread ...

@#44

Yeah, Ultravox.

I also like their Vienna.

What else can I say, besides ... excellent and fun musicians?

Wanna wake up your sub-woofer?

OK, not a real test, but a fun ~rattling the windows~ test ...

@#14 ... Well if Democrats don't get to work ...

Yup.

The Democrats have a hill to climb.

Will they get to the top?

imo, in order to do so, they need to toss aside the Sen Schumers of the party, and start looking for candidates and leaders who are more aligned with the current electorate.

But that's just my opinion. Take it for what it is worth.

@#13

A nice dodge from the point-blank question I masked in #11.

Why?

I first heard this song as a song in a movie. And it introduced me to the Jawhawks, a group I have since come to enjoy...

YMMV ...

@#40 ... She's a remarkable talent ...

Yes, she is a remarkable talent.

Did I say alternative?

I think I did ...

Yeah, here's a fun video that looks to be computer-generated before the likes of AI ...

And, back to the topic of this thread ...

... Stuart Sanderson's region of Madison, Alabama, has been inundated as well. "I don't think we've had a day in the past week when it hasn't rained. It's been a continuing story for us this season -- to the point we are going to take prevented planting on some acres. That is not what we wanted, but it is the hand we have been dealt," said Sanderson. ...

Yeah, the farmers of the Country are resilient, and seem to respond to the conditions that face them.

@#11 ... I've concluded I'm going to need 5MM in assets by the time I retire to live comfortably. ...

If I may be blunt here ...

Screw your retirement ...

I'm talking about people trying to live day-to-day,

OK, so I asked in #8 ... How much should one earn per year for that person, in your opinion, to "feel rich?" ...

And the response I received was ...

#9 ... $500K or more. ...

OK, given that ...

Why does Pres Trump's tax bill seem to give even more tax credits to those "rich" at the expense of reducing healthcare for those who may not be "rich?"

@#16 ... I know the conspiracy mongers like to claim firefighters are actually arsonists ...

I know it was not your intention, but your comment triggered a memory of mine....

My Dad came home from work one evening. And something was odd to me. He walked in the front door, and went right into his bedroom, sat on the bed, where he stayed for a while.

I asked my Mom, what was happening.

After a while, she finally told me ...

My Dad was carrying a baby out of a fire.

But as he was carrying that baby out of the fire to the ambulance, the baby died in his arms.

The toll on the first responders is, imo, underestimated.

imo, the Democrats need to look to the future, and explain the future they want to build.

The old-line Democrats (Sen Schumer, are you listening?) seem to be more interested in preserving the past.

When might the Democrat wake up to this apparent new reality?