(Pink Floyd's drummer) Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live)

@Lamplighter

For you: (This picks up right after a live performance of The Galaxy Song, and goes along with your #9 post above. But watch to the very end...I think you'll get a kick out of it...Or rewind it to the beginning and watch it all.)

@#9 Freaking awesome link!

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'

(From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)

@#7 Lamplighter...

From the link in your post:

Definition Of A Gun Incident
This is any instance where a victim is killed or injured by a shooting or is the victim of an armed robber or home invader. Incidents of defensive gun use also qualify, such as homeowners stopping a home invasion, store clerks stopping a robbery, and individuals stopping an assault or rape.

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That link showed a lot of interesting charts, but I wish they had some data differentiating between the different types of incidents (i.e. incidents by a criminal vs incidents by someone stopping a rape, assault or robbery.)

Anyways, it's a cool link...thanks for posting.

@10 Danforth,

Then add in the new deductions and even more tax free income is possible, right? Specifically tips are tax free and the first $12,500 of overtimes is tax free, if I'm not mistaken. ($25k of overtime if married, filing jointly.) I think both of these start to phase out at $150,000 incomes ($300k if married, filing jointly.)

I believe the bill gives seniors a new tax deduction. A $6000 deduction ($12,000 married, filing jointly) if you are 65 or older. I think the deduction is available to those earning $75,000 or less, then the deduction tapers down to zero up to $175,000 income (higher if married, filing jointly.) I also believe that the deduction is independent of whether or not the standard deduction is taken.

This is separate from any sort of taxes on Soc Sec benefits. Perhaps for some people the deduction will cancel out their taxes owed on Social Security, perhaps not. And I believe the deduction is available to seniors regardless whether they get Social Security or not.

#5 Danforth, now that interesting about zero income tax on Social Security already in place, unless there is other income. I didn't know that. Anyways, maybe you can tell me if I got it correct about the new tax deduction for seniors? Oh, also think it is temporary...until like 2028.

#19 Yav, wow...I wasn't aware that the paper was 65% of the grade. I didn't see that in the article. Thanks for the info.

#11 LauraMohr, You're welcome.

From the article:

The University of Florida has the highest number of Jewish undergraduate students of any public university in the country, with a population of 6,500 Jewish students, or 19 percent of the student body, according to Hillel International.

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Kinda stupid place for a white nationalist to be.......but then again, ANYWHERE is a stupid place for a white nationalist to be. Course ... stupidity is most white nationalists middle name.

#12 Clownshack, Well, bear in mind that according to the article, 1 in 5 students there are Jewish, and that antisemitism isn't going to fly, I would imagine. So I don't know that it would only be from public scrutiny...I could be wrong, and I often am of course.

#9 LauraMohr, the student, according to the article, is suspended, barred from campus, and on the way to expulsion because of the disgusting rhetoric he espoused. And the award was an automatic thing based on having the top grade in the course itself, and was not awarded based on the content of the student's writing.

That info is towards the bottom of the article.

From the article:

"This book award' was presented automatically to the student with the top grade in the course, which creates a false impression of endorsement of the student's work. We hope the administrators will take time to review this policy moving forward," the statement continued.

Also from the article:

In a statement, the University of Florida Hillel condemned Damsky's rhetoric and said that they hoped the school's administration would review the policy that allowed him to receive the award for his paper.

"There is no place at UF for this type of hateful rhetoric. We are grateful that the university responded by suspending the student, barring him from campus, increasing police presence around the law school, and initiating disciplinary proceedings aimed at expulsion," the statement read.

#103 Apparently Iran is supplying Russia with drones and military tech used in attacking Ukraine.

From the article in #102

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Iran is directly complicit in the war by supplying military technology and drones to Russia. These weapons, Ukraine says, are actively used to kill civilians and destroy critical infrastructure across Ukrainian cities.

"The Iranian regime is not a distant threat," the statement read. "It is enabling Russia to continue its war of destruction on Ukrainian soil."

In an assertive tone, Ukraine called on Tehran to immediately stop providing aid to Moscow. It warned that failure to do so could result in broader consequences, hinting at increased diplomatic and possibly military responses from the West.

Kyiv emphasized that the strikes by the U.S. and Israel were not just acts of retaliation, but essential actions to preserve global security. The government urged the world to recognize that turning a blind eye to Tehran's support for Moscow is equivalent to supporting war crimes.

Ukraine Issues Fiery Endorsement of US Strikes on Iran

Ukraine applauded the strike as a long-overdue response to what it called Iran's dangerous and aggressive nuclear ambitions.

Ukraine turned the spotlight to what it sees as an equally alarming issue " Iran's growing involvement in Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine.

#32 Corky, thank you for that youtube link...Very interesting hearing the perspective from Ukraine and that Putin is fearful of what might happen in iran...and the footage of Iranians cheering the bombing against their government. Great find! I'm learning quite a bit about stuff over there these last few days....

NY Times reporting ceasefire agreement...

#15 Something else that is....interesting...

According to NBC:

As Iran comes under attack, its Arab neighbors are largely AWOL
The American strikes are likely to be accepted " and even privately praised " by a Middle East officialdom that has long seen Iran as the primary threat to regional stability.

"I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured."

At least that is the quote that I found.

I found the quote by clicking on the "post" link from the politcalwire.com article in #83.

oh, and #84 that's funny...did you generate that in AI or where did you find that pic? LOL....

With regards to the above about being 100 years old and drinking...

In my previous work, I would occasionally run into people who were 90 and older and walking around with good mobility and mentally sharp as a tack. I would always make it a point to ask them "their secret." They fell into roughly two camps:

One group would say something like, "I never drank, I never smoked," and some would add "I hardly ate red meat."

The other group would say things like, "I still smoke a pack (or more) a day, I always drank beer and loved hamburgers." Some of them even bragged about still drinking beer with the burgers.

BUT...

There was ONE thing that BOTH groups inevitably said..."I don't stress about anything."

That has always been the one constant I've run into with folks who seem to be healthy regardless of whatever they eat or smoke or whatever...they all say they didn't let life stress them out. Perhaps the poor management of how we react to things that can stress us out is the biggest health risk of all?

Two responses from the comment section of the article:

Okay, this is way less bad than the headline, or even the article makes it sound. Like obviously bad and it's going to catch some people, but it's framed in the headline and all over the text as the article as though it's inserting text into the actual static elements of the webpage being served, when the screenshots just show it putting the text in the search query bar.

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But it also then shows up as a header for the search results, which can easily be mistaken for a static element of the site by a user, especially since the user is not expecting to get dumped into a search results page.

McDonnell also went out of his way to express gratitude to people who have engaged in peaceful demonstrations across the city, noting that those out committing acts of violence are not the same people seen exercising their First Amendment rights during the day. [1]

"The people who are out there doing the violence...they have a hoodie on, they have a a face mask on...these are people who do this all the time," McDonnell said of the most violent protestors, who said "many come in from other places just to hurt people and cause havoc." [2]