A less extreme example: the many Christians who don't see anything wrong with "pharisee" as a synonym for "hypocrite."
Even after someone explains the roots of rabbinic Judaism to them.
I (gentile, former Catholic) have experienced that pushback myself.
I have normal-person sunglasses (with polarized prescription lenses) in Ray-Ban frames. I’m now thinking I have to get a different style to avoid the Monetized Creeper look.
A few weeks ago, I messaged a US-born nephew about a recent change re Canadian citizenship that affects his US-born teenagers. I included a link to the relevant page on Citizenship Canada's site.
Soon after, he replied that Claude had "confirmed" Canada was correct.
In his lifetime, Trump has spent less time as a believer in church, praying, or pondering religion than you have spent eating cake at your own birthday parties.
His supporters who make money being supporters know you could be sworn in using a coloring book. It's no more required than wearing red socks.
For the rest, it's political pro wrestling. It's real, it's not, sometimes both.
8 - Hold a competition to see who among the Postal Inspectors can bring the largest number of successful charges.
That'll *really* kick off Infrastructure Week.
5 - Double the size of IRS plutocrat investigation units.
6 - Use the False Claims Act to get people to rat out all the grifters (Bovino, DOGE kiddies, Musk, you name it).
7 - Require a 3/4 vote of Congress to remove an inspector general.
3 - Ask Congress to revoke pay authorization for any board or body that Trump has stacked with stooges. See how long they stay without pay.
4 - If they're still there two weeks later, have Congress increase the board size of the boards; install sane people to drive out Trumpists, then resize.
Inauguration Day, during the speech:
1- Sign an EO canceling all of Trump's, in one big beautiful list.
2 - Announce acceptance of the resignation of every Trump appointee in the Executive Branch, effective immediately.
Let me know if you're ever coming to Victoria. I'll ask my friend to take you for a spin in HER Super Beetle, which she also drives in the good weather.
I expect to see it tomorrow when we have our monthly lunch.
Usually it was not possibly to put $2 of gas into the car unless you had a gas can in addition to the tank. ;-)
Prices were about 20% higher than at my neighborhood gas station.
I had to pay... 23 cents per US gallon instead of 18.
(6.08 per liter instead of 4.76!)
Back around 1970, I was out late one night on North Woodward (Detroit suburbs) in my 1964 Beetle, the (ostensibly) 1300 cc model.
I was really low on gas, and annoyed...
An acoustic guiar, leaning against a bench in a slightly cluttered room. The clutter is from unpacking the guitar--a portion of the box is under the bench, wads of packing paper and protective plastic wrap are on the rug. The guitar has a light-colored top of sitka spruce, and slightly darker wood with a distinctive grain pattern on the sides (and on the back, which isn't visible). Larrivée, the guitar maker, calls this wood silver oak (Grevillea robusta) because it comes from India and that's the local name, not "lacewood." The grain of silver oak is hard to capture in a photo. I think it looks as if there are layers of grain, some running horizonal and some vertical, as if the wood had been woven. It's also a great-sounding guitar.
And that's when the universe nudged me to say "you could do that too."
With this guitar I've continued learning things, and the effort to master things like hammering on or slides has been more enjoyable than I would have imagined.
(Larrivée OM-03)
She kept at it, verse and chorus, and when she got to the end and made her final strum, it was like a sun that had been hiding behind thin clouds, breaking into a solar grin.
The dad told me he'd gotten her a good guitar because he believed that'd be easier to learn on and more enjoyable to play.
Then a professional colleague shared a video of his kid, maybe 11, who was learning and working her way through a favorite rock song.
There were those pauses as she shifted from one chord to another ("...but I...still haven't...found... what I'm looking for..."
I had my previous guitar for close to 50 years. It was a pretty decent one when I bought it; I think I never saw myself as a good enough player to have something better.
(The "not very skilled player" part is true, just to be clear)...
Absolutely (posted to that effect just before I saw this latest from you)
Grew up in Detroit; lived there nearly 30 years; siblings still there.
I've eaten quite a few chili dogs at Lafayette. I never heard anyone call it a diner.
In Detroit, a Coney Island is mainly a place specializing in hot dogs with chili and onions.
lafayette-coney-island.hey-restaurants.com/menu
(Iconic example)
Read up on the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the entity set up with eagerness by the state of Florida in Walt Disney's lifetime, that made them essentially their own government.
I live in a walkable city. Disney World is a very pretty minimum-security prison, where it's virtual impossible to go anywhere, on foot, in a car, or in their various forms of transit, that isn't just another pod full of Disney and its tenants.
"D'accord, un hôtel particulier en style TARDISSE..."
Unless one of them smacks Trump right in the face with a cream pie, attendance at this professional embarrassment is useful only as a casting call for housebroken GOP publicists.
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Now that Finland has joined, maybe it was a Nokia phone. A NATOkia.
An activist in a state's libertarian party constantly said "let Badnarik debate," meaning be part of the 2004 presidential debates.
I looked up Badnarik's bio on the campaign website and learned he'd been "only three merit badges short of Eagle Scout."
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I think my reply failed when the Triumph replies got turned off (which is fine) but I wanted to leave it for you. Good (gift) NYT article with lots of comparisons to monuments in DC and around the world.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Good (gift) article in the NYTimes, with lots of comparative ilustrations to monuments around the world, as well as some in DC.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
