You know, it's easier to complain (well, actually wail and cry and bang head on wall) but the best thing to do now IS to PLAN TO REBUILD the destruction. Politicians need to be able to articulate concrete action steps, their costs and timing and convincingly assure voters that it is possible.
FRED data chart showing Spain's unemployment 2008 to Present peaking in 2013 at 27% now down to under 10%
Have you seen Spain's employment numbers? Must be doing something right ...
AND criminally punishing voting officials for a vanishingly small number inadvertent errors. It's a Sherman Tank to shoot one mosquito.
I am unable to understand why the old rules (before the challenged policy and the suits against it) are not held in place WHILE the litigation continues. On-again-off-again is chaos, of course, but unless very serious harm exists with the old rules, don't change till litigation is 100% finished!
Everything I needed to know was shown to me. Thanks and great art!
Cruelty continues to crush the good & the useful.
Some advice? Stay away from windows above the ground floor. At least that is how her sort of threat is usually handled in authoritarian regimes, especially the Russian sort. Gawd, I am so mad that this is what even comes to mind - shame shame shame on us all.
Just an angry old man, the ordinary kind of angry old man, nothing special old man angry, just angry. Read his memoir?
Even the light in my old refrigerator hasn't lasted this long.
AND criminally punish (the vanishingly small number of) errors by voting officials.
Consider putting someone else's cart back or picking up other litter when you are alone and nobody will know, too.
We need to have corollary questions about seeking purpose. Religion is a means to an end, there are other paths, but they are all fundamentally about purpose and value.
Bessent has descended all the way down the pit of subjugation.
If Russia is an enemy and giving them money is providing them comfort, isn't this Treason?
Encountered "Kyrenaica" as the name for that N Africa area in Churchill's WW2 accounts (spelled as Cyrenaica) but have never heard or seen it in modern times. I wonder if any distinctness of it remains in the modern culture of the area ...
So prolonged poor management leads to deliberately utterly disastrous management. I will never get this about human nature.
Similarly to how he is strengthening NATO but it's the empowering of Russia and China that more than unravels the accidental benefits.
When I need a shot of positive confirmation of human technical possibility, there is still, after ~50 years, Voyager 1 & 2 even as they age and slowly. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...
One is too many, and since the actual factual "guilt" of those detained has not been adjudicated, any one of them, possibly many of them are innocent.
Price don't matter if there isn't any of what you want
Too bad they aren't leaving anywhere to go there.
This is soooooooooooo important. This, even more than the heinous act itself may define us for a dozen generations.
As a species we got here because of cooperation not by conflict. A small step for (a) Man, a giant leap for Mankind. The emphasis on kind
You can't fool any of these people ANY of the time.
This is not good, right??
"... *should* cost him his job"—There! I fixed it for you.
The problem is they aren't leaving anywhere to go there.
Not MIA, DUI!
Was asked about citizenship when disputing a credit card charge. The tentacles have invaded the depths of the body.
Cruelty creates trauma. Trauma damages people. Damaged people make poor decisions for themselves and for others. This frays the social fabric, especially trust.