Is this a sequel to The Joy Luck Club, or did I misread the fine print?

Completely true despite the fact that this particular abandonment of a treaty obligation to protect a friendly nation was violated by the Obama administration in 2014 when they refused to do anything but a few ineffectual sanctions in response to Russian occupation/annexation of Crimea.

The Year of Living Dangerously (film) - Wikipedia

The Year of Living Despicably?

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I guess we'll have to update the old joke to say that only three types come from Montana:

Steers, Queers, and their Trans or Non-Binary Peers. And they all get Constitutional protections.

I think they call this one the Vance Variant on the Riker Maneuver.

His nose is not the part of him that he wanted replaced with a Rhinocerous version. He does not require cross-species grafting to become one horny old man.

B'Elanna Torres famously could not identify shit even with the aid of a tricorder, glad to see someone in Starfleet could at least tell Mayonaisse from Manbutter.

Yousa people eatin' pets?

Meessa think we should be voting the President Emergency Powers!

Yeah, this works entirely too well. AND he was a Marine, and thus...

...a JarJarhead.

🎵We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond Laser Drone🎶

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.

Only one cat has ever received the award.

This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

Clog the drain, I assume. Or jam the spray arms.

Yeah, it used to b e 12 hour shifts 6 days a week as the norm in factories, sunup to sundown or even longer in the busy seasons of agriculture. Most of the rest on cooking/cleaning/clothmaking tasks that are now automated or not needed.

Maybe they didn't scrape well enough, maybe there's a filter they don't know how to clear.

I wouldn't know, we don't have a dishwasher, so every night I'm on drying-with-a-cloth duty while Sis ir Dad washes.

Still wondering why John Fetterman stole their look.

The one really Conservative humorist worth reading, PJ O'Rourke, famously once recommended we take the 1988 Omnibus Farm Bill out behind t he barn and kill it with an axe.

Others are for soil conservation and other environmental purposes, but yeah, most are to keep commodity prices higher than costs. But even with those high market prices, food has been historically cheap anyways, even with recent spikes due to larger-than-usual regional production shortfalls.

Some of which are to prevent overproduction that drops the price below cost level for most growers, yet retain enough farmland that COULD be put in production to make up for temporary regional droughts and blights that otherwise would restrict supply enough to drive up prices for city dwellers.

Agricultural subsidies are sold to Congress and the Public as that, yes. They actually overwhelmingly go to the biggest landowners and corporate-owned factory farms.

Liquid fertilizer.

Suppression of Eire's Anglo Dialect?

Ah fond memories of playing RISK and AXIS & ALLIES with my friends in college. A running joke amongst us was "The best strategy is to roll well. "

C-17 Armed AWACS with some rotary launcher bomb bays for self defense AMRAAMs and anti-radar missiles like TACIT RAINBOW.

And then fans start calling them "The Elder Pitt and the Younger Pitts" and confuse everything even more.

Wasn't Chopin also the last thing they played as the Nazi troops fought into Warsaw in 1939?

As Trump was indisputably ineligible to be POTUS under the 14th amendment as an insurrectionist, every action, appointment, pardon, and executive order of his 2nd term is void. Any SCOTUS justice who voted for immunity is a co-conspirator in the insurrection and their seat has since been vacant.

By the time I was an Economics Mimor in college in the mid/late 90s, there were no such thing as Marxist Economics Professors.

The English, History, and Philosophy departments, however, still had their share. My Latin American History prof was a former Guerilla from El Salvador.

I was still being taught circa 1990 that the Eastern Bloc would inevitably triumph economically because they invested so much in heavy industry, while we in the West wasted too many resources on frivolous consumer goods. The Wall was already down.

Over on this side of the pond, tonight's menu is pork tenderloin with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and onion. Mixed frozen vegetables, house salad, cantaloupe wedges, dark wheat dinner rolls, and walnut brownies a la mode for dessert.

Here in Illinois and many other states, you can register to vote right in the polling place on election day.

Don't count on that still being true by November. Register now, and still bring ID and other verification of address info on election day, just in case.

*Sags* like a heavy load, dammit.