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I was looking at the SS payouts and it amazes me that I will get if I retire at 62 justs about twice as much per month after a lifetime of contributing as my mentally handicapped brother who has never contributed. He's getting $1K and I'd be getting like $2k. Now, I'm not that high of an earner and its capped and its a safety net and all that but that just seemed weird to me. And the bloated plutocrats from billionaire funds our former grassroots anti-woke Party want to eliminate even that much.

This is good

I think all the ballrooms are half full

She's on America's side: the Confederate States of America where you can cheat on your husband and keep slaves.

I think the US and NATO expects this Summer to go very well like the previous counter-attack but with more cowbell.

Really the model for a militarily potent allied country in survival mode is Israel. They took the war to the proverbial road to Damascus but stopped short. Likewise, they didn't try to capture Cairo.

We need to allow Ukraine to make this determination but, I can sense some US Government nervous nellies not brave enough to allow them to retake DNR and Crimea.

We joke here that war with China is not part of our retirement planning. Financial advisor: "I'm going to show you the model where you continue to put away money at the current rate and with modest growth in the market. We'll call this line A." "Now I'm going to show you the model where your home is radioactive slag and you are dead, let's call this line B"

This is a very interesting addition. Armored vehicle bridges are what you need if you are crossing rivers. if you are on the attack.

I'm enjoying the divorce

The crowds at CPAC have a 1994-1998 era Tiger Stadium-tuesday-night-in-mid-April feel to them. If this is any indication of the enthusiasm in the land for Matt Schlapp and his fake teeth gropy support for Trump...they have a long way to go to recapture that magic pre 1/6/2021.

The tea leaves of the last 24 hours indicate some dramatic shift at the top in China. I'm very enthusiastic that we do not have a war. That said...the usual cautions are prescribed.

Well, they didn't fly the camel through the eye of the needle last night. Their road got harder.

She’s AOK

No kidding. These people have way more power than they would if this were a functioning democracy.

Breitbart I'd hope would break with the nutters. I had seen some essayists who purported to know his thinking on Trump. this was in the wikipedia page for Breitbart These comments resurfaced after the controversy of Donald Trump hiring Breitbart News' executive chairman Steve Bannon to be his White House Chief Strategist.[41]

Won't they just decriminalize that?

Drudge is hammering away at Matt Schlapp with headline "Inside Gaylord: CPAC Schlapp dodges groping question..." Ya see Matt Drudge who happens to be gay (so one presumes a bit of insulation for being bitchy) and he is using the name of the hotel where CPAC circus is being held which is the Gaylord Hotel. Drudge's turn on the Trumpies has been interesting. Closer to Andrew Breitbart's vision than the vile Bannon Leninism. Breitbart hated bullies.

did China make a call? Those lights might be off on purpose

This is really interesting because Kazakhstan is really China's target. They want to ship everything to Europe via them.

Holy crap! Blinken from the top of the turnbuckle!

Listened briefly to my wife and her college girlfriends dispersed around the country on their zoom call last night. The one who is a teacher in Florida was practically crying about how bad the governor has been. BTW, when I look at Desantis I see Dukakis.

Meanwhile this is the best era of Michigan football since possibly the 1940s.

For sure. During that period when we were embargoing the Japanese Lend Lease to Britain was less popular than aid to Ukraine currently is. America does not favor butchers.

He read about America's favorite big bootys in the official training documents in the American willage