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This, perhaps?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/media/lachlan-murdoch-donald-trump-reliable-sources/index.html

Letter from Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry denouncing Burr, January 4th, 1801:


My Dr. Sir,

I was at Albany when your letter got here. I have snatched the full hour from my avocation to...

Alexander Hamilton, by the turn of the 19th century, had known Aaron Burr, served under Washington together, had been both friends and business partners (they practiced law together after the war)....

Happy birthday!

Incoming artillery does tend to make one's summer beach holiday less than a success.

Quite a few years back, Starbucks announced plans to open in Italy, with Howard Schulz announcing plans to "save Italy's coffee".

The Italians were not aware that their coffee was in need of...

Happy birthday!

Errrmmm . . . He is about as mobbed up as you can get without being a made man.

You mean that McCarthy wanted to appoint only Republicans who had participated in the insurrection and were loyal to it to the J6 Committee, which Pelosi was having any part.

The GOP could have...

It wasn't that he "flipped" sides. And his treason didn't take start until 1804, while he was Vice-President.

After he murdered Alexander Hamilton, his reputation was shot. Once his...

Brilliant general, yes.

And a traitor.

You should visit Blennerhasset's Island in the Ohio River, where he planned his counter-revolution in conjunction with Spanish agents so he could install...

Sorry, man. Been there (wait! I am there!).

Rest up. Drink lots of water. Naps are good.

Is "Trump signalling" anything like virtue signaling?

Ages ago, I rented a bicycle in Amsterdam. Returned it after a couple of hours. Realized there were lots of traffic rules regarding cycling, not to mention signals and signage and I was not au...

And dedicated bicycle lanes don't don anything either, except provide a false sense of security.

The vast majority of car/bicycle collisions aren't bicycles getting sideswiped or tail-ended...

That's a sharrow ("share the road arrow"), not a dedicated bicycle lane. They only thing "sharrows" do is to inform drivers that they're supposed to share the road with bicycles.

Completely and...

What! A simple bit of Federal law means what it's words say it means? That's just crazy talk.

Check out Blåkläder work clothes. Really well made, quirky (but serious) Swedish work clothes.

https://www.blaklader.com/en/product/16301320-brawny-work-pants-with-utility-pockets
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Pure-Gas is your friend. A field guide to stations pumping zero-ethanol,gas in the USA and Canada.

https://www.pure-gas.org

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Here's the book excerpt, from the New Yorker, with the full text of Milley's resignation letter (at least, a draft, presumably the one he most liked -- apparently he wrote several drafts) and the...

But you didn't have a Zorb.

https://youtu.be/Gr5qEVGq38w


https://youtu.be/Gr5qEVGq38w

Back around 1980-82, I somehow wound up with a Trans-Am as a car rental.

Terrible car , worst handling POS ever.

Driving in a light rain on a flat road, I spun out on a gentle bend going about...

That didn't take long.
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Anything found during the execution of a search warrant may be used as evidence in the prosecution crimes unrelated to the original warrant. So I understand.

48th anniversary (just checked), August 8th, 1974. The Watergate break-in was June 17, 1972 -- pity they couldn't have timed thing to coincide with that.

Willing to be the safe was more along the lines of, "Either you can open the safe, or we can open the safe the hard way. Cheaper for you if you open the safe."

Sh*te be goin' down!

Seems the FBI just executed a search warrant on TFG's digs at Mar-a-Lago. Wonder which other of TFG's homes/offices got hit? Trump Tower? Bedminster?
...

Apparently, a high-school classmate of mine was cast in Grease at the age of 16. She spent the summer if 1977 filming Grease and palling around with Olivia Newton-John.

I don't remember that in...

I believe he's referring to American anti-abortion laws,-- near total prohibition, inane requirements on abortion clinics that other facilities doing in-house outpatient surgeries don't have comply...

Is that down at Seaview?

If I didn't have COVID, I'd come down and visit.

I used to know several people who self-identified as ovo-lacto-bacon vegetarians.

And barges are to rail as rail is to trucks.

Here's a video unloading a bottom dump hopper gondola. Scrub to about the 6m mark to see the unloading 115 tons of coal (250,000 pounds, 104,000 kilos) in about 5 seconds.
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[I've always like the "just turn it over and shake it" approach.]

We've got rotary gondolas like that, too, but also bottom hopper gondolas like these, with automated bottom gates. As the gondola...

Mary Travers or Peter, Paul and Mary.

To quote a comment on one of her obituaries, in response to hecklers making fun of the weight she'd gained from her leukemia,

"She was the hottest thing on...

Works for me.

Here's a guy in Abbottsford, BC, milling Alaskan Yellow Cedar shakes at CAD $100/bundle.

Maybe he'd ship?
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Happy birthday!

Oh goodie. Another spambot.

Don't get me started on the bad idea that is the FICA payroll tax disincentives for small businesses and shops.

And/or, just eliminate the FICA tax cap (you only pat Social Security taxes on the first $147,000 of income.)

Even better, do with the Social Security tax what Medicare does. Medicare is a 1.45%...

According to KTVU (Fox) San Francisco, it originated with a Berkeley Karen, posting on the app NextDoor and reposted to Twitter by an account @BestOfNextDoor that aggregates silly things people say...

I heard something earlier about a ferry on the Port Townsend - Coupeville run being out of service.

Must have been KENNEWICK. Wonder what broke?

Should have named this thread "Here, Hold My Beer And Watch This!"

Ron Johnson suggests Medicare, Social Security be approved on annual basis
BY JULIA MUELLER - 08/03/22 7:31 PM ET

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Wednesday that Social Security and Medicare should...

In this instance, people would be "delight[ing] in waving raw meat in front of people who choose not to eat meat...", because those people are being d*cks about it, trying to cram their preferences...

Yeah, I'd like to at least hope it's a fake/satire/parody, but . . .

"29th April 1971

Dear Sir,

We act for Mr Arkell who is Retail Credit Manager of Granada TV Rental Ltd. His attention has been drawn to an article appearing in the issue of Private Eye dated 9th...

Probably better off buying asparagus crowns (year old roots). Easier to get going and less time to getting asparagus.

https://extension.umn.edu/vegetables/growing-asparagus
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Or, as the master list above puts it, fallacy #23

The Bandwagon Fallacy (also, Argument from Common Sense, Argumentum ad Populum): The fallacy of arguing that because "everyone," "the people," or...