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Thanks Andy, In my ignorance, I was accepting the general focus on the Persian Gulf as the only route for oil out of the area.

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Two Week cease fire? Please note that Trump's public statements yesterday and Sunday said nothing about Israel as far as I could tell. (could be wrong, please inform me.) We could not even get two days before the missiles were flying in and out of Lebanon and Iran was corking the straits again. snai...

Decimate? Obliterate? Remember this is a life-long professional con-man. He has no idea how to use language for factual data transmission. Protocol question about the current Executive branch of the USofA government: Is the person who carries 'the football' (Nuclear weapons control codes) an active ...

It is my opinion that Trump was elected president, not because of the strong support of the MAGA people, but because of the strong feelings against the other candidate. The votes were not for Trump but against the other guy. It may be obsolete 'common knowledge' but back in the early 70's when I was...

The Michigan UP is a strange place. I moved to Delaware from the Michigan thumb area on Easter weekend, 1972. As I drove south, I saw lots of snowmobiles headed north to the UP. Today I learned that a grandson is partnered with a nice young lady who had a father that took the entire family camping i...

Depression is anger turned inward. This is an idea that causes me to think. If I have stumbled over it before, I ignored it, Now it has my attention.
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Yes, the differences in meanings and symbols between Easter and Passover are huge. Those differences are exactly why I believe one supports relationships that are destructive to the community and one supports relationships that strengthen the community.

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Well, as the story goes in Genesis 6-9, He did loose control of his all-loving Grace and decided to wipe out all life on land and start over. Sometimes I wonder if much of the collective problems of mankind come from the too-narrow gene pool from Noah and his family. Many of us have just navigated o...

On further thought, this may be an opportunity for small business development. From reading about automobiles 'made in America' I believe a certain percentage of the total vehicle must be made in America, and the final assembly done here. Is that percentage calculated by mass? Perhaps an ambitious w...

Adults do carry legal responsibilities for the conduct of children under their care. Of course, too many present day adults find it completely un-Americn to declare that it takes a village to raise a child.

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He is risen indeed. I am still working on the book of Samuel. Robert Alter, in the introduction to his translation says: The story of David is probably the greatest single narrative representation in Antiquity of human life evolving by slow stages through time, shaped and altered by the pressures of...

Routers Made in USA? Do they even exist? I guess this is a natural progression in Trump's golden age of domestic industry.

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from the Washington Post, Friday, April 3, 2025: A second U.S. warplane was shot down while conducting operations against Iran, officials said An F-15 fighter jet and an A-10 attack plane were lost to hostile fire. One person is still missing from the F-15 crash. Two Black Hawk helicopters also were...

BSG, I understand your observation of my post about PTSD above. It is my yet forthright opinion now. You can tell me my thoughts stink. Yet they are still my thoughts. I cannot say how honest those thoughts are. They conflate my own emotional turmoil. You even support my view with your application o...

PTSD is a wandering term. Once upon a time Trauma was a technical term for an event that could be expected to directly result in death. Now it seems to apply to paper cuts, Now the military is using a term 'Moral wounds' Just one more datum in the long road of human behavior. Authority recognizes a ...

For me the most interesting part of this story is the replacement. The new Acting Attny Genl is the guy who got Trump his conviction record of 34 felonies. Is there something about close associating with Trump that brings out basic incompetence even when it has not been particularly conspicuous befo...

I think someone did move the entire car-talk chicken thread to this board--a great public service. Bless you BB, this graphic certainly needs to be added to that document. I just followed your link. This was just the medicine I needed. Brought back many nice memories. Such great time waster- Is ther...

The older I get, the less 'routine' my own perception of my medical constraints and treatment seems to be Take time to enjoy the cute nurses. Best wishes. As part of your recovery, go to Fairmont Park in Philidelphia and ponder your statue. We don't hold it against you that you were not born in the ...

I think he would have no objections at all. Thanks Joe. Snailgate.

As a useful analogue for current affairs in the USA, this week is a good time to review the book of Samuel. Nice comparisons of what you get with a human government based on leadership by the 'better' people. Greed soon conquers all.

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