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  • Biden: ‘We’re Preparing the Military’ to ‘Deal with the Climate Stuff’

    08/10/2023 1:28:39 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 90 replies
    Democrat President Joe Biden has revealed that the federal government is “preparing the military” to “deal with” so-called “climate change.”Biden made the claim during a softball interview with the Weather Channel.
  • Keep Calm and Carry On

    04/09/2023 12:23:47 PM PDT · by sodpoodle · 17 replies
    email from a friend | 4/9/2023 | unknown
    China claims that corona virus came from an old bat, but Nancy Pelosi denies being involved "Payday" candy bar is changing its name because it's offensive to those who don't work If the current power grid can't handle a night of 20 degrees temperatures without rolling blackouts, how are we going to plug in 100 million electric cars at night? Are there any countries that tax their citizens and send some of it to America Imagine, if you will, a world where every tweet and meme must be fact checked, but not a ballot. How to stop drunk drivers from...
  • What’s in Your Pocket? Obsessed Hobbyists Judge What It Says About You

    03/24/2023 2:46:31 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 39 replies
    Wsj ^ | 24 Mar 2023 | Mohamed Hassan
    There are those of us who never seem to have a pen handy when we need it, and then there are devotees of EDC, short for “everyday carry.” EDC began as a practical point of pride and has evolved in recent years into a competitive preoccupation, with participants who empty their pockets to display all manner of writing instruments, trinkets, flashlights, pint-size tools, coins, handkerchiefs and more. Need a tiny doodad to tighten the screws on eyeglasses? They probably have it. (Phones don’t count.) The hashtag #pocketdump has elicited more than 1.6 million posts on Instagram. And many EDCers attend...
  • WHY WE MISS RODNEY DANGERFIELD

    12/04/2022 3:13:08 AM PST · by sodpoodle · 29 replies
    email from a friend | 12/4/2022 | not shown
    ood afternoon my friends. With all due “respect,” I’ld like to share with you a few of RODNEY DANGERFIELD’s funniest lines. Enjoy. Cappy 😎🤪😎😹😎 With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff. I went to a massage parlor. It was self-service. It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass! Last night my wife met me at the front door. She was wearing a sexy negligee. The only trouble...
  • Congress approves free student meal extension through summer

    06/24/2022 1:21:34 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 15 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | June 24, 2022 | By LISA RATHKE
    Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer. Final passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act in the U.S. House came less than a week before rule changes for child nutrition programs were set to expire June 30. “Our action today staves off a dangerous hunger cliff: ensuring universal free meals for all children throughout this summer, while helping schools keep up supply chain snags and rising costs for the upcoming school year,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, in a statement. The bill now goes...
  • Washington’s paid family leave program running short on cash

    01/26/2022 1:18:00 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | January 26, 2022 | By RACHEL LA CORTE
    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s paid family leave program could hit a deficit as early as March and there are concerns about long-term solvency following a significant increase in demand for the benefit that launched in 2020. Under the law, eligible workers receive 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for a serious medical condition of the worker or the worker’s family member, or 16 weeks for a combination of both. An additional two weeks may be used if there is a serious health condition with a pregnancy. Weekly benefits are calculated...
  • The vaccine doesn’t stop the delta variant, according to Israel

    08/25/2021 6:23:40 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 38 replies
    https://www.msn.com Desert News ^ | 8/18/2021 | Herb Scribner
    srael has issued a stark warning about the COVID-19 vaccine — it can blunt the spread of the delta variant, but it cannot defeat it. Does the COVID-19 vaccine stop the delta variant? Officials in Israel said this week that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine might not be totally effective against the novel coronavirus. Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world with 78% of those 12 years old and up fully vaccinated, per Science Magazine. However, the country has been suffering from one of the world’s highest infection rates — with 650 infections per 1 million people,...
  • Friday Fun

    07/10/2020 4:23:32 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 5 replies
    emails from a friend | 7/10/2020 | unknown
    Baptizing Paddy Paddy is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds into the water, subsequently bumping into the preacher. The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon, he asks him, "Are you ready to find Jesus?" Paddy shouts, "Yes, oi am." So the preacher grabs him and dunks him in the water. He pulls him back and asks, "Brother, have you found Jesus?" Paddy replies, "No, oi haven't found Jesus!" The preacher, shocked at the answer, dunks him again but for a...
  • VERY INTERESTING STUFF

    04/12/2020 6:18:27 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 98 replies
    email from a friend | 4/12/2020 | unknown
    In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule Of thumb' Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'.. .and thus, the word GOLF entered Into the English language. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women can; women...
  • Self-Isolating Kitchen Disco

    03/27/2020 2:37:01 PM PDT · by Da_Shrimp · 28 replies
    Whatever
    Hey let's play some music!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkq8IEO4tc
  • These COVID-19 Blues

    03/27/2020 12:31:38 PM PDT · by FiddlePig · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | 3/21/2020 | Fred Butch Burns
    Commentary on these uncommon times. COVID-19 Blues . To save myself from the virus condition I’m on the hunt for toilet paper and ammunition Before all the stores are stripped bare… But the only thing I could buy there… Was the last old bottle of booze Don’t know if I can lose… these COVID-19 blues. . Everyone’s in a panic, running around all frantic To keep away the manic, got my semi-automatic… that I hope… I’ll never have to use. No matter what channel you choose… It’s the only thing on the news… Don’t know if I can lose… these...
  • AOC says her policies are not 'free stuff': 'I never want to hear that term again'

    11/26/2019 5:54:21 PM PST · by Libloather · 45 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/26/19 | Nick Givas
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's promise to boost federal funding for social programs should not be considered "free stuff," because they are in fact "public goods," the New York Democrat said in a Monday tweet. Ocasio-Cortez, who earlier in the day led a Green New Deal town hall about public housing in the Bronx, said she's tired of being accused of essentially bribing voters with financial handouts. "Public education, libraries, & infrastructure policies (which we‘ve had before in America and elsewhere in the world!) are not 'free stuff,'" she tweeted. "They are PUBLIC GOODS. And they are worth investing in, protecting, &...
  • "When You Die, I’ll Be There to Take Your Stuff"

    07/19/2019 12:02:35 AM PDT · by beaversmom · 79 replies
    Narratively ^ | September 12, 2016 | Shane Cashman
    We park the box truck in the dead man’s yard like a six-ton hearse and knock on the front door. A disheveled middle-aged woman answers, still in her pajamas. “I forgot you were coming,” she says, leaning out the door to see the truck. Emblazoned on the side: William J. Jenack: Estate Appraisers Auctioneers.“I’m a mess,” she says. “My mother’s dying.”We ask if she wants us to come back another time.“No, please come in.”She’s been living in the dead man’s house for the last two years, a white Victorian-style home with blue shutters and ivy reaching up the side. She’d...
  • The Game of Golf

    04/11/2019 3:34:56 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 15 replies
    email | 4/11/2019 | multiple
    1. THESE GREENS ARE SO FAST I HAVE TO HOLD MY PUTTER OVER THE BALL AND HIT IT WITH THE SHADOW. ~ SAM SNEAD 2. I WAS THREE OVER TODAY: ONE OVER A HOUSE, ONE OVER A PATIO AND ONE OVER A SWIMMING POOL. ~ GEORGE BRETT 3. ACTUALLY, THE ONLY TIME I EVER TOOK OUT A ONE-IRON WAS TO KILL A TARANTULA. AND I TOOK A 7 TO DO THAT. ~ JIM MURRAY 4. THE ONLY SURE RULE IN GOLF IS - HE WHO HAS THE FASTEST CART NEVER HAS TO PLAY THE BAD LIE. ~ MICKEY MANTLE 5....
  • 21 Surprising Statistics That Reveal How Much Stuff We Actually Own

    01/11/2019 7:07:48 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 65 replies
    Becoming Minimalist ^ | 01/10/2019 | JOSHUA BECKER ·
    Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter. We tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. Our toy rooms are messy, our drawers don’t close, and our closets are filled from top to bottom. The evidence of clutter is all around us.Today, increasing data is being collected about our homes, our shopping habits, and our spending. The research is confirming our observation: we own too much stuff. And it is robbing us of life.Here are 21 surprising statistics about our clutter that help us understand how big of a problem...
  • Thursday Thwacks

    12/06/2018 4:55:17 AM PST · by sodpoodle · 9 replies
    email from a friend | 12/6/2018 | unknown
    A Priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local figure and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner. However, he was delayed, so the Priest decided to say his own few words while they waited: I got my first impression of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first person who entered my confessional told me he had stolen a television set and, when questioned...
  • Earth’s Second Magnetic Field: Satellite Image Reveals Invisible Force From Ocean Currents

    04/12/2018 6:58:36 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 64 replies
    Inquisitr ^ | 12 Apr 2018 | Mia Lorenzo
    The Earth has a second magnetic field, one generated by ocean currents. Researchers know little about it, but images captured by satellites show this invisible force generated by the world’s salty oceans in perfect detail. ... ESA released a video detailing the changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over a 24-hour period... ...“It’s a really tiny magnetic field. It’s about 2-2.5 nanotesla at satellite altitude, which is about 20,000 times weaker than the Earth’s global magnetic field.”... Oceans may have a small contribution to the magnetic field that protects the planet from harmful cosmic rays, but it remains to be...
  • Grins, Grimaces and Grumbles for Friday

    02/02/2018 6:05:17 AM PST · by sodpoodle · 19 replies
    email from a friend | 2/2/2018 | unknown
    Dear Sir, ,P.I have a very complicated benefits question. Many years ago, I married a widow who had an 18 year old daughter. After the wedding, my father, a widower, came to visit a number of times, and he fell in love with my step daughter. My father eventually married her without my authorization. As a result my step-daughter became my step mother and my father became my son in law. My father's wife (also my step daughter) and my step-mother, gave birth to a son who is my grandchild because I am the husband of my step daughter's mother....
  • Fact or Fiction or Foolishness????

    12/02/2017 1:51:18 PM PST · by sodpoodle · 42 replies
    email from a friend | 12/2/2017 | unknown
    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)   A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (O.M.G.!!!) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy) (I'm still not...
  • A Few Thoughts

    08/02/2017 10:36:41 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 28 replies
    friendly emails | 8/2/2017 | unknown
    Just thinking * If you attempt to rob a bank you won't have any trouble with rent/food bills for the next 10 years, whether or not you are successful. * Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned? * What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it? * If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? * Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C? * Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called...