@greg_price11: Mayor Adams says illegal aliens could be used to fill New York City's lifeguard shortage because they are "excellent swimmers."

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Is Mayor Adams copying from Michael Steele?

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Remember when Amazon abused their irony license in 2009 by remotely deleting copies of 1984 and Animal Farm?

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"Oh, what a give-away!"

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Moi? 🗼

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I believe Internet search engines try to tailor results to the user. So different people get different results for the same query, further polarizing the public. I do a lot of foreign country and foreign language queries.

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Piffle! Oh well, it's easy enough to google "La-Do-Re chocolate bar". La-Do-Re is the best chocolate bar I've ever had. They're incredibly soft, and almost melt if you just look at them. As such, they can't ship far so you have to get them when you visit Switzerland and eat them right away. My dear mother introduced me to them in 1976.

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Yikes! I guess I just barely escaped Switzerland the last time I visited. What do they do, drown innocent women and children in La-Do-Ré chocolate bars?

u/penelopepnortney

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Yep, they figured it out. What's amazing is that they had the sense to end work.

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Slaughtering innocent people, especially women, children, and the elderly, is a crime against humanity and every human being should care.

Did you ever read Pastor Martin Niemöller's verse on this subject?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

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I've heard of using artificial intelligence to fake a columnist. Thomas Friedman requires artificial stupidity.

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Exactly. The drones and vintage cruise missiles the West shot down were decoys. They may not even have been armed.

It's the hypersonics that got through and hit Israeli military targets -- just as in the Ukraine.

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Now Zelensky is going to have to face the music... alone.

Yep, just Z, his piano, and his...

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Ironclad lockbox! (sigh)

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All Zits Are Nasty

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Barack Obama would like to point out that "speranza" is an Italian word for "hope".

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it is easy to see this as de facto proof that China's model is not socialist.

Either that, or that socialist production is superior to capitalist production. I would think that "we're all in this together" is a better attitude than masters and slaves.

But what's really going on here is that the Biden admin doesn't want Green technology to thrive. Like the Republican Party, the Democrats are owned by the oil companies. The difference is that the Democrats lie about it.

I once heard Al Gore give his "An Inconvenient Truth" slide presentation live. It was a great experience, because he wasn't wooden in person and in fact has a great sense of humor. At one point in the presentation, Gore talked about a conversation he had had with a really smart friend of his. Gore was wondering out loud how the USA could possibly pay for the changes needed to convert to a renewable electric economy. His friend said "you have the sine wrong". Gore tried to remember his high school trigonometry and figure out what this had to do with the problem, but then he realized his friend had said "you have the sign wrong". In fact, the USA industrial expansion needed to go Green would pay for itself in new jobs and new economic activity. The problem is that it moves the profits from the oil companies to others, and the oil companies will do everything they can to prevent it from happening. Buying congress-critters is cheap and the public is easily gulled.

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Loretta should hold her smurf until she turns smurf!

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OTOH, the USA is perfectly happy to have one country interfere.

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And Democrats get flustered when Russia spends $20K 🐻

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Maybe gremlins...

The HMS Queen Elizabeth was docked in Scotland, so probably brownies 😺

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The Michigan primary has come and gone, so no need to pretend any more.

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"The Clintons are the sort of friends who are always there when they need you."

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And the ruling class themselves have ever more the mindset as described by Thorstein Veblen: only the ignorable do actual work while the truly successful indulge in leisure and conspicuous consumption as much as their means allow.

Evidently the leisure of the ruling class does not include the plays of William Shakespeare:

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;

— Prince Henry in King Henry the Fourth, part 1, Act I, Scene 2

So if the ruling class only indulge in leisure, how would they learn the things that would qualify them to rule?

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According to Wiktionary, Russian кадры is from French cadre.

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Ruh roh.

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