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According to the CBO, the top 3% of tax payers, pay more than the bottom 70% combined. The idea that the rich don't pay their fair share is a myth perpetuated by the media. Just not true.

Tariffs are one of those 'you're damned if you do; and damned if you don't'. It raises prices which fuels inflation, but it also creates jobs, which is good for the local economy.

I don't really follow sports, but if they really are more effective, and everyone uses them, then an astrisk should be used for stats form now on. If they have no particular advantage, then it's a non-starter.

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Women are far better at distinguishing subtle differences between shades than men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33ScN4D-HU

I've always had an irrational fear of driving.

Scientist estimate that there have been 5 mass extinctions in Earth's history, and that 99% of all species have disappeared as a result. Dinosaurs are just the most fascinating, so they get our attention.

If it happened on Thursday, it would have been evening. However there is reason to believe that the Last Supper may have taken place on Tuesday, since that is when, according to the solar calendar that the Essenes followed, the Passover would have been celebrated. The Sanhedrin kept to a lunar calen...

No, I think he is serious, but I am not sure I remember the exact reasoning. I think it has to do with the piano being a percussion instrument thus unsuitable for Mass. If a piano is a percussion instrument, wouldn't an organ also be percussion? Not being a musician, I'm probably missing something....

Stella wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:08 pm Does Trump really want Canada to become part of the USA or is that one of his strange jokes?

Neither one.
He's doing this to get them into a position where he has the upper hand to get what he really wants.
Not the method that I would use, but then I don't play poker.

Regarding his passage attempt through the Pyrenees he states: (We) had hoped to be able to elude them in time to cross the Spanish frontier to Portugal. But since the consuls unanimously refused the requisite visas, we had no alternative but to flee back with great difficulty to the interior of Fra...

Werfel was delayed in his trip over the Pyrenees by bad weather, which is why he was delayed in Lourdes. When able, the French Underground led them over and into Spain, and ultimately to the US.
Yet another example of when we think the situation has taken a bad turn, it is something God can use.

Our Parish in Little Rock had a guy who wasn't Catholic as our music director. Music was excellent and orthodox except for once a year, at Easter, when the baptismal promises renewal and sprinkling of water rite. They always sang the song, with a New Orleans Jazzy flavor, "Wading in the Water&...

Everyone knows...including Trump...that Putin will violate any agreement. It's a verbal line in the sand. You need to learn to read Trump. If Ukraine hands over 50% of it's mineral income to the US, but had so guarantee that the US will resist Russia continuing to attack despite an agreement, how d...

Everyone knows...including Trump...that Putin will violate any agreement. It's a verbal line in the sand. You need to learn to read Trump.

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:14 pm Compiled largely, as I recall, by the CBO.

I thought that the CBO was responsible for estimates to the bill that the House submits, but that it still needs a bill introduced for them to provide that estimate.

aussie_aussie_oi_oi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:32 pm Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies.
Trump and his supporters can f*ck off.

ONE MORE WORD LIKE THAT YOUNG MAN, AND I WILL PUT YOU ON POST APPROVAL! ~ADMIN

If Ukraine were to sign the mineral deal without security guarantees from the US, the likelihood that Russia will abide by any ceasefire agreement is very low based on how it has ignored past agreements. Would we all agree on that point? Putin is definitely a loose wheel, and a nut to boot. But lik...

... to bully people by putting them in a position where he will get what he wants from them... One man's bullying is another man's negotiating technique. All in all, here's how I see it. With the Russian invasions, the Ukraine, a corrupt nation, has had a blank check to receive economic and militar...

What he wants is an end to the war, a war which is unwinnable by either side, which has gone on for 3 years, and which benefits no one except war profiteers. Again, I agree that he wants an end to the war. But I also know that Trump is a master of manipulation. Just wondered what corner he's trying...