Stay safe!

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Yara, You have a beautiful soul. Thank you for all the beauty that you share.

The Labour party is much like our Dem party. Shifted hopelessly right.

We need an opposition party. At least the UK setup makes other parties viable.

It won't be too much longer!

I love the variety of wildflowers we have here in the Highlands.

Back in my youth (1950s/early ‘60s) the USA had a top marginal income tax rate of 91%. Not so much to raise funds for the government, but to prevent the kind of wealth inequality which plagues us today. I seem to recall some European countries with top rates at or above 100%.

Easy question: War is very lucrative. As USMC Gen Smedley Butler said back in the 1930: War is a Racket.

Neither party is on our side.

Reps and Dems are offense and defense on the same plutocratic, neoliberal, anti-working-class team.

We need an opposition party.

Beautiful!!

You are a wonderful ambassador for Ukrainian culture.

Thank you for sharing.

The biggest problem with the New Deal is that it did not go nearly far enough in restraining capitalism. The result is rebounding, unfettered capitalism giving us our current extreme wealth inequality and Trump's excesses.

Both parties are part of what got us here.

So sorry to hear this. Wishing you healing and comfort in remembering the man he was.

I lost my father when I was 32 and now, 45 years on, I still miss him.

I understand.

I think a big part of it is that athletics (especially at the professional level) is one of the very few instances where meritocracy holds validity. Success there does depend in substantial part on hard work as well as luck.

I am old enough to remember that. I recognized it immediately. My father had a co-worker who drove one for a while.

I have never visited Twitter. I can live with that.

Nice ride!

I was 54 when I bought an almost new Honda S2000 in 2023. I drove it seasonally and cared for it for 20 years, less than 50K miles, and sold it for a little more than I paid for it. I simply aged out of driving it because of a bad leg. Loved driving that car on mountain roads in WV.

But we had Merrick Garland as AG and he did not want to appear political, and dragged his feet until the clock ran out. He would not even have done that, but for the House committee investigation putting his DOJ to shame.

I am old enough to remember (late 1960s) when the price of a full size American car was less than $3,000.

And having great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few seems an unavoidable consequence of capitalism.

The New Deal did not reign in capitalism nearly enough.

True enough.

We need an opposition party.

Why a word limit if you have things to say? I have read more than one 800 page book.

That is a big part of why I love you and your son!

As the old song says, "I want to wake up in the morning where the rhododendron grows. . ."

Will the Dems ever allow any candidate who is not an unappealing neoliberal? I don't think so.

We need an opposition party.

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.

I think the main problem was the candidates being unappealing neoliberals, rather than being women.

I realized nearly 30 years ago that a computer could be programmed to do my well-paid administrative job. I have been asking for almost as long what will happen to all those workers no longer needed? Euthanasia?

The founders feared "mob rule," aka democracy.

See also the undemocratic Senate (not even elected until 1913) & Supreme Court.

The House was the only nominally democratic part and it has very little power, particularly in foreign affairs and treaties.

When I was in college > 50 years ago (Hist & Pol Sci) it was common that half my grade depended on good writing, not just providing the right answer. That was a very good thing.

I have had much better luck at urgent care in OH and WV.

My one experience in FL was what you describe, and worse. I waied hours for no apparent reason, and even though my insurance paid 100%, they demanded a hefty deposit that they never did refund.

Her appeal is not limited to the young. I am near 80, and AOC would easily be my first choice.

But then I have been retired for 20 years and have the luxury of time to pay attention to politics and current events. I did no always have that luxury while working.