Actually, sir -- I did nothing except cross the border to head toward Québec. I used to go there every few years to practice my French (although the accent isn't quite textbook French).
Oddly, it was not the French speaking Canadians who were rude the last time I was there. It was the English speaking ones who exhibited the same attitude I've often seen in Europeans who just don't like Americans period. I vowed I will never return to Canada in my lifetime because of this.
I have no issue with your country as long as you stick with the UK in the future. Stick with William and Catherine and we will both be happy. I see no reason to add people who do not like Americans as a member of our union of states.
Free Cananda from the U.K. and Hapless Harry and Megnut will run over there and volunteer to be their new "royalty". The Canadians would probably agree because of tourism and you'd end up having to deal with those two dingbats. Best to let Canada deal with its own business and we'll mind ours. And we can send Harry back to Charles and Camilla.
There should be a penalty put on the Democratic party for stealing the election (aside from prison sentences) a few billion dollars in fines should do it. Bankrupt the Democrat party and the individual fortunes of everyone involved.
I am terribly sorry to hear about your Dad. And also sorry for the additonal stress that assuming the role of care giver has placed on your family.
At one point in my life, I cared for my mother (a recovering Guillain-Barré and cancer patient) and my mother-in-law (an Alzheimer's patient) simultaneously. So I, if anyone, understand the physical and emotional drain care giving takes.
My prayer for you is that God grants you an abundance of strength and courage to see through each day. And also the ability to find joy amidst this responsibility. May God shower you with blessings.
If you're right and this is "fear porn" people should be more careful what they say. I'm old and I probably don't have a great deal of time left anyway so nothing much is going to scare me. But I don't see the point of terrorizing parents of young children who have the weight of responsibility on their shoulders to try to keep their babies safe. Or children old enough to read the papers and watch tv news --it's cruel to go on with "fear porn" for the sake of these innocents.
I don't even see why things must be brought the precipice for the dummies who haven't wised up yet. Again, why terrorize the innocents to educate the dummies? If they haven't got the message by now; they never will. So to me, their feelings shouldn't matter anymore.
Why the constant playing around with these Democrats? Plain and simple -- they pass these laws -- arrest them, put them in jail without bail, and leave them there long enough to make Jean Valjean's sentence seem short. I am quite sure enough "charges" can be "found" to keep them there forever if need be.
The Jan. 6th prisoners walked through a building and have been incarcerated for years. So I don't see the hesitation to deal with Democrats in the same manner in which, they have dealt with others.
I only know what he told us at the time. And that was that his tuition (private university, not public) was paid by Social Security. Nobody thought anything of it at the time. Our group was in our late teen/early twenties. So such things didn't really matter to us.
We just thought it was a waste of money when we truly became adults and he never worked a day in his life after attaining the equivalent of three degrees in unrelated fields.
I doubt they will cut Social Security for the elderly. They might cut the funds from Social Security that are diverted into areas that have nothing to do with supporting the elderly in their retirement.
When I was a university student, a fellow I knew had his college education paid for by Social Security because he was a "late baby" and his parents were long retired by the time he hit university age.
Now this fellow...oh brother! He eventually ended up with several "career paths" as a result of his various educational forays. One of them would have given him a six figure annual salary, one of them would have given him a steady but modest income, and the third was in a creative field which depends mostly on luck -- so that may have netted him a living (or maybe not).
After all this "education" -- the jackass married a girl who came from a wealthy family (and had a job that would guarantee her a modest income) and proceeded to sit on his duff for most of his life while she brought home the bacon.
All this Social Security funded education went for nothing because he did nothing with it. I often wondered if it was because his dad never worked when he was growing up (being old and already retired). It wasn't as if he had the best male role model for gainful employment to emulate.
Anyhow -- this is the kind of thing they'd probably cut out. Paying college tuition for the children of retired people.
NOTE: This was in the 70's. I assume they still do things like this.
Give him a walker. Then investigate the guy up the kazoo. His latest stunt (an election held for senate leader before the new senate is seated) is just another attempt to derail the President's incoming agenda.
However, I am sure the old coot has plenty of skeletons to unearth. They just need to look.
This is a related tidbit you have to see. It appears Luigi Mangione has public support!
I know you guys don't like tik tok that much but what this guy says is simply incredible.
Is it wrong of me to say that not only do I not care what Nobel prize winners think -- I do not care what any foreign country or their representatives think either.
I am so tired of these people and their hubris. They have such an elevated opinion of their own importance that they actually believe they can dictate choices made for a country that isn't their own.
They need to mind their own business.
Not at all, my dear. Some people become terribly ill around cigarette smoke. I sympathize with your addiction and hope you can overcome it, but until you do -- you'll have to understand that others do not want to share in 2nd hand smoke.
Well..IMHO (for what it's worth) along with prosecuting these pedos -- they need to bring the parents of these abused children up on charges of child neglect and whatever else they can get them on. What responsible parent allows their 13 year old child to "party" with adults? I am not talking about family festivities with granny and gramps on holidays! What was this child doing at this party with adults who were not family?
If these parents are so money hungry thst they offer their children's innocence up to these predators -- they need to be sitting in jail right along with the pedos!
You might want to do some further reading on the subject.
https://www.healthline.com/health/does-nicotine-cause-cancer#nicotine-and-cancer
When I was a little girl (maybe around 6 years old) my great uncle John (who was a several pack a day smoker) took out a white handkerchief. He took a deep drag off his cigarette and then held the handkerchief up to his mouth and blew through the fabric.
I recall being horrified as this pristine white handkerchief developed a brown spot where he'd blown the smoke through it. He said, "I want you to remember this and never smoke when you grow up. It's too late for me. But think what this does to my lungs."
My great uncle eventually died of emphysema.
I don't care what this fellow says about the so called "benefits of nicotine". It causes emphysema and lung cancer.
I'm okay with this. President Trump lost a lot money in legal fees defending nuisance law suits because of harrassment by the Democrats. I am 100% for him doing whatever he needs to do to recoup his losses.
He suffered through all that for us. So let him merchandise whatever he wants.
I can't specifically speak to technology degrees but as for "foreign students" being more "intellectually gifted" -- that is a load of hogwash.
My daughter told me years ago that the foreign students in her university classes had cheating down to a fine art. Now these fine ladies and gentlemen took the places in medical schools with their "stellar" GPA's that were the result of such methods. Places, that would have gone to American students had they not cheated their way into better grades.
People might wonder why none of the American students blew the whistle on them. I certainly would have -- but my daughter is among that generation of kids who were brainwashed since their first day of school to believe that if someone has more pigment in their skin nothing should ever be said against them. So I am not surprised that in an atmosphere where grades determine the future, she and her fellow poor brainwashed saps sat by and let their opportunities be stolen.
My point is -- I sincerely doubt this tendency toward dishonesty in academics is restricted to the pursuit of entrance to medical school. So if Musk believes that extra pigment equates to extra brain power I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell him.