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I am reading Footfall right now!

Incorrect. The analysis found that 11.8 million CURRENT recipients of government healthcare would be off the program by 2034. Most of those are people who shouldn't be on it now...people in this country illegally, people who can work but don't, people whose economic situation has improved and they can get off government healthcare.

We don’t deserve this administration.

Growing up in South Florida, square grouper - AKA large bales of pot - would wash up periodically on our beach. The smart thing to do was call the police and have them take it away. Every once in a while someone would get greedy.

One of the kids that went to our school found such a treasure and went into business for himself. He used the proceeds to buy a Firebird.

Within a week it was on fire in our student parking lot.

The message was clear...don’t take what isn’t yours.

The point is that all it takes to “start” a nuclear program is competent scientists and a lab.

In a matter of months (maybe) they could find some nuclear scientists somewhere and start setting up a new lab somewhere.

And glitter covered unicorns could come flying out my a$$...

McMillon’s Bar-B-Que in Pompano Beach, Florida is very good, however...

A white person going in person is putting their life in danger. Go with a black friend or better...send a black friend to pick it up.

They are already here.

I moved from Florida to New Mexico 20 years ago.

I had been making low 6 figures in Florida. While I didn’t expect the same in New Mexico, I was shocked to discover that I could get barely half that. As I was told…

“You’re not in Florida anymore.”

Real estate was much cheaper here. Homeowners insurance is MUCH cheaper. But other things are about the same…food, auto insurance, entertainment, etc.

I decided to start my own business, which pretty much means I have no freakin’ clue how much I really make because my accountant helps me look as poor as possible. Gross revenue? Gross profit? Net profit? Depending on what you look at we are either doing pretty good or horribly.

I understand the privacy concerns. But these devices can be very helpful.

I wanted one to track my physical activity…you know, count my steps, log my exercise, etc. The Apple Watch also tracked my sleep and seemed to indicate that I didn’t. That was weird. So I did a sleep study. It seems that I have severe obstructive and central sleep apnea. Life threatening. I would not have known if not for the watch.

The watch also gave me a record of my heart rate, which is particularly slow. I was able to use this info to show my doctor that I have an abnormally slow heart rate. Because we were tracking this, we discovered that I developed AFIB when I had no symptoms. Treatment will hopefully keep me from having another stroke.

In both cases I had life threatening conditions that I would not know about except for the Apple Watch.

Honey I cried the day I left you
even though we knew I couldn’t stay
but baby, remember,
I’ll be back September
Until then I’ll write you everyday!

Julie, Julie, Julie do you love me?

That doesn’t work for everyone.

I guess she missed the DOZENS of times Trump stated that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

I should have put the /sarc tag.

Or we could just shoot them and save a lot of money.

Keep an eye on the Nimitz.

This is the same guy that got a job as a SQL programmer with absolutely no knowledge of SQL. He was able to fake his way through the interview by skimming SQL for Dummies and he figured that if he got the job, he would THEN learn it, which is what happened. I think he might have been promoted from that job to his present +$100K tech support job.

Millennials should be called the Grift Generation.

I don’t know how this fits into your version of the universe, but I have a friend who teleworks...two jobs.

For one he is tech support. He was full time with this job for years in a call center. When COVID hit, he became a teleworker. He earns about $110K a year from this one.

At the beginning of COVID he was afraid his hours/job might be cut so he took on a work from home position, part time, in customer service for another company. This started out as a “second” job, but over time they increased his hours until he is working full time. He earns just over $90K a year from this one.

He now works full time for both companies...at the same time, mostly...earning over $200K a year, combined.

Yes, there are some hours where he isn’t working for one or the other. He mentioned that for a while his schedule for one company was 7:00am to 3:00pm and the other was 10:00am to 6:00pm, with “only” a five hour overlap, but now they are both mostly 9:00am to 5:00pm.

He uses two different computers for the two jobs and I think he said something about one or both of them using VPN tools.

The fear of one or the other finding out about his little set up nags at him everyday, but the pay is so good, he is going to keep it going as long as he can.

You think Trump is somehow changing direction on Iran? You haven’t been listening...

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple — you don’t have to go to too deep into it. They just can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (6/17/25)

“I want to see no nuclear weapon in Iran and we’re well on our way to making sure that happens.” (6/16/25)

“You can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon.” (6/14/25)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. We’re not going to allow that.” (6/11/25)

“You have to view them as people and I don’t want it to be a violent thing, but they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.” (5/16/25)

“I want them to succeed. I want them to end up being a great country, frankly, but they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (5/15/25)

“I want to make a deal with Iran, I want to do something if it’s possible, but for that to happen, it must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons.” (5/14/25)

“Iran can have a much brighter future — but we’ll never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or a nuclear attack. The choice is theirs to make. We really want them to be a successful country … but they cannot have a nuclear weapon.” (5/13/25)

“We want it to be a great country. Let it be a tremendously successful, rich country … but they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (5/6/25)

“I want Iran to be really successful, really great, really fantastic — the only thing they can’t have is a nuclear weapon. If they want to be successful, that’s OK. I want them to be so successful and, you know, the Iranian people are incredible — I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon because the world will be destroyed.” (5/4/25)

“Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (4/17/25)

“Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon.” (4/14/25)

“I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country — but they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (4/11/25)

“You cannot allow [Iran] to have a nuclear weapon.” (2/10/25)

“It’s very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” (2/4/25)

President Trump made the same pledge no fewer than 40 times on the campaign trail and even earlier:

“Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons are the greatest single threat to our country, but to the entire world.” (11/3/24)

“I would have been very good to Iran. They — I had to have one thing, no nuclear weapons. You can’t have nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons are the greatest danger to our country going forward, to the world going forward.” (10/29/24)

“And all I wanted was Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon … That’s all I wanted. Very simple. You can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (10/28/24)

“We don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” (10/23/24)

“I didn’t want much. I wanted Iran to be very successful. I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.” (10/16/24)

“You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.” (10/14/24)

“I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple.” (10/10/24)

“I only wanted one thing. You can’t have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.” (10/7/24)

“No, they can’t have nukes. No, they can’t have nukes.” (10/7/24)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon — and now they’re very close to having one and it’s very dangerous for the world, very dangerous for the world … The biggest problem today, in my opinion, the biggest risk is the nuclear weapons.” (10/1/24)

“All I want them to do is not have a nuclear weapon. They can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (9/30/24)

“The only thing is [Iran] cannot have nuclear weapons.” (9/26/24)

“I wanted one thing from Iran — no nuclear weapon. I didn’t want much — no nuclear weapon. And now they’re very close to getting it, and you can’t let that happen.” (9/19/24)

“All we want is we don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. That’s all we want. We don’t want you to have a nuclear weapon.” (9/17/24)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. We just can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. I’ll say this. If they do have a nuclear weapon, Israel is gone. It’ll be gone.” (8/27/24)

“I don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.” (8/23/24)

“I just wanted to have a deal with Iran, very simple deal — can’t have a nuclear weapon. That’s it.” (8/23/24)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. And we were all set to make sure that they don’t have a nuclear weapon. Because once they do, it’s a whole different world, it’s a whole different negotiation.” (8/15/24)

“Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon — it’s very simple.” (8/8/24)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” (8/5/24)

“Iran should not have a nuclear weapon … Iran should never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.” (7/10/24)

“The main thing is Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. That was my main thing. The deal was a simple deal. Iran can’t have a nuclear. You know, it can’t have a missile, it can’t have a nuclear missile. It cannot have that nuclear capability.” (6/20/24)

“We have a very hostile country that wants nuclear weapons. You can’t let that happen.” (6/15/24)

“Iran should not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. They would never have had even close to a nuclear weapon. They are very close to getting a nuclear weapon. You cannot let that happen.” (5/15/24)

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon — very simple. They cannot have a nuclear weapon.” (5/1/24)

“You can’t let Iran have nuclear weapons.” (4/30/24)

“Iran wanted to make a deal, and what the deal — 90% of the deal that I want to make is no nuclear weapon. That’s 90% — almost 100%. It might be 100%. That’s all I want. No nuclear weapon for Iran” (3/25/24)

“I want everybody to be happy. They just can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (2/23/24)

“I just didn’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I said, ‘You know, we’re going to make a great deal. Everybody’s going to be happy. You’re going to be rich as hell again. Everything’s going to be great, but you cannot have a nuclear weapon.’” (1/20/24)

“They cannot have a nuclear weapon. That was the only thing — the one thing I said, ‘You cannot have.’” (1/5/24)

“I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.” (1/5/24)

“They will have, within a short period of time, nuclear weapons — and that is never something that can be allowed to happen.” (12/30/23)

“No nuclear weapons. You can’t have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the single greatest threat to this world.” (11/9/23)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. That’s all. They can’t have nuclear weapons. It’s too destructive, too powerful. They can’t have it.” (10/29/23)

“Don’t let Iran have nuclear weapons. That’s my only thing I have to tell you today. Don’t let them have it.” (10/16/23)

“No nuclear weapons. You can’t give [Iran] nuclear weapons.” (7/15/23)

“You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let it happen because bad things will happen if that happens.” (6/24/23)

“IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” (1/6/20)

“Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons!” (6/22/19)

“We can’t let Iran get a nuclear weapon. We can’t do it. Can’t do it. We cannot let that happen.” (1/24/15)

“We can’t allow Iran to go nuclear.” (11/4/11)

I think his position has been pretty clear.

Ummm…I see in the story fake ballots going to Florida and Mississippi.