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In the early 1990’s, we landed in New Orleans to meet up with friends from Baton Rouge. We had reservations at the Fairmont Hotel. It turns out that President Clinton was arriving in two hours to speak there. Our cab driver said there’s no way he can get near the hotel with traffic and blocked roads, etc. owing to the event. With the proper incentive (I doubled the fare) he said we could go through a back road and get into the rear of the hotel. He knew his stuff and we hauled our bags from the hotel’s loading area, through the maintenance supply room and into a freight elevator which took us to the balcony facing the lobby. No one stopped or questioned us. The balcony had been fortified with plywood and framing to block every elevator and stairwell besides the ones we were using. I got to an old fashioned house phone and called the front desk. After several tries an assistant manager met us and guided us through security to register and get our key. We were able to access our room and received complimentary room service.
Just a 50ish couple without any knowledge of the city, the hotel and the security apparatus. So much for weeks of planning to prevent disaster.

Teddy carried the bullet in his chest until he passed a decade later.

As of now, Charity Navigator gives the SPLC four stars. So much for charity ratings!

Maybe my aging memory is showing, but as teenagers it was simple to get a car started by having someone behind the wheel and two of us pushing the car to 5-10 mph and the driver turning on the ignition and driving away.

I thought the Valentine’s Day massacre was on Clark Street in Chicago.

Who will be the produce manager, the butcher, the fishmonger, the skilled employee responsible for the stocking and restocking,the the employee who makes sure than goods are properly received and that the bills of lading are true and correct? All these folks will either be experienced having worked at for profit markets or they’ll be newbies. The former are not hanging around seeking work. They are employed and are generally well paid and happy. Would they leave to work where those that they report to haven’t a clue about the grocery business?

Co-op groceries plowed this ground many, many times having failed miserably. Co-op styled organizations have succeeded in other areas where the commonality of the owners’ interests is the glue that makes them successful, but government owned grocery stores haven’t any of those attributes. All part of the Mamdani con.

Legalized piracy was the favorite of European monarchs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By written decree they granted a favored ‘marque of the realm’ to privateers sailing to the New World. Then royals took a cut and no one complained at least out loud. Similar to today’s Congress. Pass a law favoring a company or industry in which you buy options before others can do the same being under criminal law restrictions to which you are immune while benefiting from the same insider information.

If we were still subjects not citizens, our Queen Nancy’s might take similar advantage/ oh, they have?

Just say “please cancel my service immediately.” Repeat that a few times with variation like I want to cancel service”. I’m a senior who is being abused by your answer…”. You will get a real person. For me, it has never failed.

Yes, but now we have seen that Democrats’ platforms mean nothing. Virginia’s Governor Spanberger was a supposed moderate. Guessing that Steyer could go the same way…further left.

Pardon the punctuation.

This excuse is abject nonsense. Long gone are the days of paper accounts. Ledgers and hand or machine posted transactions Check registers are digital and cannot be lost in the sense of accidentally being discarded. There is an accounting system which has to be subject to audit if Washington state is ever again going to borrow in the public funding markets for municipal securities. Simply put, no respectable bond house would or should ever put its reputation at risk because the books are susceptible to being cooked by the borrower.

Most of the remaining South African white farmers fortunately do not need to be assisted. While often having to deal the racially charged concerns requiring extraordinary security, they are for the most part well to do and some fabulously wealthy from producing contra seasonal crops for all of Europe as well as S.A. Visit a market or greengrocer in any European city; a major segment of fresh produce originates in S.A.

Note: S.A. Blacks also need to eat and few farm for more than local consumption. For Americans, the small self sufficient farm except for a few producing low volume high markup produce like e.g., Japanese eggplant sadly are not going to survive. Major farm entrepreneurs, not corporate as much as extremely well educated folks whose life has been in farming but who have succeeded at large scale efficient production will not be selling acreage on scale for development.

Much of the planting, cultural care and harvesting is automated and/or oversight is computer directed from an upscale rig which is air conditioned and has more useful user directed technology than a new Mercedes. These are industry leaders, their kids have every advantage available, attend top ag schools and for the most part follow in Dad’s footsteps.

If the RNC had a brain, your comments would be a commercial running 24/7. But my hunch is that they only talk the talk.

Moving them out of Manhattan will take time as (from memory) they by charter own the building and the land. Suggest they hire an expert in NYC real estate, the Trump Organization, to make the move smoothly and of great benefit to all parties.

Henry Ford, John MacArthur and others are spinning in their graves.

Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker

Ogden Nash c. 1935

They is our he or she in the world dialect of trans gender uncertainty.

Let’s not forget the Wong Kim Ark decision has been used to also justify the historical meaning of ‘natural born citizen’ such that Mr. Ark would be able to become President.

‘Should have just strapped her to the car roof’ spilled my coffee. When Eli Black CEO of United Brands/ Chiquita was found to have jumped from his 44th story office window at NYC’s Pan Am building in the 70’s, one of the LEO’s who was at the scene supposedly remarked, “ look he took his desk chair with him!” Black was dealing with the scandal surrounding Chiquita’s bribes to Honduran officials to avoid their new banana export tax. A little guy who weighed less than the chair.

Stanley Ann Dunham. Her dad Stanley wanted a boy.