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Unfortunately, that would effectively be a vote for Trump.

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I, for one, had not known that (tho' I am not Jewish). Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Google for "Intuit lobbying."

It's not literally bribery; it's corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

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That's a separate issue from pay scales. Quality of the courseware should be enforced by the institution regardless of pay rates.

But I am also curious, which campus is this?

... and chips (Frito-Lay).

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That's an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

If your employer is a great corporation then they will not mind paying a fair portion of their profits toward taxes.

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I don't think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.

So ... we were supposed to skim instead of read. Mea culpa -- I was reading instead, trying to understand the arguments and get the points. I was weary by the time I got there.

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I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.

Agreed. For the Senate race, Katie Porter is the progressive choice, endorsed by Elizabeth Warren.

https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2024/02/07/katie-porter-is-the-progressive-choice/

Her competitor, Adam Schiff, is the old-school Nancy Pelosi choice. He has been running ads that boost the Republican Steve Garvey in an attempt to eliminate Porter from the race.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making -- quite nicely.

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From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well -- alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

I was sure that Buddy had done this, in "Elf", but I looked it up and that had been maple syrup. This looks even better.

Let's have all three. They are not conflicting goals.

I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.

Is that the "woven" one? It's my favorite.