In case you wanted to know: From the Congressional Research Service: The Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/if/if11086

The great thing, for most people, about a food being gross is that you don’t have to eat it. Is someone forcing you to eat olives? I mean, maybe you’ve just not tried fresh olives?

ahhahahahaha

If stone, they must mass a Kg or more. Dang!

It’s both!

And apparently assumed that the constitution should be re-written every 17 years or so. That’s the ‘constitutional convention’ ploy, which I’m not so sure it it’s a good idea or not, at this time. smh. we’re so fecked. wait, where’s I put my optimism… it’s around here somewhere.

I did notice Altria / Phillip Morris were also in that list. :-(

Perhaps so, alas. And the rates of obesity and diabetes continue to rise. sigh.

Imagine how much plastic waste could be eliminated if we just boycotted these companies.

How do you feel about government backed currencies?

The Real MVP! Thank You!

suddenly crickets

I’ll take indicted co-conspirators, for all 3.

My point being that one doesn’t need a fixer, unless one does illegal things. Can we not have criminals in places of power? Soonish?

“Pecker? He was just the Chai Walla. I never even knew his name.” More popcorn please.

I was curious about a specific term:

"In a pivotal stretch of testimony, David Pecker, the longtime publisher of The National Enquirer, described a 2015 meeting with Mr. Trump and his fixer at the time, Michael D. Cohen, at Mr. Trump’s midtown Manhattan headquarters.

Fixer
Noun
2. A person who uses influence or makes arrangements for another, especially by improper or unlawful means.

The outside.

WAIT A MINUTE!!! You mean Douglas Adams was actually an LLM?

Life is full of opportunities to learn. “Gotta learn something new everyday.” Here’s a bit more: There are about 6000 solitary bees that live on the NA continent. Most of them make small tunnels in the ground, and some carve holes in wood, e.g. trees, posts, etc. The ground dwelling ones on average go about 6 inches deep. So that woven plastic “landscape cloth” interferes with them. If they are beneath it when installed, they can’t get out. If they are above it they can’t make proper homes for their babies. Happy Spring!!

I prefer to vote early, by dropping my completed ballot off at the appropriate location.