The system includes information on "payments to federal workers." this could reasonably include salaries of FBI, CIA, and NSA employees ("agents").
Yeah.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
why is Trump poised to start a trade war with the US's top three trade partners?
"The US government's tariffs on thousands of different goods have to be paid by the companies importing the products.
The money goes to the government who can use it as they see fit."
hmmmm...
this is the kind of Christian i grew up with, not the "i hate every marginalized person based on selective readings of scripture i can" version that seems to dominate evangelical discourse.
if you find these guys are on your side, maybe, just maybe, you're on the wrong side?
truthout.org/articles/we-...
first, question everything you believe.
what you most want to believe question the most.
work Thanksgiving cactus abloom again. it's got three more in the works.
baby it's cold inside
a sonnet showed up (i can't find poems; they reveal themselves).
a few week's work:
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B
C
B
D
E
F
E
G
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I
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J
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end rhyme is "not good" and "misunderstood."
now a year to try and get it published.
Title: "Keats in Kentucky" (not that Keats)
Ogden Nash, "The Turtle"
New Year's Eve
newly sharpened knife for the new year
Seven years ago: translating this poem as faithfully but as readable as possible became an obsession. i put it up in my blog and it got a few hits. then Penguin-Particular Books reached out to me.
the rear of a Spanish column, 1895. Cuban insurgents would let the bulk of the column pass and then do a cavalry charge into the tear, with machetes as their weapons. the few Spanish rifle-wielders would get 3 or 4 shots off (they had Mauser bolt-action rifles) before they were hacked to pieces.
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"The other remarkable thing is how stunningly unqualified everyone is. I don’t see anyone there who I think, ‘Now there’s a highly qualified person.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Nat King Cole at the Tropicana, Havana, 1958 or 1959. Cole was very popular in Cuba and in 1958 he went to Havana to record "Cole Español," an album sung entirely in Spanish. It was immensely successful in Latin America and was followed by two more in 1959 and 1962.
"Fifty would have been plenty."
Jorge Luis Borges on "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
I must say I agree.
and gnats, horseflies, and mosquitos if you live in Florida
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