I just want to tell you both, Vader betrayed and murdered your father. Good luck.

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□ [“84-Year-Old Pelosi Breaks Hip After Nasty Fall Down the Stairs in Luxembourg"]

Old people and stairs, amiright?  Mitch McConnell just had a fall too, injured his head last week and he's been pushed in a wheelchair since.  But that's why they get to be in charge.  It also helps that they're rich and don't have to put up with the 'poor people' doctors like the rest of us.  But being in Congress, they probably don't even need to pay for the doctor in the first place.

Haven't seen Nancy make any public statements, just to let her fans know she's doing all right.  At that age, any fall might mean she's not doing all right, but the left has so few icons that this just comes off as one more old person who sends their messages out.  Trump's close enough to that so it's not just being anti-leftist.  There's respecting old people who managed to make it this long and there's telling them to get off-stage and enjoy their remaining quiet years.

Given the timing of two prominent Democrats having this happen, naturally I suspect it's not a coincidence.  No idea what it means, maybe they're all just boozing it up and things like that will happen.  I don't pay much attention to McConnell, but I wonder what Nancy will do about this.  Perhaps her wig fell off during the fall and we'll get footage of that for Christmas.  Or maybe other Democrats will become louder about it being time for her to go, even though she's already filed for re-election in two years.

Random question, how long until Nancy is able to leave the hospital?  How often until she's able to return to the USA?  Any chance that this could be a made-up excuse to keep her out of bounds when someone she's schemed after for years takes control?

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□ [“Syrian Rebels Desecrate and Destroy Assad Family Tomb"]

So do these people know they're getting rid of the regime founder's corpse or are they just taking down whatever they find from the overthrown government and a tomb makes as much sense as any?  Notice there hasn't been much news on Syria, although that's understandable.  Never mind all the other things going on, the conflict going on here is probably very deep in the populous.  Then there's the way it just happened all of a sudden.  If you gave any thought to Assad a month ago, would you have expected this to happen?

□ [“Six Druze Villages in Syria Request to Join Israel"]

Biological Arabs asking to become part of Israel?  This is what the 21st century is doing and we're not even a quarter of the way through it yet.  Even a quick look at them shows how complicated things get very quickly, effectively a branch of Shi'ite Islam that keeps their religion private from outsiders and believes in reincarnation.  That's probably a vast simplification but just based on that, how do you expect to understand anything about these people?  And that's just one small group in one part of the world.

So Turkey and Israel are getting involved, what are Iraq and Jordan doing about this?  And by extension, Iran and Saudi Arabia?  Those are just the nations in the vicinity, never mind the individual groups moving around.  If we're lucky, they're mostly about protecting themselves and attacking each other, so there's less to worry about on the world stage, but this is a big deal which isn't getting enough attention.

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□ [“Trump Vows to Abolish Daylight Saving Time: ‘Inconvenient and Costly to Our Nation’"]

This is one of things about Trump that is still annoying.  This isn't remotely a big deal and seems a waste of political influence.  With his age and experience, Trump should know he has a very limited amount of time to get anything done.  I don't much care if DST stays or goes, but I'm willing to think other people would disagree.  I have the same reaction to jobs like waiting tables where most of the income is from tips.  How could anyone want a job like that, and yet lots of people prefer it.

Although there had been discussions for a long time, DST mostly became known from the war years and more-or-less permanent after that.  I will admit that's a vote against it, just because it was Woodrow Wilson and FDR pushing it on the US and by extension, the rest of the planet.  One negative aspect is that it's just government deciding it can change things as it wants and everyone else has to obey.  Makes you wonder what secret actions are taken during that missing hour as a loophole.

The only real benefit seems to be for those regions that are far from the equator, so the hours of day and night change dramatically across the year.  So that does make sense and such a change would probably have to be imposed on the nation as a whole.  Like I say, I don't really care whether we do it or not, I'm as annoyed by people whining about it as I am by doing it.  I don't really mind the novelty of the change either, but some people might disagree.

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□ [“DC Food Workers Vow to Make the Incoming Trump Officials' Restaurant Experience Miserable"]

There's the natural human response of saying 'no they want, they couldn't be that stupid.'  Then there's realizing that this is 2024 and Washington DC natives are almost unanimously Democrat.  Harris won 90.3% of the DC vote, second place was Vermont with 63.2%.  They're leftists, of course they could be that stupid.  And they're surrounded by their own kind.

It will gain support for one of Trump's better ideas, moving as much of government as possible out of DC.  I do admit that being a capitol city means that's where government is mostly located, but there must be limits and I support Trump and his people finding some.  But this is going to create a lot of problems for the businesses that harass their customers like this, especially since those customers have some legal and financial authority.

Then there's the internal conflict that business owners must be facing, how can you be a loyal Democrat and still tell your employees that they must treat customers fairly?  Maybe if they just do it to blacks who voted for Trump or work for him, that's fair, isn't it?  And they should include an exemption when they repeal the law on taxing waitress tips.  They want the government to take their money, that's what'll continue to happen.

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