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What took so long ?! Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great. - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693) Water's better.

Trump says he's launching 'economic D-Day' on Iran and warns other countries The president wrote in all caps on Truth Social that he was launching "the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country!" https://www.yahoo.com/news/ D.J., You're a liar. The whole world knows it...

Sir Winston Churchill said the U.S. and the U.K. are separated by a common language. A little less common than Winston suggested, perhaps. X X X AA victim Paula Poundstone avoided problems with bottled wine by drinking wine by the box. I recommend Rhine wine. - smooth, balanced -

NASA mission to save its sinking space telescope fails Aug. 19, 2026, 4:54 PM GMT-5 / By Denise Chow A mission to prevent a NASA space telescope from coming to a fiery demise in Earth’s atmosphere has failed, the agency announced Wednesday. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched...

It's not about qualification, it's about ad hominem. CitizenVoice is intended as a welcoming refuge from Trump administration crisis fatigue. A qualification squabble doesn't qualify. If it's not worth reading, it's not worth posting.

PBS News Hour reported the U.S. federal debt exceeded $40 $T. Yep, $Trillion with a $T. "What's pernicious about deficits for conservatives is this. It makes big government cheap. What we're doing, we're turning to the country, the "conservative" administration turns to the country and...

ad hom? We can do better. John Wilkes (to John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich): -Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox. - Earl of Sandwich replied: -That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. - So to insult...

That's not a refutation of fact. It's contempt, dismissal of process. I understand an mRNA flu vaccine CAN differ on molecular level from the legacy variety. Must it absolutely do so? That the conventionally manufactured molecule can't be manufactured with mRNA, indistinguishable by its process...

- OR - The two obvious criteria for such observations are: a) Authority, as S2 #538 suggests. OR b) Validity. I haven not studied this. But from what little I have gleaned from headlines over the decades I'm left with the impression the product, the actual vaccine is not intrinsically defined...

"I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading." Lord Conesford I'm pro-choice, I prefer only the choicest cuts of cattle.

Indeed, thanks for the clarification. I hadn't intended to conflate the two exactly, except: a) There's more to my #1,944 than scare quote parsimony. It reflects my contempt for contempt. Is one that hates hate a hater? b) "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because...

Can we rule out the possibility this is a current issue because the bureaucrats involved secretly enjoy tormenting queers? Or is this government so incompetent it can't find a way out from under? Is there a rational reason the DMV doesn't implement a 3 gender standard, M, F, & O ? Is there a...

Appeals Court Upholds Right To Film Police—but Grants Immunity to Cops Who Arrested a Connecticut Videographer The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police. C.J. Ciaramella / Tue, August 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM GMT-5 U.S. Court of Appeals...

source: PBS News Hour 26/08/18 Hmmm I wonder why.

News | Russia-Ukraine war Russian attacks kill 10 in Kharkiv as Ukrainian drones hit Moscow Russian attacks reportedly killed 10 people and injured eight in Ukraine’s Kharkiv. By Al Jazeera Staff and AFP / Published On 18 Aug 202618 Aug 2026 Ukraine launched more than 620 drones at Moscow...