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I cannot believe this is real.
I bought family Christmas presents obviously paying vat, tva in france, posted said presents to the UK again paying more tax. Now find out that they won't deliver the parcel until yet more tax has been paid in the UK. So basically paying 3 lots of tax on Christmas presents and yes there is nothing I can do about it

High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

We don’t let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
•Why is it that when archeologists find human remains, they always determine that they are either male or female and none of the other hundreds of genders?
•Why is it that so many are more outraged that Brittney Griner is stuck in Russia than they were about Americans being stranded in Afghanistan?
•How is it that the government can’t control gasoline prices…but the weather is something they can fix?
•We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work.—Mike Rowe
•If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery—Bill Maher
•Why were we told to lower our AC usage on hot days to prevent overwhelming the electric grid while simultaneously being told to trade in our gas cars for electric vehicles?
•Why is canceling student debt a good idea? Does it make sense to reward people who do not honor their financial commitment by taxing the people who do?
•Does it make sense to cut off oil from an ally and buy it from an enemy who calls for your death?
•Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended?
•Is this a great description of America: Andy has left town and Barney is in charge?
•Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered s*xual harassment to adults…but talking about sexuality to children K-3 at school considered education?
•Who else had a ‘ministry of truth”…Hitler…Goebbels…Stalin
•Eliminating the production of 500,000 American barrels of oil a day to buy 500,000 barrels a day from Russia is sim
ply…well…stupid.
•I saw a movie where only the police and military had guns; it was called Schindler’s List.
•If your electric car runs out of power on the interstate, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?
•Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare, illegals and free college?
•I just got a full tank of gas for $22. Granted, it was for my lawn mower, but I trying to stay positive.
•There is a coin shortage. America is officially out of common sense.
•If an 18 year old isn’t mature enough to own a firearm, then maybe five year olds aren’t mature enough to change their gender
•Sign in Texas: DON’T VOTE FOR WHAT YOU FLED
•Nobody called it “Toxic Masculinity when we were saving the world.
•Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. Just like socialism.
•The most powerful governments on earth can’t stop a virus from spreading…but they say they can change the earth’s temperature if you pay more taxes.
•Want to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers? Ban sober drivers from driving. That’s how gun control and COVID lockdowns work.
•If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his. That way a real man can stand in your place.
•If socialism is so good and capitalism is so bad…then why aren’t the caravans heading to Venezuela?
History is not there for us to like or dislike. It is there for us to learn from. And if it offends you, even better…because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not anyone’s to erase…it belongs to all of us.
This explains why the United States is not the country that I grew up in.

Ted Nugent

Often... maybe too often, when you have people commenting on a blog who have a difference of opinion to other comments on the blog, will say something to inflame another person... be it the OP or another commenter.
Sometimes it's intentional or sometimes harmless words that are are misconstrued.
Political orientation, religion, ethnic background are hot topics where one person will 'strike the first blow' in an attempt to start a confrontation, often with name calling or words intended to put someone down. Usually, the first blow won't be the last and whenever the opportunity exists, it's like pulling off a scab and allowing the wound to bleed again... striking another blow!

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Guitarist Jeff Beck (1944-2023) released an album in in 1975 titled Blow by Blow.

One of my favorite cuts was the first song on the 2nd side titled "Cause We've Ended as Lovers"

Here he is in a live nightclub performance:

What are some incidents where soldiers or officers of Nazi Germany showed kindness or were the good guys?







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Democrat President Joe Biden’s approval rating is so low that he now has a lower approval rating than every governor in the U.S., and his approval rating has dipped to as low as 18% in one state.

According to a recent Morning Consult poll, five of the six least popular governors in the U.S. are Democrats, with Oregon Democrat Governor Kate Brown having the lowest approval rating of 43%.

A recent poll from Civiqs, an online polling and analytics company, found that Biden’s approval rating is 37%, with his lowest marks coming in from West Virginia.

The full results were:
Alabama: 25-67
Alaska: 33-59
Arizona: 37-55
Arkansas: 25-68
California: 46-42
Colorado: 39-52
Connecticut: 41-48
Delaware: 39-51
Florida: 38-55
Georgia: 31-59
Hawaii: 51-38
Idaho: 26-68
Illinois: 42-47
Indiana: 28-64
Iowa: 33-59
Kansas: 29-63
Kentucky: 24-69
Louisiana: 28-63
Maine: 43-49
Maryland: 48-41
Massachusetts: 48-40
Michigan: 38-53
Minnesota: 40-50
Mississippi: 30-62
Missouri: 29-63
Montana: 33-59
Nebraska: 27-64
Nevada: 37-55
New Hampshire: 44-48
New Jersey: 45-44
New Mexico: 38-53
New York: 44-45
North Carolina: 37-56
North Dakota: 23-71
Ohio: 30-61
Oklahoma: 22-71
Oregon: 42-48
Pennsylvania: 38-54
Rhode Island: 44-45
South Carolina: 29-62
South Dakota: 27-66
Tennessee: 25-67
Texas: 30-61
Utah: 28-62
Vermont: 55-36
Virginia: 38-53
Washington St.: 44-46
West Virginia: 18-77
Wisconsin: 39-52
Wyoming: 23-72

From Patti (Rosehipster)