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MOM ! Energy secretary says Trump administration is open to suspending gas tax amid soaring prices Chris Wright said the administration was “open to all ideas” as gas prices have shot up more than 50% since the start of the Iran war. By Megan Lebowitz / Updated May 10, 2026, 10:54 AM GMT-5...

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Indeed. There's more than one possible explanation. Among them, employment in such roles as law enforcement attract bullies. And generally bullies are cowards. ☑️ Make it so.

And that's what causes me to suspect it's motivated by deliberate malice. If that's not the reason, what is the reason?

I suspect not. Now that Trump has educated Iran on its enormous power over Earth's economies, Trump has empowered a monster. OPINION Opinion | US-Israel war on Iran The war on Iran will likely end in American retreat The American empire cannot win the war against Iran at acceptable...

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Science reveals the glory of god. - fine - No problem, until what science revealed conflicted with church dogma. They worked Galileo over real good 'cause of that. And religion and science have been estranged ever since. Called the "Dark Ages" because there so many knights ? An "interesting"...

They don't want to risk a fire-fight. If the police were the good guys, and ICE were rule-following others then those rule-following others would be safe to disarm and process according to the law. BUT ! If they were rule-following, there'd be no point in arresting them. It's a pooh-pooh...

"Good"? Perhaps. "Good" if the consequence is to discourage, diminish similar crime. What will it cost the People to pay room & board for these criminals for the decades involved? I'd prefer to see 30% of their income / revenue garnished for 20 years, diverted to the injured party.

Yeah, that was my reservation about S2's definition. It may apply today. But a few millennia before Christ? Seems to me the best way to think of it is distinguishing between body & mind. consider: trans·gen·der (trăns-jĕndər, trănz-) adj. Relating to or being a person whose gender identity...

It'll take me a while to figure out these graphs. Part of my problem is understanding the time progression. Meanwhile, not sure what to make of such wording as: So "atheist belief" is what others call disbelief? AHD defines the prefix a- as without, or not...

Decades ago I read an account of aboriginal Australians consistently scoring lower on IQ tests than the descendants of the British criminals originally marooned there. Turns out the IQ tests had Euro-centric bias. AND when alternate tests with themes like local geology were administered, the...

Oh. I didn't know they did. Now you've got me wondering why. Stockholm Syndrome? Reducing their risk of spending eternity in Hades if they suck up to the big G ? Pascal's Wager is not an argument for the existence of a god. It's an argument for hypocrisy. [ inspired by Richfrog @LL ] I'd like...

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- oops - My apology S2. There's a boundary that separates jovial levity from ridiculous idiocy. I try to sustain some cheer, so cyber-time spent here is not merely not wasted, but enjoyed. It seems my #268 may have distracted from your fundamentally if not alarmingly more important point...

a) I did not know that. b) I find China fascinating for several reasons, not least its politburo. The Soviets had a politburo too. It drove the USSR into the ditch, and out of existence. China suggests to me, the failing of the Soviet Union was not intrinsic to politburos in general, but...

What happened to the one Trump called "piggy" on Air Force One ? Has it occurred to anyone, Trump probably outweighs her?

All Einstein did was to figure out astrophysics. Easier said than done. Completing this task as Bishop Ussher did, with the degree of accuracy Ussher achieved requires a level of Biblical scholarship uncommon even within the Church. What Ussher did was to follow the Biblical timeline back to...

Casual, superficial consideration of this may lead one to make a potentially false cause-&-effect assumption, perhaps implied by the quotation. Does religion cause the crime, violence, and unhappiness? - OR - Does religion help ameliorate it?