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That's not subtraction ? Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days? Answer: All of them

I can't imagine a more persuasive argument for your position. And while I don't dispute its premise or logic, I respond: Any status quo has its constituency. Thus any change is likely to produce both winners & losers. I believe non-violence is a sensible principle, BUT ! I believe Jainism...

Smoke & mirrors? ... or

Not in any way to diminish or dismiss journalist Brown's valuable contribution here, BUT there's more to this story. She did NOT gain access without the vessel commander's knowledge and permission. Command of such war ship in this Trump / Iran stalemate may be more tricky politically than...

Londoners are more civilized than real people. They don't yell and howl at you when you drive on the left side of the road, like they do in this country.

Not only "like" a pyramid scheme. Social Security PRECISELY matches the dictionary definition exactly. pyramid scheme n. A fraudulent moneymaking scheme in which early participants are paid out of money received from later recruits, with the final recruits putting money in and getting nothing...

I'm not sure that's the most precise description. Seems obvious to me they didn't want to lose the general election to the Republican. I suspect any of the top 5 or so Democrats in the primary would have received DNC preference over the Republican. BUT ! S a v v y electoral political...

clarification: "required"? I don't recall having asserted such requirement. True but irrelevant. I will exclude the notable complication of the electoral college, not to dismiss its impact. Very serious! BUT ! Instead to cite the basics of the democratic process: most adult citizens in the...

That needs clarification. U.S. federal government leaves much electoral administration to the States. Thus basic standards vary widely from one State to another. Example: in New York State a voter must register as a Democrat or Republican to vote in that party's primary. In some other States...

? I suspect the distinction between party population, and national population is blurred here. Care to clarify? The superficial appeal of that idea wears thin quick. Reductio ad absurdum, if 3 is better than 2, and 7 is better than 4 then is 99 better than 56? Why not a million? Ideal ! Right...

S2 a little bit beat me to it. Social Security is by treacherous design a monumental curse on the Peoples of the United States. Social Security might be considered to have direct revenue. BUT ! Regardless of what statute requires, congress has been slushing Social Security revenues into the...

"Simple" indeed! Simple, but with the penalty of multiplying the cost of administering them, knowing that key to reducing per capita healthcare cost is $efficiency. I wouldn't assume that. Either way, ignorance is not peril. It is lack of assurance. And we have enough history to know the risks...

And how much more angry must they be to cook us breakfast? Vacuum the living room?

There are both aerobic, and anaerobic pathogens. Petro-fuels are not immune. https://www.quora.com/Can-bacteria-grow-in-the-fuel-like-petrol-diesel-or-kerosene https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7256828/

Thanks in part to Trump / Musk / RFKj policy-slashing measures the U.S. federal government is projected to add $2 $Trillion $Dollars to the U.S. federal debt this fiscal year. It appears we both oppose non-emergency deficit spending. AND ! if the debt ceiling helped to ameliorate such spending...

Aircraft carrier catapults impart force quantifiable in Newtons, in the launch vector. Why has Trump not provided US with the numerical quantifications proving antiquated steam catapults more powerful? "Often in Error, Seldom in Doubt" From...

Problem is my benevolent predisposition for prophylactic policy does not define reality. Predatory hetero cismales have exploitive intent in the era of current policy. Predatory hetero cismales will have exploitive intent in the next era of policy. My preference is that future policy not make...

Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers KONSTANTIN TOROPIN / Updated Thu, August 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM GMT-5 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its...

So she made business decisions with entertainment foresight, not antagonistic political hindsight. I do not know if Oprah would have given these doctors a hand up if she knew then what you and I know now. You seem more comfortable assuming she would. I confess my agnosticism, noting that over...

"Size matters." We can barely cram a family of elephants in a Yugo. BUT ! We can cram an entire neighborhood of pathogens in an ice cube, and still have plenty of room left over for the ice. I don't have the patience to re-research it, but in the previous millennium I read some disease can...