Vietnam Vet wrote:
Little Emily is a little Democrat
Can’t you just laugh at a joke, without inserting your political bull feces?
Bronko was a fullback and linebacker.
Just to clarify: There was no such thing as the Curse of the Babe. The red sux just choked, weren’t good enough to win, for 85 years.
Beautiful animals, terrific photographs. If they call rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming a sport, I guess this is too.
Reuss Griffiths wrote:
So does that mean that each flower bud on a head of broccoli is a broccolo or a broccolum
Yes, and again, another diminutive. Brocco means sprout or shoot and each of the buds is as you said, un (a) broccolo.
LWW wrote:
A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.
Knew that; Italian words are either masculine or feminine. Masculine words end in “O”’ in the singular and “I” in the plural. Spaghetto is the diminutive of spago, which means string or twine.
Sunlight reflecting off Tommy Lee Jones’ visor.
Beautiful planet; we should start treating it as if we intend to be here a while.
Horatio wrote:
LOL!!! I am just so sick and tired of this entire mess. It seems that there is no one willing to give us honest and accurate information.
The scientists are, to the best of their ability. It’s everybody else, the self proclaimed experts and those who believe them, causing the problems.
Doddy wrote:
Nice one. You wont have difficulty finding that in the Airport car park!
Park it at the airport and you probably won’t find it. Ever again.
Woody99 wrote:
UHH folks, don’t forget legislation from 2001 to the present. Starting in 2001 all of Congress, both Dems and Reps passed legislation concerning the financing of the USPS retirement plan and future healthcare costs of retirees. A certain percentage of USPS profits must first go to cover the USPS retirement plan and retiree future healthcare costs before any other expenses are covered. This year I believe 5.6 billion dollars are allocated to this fund before any other USPS operating expenses are covered. Blame the Congress both Dems and Reps for this. The Presidents Bush and Obama both signed this legislation. This I believe was done before Trump was elected, so don’t blame Trump.
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The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which requires the Postal Service to prepay health and medical benefits for 75 years was passed into law in 2006. Bothe the Legislative and Executive Branches were controlled by republicons at the time. President Obama had nothing to do with it
One of the biggest problem the post office faces, maybe the biggest, is that it operates under a business model that requires them to prepay retiree healthcare and medical benefits of approx $5 Billion a year. That money would certainly go a long way to improve service and efficiency. They’re required to do this by a law enacted in 2006, when the Legislative and Executive Branches were controlled by the same party trying to undermine confidence in and cripple the Postal Service today.
jerseymike wrote:
Well I grew up in Hells Kitchen, NYC. I have lived in Bay Ridge on 95th between 3rd and 4th Ave. I know Brooklyn also the city. I now live in the 70's in the city. The Brooklyn he migrated to is dead. Like most parts of the city the immigrants knew the value of an educated child/children. Their children became educated and gained employment and moved out of the city and took their parents with them. That void was filled with people not so interested in education and the advantages an education offers.
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That’s simply not true. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and I’m back in the old neighborhood about once a month. Yes it has changed, but that’s the nature of immigrant neighborhoods, change, as each new wave of immigrants arrive. Mitchell’s Drive In is gone, but kids are still playing ball in Dyker Park. When I grew up there, the neighborhood was mostly Italian and Jewish. We replaced the Irish, and Germans. They said the same things about us. We were “different,” had no interest in education, etc. Now the neighborhood is mostly Asian. Can you think of another ethnic group as dedicated to educating their children? Brooklyn isn’t dead, it isn’t worse, it’s changed. And the only thing that never changed is that everything always changes.