I wonder what they gifted.

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From the no-pics daughter: In the 1700s rich people in England would pay hermits to come live on their property. "Garden Hermits".

They were provided with basic ("rustic"?) room and board paid, but they had to live as true hermit - no going into town to drink, no shaving off their beard, etc. I'd never heard that before. I looked and found this article that talks about it:

"The Honorable Charles Hamilton, an 18th-century British aristocrat and member of Parliament, was explicit in his advertisement. The ornamental hermit he was recruiting to live in the sprawling gardens at his Painshill estate in Cobham, England, must be silent, never speaking to the servants who brought him his daily meals. He must wear a goat’s hair robe and never cut his hair, nails or beard. Shoes were out of the question.

If and only if the hermit fulfilled the terms of his contract, living in solitary contemplation without stepping foot outside of the estate for seven years, he would be rewarded with £500 to £700 (around $95,000 to $130,000 today)."

So, rich people decided for a time to decorate their expansive gardens with actual people, living as hermits.

I know there has been recent good news on earnings and GDP and etcetra, but the S&P 500 in my opinion is way overvalued. The Fed has indicated more rate increases are in order. The effect of past increases is delayed. I see a recession happening in the next 6 months. The market has had its best half year in many years. Time to short the market. And I did in a big way today. Perhaps too early in the day, but we shall see. I may go broke or get rich(er). I make mistakes all the time. I took profits on TSLA in the 170s and it kept going up. It's all fun.

What are your views on the market?

and biosnesses are going to boom.
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Does “Doc’s Sport Book, college football” still exist in hard copy… or is everything now electric?
Asking for a friend…who does not work for the DCI!

Harris biggest nightmare is:

A group of Black male voters in Pennsylvania told a local reporter that they didn’t consider Vice President Kamala Harris to be Black prior to former President Trump's comments on her race.

On Saturday, CNN host Michael Smerconish showed a clip of local CBS news affiliate reporter Joel D. Smith speaking with a group of potential Black voters at a barbershop last week regarding their opinion on Harris.

"Is Kamala gonna make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?" Smith asked the men.

Before answering the question, one of the men addressed the barber, saying, "Greg, hold on Greg. Is Kamala Black, yes or no?"

"I’m gonna let her speak on that, but to me, no," he responded.
The man then turned to the others sitting next to him and asked the same question.

"I share that same view," one responded.

"I heard she wasn’t," another said. "I heard she’s half Black and half Asian."

During his show, Smerconish mentioned he had played an audio version of the clip on his radio show Thursday and noted he had since received feedback emphasizing those men did not represent the Black community overall.

"When I played that audio on my Sirius XM radio program on Thursday, many callers who self-identified as African-American were quick to tell me that those men were the exception, not the rule. Some described them as low-information voters, no different than you'd find among Whites," Smerconish reported.

He also noted the clip was recorded prior to Trump’s contentious appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday. During a Q&A event, Trump said Harris changed her racial background.

"She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage," Trump said. "I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black?"

Commanding figure, ready to lead global affairs. Her gravitas is undeniable. Another puppet regime courtesy of the left. Selected, not elected.
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A small town police department raided a small town newspaper and seized all their computers.

A small town magistrate signed off (OMG) on the search.

Small town newspaper may own the police HQ in about two years.

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They have now announced they plan to layoff 15,000 people.

Government money at work. $8.5 billion in grants. $11 billion in loans.

This op-ed casts her in a favorable light. Not nearly as aggressive as I'd like her to be, but might be better than I thought.

On a scale of 1 to 5, one being a total looser and five being super awesome, how pathetic are you?

Libs, your move.

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Damn impressive!
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As authorities sought to piece together the puzzle of glaring security failures in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Secret Service vowed to find out what went wrong at the Trump rally as soon as they figure out who left cocaine in the White House.

"One mystery at a time, people," Secret Service spokesperson Jeanine Harper. "We'll get right on that once we finally get to the bottom of this conundrum about who could have possibly left a bag of cocaine in the White House. All in good time."

Federal agents reportedly remained stumped regarding the source of the White House cocaine despite working closely with President Biden's son, Hunter, to follow the trail. "He's the cocaine expert," Harper explained. "His knowledge of blow and where it can be obtained and preferred hiding places is invaluable. We'll figure it out one of these days. Once we do, we'll totally get to the bottom of the whole Trump shooter thing. Trust us."

Sources within the Secret Service disclosed that agents had agreed to Hunter's plan to have him purchase large quantities of cocaine and stash them in various places within the White House to help investigators hone their skills.

At publishing time, government insiders said they believed solving the issues surrounding the attempted assassination of Trump would be just as easy as learning the identity of the Jan 6 pipe bomber.

Something I thought was interesting, so I wanted to share...

This weekend I went to the Kimbell Art Museum - it's a pretty good museum here in Ft Worth. One of the things they have is Michelangelo's first-known painting. He painted it when he was 12 or 13 years old. It's WAY better than anything I could have painted when I was that age, or now, or ever.

Anyway, I found the story of the museum acquiring the painting pretty interesting. The museum's art director was on his second day on the job when he learned the painting was for sale. The authenticity of the painting was still kinda in question, so it was a huge risk.

"“I said to myself at the time, ‘If we don’t buy it and it ends up being Michelangelo, it’s something I’ll regret for the rest of my life,’” Lee said. “‘But if we end up buying it and it ends up not being Michelangelo, it will be so much worse.’”"

So, two days in and this guy has to make a career-defining decision.

He decided to buy it, and experts later confirmed it was authentic.



Anyway, I thought it was interesting.

You hear their songs come on and you’re not motivated to change the channel, it’s just “Meh…”

Classic rock I’d say Jackson Browne. Not bad, just does nothing for me. Springsteen is another.

You?

She beats him at every turn. The polls, cash raised, crowd sizes, energy. Every comment he makes, every boast, she is able to disable. Even his Fox debate proposal was dismantled by her. She says she is happy to consider the Fox debate, but Donald must do the ABC debate first.

You can answer or avoid. Up to you. I'm just curious how you think Trump will own the world when he can't even own Harris.

Same question..this time with the Illni (leaving out the interim guys)

😳

On a scale of 1 to 5, with five being the most empathetic, how empathetic are you to your fellow humans?

From UI:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The University of Iowa men’s basketball team will face Utah State in the 2024 Hall of Fame Classic on Nov. 22 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, it was announced Monday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

The 2024 Hall of Fame Classic will showcase a college basketball doubleheader as Wichita State and Saint Louis will join the Hawkeyes and Aggies in Kansas City. Specific game times and broadcast assignments will be announced at a later date.

Tickets for the event will go on sale Sept. 10 via the T-Mobile Center box office and t-mobilecenter.com.

The game will be Iowa’s first contest in Kansas City since the 2009-10 season when the program faced Texas and Wichita State in the Guardians (CBE) Classic. Iowa competed in the 1955 Final Four in Kansas City and it will be the program’s 12th game in the city all-time.

Iowa is 3-1 all-time against Utah State, including winning 94-75 in a neutral site game in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Dec. 18, 2021.

Stocks Crash in Biggest One-Day Drop Ever as Global Market Rout Intensifies​

Japanese stocks experienced their biggest daily loss ever on Monday, August 5. Fears of a US crash have begun to ramp up.

The Nikkei 225 index of leading stocks in Tokyo went down by 4,451 points. It’s the biggest drop in history. The index has closed more than 12% down. That takes its losses since early July to 25%, entering bear market territory.

Japanese Stocks Crash in Biggest One-Day Drop Ever​

"That was a crash. It smelled like 1987," Neil Newman, head of strategy at Astris Advisory stated to CNN. Neeman was referring to "Black Monday" in October 1987, when global markets plunged and the Nikkei lost 3,836 points.

The dow is set to open 1,000 points lower. Wall Street’s “fear gauge” - the CBOE Volatility Index - reached its highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic.


Stock markets around the world react at as U.S. recession worries mount. How much of this is triggered by the thought of Kamala Harris being elected President?

zero members in the pro football hall of fame.

Nothing to do with OP's mom, to get that out of the way.

I did flank steak yesterday and was going to soften it up with lime juice, but read that pineapple is actually much more powerful. So I blended some fresh pineapple with soy sauce, garlic cloves, and a little red wine. I marinated the flank steak for 2 hours, which was way too long because the flank steak actually became mushy. I guess I should have only done it for 30 minutes to an hour, or stuck with limes. What do you guys use for this purpose? Always looking to improve the process...