Make up your friggin' minds. This gets tedious after the 101st time...

 
They do this every year, and it doesn't matter which side won't budge.Here's an  interesting fact that maybe you didn't know: During a government shutdown, some employees continue to get paid, while others are required to work without immediate pay or are furloughed without pay. However, a 2019 law guarantees that most federal employees will receive back pay once the shutdown ends. 

Congressional members and the President's pay is funded by a permanent appropriation and continues during a shutdown. Social Security and Medicare also have permanent funding. Recipients will continue to receive their payments, though customer service may be limited. 

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Aerial view of John Travolta’s House and his three planes in Ocala, Florida, just north of where I am.

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Countries with the biggest food supplies are those that are top food producers and major food exporters, with China, India, the United States, and Brazil consistently ranking as the largest producers of agricultural products. Other countries with significant food supply, either through high production or efficient export, include Russia, the Netherlands, France, and Germany. 

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The FBI went to find one suspect — and left with four. The FBI says it served a search warrant in Portland where a laser was aimed at a Border Patrol helicopter during protests over the weekend.

While searching the property, agents found the suspect and three others — all of whom were illegal immigrants. ICE is now processing the four for deportation.

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A couple of completely new items from Barbara.

Buy these for you wife. She'll love them.

 Click on the picture for more information on this beautiful set

They're both one of a kind gifts - and come to you with free shipping!

 https://www.etsy.com/shop/BjacksonJewelry

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Yeah, okay, because bein' in a rickety-ass friggin' canoe and approaching a pissed off elephant in the middle of nowhere is a really good idea, huh, Ethel? People are idiots.

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Ya gotta kinda winder what kind of demented jackass would actually go to one of her book signing events - if that's even what they're supposed to be. It's the kinda thing that'd make you change your mind about wanting to be a journalist if you got stuck having to go and report on it. Juss' sayin'...

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California police officers patrolling for drunk drivers wound up pulling over a driverless Waymo taxi that made an illegal U-turn, according to authorities.

 

The 'autonomous vehicle' committed the traffic infraction in front of police at a light during a grant-funded DUI enforcement operation on Friday evening.

Would you actually get in to a taxi with no driver? I wouldn't...

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A Florida man allegedly killed, cooked, and ate two of his pet peacocks to get twisted revenge against his neighbor for feeding them. Craig Vogt, 61, was arrested last Tuesday in Hudson after placing an outlandish letter in his neighbor’s mailbox to tell her he had killed and cooked his peacocks because “she continued feeding them.”

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When the power goes out you can still 

charge your phone super fast.

And it's also a flashlight. 

Marked down today to only $ 17.09...

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I grew up in a neighborhood - the North Ward of Newark, NJ - that was predominately Italian and Irish with a coupla Puerto Ricans and Cubans thrown in to the mix. There was also that one chinese family who had the dry cleaners on Mt. Prospect that always smelled like somebody was frying fish in the basement - for all I know they might have been. Anyway, I know of at least five different stores just like that one within walking distance from our house. There was one German guy, one Jewish guy and the rest were goombahs. That's another one of those memory things that I could close my eyes and completely conjur what the place smelled like.

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