Somewhere between the Post and BabylonBee there exists an online tabloid from the UK that covers some news over here. It's called The U.S. Sun, and they've obviously been taking lessons from The Post, because bothof them had this same item on their front pages today.
This idea was easily debunked by using a random telephone survey of men and women married within the past 10 years. The study replicated previous findings regarding the timing of engagement and the 'premarital cohabitation effect' (what's not to like about that phrase?).
Those who cohabited before engagement (43.1%) reported lower marital satisfaction, dedication, and confidence as well as more negative communication and greater proneness for divorce than those who cohabited only after engagement (16.4%) or not at all until marriage (40.5%). The numbers don't lie.
These differences were generally small, but could not be accounted for by length of marriage or by variables often associated with selection into cohabitation (i.e., age, income, education, and religiousness). Similar results were found in a subsample of individuals who cohabited only with the current spouse.
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There is a short stretch of prime waterfront real estate in Miami that has come to be known as Billionaire’s Beach. It contains a mix of famous old art deco hotels such as the Delano and Raleigh, both undergoing extensive upmarket refurbishments, and the construction of exclusive new residential tower blocks with high-end apartments running into the tens of millions.
It is here on the sun-filled shores of South Beach, more than a thousand miles from the chills of a Manhattan winter, where realtors and developers are beginning to see the first shoots of what they call the “Mamdani effect”: the predicted exodus of wealthy New Yorkers in the wake of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor.
It's a vicious 'Catch-22' cycle. Poor people vote for the guy that says he's gonna give 'em all kindsa 'free' shit paid for by taxing rich folks. The rich folks beat feet 'cause they know they're gonna get slammed, so the guy who promised all the free shit can't deliver, and the poor folks are fucked once again.
And now they're stuck with some asshole who doesn't know his asshole from a sewer hole, and the city goes down the shitter. Again.
Kenny Chesney is loved by millions in his “No Shoes Nation” fan club. But when one fan took things too far, he punched him in the face to defend himself. “We were in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was playing the Steelers football stadium and I thought it was cool to come up in the middle of the of the stadium, and almost like a boxer in a way like walk through the crowd to the stage - that kind of thing, but the security got way ahead of me and all of a sudden I’m by myself on my way to the stage and I see this guy coming. I can just see him out the peripheral and walking to the stage.”
“He picks me up with his arms right at my knees and holds me up,” he recalled in disbelief. “And I just snapped, and I just I hit him right in the mouth.”
He recalled thoughts flashing through his mind of being sued, thinking, “This is going to cost me every penny that I made tonight.”
The Hill.com is correct - Democrats did not just lose an election in 2024 - they lost their minds, too. Consider, for instance, how they kicked off Women’s History Month - by voting against protecting women and girls in sports, against guaranteeing them a fair playing field.
That’s right: Every single Democrat voted down the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would prohibit federally funded schools from allowing male transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports. It would prevent girls and women from being injured by bigger, stronger biological males. And, just as importantly, it would prevent girls who have worked like crazy to excel in sports from being humiliated by a men dressed like women.
The reason they voted against it? Simple - Trump was in favor of it. That's why the majority of the shit they do makes no sense. Their hatred of Trump is so strong they will actually go against their own self-avowed value systems just to (metaphorically) spit in his eye.
That construct is more than enough evidence to convince - me at least - that these duplicitous dooshbags do not have their own constituant's best interests at heart. It's all just a power play to them. A vengefull, hate-lifted power trip.
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It's amazing - the shit you'll find at a Goodwill store...
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The US is set to loosen its fuel economy rules, reversing another Biden-era policy that had been expected to lead to increased take-up of electric cars. US President Donald Trump announced the proposal at the White House, where officials said the prior standards were not realistically achievable and were driving up costs for buyers. "They were horrible what they were doing to costs – and actually making the cars much worse," Trump said.
Ford chief executive Jim Farley, a car industry leader on hand to celebrate the announcement, called the change a "victory of common sense", while environmental groups criticised (of course they did) it as a step backward for the industry and public health.
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See the roof on the main house? Me and a buncha guys
I know framed that fucker back in '93 or thereabouts.
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This is a small sample of the jewelry
Barbara makes. Click on the picture to
see what she has available today...
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What is the absolutely, positively shittiest job you ever had? Me - did this for week in Oklahoma City back in the summer of '75. My New Jersey mind set and two-foot ponytail did not meld properly with the Okie mind set - leave it at that...
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Yeah - you go ahead and tell me that image doesn't bring back a flood of memories for you. For me? Saturday in the early 60's at lunchtime in Bloomfield center with my mother and this was the 'treat' I got for not acting like a ten-year-old asshole.
Grilled cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup, a cherry coke and after that - a walnut fudge sundae or a banana split. I'm gettin' friggin' doosh chills just thinkin' about it. Great memories...
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Barb asked me to remind those of you that may have an item 'in your cart' on her Etsy page that if you want it, you better buy it, because having it 'in your cart' does not make it unavailable for others. Other shoppers can still purchase the item if it is not marked 'sold'. Thanks...
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This is a good friend of mine at the Crown Liquor saloon in Belfast, NI. Michael has been there going on 36 years or so with no signs yet of retiring. Who wouldn't want to be the 'Head Caskmaster' at one of the coolest bars in the world? Good on ye, Michael...
A little side story. Michael was a dear friend of my brother TJ (who died a couple years ago) and he and Tom and a bunch of other guys over there would religiously watch the Super Bowl together - about a dozen guys every year for the past 25 years - at another good friend Brendan's house in Belfast. Bear in mind they all live in Ireland, so the Super Bowl doesn't even start over there until 1:00am.
I wouldn't know what Ketamine was or what it's for if you showed me, but that's besides the point The guy prescribed it, the other guy abused it and OD'd, so yeah - that Doc should go to jail.
It's the same thing as a bartender who over-serves someone and that someone gets in a car and kills someone. The bartender gets charged. Same thing should apply to a judge who releases a known criminal back on the the streets and the criminal does his criminal thing again. Should that judge not be dis-barred and charged as an acccesory before the fact in his release action? I touched on this just a little this morning, but can't find a reasonable response to it.
Let me tell you a little bit about these. I bought two for my kitchen cabinets.
They're rechargeable, held on by self stick magnets, and were real easy to
install (like five minutes). Trust me on these - they work great...
When we finally cut the string and got rid of DirecTV, I had to get something that would let us watch TV in the bedroom - the one in the living room has WiFi. I bought a Fire Stick for under $ 50.00 or so and plugged it in. I was kinda shocked to find out how much shit you actually do get for nothing - above and beyond the Prime stuff. The learning curve isn't that hard, and I do like having the Alexa voice feature on the remote.
Now there's this - Amazon announced Wednesday that it’s introducing a new AI-powered Fire TV feature that lets viewers jump to specific movie scenes on Prime Video simply by describing them to Alexa+.
“Our number one mission at Fire TV is getting you to what you want to watch—fast,” Amazon wrote in a blog post. “Today’s launch builds on that mission with this new AI-powered feature. Just describe a movie scene like you would to a friend, and Alexa+ will jump directly to that specific moment—no more searching required.”
Amazon says you can describe the scene to Alexa by mentioning details like the actor or character’s name, or a memorable quote. "Play it, Sam..."
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