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Tax-payer paid ads?

Does America need a dictator? I ask because that really is what a strongman is. Does America want a dictator? Do we (the people) really want to live in a country that is not free? Do we really want to live in a dictatorship?

Here are points:

°The press was banned, in violation of the First Amendment, by president Trump, from covering news.

°The government is using the people’s money to pay for political campaign ads.

°Armed agents of the government shoot Americans in the back on the way to work.

Just things, just stuff

Of interest, or just plain interesting:

I think it’s a fire curtain for use during construction

Prints from the Friends of the Abolitionist Place made at a Poster House workshop

Doggone

If your pet could talk, what would be the first thing it says?

Could it be anything other than feed me?

Mr. Fig Newton is a friend’s pet. Follow him on IG.

Yes, maybe it’s rub my belly, take me for a walk, then feed me.

Oz

I’m still immersed in Ozzie slang so today I got this: then they got into a barney.

That guy’s a bogan, and that’s why they got into a barney.

Thanks Packed to the Rafters!

In Bosn-Engleski

There’s a common theme in the return home stories on YouTube @rahatland.official.

The word merak pops up. It’s a version of dolce fa niente. Relax doesn’t begin to explain it.

Community or neighbor (unless you’re Mr. Rogers) can’t translate as komšiluk or komšije.

“We should go for coffee” isn’t the same as Ajedemo! ☕️.

The one I am watching today has an “American girl” going to Bosnia to live with her husband who grew up in Holland. Her tale is full of two languages, lots of English mixed in.

In fairness, they were born abroad. Their return is to a heritage not a place where they lived.

Happy Labor Day (reblog)

9-to-5, the day shift, or 12-to-8, the graveyard shift, it’s all work. And work calls upon workers to labor daily or overnight. Labor day celebrates those of us who work for a living, in factories, at the United States Post Office, in hospitals, shops, offices. Thanks to New York’s Labor Day Parade in 1882, and […]
Happy Labor Day

Allergic

The 110 Grill is a chain restaurant that prides itself on its diligent fight against allergies.

Well, it’s not fighting allergies per se but it will protect all and sundry of its customers from contact with any allergen.

Even allergens that are not on its menu.

There is a protocol which requires that the manager deliver the order to the table with the above marking although clearly the manager is not delivering an allergen to your table.

There was no danger of my order triggering an allergic reaction.

My allergies, which I regretted reporting, were nowhere on the premises.

Felt like charming overkill at this branch of the chain was in Lenox MA.