Melania was born in Slovenia in 1970. Paris Hilton was born in 1981 in NYC. 8 really doubt that they were bff in middle school.

Did you take down the YouTube short? It's marked as unavailable.

What gets me is Trump's attempt to paint Mamdani as an extremist.

For someone like me, who was an adult during the heyday of the pinko tree hugging left, Mamdani is a wishy-washy moderate./2

Actually, the term 'communism' derives from the Paris Commune of 1870. So it's been around for 155 years - I mean what's the difference between a thousand years and 155 years after all?/1

Go read "Fear drive my feet" by Peter Ryan.

* 19 years old
* Dumped in the middle of the New Guinea jungle
* No maps and a dodgy compass
* Hundreds of Japanese soldiers nearby
* Have to walk 60 miles across a mountain range and cross a *big* river (think Mississippi) to a camp known simply as Bobs

It's worse than that. The reason the indictment paraphrases the agreement is that the actual document specifically describes the property as a holiday house. It explicitly says it's not her primary residence.

The indictment is fraudulent.

Paul Krugman has an interesting take. He points out that the concept of reducing inflation by supporting the currency has been tried many times before in South America. On every previous occasion, the policy failed, and there is no evidence that it will succeed this time.

It's only those cities and counties that voted against Trump that are subject to military action.

For those who wish to read the original article, here's a link to the Financial Times

www.ft.com/content/ac9e...

This lawsuit is perfectly reasonable with perfectly straight forward logic:

1. All those not for me are against me
2. Anyone against me is lying
3. Since they are lying it must be defamatory
4. Profit

Ahhh, brings back memories. An example of a IBM model 370/148. Probably had around 1MB of ram. See the guy in the background? He's standing next to a string of 8 model 3330 DASD (disk) drives - each of which was 90MB in capacity. Yep, that's 720MB of disk, enough to run a bank or insurance company.

Easy, go look at the Chinese experience. Most Chinese economic figures are gun decked, so much so that even the Politburo can't get the true figures.

Patrick has a lot of experience working with proxy numbers to build a good set of estimates.

The sheer number of de minimus packages tends to overwhelm the system. They make up 80% of packages and generate negative revenue.

Removing the de minimus exception simply raises the processing costs, thus reducing the income raiised /2

There is a reason that the de minimus exception exists. It costs between $10-$20 to assess a simple package - one where the assessment is performed mostly automatically - and it may well raise only $1-$2 in taxes. Also there's payment processing fees and the issues of handling uncollected parcels./1

For the record, the characters translate as "For handicapped persons use only".

How someone got "Love toilet" from that is beyond me.