You Make Loving Fun   -   Fleetwood Mac




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDJLaqw5Tc&list=RDZsDJLaqw5Tc&start_radio=1

I Can't Make You Love Me   -   Bonnie Raitt




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo&list=RDnW9Cu6GYqxo&start_radio=1

“Lower-income earners benefit less than middle and upper-middle income households,” Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a center-right think tank, told USA Today.

Was that figured as a percentage of total income, or a dollar amount? When your bankroll is thin, every dollar counts.

Well, we all know it was climate change and Trump's fault.


Jeez, these Democommies are just too much. 

I will say, with all our technology expertise, we should be able to establish systems that warn people in advance.  People end up dying in these flash floods across the USA with some frequency.  My first wife, her mother lived at the top of a small mountain, and below, at the base, during a flash flood, I believe 26 people were swept away from their homes and died in Shadyside, Ohio, folks that lived along the tiny roadside stream that became a huge flash of flooding water.

It happens frequently enough that the time has come to establish a process for warning people on a national basis when this type event happens. 

Most are old enough here that they remember being trained on what to do if we have a nuclear attack.  We were instructed to hide under our desks like that would provide protection.  I am not suggesting something stupid, but perhaps a system put in place where when a certain type siren goes off, people know to scramble to high ground ASAP. 

Long overdue that we do something as a nation to prevent this type of tragedy from happening.

The Russian potato shortage that shows Putin’s economy is on the brink

Surging food prices and labour shortages are fuelling inflation and making Moscow vulnerable

Eir Nolsøe  |  07 July 2025  |  6:00am BST

When the last leader of the Soviet Union visited Chequers for lunch with prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, one topic of discussion was potatoes.

Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail, claimed Russia had 300 ways of cooking the humble spud, prompting Michael Jopling, Britain’s agriculture minister, to express disbelief.

She later posted a Russian cookbook to Jopling with the clarification: “In fact, there are 500, rather than 300, recipes to cook potatoes.”

For Vladimir Putin, Russians’ appetite for the vegetable has become problematic, however. Shortages have pushed up prices by 167pc over the past year, the biggest rise of any food.

“It turns out that we don’t have enough potatoes,” Putin admitted during a televised meeting in May, adding: “I spoke with [Belarusian leader] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. He said, ‘We’ve already sold everything to Russia.’”

Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 made Russia the world’s most sanctioned country, eagle-eyed economists have watched closely for signs of economic damage which have proved remarkably elusive.

But now surging food prices and labour shortages are keeping inflation high, driving big cracks in the economy.

“We’re basically already on the brink of falling into a recession,” economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov told a conference recently.

Could Russia’s well-oiled war machine be running out of steam?  .  .  .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/07/russian-potato-shortage-shows-putins-economy-is-on-brink/