Texas supermarket chain HEB’s flagship stores, Centeal Market, would do very well in NYC. I’m sure others as well. There are excellent stores in NYC, but some really shitty ones, too. I think they’ll be fine.
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There is a lot more oil in Iran.
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its what guys used on the hair back in the '50s…it left grease spots on everyhting it touched.
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This may be what’s stopping Donnie from pulling the trigger: gas prices if we attack Iran. He knows what effect that would have on his popularity, and the American public isn’t exactly behind foreign wars these days. Israel has not been hitting the Iranian Navy, so they can probably lock up the Persian Gulf for a while before the U.S. Navy cleared it. NYT Liveblog:
Iran retains the naval assets and other capabilities it would need to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could pin any U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf, American military officials say.
In meetings at the White House, senior military officials have raised the need to prepare for that possibility, after Iranian officials threatened to mine the strait if the United States joined Israel’s attacks on the country.
The narrow 90-mile waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the open ocean is a key shipping route. A quarter of the world’s oil passes through it, so mining the choke-point would cause gas prices to soar.
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Always heartening when the world’s wealthiest man looks at a product and thinks " Hmmm…not racist enough."
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Texans take HEB for granted. Just amazing stores. CM is great too, but for just awesome everyday shopping, HEB has no national peer.
When people ask me what I miss about Texas, I always say, “HEB grocery stores and some friends.”
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An unrepentant non-believer profiting off of Bibles IS American capitalism.
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lol, the iranians aren’t stupid…thy know who is running the USA and IMO,are well aware of exactly what the USA is willing to do.
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brylcreem!
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First you kill them, then you fix it the RED state ones
Senate leadership ponders rural hospital fund to sway megabill holdouts - Live Updates - POLITICO
Senate Republican leaders are working to assuage a group of key megabill holdouts — “the Medicaid moderates” — as they try to lock down votes next week for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota and Finance Chair Mike Crapo of Idaho are in talks with Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Josh Hawley of Missouri, among others, over how to address their concerns that scaling back the provider tax, which many states use to fund their Medicaid programs, would negatively impact rural hospitals.
“I’m looking at whether there would be receptivity to a provider relief fund that would be aimed at rural hospitals, nursing homes and community health centers,” said Collins, one of the lawmakers taking a lead in drafting a plan for such a fund and who had lunch with Hawley on Wednesday.
Senators are still hammering out how much money would be put into the fund and how the cash would be distributed. Thune told reporters that Republicans are currently discussing “potential options” in hopes of bringing some wary lawmakers back on board.
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a critic of the Senate Finance Committee’s overhaul of the provider tax as a means to capture savings, said he “hasn’t seen details,” but if there’s a way to recoup money for rural hospitals, “I am good.”
But while cautious optimism for a compromise is growing in the Senate, it remains unclear whether there’s anything GOP leaders can do to win over Republicans in the House who are deeply disturbed by the other chamber’s maneuvers.
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nailed it
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I think she might have more problems than that?
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Thus the continued use in the '50s of the antimacassar, which I remember. I assume commercial interests kept it from being renamed the antibrylcreem.
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But me, I expected it to happen.
I knew he’d lost control,
When he built a fire on Main Street,
And shot it full of holes.
B Dylan
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Instead, the rapidly improving ability to impressively mimic human language poses an existential threat to traditional methods of crafting smarter minds—which thereby challenges the future of human cognition.”
I think the argument is, “we” no longer need to know how to think: to put together thoughts, convincing arguments, rationales. The machines – guided by algorithms crafted by “our betters” – can handle that faster and more efficiently, with fewer “errors.”
While some may consider that a chilling thought, the relief from studying and homework plays to “our” inherent laziness and reluctance to make our children do anything they don’t want to. If these trends continue, we’re doomed.
It’s a warning.
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It’s fitting that it took place in Texas. They have lawyers who specialize in industrial explosions.
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sorry to hear that, it sounds like a neat vacation
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Trump wouldn’t know. He never gets past the first one…female=stupid.
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Waiting for the day SpaceX has one too many ‘move fast and break things’ moments with people on board.
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