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House rabbit parent (Panda & Redmond), board wargamer, aficionado of classic movies & TV (especially the spy genre) & their actresses, alternate history, fashion history, vintage pinup & the Napoleonic (Bonaparte, not Solo) & Edwardian Eras. #SlavaUkraini
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Too late for me, sadly.
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Indeed. Consider women's high-fashion gloves. Women stopped wearing them after the 1980's & I thought they were done for, but they've enjoyed a real revival over the last few years.
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He started going off the rails a long, long time ago. That whole Thailand fiasco was a warning sign too many of us ignored at the time, ascribing it to simply being a matter of ego.
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Which, indeed, is why I like that dress so much. I admit to being a fashion reactionary but I think haute couture has, in the main, gone downhill over the past 30-40 years.
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Not one of my favorite Beatles songs, TBH; when I got the greatest-hits compilations "1962-1966" and "1967-1970" back in the late '70's, I liked "Please Please Me", the song immediately following "Love Me Do" on that album, a lot better. (IIRC "Love Me Do" was their first big UK hit.)
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Hollywood producer Merian C. Cooper ("King Kong") was awarded the Virtuti Militari, Poland's analogue to the Medal of Honor, for his feats as part of the American-volunteer Kosciusko Squadron during the Russo-Polish War, just for the record.
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Quite true, and that fact shouldn't be obscured just because the appeals court slowed things down for whatever reason. I mean, you-know-who wouldn't have blown up all over Truth Social overnight if it'd been a nothingburger.
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...cheap beer pitchers like the Harvard/Yale joints described in the OP thread, and so did Mr. Gatti's, which also had cheap all-you-can-eat buffets (I ate lunch there at least once a week and so did a lot of my friends & acquaintances). In fact, I watched the last episode of M*A*S*H there.
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...the local franchise of a regional pizza joint called Mr. Gatti's & a bar-eatery called The Crow's Nest (ECU's sports teams were & are called the Pirates - Blackbeard's stomping grounds were off the NC coast not far from Greenville). The Crow's Nest's food was strictly pedestrian, but it had...
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EVERYTHING was better when we were kids.
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By which I mean that the courts still seem to be fixated on the proposition that, even when something is manifestly illegal, the defendant has to be given the opportunity to have their appeals heard out, even when the situation - as with SCOTUS' decision today regarding refugees - is urgent.
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My guess is the OP is referring to the injunction itself ordering the tariffs to be struck down, which has been placed on hold pending appeal. I can see where it could be regarded as a fairly tricky distinction, though. The problem is that the court system is still wrapped up in "the process".
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...holding a tight grip on power in Nicaragua (hell, even Bianca Jagger, who was a Sandinista supporter in the 1980's, turned against them long ago & is now a leading regime opponent!) But then MAGA seems to not care about such things anymore, don't they?
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...and that Nicaragua is currently ruled by the Sandinistas, which, if you may remember, the US got so exercised about in the 1980's, but which they've lost interest in since the end of the Cold War...with the result that the FSLN is once again the authoritarian socialist party...
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...that Thalberg's decision to give two key juicy roles to Shearer instead of Davies was probably the trigger for Davies' life partner William Randolph Hearst to end Marion's contract with MGM and switch over to Warner Brothers.
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...have been known to mate & get pregnant again within hours. I like to say that neutering/spaying, by removing the source of those hormones, lets "the inner bunny" come out in full blossom so that they can exhibit their real personalities.
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One might find it hard to credit at first, but aside from the aforementioned issue, there's a good deal of evidence that unfixed rabbits don't actually enjoy sex that much. They're driven by their hormones to such an extent that does that have just given birth...
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Aside from territoriality, another very good - in fact, urgent - reason - to have your rabbit doe spayed is that unspayed does have a terrifying high chance of developing serious reproductive-system disease, including cancer, before they reach 3 years of age.
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I doubt he wrote the tweet in question from last night - too grammatical - but the sentiment is definitely his (he may have dictated it). The wonder is that he hasn't detonated on this topic before now.
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Even "fixed" bunnies continue to mark their turf, by dropping poops. Fortunately, bunny poops (cecotropes are a different thing entirely) are at the low end of the poop-grossness scale, so we house-rabbit humans just roll with it, collect the poops & toss them back into the litterbox.
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Among the many reasons to ensure that your new pet bunny is neutered/spayed as soon as they get old enough is that they will mark their territory - does in particularly are so territorial that they'll attack a buck who strays onto their turf - by peeing everywhere.
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Howard Hughes has only himself to blame (even if he tried to pin some of it on the Breen Office) for dawdling so long with releasing "The Outlaw" (though he did succeed in making Jane Russell a celebrity before he finally deigned to send it to theaters).
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I get the first two, but what's your beef with philosophers?
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(Serious talk, if she'd been around a few decades on from the Thirties - Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, take your pick - she'd have been a defining supermodel of the period. She had everything needed, from the figure and attitude onwards.)
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Yet another exhibit for the proposition that some people get so wrapped up in trying to make a "knock-down" point that they lose track of/neglect to proofread what they're writing, and end up saying the exact opposite of what they meant to say.
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Time to revive the #kayeveryday tag. Legendary clotheshorse Kay Francis in costume for this movie.
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As they say, it's hard to keep track of the players without a scorecard. The final split could get really crazy; I just opined that Clarence Thomas could get so angry at the attack on his friend and patron Leonard Leo that he ends up forming the decisive vote to uphold CIT!
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One of the craziest outcomes could be that Clarence Thomas, mortally offended by the attack on his longtime patron, sides with the liberal women and Barrett (who has been, from where I sit, a real surprise this year) to uphold CIT.
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Also, the vicious attack on Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society could scramble things up (though the tantrum appears, judging from the grammar and syntax, to have been written by someone else).
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Based on their earlier ruling regarding the Alien Enemies Act, my own WAG is they'll uphold CIT, but, as they did earlier, point out that there are other legal authorities that would have answered the purpose better.
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No, it got stayed pending appeal.
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They didn't overturn the injunction (not a stay), they put a stay (hold) on it pending a full appeal. This will definitely go to SCOTUS.
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(Which makes me remember the additional black-comedy touch of the "KABOOM" cereal box - when was the last time you saw one of those in the stores?)
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...in "Kill Bill Part 1", where Uma Thurman's character, the Bride, has tracked down the first of her targets & is confronting her in her kitchen, when the other woman's daughter suddenly comes in...and BOTH women shoo her gently out before going at each other.
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I've not seen this show myself, but my wild-assed guess is that the character in question had scruples preventing him from killing a small child (depending on whether the child in question, was, in actuality, just a kid). Quentin Tarantino, of all people, handled this better IMHO...
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For political power...except that, in the end, as with everyone else who's hitched their wagon to this particular dysfunctional star, it went supernova in their faces. (I've been feeling darkly humorous all morning about how Leo & Thomas are going to deal with this.)
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Damn you for making me open this thread. What has been read cannot be unread.
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Bolster (7)
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...150 years old, and the leather is also fairly well soiled at the toes), leather - possibly kid - high-button boots with scalloped edge and interestingly shaped edges on the toe uppers, dating from 1875.