Jeffrey Ganong
@Disciple_Jeff
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It takes a great man to be a good listener. - Calvin Coolidge
Maine
Joined June 2012
COMMANDER: We’re fighting for freedom. And part of that freedom… is the freedom to retire with dignity. So we’re going to start accounts called 401(k)s. SOLDIER 1: What’s a 401(k)? COMMANDER: It’s a retirement account. You put money in, it grows tax-free, you take it out when
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Just watched a pretty girl with I’m assuming her boyfriend during boarding (Paris- JFK, we are delayed already) sit down in a business class pod, have him take photos, stand up, look at the photos. Now holding up the whole line. Not like the photos, sit down again. New photos -
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In addition to “somehow the emperor has returned”, the Rise of Skywalker doesn’t bother explaining how is it that the emperor in hiding has build more ships than the Empire at its peak ever managed. How? They don’t even bother trying to explain
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A hilariously bad metaphor, if you know how collectivist heating worked in the USSR. In Soviet Moscow, they had a centralized heating system for the whole city. Heat was centrally generated and then distributed through a network of pipes to houses and other buildings. The
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
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Well done. 👏
We’ve tried decades of laissez-faire in New York City, time to give government a chance
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The “Home Alone” house in surburban Chicago sold for $5.5m earlier this year (it has a half basketball court and home theatre). Another reason to wonder what Kevin’s dad — who took 9 people to Paris for X-mas and wore a Burberry jacket with a wad of $100s — does for a living.
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I wish more senators followed the example of the former Senator from Nebraska. Praying for him and his family. May God be gracious.
Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.
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Next you'll tell me that consumers themselves are in on this, shopping for the same product in different places to find the lowest price!
Right now, Instacart is quietly running experiments on millions of us while we shop for groceries online. They are trying to figure out exactly how much they can get away with charging you for breakfast cereal, lunch meat, pasta, and everything in between. How do I know? 1/9
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No Planet Money! Not the Fake Graph! You can't compare mean productivity to median wages. When we do compare mean to mean, the gap disappears. Real median wages are not stagnating either. We need accurate data to solve today's very real problems. @planetmoney
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Happy Thanksgiving! May we never forget the blessings the Almighty has seen to grant us, no matter what is happening in our lives.
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The number of civilians employed by federal departments and major agencies in the U.S.
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If you feel like you're bad at your job and it's making you depressed, just consider that, as the investigation of the recent heist revealed, the password to access the Louvre's videosurveillance system was "Louvre".
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Winter is coming...the pellet stove has been cleaned and activated.
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"The Myth Behind Daylight-Saving Time" https://t.co/nCnGpM2C5o "Daylight-saving time’s original selling point was to reduce energy use by making sunsets later in the day. New research questions that claim" Just another failed govt program, kept alive by cronies
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can’t believe it happened again
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Larry Bird held out of Celtics training camp in 1982 until Red Auerbach finally conceded to his demand for “A smaller version of me who will keep the team hydrated.”
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Cmdr. William T. Riker on the socials. Shared in our FB group.
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