BTW, those that were responsible for the brickwork in #2701 should take lessons for whoever laid the ones in #2700

 

Your comparison is completely bogus. The ancient road has been carefully rebuilt to show to modern tourists. And the ancient road didn’t have to carry heavy motorized vehicles. All you have demonstrated is that a carefully built road with no traffic looks better. So what?

 

Your comparison is completely bogus.
All you have demonstrated is that a carefully built road with no traffic looks better. So what?

Thank you for pointing that out, I would never have thought of that!

 

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When the police say they've found your stolen car it's usually not good news.

 

My great grandfather's tomb, He was Mayor of Monterrey back in the 1920's ... exactly one century ago. A street in my hometown is named after him... acknowledging what we owe to those that came before us has always been important to me.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture...ctivism-some-organizers-already-hate-n1278913

CBS announced a competition show about activism. Some organizers already hate it.

The blowback comes as the role of social media in activism remains a topic of debate, particularly whether so-called “slacktivism” actually achieves anything substantial.

Adam Gismondi, director of impact at Tufts University's Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, which conducts non-partisan research on college civic education and participation, said the initial backlash is unsurprising.

“The marketing of this show amplifies the more cynical aspects of activism that some may see as performative,” Gismondi told NBC. “It emphasized the celebrity factor, it emphasized that it’s a competition and it made activism appear, in some ways, to be a zero-sum game.”

NSFW language

 

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https://www.kptv.com/jeff-bridges-s...cle_eaf9f5a6-1f46-5b16-8d4a-cb32c7cd8c53.html

"While I had moments of tremendous pain...getting close to the pearly gates, all in all, I felt happy and joyous most of the time. This brush with mortality has brought me a real gift — life is brief and beautiful," he wrote. "Love is all around us and available at all times. It's a matter of opening ourselves to receive the gift."

 

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

- G. Marx

 

Engineer Invents Enclosure to Protect Cars from Flood Damage After Hers Got Totaled​

Here’s the genius part: she designed it for the zipper line to sit above the point where the enclosure begins to float, keeping the contents inside safe and dry.
“Once it starts floating, it’s like a boat,” Abraham says. “You can move it with one hand.”

 

Citizenship back?
What say you?

https://www.independent.co.uk/indep...hamima-begum-gmb-interview-news-b1920714.html

 

We had one a while back that wanted to come back home but was barred from entering the US. Hot news item for a while that died out. No idea of how it was finally adjudicated. The adage "You made your bed, now sleep in it" comes to mind.

 

Citizenship back?
What say you?

https://www.independent.co.uk/indep...hamima-begum-gmb-interview-news-b1920714.html

I've got no skin in this game but it seems she made her bed, slept in it and got bed-bugs. I can't see her as being very dangerous but there's also no reason to let her back in after the stunts she pulled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58573501

Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria as a teenager, says she will regret joining the Islamic State group for the rest of her life and has offered to help the UK fight terrorism.
She told the BBC she could be "useful to society" and it would be a waste to let her "rot" in a Syrian camp.
The 22-year-old is accused of playing an active role in IS - she denies that.
Sajid Javid is standing by his decision to revoke her citizenship.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I agree, but how young was she when she did those actions? I think she should be treated as a juvenile offender (because offend she indeed did). But given her an adult's punishment, and a permanent one at that, seems a bit harsh to me.

 

I agree, but how young was she when she did those actions? I think she should be treated as a juvenile offender (because offend she indeed did). But given her an adult's punishment, and a permanent one at that, seems a bit harsh to me.

She's alive, healthy and young. I think she will manage somehow.

 

It wasn't so long ago that she might have been found guilty of treason, if so, the penalty would have been death!

 

On an allied note, the subject of 'draft dodgers' as they are known.
I knew and worked with a few US citizens that made a move across the border into Canada to escape the draft in a time of a US wartime conflict, I can sympathize with those that do not agree with their governments position on a subject and feel strongly enough to 'get out of Dodge'
And leave their country, as is their right, but morally should they be allowed to return when everything they opposed has ceased to occur and died down, mainly on the backs of those that stayed and stuck it out, for better or worse?.
I have mixed feelings but tend to come down on the side them losing citizenship for their chosen 'desertion'.


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I have mixed feelings but tend to come down on the side them losing citizenship for their chosen 'desertion'.

A hard thing to judge indeed ... I'm on the fence on that one...

 

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