I agree. But nobody cares. You must be as old as I am.

Even more amazing: weeding. Some people go into the zone out there pulling weeds. To me it was always torture – mental and physical.

If I lived in one of those states, is there anything to keep me from signing in, collecting the money, and vote Dems anyway?

Cool. But the goals are almost beside the point. This action makes people associate goals that I agree with, with being an asshole.

Yes, I do. And yes, it is evil. It has already started in red states. That’s why we are against it.

I’ll clap for that!

Yep. https://maddogpac.com/

Here’s another: https://votevets.org/

When I was a high school junior I wasn’t old enough to go to one.

“I like Ike.”

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.

What do non-Americans think it is?

I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.

I don't think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.

Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

… and chips (Frito-Lay).