The Big Swiss Machine now gives us “President’s Day” off. I think we had all narrowed our gaze at the folks in Switzerland, due to the vast number of days off they get, and then scowled northward at the Leafs, who have invented stuff so they have a day off, at least, every month. Since we make all the munniez, they decide to throw a sugar cube to us toiling beasts.
Now, I find the day a complete farce – when I was a mere youth, we had BOTH Lincoln’s (Illinois – Land of Lincoln) and Washington’s birthday off. Dag nabbit!
But they squished them in with retards like Carter, Wilson and Biden now. Gah.
Anyways, lets do some Presidential links;
- We always have to start with A-1, George Washington
- Lincoln wept.
- A thumb-sucker about how bad Wilson was.
- Hey, even the Swiss have one!
Comments are open and yours.
I honestly never thought they would do away with the penny.
My thought was to go the opposite direction and make them out of copper again so that at least a little bit of the US currency was based on an actual commodity.
But what do I know.
Fiat rules, just loop off a zero.
Thell come for the nickel next but be fun I g for the next zero with the dime.
I believe one big reason was that they were losing money hand over fist making them.
The government worried about losing money? WTF?
The penny, and all coinage in general (including dollar bills on up) is a service that the government should provide for the citizenry. Period. No different than the postal service.
IMO the reason reason behind it is a slow incremental push towards digitalization.
The British need to be taught how to round up things? No wonder they’re doomed
Our European friends/clients basically just ignore us for a month or two in summer and the last month or two of the year, so we don’t try to get anything out of them.
Is xe just a figurehead like the German Bundespräsident?
Folks still commenting on the AM Lynx are wondering how anyone is able to comment on this page. Do you have to be posting via mobile? (Only way I’ve been able to.)
Testing. Brave on mobile.
I noticed all the tags are displayed in a list that I had scroll past in order to get to the post.
Me too on Chrome and what I can see has odd formatting.
If the browser is narrow enough, it works ok for me, so portrait mode on my iPad is functional but not landscape.
Aha!
Shrinking my browser window moves stuff around enough to comment.
good catch
Testing…. brave on desktop with a narrow window.
Huh. Maybe.
There go the avatars….
Though I’m back to posting at my normal width.
I have one kinda like that. https://ibb.co/JRXRqW31
You also have Conan books.
This is best in life!
And Mulder and Scully Mexican candles.
I live in a decent personal timeline.
And Stossel.
Most of the books on the shelf I have read.
The big pile on the floor that just fell over…. Not so much.
Office has needed a deep cleaning and reorganization for a long while.
Hey look. Make a very skinning window and I can see stuff.
It may be an issue with the header.
yes. The header is a hundred individual lines on my browser.
When I F12 and hide I can read and comment.
“When I F12 and hide I can read and comment.”
These euphemisms.
I have groveled before webdom and am performing the appropriate propitiations.
Does an F12 car even have an engine, or is it a Flinstones foot powered car?
Now, I find the day a complete farce – when I was a mere youth, we had BOTH Lincoln’s (Illinois – Land of Lincoln) and Washington’s birthday off. Dag nabbit!
But they squished them in with retards like Carter, Wilson and Biden now. Gah.
The official federal holiday is Washington’s Birthday. Lincoln was dropped.
That write-up of Wilson seems pretty damn accurate.
The real proof is if a proggie’s head explodes by reading it.
I’m working on it! Something somewhere updated and it borked us.
Thank you! At the moment, NOT maximizing your browser and narrowing the browser window seems to make the page usable for the time being (and/or possibly using mobile.)
We appreciate you!
Fully operational now! Thank you very much!
Oh my gosh! It does! It’s a
Presidents’ DayWashington’s Birthday-But-Not-Really miracle!