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Greetings, Dave. I see the green message is gone.
No 419 problems for me at this point.
Now to go back to using preview.
Thanks again for the good work.
Hope you get some time off for a reward.
Now... if only the rest of the Octogenarians would follow suit.
One down. Many more to go.
Is it time to revolutionize the toilet?
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Published Feb 27, 2024 12:23 PM EST | Updated Feb 27, 2024 12:26 PM EST
(Seems like the White House and Congress would be good places for these. They generate a lot of feces.
I think I'll pass though.)
(CNN) — Consider the toilet — that humble porcelain bowl that spirits away our waste several times a day. It’s not a piece of technology that often gets flashy updates (though dual flushing, seat warming and electronic bidet features can certainly elevate it), nor is it a darling of the design world.
But toilets are in desperate need of an upgrade — as is our entire approach to sewage, according to the many designers, environmental engineers and sanitation experts hoping to bring about a paradigm shift.
Flushing our waste is, well, wasteful, accounting for nearly a third of indoor water use in US homes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In many parts of the world, the use of water toilets has become increasingly fraught as climate change ushers in extreme droughts and flooding, which backs up sewers and overflows septic tanks. In disaster zones, or places without access to running water, the need for innovation is even more urgent.
Rethinking how we deal with waste may also present an opportunity: Our excrement can be converted into renewable heat, electricity and fertilizer.
“Waste is not waste, it’s a resource,” said Arja Renell, a Finnish artist and architect who brought the topic to last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale as the curator of her country’s pavilion. She wasn’t an expert in the field, but had been alarmed to learn that some of Venice’s wastewater is flushed directly into its canals and wanted to demonstrate a circular approach to sanitation: the “dry” toilet.
Known as a “Huussi” in Finnish, the dry toilet separates urine from stool and is ventilated to keep odors out — In Finland, dry toilets are particularly prevalent in rural summer cottages, Renell told CNN in a video call. Users layer the contents of the toilet’s bin with peat or sawdust after doing their business; once full, they move the excrement to a larger airtight container over the course of several months so that any microorganisms die out.
The remaining material, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, can be used as natural fertilizer rather than the usual greenhouse gas-emitting synthetic kind.
The dry composting method will be familiar to those with off-grid homes. In the US, dry compost toilets have long been built as alternatives to flush toilets in rural homes that aren’t connected to a sewage system, or by people who can’t afford to install a neutralizing septic tank, which can cost thousands of dollars. Kelsey McWilliams, an environmental engineer who builds circular sanitation systems around the country with her company Point of Shift, said the need for sustainable solutions will only grow in drought- or flood-stricken areas.
Environmental engineer Kelsey McWilliams became “hooked” on sanitation solutions after participating in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" while at the University of Delaware, she said. (Kelsey McWilliams/Point of Shift via CNN Newsource)
“There are multiple states right now where people are working on changing the current building codes to allow not only compost toilets, but more innovative solutions for people who want them,” she told CNN. “Septic tanks are great — they served a purpose. They’re a very old type of technology, and they still generally protect our wells from human waste and bacteria. But there are better solutions.”
Expanding the use of dry compost toilets poses formidable challenges, however, from state- or county-level regulations right down to personal preferences. They can be difficult to install in urban settings and hard to maintain in anything larger than a single-family home. There’s also the matter of time: Waiting up to a year for waste to be safely recycled will deter many people — and the ick factor may be hard to shake.
“It’s asking people to care about something that they’re biologically attuned to be averse to,” McWilliams said.
Disappearing act
But what if your poo could, for the most part, disappear from your toilet? That’s the question being asked by Change:WATER Labs, a startup led by scientist and entrepreneur Diana Yousef which is patenting an evaporative material that aims to reduce the volume of waste build-up by as much as 97% in a single day.
“We have developed a technology that we lovingly term ‘shrink wrap for crap,’” Yousef explained on a phone call.
Change:WATER Labs’ low-cost and entirely waterless portable toilet, dubbed the “iThrone,” stores human waste in a pouch lined with the proprietary material. What’s left still needs to be collected and treated — it’s recycable, but not neutralized — but only needs to be retrieved once every one to two months, Yousef said. (Imagine a porta-potty after that long, for context.)
Since receiving funding in 2018 from the Humanitarian Grand Challenge, an international acceleration award, the iThrone has been piloted in vulnerable communities without access to safe sanitation in Uganda and Panama. Change:WATER Labs hopes to scale up the project. Last year, the WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that around 3.5 billion people — 43% of the world’s population — have no access to a toilet or latrine connected to wastewater treatment or safe disposal. Nearly a billion of those people use unsafe pit latrines or buckets, or defecate in the open.
The iThrone is a “shrink wrap for crap,” quickly reducing the volume of human waste for use in communities who don't have access to safe sanitation. (Courtesy ChangeWater via CNN Newsource)
“When you shrink the waste at the point of production, essentially, you do a better job of containing it hygienically, so it cleans up communities.” Yousef said. “But then on top of that you are not using, or polluting, any water.”
Though the current version of the iThrone doesn’t yet put excrement to good use, future versions may be able to turn evaporated moisture from urine or feces into potable water, or convert the remaining stored waste into renewable energy, according to Yousef, who said the product will “get more sophisticated” with time.
“I don’t think anyone living in a house with a flush toilet is within five or 10 years of saying, ‘Yeah, I want to give that up,’” she said. “But there are so many other applications. And they’re not all just for low-income or distressed, fragile populations. There’s public sanitation, green building, transportation. And there are so many places where people are tied to septic tanks.”
The system uses a proprietary material to shrink waste and is currently being tested in Panama. (Courtesy ChangeWater via CNN Newsource)
Upcycling waste
In cities with developed sewer systems, radical change may take place out of sight. As California deals with worsening drought, for example, San Francisco now requires new buildings larger than 100,000 square feet to have onsite wastewater recycling systems. Local startup Epic Cleantec, which built the city’s first graywater reuse system in the luxury high-rise Fifteen Fifty, is bringing its system to residential developments, corporate campuses, factories and hotels around the state.
At a new coastal development in the Swedish city of Helsingborg, meanwhile, a traditional sewage plant has been completely revamped into an innovative new treatment facility called RecoLab (which is short for “Recovery Lab”). A striking, building that ventilates high in the air, to keep odors at bay, RecoLab connects to every building in the new district through a three-pipe system that separates and recycles water containing human waste (or blackwater) from low-water vacuum-based toilets, graywater from bathtubs and washing machines, and organic matter from food disposal systems. By 2030, when the housing development is complete, RecoLab will serve 2,500 residents.
“When you’re ‘source-separating’ the wastewater, it’s the same principle as when you’re separating plastic from metal — it’s easier to recycle,” explained Amanda Haux, business developer at RecoLab.
“Ninety-four percent of the wastewater in our cities is actually very easy to clean,” she said, but mixing in blackwater contaminates what could be a reusable resource.
As with dry composting toilets, RecoLab extracts nitrogen and phosphorus from human waste — as well as from food compost — and turns them into fertilizer pellets at a nearby factory. Biogas from recycled waste is converted into heating, while recycled water is used in the community swimming pool. As of now, the plant does not recycle graywater, due to strict Swedish government regulations on repurposing wastewater for drinking. But Haux is hoping that will change, particularly in municipalities where water shortages may become more common due to climate change.
To demonstrate the project’s circularity, Haux hopes to eventually open a rooftop garden and restaurant on RecoLab’s premises, using its recycled fertilizer and water to grow ingredients. “The purpose is to raise awareness about wastewater as a resource. We shouldn’t hide it away in our cities,” she said. “This is actually a low-hanging fruit when we’re talking about circulation.”
At the Venice Biennale, Renell invited Haux to talk about RecoLab in a fall seminar on new approaches to waste. The humble dry toilet and a large-scale urban sewage system may be at opposite ends of the spectrum, but they are both solutions to the same problem.
“So many people get so excited about this topic,” Renell said. “Of course, the urban scale feels a bit more daunting, but even within that, there are these amazing examples going on.”
“Going to the toilet needs to be quite simple,” Renell said. “If we want to compete with the the current system, we need to provide something equally easy.”
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/is-it-time-to-revolutionize-the-toilet/1626015
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Sen. Mitch McConnell will step down as Republican leader in November
By Josh Christenson Published Feb. 28, 2024, 12:28 p.m. ET
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, and one of the most powerful, announced Wednesday he will step down from that position after the November elections — and suggested he may retire at the end of his current term in 2027 to hand off to “the next generation of American leadership.”
“I turned 82 last week, and the end of my contributions are closer than I prefer,” a visibly emotional McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor. “I’m filled with heartfelt gratitude and humility for the opportunity.”
“When I got here, I was just happy if anybody remembered my name,” added McConnell, apparently referencing a flub by Ronald Reagan during a 1984 visit to Kentucky, during which the Gipper called him “Mitch O’Donnell.”
“If you would have told me forty years later that I would stand before you as the longest serving Senate leader in US history, frankly I would’ve thought you lost your mind,” the minority leader went on.
“To serve Kentucky in the Senate has been the honor of my life, to lead my Republican colleagues has been the highest privilege.”
McConnell’s decision to step away from leadership punctuates a powerful ideological transition underway in the Republican Party, from Reagan’s brand of traditional conservatism and strong international alliances to the fiery, often isolationist populism of former President Donald Trump.
The octogenarian faced down brief and unsuccessful challenges to his leadership position, most notably by Florida Sen. Rick Scott last year, and struggled to weather recent turmoil over spending packages with military aid for Ukraine that split the Republican conference.
“Nearly every Republican Senator under the age of 55 voted NO on this America Last bill,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said on X after a funding measure with Ukraine aid sans border provisions passed the Senate earlier this month.
“15 out of 17 elected since 2018 voted NO,” he noted. “Things are changing just not fast enough.”
Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) would be next in line for the leadership position, followed by conference chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who is seen as a potential uniter of factions within the GOP caucus.
“Barrasso is a good medium: he knows how to wrangle the Senate being in leadership, pull the Trump line when necessary and is fiscally conservative — which is appealing in a time where Americans are struggling under the failure of Bidenomics,” one Republican aide told The Post.
The aide added, however, that Scott could make “another run for the hard right of the caucus” and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) may also make a bid.
“Whoever it is,” a second GOP aide said, “we will be working hard to extract lots of guarantees and concessions for conservatives from them.”
McConnell is also the lone remaining member of Republican congressional leadership to not endorse Trump’s 2024 White House bid.
While McConnell boosted Trump’s first-term legacy by helping steer all three of his Supreme Court nominations through Senate confirmation, the two have been estranged since the minority leader refuted Trump’s claim that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.
Following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, McConnell assigned blame and responsibility to Trump and said that he should be held to account through the criminal justice system for his actions.
McConnell’s critics insist he could have done more, including voting to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial. McConnell did not, arguing that since Trump was no longer in office, he could not be subject to impeachment.
Ahead of last Saturday’s South Carolina primary, Donald Trump Jr. told reporters he anticipated McConnell being replaced as Senate GOP leader in the near future in favor of “guys like a [populist] J.D. Vance [of Ohio], people who are willing to actually call out sort of ‘the club.'”
“I think that’s so important,” the former first son added.
Aides said McConnell’s announcement was unrelated to his health. The Kentucky senator had a concussion from a fall last year and two public episodes where his face briefly froze while he was speaking.
Instead, McConnell cited the recent death of his wife’s youngest sister as a moment that prompted introspection.
“As I have been thinking about when I would deliver some news to the Senate, I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,” McConnell said. “A moment when I am certain I have helped preserve the ideals I so strongly believe. It arrived today.”
While McConnell’s critics within the GOP conference had grown louder, their numbers had not grown appreciably larger, a marker of McConnell’s strategic and tactical skill and his ability to understand the needs of his fellow Republican senators.
McConnell endorsed Reagan’s view of America’s role in the world and the senator has persisted in the face of opposition, including from Trump, that Congress should include a foreign assistance package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine.
“I am unconflicted about the good within our country and the irreplaceable role we play as the leader of the free world,” McConnell said.
Against long odds, he managed to secure 22 Republican votes for the package now being considered by the House.
“Believe me, I know the politics within my party at this particular moment in time. I have many faults. Misunderstanding politics is not one of them,” McConnell said. “That said, I believe more strongly than ever that America’s global leadership is essential to preserving the shining city on a hill that Ronald Reagan discussed. For as long as I am drawing breath on this earth I will defend American exceptionalism.”
McConnell succeeded Bill Frist of Tennessee as leader of the Republican conference in January 2007 and has won all eight elections since.
He cultivated his power base through a combination of care and nurturing of his members, including understanding their political imperatives. After seeing the potential peril of a rising Tea Party, he also established a super political action committee, The Senate Leadership Fund, which has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Republican candidates.
“I love the Senate,” McConnell said in his speech.
“It has been my life. There may be more distinguished members of this body throughout our history, but I doubt there are any with more admiration for it.”
But, he added, “Father Time remains undefeated. I am no longer the young man sitting in the back, hoping colleagues would remember my name. It is time for the next generation of leadership.”
There would be a time to reminisce, McConnell vowed, but not today.
“I still have enough gas in the tank to thoroughly disappoint my critics and I intend to do so with all the enthusiasm to which they have become accustomed.”
With Post wires
https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/sen-mitch-mcconnell-will-step-down-as-republican-leader-in-november/
Pressed (and held) "exit". Presto! I have HD on DirecTV.
You da MAN, Bull-zee.
Thank you.
Thanks, Dave. I know you folks will get the 419 issue fixed.
You do not have an easy job however as we used to say in my COBOL mainframe days...
If it were easy, anybody could do it.
Good luck and hang tough.
Hi Dave. Just caught the 419 error note above. FWIW. I seem to get them more often when I use preview than when I don't.
Thanks. I'll try it later. About to log out, clean up the machine, shut down, and start again.
I keep getting a page expired when I try to PM.
My DirecTV service was finally restored around 9:00 this morning.
The phone message said it was a satellite positioning problem.
Not a good few days for modern communications.
P.S. As far as censorship by DirecTV goes... the majors -- ABC, CBS, & NBC -- were all unavailable to me until this morning.
They're about as libtarded as media can get.
Take care.
Thanks for your good work, Dave.
I missed this place.
Edit: I keep getting "419 PAGE EXPIRED" when I try to PM
About to log off again, delete all my browsing history, shut down, and start again.
From the horse's azz... finally:
Hi Dave. A heads up... Just got a second "page expired" message (error 419 I believe).
Got the first one of the day when I tried to post on one of the boards.
The second one that just happened occurred when I tried to send a PM.
Easy to recover what I typed. So, no big deal in the overall scheme of things.
'Tis slow indeed. Speaking of dial up...
I have a working rotary phone in the kitchen
True confession time: There's a spy phone sitting next to me.
Saves me from picking up spam calls.
Life is good for Miss 20th Century.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. < g >
I miss Superman, My Little Margie, and most of all... Dobie Gillis.
TG The Lone Ranger is on all over the place.
The early ones were the best.
My favorite LR was John Hart.
Stiff acting style but the man was soooo easy on the eyes.
Guess who needs a life?
Have a good one.
In my case, one has nothing to do with the other.
YW. We'll see what happens. Enjoy the day.
AT&T's cable service DirectTV down just days after mass outage
Story by Claire Anderson • 2h
@Flobewan
(At least they're aware of it. Let's see how long it takes for these ee-dee-ots to fix it.)
DirecTV has hit a snag, and lots of people in the US found their screens blank on Tuesday, February 27. More than a thousand problems with the service have been reported in just one day.
(If people could get through on the phone lines, the count would be w a y more than a piddly thousand.)
Loads of folks who use DirecTV to watch shows said they couldn't see some of their favourite channels. DirecTV posted on X (used to be Twitter): "We're aware and are working to resolve an issue affecting some satellite customers. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience."
They also shared: "Some DIRECTV via Satellite customers are experiencing error code 771 on multiple local and national channels. We're aware and working to resolve." A person on Twitter, 'FutFootball24', asked: "Why can't I get NewsNation this morning?" Someone else mentioned: "So it appears DirectTV may be having issues this morning. If you subscribe to DTV in the Valley and have seen either a 773 error code or a 99 (cb) error code, let us know in the replies."
On Facebook, at least 65 people said they were having trouble too, and it looks like 11 different places are dealing with this problem. One person shared: "was on hold an hour only to be told there's an outage of unknown origin in 11 markets and 'they're working hard to get service restored'."
One frustrated user said they were "on hold" for 20 minutes before giving up. DirecTV, which claims to have been "at the forefront of entertainment for nearly three decades," allows up to three streams at once on mobile or streaming devices away from your home network.
Another user, Luckyoes53, hinted they might switch services after the outage. They posted: Problems today with watching @NEWSMAX @NewsNation and @FoxBusiness. Hmm are you censoring now? Might be time to switch services. Amazing All the other news channels come in just fine."
The areas hit hardest by the outage include Las Vega, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Miami, Cincinnati, New York city, Chicago, Charlotte and Columbus, according to DownDetector. One person commented: "You know it must be something big because they will not talk to you about it either by phone or on chat."
Another complained: "After over an hour on hold, I got a hold of tech-support they're having a dispute with the local channels. Would've been really nice if DIRECTV let us know as I just wasted the last few hours messing with this."
A different user suggested a temporary fix while the problem is being sorted out. They advised: "It's more than your locals, folks. Check your satellite signal in the menu section and you will see that Sat 99cb is all zeros. That's a nationwide issue occurring right now. Temporary solution is go to or turn back on your SD channel access."
One unhappy customer said: "DIRECTV is for s**t. If you have satellite stay with it. The customer service sucks. The people at the ATandT stores don't tell the truth," but we don't know if this is about the current problems.
Another person shared their frustration about not getting an answer online: "My chat is still open since 8:33 AM. Still no response at 10:24 AM."
Someone from near Austin in Texas reported: "All local channels out and some other channels out too but not all." The company told one customer that if they have a set-top-box connected to the internet, they might be able to use SignalSaver to watch their shows.
Not long ago, DirecTV had another problem - during the Super Bowl. Their special 4K channel stopped working for over an hour. The company said sorry on X, saying: "We apologize for the inconvenience. There's an ongoing outage on Channel 105 4k live events, and we are working to resolve."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-ts-cable-service-directtv-down-just-days-after-mass-outage/ar-BB1iYMSA
lol I went back to their site about 15 minutes ago. Yep. No reported outages.
This time I tried running a system test.
The message. Satellite dish is blocked or needs to be repositioned.
Give me a flippin' break.
Clear skies. No trees anywhere near the dish.
AND it's still sitting and facing where it has been since it was installed.
Wonder if the maroons in charge of tech have figured out they have a problem yet?
Good luck to you, me, and Flo-zee.
What a pain in the tuchus.
DirecTV: I tried the chat line earlier and got NOTHING.
I'm getting the 771 error on the channels that don't come through at all.
The others seem fine. Can't tell if they're HD or not.
Is there a way to manually toggle between HD and nonHD?
What a fustercluck.
They need more than 3 people on their (NO)service desk.
Good luck finding a pay phone in this day and age.
That's the only reason I broke down and bought a prepaid flip phone.
It stays off and in my purse in case the car breaks down.
Although I finally succumbed to online bill paying (the mail sucks and postage is too high), I still get paper bills...
just in case the machine dies on me.
We are so dependent on these devices, it's scary.
Have a good one.
DirecTV addendum: I tried calling and got a message saying wait times for a rep were longer than usual. Use the website.
AT&T strikes again.
Last week they knocked out phone service and blamed it on incompetence.
Wonder what percentage of their tech staff is comprised of third worlders with little command of the language.
Sheesh.
lol... I still rely on my landline and send cards.
I would miss email and of course IHub, if the 'net goes down.
Ahhh... the AT&T outage. They now own DirecTV.
Thanks, Jobynimble.
That could explain a lot.
That ("The Oops screen much more prevalent today...") and DirecTV is crapping out on me..
Try getting a hold of a rep.
It's called an exercise in futility.
The world should have this as its biggest problem.
Hang in there and take care.
Thanks, Dave. Good luck.
Guess I'll know when it's fixed when I don't get that screen anymore. < g >
omg I'm having trouble with DirecTV too.
Can't get channels 2-43 and assorted others.
What was going on at your end.
I tried calling earlier and was just about to try again.
My experience was the same as yours.
Hi Dave. Just got the OOPS screen for the second time this morning.
Been getting this message off and on since the weekend.
Morning, Bull. I confess. I often skip most of Kunstler to get to his closing paragaph.
Today I read it all and must say... good one. Thanks and keep 'em coming.
We'll see what happens, eh?
Hope all is well in your lovely corner of the planet.
Oxymoron (emphasis on moron) of the day...
"Pan-Africanist intellectual"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Americas and Europe.
Pan-Africanism can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization and this struggle may be traced back to the first resistance on slave ships—rebellions and suicides—through the constant plantation and colonial uprisings and the "Back to Africa" movements of the 19th century. Based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress, it aims to "unify and uplift" people of African ancestry.
At its core, pan-Africanism is a belief that "African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny." Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural, and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" or otherwise sharing cultural unity.[citation needed] Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in the Americas, the West Indies, and on the continent, itself centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism.
Pan-African thought influenced the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (since succeeded by the African Union) in 1963. The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Midrand, Johannesburg...
Read on if you can stand it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism
I'm moving to CO. < g >
Thanks, eastunder.
You folks lucked out.
P.S. Re the GS cookie price:
YW. It is not intuitive.
When you're looking at the main page for the board, look up to the right for the "Customize" button.
Click on it.
You can close the iBox by clicking on 'Board Info." The green circle will go from green to red.
@IH Geek [Dave]
Is anyone surprised? Trump wins SC primary moments after polls close, deals Haley crushing blow in her own state: ‘Bigger win than we expected’
By Diana Glebova Published Feb. 24, 2024 Updated Feb. 24, 2024, 9:13 p.m. ET
(He will need the independents in the general election. We'll see what happens.)
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president.
The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m., with Trump securing all 29 winner-take-all state delegates. With some 65 percent of the vote in, Trump was up by roughly 20 points.
“This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory.
“I have never seen the Republican Party as United as it is right now,” he said...
The rest is here:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-primary-defeating-nikki-haley-in-her-own-state/
Me either.
Howdy, possh. Wonder how well their sales will go?
The kids don't set the prices.
And they were really cute and polite.
What the hell? The cookies still taste good.
lol Just call it a charitable contribution.
I doubt you would have been able to resist either.
Especially, if you like GS cookies as much as I do.
I've already eaten 5 of each. Oink. Oink.
No one is safe from Bidenflation...
Not even the venerable Girl Scouts and their iconic cookies.
When I exited the Acme this morning, the table was set.
Girl Scout cookies galore and two little cuties there to serve.
The price... $6/box and fewer cookies per than in the past.
The cookies seemed smaller, too.
There's a sucker born every minute and I am one of them.
Two boxes later (1 thin mints and 1 tagalongs).
My wallet was $12 lighter.
And I was on my way.
TG they only do this once a year.