(1400) Afternoon all.
15. Sphinx
14. They are trying to cripple industry
13. Toodles’s second, as promised
12. IYE
”America’s 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.
A decade ago, Congress set aside $150 million for America’s 250th and created a bipartisan commission to run it.
That commission has received just $25 million and is now begging for more. The rest was steered to “Freedom 250,” a shell LLC Trump stood up in 2025 and hid inside a National Park Service charity. It has pulled in around $80 million.
It gets worse.
Follow the money highlights below:….”
|https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-285879596
11. The Somme
Between Tue p.m. and now, there have been some great comments at HQ. IYE’s was easy to bring over here from NOWP but what to do with HQ comments, esp. as some reply to others. It’s a nice conundrum to know how best to promote what was said. Thoughts?
Screenshot?
Sorry bit distracted reading the instructions of our new ice cream maker.🍨😉 Also there’s a debate about which flavour to make first – vanilla or chocolate.
I suggest vanilla first in case you run out of time. You can always add chocolate or fudge sauce to the vanilla. You can’t go wrong either way! 😋🤤😋 for both.
I do have a delicious chocolate fudge sauce I make. Heavenly 😇. I give as gifts sometimes if we don’t inhale it all first! Placed in little mason jars, of course.
I had to toss my machine. I wish I had another old fashioned crank. It could keep the children busy this coming Saturday. Also tossed a fast freeze. What was I thinking?
Keep us updated on your endeavors, if you please!
11. The Somme – my Great Uncle Frank was there, drove the horses that pulled the guns. He survived the war but like so many he was psychologically damaged. For the rest of his life he hardly spoke. The day before he died he asked where his mate was, a man who’d died next to him in France, in 1917. RIP Frank.
15. “Just shows how lazy the Egyptians were, building the pyramids so close to the town.”
A comment allegedly made by an American tourist.
See also, “Why build Chitchen Itza in a jungle?”
15. Penseivat! It is a jungle out there! So hot and humid with skeeters and snakes, and more! Why could they not build it near the city? Or not. Lots of ummm scary things went on in the Chitchen Itza.