Important bit from Snopes:

"In 2002, Omar and Hirsi reportedly applied for a marriage license. The couple married in an Islamic ceremony but never completed the process for a civil marriage, according to Hirsi. By 2008, Hirsi and Omar had separated (per Islamic custom). After that relationship ended, Omar had a civil marriage with Elmi in 2009. When that relationship ended, Elmi moved to England and they divorced per Islamic practice in 2011, but without receiving a legal divorce.

Omar later reconciled with Hirsi and remarried in an Islamic ceremony. In 2017, Omar formally petitioned for divorce from Elmi, and legally wed Hirsi in 2018. Hirsi and Omar legally divorced in 2019.

Snopes found no credible evidence that Elmi and Omar were siblings in a fraudulent marriage."

$0.184 a gallon.

So that $5.00 price I saw the other day would be $4.816. Not a significant improvement. Even losing my states $0.40 tax would make it $4.416.

Yeah, like I say, North Dakota was a boom town for a bit. Colorado has a metric fuck ton too.

https://coloradogeologicalsurvey.org/energy/e-fossil/oil-shale/

As usual, bullshit has been asked and answered.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/02/ilhan-omar-brother-marriage/

tl;dr - her marriages may have been screwed up, but they weren’t illegal.

Yeah, that’s a good point. What is $125 1992 today?

$295.79

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=125&year1=199201&year2=202602

Back when I was in college, it was the first gulf war and oil was around $20 a barrel.

One of my professors was talking about shale oil and how the US has phenomenal shale oil resources but it’s not profitable at anything less than $125 a barrel “and if oil is $125 a barrel we’re all screwed anyway!”

Well…

https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart

(North Dakota made SO much money!)

Married 5 years vs. 15 years now.

Working the same job, though it looks like cheap labor in India + AI is going to end that this year. Eh, I’ll find a new gig.

Went from renting an apartment to buying a house.

It actually came up for a vote in seven different places in the US in 2024, very simple “Yes or No” vote.

Colorado - Voted no. 53.5% to 46.5%
https://coloradosun.com/2024/11/05/colorado-proposition-131-results/

Idaho - Voted no. 69.6% to 30.4%
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/11/06/election-2024-idaho-proposition-1-ballot-initiative-trailing-in-early-unofficial-election-results/

Nevada - Voted no. 53% to 47%
https://nevadacurrent.com/2024/11/05/nevada-voters-reject-open-primaries-ranked-choice/

Oregon - Voted no. 57.7% to 43.3%
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/05/results-indicate-voters-opposing-measure-117-on-switch-to-ranked-choice-voting/

Washington, DC - Voted yes. 73% to 27%
https://campaignlegal.org/cases-actions/safeguarding-dc-voters-adoption-ranked-choice-voting-and-semi-open-primaries-wilson

Alaska - Voted to keep it. Barely. 50.1% to 49.9%
https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/11/20/alaska-chooses-to-keep-ranked-choice-voting-begich-defeats-peltola-unofficial-results-show/

Missouri - Voted to ban it. 68.4% to 31.6%
https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2024-11-05/missouri-amendment-7-ranked-choice-voting-noncitizen

Bonus: Portland, Oregon used it in their Mayoral and City Council elections, District 1 saw a 20% drop in voter participation on the ranked choice options. People simply skipped them.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/03/most-portlanders-understood-ranked-choice-election-poll-finds-but-theres-work-to-do/

“According to the city’s elections office, of the District 1 voters who participated in the November election, only 43% voted in the City Council race. (In other districts council race participation ranged from 64% to 66%).”

Been digging the Wee Hairy Beasties:

https://youtu.be/59nn4Yepnzk

I’d LIKE to think so, but then Woody Allen did this:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Whats-with-Baum/Woody-Allen/9798895652381

"A middle aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum’s turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbor in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.

Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?"

Well, bought FOR me… Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!

No worries! 😉

Cats are obligate carnivores. They can’t NOT eat meat of some kind.

If you don’t comprehend this or do but aren’t comfortable with it, then you should not have a cat.

https://www.britannica.com/science/nutrition/Herbivores#ref843396

“Some carnivores, particularly cats (family Felidae), are obligate carnivores, meaning they cannot obtain all the nutrients that they need from the plant kingdom and bacteria. In particular, obligate carnivores lack the enzyme needed to split carotene, obtained from plants, into vitamin A. Instead, these animals obtain vitamin A from the liver of their prey. Obligate carnivores are similarly unable to synthesize some essential very-long-chain, highly unsaturated fatty acids that other animals can make from shorter fatty acids found in plants.”

The thing is, there is no national education system. Each state does their own thing, and even within a single state there is a huge variance based on socio-economic level.

There are excellent schools and there are awful schools all over. There is no one standard.

As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.