bigjoe1

I was in the 5th grade and the principal made an announcement over the intercom. My teacher ran out of the room and when she returned we could tell she had been crying.

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Nuclear power will receive most of the money from the Energy Department’s loan office as the Trump administration pushes to quickly break ground on new reactors, Secretary Chris Wright said on Monday.

“We have significant lending authority at the loan program office,” the Secretary of Energy said at a conference hosted by the American Nuclear Society in Washington D.C. “By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants — to get those first plants built.”

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When we leave office three years and three months from now, I want to see hopefully dozens of nuclear plants under construction,” Wright said.

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I like it. Nuclear is the ticket

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Thankfully, Doolittle changed the tactics and directed the fighters to go after the Luftwaffe in the air and in the ground. Changed the course of the air war and allowed us to crush the fighter corps and gain air supremacy. Arnold’s misguided tactics forced them to stick with the bombers.

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In Feb. of 1944 the 8th and 15th Air Forces began Operation Argument. For a month, they hit pretty much Luftwaffe related targets. Aviation fuel refineries, fuel dumps aircraft and parts factories.
The also changed operational orders. Previously, the fighters were ordered to breakoff pursuit under 15k feet and get back to the bombers. Caught the Germans totally by surprise when they were being pursued into the ground.
In addition the 15th outfitted P-38's {with P-51 escorts] with bombs and drop tanks and ordered low level bombing and strafing attacks on German airfields.
This spelled the beginning of the end fo ther Luftwaffe .

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In an effort to lift sales ahead of the holiday season, Target has issued a new directive mandating workers smile and make eye contact, as well as greet or wave, to any shopper that comes within 10 feet. The directive was first reported by Bloomberg News.

If a customer is within 4 feet, the worker should ask whether they need help, how their day is going or a similar pleasantry, the directed noted.

“Heading into the holiday, we’re making adjustments and implementing new ways to increase connection during the most important time of the year,” Chief Stores Officer Adrienne Costanzo said in a statement to Bloomberg News.

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al.com

That should fix everything :rotflmao:

How in hell would you even price a 50 year mortgage?

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The Trump administration told states it will begin paying full SNAP benefits.
The memo came the same day as the administration asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order that it fully pay 42 million Americans those food stamp benefits for November.
The administration asked the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to allow its plan to pay 65% of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund.
The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option.

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Justice Department lawyers wrote in the filing that instead of Congress passing new SNAP funding, “a single district judge has devised his own solution: ordering USDA to cover the SNAP shortfall by transferring billions of dollars that were appropriated for different, equally critical food-security programs —and to do so within just one business day (i.e., by today).”

“This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers,” the lawyers wrote. “Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend. Courts are charged with enforcing the law, but the law is explicit that SNAP benefits are subject to available appropriations.”

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CNBC

Damn wish they'd held the line. :banghead:

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The iconic and beloved Farmers’ Almanac, a guide to living in harmony with nature’s rhythm that has been published for two centuries, has reached its final season.

The Lewiston, Maine-based company that produces the Almanac announced Thursday that the 2026 edition would be its last after it began publishing annually back in 1818.

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Al.com

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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday, rejecting the administration’s plan to partially fund that food stamp program for 42 million Americans.

“People have gone without for too long,” Judge Jack McConnell said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island as he issued the order.

The order came after plaintiffs in the case urged him to reject the administration’s proposed plan.

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CNBC

Just don't see how he has this authority. You can't make someone spend money that isn't there.

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He was sent home then told to be ready to be sent to Japan in two weeks for more missions. Luckily before the two weeks was up Japan had surrendered. He would have gone but told me he was exhausted from the war. People were ready for it to end

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Shortly after VE Day a newspaper at an airbase in Italy published this poem:

Who wants to be a hero
It's in the zero's
Who wants to be a civilian
It's in the millions

I think Bessent has said they'd have to refund the collections.