Thank Dog! I was very nervous when I first saw this (forgot I was in the āAnd now for some good newsā thread). My husband travels a bit six months out of the year and heās all in with Marriott Rewards.
Former US Representative George Santos, a onetime rising Republican star who falsely claimed to be a New York investment banker before running for Congress, was ordered to serve 87 months in prison for stealing campaign funds.
Santos, 36, was sentenced Friday by US District Judge Joanna Seybert in Central Islip, New York. The prison term matched a recommendation by federal prosecutors. A lawyer for Santos had argued for two years. The judge told Santos to surrender to federal custody by July 25.
The former lawmaker was in Congress for less than a year. He was expelled after a US House ethics probe substantiated allegations of theft and deceit. Prosecutors initially charged Santos with 23 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. He pleaded guilty in August to two counts of wire fraud and identity theft just weeks before his trial. ā¦
I canāt believe heās only 36 - looks more like 46 or older [ETA: despite the botox someone else paid for] - but evil will rapidly age a person, no matter what the devil says.
Well, thereās your problem: Did he say he was 36?
Heās got a birth certificate which says heās 36!
Someoneās birth certificate, anyway.
If you donāt like it, he has others.
Welcome friendly USians this weekend.
I canāt make it to the party but I can make Nanaimo bars and be there in spirit!
(excerpt) Operating behind the scenes, the collective consists of figureheads such as individual trustees and presidents from roughly 10 ivy league and preeminent private research universities, primarily located in Democrat states.
The UK isnāt a particularly good place to put solar panels. High latitude, expensive land and not a particularly supportive set of policies from the UK government (which is far behind France , with its mandates for solar above parking spaces, or Germany with its huge support for solar).
And yetā¦
Itās currently supplying almost 40% of our electricity demand.
Thereās been a few fast food restaurants that iāve been to that when i go in thereās a kiosk to order your food, which is fine but what i hate is that more often than not the workers basically end up doing everything possible to ignore you even if they see you struggling to order. Not a great experience 
Need more wind! Mom often pointed out that when the Sun aināt shining, the wind is blowing.
We do have loads of wind turbines, and are steadily installing more- Itās just that today was very sunny and calm, so they werenāt doing much.
As you say, when there isnāt one, thereās generally the other, so it helps to balance out, even on this rather grey and cloudy island.
Ah, gotcha. Should paid closer attention!
Michiganās sky is just like yours, only here it gets much too hot and much too cold.
Thatās one thing about this little patch of northern Europe that Iām kind of glad about. We donāt really get extemes of weather here. Our hottest hots and our coldest colds, are not too bad, neither are our driest summers or our deepest snows. We donāt get (big) tornados, hurricanes (okay, except that one time) or golf ball hail.
Essentially, we donāt get weather worth talking about, but we talk about it all the time.