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  1. Per Fox News: Trump says America should change football's name so soccer can have it: 'It really doesn't make sense' https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-says-america-should-change-footballs-name-it-really-doesnt-make-sense A participation trophy with a gold tint and some made up peace prize by FIFA is all it took for him to advise football in America be called something else.
  2. An essay by a valedictorian who was graduated from the engineering college of a top university, I think it was Stanford, always stuck with me. He was writing about how his classmates were always puzzled about his job choice. While he had multiple offers, he choose to work for a smaller company in a rural setting in a small state. Most of his peers went to work in Northern California or Chicago or NYC etc. He said they never understood why he choose a smaller company and a smaller salary. He said it was simple. He liked the setting as it was more relaxed and while his salary was lower than many of his classmates it was not drastic and after higher marginal taxes on their salaries and state income taxes on their salaries, combined with his housing and living costs being fractions of theirs, he had more money than them. His work was just as exciting and fun. He could walk to work so even working the same he had more free time than them. He ended the assay with opining that while they never could understand his choice; he could never understand theirs.
  3. I cannot understand the attraction to big houses. Everything about them is bigger including taxes, insurance, energy bills, maintenance, mortgage payments etc. yet you can still only occupy about a foot by foot while you are standing and maybe 6 feet by 1 foot while you're sleeping.
  4. While luxury spending might be part of it, maybe most of it, he probably invested in a lot of get rich quick schemes instead of putting money into normal financial assets.
  5. I am not from around here; I just live here.
  6. I am still holding out luck, stranger things have happened:
  7. It is very unlikely that the opossum did that. Opossums cannot throw rocks of any size, let alone large ones. Why they can’t: Anatomy: Opossums have small forelimbs with limited shoulder rotation. They are not built for overhand or projectile‑style throwing the way primates are. Strength: They are relatively weak animals for their size. Their strength is suited to climbing, gripping, and scavenging — not lifting and launching objects. Behavior: There is no documented behavior of opossums throwing anything. They generally avoid confrontation and will hiss, bare teeth, or “play dead,” but not attack using objects. If a rock struck your vehicle, it was almost certainly caused by: A human, Machinery or lawn equipment nearby, Falling debris (tree, tire rock‑throw from a passing vehicle), Another animal indirectly moving something (e.g., knocking a rock off a ledge), but not throwing it.
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