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I totally agree. I hope you take names of those that try to drag this into a not allowed discussion simply because they want the thread closed.

I'm not thinking of anyone in particular...but curious about what restrictions are put on a convicted felon. Can they vote? Can they travel out of the country? Can they hold a passport? Drivers license?

Turns out multiple retailers are actively lowering prices currently. Think Walgreens, Walmart, Ikea, Amazon, Aldi, and others. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

Kyle? You mean the one from before COVID?

I totally agree with the above. Amongst people under 50 in the US, lesser educated/low income earners are much more likely to smoke IMO. I confess to being judgmental when I see someone smoking a cigarette these days (less so if they are vaping). With everything that is now known about the dangers of smoking cigarettes, its amazing to me that people actually still voluntarily choose to do it. Flame away at me...but when I see someone with a cigarette, they automatically go down a notch in my estimation. Poor judgement and bad choices. As far as Vegas goes, the Park MGM on the strip is a completely non-smoking casino hotel...including in the bars and the casino. It sits between the Cosmo and NYNY...so a very central location. If you hate cigarette smoke, this is the place for you. Sometimes I stay at the Cosmo but do all my gambling at the Park MGM due to the smoke-free environment.

I haven't been yet this year but I was in Montreal in early December 2023. Things have changed in Montreal since Covid hit. Pre-Covid, I was a regular fixture at Stock Bar due to the dancer quality. No longer the case. I do watch the on-line feed and I find the dancers to be mostly uninspiring...with one or two exceptions. During my December visit, I only went to Campus as they had a better quality of dancers if you are into masculine and muscle guys. I felt no need to go to Stock as all my needs were met at Campus. Stock is a nicer club as far as the infrastructure goes...but they just don't have the best Montreal talent anymore.

Yea…Florida just isn’t the place to be anymore. Summers have gotten way too hot and winters are seeing increasing amounts of rain and cloudy weather. South Florida used to be reliably lovely from November through April. No longer the case. I still go to South Florida for Johnson’s…but I really don’t like spending my gay dollars in a state that doesn’t respect or value me. I wish there were more options elsewhere. weather and politics aside, I don’t know how an average Joe can even afford to live in South Florida now. Who’s going to wait on and provide services to all the people with multi million dollar homes if an average person can no longer afford to live there? Inflation has been running higher in Florida than any other state for a while now. I’m glad I lived in Florida when I did (the 1990’s) and got to experience the lovely winters. I would hate to be stuck there now given the plethora of horrors going on now.

I'm not surprised. Ex-con. His look. All the tattoos. Labeling himself as "straight" although, by his own admission, he is mostly into trans-gurls. I would have guessed from the get-go it could be problematic.

I disagree! It's like announcing a pregnancy before you're even pregnant!😁

Anyone with plans to travel to Porto Alegre Brazil in the next six months should rethink their plans. Parts of the city are under water after historic rain and flooding during the last few weeks. Hundreds dead or missing and over half a million displaced from their homes. Flood waters may take a month to recede and POA airport is under water and closed. Some estimates are that the airport may not re-open until September. reuters.com WWW.REUTERS.COM Airport terminal completely flooded:

Same old posters pushing the same old nonsense. Sheesh…it’s like a broken record. The reality is that huge headway has been made on the inflation front. The rest will be slow-going. Anyone that thinks the economic consequences of COVID are over with is clueless about what’s gone on. Supply chain problems continue in a big way. Millions left the workforce either by choice or cause they died of COVID. Many places are still not fully staffed. Think hotels, restaurants, retail stores, etc. Even factories continue to be understaffed. Nearly every place I drive by here in Michigan still has “Now Hiring” signs out. When there is a shortage of workers, wages go up. Our local Burger King is paying $18/hr for full time workers and $16/hr for part time. This is much higher than the state-mandated minimum wage. It’s just what they have to pay to get applicants. Otherwise, prospective employees feel it’s not worth their time. We are still feeling the economic fallout from COVID…so making that final move down to 2% inflation will be slow-going. don’t expect restaurant prices to fall as long as we continue to have a worker shortage in our country.

Inflation cooled slightly again in April. As I posted before, its going to be slow-going now to get from 3.4% to the 2% target. That's just how it works. Were doing quite well having gone from the peak of 9% to the current level. It may take a year or more to get from the current level to 2%.

If I'm not mistaken, he fairly recently acknowledged he was bi-sexual.

Madonna's last official show on The Celebration Tour took place last weekend in Mexico City. About a month ago, she announced she would do a final show in Rio on Copacabana Beach. It will be free and looks to be an enormous undertaking as 1.5 million fans are expected for the show. I hope it all goes off safely. I assume everyone attending will have to go through heavy security checks. Madonna arrived in Rio on Monday morning and is staying at The Copacabana Palace. Here is a video showing some of the stage preparations: Anybody going?

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That may well be...but I do know that plenty of Jewish deli restaurants offer Mac & Cheese.

Really? I've been to many Jewish Deli Restaurants that offered Mac & Cheese...useually as a side dish.

I do agree with this. I really enjoy some international foods (ie Indian, Thai, Mexican) that use spices we are not accustomed to in traditional US cuisine as long as the level of heat is not too high. However, food that is overly hot is not appealing to me. Some foods are spiced so overly hot that the flavor of the dish gets lost in the heat. Only my opinion of course. To me, there are some hot sauces and chili that greatly enhance the heat level without actually contributing much to the foods flavor.

Here's another example of the spicy food conundrum. I'm currently on a Delta flight back to Michigan. Along with the main course, a small salad was also on the tray for my lunch. They provided a tiny bottle of Spicy Tomato/Chili salad dressing to pour on top. No non-spicy alternative was available. I'm not picky about salad dressings. I can eat French/Ranch/Thousand Island/Blue Cheese/Oil & Vinegar/Many others....but I don't want spicy dressing on my salad. I did use the dressing on the salad but frankly I do not desire my salad to be spicy. Very irritating.

I did not comment on it to the server. There were little red flecks in the dish that I assume were some kind of chili pieces.

I was at a nice Jewish Deli today in the downtown area of Ft. Lauderdale. It’s called The Top Hat. I’ve been multiple times in the past and have always enjoyed it. Today I had the Matzo Ball Soup (Excellent!) and a nosh plate of Mac N Cheese. Nothing on the menu suggested the Mac N Cheese would be served with some spicy kick to it…and being a Jewish Deli I certainly didn’t expect it. But it was spicy. Having been raised in the Midwest in the 60s, spicy foods really weren’t part of our regular diet. Mac N Cheese certainly was never spicy. I guess I got a nostalgic thinking about how our cuisine is evolving in the US. We can’t expect standard American fare (think Mac N Cheese, Meatloaf, Pot Pie) to be made in a tradition way anymore. So many things are served spicy now. Everyone serves hot chicken now. So many salty snacks have red hot versions. There’s a gazillion different brands of hot sauce at the grocery store. Im sure this is all a consequence of more international influence on our cuisine…particularly from Asia and Mexico. Of course nothing stays static. There is always evolution and I really do enjoy the much wider variety of foods we have available to us now compared to the 1960s. But sometimes you just want to have a traditional Mac and Cheese like mom used to make. It’s getting harder and harder to find😢. By the way, I do recommend The Top Hat. Most of the food is solid there. I’ll go back there again and again. Just not for the Mac N Cheese. Deli | Top Hat Deli | Fort Lauderdale WWW.TOPHATFTL.COM Top Hat Deli is modern deli by be nice restaurant group. Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Cher was previously on record saying she wouldn’t want to be in the RARHOF if they paid her. Apparently she is now backtracking on that comment. Cher said she wouldn't want to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now she's being inducted | Salon.com WWW.SALON.COM "I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars," the singer said previously in December

There must be something about Cabaret on Broadway that gets people going. Back in 2014, Shia LeBeouf grabbed Alan Cumming's ass during a performance of Cabaret as well. Alan Cumming Shares What Really Happened Before Shia LaBeouf's 'Cabaret' Arrest - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM Last week, Shia LaBeouf explained that a boozy afternoon full of misadventures led to his arrest during a Broadway production pf "Cabaret."

The latest inflation report is not a huge deal. Look…inflation is way down from where it was. The final push to get it to target levels will be a slog. As long as oil stays high, it will be slow-going.

Wasn't Berlin a very large club? Not sure that's well-suited to become a male strip club if so.