BenLeMan

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are big fans of spending on housing, not since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Investments in public goods carry a faint odor of socialism and are therefore verboten in the United States.

The (Republican-led) government did play a role in bringing about the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis: George W. Bush's administration successfully lobbied for the abolition of regulations which had previously prevented people with insufficient credit from getting a mortgage approved.

But of course the right wing narrative held Jewish bankers at fault for inner city types defaulting on their mortgages, bankrupting Lehman Brothers et al. Not a combination of deregulation and corporate greed.

I'm no raccoon but I'm guessing LIFO?

Also plausible.

Just remember that any computer system operates by the GIGO principle:

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

(it's a trashcan, right?)

Darn right, boy. 🐔 The Foghorn Leg, I say, Foghorn Leghorn. 😂

It's the perfect place for petting their white cat and berating their henchmen while waiting for James Bond to storm the place.

Your earworm of the day:
The Heat Is On. 🔥

You're welcome! 😀👍

Well, that was when political leaders still had a shred of integrity.

He was certainly public-minded and tried to serve his country well. He enforced desegregation and ended the Korean War.

But he also oversaw the creation of the military industrial complex, which he would famously (if somewhat ironically) lament in his farewell address. And that's arguably where America's current problems with money in politics started.

The rise of the CIA and its support of antidemocratic regimes is also part of Eisenhower's legacy. Operations TPAJAX and TPSUCCESS were done with his close support and involvement. He also sponsored the government of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam which refused to implement the 1956 Geneva Accords, leading to the disaster of the Vietnam War.

Overall, he cemented the turn away from New Deal era social democratic policies that had already begun in the Truman years as the Red Scare was finally taking hold of the United States.

No, my solution would be to vacate the area post haste. I was just referring to meco03211's posting in which he wrote

If you took the explosive out of a grenade, put it in a metal pot with the lid welded on, and detonated, you'd just have a mangled pot.

Given your theory that the type of explosive used makes all the difference, I would definitely watch a Mythbusters episode about that (if there was one). 😉

With sufficient reading comprehension you (and the five people upvoting your posting) would have noticed that nobody is claiming a grenade in a pot would be harmless. The claim was about removing the explosive from the grenade and detonating that inside the pot.

While I have no evidence to support that claim I have seen someone putting live ammunition in a pot and making it cook off. That experiment clearly showed that cartridges are only really dangerous when used in a firearm. I expect the physics to be very much the same here.

And when you're highly sensitive to boot, things like smells or a bad vibe between the people in the room can be extremely stressful as well.

Watch out, next thing you know you'll be floating away on a balloon. 🎈😅