Good morning. What follows is a collection of stories on some of the changes happening. Ignored the big change in New your City politics. My bias is it is not sincere and part of the manipulation to make changes in this country. There are others on the site who have more experience in straight political matters.

Pluto has suggested (and I agree) that there was a discussion started by Marie regarding the 2025 elections that is worthy of continuing. So, I am going to post here a link to the comment that started the thread and if folks feel like continuing the discussion, well, have at it.

If the discussion continues after it slides down the list a bit, I will pin it up at the top until it looks to be concluded.

Go Germany!

Go, Germany! The German government has stepped up to help pay US military base employees their October salaries during our government shutdown. This is something like 11,000 employees they are paying. The German government is considering it as a loan, which the US government will pay back when the shutdown is over. These are US civilian employees Germany is paying, not Germans. Of course, the shutdown has extended into November, so who knows if this will help those employees now.

It seems as though the government might not even be able to pay our soldiers starting November 15th, nevermind their families and others working on our bases. The US Army website is telling our soldiers based in Germany where to get help from foodbanks. Thank the gods Germany has a good social welfare system (compared to the USA) since that's where (in part) the army is sending our soldiers to get food!

Street performers - soldiers kissing a girl while holding their flags from alamy.com

Got some stuff going on this month least of which is the big Thanksgiving Dinner E2 and I host.
Have a sick friend who has decided to give up on dialysis on her Birthday and just let go.