The previous thread is here.

And while I'm starting the new thread, the upcoming change to page move permissions prompts me to ask where/how we create messages for the new update feature on the home page.  That seems to be the most appropriate place to announce the change once it's made.

I suspect that there's a link in the old thread to the appropriate documentation, but never let it be said I wasn't too lazy to ask someone else to tell me something I could find out for myself.  <grin>

Hi everyone, I just thought we might want a thread with some author's notes, so here it is.  I'll leave this post mostly empty for now so we can make an index or such if we need to.

Apparently, they're going to try using something called a "budget".

Only time will tell whether this radical process (that is being used by, you know, every other government in the world) will make it through the House or the Oval Office.

His old car is now in space.

...there's no big deal about mentioning it here: Canada has a sub somewhere near North Korea.

A bit of background: A couple of weeks ago, the leader of Ontario's relatively-right-wing party, the Progressive Conservatives (yeah, I know - what a name) resigned because of allegations of sexual impropriety. This means the PC party needs a new leader, less than six months before the next general election.

Guess who's tossed his hat into the ring? Doug Ford, brother of deceased Toronto ex-mayor Rob Ford. (Yes, that Rob Ford.) And he's taken more than a few pages from Trump's playbook...

As of this posting, his opponents are Christine Elliott (who's tried to grab the brass ring twice so far and failed both times), and Caroline Mulroney (who's never run for office before this election but has name recognition as the daughter of a former Prime Minister).

The centrist Liberal party was doing poorly in the opinion polls, but with an opponent in disarray (nobody thinks the left-wing New Democratic Party has a chance), they might win another term in Government after all.

Whoever said that politics is a good spectator sport should be happy to be watching this race. I have to live with the result.

Over in DW General, the thread "Truly there are no new ideas under the sun" linked to another forum, and I found the following line:

Quote:The reason it's a Shaker/Master power is because it also effects everyone who can hear it. Is there a big fight? Play something from Avengers, and everyone who can hear it not only fights as a unit, they do so in time with the music.

At Strange Cafe - okay, "Henna Cafe" - in Tokyo, coffee is brewed by a robot.

Who else is thinking "early Boomer"?