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@John Hjorth Thanks John!

It turns out enduring London will be worth it. I heard back from the Royal Institution today and even though they are closed on July 27, they are letting me and Lyn in to tour the Ri!

It has worked well for 239 years, but the US Constitution does not prohibit a third party. It is the democrats and republicans that make it difficult for a third party.

I agree even if the third party is much smaller it would probably force compromises to get anything passed. It could be a party in the middle and called the Common Sense party.

@dealraker Next week my wife and I are going to Llandudno, which is in Conwy County, for 8 days, then by train up to the Aigas Field Centre in the Highlands for 10 days, followed by flying to London for two days. We also like being in small places and interacting with the locals. The whole point of going to London was so that I could visit the Royal Institution and I just found out the Ri will be closed when we are there , which it wasn't when we booked the trip. I'll call them tomorrow to see if there is anyway I can get a special tour.

Looks like we could have two extremes with nothing in the middle. We need a third party that Thomas Paine would have called the Common Sense party.

The Strait of Hormuz is being renamed the Strait of Schrödinger as it is both open and closed at the same time.

I seriously thought about killing that bird.

We tried everything to stop the blue heron--fishing wire to trip it, netting over the pond, etc. but it eventually got all the fish. Upset and frustrated I filled it in Blue Herons are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, so we couldn't harm it. We never had many frogs. But there did not seem to be an issue with the fish. Our Dachshund used to love to swim in the pond, we could not keep her out!

Here was our pond before the bastard heron devastated it.

We had a pond and loved it. We put a couple of goldfish in it and then were giving goldfish away as they multiplied. Frogs fond it. Our daughter won a gold fish at a carnival by throwing a ping pong ball into a jar. That fish was over 20 years old living in the pond when a blue heron found our pond.

Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince warns that any injury you inflict on a rival must be severe enough that you never have to fear their retaliation.

You completely missed Federer's point and I am not going to take the time, nor get in an argumentative discussion, to try to explain it to you.

Interesting little fact, of the 80% of his matches he won, Rodger Federer only won 54% of the points in those matches. He gave a great commencement address at Dartmouth. Here is just a bit of it,

I did the same for our daughter starting about 25 years ago. With apologies to the Chinese proverb about trees, The best time to buy BRK was 20 years ago and the second best time is today.