Peth
Peth
@peth101.bsky.social
High School Economics teacher, follow West Ham United, politics, current events, Deadhead. Opinions are dumb … at least according to the wife. Decatur, Ga.
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Chemistry isn’t that really important at all. [read dripping with sarcasm]
A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
My impression of Churchill was that if he had 1000 ideas, 998 of them sucked. Those two though. Interesting about having people around to correct you when needed. That is a valuable thing to have (and be able to accept). Certainly, none around Trump is doing that. And Obama embraced that.
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And God willing (or Allah, or Yahweh, or Vishnu, or Mithras, or Jove) you will never be in office.
WELKER: If you were elected, would you vote to repeal some of President Trump's tariffs? MIKE ROGERS: The best way to do this is to talk in and say, 'Can we work this out?' I'm not even in office yet. (That's a no!)
Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, and Justin Beiber … 4 out of 5 ain’t bad.
Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."