I'm a little confused why these men would let their wives and daughters have cell phones and passports in the first place If its all about control.

good question. I have wondered if the women even REALIZE there is tracking on the phones. They are kept in the dark about so many things by the majority of men in Arabic countries.




Tom - the wildlife problem is one of my main concerns. We are using up their habitat so quickly. Hundreds of thousands of bees have died, now the same amount of regular insects from spray and other insecticides. Birds eat the dead insect, then the birds die. and so it goes. I feel really helpless in the wildlife situation.

There are some Billionaires who don't live richy, you wouldn't know they had lots of money. Comfortable lives and has nice things but not lavishly

Some people live lavishly but are in debt up to their necks sadly.

** Huffington Post**

When 10-year-old Abigail Bruce was given a pet goat for her birthday her dad wasn’t exactly excited. “I didn’t approve of him at first,” Nick Bruce told Inside Edition. “But he’ll be here from now on.”

That’s because the goat, which Abigail named “Speedy,” turned out to be a true lifesaver two days after he came to their home in Weiner, Arkansas.
Abigail was sleeping in the living room with the goat, when Speedy woke her up by jumping on her legs and then her chest.

“I was thinking what’s happening? And all I seen was smoke,” she told local WREG TV. Abigail ran to her parents’ bedroom. Turns out the garage was on fire, but the Bruces were able to jump out of the bedroom window and onto the front lawn. The fire department showed up minutes later and extinguished the fire. However, the smoke and soot damaged everything in the house. Everything but their admiration for their life-saving goat.

**** has anyone on mingle been saved by a pet????

Bees are having a problem with a fungus that's wiping out colonies. But! I'm wondering if bees aren't making a comeback. Reason being, in the last five years, I've gotten 2 colonies for a beekeeper acquaintance of mine. Both, according to him, were wild colonies. Both infested structures that I was working on. I never came across any others before that. (That's in 55 years) Aside from being a bit of a nuisance finding them, at least the way I'm getting rid of them is better.(That beekeeper races over to collect them!)

Birds of prey are coming back. Falcons, Hawks, Ospreys, even the American Eagle has made a return to my area. I know their numbers went down drastically due to DDT. Just in the past five years, I've seen plenty of them. To me, it shows how far the DDT effect reached into the future. It was outlawed in the 1960's. Now we're starting to see it really get out of the ecosystem.

The Falcons, well, I'm not super happy they're around. They take other birds, because that's their food source. Finding a pile of feathers that was a songbird, isn't exactly what I like to find. (They have been at least taking the crummy sparrows)

RedRider - so glad to hear the birds of prey are returning. I never knew they eat smaller birds UNTIL this fall, a Keistrel flew into my glass window after capturing a pine siskin who was at my flat feeder. I got some photos of him eating the small bird as I sent photos in to Cornell University. I had never heard it mentioned before. Also glad to hear about the bees making a comeback. I have a friend whose husband lost 7 full hives three years ago to disease.

Does anyone agree that construction projects should be totally done instead of Piece-Work?
Omaha, Ne. --Air Force shifts gears, plans full replacement for Offutt's crumbling, 77-year-old runway.
Offutt's 55th Wing had planned to begin a reconstruction project later this year that would replace about one-fourth of the runway that was in the worst condition, at a cost of nearly $100 million. Instead, the entire 11,700-foot airstrip will be torn up and a new surface installed.

i heard that project in Omaha was scrapped all together,
they're gonna move that 100 mil over to the Wall construction
effort real soon now....sorry no source to provide except
i heard it from the mockinging bird media outlet..
soooo, it must be true

double post...sorry

Hello Argo - mockingbirds are wrong. This is from Lincoln Journal-Star Jan. 25, 2019. Offutt Airbase Moving to Lincoln first part of December while Runway at Offutt is repaired.
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Lt. Col. Vance Goodfellow, deputy commander of the 55th Wing's Mission Support Group, told the Lincoln Airport Authority on Thursday that Offutt recently received approval from the secretary of the Air Force to go ahead with a full runway replacement.

The project, which has an estimated cost of as much as $100 million, has been a priority of Nebraska's congressional delegation.

Sen. Deb Fischer, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, added language to the fiscal 2019 national defense authorization act that was intended to ensure the project got done..

The 55th Wing conducts intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic attack missions from Offutt, which is in Bellevue. Its fleet includes the OC-135B Open Skies Treaty observation aircraft, WC-135 Constant Phoenix atmospheric collection aircraft and RC-135V/W Rivet Joint electronic intelligence collection aircraft.

The wing would be based out of Lincoln during the runway project, which is estimated to last about a year.

To accommodate the 55th Wing, the Lincoln Airport needs some work, including updates to a former maintenance hangar so it can accommodate larger military aircraft and repairs to an airport apron that would be used by the military jets. If all goes as planned, military aircraft from Offutt Air Force Base will start flying out of Lincoln in December.

I bid $75 million!

Concrete for this job-35,000 yards. This makes a slab 80 feet wide, by 11,700 long, a foot thick. Bet I could hire 40 guys at $35 an hour to do this. What with removal, rebar, excavation, I waltz away with five mil easy. More if I join the crew.

Float or trowel finish?

Float finish please. That will be smoother and more compact for the jets to take off. I like your bid. Will take that and save the extra 25 for myself.

At the price they're claiming it would cost, it comes to over $100 per square foot.




Those prices are obscene. What government people are getting the kickbacks on that? It has to be over half of the projected price. At $150 a yard of concrete, that figures out to about 15 mil. Add another, oh, 10 mil, for the steel for it. At those prices, I'd have a line of suppliers as long as the runway, wanting to get in on that money giveaway.

I know of one contractor in my town that is so dem, he makes me sick. He donates to every candidate on the ticket. Privately, he's conservate. I know why. He's first in line for government contracts.

Consider this- He owns a campground. He bought it for a song, because of the wastewater issues it had. There's 400 campsites in this park. His company INSTALLED a sewer system for it, and PUMPS the camp sewage 19 miles to a local wastewater treatment plant. (It actually travels from one state, to another) This guy, has the money to burn. Courtesy of dems wasting money like its going out of style.

I live in a duplex complex. with our drifts 4 feet high of snow, it took 2 days to get a pickup truck with blade to come. No snowblowing of sidewalks. Management excuse was they just paid $50,000 to "repair" our parking lot. Repair is a BIG word to use for the PATCHWORK they did. Tore up random pieces of concrete after Thanksgiving and replaced with new concrete just before Christmas. Its awful. 24 people driving and parking and all the replacement concrete is falling apart. No one cares about quality in ANYTHING since the 1950s-70's.

I do. That's why I'm so flippin' busy. I get hounded, people know I do them right.