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royal_knight1
22-Dec-24, 23:52

Merry Christmas
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025.

Regards Geoff.
dynamic-dv
23-Dec-24, 01:56

Merry Christmas
Thanks Geoff,
I hope 2025 is a better year for all!

Dave
skypilot73
23-Dec-24, 12:04

Thanks for the Christmas wishes and the same goes to you and everyone else for 2025.

All the Best!

Jim
goldentweety
30-Dec-24, 13:03

Best wishes
May 2025 be a prosperous year
lord_shiva
31-Dec-24, 16:08

Season's Greeting
2025 is shaping up to be a really horrible year for Ukraine, for freedom, and for sanity.

I hope we all survive.
baddeeds
01-Jan-25, 06:44

On the flip side of this, I think that 2025 will be a great year for us, in the US. I do.
bearz2
01-Jan-25, 22:52

Merry Xmas and a safe New year to you all.
lord_shiva
02-Jan-25, 12:59

Great Year
It will be a great year for Musk, despite a slump in electric car sales (as he continues to battle and belittle his market). He stands to make up for it with USPS contracts, shortly before that is broken up and sold off to private industry. He might win the contract himself--almost a literal firesale as Groper liquidates a trillion dollars of USPS assets for pennies. Musk, to his credit, will slash costly and unprofitable rural delivery, just as the other companies do.

I know a friend of mine sent me a letter Fed/Ex once, which only cost him $20 (as opposed to a postal rate of about forty cents at that time). The letter was delivered not to my house, but to my US post office box. So that was clever.

I find it hilarious delivery will be cut off to Trump's major base of support, rural America, but of course it will be all the fault of liberal homosexuals dining on baby carcasses in the Democratic Party. That goes without saying.

I look forward to steep cuts in social security, medicaid and medicare, and other programs of benefit to the poor and middle class so that we can boost corporate profits. America must be made great again, and nothing speaks to America's greatness like an entrenched oligarchy. More billionaire's in Donald's cabinet than in any previous through US history. The thing to love about billionaires, even liberal ones--is that they look first to their own pocketbook before they look out for the well being of the nation. Profit is first and foremost, all other considerations are secondary or tertiary. Liberal billionaires at least argue for policies of benefit to the working class. Warren Buffett, for example, insists there IS class warfare, and his class is winning. He says it is nonsensical that his tax rate is well below that of his secretary. Warren makes billions a year, and his true tax rate works out to about 0.1%. Most working class Americans pay a bit more:

In the United States, the average single worker faced a net average tax rate of 24.2%.

These of course will go up with Trump's tariffs, tax cuts on the rich, and elimination of services for the poor and middle class. I just wonder how much of the Biden infrastructure projects currently underway will be eliminated to provide for bigger corporate subsidies. I know RFK intends to cut federal funding for any public school with vaccine mandates. Measles, mumps, and rubella all enjoy greater reproductive freedom than American women. But those cuts will hardly matter once the Department of Education is abolished. "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom--TEACHER! Leave those kids alone!"

Yeah, if you're not a CEO or executive officer, especially in the medical insurance industry, the new year is looking a bit bleak.

newrepublic.com

classica
15-Jan-25, 15:14

It seems we can not get through a thread without some
one-sided rant about you know who. It's turned into a
"hostile" enviroment for some. Sad.

Here's the 2025 version of the matching guide;
www.mediafire.com
[scroll down, big blue button labeled 299.27KB, name: PMG v2025]

To use, download the file, unzip to it's own folder, open the
html file of choice, bookmark the file for future easy reference.

Tapanis built the main part of version 21. [thank you!]
He maintains the server it is on.
Version 2025 [both are included] has only the player vs player
app for finding past played games. Players names of my team
entered into the "player" textbox will return the max team games
number. Opening the html file with notepad, one may be able to
swap out their own players.

Happy New Year 2025 - many blessings to all!



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