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By the way, Sweden and Finland joining NATO is just so clearly a terrible outcome for Russia, no matter how things turn out in Ukraine.
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Yowza! that'll hit the housing market pretty hard I suspect.
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He goes on: Conservatives don't like admitting that it worked, liberals want us to do more (and as the richest country in the world we should), but we've actually cobbled together a somewhat functional welfare state.
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I was just harping on this recently, but now more than ever... While we're at it, can we do something about the FDA committee members who are voting against approving the new boosters? (The vote did pass, and delivery of the boosters is expected in the 'late summer')
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You know our local control paralysis is bad when it's the level foreign governments are trying to pull.