I'm sorry. I hope, if Trump is going to control your country that he start looking at democracy, besides oil.

We're getting really, really dark !!😂 But never, every boring.

Wow! You did a lot with a simple silver petal! I don't usually like monsters, but in your art they don't look so creepy. I hope that's OK 😁 You are an amazing artist. Here's hoping that throughout 2026

Unfortunately, he wouldn't be able to do what he does if a lot of people...our fellow citizens...didn't approve. That's the hard par to of this for me. People approve. Many, many people approve. It scares

Hi @zuerich, I don't know if you follow this blogger, @hlezama, but his reports from Venezuela are fascinating. I know he is glad to be rid of Maduro, but what happens now? It's a front-line report from

Wow! That is the most insightful report I have heard about Venezuela from any news source. Stay safe. Please keep reporting if that is safe for you to do.

Nobody around here (where I live) would drive in such weather. Reminds me of when I was a child (a very long time ago😆). I lived in the Hudson Valley, farm country. Nobody had all-weather tires (there

Bad enough you have to pay, but the tax service tortures you in the process :)) I have been doing our taxes...simple married couple with a private home...for years now, but I may finally be done. Last

Of course the landscape is beautiful, and the hike seems to have been quite challenging. The best part of this for me was to see you with family and friends. So comfortable. It's nice to be home, isn't

it's that Trump just says the quiet part out loud. This is the difference, and it is a difference that matters. U.S. expansion has a history longer than the War on Terror. We can go back to the blowing

Hello @cmplxty, I read this comment before going to sleep last night. Then, when I was tired, it seemed to say one thing. This morning I see that it has nuance. It is in that nuance where an area of agreement

Hello @Zuerich, Interesting times indeed. The U.S has removed a dictator and has taken control of the country. Is this a surgical strike? An attack? An invasion? An incursion? Choice of terms is interesting.

Now my granddaughter is looking at graduate school. She managed to get through undergrad without debt...a struggle, but grad school will be a problem. We'll do everything we can to help her, but it's going

Thank you very much, @anggreklestari and @curangel for the recognition and support.

If you read @azircon's comment on this post, using Venezuelan oil any time soon is not likely. He is an engineer in the oil and gas industry and has expertise in assessing oil supplies and accessibility.

I'm no fan of Reagan.

I believe it. Going to take a lot of oil to pay for all that....

A fascinating question. Instead of talking about the USA, I think of a 'country' with a much longer legacy: China. What is China? I go back through its history and its many iterations, from the very foundation

100% in agreement.

I am not the first person to see a similarity between this time in history and the 1930s. It seems the world goes through spasms, historically, through waves. There is a rise of authoritarianism and then