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Back when the price was yoyo-ing, it seemed somewhat contrived. Price goes up...well, there was a fire at a refinery in Indiana (ok, I get it, supply drops cost goes up). Then the price went back up a bit more after they fixed the Indiana refinery...well, they had to shut down another plant for "maintenance". (ok...). Then, there was another fire at a different plant (seriously? Are you guys Russian and having "cigarette incidents"?). Then there was some other plant issue elsewhere...oh, and not to forget the "switch" between Summer blend and Winter blend gas price increase. Lately here, it seems like the price of gas gets below $3/gal, then jumps 40-50 cents, and slowly declines again...but I never hear a corresponding reason/excuse. I could also rant about our local "E88" blend - cheaper, but the mileage sucks bad, so you have to buy it more often, off-setting the "cheapness".

Yeah, the BBC this morning is reporting that there were at least 3 potential flights he could have been on. The aforementioned missing plane (dropped below radar, transponder turned off, maybe crashed), one that headed for UAE (but Assad purportedly was not seen on that one), and one that headed for Russia.

Trust me, if it had been closer to the real worth of the instrument and I had been interested in buying it, I'd have read up on what to look for before forking over the money.

Last time I was in a pawn shop (~40 yrs ago), I spotted a Fender Strat. Took a look at it & it was priced at $275. I figured it was a Strat neck attached to a knock-off body, and moved on.

I looked around online, but none of them were attractive enough to buy.

As the saying goes: "None of us is as dumb as all of us".

Yes. And yes, we're heading for something nasty I fear. Ukraine supplying weaponry to the Syrian Rebels, Iran blaming Ukraine for recent losses in Syria. NK helping Russia in Ukraine. All the protests. You know who heading for the WH, threatening Canada & Mexico...

Part was that China could step in and declare any company in China the property of the state, in that case, everything ever put on TT could be used by them. The other piece I believe was that an audit found that TT was on US Gov't official's phones.

Protests in Tbilisi, Georgia (Gov't abandoning joining EU) and Romania where there were "voting irregularities" (I think).

Trillian portrayed by Zoey Deschanel in one of the iterations.

I'm sensing a theme...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-island

I do not have access to twitter, but apparently Iran is blaming Ukraine for their losing battles in Syria.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl3ndxglwxo