 to me, because a less democratic, overpaid version of a collection of nonentities is hard to find beyond China, Russia, North Korea and the Middle East. Its headquarters in Brussels is an autocratic bureaucracy run like a gentleman’s dining club, ponderously. The only reason I can see for beating at its doors is to become a net recipient of its aloof munificence (much of which it is strenuously trying to snatch back from Spain, having also been diddled).
Someone should warn the Catalonians that the EU money pot is running dry, as the small countries are turned into net contributors, and complaining about it quite loudly. The reason is Britain striving to get out of the EU, which is the wretched, sclerotic source of its many woes.
Someone should also warn the Catalonians that small is not necessarily beautiful when it comes to matters of defense and internal security. The pendulum can swing menacingly over the pit, as Edgar Alan Poe might have observed, where liberty equates to freedom in a troubled world. Access to ample resources can be highly desirable in these times and that is what resides in honest unity with the rest of Spain.
“Think of the Basques as well as yourselves, before you countenance insurrection!” is what I would counsel them.
“Think also of the Walloons in Belgium!” I would also counsel them.
“Why?” you might ask.
“This is the route you could take,” I would reply. “Those sub-parliamentarians, in the south of the country of Belgium, were able to block a key trade deal with Canada.”
THAT is the way forward, to encourage the political leaders in Spain and Catalonia to enhance your liberty. You don’t need to take any extreme measures.
As Churchill famously said, “Jaw Jaw is better than War War.”
Some final observations about ‘Greater Britain’; the degree to which people commentate sensibly on political matters in the newspapers is commendable, if you ignore the anonymous mud-slinging. It is less so when it comes to the guests invited onto the TV news channels, where bigotry often goes unchallenged, largely because of the indifference to fair play of the news presenters and the lack of time they spend researching outside their ‘day jobs’. ’Fake News’ is how it is described by President Trump and it happens in Britain as well as the USA. What these presenters and reports don’t know, they make up or ignore.
However, what is becoming apparent is the deep desire of many voters in the UK not to allow their MPs to get away with voting as they feel fit, and ignoring what the majority of their constituents want. Hopefully, this ‘shallow’ version of democracy is on the wane.
Perhaps the British and Catalonian voters are striving for the same version of democracy.Dances are fairly high contact, two way touching. Great club. No Respect On the same day that I visited Stilettos in Nanuet NY for the first time in several years, I also went back to Titillations after a more than 2 year absence. I have spent a lot money there as a regular in the past. Pacemaker Lounge. There were lots of nicer cars than my rental so it didn't worry me. The stage is huge.
The dancers just "walked" through their shifts and then paraded around the bar to pick up dollars. It was pretty much the same as I remember it. Knowing that it would be at least another 30 minutes before she was available for private dances and having no guarantee she wouldn't pull the same stunt again, I left the club at that time. I met a wonderful Asian dancer and got a few dances with her. The only bad this is alot of the girls there are over the hill. Add in the usual number of Eastern Europeans and you have an excellent group of dancers. I had a few hours between two appointments in the area and decided to stop in.
As Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS) kicks off his visit to the United States this week, what can we make of his attempts to remake the kingdom’s economy and social life—from last November’s arrests of hundreds of elites on corruption charges, to diversifying the Saudi economy and reducing its dependence on oil, to allowing women to drive? In a pre-released essay from the May/June Foreign Affairs, Texas A&M University’s F. Gregory Gause III notes MBS’ “concentrated authority and evident will to shake up the system make it possible for him to do great things. But he has also removed the restraints that have made Saudi foreign and domestic policy cautious, conservative, and ultimately successful amid the crises of the modern Middle East” and asks “whether the crown prince can pull off his high-stakes gamble.... without destabilizing his country and adding to the region’s chaos.” Gause cautions, “Washington should pay close attention to how the crown prince handles the aftermath of his anticorruption campaign. If MBS becomes his country’s Xi, then the United States should maintain its pragmatic alliance, which is based on mutual benefit rather than shared values. But if MBS turns out to be more like Putin or Henry VIII, privileging political cronies and treating the private sector as his personal ATM.... then the longer-term prospects of the kingdom in a world where oil prices are unlikely to return to the historic highs of the early years of this century will be much less certain. In that case, the United States will need to look elsewhere for a partner in stabilizing the region.” The essay is available now at ForeignAffairs.com, and the full issue posts on April 17. This link bypasses the paywall on ForeignAffairs.com for one month following the release date. We encourage journalists to share with their audiences.So, you actually could show up and have nothing to say. Even just showing up to therapy is an accomplishment. It's natural that you don't want to open up to a stranger. You don't have to share all the intimate details of your life on the first day! If/when you're ready to start therapy, you can explain that you have things you want to talk about but you're not ready yet. Spend time building rapport, and getting comfortable with your therapist. Hopefully a time would come where eventually you feel ready to talk about these things. Therapy has no timeline, and everyone's is different. Go at your own pace.One of the great challenges of Stoicism is that it's a philosophical system that teaches general principles for making appropriate decisions, but quite intentionally does not prescribe specific behaviors or life choices. There are specific behaviors mentioned by Epictetus, Musonius, and Hierocles, but they tend to be relatively banal instructions that even non-Stoics readily approve of: bathe regularly, eat a healthy diet, and get some exercise; take care of your family and household; respect your parents, relatives, and spouse; be diligent in your work, and uphold your duties as a citizen.

My suggestion for something to read may come as a surprise: *The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth*, which is a selection of the Christian Gospels as arranged by Thomas Jefferson. I would suggest reading it through with an open mind, then evaluating which parts of the ethical teachings you find there are equally fitting for a Stoic who conceives of all mankind as members of a single species living in a providential world.I love the last one! As it is so ‘busy’, I would only have it on one of the walls.
I agree, I think nearly all of them would make wonderful feature walls rather than covering entire rooms.Bad chem? Odd 4-AcO-DMT experience.

So I weighed out 30mg and started feeling something pretty quickly, 15 or 20 minutes. But the euphoric rush I usually get wasn't there, I felt uncomfortable and tense; very detached, like some kind of bad dissociative. This went on for half an hour, then I was getting visuals but they weren't normal for shrooms... really grimy, it looked like everything was kind of smeared. Luckily I had an etizolam tab, dropped that and 20 minutes later had this huge sense of relief; visuals intensified and overall it was okay.

It was a new source, packaging was lousy; product came in this tiny ziplock the size of a postage stamp, amount was handwritten which by itself isn't important but doesn't really instill confidence.

Not a big deal, I tossed the rest but just curious if anyone else has experienced anything like this. Thanks for reading.April 5: Officer was called to a suicidal subject at the 100 block of National Drive. Contact was made and the individual was transported to the hospital for treatment.
April 6: Officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Highway 69 south of Highway 210. The driver of the vehicle, a 29-year-old Madrid woman, was arrested for OWI 3rd. She was transported to the Story County Jail in Nevada. Officer responded to a medical emergency at the 300 block of W. Third. Contact was made with a male citizen, who was taken to the hospital after a drug induced anxiety attack. Officer responded to a complaint of possible child abuse. The reporting party was at the high school and the alleged abuse took place in Boone County. Information was gathered and forwarded to appropriate agencies.
April 7: Officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Highway 69 near the Ballard Plaza. The driver of the vehicle, a 20-year-old Albany, Minn., woman, was arrested for OWI. She was transported to the Story County Jail in Nevada.
April 9: Officer opened