Happy Birthday! 

Good way to start off the day; late. =)

Happy Birthday Chris. Have a great day amigo, enjoy it. Wish you all the best for the coming year and may it unfold the way you desire it to unfold.

Corporate welfare is tricky, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate and practices welfare economics. All those subsidies come with strings. The federal government wants corporations to jump through loops. Most of those loops are not bad ideas. Is it the best system, I do not know. Are they going overboard with it, I dont know.

Thank you Chris! =)

heh saw rt wing wakos. fyi rg ingersoll the fampous atheist of the late 1800s was a lifelong republican.  sorry i cant join anything not left

'Day Chris.

I am not sure about getting things here from OS. But the other thing that Gets in the way we live in a single room so there is no room to put the model as it is being built nor store the model once it is built. 

Hello Chris

Yeah! Their still doing it. My friend who teaches English to Ukrainians  Besides Ukrainian and Russian to people from other countries such as me. Well Me off and on. He himself is a bible basher in some ways but I tolerate it. But he also teaches Russian to the baptist mob that have set up shop here. But most of the people here are strong Ukrainian or Russian Orthodox.  They believe you gotta have a kirk can't pray in someone's home or any where else. 

I have noticed that  the ones that have decent Uni degrees tend to be slightly irreligious.

Glad you like the aero-go-flops, liked them since I was a kid as my Dad was an aero-modeller. Mostly free flight rubber band powered planes. He had a good collection of aero-modeller magazines. I would build a model or two only can't get hold of balsa wood and the dope to dope the coverings. 

We never really know what the future holds so maybe one day we just maybe able to just do that. Have a drink together in a sleazy bar!

Btw I did have a drink, a glass of white wine. Thanks Mate.

Thank you Chris, for your kind wishes and kind thoughts on this day.

Yeah! it won't be long and Auss will be just a big hole in the ground!

I always celebrate my birthday, my kids' birthdays, husband, friends, etc. Not because of the Bday, but because every occasion to celebrate is a good excuse to have some fun and a little bit of a special day :-) I hope you had a good one even if you don't celebrate it.

Wishing you love and happiness on your birthday. Happy Birthday Chris!