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I have to laugh as I heard a couple of hard core centrist GOP that have stated the GOP party is now the Party of Tax, wife and business cheats. ?

Not so much as "class act" for an American First Lady because all in all, American First ladies have proven to be class acts over all. Regardless of what shenanigans, real or imagined spewed by politically biased morons tell the world... Humans are flawed... nobody is perfect. He who has not sinned may cast the first stone type deal here... Anyhoo... But...what I want to say...many religious politcally biased morons have chastized witchy witch Hillary Clinton when she said she "stands by her man" when her man was caught smoking in the boys room so to speak... But those same religious political extremist morons do NOT return the favour when it comes to Mrs Donald J. Trump. Good ole Arkansas boy Slick Willie has MAJOR philanderer competition with bad boy from New York City Donnie. But the hypocrisy of that subset of the religious right repubs just baffles my mind. Again...not so much judgement on my part for the First Ladies of America, but extreme hatred for the hypocrisy of political morons in your country ESPECIALLY those that dare call themselves "Christians". I dont know what they could call themselves, but believers and followers of Jesus Christ and His "teachens" they are not! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Thoughts and prayers to EVERYone!!!

To keep things positive, I left that post as a stand-alone. Jimmy Carter governed at an unusual time, though less unusual than today, and he was in office when there was that curious period of "stagflation," something we studied in an upper division macro-econ course. Stagnation and inflation rarely coexist. Also, since his background was in engineering, it has been said that he needed to take a bigger picture view of situations whereas he had a tendency to gravitate toward detail. Well, he was initially an engineer. - - - - - Now, if we had to choose who might rank the lowest on the "class act" factor for an American First Lady, you get three guesses and the first two don't count.

I was having some decaf and doing the laptop thing at Starbucks last night, only to learn that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away. That was sad news. In my lifetime, and in my limited knowledge, she might rank the highest on the "class act" factor among the women who have held the role of First Lady. Thank you for all your contributions to society ... and may she RIP. I am now pushing for Jimmy Carter, who I see would become a centenarian next October 1, to keep on keeping on. He is surrounded by a big family and many friends. I always push for our 99-year-old VIPs who have been good folks to keep going and join that group.

I'm almost sure my '84 Cutlass Supreme Brougham is no longer in existence, but wonder about my '92 Regal that I gave to charity while still running like a champ. A friend of mine told me he later saw it being driven around, given its less common silver and burgundy combination. I'd like to know how long it stayed on the roads after the donation.

I've used carfax and just google searches of the VIN to find info on past cars I've owned... found out my '00 Grand Cherokee I sold in Phoenix in 2017 turned up at a Copart lot in Tuscon 6 months later, and that the '88 Bronco II I traded for that Jeep in 2000 was registered in a small town in Colorado until 2003. Also found out my brother's Ranger that sold at the farm auction in 2022 appeared on a nearby used car lot a few month later, at 50% markup.