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Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs – Beating The Tax On My Feet

The Icarian Posted on April 15, 2025 by adminApril 18, 2025

Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs — Beating The Tax On My Feet I am here today to sing the praises of Seattle-based upscale department store Nordstrom. Now, I’m not the kind to heap praise on any corporation. But praise … Continue reading →

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  • 50 Books I Read After Watching “The American Revolution” Documentary June 30, 2026
  • Harry Partch – The Outsider Who Refused To Come In June 23, 2026
  • America Getting Screwed By The Screwworm June 18, 2026
  • THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME June 7, 2026
  • THAT NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME June 7, 2026
  • Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE June 6, 2026
  • CHAPTER THREE. MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN June 6, 2026
  • Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MATT & ANTHONY A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • STILL HERE! A NURSING HOME TALE June 5, 2026
  • Dying… Or Not. How People Die. Better Days June 5, 2026
  • Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell June 5, 2026
  • Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso – 2020-08-25 June 4, 2026
  • COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague 08/02/20 June 4, 2026
  • Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything June 4, 2026
  • Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure May 24, 2026
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors May 24, 2026
  • The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty May 11, 2026
  • The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality April 27, 2026
  • Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method February 19, 2026
  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025

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I can’t explain how hard I’m rooting for the yotes. Spin up an HOA. Claim adverse possession. Seize more territory. Just keep going.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/08/01/coyotes-overtake-abandoned-housing-development-vexing-neighbors/

1 August 2026 @ 10:26 pm

When you frame it as “well I’m paying Scholastica a few hundred bucks so that other people can tell me my ideas are trash” it kind of completes the masochistic cycle.

1 August 2026 @ 3:20 pm

Why aren’t pickoff attempts just balls?

1 August 2026 @ 4:05 am

Can I just ask, and, I mean, if this has already been answered then I apologize. But the “Iran will not have a nuclear weapon” stuff. What does that have to do with bombing energy targets? That little reflexive defense of escalation, is there any thought behind it at all or nah?

1 August 2026 @ 1:27 am

Okay but just answer the question, have we tried injecting the troops with the fluid drained from POTUS ankles?

31 July 2026 @ 3:35 pm

I want someone to do a deep dive on a photo of an ICE agent and tell me what currently-in-bankruptcy mall store he bought his “tactical” “gear” from. I just know some of that stuff came with a free ninja star.

31 July 2026 @ 3:29 pm

Cannot recommend writing based on findings from instrumentation you built. When you’d ordinarily be able to just say “this clown didn’t think of xyz,” you remember.
You’re the clown.

30 July 2026 @ 2:23 am

Welp the elixir has once again worn off, as it always does. Blackburn, enjoy your return to the scrap heap sir.

30 July 2026 @ 2:16 am

The weird social convention with suggesting a meeting is you’re never really asking people if they want to have one, you’re jumping right to whether they’re available.

29 July 2026 @ 9:08 pm

Prefer the win to a loss but a little freaked out the Bednar is getting hit now.

29 July 2026 @ 2:37 am

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