A Heartwarming story about man's fellow love and hospitality in advance of the Christmas season.

!hibernians are going to the polls at the end of the month. The future of the country hangs in the balance as never before as we decide how we want to elect the same government that we currently have.

There are no other viable options! But that's ok, we can still argue about it. Hot-button issues that none of the parties are willing or able to fix include housing, immigration and health. Eagle-eyed voters will have noticed that anybody who goes into hospital just dies through neglect and nobody can get a doctors appointment. Skill issue for them!

We can't control it, but we can control how we feel about it

At least some swivel-eyed twitter-sick loons are running, so we can spend the next three weeks tutting at them.

Please post her for everything regarding the USA Elections here.

The American argument is that our guys are there to protect Korea, so the Koreans should pay for at least some of that.

The Korean argument I imagine is that we'd still be paying these guys, doing maintenance on their equipment, etc. if they were based in America, so they shouldn't have to pay that part.

Under the 12th SMA, which will last until 2030, South Korea will pay 1.52 trillion won (US$1.19 billion) in 2026, up 8.3 percent from 1.4 trillion won in 2025.

Is that the right number? I got no idea, I just know it's a big number.

They rushed to sign this before the election because Trump has been making vague threats about turning our military into mercenaries and charging huge amounts of money to countries where we have bases. It's kind of weird that he'd go after Korea since they already pay us a lot and they actually live up to their commitments to defend themselves, unlike the entire continent of Europe for example. They're serious enough about it that they still draft half of men. Imagine how many million troops the Europeans could raise if they did that.

Kamala the elephant, at the zoo in DC. Had arthritis, the poor thing.