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LeviF

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  1. 17 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:

    The doj.  But it's more political that race based 

     

     


    Third world country. 
     

    2 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

     


    Common Gen X L here. Anti-white animus had been gathering steady steam for over three decades by 1998. That they didn’t notice is a failing that’s extremely fitting given the Gen X stereotypes out there. 

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  2. 6 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

     

    Just saying that that is confusing too. Maybe (probably) immigration law should be simpler. Legal or illegal, no gray area.

    But that Venezuelan killer was in a gray area - authorized to come in and stay, but without valid immigrant or nonimmigrant status.

    Back in the Reagan amnesty days there was an awful bureaucratic acronym: PRUCOL. For "permanently residing under color of law."

    Yeah, it's really messy. And it is fair to blame Biden for allowing it to get even messier. Irv himself would recoil in horror at the mess. 

     

    It's really just our code in writing for what we actually say in person. It's gobbledygook for a reason.

  3. 3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Off point, but a little info from someone who's worked on cases involving crimes committed by "illegal aliens."

     

    We don't use the term "illegal alien." We really never did. Not out of fear of being called a racist (nobody complained about racist implications until fairly recently), but because it is too vague for lawyers to use. There's the classic "illegal alien" - sneaked across the border undetected. They are usually called something like EWIs ("eewees," for "entered without insepction.") There's visa overstays, which the general public wouldn't call "illegal aliens" but that's what they are. (In the trade they are called, not surprisingly, "overstays") There are people like the Venezuelan who apparently killed Laken Riley. He was "paroled in" to allow him to apply for asylum. He's not a classic "illegal alien," so people in law enforcement would probably call him a border parolee or something like that. 

     

    Just if people are curious. There's many flavors of aliens present in the United States, many of whom were authorized to enter and to stay until something happens (an asylum application is finally decided) or for a period of time (until they complete a degree, or for 90 days, etc.)

     

    "No lawful immigration status" for everyone who can't produce documentation here. Not in the business of prosecuting immigration law so we don't bother with all the official terms unless there's a criminal warrant sworn out by ICE or active detainer in place.

  4. 1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    I mean, yeah, I guess he blew it (kind of mumbled it), but it is an unorthodox name ...

    I was actually heartened to hear the ad libbed "illegal" in his speech. I know people in the immigration enforcement agencies who have been told that that word is forbidden in any of their briefs/memos. So too is "alien" - a perfectly normal word that means "foreign national." The term "alien" as used to mean space aliens was just a shorthand way of saying "foreign being from somewhere other than earth." So it was never like we were comparing ordinary foreigners to nonhuman space beings.

    All of it is silly, and the cranky old man used the proper cranky old man term. 


    Biden was once a formidable demagogue with all the blue collar old-school working class Dem credentials. Many have forgotten. But illegal, alien, thug, etc. were all once part of his weekly vocabulary on the hill and, as old men tend to do, he occasionally drops back into old verbiage. 

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  5. 7 minutes ago, muppy said:

    on a dollar to dollar comparison of what teachers can make vs what is available in the private sector (especially in fields of science and math as an example) the disparity is quite big.  If you want to attract quality it seems logical you need to pay better. I'm not saying that there are those called aren't to be teachers. as a profession.  I've had some Great ones.   The main gripe I hear is the endless tedious paperwork necessary on top of all the lesson planning/ usual teacher duties

     

    the bolded absolutely.

     

    I mean, sometimes. NYS is an outlier but it's the only one I know. Their (and their families') health insurance is paid for, pension, fee-free deferred comp, tenure, etc. are all worth something. But a bachelor's degree only gets you so far (they do need a master's in either education or, if they're a specialized instructor, their specialization) and the same argument is made on behalf of every public servant to justify increasing their pay. Including those in my field, though many of them couldn't find similar total compensation in the private sector as there aren't many analogues, so it tends to fall flat to me.

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  6. 23 minutes ago, muppy said:

    greetings PPP

     

    I walked in and out of the room where hubby and daughter were intently watching the debate. Randomly I walked by and heard Biden say  something along the lines of we need to pay teachers more. I thought to myself "now that issue is beyond debate right? mutually agreement right?"

     

    NOPE

     

    our country is so divided. My chat buddy @leh-nerd skin-erd knows it gives me high anxiety.  I love my country but the political climate REEKS of hate

     

    and I hate it.

     

    PEACE OUT BRETHREN CITIZENS

     

    Lord have Mercy


    I guess the follow up question would be, where? Teachers in NYS average 87k last I knew. A steady climb on that for the last 25 years, whilst student performance continues to decline. 
     

    There’s more to that than teachers though. 

  7. Blues why do you worry me?

    why do you stay so long?
    Blues why do you worry me?

    why do you stay so long?
    You come to me yesterday been with me all night long

     

    I've been so worried I didn't know what to do
    I've been so worried I didn't know what to do
    So I guess that's why I've had these midnight hour blues

  8. On 3/4/2024 at 3:57 PM, B-Man said:

     

     

     


    Fun fact: before he caught HIV, his daily “HIV medicine” could have been simply a pre-exposure prophylactic (PreP) that costs the taxpayers $2,000 per month for him alone. You subsidize guys like this bathhouse ***** to the tune of $2,000 per month. Oh, and every other catamite who wants it, to the tune of billions of dollars per year. 
     

    And that’s not to mention his antiretrovirals. Lord only knows

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  9. 4 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    A friend and his family adopted a shelter pit bull mix. Friendly, happy dog. That's what they said. So as a dog lover I started petting him in a normal way and two of them in unison say something like, "I wouldn't do that." He'd bit the last person who did the same thing. No serious injury, but drew blood. (They no longer have the dog.)

    My question: why don't people file down their teeth? After all, a lot of dogs nip and even bite. The problem is the "pittie" (kind of an attempt to cutify them) can seriously hurt or kill you when they do it. When I suggested this, people acted like I was Dr. Mengele. But really ... why not go all Hermie in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on them, de-toothifying the Abominable Snowman? Isn't a live/happy/relatively harmless pittie better than no pittie at all?

     

     

    The capability to murder is part of the fetish charm.

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  10. 1 hour ago, BillStime said:

     

    Oh boy...  this is really going to bother you.

     

    "We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard," Trump said at the event.

     

     


    It’s not bothersome so much as it is just stupid. Gays, blacks, jews, etc. vote largely as a bloc. Silly for any republican to attempt to court any of them. Another example why Dems win and republicans lose. 

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  11. 40 minutes ago, BillStime said:


    Yes - it is in Florida:
     

    Chapter 806ARSON AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEFEntire Chapter SECTION 13 

    Criminal mischief; penalties; penalty for minor.

     

    806.13 Criminal mischief; penalties; penalty for minor.— P(1)(a) A person commits the offense of criminal mischief if he or she willfully and maliciously injures or damages by any means any real or personal property belonging to another, including, but not limited to, the placement of graffiti thereon or other acts of vandalism thereto.

     

    What a bigot.

     

     


    You realize you’re just making my point for me, right? 

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  12. 49 minutes ago, BillStime said:

     

    Are you serious?

     

    Are burnouts legal where you live because they're not in Florida - or most states.

     

    Section 316.191, Florida Statutes outlaws racing on streets and highways, street takeovers, and stunt driving, as so defined in the statute. The law bans unsanctioned drag racing, street takeovers, drifting, wheelies, burnouts, and donuts.

     

     

     

     

     


    They’re not felony criminal mischief, which is what he was charged with. 

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