leh-nerd skin-erd

Good to see we finally agree on something.

There is a lot to unpack here, but an interesting fact is that student loan repayments were paused for quite some time. For those going the outcome was a release from the obligation, it would be interesting to know if they put aside any funds to meet to resume payments in the event the Biden scheme fell apart. There’s also this: Tsolakis owes $35,000 in student debt but has had to pause repayments to focus on making his car payments and paying for other living expenses. It’s impossible to know what the full story is here, but I’d think it’s possible his decision-making may be part of the problem. Many of us who incurred student loan debt were faced with similar choices in the past (including college choice, major, planning for work after graduation), it certainly would be important to know the impact of car choice, payments etc to see what went on there.

Well, I would think if those who are difficult to offend are not easily offended, the answer to your second question would be people who get offended easily. Have you seen her…this Stockholm Syndrome Witch? Is she scary? Medical school must be easy to get through.

I’m hard to offend, to be candid. Seems a waste of time and effort to let someone else possess the control to offend you.

Great question……this sort of random political photo the poster thought to share should go in a thread specifically targeted to that sort of thing.

Gosh, Roundy #metoo!

It's mindless banter on an anonymous message board. Your only hope here is getting the attorney who represented Mighty Mouse in his libel/slander case against Oil Can Harry. It's a long shot at best.

Defund the police!

To the bold, with rare exceptions, there are always differences in opinions in every relationship including the most intimate in our lives. My wife and I were discussing the Trayvon Martin case one day, and I was telling her how the evidence revealed he was actually physically attacking Zimmerman when he was shot, not to suggest Zimmerman was right, or that the shooting was justified, just to point out that the facts matter in a trial. She wanted nothing to do with that discussion point, perhaps because our boys were younger at the time and it close to home. It hit close to home for me as well, though for different reasons as a father. People misspeak, have bad days, say stupid things, and that’s before we speak of deceptive editing, gotcha questions, and manipulation. The suggestion that CK spoke of “stoning” is an example of that, repeated as fact by agenda-driven individuals. The other poster and his thoughts on the grandchildren of others, on the other hand, seems pretty clear. Some people are crazy.

I am out of G/PG13 comments, thus will simply wish you a good night.

Dagnabit if you don’t seem smitten by the lady. Perhaps consider asking for her number? I’m not certain of your chances, but I’d bet at a minimum you get an interesting retrospective on traditional gender specific cultural mores, the patriarchy and it’s role in shaping homogenized agrarian economic theory vis a vis the Zollverein treaties of 1800s Germany. I’ll grab the popcorn!

I agree with you, and did when you first posted it in the aftermath of the tragedy. I made a similar point after the raid on Mara Lago and the (temporary) outrage by some at the handling of classified documents. I think if you pay attention to behavior and people long enough, trends appear that are fairly easy to spot. Best to sit back, wait and see what comes out, understanding of course that what comes out may not be the whole truth. To me, it’s sort of irrelevant as to what shirt he wears,who he voted for or anything else, he. is. crazy. Now, the aftermath of people in positions of power, what they say, how they say it, well that will be quite telling. People are people, I suppose.

On the bright side, you haven’t aged a bit.

I don’t know about that, but I’ll go back to my basic belief that of all the gun collectors and firearm enthusiasts I know—and I know many—none have shot, murdered or assassinated anyone. My concern about anyone of those people is non-existent beyond general anxiety of firearms not being stored safely in the home, which didn’t seem to apply to any of those people. As for learning to shoot, I was not raised that way but I would bet the number of fathers/mothers/sons/daughters who bonded over the love of the sport exceeds those who had a child go off the &$@$ing rails a thousand fold.

I was at a car dealership, having my Lambo detailed, and hit submit and it didn’t submit. So, I hit it again….and again…and maybe again. And yes, by Lambo I mean Honda, and by detailed I mean oil change.

I’ve been around Mup, just not necessarily wanting to get into the weeds on this. Horrible, tragic mess indeed.

Crazy is as crazy do. It’s virtually always this way. Right wing…left wing…irrelevant to me in the grand scheme of things. Most non-crazy people don’t shoot other human beings in the neck from a secreted location, or shoot people out shopping at a TOPS, or climb on a roof and take a pot shot at a guy running for President. Mental illness is the fashionable term, &$&@ing lunatics is appropriate. The rhetoric from leaders is certainly problematic at times, and to be clear, I’m talking about most leaders of the modern era, but somehow, someway an estimated 258,460,000+\- adults managed not to climb a building and take a shot at a guy talking to a group of kids on a college campus and 1 found a way to reveal his madness in a massive way. When I was a kid, I was climbing over some snow banks and made it to the snow fence separating the public from the general public. I stepped on the fence, the wood slats broke under my 75ish pound frame, and I dropped almost straight down onto the gigantic splinters that were left. The snow gear helped, but fortunately the spikes did not break the skin on my leg, nor anywhere else in the very important area immediate area south of the belly button or north of the mid thigh. There are other stories like that, near misses, decisions to avoid a place and time, and we all have them. Sometimes you have to get lucky in life (Trump moving at the last second before being struck), and poor Charlie Kirk was not so fortunate.

Crazy is as crazy do. It’s virtually always this way. Right wing…left wing…irrelevant to me in the grand scheme of things. Most non-crazy people don’t shoot other human beings in the neck from a secreted location, or shoot people out shopping at a TOPS, or climb on a roof and take a pot shot at a guy running for President. Mental illness is the fashionable term, &$&@ing lunatics is appropriate. The rhetoric from leaders is certainly problematic at times, and to be clear, I’m talking about most leaders of the modern era, but somehow, someway an estimated 258,460,000+\- adults managed not to climb a building and take a shot at a guy talking to a group of kids on a college campus and 1 found a way to reveal his madness in a massive way. When I was a kid, I was climbing over some snow banks and made it to the snow fence separating the public from the general public. I stepped on the fence, the wood slats broke under my 75ish pound frame, and I dropped almost straight down onto the gigantic splinters that were left. The snow gear helped, but fortunately the spikes did not break the skin on my leg, nor anywhere else in the very important area immediate area south of the belly button or north of the mid thigh. There are other stories like that, near misses, decisions to avoid a place and time, and we all have them. Sometimes you have to get lucky in life (Trump moving at the last second before being struck), and poor Charlie Kirk was not so fortunate.

I’m thinking if some unstable employee in the Department of War stalks and shoots CEOs/Managers of the right type of companies, Roundy may soon be wearing the T shirt with DoW on the front and “That’s What It’s Good For!” on the back? It’s all in the branding.

I don’t think there’s some grand conspiracy, but my experience with doctors is trust but verify. Remember these are the same folks who prescribed Oxy with regularity, well intentioned though is might have been. I also believe there are doctors who take the least common denominator to a patient with a problem—-anxious? Here’s a prescription. Upset? Here’s a prescription.

That was some wedding Chelsers had.

Why not just get to this point instead of silliness about hating vaccines? That’s absurd and nothing I’ve said or done is even remotely adjacent to that. Interesting on the booster shots AFAYK.

We don’t have to assume, I’m happy to look at any reports of Fauci or other parties acknowledging the participation in the development of the virus. Do you have something, or do you feel that what I offered is untrue? The point for me is not hating vaccines, it’s trust in people in positions of authority telling you what you should do. Given what I know now, I probably would not have gotten the COVID vaccine and I think it was significantly oversold. I’m neither an anti-vaxx nor do I blindly follow guidance without question. As stated previous, I’ve gotten the flu shot for years, was recently vaxxed against whooping cough, and my children were vaccinate on schedule. I don’t think I’m an outlier on this issue, and represent a cross section of people across party lines. Have you gotten COVID shots over the past several years?

Are you at all concerned that our country was engaged in research in Wuhan, that the research included dangerous viruses, and post COVID there wasn’t an acknowledgement of our involvement there? I think looking back, if Fauci was more honest, and the US government demanded more accountability from the Chinese government, the average American wouldn’t feel that there was a massive cover up.