leh-nerd skin-erd

Hi Mup- I'm not sure why my note to Fergie prompted this note to me, but I'm glad you shared your thoughs and how you feel. I respect you for fighting for the things you believe in, for things that are important to you, and for helping to guide your daughter through this maze of madness that represents our political process. I am uncertain why people feel I should not do the same, or that I should subvert my opinions or things that are important to me. I recognize that's not the point of your note to me, but I see it here all the time. I was chastised earlier today for my beliefs ironically enough. I agree with your daughter, btw, about concerns about people generally. However, I am completely and irrevocably cynical as to exactly how these bills play out, what really happens at the street level, and which politicians are shilling for what special interests at any given point in time. I'd suggest to my daughter (a recovering empath btw) figure about half of what is published is false, incorrect , deliberately misleading or partially true.

The health care system sounds like it allows you to profit handsomely, but everyone has their cross to carry.

@The Frankish Reich this seems like a reasonable outcome, yes?

Have you considered a Go Fund Me account to get the ball rolling sooner?

Thank you for taking the time to share how much you don’t care over these last three posts. Your complete indifference is obvious. Carry on, Angry Man.

I know you care what I think, you insisted on telling me what you think. You worked harder to tell me how much you didn’t care than just ignoring a conversation you were not a part of. You’re like George Costanza in Seinfeld, working harder to get unemployment than if he just got a job.

$2-$5k to convert a home, rental property or multi-unit apartment building with time, labor, materials and appliances? Many homes, especially older homes will require upgrades to the electrical system…which is a $3000 min hit in our area last I checked. Add to that the cost of whatever fee the govt will tack on, and the cost of electric. I think you’re daft on this number. I had a breaker changed on my pool equipment by an exceptionally reasonable electrician and it cost $250. $30k probably makes sense in high cost, city environs but might be high in smaller towns. $10-15k might well be the average.

I really respect how 4th was able to consolidate from the first post to second. It’s like watching AI learn, minus the A and I.

I just wonder about the simple things. His agenda is certainly part of that. I guess I'm still confused about how he's certain the man has no criminal record, or arrest warrant, when the initial reporting implied he wasn't even 100% sure the guy was the target. In addition, I'm confused as to why he's shielding the man's name from the reporting, citing possible deportation, when he says the guy is being literally being targeted by Immigration Customs Enforcement...and ICE is waiting outside his house. Sketchy reporting to say the least, but definitely sure to rile up some folks.

Who is JDaleShoomaker? How would he know whether or not a person was here legally, or if there was an arrest warrant out, or really anything? It doesn't seem like a good start at all.

I got a freaky ol' lady name a cocaine Katy who embroideries on my jeans I got my poor ol' grey-haired daddy driving my limousine Now it's all designed to blow our minds but our minds won't really be blown Like the blow that'll get ya when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone

Ah, I’m familiar with that phrase, but “to look it up” was missing from your last post. Sometimes people can’t be bothered because they are in a meeting, have another obligation, or don’t want to be disturbed. I can’t be bothered to look it up, either, but if I mistakenly gave you the impression that I thought I talent and hard work were just an old trope, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to clarify. Good luck with your surgery!

I don’t understand. You “can’t be bothered…”? Are you in surgery?

Oh. No. Your lips to God’s ears!

Such drivel, but at least you have the obligatory boogieman to blame. I’m quite convinced there are successful millennials (and successful boomers), unsuccessful millennials (and unsuccessful boomers) and so on. Your problem begins with the premise that millennials are “flat-out not given chances to succeed”. For all its warts, the opportunities for success in this country are limitless, but successful people usually are wired differently than unsuccessful people. Typically it starts with intellectual maturity, belief in oneself, the desire to work hard in exchange for the value derived, but the willingness to do things most others will not. I’m not even sure what you mean by a “boomer…passing the keys”, but assuming a younger person wants to work in X business, but the position they want is filled by the perpetually charming and delightfully competent L. Skin-nerd, the best course of action is to find something else to do. The end…or A Beginning? The guy in the story is unique. He’s the same type of unique individual in every other generation past and future. Good for him!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated/ You don’t got it.

I don’t choose to look at issues in a vacuum, seeing the political landscape as interconnected. Your concern today is presidential overreach. My concern is we already have seen that. I struggle with the notion that a federal judge with liberal or conservative leanings has as much power as they do. I look at the recent decision from the perspective of constitutional authority, and it seems to me the SC feels those judges are may have been operating outside the scope of their lawful authority. With respect to Sanders, I always assume that’s coming. I gave a couple examples of things that concern me as much, or more than this. Better to be prepared than surprised.

Give me someone who restores common sense to government and offers an agenda I can get behind and the rest is irrelevant.

And Frank and our own B-dazzler! Nice!

For sure, next thing you know we’ll have an administration laying siege to a former president’s home, tossing the place, removing documents clearly outside the scope of the search, photos of file folders leaked to the press, and quite a hubbub about how national security and classified documents must not be removed by an outgoing commander-in-chief….then when it turns out the current prez has been pilfering and maintaining documents for decades he’ll probably tell us that that sort of classified document pilfering is ok because he has a nice American muscle car stored nearby. Then from there it’s a hop skip and a jump to fisa surveillance, reimagined and reinvented criminal statutes, working with foreign nationals to influence the outcome of elections, and preemptive ex post-facto pardons for anyone the president ever met. I really miss the old days when everything was sunshine, roses and beyond reproach.

I don’t know about Walz, but I am interested to know where the video is of the entire confrontation? It starts with a window being broken, cuts to a guy struggling with law enforcement officers, and then to the guy sitting on his couch. On a separate note, the reporter tells us he’s a PhD student, which seems irrelevant.

Gators sell, Frank. 1 (I’m just trying to sound tough, durn things creep me out a bit and I never turn my back on the water in Fla. It’s more like the “Legend of The Retention Pond in a Gated Community in South Florida” but still)

Roundy’s sign says “I stand with Ukraine and Gaza simultaneously standing near enough to Iran to keep an eye on things, understanding of course that Israel stands behind me and I have no say in that”. His sign is like 9 feet tall.

@The Frankish Reich this seems logical to me, but I'm just a regular guy making his way through life. What say you? ***oops, I see Francisish already opined. Ty, Frank! My summary of Frank's summary...the government for all it's moving parts and all the money coming in is still woefully inadequate at being efficient.