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My son is going back for senior year of college. Found out today his classes are all online. We had already committed to an off campus apt at $600/month, but it sure would have been nice if they made a decision about distance-learning a month or so ago. I also read where the Excelsior scholarship may not be funded for the coming year. This begs the question...child was gifted year one and two by the benevolent guardians of NYS virtue, lose it this year, child cannot afford to attend, loses interest and pursues another career. At that point, they are $20k deep and owe the full boat as i understand it.

I don't speak for Transpy, but if he is saying anything other than the question is "intellectually deficient but understandable given your familial circumstance" it's just plain hurtful. He should also be thanking them first, but that's not in everybody's hypothetical domicile where they individually maintain and store the imaginary wheels they possess.

I think with the country burning from the inside out, and an entrenched dem representing a 'centrist and unifying' position including ending our symbiotic relationship with energy we have in abundance, a reliance on a socialist platform and an extraordinarily expensive green new deal, and labelling a million of our fellow citizens as 'the enemy' because they enforce laws...it makes perfect sense that they would stay at home and let a demented dipsh7t with a history of absurd racial commentary become president. Everyone I know is repeating the following catch phrase: Look to 2012.

If your goal is zero casualties, then distance learning should always be the norm. Do you truly think the system is set up for 0 risk to kids, families and teachers? What’s changed since March, when everything changed, is everything. The world closed, except for places like the Home Depot (risk is worth it we need those leaf bags!), liquor stores and the food stores. Schools closed, understandably and with little pushback. Then came the summer of our discontent. Suddenly, miraculously really, we discovered that protesting amongst thousands is like kryptonite to COVID. Meanwhile, we find that family gatherings and church services with attendees to talking more than all the fingers and toes on the human body are breeding grounds for COVID. So...protest in large crowds, gather, rage, interact, cry, hug, share etc is 100% fine, but people in a socially distanced classroom is so dangerous as to not even be on the table? It’s political football. I’m not less concerned for teachers or children in school than I am for everyone else, but I’m not more concerned. To be honest, if a teacher is immuno-compromised, diabetic or whatever, this is probably a good time to retire, consider disability or find other work. When my children were in school, it seemed viruses and colds made the rounds multiple times. Replace the older teachers with people not immune-compromised. School is about the children—at least from the parents perspective. When all is said and done, We agree—-I think most teachers are like just like you. They want to get back in the classroom. I’d bet most are not sitting In the house with windows closed and doors locked when not teaching—they are out and about interacting with all sorts of people. There is risk there as well, but they gut it out like the rest of us. It sounds to me that your President Trump is trying to give you all what you want, but you despise your President so much you’re digging in.

Sold out by political leaders who see them as disposable people.

Transpy, @B-Man raises a very good point. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Geek Squad Association of Engineers are weighing in. It’s looking more and more like opening is where the will of the Nation is trending, and you’ve already suggested you would start tomorrow. Why are you digging in here?

Sounds like “....lying b” to me but whatever. She’s the press secretary, she’s tough and has accepted the explanation. Given the coverage of Russia, Ukraine, SC nominees, this would be 99 on a list of 100 offenses. There’s no decorum, very little decorum, these reporters are jackals.

The French ruin everything with their beautiful words. Coach is a closer.

Look at Mr. Fancypants with indoor plumbing.

Somewhere along the way many people have abandoned the "stop, look, listen" lessons we learned as children and replaced it with...."Wait, 4 unnamed sources are referenced in a for-profit media enterprise in a prolonged battle with a sitting president, so obviously a man with a professional football team is a racist and misogynist". It's the international diplomacy circuit, not the KGB. Are the sources concerned they'll be Epsteined? I'd think a source would be a hero for outing a rich guy like this, and besides, the wealthy have these handheld devices that surely can record abhorrent behavior that was apparently on display. Give the guy a chance for God's sake.

I'm not sure about the NFL being fine long term, but I do agree that helmet stickers will not have any major impact on viewership. For all the discussion on Kaepernick and the name of the team in Washington, the moral indication and so on...how many people stopped watching? Probably a few who support law enforcement on one side, maybe a few woke folk on the other, but mostly it was the same as it ever was. I think the league read the tea leaves, listened to their employees and figured the smart money was on relaxing the dress code. If that's the plan, so be it. Personally, I'm no more/less interested in social messaging from players, announcers or owners than I am from the guy down the street. If it gets too heavy, you are absolutely correct...turn it off, or fast forward through the blather.

$7-$8000 in property damage done in 30 seconds.

I see dead people....

Fishx And wildlifx but yeah.

In another thread there is a discussion about the people participating in protests being more or less safe from the virus—won’t likely get it and likely won’t spread it. I’m skeptical, but that’s just me. In my post I mentioned that I’d think in a crowd of 10,000 or 20,000...whatever, mask discipline was likely not 100%. In the photo shared, there is a 100% mask failure and absolutely no social distancing. The story should NOT be about mothers defending their little anarchists, there should be an expose on all the people they are surely going to kill.

On that note, this seems appropriate here. From the poetic musings of Harry Chapin: The rock is gonna fall on us, he woke with a start And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart And he told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're having a bad dream!" Silly child Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground Remember Chicken Little said the sky was falling down Well nothing ever came of that, the world still whirls around "The rock is gonna fall on us, " he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!" Crazy boy Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years "The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates "I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete." He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street Just a madman Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground Everybody knows of those who say the end is near Everybody knows that life goes on as usual round here He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone They knew he was insane so they left him alone He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself One night while he was working building braces on the ledge The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge "The rock is gonna fall on us! Run or you'll all be crushed!" And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop The people ran into the street but by then all was still The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft. Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit

When you say you spoke with him, it occurs to me---does a ban shut down an account totally? My assumption was he was locked out of site access, so I didn't think to send him an email of support. Now that I think about it, maybe he could have accessed the email for whatever that mkght/might not have meant to him. @NankerI swear by all the is good and holy I will crack you and find out what your cryptic message means. It will become my life's work to see this through, and by the god's of Zeus I will prevail. Tell me now or you are heading into a storm with a headwind the likes of....you're going to encounter winds stronger than...ah, I got nothing.

I hate to jump in here with your dialogue with Bill. I know how you feel about Covid, a little bit about your background from what you have shared, and how passionate you are about this. I'm not a scientist, a doctor or anyone remotely qualified to debate the merits of testing, treatments or the future of the virus. I am, however old enough to have seen a crisis or two, political manipulations by political leaders, and been through enough post-crisis debriefings to have some opinions on the world at large. For what it's worth, I wear a mask, I respect social distancing, I try not to put others in harm's way. I believe the virus is dangerous to some, not so much to others, and that there is an awful lot of political skulduggery afoot. This positioning on protests makes zero sense. 20,000...30,000 hell 500 people gathering together in outside venues do not spontaneously appear at a protest. They arrive by public transport, private transport, by foot. They travel in groups, alone and create the normal human trail along the way. They eat at McDonalds and interact with humans there. They use public restrooms, they eat, sneeze, burp, and vomit along the way. They interact with other similarly minded individuals, they share emotions, tears, rage, victory and defeat. They twist their ankles, get into shoving matches, fall off a curb and break their arms. They share drinks, split an order of french fries, and of course, engage with police or other responders. They have heart attacks, appendicitis and car accidents. Some will get heat stroke. Many will need to visit an ER, an urgent care facility, whatever. I'll bet you, people being people, there will be some bodily fluids exchanged and some babies born 9 months out. Once at the protest site, they march arm in arm at times, in extremely close proximity, often engaged in shouting and screa.ing to be heard. I think we would all agree that mask discipline is suspect at best, meaning the potential for transmission is quite high. When I consider the backdrop and what he himself has said about the virus, the political branding of the virus and protestors is absurd. Yet...Cuomo limits just about everything else. It's no secret there is money and power in COVID, and it doesn't matter which side of the argument you are on. In my opinion, Cuomo badly mishandled NYC in general, and the nursing home situation. It was a tall order, being Gov during this crisis. I detest the guy, but he deserved a pass early on and I gave it to him.

Dude, they're destroying property, some public, some private. They are engaging other citizens with baseball bat, fireworks and worse. If your premise is that an overthrow of this government is the ultimate end game, then perhaps 250 years from now all the peaceful citizens in the liberated CHoP Zone States of Socialteria will look back at this as a watershed moment. Perhaps it will be celebrated and they'll tell stories of their famous ancestor--a wealthy kid from Chappaqua who went to Berkley for degree in Social Justice Revolutionary Arts--speaking in hushed tones of the day he fired a bottle rocket through the left eye of the enemy--a guy named Anthony who followed his father into law enforcement, who two weeks earlier dragged a motorist (who hated everything he stood for) from a burning automobile after he crashed while attempting to switch Fave stations on the Spotify app on his iPhone, a guy who was recently married, his wife with a baby on the way. In the meantime, m80s hurled at police officers and other spectators should be dealt with in relation to exactly what they are--serious and potentially deadly weapons hurled by those with an intent to cause significant and likely permanent injury.

I was at a non-sanctioned fireworks event on the NJ shore probably 15 years ago. We would go every year to the beach, and all sorts of folks had all sorts of fireworks. I don't ever want to assume I know the occupation of the hundreds (?) of participants up and down the beach as far as the eye could see, but many apparently have jobs that rhyme with shmireshigters and shmalice shmofficeshmers. Anyway, for many years it was the highlight of our trip down. That year, something went wrong and fireworks were fired in our general direction. We were pretty far from where they were being set off and really thought we were pretty safe. Anyway, we hit the deck behind the dunes, but not before one of the children in our party was struck with a bottle rocket and her hair started on fire. Thankfully, it was quickly extinguished and while her hearing was impacted for a few days, she had no residual trauma except a now lifelong fear of fireworks. It was exceptionally dangerous and we (the masses in the general area) were fortunate not to be seriously injured. If your leadership issues stand down orders when those intent on injuring, maiming, blinding or killing an officer can act with impunity, it's really just a matter of time before and officer is seriously injured. Evenutally, fireworks are used as cover for gunfire. I'd expect that at some point, the officers will return fire, and things will get ugly fast. Or uglier, seeing as how it's perfectly acceptable for "protestors" to target individuals with ^%$#ing explosives and to have your *&^%ing leaders sit back and say "this is progress". What a disgrace.

The Hitler reference has been locked and loaded for a long time. You see it becoming much more mainstream because over time, the men and women who lived through that era have largely passed on. Prior to that, a dipsh*ttedly moronic statement like 'Trump = Hitler" would be called for the dipsh*ttedly moronic statement that it is.

The hypocrisy is stunning, easily identifiable and for reasons that escape me, many people are perfectly comfortable with it. Between locked down churches, winners and losers in retail, and the freedom to risk every person’s life in the world with mass gatherings in protest, I can understand bar and restaurant owners moving in this direction. By nature, these are tough, aggressive and business-minded people. They shut down and shut up early, but understandably might well be thinking wtf by now.

Flip flops?? I see a banana chasing a donut.

In fairness we really only want to rule the world. KaBoom.

I’ll tell you why. I think there are three reasons I’m only half-convinced. 1. You bought the Bernie hype. The man was consistent for as far back as we can reasonably see. He was consistently espousing socio-commie ideals. He has consistency railed against the most obvious boogeymen of all...any commercial enterprise you can place BIG in front of, at one point “millionayas” until he became a “millionaya” himself, then he just raged against the billionayas, the ones nobody is ever going to successfully take on. He’s also been a ward of the state for decades, and from everything I’ve been able to see, always planned to remain exactly where he is until his time ends. He was the biggest poser in 2016, and worse still in 2020. Of the 50% remainder on my half-convinced analysis, you lost 25% here. 2. You suggested that you “enjoy numerical lists”. That’s just quirky enough to be interesting, this passion for la Liste Numérique, but when combined with the Bernie Sanders thing it cost you 20% here. 3. I’m just going to say it. Conditioners and brushes. I don’t understand how some people need 15 different conditioners and 5 or 6 differential brushes for different looks—especially in light of the looming crisis with man made climate change. I think if we accept frizzy hair as the future we’ll be much better off as a society. I realize it sounds petty, but it cost you a fiver here as far as I’m concerned.