leh-nerd skin-erd

Done. I married an Italian woman who has convinced me I’m convinced that should the time come, a My Pillow over the snout does the trick just fine. I know she cares because a couple times I’ve woken up and she appeared to be about to practice.

I'm thinking relative risk. The prospect of existing in a persistent vegetative state is a concern of mine. But I'm sure you're correct.

I don’t know this Jack Squat kid, but if he’s anything like the Squat kids in my hometown, he’s a bra-snapping-toilet-clogger and general troublemaker. I was probably a little harsh there. Many, many people don’t have a plan in place. My visceral response came from a place where I think some teachers and teachers organizations are utilizing the crisis as a hammer against the public they serve. I do not place you, or most in that category. That person struck me as soft and exploitative, apologies to that person if I misread them. Btw—the bra-snapping reference. In between classes in my sophomore year, there was the normal mayhem of kids moving about in a very busy school. As I got my books out to go to my Expository writing class (I was an advanced student), I was looking around and saw this teacher talking to a group of students and he put his hand on the shoulder of one girl, rubbed her neck for a couple seconds, slid his hand down her back and snapped her bra strap. I was a naive kid, not so much sheltered but just unworldly. I remember looking around like “HOLY CRAP WTF!!” as life went on around us. There were times it seemed like Thunderdome to me. Btw—I do not think that most teachers behave this way, do not think you would and simply included it because I can. I’m also a fibber, because I was not an advanced student, and I may have been on my way to lunch, chemistry or PE. You should have a will and HCP at a minimum. If you don’t outline your thoughts and plans when you can, The State likely figures it out on your behalf and you may not like their plan.

It's weird, that protestor didn't do a little dance, make a scene like a d-bag and attempt to slap the officials in the face like we see in some other videos. It's almost like some protestors prey on the elderly and weak, supported by other violent protestors and enablers. Yet, when the opportunity to slap someone who slaps back is presented, they seem to fear that their arm will be forcefully removed from their body and they might be beaten violently with the bloody stump. Go figure. Edit: I watched that with the sound off at first, nothing worse than listening to screeching revolutionaries. I just turned the sound up, and the moron screaming into her own phone "USE YOUR WORDS" over and over is awesome. She must run an Antifa Pre School. She demands they "USE YOUR WORDS!" as they calmly cuff the chump and lead him away like a scared sheep.

I have no idea what you're attempting to say about honor and class, but that's ok, I'm certain you don't know what you're saying either. Why would a conservative voter want a conservative senate to wait until after election season to appoint a conservative judge? Feel free to substitute "liberal" for the words underlined if it helps you wrap your head around your silliness.

Conservatives certainly should hope a seat opens before the election, and that Mitch moves quickly to fill the seat with a candidate that the dems will quickly move to disembowel. All the best to RBG and I certainly hope she's pain free and doing well.

I’m no longer interested in long, drawn out arguments on this topic with my friends. I get bored after “even if it’s not true, what’s wrong with doing things that are good for the environment?”. In the old days, this usually took place right after we discussed their trip to Disney, trouble/or not with the flight down, which rental car they used and how cool the hotel they stayed at was. Oh, and it would not be uncommon for them to be wearing Nike gear, made by workers in far away lands and transported by cargo ship and over-the-road trucking concerns to the local departments store, where they hung on plastic hangers among all sorts of good wrapped in plastic. Keep fighting the good fight BT. Edit...just saw this story of climate warrior using a carbon-neutral crane to move his hemp clothing into his eco-sustainable apartment in a skyscraper built with recycled bottle caps (after returning via catamaran from Ireland where he was sheltering from COVID). Consider this my extreme example of the scenario described above. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/matt-damon-closes-brooklyn-street-move-penthouse-report

I was watching the news on the Washington ______________ football team and the allegations of a culture of sexual harassment and worse over the past decade. I’m always surprised to see a news outlet like the Washington Post sitting on a story until the time is right to release it, but that’s a story for another day. The coverage sure to follow is that there are no allegations personally against Snyder yet, but he surely must answer for the culture he allowed to thrive and fester in his organization. Certainly, there will be calls for him to step down, to answer and to be held to account. Certainly, #metoo, #timesup and well-intentioned left-leaning voters will be outraged. They will then proceed to the ballot box and attempt to coronate a true Washington insider, a man with decades on the inside, who was a key and powerful man for decades in one of the most exclusive Old White boys club where—according to my friend @transplantbillsfan own citation/link from Vox—women young and old were afraid and concerned with getting on a freaking elevator with powerful men alll while Joe was in leadership and Joe brags about his friendship with the worst of the crowd. Snyder will fall, as he should if allegations are true. In Washington, though, they honor the lecherous and enablers. Kennedy, Byrd, McCain and soon....President Joe Biden. Dems are outraged over some predators, others they want to rule the world.

Agreed, some people push back.

Privacy issues? ? Most CIA spooks work in the shadows, under cover and dare I say...in private. Your cover is blown, and you might as well fess up. How many kills do you have? Is this a CIA drop zone/hot site? have I stumbled into the dark web? PM me if you think these other mutts have loose lips. Yes, and while I understand procrastination and human nature, these are teachers being interviewed for news stories basically saying "Look, until I knew people could actually die, I never thought about it. But hey, global climate change from cow farts is a real thing.".

I know I shouldn't be surprised by the inhumanity of others, but this sh^tbag is just a klansman without a sheet. He's a coward to the core. As we typically see with these losers, he's chosen an 80 year old lady incapable of even understanding what's about to happen to her. See I'm thinking that most people have a car, and if the car were to jump the curb....

Nike factory to knock out some Air Js. But thankfully, Nike got right on that Washington Redskins thing 37 years after it started.

30,000 years? We have no time! Joe says by 2022, 15 billion people will die from gun violence alone, and that's just in big cities like Arizona.

If a person who "teaches" needs worldwide pandemic to be inspired to execute a will and health care proxy, they probably should not be teaching. Jesus, this is pathetic.

They never dealt with the inclusion of the 12,000,000 uninsured and cost for same. The implication was 12,000,000 were coming in and paying premiums of whatever--$1000 per year. That never happened, or never happened to any great degree of. And by 'never dealt with it', I mean that was part of the plan.

You b@stard.

EARMUFFS 3rd!! You’re correct of course but if Tibsy’s mom walks by and sees that sort of language we’re all going to be in dutch. KRC, not accurate at all. For all the knocks the American insurance model takes—many appropriate from a service/expectation model—it’s fundamentally a risk transference model. You, individually are not paying for other people—that’s assumes you have no stake in the game and no opportunity to avail yourself of benefits in the event of a loss. You’re part of a much larger group that shares risk based on individual characteristics in relation to the whole. It took me a long time to get here—and a healthy debate on cost, benefits, regulation etc is always welcome here—but the reality is that our system does not work without risk transference/risk sharing. Let’s assume you’re a pristine credit guy, married or civilly partnered with a like-minded spouse interested in buying a new car and a new house in 2020. Total outlay is $400,000, You certainly have the option to purchase both on a cash basis and avoid most of the insurance trap altogether. Legislatively, in most states anyway, the only requirement is that you own a liability insurance policy (and maybe carry some medical coverage) that has been deemed to be in the public interest. Again—we can debate whether or not that should be mandated, but the theory seems to be if you cross the double yellow line and hit me, seriously injure me and total my car, the choices for me are...self-fund my own recovery, try and recover from you or become a burden in others, In the alternative, you choose to put your good name on the line, borrow from a bank to assist with some of the $$$, and M&T offers to lend you the money. Heck, they’ll give you a good rate based on your ability to manage household expenses (much better than the next guy in line, your old pal Leh-nerd a career ne’er-do-well who’s father-in-law correctly suggested would never amount to anything back in 1988) and they’re happy to do it because—hey, you’re fun to be with. It’s you, Mrs. KRC and off you go....except: As good as you are, bankers are dispassionate souls. They recognize the risks inherent in lending money to even nice folks like you. Electrical wires arc and burn $&#@ down. Pipes break. Dipshits like your old pal Leh-nerd spill coffee on their speedo spot and veer into your lane. The problem is solved by shaking your hand and asking you to do just a bit more and insure their interest. Apologies for the tangent, I’m off to buy insurance on a rental property I’m buying. It’s my first at age 58, and brother, I’m insuring the crap out of it. Peace.

Great posts, but I disagree on your ACA analysis in part. I’ve mentioned this in the past, and I’ll add it again here. There is an actuarial approach to calculating the true cost of benefits offered and provided by a redistributive scheme like Obamacare, at least with some degree of reasonable accuracy. The same approach can be applied to programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Heck, I’m half-convinced that @RealKayAdams could get the job done if we put her and all the friends milling about in her head on the case. The challenge is that the cost to carry the burden would be neither attainable nor sustainable. The concept is a pipe dream, a pyramid scheme and simply a push towards nationalized health care, where the projection is that the hundreds of thousands of jobs/lives impacted in the move away from private health care models (those also regulated and manipulated by governmental intervention) will simply be absorbed by a low-cost model staffed by state/federal employees. That the governmental model will also be a pyramid scheme, and result in a product that is neither low cost nor actuarially sustainable is irrelevant to those who favor this model. I also read RKA’s posts and follow 75% of it (that’s a concentration issue on my part, not a reflection on the post), and in turn simply offer that the model proposals discussed are simply the latest iterations of wealth redistribution models wrapped in the same fear and guilt mongering that has moved the masses for thousands of years. I am a realist, consider taxation an obligation of every patriotic American, believe in doing my part to be a sensible steward of the environment, but excessive taxation and ceding control to activist politicians and b’crats is not my particular cup of tea.

The concept of “July” is rooted in the tyranny of a patriarchal European Judeo-Christian society. It’s oppressive, manipulative and as I am running out of words to express my outrage, whimsical. Unfortunately, the Fahrenheit methodology is as well. The whole concept of weather is felonious and when you think about it, bodacious.

Yes.

It's not about you and your kids, it's about the collective. My children are grown and out of school btw, and are independent thinkers. I'd always warn them about folks like you are about labels and shaming people for having an opinion. #suffragebro

Heywood Jablomey

Not personally. Joe is just the infrastructure guy.

Question 7. Why are there 47 layers of complexity filtered through 13 layers mental health subsets and and 7 emotional appeals applied to the question of “How will schools reopen safely” and yet the extraordinarily complex Society/Law Enforcement conundrum can be boiled down to cops bad/defund the police/burn some cities?

Well, I tried to stay out of this due to the potential for misunderstanding, but I jumped in. Your original thread is titled "...might as well talk about it", so I did. Why on earth would you assume I was suggesting you were inappropriately involved with a student? I referenced a favorite coach/PE teacher from a couple years before you were born as a role model and whom I viewed as a stand up guy. I'm nearing 60 and I still value the lessons learned. My only point was reflecting in the moment that the stand up guy may have known about the other coach and his inappropriate relationship with female students. That has no reflection on you, may well be superfluous but how you jumped from one point to the other amazes me. It also is the sort of thing that makes me think you take things, you know, personally. As for the paragraph as a whole, I was simply pointing out that while you seem to view things from the perspective of a teacher intent on doing valued work with students, many members of the community you serve likely view you as provider of service. In other words, while you (not me) characterized yourself as a glorified babysitter in the eyes of some people...in a sense, you are. ***Transpy, I am not one of those people, I value my relationships with my friends that are teachers, respect what a good teacher brings to the table***. The service provided is education. The education takes place at a HS, Middle School, Elementary school at a designated place and time. Members of the community rely on the service provided, as outlined, based on the $$$ paid. They plan around it, work around it, and in many cases sacrifice and work to end up in a particular district. That perception drives the reality and the expectation that you and yours should be open for business. Don't shoot the messenger (schools are gun free zones). Cradle (from the first days of employment) to grave (literally) benefits and entitlements are part of the process in many states--I referenced NY because that's where I live, and in fairness, your thread title didn't specify "Hawaii Only". The perception that teachers are well-compensated relative to occupation, enjoy a gold standard benefit package, retire at a relatively young age (55-59), while the taxpayer is 'encouraged' to work to 70 is a thing whether you want to address it or not. That matters in this thread because the perception drives the reality that you and yours should be open for business. Don't shoot the messenger. Thank you for the additional information on your HS years. I didn't play the bassoon, but you raise an interesting point. There are people that you serve who might think....my school tax is $8k per annum, why the %$#@ do we need a Wind Ensemble teacher banging down $100k+, with a health care package that likely equates to $10,000 per year, who will retire at 59, live to 88 and become, in essence a multi-millionaire pensioner. ***Transpy, I believe in the arts and sports programs--at least to a point. The system is what it is, and it seems silly to debate it--but it's one of the reasons the expectation is that you and yours should be open for business. Your answer, of course, is BECOME A TEACHER!, and that's fine and fair to a point, but that is not the point. Perception that a teacher can make $100k per year (20 years ago) to instruct a bunch of pimply faced high school students in Johann Sebastian Bach's "Fugue in F minor" drives reality that you and yours should be open for business. As for ESL teachers, you used the word 'valuable'. The flip side of assimilating into our culture and the relative value of same is that it's an expensive proposition. It seems logical to me that the cost of assimilation should be borne by the person looking to assimilate. I see the value, I simply don't see why it's my responsibility to fund it. Be that as it may.. This perception can drive the reality that you and yours should be open for business. As for money being 're'allocated, it seems to me that industry as a whole seems to be finding the work from home model far less expensive than the traditional model. I'm not talking about finding money for other projects, I'm talking about a straight up cash refund to tax payers. The savings must be substantial. It'll never happen--they will find a wway to spend it, but then again, that drives perception that people should be getting what they paid for--in school learning. Finally, I want some damn credit here. I typed a lot of words, and not once--not one damn time did I imply that your cougar female wind ensemble instructor offered a young and impressionable Transpy midnight finger placement lessons--but I was thinking it.