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This is the starting point? Off the top of my head, there were 5 different brands of personal-use water bottles in the store today, plastic bottles with plastic caps and plastic labels, with plastic sign holders to tell me how much each plastic shrink-wrapped crate of 24 would cost. There was an extensive offering of non-water-flavored water as well. How impactful would a ban on plastic water bottles in NYS be in 2020? Between manufacture, shipping, recycling and repeating the cycle over and over the impact on the environment is staggering and dare I say, meaningful. Would anyone really be harmed if a meaningful ban like that was implemented? Would life be altered in any negative way? By the way, I don’t know anyone who thinks it’s the end of the world, quite the opposite. They see it a largely hollow and silly political stunt.

Bias is a natural part of life, it just is the way it is. If she was a Hospice nurse caring for an aging and sick loved one, showed compassion and grace in doing so, she would be perceived differently even with her boyish figure and voice that feels like a woodworker's chisel is being jammed into your brain stem. Some people won't vote for trump because hes from NYC, some didnt vote for BO because of his heritage, and some would pass on Mike B because he's not unshort. Besides, she has used the perception of bias (real or imagined) as a hammer for her entire political career, often bringing her great success. Sometimes she's bound to be on the wrong side of it.

Also, those weed-smokin hippies with their fancy non-plastic dog poop picker uppers represent a population nearly 7x larger than where I live in Albany, NY. That makes 'em 7x more pollutey than we are, and I don't feel the need to have to establish a logistics operation to ferry my items to my largely-plastic vehicle in 3 item shifts, with one party left at the counter to safeguard that which is temporarily left behind. Don't even get me started on the massive carbon footprint of having a sports franchise like the Portland Trail Blazers. Get rid of them, save the planet and give me my plastic bags back.

I'm standing in line at a Walmart, among the aisles and aisle and aisles of plastic...plastic bottles plastic jugs plastic wrappers plastic water bottles plastic sleeves over plastic goods...all loaded into a shopping cart with plastic bumpers and plastic advertising sleeves... thinking that had this ban never be implemented, life would have gone on as well. Agreed, amazing.

tibs is a war monger and clearly a major player in the military industrial complex. He also prefers a Holiday Inn Express over a stay Mar-A-Lago, mostly because he likes making his own waffles at breakfast.

Completely understandable. When I was a younger man, many woman stopped me from moving where I wanted to go, and I always considered myself arrested. I guess in retrospect, I wasn't arrested arrested, I was stopped. The good news is that while these really nice young ladies stopped me from moving where I personally wanted to go, some really nice friendships bloomed.

i remember this guy. bit of an edge, willing to say the hard things that needed to be said. nice.

Pursuing litigation seems not at all unAmerican, not sure why anyone would have an issue with an aggrieved party (from his perspective) seeking their day in court. If it’s frivolous it will be tossed.

Hmmmm...Son 30+...Hubby presumed to like Disney+...Are you, or have you ever been, accused and/or been described as, a “cougar”? I’d like to insert a cool new @Foxx animated emoji but lack the talent and hipsterness to do so this will have to do. ?

I think you play the game the way the game is played if for no other reason than your opponent will play as such. Sanders would cut the throat of anyone close to one of his opponents and leave them bleeding in the shadows to improve his standing, it just is what it is. The house issue is fair game. $500,000+ cash would pay for a lot of late term abortions for his constituents. The rape story is what it is, and up to the voter to decide as to whether or not it's relevant to them in 2020.

Nearly 250 years in the making...

Well, in the context of Sanders using a complex legal tactic to protect himself from personal liability, to avoid the unfortunate consequences of punitive taxation, and to allow his heirs the benefit of skirting financial obligations while allowing them to keep the roughly 600 feet of prime lake front, it’s something that rightly should be addressed. Hard core leftists will indeed flock to follow him, every cult needs a messiah figure regardless of his own personal fiscal fetishes. The goal is simply to cut him down, piece by piece, to expose him as the hypocrite that he is, and to associate him with the vision that the USA can look like Cuba and Venezuela if you you just rally behind Sanders. In fact, one must wonder if these mega-wealthy individuals weren’t working so damn hard to avoid paying taxes and shielding assets from Medicare to begin with, if the Medicare crisis would be a crisis to begin with. Socialism is profoundly lucrative for the few.

Irv Crankstein.

Teddy Musolini near as I can tell. Your talk is traitorous.

Nice post. Here’s the deal, with few exceptions, it’s not “owners” v “players”, it’s haves and haves less. Patrick Mahommes likely cares less about the overall compensation to players as a whole than he does what he makes. Jerry Jones holds the same philosophy as it relates to Terry and Kim Pegula or Patrick Mahommes, and I’m sure Travis Kelce doesn’t spend much time worrying about how much Dawson Knox will make in future contracts. Every party necessarily looks out for themselves. They’ll work it out—but let’s focus on the real problem: those mysterious black suited Spider-Man-refs who&$@@ over the Bills of Buffalo!

One more point, certainly understood by most on this board. It's easy for people to rage against a "system", but by system, I actually mean "people". Hatred, division, and aggression against those who do not kneel at Greta's infamous wall must, by extension, be marginalized, beaten into submission or worse. Sanders needs his people to rage against people, and just moves the goalposts as necessary. Btw the jamoke who pointed out snopes review of the Sanders 52% tax plan missed the pointing about Sanders banging those at 250,000k + at 40% or higher. Sure, it makes perfect sense to become successful, invest in yourself and you dreams to earn $300k and work until April 23 for the feds skim before you're free of that debt, at which time you can consider the obligation to your state govt for another 30 days or so and by maybe mid-June start putting something aside for yourself.

Incandescent blather from that poster.

He doesn’t have to say anymore than he’s already said, and he’s said a lot. There is no need to step back, to take a breath, take a view from 30,000 feet or to get out if the weeds. The part about this demagogue yapping about “chaos and hatred in America” is priceless. His entire campaign is based on hatred and rage against a system, ironically a system which has brought him incredible personal power and financial prosperity.

I've flown hundreds of times and it has never occurred to me that someone would be Tommy DiSimone in Goodfellas enraged that I pressed a button and slid the seat back. I’ve never thought twice about the person in front of me sliding his/her seat back and to be completely honest, I don’t actually see where it changes much of my space if any. I’m not 6’+ tall, and sometimes feel bad for folks who have to squeeze in these seats, but unless they’re entering into Downward Dog I don’t really see it as an issue. By nature I’m pretty courteous, so I’d never slam a seat back to &$#@ up someone’s laptop, but I just don’t see it. I like to fly, and while it has its challenges I’m perpetually amazed and grateful to live in a time I can start the day in the cold northeast and end up in Sunny Fla by lunchtime, all for under a couple hundred bucks.

Jesus, that's weak. And I say that knowing he may challenge me to a push up contest. I'll risk it.

In theory, Koko for Cocoa Puffs, is the jury supposed to avoid media/TV etc? (I'm referring of course to the writ of Habeas Corpus vis a vis Notice of Appeal and Declaratory Injunctions. Per se and to wit.)

These....features...would they be appealing to a middle aged 1-3 time per week gym guy who often struggles to get both feet in the TRX handles for the plank push ups he does 0-2 times per week? I mean, by features, you're not talking Adam Apples here are you?

I have to say here that while Weinstein is a dirtbag of Hollywoodian proportions, no one involved in this walks out with their hands clean. The defense team marketed the $$$$ out of this trial, the prosecution did the same, the victims have to balance accusations and what appears to be consenual activity, the seedy underbelly of the casting couch phenomenon is an issue, now you have a member of the jury reading and reviewing books dealing with predatory behavior. What a cluster$#!$. I don't think he walks simply because, well, he sure looks the part of a predator, but I would not be surprised in the least if he did.

In the children's fairy tale Hansel und Greta (Thunberg), that would indeed be considered a bread crumb.

You'll be fine TBF. You're just a guy trying to figure it all out, and it can be upsetting. Someone always thinks this way, recognizes the lies that are new and unprecedented, howls at the moon about fake boogeymen, and type in capital letters to make a point. My hope for you is someday, upon reflection, you can find it in your heart to be more accepting of the choices of others, to seek inclusion, and recognize that your limitations are yours alone. Whatever else you do, if you are indeed a teacher, be fair. In history class, teach that the Trump phenomenon shook the establishment to the corpse. In math, teach the kids that 4 + 4 = 8.