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4 minutes ago, boyst said:
It is at your office the matter is for the business of said company's office.
I'm not sure I understand you here. In this example, it's at my office because I wanted an American flag/flagpole at my office.
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2 hours ago, SydneyBillsFan said:
I am a dog lover.....one of my dogs got hit by a car when he was 5 months old, back leg was shattered....it was either pay $2000 to get a plate screwed into the leg or, get it put down. We chose option A, and he ended up being the best friend you could ever ask for until he died at the age of 14. So I am not entirely comfortable with what she did.
That said, I love Kristi Noem for her ideological viewpoints and her decisiveness. And she is pretty easy on the eye too, so frankly - she can jump on me anytime! As long as she feeds my dogs afterwards!!
Wait. Do you actually have dogs, or is this some Only Fans Gen Z euphemism? If so, understand I'm not judging. If there is an Aussie trick or two to be picked up here from down under, I'm all for it.
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54 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
There was a lot of silliness about Biden being amped up on stimulants for the SOTU address.
But I do wonder this: we've been told (and have seen) that he has "moderate to severe arthritis." I've seen this with my own relatives who get cortisone shots (I think they limit them to 2 or 4 times per year). It's like a very brief fountain of youth. They move better, the have a great increase in energy, etc.
So that's my theory. Good old cortisone.
Anyone watch Succession? Here's Logan Roy pulling it together after one of those self-administered shots.
You know that "Succession" is a television program, yes? Also, that Logan Roy is a fictional character, and that he probably wasn't shot up with anything at all.
It is quite conceivable to me that Biden was given medication intended to improve focus, energy and to boost his concentration. I wouldn't necessarily fault a candidate for that, within reason. And if the medicine for his moderate to severe arthritis would control the stutter that causes him to make up words and misremember things like which world leaders he spoke with recently are dead or alive, or that his uncle was the victim of cannibals in Guam, all the better I suppose.
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Hakeem Jeffries is a well-known election denier, a spreader of disinformation to the people. Kudos here, though..perhaps he's done some soul-searching.
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14 minutes ago, boyst said:
Many Americans choose to not even fly the flag for what it stands for and that's alright. I hope everyone would always support the choice to fly it regardless.
Agreed, and I guess the question of what to do when someone is not respectful of the choices made by others. If, for example, I choose to fly a flag at my office, when someone takes it down, what recourse is available? That's a matter for the police, I would think.
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8 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
This is true. I would say how much he dislikes animals in general. Maybe it goes to that germophobia thing, although that never stopped him from fingering the nether regions of porn stars, so who knows? Maybe that's why that dismissed juror found him "mysterious and fascinating."
We all have our little biases. When I find out someone is a baseball fan (everyone here is a football fan), I tend to think more highly of them. No good reason for that; it's just someone appreciating something I also appreciate gives rise to a kind of conscious bias. I know damn well I'm doing it. I'm not a fan of that subconscious bias theorizing.
Same with people who like dogs. And more importantly, people that dogs seem to like. I don't do that modern "mind if I pet your dog?" thing. The dog strains toward me on the leash, looks like a friendly dog, I put down my hand to make friends. Never been bitten, but have had cranky owners scold me. That's their problem.
I sense that dogs don't like Trump either.
I've been bitten multiple times. First time was when I was a kid. Then 15+ years ago I was bitten as I was walking in a neighborhood. The d*mn thing came out of nowhere, never made a sound and caught me on the leg. Ripped my pants, drew blood but I was quick enough to get away and whatever chain he was on held. Last time, my neighbor was moving away, came by to say goodbye and had his dog in the passenger seat. As I put my hand to shake my neighbor's hand, the dog jumped at me and chomped down quite hard. When I told my wife, she told me everyone in the neighborhood knew not to mess with that dog. I figure that dog had been in the house 5 or 6 years and I never knew.
What is the "modern "mind if i pet your dog?" thing"? Asking permission before proceeding? I do that now, mostly because of my neighbor's dog. 🐺
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19 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
- Showed love of guns and willingness to use them on a puppy? Check.
- Had extramarital affair with Trump campaign official? Check.
- Did cheesy dental practice promotion on the order of Trump Steaks or Trump Bibles? Check.
In short: checks all the Trump boxes.
Hard to make Kamala look good. She's doing a great job!
Don't you have some kittens to drown?
Yeah, looks like her goose is cooked. My initial thought was "Why on earth would you shoot a dog?" followed by "Why would you tell that story?". Since then, I've read her statement on the issue, referencing the law of South Dakota and how it applies to aggressive animals. I guess I can understand why she acted the way she did--I mean, kids raised on a farm/ranch learn an awful lot about life that suburban kids like me do not. That said, it's a deal killer for her and off she goes.
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4 hours ago, ComradeKayAdams said:
Broadly speaking, the purpose of these protests is to raise public awareness on any/all of the following issues:
1. The ongoing genocide in Gaza.
2. Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank.
3. Israel’s active prevention of Palestinian statehood.
4. Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.
5. The financial and diplomatic culpability of the United States in all of the above.
The hope is that increased public awareness will, in turn, lead to both political pressure in the eventual form of a permanent ceasefire and widespread economic pressure in the form of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement.
Judging by the level of media coverage of these college protests, both good AND bad, both nationally and internationally, I’d say that they have been wildly successful in their objective! Recent polling trends support my assessment.
Nevertheless, what’s so pathetic (but predictable) is the intellectual regression of American right-wingers. For fleeting moments within the past decade, one COULD sort of argue that they were the standard-bearers of free speech and anti-establishment politics. Their overall response, however, to the Gaza crisis and to these protestors has erased such Pollyanna-ish thoughts.
You’re not for the First Amendment if you want the police to crack down on peaceful college protests. You’re not a crusader against the political establishment if you so easily fall for media narratives framed by the MIC, AIPAC, and all corporate oligarchs who financially benefit from the bellicosity of the U.S. empire’s Middle East vassal state. And you’re DEFINITELY not the ones fighting Nazis if you condone collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against anybody!
Broadly speaking, I would suggest that the intent of the protest(s) encompasses:
- Those with a sincere desire for peace and change in the region;
- Those that want to see the eradication of Israel and it's people;
- Those who protest professionally;
- Those with nothing better on their agenda than to protest something, about something;
- Those who would show up if the protest was about the relative crispiness of Arby's curly fries;
Protests are fine, but when they cross a certain point, law and order should prevail. When that point comes, the protestors should be removed from campus by the police, and suspended from school should they attend.
With respect to "corporate oligarchs", any sensible analysis would include the universities/institutions themselves in that regard. In many cases, these are institutions catering to the wealthy, with well-compensated faculty/staff, valuable real estate, corporate brand/vision statements, and massive reserves. As to whether or not the organizers of protests themselves are part of an oligarchy of sorts, probably. There's big money in hate.
Go First Amendment!
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On 2/10/2024 at 11:45 PM, Orlando Tim said:
You truly are the only person who doesn't know that Biden ran for president in 1988 and 2008. If you did know these facts then this claim would just be comical.
The only thing that kept Biden from running multiple times was Joe Biden and his propensity to say stupid things, do stupid things, and make up preposterous stories on the spot.
The fervent Biden supporter of today had grandparents/great grandparents who rejected him soundly as a serious candidate.
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On 4/19/2024 at 10:52 AM, B-Man said:
Joe Biden and the Wawa Cannibals—An American Tragedy.
“One of the most galling results of the mainstream media’s dereliction of duty is that every syllable that Donald Trump utters is fact-checked seven or eight thousand times, while Biden is given carte blanche to keep repeating stories that are truth-free garbage.
They don’t even call him on his oft-recited lie that his son Beau was a casualty of war. This isn’t merely an elderly man’s confusion about a date or a place; either he’s so addled that he truly doesn’t remember where and how his son died, or he knows he’s deliberately lying.”
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In the case of his son, and his family tragedy in the past, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. The guy has seen tragedy befall his family on multiple occasions. Still, he seems awfully quick to leverage the tragedy in political situations, and that goes back decades. When he got to the point of comparing his middle-aged son’s death in hospice, with the gruesome deaths of young American soldiers on his watch, to the families of the soldiers, it’s hard to give him a pass.
It’s amazing to have to say this in 2024, but people can look past a fabricated story about your uncle being eaten by cannibals, but there should be some basic human decency applied when meeting with the families of soldiers lost in combat.
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2 hours ago, B-Man said:
Gosh, after reading this, was she actually in Gaza when she got pinched by The man?
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30 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute. It is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. For all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes. All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all things conspire with it. Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature. In so far as he roves from these ends, he bereaves himself of power, of auxiliaries; his being shrinks out of all remote channels, he becomes less and less, a mote, a point, until absolute badness is absolute death.
Emerson
Sometimes you gotta fight when you’re a man.
Rogers
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23 hours ago, Wacka said:
I trrmrmber seeing the Street Survivors album in Cavages. I have the Who album.
The other day, I was trying to remember the names of local record stores from that time. I forgot about “Cavages”! Ty, and hope you’re feeling well!
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10 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Two cannibals were eating a comedian.
One cannibal looks over at the other and says:
This taste funny to you?
Classic!
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
Boo hoo
I can’t believe you’re pro-cannibalism, Tibs. That’s shocking. I’m shocked.
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35 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:
He looks so confused and scared. All the loud noises and lack of white faces got him locked right up.
I’ll give the guy credit here. When politicians pander for votes, they do silly things and typically are ridiculed mercilessly for it. The Dean scream. Hillary with “I done come too far…” speech. Marco Rubio in the big chair. Of course, Biden over 50 years.
In this case, I believe his handlers told him not to clap along, sing or dance. That would be a recipe for disaster. You can see at one point he thinks he should clap along, and you can almost feel the tension amongst his his people as they scream into each other’s earpieces “CELTIC RAMBO WANTS TO CLAP! DANCING IMMINENT! DEPLOY DIVERSION NOW!” but then he folds his hands together as old men often do. Crisis averted. Kudos, Joe.
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On 4/18/2024 at 3:45 PM, Doc said:
I'll be dead within another 40". So...no.
I saw this morning that Comrade Jane Fonda was advising students at USC on the subject of climate change. She’s been lauded as an activist, of course, and has lent her image to a number of high profile causes, the government of North Vietnam a few low rent skin flicks, and a decent movie or two, too.
Anyway, one of the student activists expressed how she connected with CJF in spite of their age difference.
That caused me to check out her commitment to saving the world, comments she has made about climate change, and her personal lifestyle.
Seems the bottom line is CJF blames the patriarchy, white men, corporatism, and a few others for our collective predicament. The strange part is that w google returns an awful lot of articles about her lifestyle choices, and it seems she’s perfectly comfortable as a white woman of privilege indulging in all sorts of climate-busting activity. Travel. Real estate. Opulent furnishings. Indulgence in all manner of goods and services that huge corporations no doubt availing themselves of cheap labor have to offer. That’s not even considering the impact of the occasional nip n tuck indulgences and the impact of elective surgery that has a massive impact on energy consumption.
I wonder if there comes a time when that student, or someone like her, comes to terms with what was being sold to her, and what reality actually shows.
While I recognize the impact of the patriarchy mentality on the world, and the need for more voices with diverse backgrounds at the table, is it fair to say this 80+ year old woman, living in the seat of power for multiple decades, engaging in any variety of destructive activity, represents a part of the problem v the solution? How long does she get a pass, and more importantly, what was USC thinking?
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19 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Russia attacked our electoral system in 2016 to help Trump.
And Ukrainian cannibals ate JB’s uncle during the raid at Entebbe. Ultimately everything is interconnected, and all shall be revealed. I’m serious.
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17 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
It is before the Supreme Court of New York State, which despite its name is the trial level court of general jurisidiction.
County courts are lower level, handling the stuff you talk about.
Because it is INCONCEIVABLE that your God Who Walks The Earth could doze off during an incredibly boring court proceeding.
It’s quite conceivable to me. Say what you want about Trump, but based on the number of live events he attends, the number of public appearances and commentary on the world, and his perpetual battles with haters of the media/government variety, it’s obvious he’s a very high energy guy. I believe the scientific term is “ants in the pants”.
To be stuck in that dreary courtroom on reimagined charges brought by a political charlatan must represent tedium on a massive scale.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Good point.
This is what economists would call the moral hazard problem.
If the fees are capped at a low amount, we'd all love to think that someone carrying significant credit card debt would save that $25 difference and all consumers would be better off. But as you point out, that's not necessarily what happens.
And a larger point: I don't like throwing these credit card fees in with Biden's general attack on "junk fees." I'm in favor of that because it ought to relate to those annoying/unjustifiable fees on things we can't opt out of - the classic $30 "resort fee" that I'm charged every night (and can't opt out of) that allows me to do ordinary things like make local telephone calls (who does that on a hotel phone anymore?) and access the hotel swimming pool. The idea is that if I can't opt out, you've got to wrap that fee into the disclosed nightly rate. That makes sense as a consumer/advertising fairness issue.
Things like paying a credit card bill late are not the same thing.
That sort of itemization doesn’t bother me to any great degree. Whether I pay $192 per night and a $30 resort fee per day, or $222 per night, I make the decision on the value of services provided.
Same with baggage fees on airlines that Scranton Joe praddles on about. If the ticket is $310, and $40 for a bag, it’s $350 to fly with a bag. Go. Don’t go. Find another airline. Whatever.
And not to derail this topic further, Scranton Joe babbles on about credit card fees, baggage fees and shrinkflation and it catches the attention of the Rolling Stone and by extension, the dope-addled stoners who read it.
Meanwhile, the $1000 spent on the credit card actually totals $1082.50 with tax, and that particular dance continues month after month after month in perpetuity. Tax is important and pays for things, but never a word about automation/technology/reduction. Meanwhile, a $33 fee must be reduced to $8 if there is any justice in the world, and certain rolling stoners celebrate like they participated in the Boston Tea Party when it is.
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2 minutes ago, SCBills said:
On the face of this, no idea why anyone would oppose capping credit card fees.
However anyone capable of thinking down the line can probably foresee that, like usual, this will end up hurting those who it’s supposed to help.
If banks can’t make money on lending money to people who carry high balances and/or make minimum payments then who do we think they stop lending money to?….
Obviously the answer is the people who benefit most by capped fees.
Therefore, like usual, the wealthy benefit as they become the only ones who can obtain lines of credit and access to capital.
I look at this differently. The wealthy have no issue either way. They don't incur the fee, or incur it and pay it.
As for fees for a particular credit card, those are spelled out in the agreement when the card is obtained. If an individual doesn't read the terms and conditions of the card, they typically will find out what the late fee is the first time they make a late payment. That process is exactly the same whether the fee is $33, $28, $16, or $4.50. The larger, more important question is "What behavior is causing you to continue to incur late fees?".
If some folks want to believe that $33 is Satan, and $8 saves the world, super. Seems to me one non-wealthy individual incurring one late fee at $33 annually is in a much better place than one non-wealthy individual incurring six $8 late fees over a 12 month period.
Cap fees, fine, but pitching this as some grand gesture is silly.
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It's unconscionable in today's America that people should be required to pay for their subscription to Rolling Stone in the manner they agreed to pay it.
No fees
Yes please!
Know fees?
No Please!
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32 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
The Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of about 1 inch per year. That change in gravitational pull will result in the Earth's rotation slowing and change the magnitude of tidal movements.
In 1 million years it will be almost 15.8 miles further away. Should we be worried?
I’m only worrying about when to start worrying, but can see some real concern blossoming in early 2096, God willing.
Btw, they closed down the local taco place a few months back, and the closest one is now about 16 miles away. I have not noticed any substantial change beyond on occasion, wishing the return ride was only 11 or 12 miles for reasons beyond the scope of the board.
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1 hour ago, B-Man said:
I was on a jury a few years back, but the funny part about being in a rural area showed up.
I didn't know the accused, and even though I wasn't what you would call friends with the judge, she did have to notify the attorneys that she had been at a neighborhood party that I was at also, a few nights before.
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Did you folks throw all the keys in a basket, or play pin the tail on the MIL…ah never mind.
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And the 2024 Race Begins
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Could be a total coink-dink that his arthritis treatment gave him a needed jolt at the exact time and place he needed an extra jolt. One of the contraindications could possibly be '...intense burst of energy commencing at 9pm on a Friday night in March', but it's hardly a conspiracy theory that they jacked the geez up just prior to an important speech before the world, at least based on readily available clips of Biden appearing confused, wandering about, and struggling with when to pause while delivering a speech on a teleprompter.
It's irrelevant anyways. He's been on a senior walkabout since well before the election. It matters to some people, doesn't matter to others.