unless you can get poor people to stop making decisions that render them poor

Yes because young people especially young guys faced with a willing vagina are known for their incredible foresight.

What's does a young man on a date call planning for the future?
-a condom in his wallet.

What do you call a guy who uses an old gas station condom from his wallet?
- my son calls me dad

#1

No ammo is way up. He spent at least .33 per round to shoot up the mall likely a lot more since that's the price for 1000+ round purchases.

When the rich white slave owners who founded the country are too liberal for you maybe you've taken your conservatism too far?

These poor Russian generals are only dying because the Ukrainians have the audacity to defend their country. If they weren't a bunch of nazi's they would have laid down their arms and greeted their new Russian overlords with flowers and chocolates and thousands of Russian troops would still be alive.

The blood of these fine Russian generals is on the hands of America.

(How much is that worth Putin? It's getting warm so no one wants their fireplace fixed, I need a new source of side income)

#59

project nonexistent extremism onto anyone advocating for legalized abortion insinuating they would indeed murder a viable fetus

Thing is I got a mailer the other day against one of the candidates for supporting "abortion without restrictions" and the mailer implied that was abortion up to due date. So I did some digging on the candidate and the org's supporting her thinking well that sounds like utter BS. Turns out "abortion without restrictions" was in fact the position of one of the org's supporting her. In that org's marketing there was no effort to tone that down.

That won't keep me from voting for her, other things might, but that won't for multiple reasons. One I don't really believe that is the stance, two even if it is that has basically 0 chance of being passed into law and three sometimes when the extremists are winning you have to fight extremism with extremism.

#62

Just because KS progress is 20 years behind CA progress does that mean it suddenly isn't progress?

#1

Mel Brooks admitted it in '81

We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along
protecting the Hebrew race

We're Jews out in space
If trouble appears
we put it right back in its place

When goyim attack us
We give 'em a smack
we'll slap them right back in the face

We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along
protecting the Hebrew race

#1

Yeah the EIC and child tax saved our asses more than once as poor parents. Expanding it was/is a good idea and yoinking it is very short sighted. Even though none of our kids qualified for it since they are now all over 18 it was one spending policy I was 100% for.

Of course on the flip side it's success points to another policy I've been promoting for close on 25 years now and that is UBI. The expanded child tax credit was very much like a UBI and the resounding success, and the fact that it didn't lead to the disasters predicted point to the potential success of a UBI. So quick get rid of it before people realize that these ideas can work.

OCU his dad owned a restaurant doesn't say how successful it was so could have started with money or not.

I would add Mark Cuban to the list as well.

So that's three who were at best middle class growing up Fertitta, Vultaggio and Cuban.

I would argue Don Vultaggio is a self made billionaire.

He didn't come from money unless you consider a manager of an A&P to be "money".

#11

I don't think ANYBODY wants to BBQ fetuses
You have more faith in humanity than me. I am fairly certain that at least one person wants to or at least is BBQ fetus curious.

Define well developed fetus. That really is where the sticking point for most people lands. It's why other than extremist first trimester is rarely argued. Somewhere in the second is where it starts gets a bit fuzzy for most people.

#7

I think that you are right about most pro-lifers however there is a small set that want to set women back to barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen days and they are using the pro-life arguments to draw in enough people to have sway.

I think the set that wants to BBQ fetus' is even smaller but I guess the same could be said about them.

My mom sent me something about this this morning and saying we need to 25th Biden.

I pointed out that would lead to a President Harris and even if you some how figured out a way to dodge that next would be Pelosi. Pretty sure she is now praying for Biden's health and well being.

he is groomed

So Republicans are the party of groomers. :-P

#18

No, Jack tried to tie a horn onto a horse. It uh didn't work.

#8

A unicorn is a hot bi-chick who is totally into MFF threesomes.

#42

Depending on the area of the brain effected it could very well look correct to Danni. Or it could be that the effort of typing it out takes so long and so much energy she doesn't have the strength to go back. Or it could be any other number of reasons.

Bottom line much like Bruce Willis recent acting issues without knowing details you accept the limitations or you don't. If you don't and it bothers you plonk her, if you want to hear her thoughts then accept the issue and learn to read the intent of what is posted. My punctuation has always been horrible but people interested in my thoughts manage to muddle through and I don't have a stroke to blame it on, I just suck at the written word.

#13 see my #14 unions got the reputation MSGT brings up in #11 on their own.

They don't have to be that way but many are and I hope that's one of the lessons learned.

Unions can be fantastic for both management and workers but mostly in the US they have failed both management and exceptional workers.

Management has kind of shot them selves in the dick on this one.

Benefits and pay have been shrunk to the point unions make sense for more and more of the workforce.

I worked in a union shop for all of one day. I had negotiated myself better pay at my previous job than I could get at the union shop and when I asked about how to earn raises and promotions I found out it was almost 100% seniority and the folks at the level I had started my previous job at had at the minimum 7 years seniority I realized I was screwed. For years I avoided Unions and did better than I would have. Then 2008 hit and suddenly companies had an excuse to reduce pay and benefits. When to the surprise of no one they never came back the door was kicked open for unions.

Let's hope lessons have been learned on both sides but excuses me if I don't hold my breath.

What really is the difference, if any?

#4 | Posted by brass30

4 Zeros at the end of the number is one. To put that in scale since billions aren't numbers most of us think in.
Hey brother can you spare a dime vs. Hey brother can you spare a grand.

Then as someone else pointed out Kushner was Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor while Hunter was son of the vice president. Neither is awesome in my opinion but an actual government official vs the kid of one is worse.

#3 & 4

Is your brain chronically underdeveloped or do you simply enjoy sounding like an illiterate jackhole?

First off maybe try getting a job before you criticize others jobs. Possibly you would understand the needs of someone who works for a living if you tried it yourself.

Second I pretty clearly was pointing out issues with the overly broad language in the bill not the intent. To someone who voted for Trump I understand that deeper complexities like the wording of a law vs the title of a law might not matter. To people who live in the real world and have to deal with the consequences that result from dunderheaded politicians passing laws that sound good, those differences can be crucial.

While the principal sounds nice I see some of big tech's issues.

Take the Amazon prime argument. So a company selling on Amazon contracts with a different delivery service and gets 2 day delivery Amazon then has to label their product as prime. I order something from the company but I don't get it in two days I call Amazon to complain and get told tough crap that wasn't fulfilled through Amazon fulfillment so nothing we can do. I'm like but it was labeled prime and they respond well thanks to the AICOA we can no longer legally control fulfillment on prime orders.

Meanwhile I needed the part to complete a contract and end up losing the customer for good because I couldn't complete the job in the required time frame.

Or I go to google to map the route to my job. I search the address and JohnBoy's maps is the first link. I click on the map and it takes me to the wrong address 30 min away. Google says sorry thanks to AICOA we have to give you results to non-google mapping services and we can't control the quality of their data.

I'm not saying that I want Google and Amazon to be able to gatekeep everything but the language in this bill seems overly broad to the point that I could foresee both the above scenarios as potential outcomes.

I kind of liked the theory espoused in A Stranger in a Strange Land

"The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together."

As far as #7 goes I make no judgement on any religion, to quote "Stranger" again "Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along." Round it out with a bit from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, "I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop."

#8

I'll take a little of column A and a little of column B

My kids, since about 15, became great sources of new music. So I groomed them pretty well to my audiophile lifestyle. Also my job doesn't drug test :)