Instead, say, "These are things that Trump does that I don't like, and he shouldn't be president because of them." That will give you a more powerful argument, and more accurate point, and won't cause people to roll their eyes.
Roll your eyes if you must but Trump's words strike me as very much like those that resulted in the destruction of six million Jews. Singling out a religious group for governmental monitoring; blocking members of that group from entering the US; concluding that a federal judge cannot properly perform his function because he was born to Mexican parents and that a Muslim judge probably couldn't either... the white supremacists have recognized this and they support him. I don't want to find out if he's just kidding.
I'm no expert on the history of demagogues but Trump's targeting of a specific religious group (Muslims) is reminiscent of that famous "Leader" of the twentieth century.
Trump's lashing out at a man who is charged with legally prosecuting him for fraud, stating that as a "Mexican" (Gonzalo Curiel, US-born of Mexican parents and once targeted by a Mexican drug cartel for his actions against them) is therefore unable to fairly judge the case against Trump is reminiscent of the racial identity theories of that once famous "Leader".
And Trump's incitement of his cheering crowd to violence is reminiscent of, well, you tell me:
"In the old days," Trump added, protesters would be "carried out on stretchers."
When a Black Lives Matter protester was punched and kicked by attendees at a Trump rally last fall, Trump remarked the next day that "maybe he should have been roughed up."
"I hear the (Ricketts) family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful. They have a lot to hide," Trump tweeted.
He did first sue in small claims court but the case was thrown out because he had already disposed of / destroyed the evidence. So then he escalated.
According to court records, Zavodnik initially filed a lawsuit in Marion County Small Claims Court, where he asked for the maximum damages of $6,000. Zavodnik lost because he had thrown away the evidence (the printer), court records said.
Costello said he thought that was the end of the legal fight, but Zavodnik filed another lawsuit in Marion Superior Court, where he requested damages for breach of contract, fraud, conversion, deceptive advertising and emotional distress.
Scott Adams' apologia for Trump is reminiscent of what was said about Germany in the run-up to WWII.
Trump also suggested creating a government list of which residents of the country are Muslim. That’s some scary shit. Until... you realize the government already has that list. You know they do, right?
Adams, whose cartoons seemed to find nuance in everything, ignores the nuances of the "Leader" of a country announcing that the government will now create a list of members of a specific religious group. I'm sure that you are familiar with the term "chilling effect". While our intelligence services may know who is what, Trump's suggestion is tantamount to announcing that henceforth Muslims will be required to wear a yellow star-in-crescent on their clothing. I don't think that he is tone deaf on the issue, which leaves the much less savory conclusion.
As for why his violent reactions haven't previously made the news, I'd be willing to bet (and I am not a gambler) that the victims have been carefully paid off with instructions to remain silent or be financially ruined afterwards. His former wife Ivana accused him of violently attacking and raping her after a "scalp reduction" surgery he had went wrong:
"Your doctor fucking ruined me!" Donald allegedly yelled, before tearing out Ivana's hair "by the handful, as if he is trying to make her feel the same kind of pain he is feeling."...
He rips off her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside of her for the first time in more than sixteen months.
Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what The Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, 'He raped me.'
And then there's that little thing about law and order loving Trump's selection of an array of mob (Mafia) run construction associates:
To help build his first big Manhattan project, the Grand Hyatt New York on East 42nd Street, Trump had chosen a notorious demolition company secretly owned in part, according to the FBI, by a top Philadelphia mobster who doubled as crime lord of Atlantic City.
To pour concrete for the new hotel, Trump picked a firm run by a man named Biff Halloran who was convicted a few years later for his role in what prosecutors dubbed a mob-run cartel that jacked up construction prices throughout the city.
For the carpentry contract, Trump settled on a Genovese family–controlled enterprise that was central to another mob price-fixing racket, as found by a subsequent federal probe.
So, yeah, not that I want to be alarmist, but your "mild-mannered" Trump may turn out to be "so nice, so polite, so quiet" like the next door neighbor who is found to have a freezer filled with human body parts. I hope that's not the case, especially if he becomes our next president, but I don't expect it to turn out well at all.
It should be noted that Trump’s unfamiliarity with Duke is a recent condition. In 2000, Trump issued a statement that he was no longer considering a run for President with the backing of the Reform Party, partly because it “now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke.”
Throughout last fall and into the winter, Trump continued to accumulate support among white nationalists. In November, on a weekend in which he said that a black protester, at a rally in Alabama, deserved to be “roughed up,” Trump retweeted a graphic composed of false racist statistics on crime; the graphic, it was discovered, originated from a neo-Nazi account that used as its profile image a variation on the swastika. In January, he retweeted the account “@WhiteGenocideTM,” which identified its location as “Jewmerica.” Shortly before the Iowa caucuses, a pro-Trump robocall featured several white supremacists, including the author Jared Taylor, who told voters, “We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people.” Each time Trump was asked on Twitter about his white nationalist supporters, the candidate, who is ready to respond, day or night, to critics of his debating style or his golf courses, simply ignored the question.
Another self-entitled cyclist who believes that cars shouldn't be in the bike lane, eh? What next you selfish person? Are you going to disallow cars from driving on the sidewalk also?
/s
(The article below indicates that NYPD was not going to take action against a driver who did just that, mowed down a pedestrian, and drove away, however the driver has turned herself in.)
Interestingly that cached page contains an "Unofficial Page" disclaimer:
This unofficial Page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business. It's not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with City Park Apartments.
Real estate "developers", venture capitalists, and other bacterial forms typically buy up buildings filled with rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments with the intention of illegally forcing the tenants out so that they can quadruple the rent.
"There should be at least a memorandum for the record by the person who administered the oral briefing each year," the former official, who requested anonymity, told TheDCNF late Thursday.
Ordinarily, he said, a senior State Department official "should have put something in the record." He emphasized that yearly oral security briefings for the Secretary of State were common while he was in the department.
Well, the real question IMHO is "maybe oral briefing isn't really briefing", you know?
DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, Hitachi, Ridgid, Ryobi, Craftsman, and Porter Cable all are working on getting their own versions of this product to market also. In each case the robot simply drills through the stomach and pops out where the belly button used to be. 3M and Loctite are working on something to patch things up after. Hope this helps. Have a Nice Day!
New York City requires that e-waste be properly recycled, both via public "Department of Sanitation" workers and by "private carters". The law is that DoS picks up "residential waste" and private carters pick up the commercial waste. DoS does a pretty good job and many of their workers on the trucks are scrupulous about how they leave a pickup site. The employees of the private carters on the other hand are generally paid poorly, exposed to dangerous working conditions, and given impossible schedules to maintain. The result is that everything that they pick up goes into the single mouth of their truck; food waste, paper waste, plastic waste, and e-waste. And often they leave a trail of drippings as they pull away. Enforcement does not exist for the private carters who speed through red lights and drive the wrong way down the streets at night.
So all that effort that businesses put into properly separating recyclables from other solid waste... well, it all goes into the same dump at the same time.
Some background:
The DSNY collects 10,500 tons of garbage and 1760 tons of recyclables from residential, government, and nonprofit agency buildings every day, whereas private carters collect 13,000 tons of garbage from businesses.
And of course, the customer in France would get really upset when that happened and would rate me poorly if I didn't eat the cost and try again. And of course, the customer would rate me negatively as well if I did declare the full value and insured things properly without paying the customs and tax, because in the end the customer would get hit with a large customs and tax fee upon delivery.
It's complaints like those that lead me to read through the negative eBay reviews and not just look at the percentage. On occasion I've seen some excellent vendors get crapped on by self-entitled bullying pricks.
Yes, you can read the classics for free via Gutenberg.org. But you can't easily follow along with your {calculus,physics,chemistry,pde,...} class without a copy of the current textbook.
Yes, you can learn a lot without spending a dime but you'll have a much harder time finding a comparable job or getting into a good grad school without a college diploma.
Yes, I've seen many copies of "50 Shades of Grey" lying in the trash, free for the taking. But not everybody wants to read crap.
Interesting; is it really true that the publishers can forbid professors to use older editions or do the professors just cave because they want their free professional copies of the publisher's books?
And New York also. Years before Amazon.com was a twinkle in JB's eye, the large New York department stores would, with a wink and a nod, ship an empty box to your cousin's home in New Jersey to help their New York customers evade the NYS and NYC sales taxes. The box went to NJ and the untaxed merchandise went home with the customer. Eventually most retailers decided to stop that practice. For out of state purchases it was always the consumer's responsibility to report and pay the sales tax; of course nobody did.
Even if you say the driver should be getting paid for those minutes, taking the current US median taxi driver wage of around $16 per hour (source http://www1.salary.com/Taxi-Dr... [salary.com] ) (which is likely more than an uber drivers average hourly wage) that extra 5 minutes at most should be $1.33. Charging $5-$10 is excessive.
So, yeah, $1.33 for the driver; $8.67 for Uber. Fair is fair.
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As the old saying goes, "if it walks like a duck
Roll your eyes if you must but Trump's words strike me as very much like those that resulted in the destruction of six million Jews. Singling out a religious group for governmental monitoring; blocking members of that group from entering the US; concluding that a federal judge cannot properly perform his function because he was born to Mexican parents and that a Muslim judge probably couldn't either ... the white supremacists have recognized this and they support him. I don't want to find out if he's just kidding.
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Trump's lashing out at a man who is charged with legally prosecuting him for fraud, stating that as a "Mexican" (Gonzalo Curiel, US-born of Mexican parents and once targeted by a Mexican drug cartel for his actions against them) is therefore unable to fairly judge the case against Trump is reminiscent of the racial identity theories of that once famous "Leader".
And Trump's incitement of his cheering crowd to violence is reminiscent of, well, you tell me:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/politics/donald-trump-nevada-rally-punch/
Adams, whose cartoons seemed to find nuance in everything, ignores the nuances of the "Leader" of a country announcing that the government will now create a list of members of a specific religious group. I'm sure that you are familiar with the term "chilling effect". While our intelligence services may know who is what, Trump's suggestion is tantamount to announcing that henceforth Muslims will be required to wear a yellow star-in-crescent on their clothing. I don't think that he is tone deaf on the issue, which leaves the much less savory conclusion.
As for why his violent reactions haven't previously made the news, I'd be willing to bet (and I am not a gambler) that the victims have been carefully paid off with instructions to remain silent or be financially ruined afterwards. His former wife Ivana accused him of violently attacking and raping her after a "scalp reduction" surgery he had went wrong:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/he-raped-me-when-donald-trump-was-accused-of-sexual-assault
And then there's that little thing about law and order loving Trump's selection of an array of mob (Mafia) run construction associates:
http://www.newsweek.com/truth-about-trump-mob-454053
So, yeah, not that I want to be alarmist, but your "mild-mannered" Trump may turn out to be "so nice, so polite, so quiet" like the next door neighbor who is found to have a freezer filled with human body parts. I hope that's not the case, especially if he becomes our next president, but I don't expect it to turn out well at all.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-and-the-ku-klux-klan-a-history
For example
Another self-entitled cyclist who believes that cars shouldn't be in the bike lane, eh? What next you selfish person? Are you going to disallow cars from driving on the sidewalk also?
/s
(The article below indicates that NYPD was not going to take action against a driver who did just that, mowed down a pedestrian, and drove away, however the driver has turned herself in.)
http://www.streetsblog.org/2016/06/03/driver-who-injured-woman-on-manhattan-sidewalk-pleads-to-two-felonies/
Interestingly that cached page contains an "Unofficial Page" disclaimer:
This unofficial Page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business. It's not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with City Park Apartments.
Real estate "developers", venture capitalists, and other bacterial forms typically buy up buildings filled with rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments with the intention of illegally forcing the tenants out so that they can quadruple the rent.
Manhattan landlord Steve Croman hit with indictment charging he threatened, sued rent-protected tenants to force them out
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nyc-landlord-steve-croman-arrested-threatening-tenants-article-1.2629980
2 Brooklyn Landlords, Accused of Making Units Unlivable, Are Charged With Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/brooklyn-landlords-joel-and-aaron-israel-arrested.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0
Top real estate broker says his own nephew screwed him out of $100M deal
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/top-broker-nephew-screwed-100m-deal-article-1.2339737
Well, the real question IMHO is "maybe oral briefing isn't really briefing", you know?
Looking at an HGST HUS724040ALE640 with manufacturing date Aug-2015, it says "MADE IN THAILAND".
With a slight design flaw.
DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, Hitachi, Ridgid, Ryobi, Craftsman, and Porter Cable all are working on getting their own versions of this product to market also. In each case the robot simply drills through the stomach and pops out where the belly button used to be. 3M and Loctite are working on something to patch things up after. Hope this helps. Have a Nice Day!
Trot out that tired old Libertarian agrument again, will you, eh?
"The Bay Formerly Known as Pirate"
So all that effort that businesses put into properly separating recyclables from other solid waste
Some background:
http://abc7ny.com/home/who-really-takes-out-the-garbage-where-does-it-go/1275453/
And an interesting article on the commercial carting industry in NYC:
http://citylimits.org/2015/05/19/city-weighs-reining-in-private-garbage-collectors/
It's complaints like those that lead me to read through the negative eBay reviews and not just look at the percentage. On occasion I've seen some excellent vendors get crapped on by self-entitled bullying pricks.
Yes, you can read the classics for free via Gutenberg.org. But you can't easily follow along with your {calculus,physics,chemistry,pde, ...} class without a copy of the current textbook.
Yes, you can learn a lot without spending a dime but you'll have a much harder time finding a comparable job or getting into a good grad school without a college diploma.
Yes, I've seen many copies of "50 Shades of Grey" lying in the trash, free for the taking. But not everybody wants to read crap.
Interesting; is it really true that the publishers can forbid professors to use older editions or do the professors just cave because they want their free professional copies of the publisher's books?
Books are expensive for the poor in the US also.
The maximum food stamp allotment for a single, non-disabled, non-elderly person in the US is $155 per month according to:
http://www.nlsa.us/resources/benefits/pb9_fs_calc_nonelderly.html
So here's a nice Calculus textbook sold on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321954351/
The price? $256 new, or $120 used in "good" condition. Or you can rent it for the semester for the low price of $40.
Those poor folks should just get themselves an education. Right folks? Eh?
And New York also. Years before Amazon.com was a twinkle in JB's eye, the large New York department stores would, with a wink and a nod, ship an empty box to your cousin's home in New Jersey to help their New York customers evade the NYS and NYC sales taxes. The box went to NJ and the untaxed merchandise went home with the customer. Eventually most retailers decided to stop that practice. For out of state purchases it was always the consumer's responsibility to report and pay the sales tax; of course nobody did.
So, yeah, $1.33 for the driver; $8.67 for Uber. Fair is fair.
Congratulations! You have proven Poe's Law.
Unless they are from Lake Wobegon in which case they are all above average.
Surely you jest.
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