You'd make a fortune in Kentucky. When I lived there ~20 years ago if you saw someone use their turn signals on I64, it was even odds that they had out-of-state plates.
Or were about to turn in the opposite direction. I gave a summer seminar at the University of Louisville years ago, and I never saw so many drivers who were clearly totally wasted. They make some nice bourbon down there, so it was totally understandable. I knew tenured professors there who kept a bottle of Pappy or some other fine bourbon in their desk.
and your attempts to tie the Republican party to one guy they oppose
It's not "one guy". There are a host of white supremacists and neo-nazis running as Republicans. Would you like a list?
You've got John Fitzgerald in California's 11th district. You've got Seth Grossman in New Jersey. Of course, Arthur Jones in Illinois. Steve King in Iowa's 4th. Paul Nehlan, Corey Stewart. Russell Walker in North Carolina. Patrick Little. John Abarr in Montana. Sean Donahue. Augustus Invictus (born, Austin Gillespie) I could go on, if you'd like. If we start listing the GOP candidates who are "white supremacist-adjacent", we could be here all day.
the open Nazi connected "Republican"; I hate the Republican party, but that dude is not a Republican, rather he is an opportunist who ran as a Republican because he was unopposed at the primary
So, we agree that a nazi ran for office as a Republican and no one in the GOP would oppose him. OK. Makes sense. I don't see the distinction, but there it is. And he wasn't the only white supremacist with ties to neo-nazi groups that is running as a Republican this cycle. Why have they chosen the Republican party do you think?
If anyone is dumb enough to think that there is not a metaphorical "Swamp" in DC
The question was not whether there is a swamp in DC. The question is how could anyone be dumb enough to think that a corrupt and degenerate New York real estate developer with ties to the Russian mob would fix any of it.
Strangely enough, the Swiss haven't gone bankrupt, and they don't have single-payer. I don't think the Dutch have it either.
Health care in Switzerland is excellent, and the costs are consistent with the cost of living there - and considerably less than what the USA pays (17% of GDP for USA, 11% for Switzerland - plus far less concentration of wealth).
Both Switzerland and the Netherlands have universal health care, via mandated health insurance. That means the government requires you to buy health insurance.
So basically the two countries you point to have the equivalent of Obamacare.
There's a brief section later in the document, suggesting that they play up Trump now fighting with Google, and suggest that's a good point to drop in the "same rules for edge" providers meaningless argument:
You notice how some of the worst people in the world are now using Trump's antics to excuse the most dishonest and despicable behavior? Everything from white supremacists and jackoffs with swastikas tattooed on their necks are crawling out from under rocks and trying to claim their rightful place atop the dung heap. There are bunches of openly white supremacist candidates running as Republicans this election, some with open nazi connections. Cops are throwing up gang signs and shooting into cars filled with black kids. Neo-nazis demonstrate in front of the White House. If you need an excuse to be shitty, you just have to point to Trump and expect a pass.
Remember when people were saying that Trump would "Drain the Swamp"? Those people have had to fully retreat from reality into some #qanon insanity just to try to keep their fragile worldview from falling to pieces, and now there's no way back for them. All because, as the noted philosopher Lao Tzu once said, "You never go full retard".
If they were leading conservative ideals AND had the massive monopoly on advertising, internet video, web search, cellphone OS, whatever else, you'd be crying day and night about it.
And if the queen had balls, she'd be king. So what's your point?
I've never said or believed that Fox Corporation should be investigated or censored for making up bullshit. If you want to talk about Google needing some anti-trust ass-kicking for monopolistic practices, we can talk about that. But for chrissake, do you not see the danger in threatening a company with criminal prosecution for having a political point of view? And that's what your big, moist baby is doing from the White House right fucking now. Give me a break.
If Google were a conservative company, you'd line up to be a human shield for them right now.
Google doesn't have to prove anything. Let Trump prove his accusation.
And even if Google were completely biased against Trump and every single Google employee wore PISS TAPE IS REAL t-shirts and carefully deleted every single Trumpist media outlet from their search results, so. fucking. what?
There is nothing you can get from Google that you can't get from a host of competitors. Free speech is a bitch, ain't it? If you run for public office, especially the highest public office, you can't get upset when one of your ex-girlfriends says you got the baby dick and couldn't last more longer than a commercial break.
The problem here is not what Google has or has not done or does or does not believe. The problem is that Donald Motherfucking Trump honestly believes that hating his gelatinous ass should somehow be illegal, and is prepared to use the full power of the United States government against a company that doesn't like him.
I bet there are a lot of websites having trouble with the name, "David Pecker". He's been in the news lately because he was running the National Enquirer and has a safe filled with information about Donald Trump potentially getting peed on and having sex with ladyboys and paying for abortions and who knows what else. He's also been given immunity by the Special Counsel and is currently cooperating, which means we're in good shape for entertaining news at least through the end of the year.
There have been so many jokes about David Pecker's name, that the Enquirer sent out a request to the news media to please stop snickering when talking about him. The request was written by the Enquirer's head of public relations, Fanny Goblincock.
Additionally, no, Romney did not support the Mass. version - he attempt to VETO the damned bill
Mitt Romney signed the Massachusetts bill on April 12, 2006. He tried to veto certain provisions of it using his line-item veto, but go overridden on those. But the actual bill itself was not vetoed by Mitt Romney. He signed it.
It must be awful being so close the the Retardstanis in the middle though. You have to pay for the inbred redneck dumbfucks too.
The Republicans you find inland are decent people. They mean well. Here in California, we have some affection for them, the way you would for the kids that come to school on the short bus. We don't make fun of them or bully them. We just don't let them get behind the wheel.
Did you know that hospitals are forbidden to refuse lifesaving treatments on people, even if they don't know if that person will be able to pay the bills?
No, that's not true. Yes, it's the law, but there is a practice called, "patient dumping" that is very common. Hospitals use it if they conduct an exploratory procedure on your wallet and find that you can't afford to be saved.
If you are poor and you show up at a hospital and the only thing that will save your life is chemo, you will be sent away.
Are you still upset about having to get health insurance? You know it was a plan concocted by the conservative Heritage Foundation and first signed into law by a Republican, right?
But don't worry, if you're really that opposed, you can help us fight for universal, single-payer health care. The line forms right behind me. There are no other options that don't bankrupt the country.
California has a long and rich history of telling the federal government where to stick their intrusive laws. We call ourselves the "People's Republic of California", and that's just how we like it.
Our laws are more likely to be enforced in other states than federal laws are to be enforced here.
You want our weed, vapes and edibles? Come and take them.
yeah, before they invented audiobooks, commuting was a drag.
That's why god invented beer in cans. You can pop a top with one hand and still keep one on the wheel. Keep a stack of good 8-tracks and your commute passes in a flash.
Homes within most cities usually fall under one of two realms: 1) Ridiculously Expensive 2) Not Ridiculously Expensive but high crime.
You've lived in the wrong cities. I don't know what you'd call "expensive", but I lived for many years near the downtown of one of America's most beautiful and vibrant cities and I could walk to my office. There were huge parks all around me and it was completely quiet and peaceful at night when I'd walk my dog. I could see the iconic skyline from my back porch amid the well-kept Victorian town houses and 1890s-vintage three-flats.
There was a police academy near by, but there wasn't really much presence at night, except for some older cops coming to the range or to work out at the facilities.
You just have to pick your places carefully. Sometimes, you have to choose your job based on where you want to live instead of the other way around.
Being from NJ, I never understood the confusion of out-of-state drivers regarding "jug-handles."
Oh, there are a lot of interesting local roadway phenomena. In Texas, where the very concept of bicycles confuses a lot of people, they will occasionally put a single 2-way bike lane on a busy street, and if that's not confusing enough, they will put it on the left side of the direction of traffic. That means, they end up having to put an extra signal light for the bicycles. On the rare day that you actually want to be outside in Houston, for example, you will encounter a lot of these inside the "Loop".
When I was in high school, my sister had a friend who was deathly afraid of turning left from one busy street to another. She just didn't get the whole, "inch out until the light turns yellow, and you're sure oncoming traffic is gonna stop, and then complete your turn" thing. So, swear to god, she used to make three right hand turns instead. She drover her father's old '70 Buick Electra 225 4-door and that thing was like an aircraft carrier. But it had the first electric seats I ever saw and had the bucket seats instead of a bench in the front, which I though was cool.
In summary, as long as you can make a sufficient number of right-hand turns, you can get away without hanging a Louie.
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How am I supposed to get any work done if I can only stay signed into Office 365 on five devices at once?
That's how my mother-in-law's been driving for years.
Yes, the fact that he said "marques of car" gave it away.
Or were about to turn in the opposite direction. I gave a summer seminar at the University of Louisville years ago, and I never saw so many drivers who were clearly totally wasted. They make some nice bourbon down there, so it was totally understandable. I knew tenured professors there who kept a bottle of Pappy or some other fine bourbon in their desk.
It's not "one guy". There are a host of white supremacists and neo-nazis running as Republicans. Would you like a list?
You've got John Fitzgerald in California's 11th district. You've got Seth Grossman in New Jersey. Of course, Arthur Jones in Illinois. Steve King in Iowa's 4th. Paul Nehlan, Corey Stewart. Russell Walker in North Carolina. Patrick Little. John Abarr in Montana. Sean Donahue. Augustus Invictus (born, Austin Gillespie) I could go on, if you'd like. If we start listing the GOP candidates who are "white supremacist-adjacent", we could be here all day.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/9/1...
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So, we agree that a nazi ran for office as a Republican and no one in the GOP would oppose him. OK. Makes sense. I don't see the distinction, but there it is. And he wasn't the only white supremacist with ties to neo-nazi groups that is running as a Republican this cycle. Why have they chosen the Republican party do you think?
The question was not whether there is a swamp in DC. The question is how could anyone be dumb enough to think that a corrupt and degenerate New York real estate developer with ties to the Russian mob would fix any of it.
Both Switzerland and the Netherlands have universal health care, via mandated health insurance. That means the government requires you to buy health insurance.
So basically the two countries you point to have the equivalent of Obamacare.
No, but they were scared to show their faces, which is how it's supposed to work in civil society.
You notice how some of the worst people in the world are now using Trump's antics to excuse the most dishonest and despicable behavior? Everything from white supremacists and jackoffs with swastikas tattooed on their necks are crawling out from under rocks and trying to claim their rightful place atop the dung heap. There are bunches of openly white supremacist candidates running as Republicans this election, some with open nazi connections. Cops are throwing up gang signs and shooting into cars filled with black kids. Neo-nazis demonstrate in front of the White House. If you need an excuse to be shitty, you just have to point to Trump and expect a pass.
Remember when people were saying that Trump would "Drain the Swamp"? Those people have had to fully retreat from reality into some #qanon insanity just to try to keep their fragile worldview from falling to pieces, and now there's no way back for them. All because, as the noted philosopher Lao Tzu once said, "You never go full retard".
And if the queen had balls, she'd be king. So what's your point?
I've never said or believed that Fox Corporation should be investigated or censored for making up bullshit. If you want to talk about Google needing some anti-trust ass-kicking for monopolistic practices, we can talk about that. But for chrissake, do you not see the danger in threatening a company with criminal prosecution for having a political point of view? And that's what your big, moist baby is doing from the White House right fucking now. Give me a break.
If Google were a conservative company, you'd line up to be a human shield for them right now.
Pecker stands firm in his denial that he is the source of the leaks.
Who "admires" or even "respects" corporations?
But their stock price has gone up like 70% since Trump was elected. There's no need to respect or admire them. Just buy and hold.
Well, before he changed it to David Pecker, he was known as "Dick Gazinya". He changed it because he couldn't take the teasing.
Google doesn't have to prove anything. Let Trump prove his accusation.
And even if Google were completely biased against Trump and every single Google employee wore PISS TAPE IS REAL t-shirts and carefully deleted every single Trumpist media outlet from their search results, so. fucking. what?
There is nothing you can get from Google that you can't get from a host of competitors. Free speech is a bitch, ain't it? If you run for public office, especially the highest public office, you can't get upset when one of your ex-girlfriends says you got the baby dick and couldn't last more longer than a commercial break.
The problem here is not what Google has or has not done or does or does not believe. The problem is that Donald Motherfucking Trump honestly believes that hating his gelatinous ass should somehow be illegal, and is prepared to use the full power of the United States government against a company that doesn't like him.
I bet there are a lot of websites having trouble with the name, "David Pecker". He's been in the news lately because he was running the National Enquirer and has a safe filled with information about Donald Trump potentially getting peed on and having sex with ladyboys and paying for abortions and who knows what else. He's also been given immunity by the Special Counsel and is currently cooperating, which means we're in good shape for entertaining news at least through the end of the year.
There have been so many jokes about David Pecker's name, that the Enquirer sent out a request to the news media to please stop snickering when talking about him. The request was written by the Enquirer's head of public relations, Fanny Goblincock.
Mitt Romney signed the Massachusetts bill on April 12, 2006. He tried to veto certain provisions of it using his line-item veto, but go overridden on those. But the actual bill itself was not vetoed by Mitt Romney. He signed it.
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Before you call someone a liar, get your facts straight.
The Republicans you find inland are decent people. They mean well. Here in California, we have some affection for them, the way you would for the kids that come to school on the short bus. We don't make fun of them or bully them. We just don't let them get behind the wheel.
No, that's not true. Yes, it's the law, but there is a practice called, "patient dumping" that is very common. Hospitals use it if they conduct an exploratory procedure on your wallet and find that you can't afford to be saved.
If you are poor and you show up at a hospital and the only thing that will save your life is chemo, you will be sent away.
Are you still upset about having to get health insurance? You know it was a plan concocted by the conservative Heritage Foundation and first signed into law by a Republican, right?
But don't worry, if you're really that opposed, you can help us fight for universal, single-payer health care. The line forms right behind me. There are no other options that don't bankrupt the country.
California has a long and rich history of telling the federal government where to stick their intrusive laws. We call ourselves the "People's Republic of California", and that's just how we like it.
Our laws are more likely to be enforced in other states than federal laws are to be enforced here.
You want our weed, vapes and edibles? Come and take them.
That's why god invented beer in cans. You can pop a top with one hand and still keep one on the wheel. Keep a stack of good 8-tracks and your commute passes in a flash.
You've lived in the wrong cities. I don't know what you'd call "expensive", but I lived for many years near the downtown of one of America's most beautiful and vibrant cities and I could walk to my office. There were huge parks all around me and it was completely quiet and peaceful at night when I'd walk my dog. I could see the iconic skyline from my back porch amid the well-kept Victorian town houses and 1890s-vintage three-flats.
There was a police academy near by, but there wasn't really much presence at night, except for some older cops coming to the range or to work out at the facilities.
You just have to pick your places carefully. Sometimes, you have to choose your job based on where you want to live instead of the other way around.
Oh, there are a lot of interesting local roadway phenomena. In Texas, where the very concept of bicycles confuses a lot of people, they will occasionally put a single 2-way bike lane on a busy street, and if that's not confusing enough, they will put it on the left side of the direction of traffic. That means, they end up having to put an extra signal light for the bicycles. On the rare day that you actually want to be outside in Houston, for example, you will encounter a lot of these inside the "Loop".
When I was in high school, my sister had a friend who was deathly afraid of turning left from one busy street to another. She just didn't get the whole, "inch out until the light turns yellow, and you're sure oncoming traffic is gonna stop, and then complete your turn" thing. So, swear to god, she used to make three right hand turns instead. She drover her father's old '70 Buick Electra 225 4-door and that thing was like an aircraft carrier. But it had the first electric seats I ever saw and had the bucket seats instead of a bench in the front, which I though was cool.
In summary, as long as you can make a sufficient number of right-hand turns, you can get away without hanging a Louie.
Oh, hell no.