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Trump inherited the Obama economy and benefited from the prevailing trends set by his predecessor; his supposedly great economic performance for the first three years actually slightly underperformed the Obama economy, and none of his attempted economic boosts worked. He did however manage to add another $2 trillion to the national debt courtesy of his tax cuts. Trump got lucky in the first three years of his presidency in that there were no major crises to deal with. But he ran out of luck in the last year when covid came along, and then the world got to see the gross incompetence and fecklessness that had always been there as the economy crashed and hundreds of thousands of Americans needlessly lost their lives as he fumbled, gaslighted and undermined health advice to the ongoing detriment of the country.
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The question--perhaps for social scientists, psychologists, etc--that I think still needs answering--both in Brazil, apparently, and here in the U.S.--is how do you counteract or address what can only be described as an "outbreak" of mass hysteria that leads to a Jan 6th occurrence, of which the Brasilia riots appear to have been eerily similar.We've still got maybe 30 million Americans believing the Big Lie, and a smaller hardcore follower group that threatens violence. I have no idea what the numbers are in Brazil--but the larger question is: how do we move forward from here? What are the steps to healing the society? And how do we address the lasting fallout that comes from opening the sort of Pandora's boxes which Bolsonaro and the former guy both opened (and did so gleefully.)
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Fred M -- Yes, the weapons of war being used to gun down ballroom dancers beg the question: why can't we each have a tank in our driveway? If we have open carry, why not open carry a rocket launcher? A hand grenade? If all those men could menace Gretchen Whitmer in the Michigan state house carrying guns and naked barbies with nooses around their nexts, what's to stop anyone from menacing anyone? Men can walk around grocery stores in "open carry" states with weapons of war and no one can do anything until they start killing people. We are a completely insane society.
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I hope this housing gets built. Simple economics dictates that the more of something there is, the cheaper that item is. We all saw the reverse of this with cars the last two years, where a serious lack of supply of cars caused prices to increase since consumers were competing with each other to buy the low inventory of cars. Now that the supply of cars has started to normalize, prices are decreasing because car manufacturers are competing with each other to secure sales to consumers. Similarly, if we increased the amount of housing in New York, the average price for housing would decline as landlords compete with each other to gain tenants.I also hope even more housing gets built as soon as possible after these units are built since 70k units will only go so far to address the over 340k shortfall we have. New York is the greatest city I've ever lived in thanks in large part to the sheer number of people here. Everyone brings distinct skills and talents, and the city blends it together to create something wholly special. It's the best America has to offer, and I hope, through increased housing units and lower costs, more people can experience it.
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Kiki Yes! Richard Fisher's beautiful photo shows us two hoverflies foraging on a pink cosmos. Thank you! 🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼I'm pretty sure the one on the cosmos is our devious friend, the Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. The one in flight might be Sphaerophoria.The vertical bar connecting two bands on the abdomen of E.tenax into a sideways H is distinctive. Flies also have stubby antennae, large eyes, and two wings. Bees have long antennae, medium eye, and four wings fused together.Hoverflies, or flower flies, are also important pollinators. Many species are excellent aphid predators.More here:<a href="https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae" target="_blank">https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae</a>/
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stale fry bread. You are so right, from your recommendations to LW1 to your reaction to Dr. Appiah’s response. Not infrequently I find myself disagreeing with Dr. Appiah’s recommendations and assessments, especially when he gets condescending, which happens frequently. I’m an abuse survivor myself. Appiah’s column’s mix of insensitivity/condescension and being out of his depth making recommendations to abuse survivors leaves me just really disappointed in this newspaper. For anything relating to sexual abuse he needs another columnist who’s a clinical psychologist to hand it off to. In cases like these he’s a mere layperson. When a layperson has a platform this large from which to dispense advice, and when the topic is something as important as the sexual abuse of children, this paper gets into irresponsible territory. Those of us who have been abused know that hearing bad advice about this topic combined with the lasting such abuse produces can take the bad advice and move forward without getting good help and support or taking real constructive action for healing. Many such opportunities of opening up become lost opportunities and it can take years to try again, therefore delaying healing and perhaps putting others at risk. This column has an impact. Do better NYT.
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David Heizer Every administration has an "Open Borders Policy", using one of two methods.Method One: The administration that has a tongue-in-cheek policy sends a message to potential illegal migrants when it allows uncontrolled migration across "borders that are not open". "Don't come now" is such a message. Millions of illegal migrants cross those "not open" borders.The administration that has a serious policy will block the thousands of migrants who approach the border........and not allow them to enter the country using valid law-based reasons. When a few thousand migrants are not allowed quasi-legal entry, he number of migrants slows dramatically. The migrants know who is serious and who is not serious.Taxpayers know who is / is not serious as well.
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Walking..and inspired by the other person:- at the old, spinet piano..open to all willing players..on a busy corner, I encountered two summer-dressed Black ladies. One hands on the keys, the other standing. I asked them if they knew "Chopsticks"!!! No. So, I played it for them and we all laughed like fools!!! Then, the standing lady insisted on sitting down and playing, too...and she played a song she regularly sings. Grinning and lots of laughs...then, I crossed the street and we all waved wildly. It was good.- encountered a good looking lady with turquoise hair! woven in braided strands and dyed..it was stunningly beautiful. Told her I loved it...and she looked so Parisian! Chic! We laughed. Then, she told me her name, Jeannette was French, but here nobody said it that way...so I told her she needed to go to Gay Pareeee! We both burst into laughs and walked on... hands in the air! - yesterday, I passed two teenage girls, one Black-one White, in the nearby kid park. On a big round swing...sitting wrapped together, feet off the ground! I told them - that looked so comfortable..and that they were just needing a pitcher of iced tea. They laughed.Returning. I caught them just as they were leaving and offered a bottle of fizzy French lemonade.."incredulous" is the word ..full of delight.I've never seen any of these people again, and I doubt I ever will.. and had no inkling the fun n laughs would ever happen
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ASG So how do all the other first world countries do it?They don't have the poverty we have. They have better economic mobility.We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, medical bankruptcies, parts of the US with infant mortality rates of a second world country, and the economic inequality of the Gilded age.And you are correct, there is no free lunch. Who pays for your healthcare. We spend an average of $11,000 per person. The other countries spend an average of $5,500. Take that money we are giving private health insurance to Medicare for All.And who pays for college. Add to that we have the highest student debt ever and it is hurting the economy.And nobody is suggesting putting back the taxes on the wealthy and Wall St. will fund the government, but it could reduce the deficit. That's what Clinton did.Warren Buffet said something is wrong when he pays a lower tax rate than his admin assistant.So given this, if you are not part of the wealthy / Wall St., you are getting fleeced.Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
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Chris Reid About 26 years ago I became divorced and suddenly found myself in the dating world at age 49. I was stunned to say the least. In the beginning I used the Jewish Chat Room on AOL. The first thing I learned is that lots of dates were "Not as Advertised". Sometimes I traveled to Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia to find this out. So, I wasted my time and money just to be very disappointed. In September 2000 I was at Temple on Rosh Hashanah and I was standing in an atrium talking with my son when the doors opened and in walked a beautiful woman with a warm, smiling face. She said "Hi Jay"...and I said "Hi Sandy!" We started dating and got engaged in December and married in June 2001. We've been happily married since then. We had known each other since junior high school. When I was 16 and she was 15 I took this beautiful young woman on about 3 dates. Many years later after lots of disappointment with AOL we bumped into each other at temple. In 1964 the first time we went out as I sat next to her in my car, I said to myself "Wouldn't it be wonderful to marry a beautiful girl like her someday!" Thirty some years later, after four years of disappointment with AOL I was sitting in temple and at the end of the service I looked up and said "God, could you please send me a nice Jewish girl?" Rosh Hashanah prayers are sometimes answered. Now, I'm 75, she's 74 and we're living happily ever after. Thank you god! And she's still beautiful!
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From 1960 through 2021 Somalia's population has grown six-fold. GDP per capita is $532. I'm curious about how climate change caused these outcomes. Is there a plan that compensates Somalis for our carbon emission while perhaps freeing a Somali woman from giving birth to 6.4 children on average?
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I’ve witnessed parents send their children to expensive private schools, and spend $100/hr tutoring in math, and chemistry, then thousands more on SAT preparedness, and placement experts, and most times to no avail. College isn’t for everyone. People need to fill jobs that require other skills. Plumbers and electricians for example. Need something fixed in your house? The prices are astounding, and the wait is frustrating. Young people aren’t interested in those fields that require manual labor, or seem beneath them, but you could live very nicely in either professions. Today a college education in the liberal arts is comparable to a GED. At least as far as hiring goes. If it isn’t filling a necessary gap between high school and professional school it really doesn’t qualify one for anything, sad to say. A certificate course from an online tech school would be more helpful. Government can only hire so many people to do make-work desk jobs that could be performed better by a well programmed website or app.
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Please, spare me (no pun intended) the poor, misunderstood prince... We would not be talking about him (or Meghan) if he was not a Royal (former or present)... Tyler Perry would not be welcoming them into his house... Oprah would not be doing "The Interview", and collecting $$$ millions for it... And Netflix would not be throwing bags of money at them... He is milking his Royal background and American obsession with all things Royal to get ahead (I am not judging, just stating the facts)... He is not the only one to lose a loving parent at a very young age, and it must be extremely traumatic, but he is a grown man now... Even he can't have it every which way: stepping away from being active Royals and then complaining that they don't get Royal treatments. We broke away from the British Crown centuries ago and never looked back as a country. Let them be. We have our own issues to deal with.
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I see some positive potential in these new rules that will allow these clowns to practice what they preach: - Applying the principle of rewarding people for their work, they can reduce their salaries to an amount commensurate with the work they actually do. When you put aside funding raising, time spent obstructing of legislation that might actually improve peoples lives, grandstanding and general baffoonery, I'd say an annual salary of 20K would be fair. - Applying the principle of no government handouts and eradicating socialism, they can immediately suspend the generous taxpayer funded health insurance they receive. - Applying the principle of self-reliance, they can do away with their pension system (also taxpayer funded). To address the latter two changes, I'm happy to remind them that they can purchase their own insurance, go without and gamble with their health, or just use the ER when they need it. Of course, those in the red states that haven't accepted the expansion of Medicaid, well, they'll really be out of luck, and will be stuck with few options (sorry). As for saving for retirement, well, try out one of those 401K's you love so much on your 20K salary. And pray that your buddies don't completely gut Social Security. These changes will bring our liberty loving representatives closer to the world most Americans live in: you have to work for your pay and you are lucky if you have decent health insurance and the ability to eventually retire.-
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Agreed. However, less so than taxation without representation, etc., it was the incorporation of Quebec into British North America at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War that set off the American Revolution. The Quebec Act established religious freedom for Catholics and allowed them to hold public office. This infuriated the anti-Catholic Protestant majority who held power in the 13 colonies. The Act also barred the sale of lands west of the Appalachians by private land speculators, and the making of treaties with indigenous tribes, by anyone except the British Crown. This directly jeopardized the financial and expansionary interests of several “founding fathers.” See, for example, young George Washington’s Mississippi Land Company scheme.
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JFJ Easy, Biden has not “paid down $1.4 trillion in debt”.
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Voters soundly rejected Trump and the extreme MAGA types in 2020 and 2022 ,but here they are with powers way in excess of their numbers. Hopefully people will finally open their eyes to the rot in the Republican Party and throw them out on their kiester in 2024.>If people haven't opened their eyes to the dire political situation we now find ourselves in after the Jan 6 attack on Congress with a makeshift hangman's noose and gallows just outside the door with the crowd chanting 'Hang Mike Pence'.......I'm afraid nothing will. Don't expect too much and you won't be disappointed.
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“‘If you want to live here,’ Karla Johnson, a chapter president of the Montana Federation of Republican Women, said, ‘be a Christian.’ Keith Regier, an influential state senator, said all laws should be based on Judeo-Christian principles…He was upset by what he perceived to be a censorious cultural moment — especially when it came to people speaking out against gay and transgender rights. ‘There is an open war on Christianity in this country.’”The lack of self-awareness or any sense of reflection of reality beyond their own intensely small-minded bigotry is stunning. Christians are the ones and pretty much the only ones who declared any kind of war in this nation and it’s on everyone else. Gays, women controlling their bodies, Native Americans clawing back their cultural heritage, those who value protecting God’s creation instead of corporate petroleum - the exemplar of godless mammon, and others. They just want to be left alone to live freely as they please but it is Christians like these two zealots who have declared war on the same rights for those groups as they claim for themselves. And they don’t even see that it is Christians who are the cultural warmongers. I want to thank the NYTimes for very occasionally covering the rise and spread of this insidious form of Christian nationalism but it’s not enough. There is deeply rooted widespread political, financial, corruption throughout the country from Christian nationalism that requires daily exposure and analysis.
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R Ripped from the headlines:“Governor Hochul Announces Completion of Transformative $739 Million Kew Gardens Interchange Project in Queens”“The revamped Kew Gardens Interchange allows for faster travel times, safer merging and exiting, and more reliable connections for the hundreds of thousands of commuters, travelers and local businesses who use it daily to reach the John F. Kennedy International Airport and other key destinations throughout the region. It features 22 new bridges, three rehabilitated bridges, wider travel lanes, new lane configurations, updated signage, upgraded stormwater drainage, and a new dedicated shared use path for pedestrians and bicyclists.”Source: <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-completion-transformative-739-million-kew-gardens-interchange" target="_blank">https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-completion-transformative-739-million-kew-gardens-interchange</a>3/4 billion here and 3/4 billion there and soon we’ll pay more taxes than anybody.
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Patrick McKone During the lame duck session they should have abolished or raised it by 20 trillion dollars.
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The FED reports the wealth of America in Trillions of dollars: Top .1% $17 99=99.9% $25 90-99% $54 50-90% $46 00-50% $10Obviously, the logical place to correct a budgetary imbalance is to tax the bottom 50% where the money isn't by reducing its benefits while leaving the benefits of the top 50% intact, or even increasing them. The billionaires have wanted to destroy the New Deal, Medicare, anti-trust laws, regulatory agencies, along with the 16th amendment for over 100 years, and they are doing it.
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A lot of tech is propped up by investment that is predicated on what can only be called magical future revenue, largely based on having captured market share from competitors by "disrupting" or not playing by the same rules that they have (in most cases, had to) for years.Paying people solely from investment funding or low cost financing and not from revenue has a certain and predictable end.
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I live in housing provided by my husband's employer. Very few of the other employees have planted anything in their yards. Because our employer can move us at any time, my neighbors feel there's no point in investing time, money, and effort to plant flowers and shrubs. What if they have to move and leave it behind?The thing is, we all have to leave sometime. We will all leave behind our purchases, no question about it. So what is our legacy? Who do we do garden for? I get a great deal of joy from helping plants thrive, but I don't do it for myself. I do it for the pollinators and birds, who will come to the garden I planted even if I no longer "own" it (if I ever did). I do it for something much greater than myself, something that will exist if I live somewhere else or am gone entirely. And doing it for that something beyond myself is a huge part of the joy and rightness I feel even when the news about our beautiful earth is so bad, and so few seem to care.I'm thinking I'm going to see if my neighbors will let me plant in their yards next.
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“Amid this dynamic environment, we delivered record results in fiscal year 2022: We reported $198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income. And the Microsoft Cloud surpassed $100 billion in annualized revenue for the first time.”- From Microsoft’s 2022 Annual Report Shareholder’s Letter
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Tom Krebsbach "...I would never suggest that the federal government should cut back on supporting... Social Security..."Good, because Social Security isn't really supported by "the federal government." By law, it can only spend what it receives in tax revenues and has accumulated in its trust fund from past surpluses and interest earnings. Of our $31 trillion dollar debt, exactly $0 is due to Social Security.
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FunkyIrishman I could not agree more with your last sentence, but you and many others have a blind spot when it comes to spending.It doesn't help that Prof. Krugman goes for laughs way too often ... at the expense of either accuracy or being helpful in what SHOULD BE his primary focus - helping Americans get comfortable enough with economics to think and vote intelligently.The US govt is only an "insurance company with any army" in the same way that we're mostly "bags of water." $TRILLIONS have to do with the ACA, National Parks, housing, education, weapons R&D - not to mention expenditures and tax incentives relating to oil, gas & coal production, alternative energy technologies, etc.I'm very solidly in the "liberal camp," but for all that Trump's 4 years shows that as far as Republicans go, there is NOTHING good to see, I'm with the 55-60% (plenty of Democrats among us) who think the most recent $2Trillion package mis-spends so egregiously - and had to toss overboard too much that was good - so that NOTHING might have been the more sensible choice. Is everybody working an hour a week (surely, a day or 2 per week to send interest $ overseas) for sheiks & King Charles, because we *have* borrowed way too much for 50-80 years?! PK wants it both ways. Spend in "tough times;" KEEP spending in good times - always way more than the USG takes in.The Rep. radicals *do* have a point when it comes to budget bills thicker than an old phone book with "something for everyone!"
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The main benefit of investing in coal is funneling money to Republicans. No wonder Putin is confident.
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Based on the already available information, it is clear he is a agent for infiltration of the United States Congress. The $700K for his campaign very likely has a foreign source. He doesn't just need to resign he and his conspirators need to be rooted out and face the Justice Dept.
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George S. Saw that tour too, awesome. They used to switch who would open, always thought that said a lot about their respect for each other.
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iilandia Get ready for more fuel price increases in CA. In April or May, refiners are forced to move to the summer fuel blend, which will add 10-15 cents to the price. Then, in July, CA will be increasing the state excise tax, adding another 3-5 cents.Should I mention that SCE will be increasing their electricity prices soon, or that natural gas prices in the state are set to double our gas bills for January. Probably not, as I don’t want to depress you.
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Memo to WH, the highly educated workers needed for the chip industry are not waiting at the southern border for the Title 42 expiry which would allow essentially open border for the menial workforce while graduating foreign students wait for work visas or H1B visa engineers wait endlessly for free card .
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It's eye opening to me that Mr. Peck, until recently the golden boy of ballet choreography, is now being chastised by Ms. Kourlas for doing what all famous/successful choreographers have always done: develop a style, signature moves, formations, etc. Look at the work of Graham, Balanchine, Taylor, Cunningham and on and on and you'll find exactly that. This review says more to me about the particular biases of the critic than of the artist.
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. Beto O Rourke made gun control his central message in his campaign, and voters rebuked him in Texas. You must respect democratic rights of people. Vermont is an overwhelmingly democratic run state yet it allows open carry and concealed carry without license. NRA and other organizations rate NH and Vermont higher on gun freedoms than even red states like Texas and Georgia. Voters in NH and Vermont do not like gun control so even democrats do not enact them in spite of having super majority in legislature ( Vermont).
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As Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at ABBVIE INC, Richard A. Gonzalez made $23,131,161 in total compensation. Of this total $1,700,000 was received as a salary, $4,908,750 was received as a bonus, $3,134,649 was received in stock options, $12,573,689 was awarded as stock and $814,073 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2021 fiscal year.A number of other top executives in the company made in the neighborhood of $9 million.
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Florida Man V "There are emails detailing how Hunter got 10's of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine."Prove it.
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Bernardo "I believe we should have a balanced federal budget."That is just what it is, a "belief." Very few economists endorse the idea for a variety of both theoretical and empirical reasons (business cycles flexibility, etc.).The US can borrow at ridiculously low rates. If it invests in even modestly productive projects the economy benefits (yes, they should be actually productive). Raising taxes to fund outlays can often be much less economically sensible than borrowing.No major corporation has a "balanced budgets" philosophy because they use a similar rate of return analysis when borrowing.The current US debt is less than 10% of the value of US assets. By way of example, that ratio is about 65% in the case of Walmart.
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Heartfelt and honest words. Still the one question that looms above all else is who paid 700,000USD to have this puppet run for Congress? Who's behind him? Might it be a foreign power? 700,000USD to have an agent in the Capitol isn't much. Is the FBI looking into this? Who is George Santos? Who does he work for? Who is he working for now, right now?Everything else, while important, is secondary.
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I quit a job quietly after being bullied consistently the entire time I was at the job. Micro-agressions galore (being a gay teacher is tough, y'all) that became open comments behind my back. I reported the bullying when it became untenable. And then others did so, too. Nothing was done. The bully is still in their position of power.So, I quietly found a job and gave notice in a two sentence email from another state after I had cleared out my classroom quietly.Workers in at-will states like mine are realizing we can just up and leave if treated poorly. Managers are "shocked."I enjoy working for leaders, not managers. Leaders try -- and fail like us all -- to actually do the right thing.I was highly respected by teammates, parents, and children. All it took was a bully to drive me out because of cowardly management more interested in not looking bad for promoting a bully than standing by talented, victimized employees. Ego at the top is what kills organizations. I didn't go to HR as I know HR is there to protect the institution, not the victim of bullying and/or harassment at work.
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Yuck ! Meghan Markle should've known better ; more than likely she was testing Kate or perhaps she was ignorant on how unhygienic it is . I don't share makeup , lipstick , and any kind of facial cream in a jar or open container . The worse is your toothbrush ; had a friend that used mine , it went in the garbage and got me to have extras on hand because she always showed up without one ...gross .
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Simon It's easy, but unfair to egregiously tax away somebody else's money.Sure, take another $10 million in taxes from Mr. Fat Cat; it's not your money. He's already paying $10 million, but what's that to us peons? It's no skin off our noses.True that, but how much money must a Fat Cat pay to live here? Remember, too, as a practical matter, if the price tag becomes too onerous, he'll simply move; then we get nothing.Yes, if we were all sincere Christians, the real deal, Good Samaritans and all that, we'd help any and all we meet. But we're not, by design, a Christian nation (nor should we be; it's unworkable). We're a nation of laws with a secular government.To be fair, all Americans should be taxed a reasonable amount according to their income. (I don't know what that amount should be, because it's unique to each person.)To be ethical, all Americans should give till it hurts.Andrew Carnegie in “The Gospel of Wealth” wrote that “the man who dies rich dies disgraced.” But that's an ethical imperative, not a legal requirement.[I can see some validity in the arguments that, in some cases, both taxes and property are theft. (I'm a Marxist Milton Friedman, a macroeconomic zebra.)]
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Ernest Montague Aboriginal astronomy encompassed the animal and plant world as well as the stars and planets. Do you know when the salmon will be returning to the streams near you, do you know when the deer are born, do you know when to plant the beans with the corn and squash, can you personally navigate in the open ocean using the constellations and position of the moon? Aboriginal astronomy uses observations of planetary and stellar motion along with botanical signs to gauge how to coordinate taking "just enough" to live sensibly and fairly with other species. Western science still doesn't know the universe started. Why that matters at this point isn't clear. By the time it gets figured out, humans will have cooked our own goose, so to speak, by destroying our ability to thrive on this planet. The cockroaches will do okay, though!
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Dump the antigen test and get one of the more accurate tests. Tests like the CUE system are much more expensive but also very close to PCR tests in terms of accuracy and vastly superior to any of the antigen tests. We spend the money and have CUE tests on hand. It costs us around $200/year to have a set of three of these around the house. They expire after 9 months so do have to be replaced.They are especially good if you are old (like us) and are having visitors. Giving visitors these tests is the best one can do to insure that an asymptomatic case in your guest does not wind up with you in the hospital or the morgue. Sure, they cost a lot, but so do hospitals, doctors, and funerals.
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‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’ is a euphemism for revenge.Republicans have no designs to investigate their weaponization of government - Barr, trump’s sycophants and the Supreme Court, but want to punish democrats for seeking the truth and exposing how mendacious the previous administration truly was and how close we were to loosing our democracy.This is the second step on the road to totalitarianism: first were the open attempts to overthrow the government and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, second comes the covert methods by disparaging the opposition to one man rule.Register to vote and vote Democrat up and down the ticket!
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RAM why did cryptocurrency go from $1 to $50,000 now down to $17,000 why? Because they are a replacement for Fiat currencies so just like your dollar bill will be worth $50,000 bills tomorrow and your euro will be worth $50,000 in March crypto goes up and down just like regular money
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All Maga Trump worshippers need to know are that the $130000 hush money check was signed by "David Dennison". That's enough for them that it wasn't The Donald.
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Allan Cool. Charge them both. But since Biden is president based on Barr's unitary executive he cannot be charged until after he is out of office. Trump is not president and can be charged.Isn't that the law we follow now in the USA?And it should be proportion. Biden didn't obstruct justice and self-reported. The government didn't have to request the documents he just returned them when found.Trump on the other hand didn't return them and was engaged in nefarious actively likely selling off our secrets to enemies or even quasi-allies. That is what the republicans are not allowing us to find out by their obstruction.If you charge Biden with 1 year of prison per document or 1 million per document Trump also needs to be charged the same per document. And also charged for obstructing justice and investigated as to why such as selling off documents.If he did engage in espionage he should be dealt with as we have in the past with such people.Uphold the rule of law republicans. It's not that hard.
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What We Learned - other than Harry is a privileged English royal? Nothing. Harry and Meghan are already worth around $60 Million, more than enough to establish businesses in the US that will contribute to our economy and employment. Enough of this constant begging for attention and money.
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There has always been a core group of people in America, at the top and at the bottom of the economic spectrum, that want to abolish Democracy and rewrite the Constitution. This has been true from the beginning. There is little reason to list the motivation for the agenda. Let's just call it an Oligarch/Racist alliance. They went underground after Pearl Harbor, and even deeper underground when the Nazi files listed 26 Congresspeople on the books. It was followed was a mistrial for sedition. Truman sealed the dossier. They got normalized by Goldwater, Reagan and Trump. The goal is to make government ostensibly "smaller", if necessary by force. Its January 6th. they mean to stop the democratic government of the people of the United States- AGAIN. Figure it out. They are serious, well funded, and are inside the hen house. We have laws that are not being enforced or if they are, they equate sedition with trespassing. They control the Supreme Court. The next election may be the last one. They believe in rule by the minority. Look at what is happening in broad daylight right in front of us!
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What was Lloyd George’s main goal after WW2? It was to return Germany to to prewar position as UK’s number 2 trade partner. Very foolish. Germany (historically a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) used trade with UK to to fund militarization. Europeans bought oil for years from Russia and were surprised to see Russia (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) use the profits to attack Europeans repeatedly (Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2020). USA sold oil and steel to Japan (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) up to the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese aircraft carriers made of US steel - fueled by U.S. oil - steamed to Pearl Harbor. Today, trade with China (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions on its military with your money, will China let its investment sit idle?
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Meghan will divorce him, citing his own book as evidence. She will take the children and boot him back to England with at least $70,000,000.
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Forgive me for saying the obvious, but businesses are successful when the demand for a service being offered commands a price that allows for enough profits to keep it open. That’s a fancy way of saying that if enough people liked your offerings, for the price at which they were offered, you would still be open. You either didn’t have enough customers, your food wasn’t good enough to charge the price required for financial success or you, simply put, didn’t know, from an accounting perspective, what your true costs were. (Often, in those cases, once you figure it out it’s too late). There are mom n’pop restaurants and bars all over this land that have been open, profitably, for years. Sell food and drinks people love, at a price they can afford, and you will stay open.
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Eric B Wordle 571 2/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 95 95 4 "Strong, Lucky" 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 62 87 "Nice Guess"Skill 62 Luck 87Yay! A two-fer is a good way to start the day. Not only did the opening word give me 3 letters, it made the placement of the one yellow clear so I had 3 letters in the right places. That left me with 4 words. I should have picked one of the other words that would have eliminated 2 of the 4 choices. That would have given me a higher skill score, Instead, I took my chances with a gut instinct that turned out to be the right choice.. Yesterday's Wordle 570 3/6*Once again, the thread has been removed and I did not save a copy of my game. All I can do is list my choices: Skill Luck W/L Ariel 90 75 30 Prism 84 89 1 Grimy 99Skill 92 Luck 82Although a favorite starter yielded only two letters, they were placed in the right spots. The second, lucky guess popped into my head without much thought. The "m" had to go in the fourth place, so I knew the word I was looking for fit the "_rim_" pattern. "Grime" and "crime" came to mind but the "e" had been eliminated. It took a minute to recognize the answer.Greetings and happy Wednesday to all!
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I see nothing wrong with learning a trade as an apprentice. Back in the early 70's I worked in a dental lab for free for a couple of months and then $500/ month after that. Three years later I accumulated enough skills and saved enough money to open my own lab and was very successful for 45 years when I retired.Working in a very high end restaurant is definitely great for building one's skills. Many students are underpaid as interns but eventually they end up in decent jobs as a result
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ASPruyn Totally agree. I want Congress to inform the public of the cost of these various "invesigations" both in $$ and time. We pay these "representatives' to do work that runs the country and aids and cares for its citizens. Not to have schoolyard brawls or be bullies.
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Roy Jones Try this: If by comparison you earn $100,000 a year, you would have a $150,000 debt (assuming US debt at 30 trillion and US GDP at 20 trillion). Just imagine if you had a $150,000 mortgage!Footnote:This should be balanced against assets. In 2014 the total US assets were around $270 trillion and debts were around $145 trillion, so our net worth was about $123.8 trillion.
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Citizen One of the problems is that the section of each bar that prosecutes disciplinary cases against lawyers is almost entirely complaint-driven. They have the authority to open an investigation on their own initiative, but rarely exercise it. They focus on the many complaints -- a large proportion of them frivolous -- that are filed by disgruntled clients.In the case of Rudy Giuliani, some lawyers circulated a petition demanding that he be disbarred. Before it was filed with the New York State bar, it had over 2000 lawyers' signatures on it. Sidney Powell and a few others have also been sanctioned, and there are pending investigations into several more, including Jeffrey Clark.But I think that many of these folks are not much dissuaded by bar discipline. Being suspended or disbarred means they could not appear in court or sign pleadings, but they could continue to provide their poisonous advice, give absurd "press conferences" and draft conspiracist pleadings that they get junior associates to sign.I think the best deterrent comes from the courts, not the bar. Right after a close-to-$1M fine was levied against Trump and Alina Habba, Trump withdrew one of his frivolous lawsuits. The bar can't impose monetary sanctions. The courts can, and should, continue to fine them heavily. That's something they actually care about.
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Okay, first off, Turing was actually trying to figure out how to set up a situation in which a logical judgement of, “humanness,” becomes meaningful. NOT the same thing as asking whether what I’m talking to is a person. Second, that thing ChatWhatevers wrote is not a sonnet. It’s not because it’s bad, but because it doesn’t follow the rules for lines and metrical feet. Which you’d think a program would be all over.And third, I agree that these things are coming, and SHOULD be useful tools as well as extensions of meaningful human abilities. I see no signs at all that there’s interest in figuring of what, “meaningful human activities,” should be. Last. There’s a reason that this stuff scares people, and it’s the same reason that movie was called, “The Imitation Game.” We don’t actually know what, “a human being,” is, and we don’t like being reminded that a lot of the way we work is mechanistic.Turing wasn’t just passing for straight; seems to me that his paper is also about passing for human. Because we all are.
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I wonder Gail how many times in the past year or two you've written nearly the exact same opening to this column:"Bret, I have a lot to ask you about government spending and deficits and … all that stuff. But first, we really need to talk about all the recent mass shootings and what to do about them, right?"And we will do about them exactly what we have done all the other times...nothing, zero, zip, nada. We'll march out the sads, the prayers, the thoughts, the outrage and the excuses. And in the end we will do nothing. Until we nothing this country to nothing or at least a place where virtually no one feels safe. Because the bottom line is that while most people care and want to do something (not sure what that something might be), the people with money, power and the guns are just fine with course of events.
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I never eat at McD except when on the road, and I love it for what it offers. Dependable. Quick. Cheap. Kids are happy. Keeps the tummy and tank going for 8 hour stretches. The bathrooms are clean and available. I am open minded about the “Blackstone” upgrade, but I bet it will in the end cost me a ton of money and extend value I don’t need.
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This is grotesque and preposterous. That convergence on the kill was like gridlocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on a rainy day.I was in this area in the early '70s and our jeep was essentially alone as far as the eye could see. Our guide kept us far from the animals but we were still able to see a lot and take pictures with our cameras on zoom. Just being in that vast space was awesome and transformative.Guides are tipped according to how "successful" they are at brining their customers close to the animals. So it shouldn't be on them to self-regulate. Mass tourism of this kind effectively destroys the experience people think they should have on such expensive vacations. It's more like visiting an open-terrain zoo. I wish authorities would limit the number of such vehicles in the parks and enforce distance rules. But I fear greed will win out and this is the kind of reality you will face if you plan a safari. Is it really worth it?
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Covid cases are dropping worldwide.It is finally going away.Currently their are 3,200 people in the new york hospitals with covid.One year ago today 10,000 people in new york were in the hospital.The media said the cases would go up after christmas.The cases went down after Christmas.The media and that includes this paper said "that China was going to start opening up and might spread the virus everywhere".It did not happen.The media should be calling for celebrations.The media only reports bad news.The spanish flu went away after 3 years.Covid is now doing the same thing.I had five shots.However,I do not believe the last booster has caused the illness to go away.The majority of Americans did not get the last booster.It is dying off like the swine flu,sars and mers.
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We should stop investing with this totalitarian dictatorship, effective immediately. Let them sink or swim on their own steam.What was 'Corporate America' ever thinking; empowering a violent, threatening, revanchist one-party-system Cult of Personality?! I fear our disloyal CEOs' post-WTO enabling of China will go down as one of the greatest mistakes of the last 100 years. Let's decouple now and not wait till there's a war over Taiwan. Kicking this can down the road only makes the potential problem greater....
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1.6 million dollar fine (enough to feed a large dog at Mar a Lago) and the ring leader Trump doesn't;t go to jail and the fall guy does.They might as well not have prosecuted this case, it cost much, much more to the taxpayer than it was worth.
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Trump said over and over again that everything would be great when he was president. You will have so much winning, you'll get tired for winning. Because many wanted to believe so deeply in Trump, and because they had assigned their life's disappointments to others, they accepted what DJT proclaimed as gospel truth.During his long and very tiring presidency, I read a quote from a man in a modest size town in Ohio. We've got a new pizza place, the man said. Things are really looking up under Trump! Really? Trump delivered pizza for you? What a guy.Trump's act included a constant stream of jumping into situations to claim victory for himself, following his lifelong pattern of "I did it!". Coming into the presidency, he said he saw video of himself promising to bring auto manufacturing jobs back and then, with renewed information about his own campaign promise, leapt in to an effort to get an old auto plant reopened. Did he succeed? To most people, it didn't matter. He made it look like he was doing something and that conclusion stayed with them.Things are going too well under Biden for the die hard right wing to even consider the facts. Lower inflation, steady employment, infrastructure bill passed. Gasoline could go to 50 cents a gallon and they wouldn't credit Biden or any Democrat, but they were eager to blame him as the prices went up.If you wake up unhappy on any day of your life, it isn't that difficult to convince yourself you are having a horrid day.
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Jorge What "false inflation relief" are you talking about? The Inflation Reduction Act is net positive - it more than pays for itself (saves the government money by negotiating medicare drug prices, pays down part of the deficit with taxes).This is on top of the Biden admin bringing down the deficit by $1.5 trillion in 2022 and $350 billion in 2021. There has been some new spending like the CHIPS act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, but this spread out over many years and is offset by taxes and savings in other areas. Republicans are trying to use the debt ceiling to avoid paying the bills for spending that congress already approved, because they don't have the votes (or the guts) to cut spending through the regular process - passing new laws. Regurgitating their tired talking points doesn't get us anywhere, they all fall apart when you look at the facts.
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The conviction and sentencing of Mr. Weiselberg always seemed like one more brick in the wall for prosecutors seeking to charge Trump for his various schemes and crimes. And it sounds like the Manhattan D.A. has that in mind.In the meantime, as a 78 year-old, I can empathize with Weiselberg's age and medical concerns while inside Rikers, which is not exactly known as ClubFed. And this brings me to "sentencing" for the Trump Organization. Other than financial damages — and $1.6M seems like a slap on the wrist here — what can the Court do? Shut down the company? I mean to say, Trump pulled in a lot more than that just in the sales of his trading cards. What gives me hope, despite Trump's history of escaping jail and massive financial penalties over the decades, is the fact that so many cases are being prepared against him already. Can he pull the rabbit from the hat multiple more times? I am also reminded that, the notorious gang leader, Al Capone, spent the rest of his life at Alcatraz for tax fraud/evasion. After escaping convictions several times, the Gambino family mafia boss, John Gotti, was ultimately convicted and sent to the SuperMax prison in Colorado where he died. Yes, hope springs eternal for Trump's trip to the slammer.
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Barbara Most building codes mandate that doors in public places must open outward, though most people don't know that.
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I am also part of that Boones Farm/MD-2020/Annie Green Springs generation. And I distinctly remember "moving up" to Mateus Rose, Martini & Rossi, and Lancer's in undergrad. Why? Because I wanted to be COOL. This is a marketing problem, not a "wine in a can" problem. You go to Europe and everyone still drinks gobs of wine; it's also popular in South America and Asia. Napa needs a better marketing campaign ASAP and they can start by enlisting the help of cool athletes like LeBron, Dwayne Wade, etc. These guys are all big wine drinkers and investing a ton of money into wine purchases and vineyards. They are making it very cool to drink the vino. The campaign could be similar to the vodka campaigns with Diddy, Leonardo, etc. And Napa better start soon: the Chinese are coming with many new wines and won't hesitate to change the model and run right over Sonoma, Russian River, Alexander Valley, etc., etc.
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michael sullivan You should consider the possibility that their is natural gas in the ground under Ukraine, and the rich oligarchs care more about those natural resources, and how much money they can make in selling them, more so than any principles of nation, and what is Russian. I read somewhere that there may be 3 trillion Dollars worth of natural gas out in the sea in front of Crimea. That's all it is about, money.
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I have a win-win solution. Instead of blaming the workers Noma should add a $200 or $500 surcharge to each check and divide it amongst all staff equally.
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Here's what a biologist I know thinks about this topic:1. Build several large holes for capturing rainwater/aquifer rejuvenation2. Line all streets, esp poor parts of towns, with trees3. Riparian habitat rehab4. All homes should have rain barrels 5. Floodplains should be expanded 6. Move out of stateAs for widening rivers. Not doable in California. Too many homes and farms will be lost. But, they can buy farmland (the delta is full of delta “islands”) and use those as ground recharging/collecting basins. Some of these delta farmland islands are already full of water year round. So, at least in norcal’s delta, aquifer recharge is already being done but definitely could be expanded. The problem is the red southern part of the Central Valley. That’s where these aquifer recharge places should really be built. But they’re not being built there. They’re still fully relying on dams from way up north for their crops that are water intensive and they’ve sucked dry their aquifers so much that farmlands down there are subsiding 15 feet or more. Should note here that farms, not cities, are the main users of surface and ground water in CA. Red state counties are less likely to agree to fallow their lands for the good of the state. Just not gonna happen. But, writings on the wall.
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They need the European-based Leopards. The commitment of the M1s is largely symbolic. And if you think Biden’s response is meek, I guess you’d be fine with more financial aid over and above the billions we’ve already committed?
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I believe the Collegiate Sports & Athletic Powers That Be (Board of Trustees mostly) prefer eponymous stadiums and coliseums they imagine can bring in the requisite moola. I'm open to being corrected but that's what I believe. NCAA Division 11 Delta State University obviously can't imagine the name of the first Black woman inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame bringing in that endowment moola.Lusia “Lucy” Harris is not even listed as a distinguished alumnus on the DSU ABOUT page as are: Margaret Wade, American basketball player and coach, novelist John Grisham; NBA basketball player Jeremy Richardson, Viola B. Sanders, an American naval officer; pioneering photographer William Eggleston, Nigerian architect Felix Ibru and poet Natasha Trethewey.Nevertheless, I also sense that Oscar winning Director Ben Proudfoot will be relenteless dealing with the 'No Lucy Harris" decision. There is more than one way to skin a cat.GM: Cornell B-Ball Captain, Class of 68; first CU Black assistant basketball coach, '71-'72; Hall of Fame, 78 (working on a memoir)
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The US and Germany should be sending tanks and as much aid as possible. Why is this being dragged out so? It’s absurd. Germany has to invest more in the allies’ protection. And Putin must be replaced.
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The writer says that the waived a potential $6,000 rental money with the understanding the sister and her husband handle the upkeep & maintenance. So, it's not a sudden change, it's what was agreed upon from the start. The judge is wrong on that.
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David Martin So far, that seems to be true. As to what Santos (if that's his real name) "thinks", it's simple: $$$.
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$4 billion budget, 11k employees and 0% accountability.
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Wow. Like the Second Ave subway opening, this brought out the naysayers in droves. Let me report that I was brought home last night from the theater to the UES on the Q quickly (10 mins) and safely. Let’s hope in a few months the LIRR riders from GCT will be similarly pleased and the gripers onto something new.
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Following a life changing event like a divorce or the death of spouse a counselor told me that I should not do any big changes like quit my full time job for at least one year. I had asked about letting go of all the challenges of life for awhile to reassess what was really happening essentially “free falling”.The idea is to maintain stability during turbulent and emotionally strained times so that enough time is set aside to weigh carefully the next course of action. Most of us are not wealthy enough to not have employment as a source of income and the daily routine serves to add some form of purpose thus occupying our minds in the immediate care for others and self. By allowing gradual change we adapt to our losses and eventually we can regain a sense of purpose. Certainly attending church services and counseling is most helpful— of all the diversions it was serving others in greater need than my loss that opened my eyes. We tend to forget how others are often in greater need than ourselves. Volunteer to do a stint on weekends and seek to improve someone else’s life you will begin to think my troubles are proportionately a lot smaller than others in the world. It improves your life and life of others— life goes on.
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I found American’s initial reply: “Thank you for contacting Customer Relations. Given the circumstances you described, we can appreciate your request for a ticket extension. Unfortunately, we must decline. Your ticket falls outside of the travel waiver we previously implemented to address customer travel issues associated with COVID-19. While we continue to assess our travel waivers and travel credits policies, we are not making exceptions to our current policy. I am sorry to disappoint you.“While we must respectfully decline your request, please do not think we are unconcerned by your experience. We do appreciate your business and thank you for contacting American Airlines.” I am sorry to disappoint you???We must respectfully decline your request???Please do not think we are unconcerned…”???We had a young son who couldn’t get vaccinated until much later than the rest of the world, but American had just decided it was time to move on and they were entitled to keep our money even though they didn’t deliver on our flight. Never flying them again.
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Face it. We are now addicted to cheap, low quality stuff that we can toss in the dump. The C-suite responded accordingly. They stopped investing in their US manufacturing assets. They stopped investing in their US labor force. They stopped investing in their US marketing channels. Admit it. Over the years prices stayed low (i.e., inflation was "under control"). Over the years the middle class jobs slowly disappeared. Over the years the downtown slowly succumbed to Amazon. Own it. We sold our soul for high profits and cheap shiny objects delivered to our front door. Addiction is always too easy, and rehab is always too hard.
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As soon as I saw my human pull out my favorite red leash, my tail started wagging and I started barking enthusiastically. I had been waiting all day to go to my favorite place in the whole world, outside. When my human clipped my leash to my collar, I felt my heart sing with joy. Finally! As soon as I stepped out the door, I felt the cool autumn breeze wash over me like a wave. The squirrels scattered inside of the trees and the birds whistled in harmonies that floated through the autumn breeze. The trees were a deep, rich emerald color that drifted me off into a new universe. That is what I loved about the outside, it was always so peaceful and serene. We walked a few blocks admiring nature's beauty until we suddenly halted to a stop. I looked around but found nothing that looked out of the ordinary. My human opened the car door and placed me in the back seat. My heart started to beat so fast I thought it would burst out of my chest and my mind was racing. Where are we going? Millions of dreadful thoughts popped into my brain. By the time we arrived, my fur was soaked with sweat. As soon as I walked out the door, I stopped in my tracks. In front of me was a place I can only describe as paradise. Behind the white gate, there were clusters of dogs and rubber balls crowding the green grass. What more could a dog ever dream of? My heart sang with joy as I stepped through the gate. I knew then that this would be the best day of my life.
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Perez Define woke? Is teaching historical facts woke? Is caring about the planet woke? If you can't define it, what are you for that conflicts with some concept of wokism? Google defines it as meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". How is that even a problem? Maybe we should just ignore all non-white history because why? How is it a problem to know what happened, when and by whom? Are some people afraid of facts? By the way, how does voting for DeSantis make your actual life better? Florida had a lot of needless deaths because of DeSantis and Republicans refusal to wear masks. Politicians on the right are owned by libertarian billionaires who donate a majority of the PAC funds used to fund Republican candidates and that is just a fact. They are rich and really don't care about anything but paying as little taxes as possible. The politicians like DeSantis are paid to promote culture wars to stoke polarization that keeps taxes from being raised on rich people because the tax issues are never addressed by Republicans who obstruct any action to raise taxes on the people who received huge cuts that did not pay for themselves as advertised. Please note that these Republicans have no problem raising the SS age, cutting benefits, stopping Medicare expansion, or cutting government spending because in their view, everyone is unimportant but themselves. Is it a shock that Trump paid only 750 dollars in Federal taxes but a guy working in Walmart pays more? Wise up.
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Editorials such as this always get the dynamic backward. No one seems to study how the CULTURE of rural areas DRIVES URBANIZATION. Face it, rural and small town life is dominated by a few rich families, and then there is everyone else. Openness to change does not exist. Openness to modernity, nothing. Entrepreneurship is zilch. Openness to newcomers, whether they are from the US or not, outright hostile. And on top of this, drugs, petty crime, and overuse of alcohol makes for a culture anyone with any ambition is ready to leave as soon as they can.But sure, blame the rich suburban people cause they don’t respect your “culture.” Here’s the answer: they know your real culture, that’s why they left.
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Intellectually I fully understand that people are expensive, difficult to manage and often redundant. But as a human I remember the best part of my career as those times when we worked as a team to accomplish a goal. There must be two types of people in the world. Those who exalt in sharing success and those who don’t; the “it’s all mine!” folks. In this world they run things. This country has rewarded people with vision who invested their hearts, minds and money into the future with little gain in the short run. But it also rewards short term success with country club and second home money; the “All mine and I want it now” guys. To some I’ll always be seen as a liability, eventually we may all be. But just like the earth’s core changing direction right on schedule, we’ll change too. How that works out for most will depend on how far we want to see in the future.
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This article underscores just how woefully the Chinese government has mis-prioritized what truly matters.Maybe the leaders of China should spend last time threatening the peaceful Taiwanese with imminent destruction -- or fueling their sociopathic buddy Putin's genocidal war of aggression in Ukraine, right now, by supporting it diplomatically, propagandistically... and refusing to condemn the invasion on the UN Security Council (which would end the war overnight!) -- and maybe they should instead invest more time, energy, and focus into actually taking care of and supporting their own People....Is that such a crazy thought??It's so easy to destroy; it's so hard to create. The creation of a peaceful wealthy China, with true 'common prosperity', spread all around, will require that the CCP leadership finally learns how not to lie compulsively to their own long-suffering People....Here's hoping.
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McCarthy sold his soul & his country for an 8 ounce wooden gavel. He allowed 20 MAGA to take control so that 8 ounce gavel means zip.Seeing he will go down in history as the Speaker requiring 15 rounds of votes, plus selling out American values (?) to get those votes it will not play out well for him. On the upside, he has nice hair. On the downside not many brain cells under thar head of hair.
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His fellow liar, Madison Cawthorn just bought a million dollars house in Florida. Since he was also broke before he was elected, where did the money come from? Same source as Santos’s $700,000 campaign contribution?
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I know - what if you had to spend an extra 50 cents for breakfast. The hardship!! Each egg used to be $0.25 and now...a walloping $0.50. For pity sake - don't be such snowflakes.
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Imagine if the money spent on sports advertising and sports gambling were directed toward investments in our country's future and solving immediate problems like climate change, income inequality, and uncontrolled proliferation of automatic weapons.. or even ten percent of that money...
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Max Young people borrowing money ($10,000s or more) to buy magical investment vehicles that promise >100% returns is more than 'dipping their toes'. I, too, have young children (and am not that old), and I remember being told as a child that year-over-year returns of ~5% were what you prudently planned on. I cannot imagine how or why our young people think annual returns of 100% or more are normal or regularly achievable. And I don't see calling for a return to the expectation of working, saving, and non-magical thinking as 'scolding'.Too much has been ceded to the social media influencers and techno-utopians, who promote the idea that anyone can get rich quick with just a bit of work and some insider, magical knowledge that lets people jump the line to riches. Desai is not saying that the technology isn't useful - he is saying that it is not the path to riches for the masses. And that someone needs to tell our young people that throwing money at these technologies is not a replacement for the slow, tedious, and boring work of saving over time. He doesn't want them to lose money and become embittered because there is no quick road to riches, which are likely to lead to life-long consequences at odds with our societal goals of happiness and trust.I know young people that are massively in debt because of speculative investments, and they want to burn the world down. Why did they think returns of >100% per annum were sustainable? See social media.
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Geez, for a couple who wanted privacy and to be let be, Prince H and Meghan M certainly invest a lot of time and energy into trying to insure they stay front-and-center in the public eye!
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knitfrenzy Whoa, that's a lot of presumptions and judgments. Yes, I think he's open to all of those things. And plenty of men have children father children later in life too.He's certainly not guaranteed anything. But he's 100% not going to be a father with his current wife. And he'd like to be married to someone that shares some fundamental life goals, like having kids (be it from natural means, adoption, whatever). There's nothing wrong with that. What's a shame is that is that they didn't recognize this as a dealbreaker to begin with.
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Correct. And there have been so many others things that people like Mr. Brearth have chosen to ignore. Even before he took office Jared Krushner tried to open a secure back channel of communications with Russia at the Russian Embassy. Then there was that bizarre meeting in the White House where Trump met with the Russian ambassador and gave him confidential information. Of course there was also his first meeting with Putin when he sided with Putin over every US intelligence agency and would not allow a transcript of their conversation to be released. But most telling is that he has outstanding over $300m in loans that were fronted by Deutsche Bank but initiated from a Russian state owned bank. He is the best investment Putin ever made, and it is truly bizarre that republicans have chosen to ignore it.
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I think people object to the idea of the “welfare state” because they think that it promotes abuse of the system. Abuse certainly occurs, but the vast majority of people who benefit from the system are merely surviving, not profiting. I think a lot of “conservatives” object to the idea of people being wards of the state. Dependent on the state. They think this dependence encourages people to be lazy and to abuse the system for a free handout from the government. The notion of the “welfare mother” is antiquated. The idea is both misogynistic and usually racist, but this is the picture that republicans are painting when they talk about the welfare state.I find it disingenuous when I hear republicans complain about the far left and their supposed defense of open borders and promotion of socialism. The true promoters of chaos and anarchy are the far right republicans themselves. These people see government itself as the problem- not the solution. The irony is that there are congressional representatives who want nothing more than to burn down the institution in which they serve. If they want to fix the problems, then they need to be participants in the process. Not just throwers of hand grenades. Government serves a purpose. One purpose is to ensure that citizens don’t fall through the cracks. That’s the safety net that republicans seem to want to destroy. This fixes nothing and probably would make things worse (i.e., depression era).
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400 million sounds like loads of money until you find out the feds might spend 400 million for 6,000 pairs of night goggles for the army...
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There is one thing the GOP is doing right. After decades of cold-hearted slashing of funding for, and deinstitutionalization of, the mentally ill - cosigning many of them to homelessness - the GOP is now, finally, providing some of them a home where they are welcomed with open arms, as demonstrated in the McCarthy-MTG photo.
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How timely. Currently (12:55 ET):Dow down 367Gamestop up 3.8%AMC up 4.0%(soon to be bankrupt) Bed Bath & Beyond up 13%
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Greg Shell 3 trillion dollars in tax cuts for corporations who pay no taxes at all while happily stealing the dollars of muddle class taxpayers to pay into the roads, bridges and communications networks that keep them afloat is NOT “good fiscal management.” It is legalized theft of the sweat and labor of the American middle class.
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I went to college in St. Louis, and once every couple of years I get a taste for St. Louis style pizza. I'm very glad Goldbelly exists on these occasions, and I don't mind paying $25 for an Imo's pizza for the nostalgia of late-night studying and oh to be young again.There's a lot of pooh-poohing of frozen pizza in these comments, to which I say: to each his own. Many a night I've been very happy to come home late from work knowing that the emergency frozen pizza I always have on hand will be dinner. Give me the Red Baron 5-Cheese Thin Crust over 95% of coal fired, wood fired, whatever fired that seem so popular these days. $3.50 on sale and worth every penny.
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