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Richard Waugaman, M.D. Of course they have become the party of tax cheats, but their obsession with a balanced budget, only when Dems are in power, is designed to prevent the Dems from spending money on programs that would benefit the American public and would be wildly popular with voters with open eyes and minds. Can't let that happen, can they?
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Tim B Real russian here, so i'm open to answer any of your questions about how we live under sanctions. Go ahead. However I can say before your questions, that from viewpoint of fellow citizen it's simple. If you're highly educated, have knowledge of foreign languages, West-oriented and open-minded you're in an unfavorable position. Sure , the current state of the economy can help you keep your basic lifestyle the same way as it was before, but this kind of people face obstacles to keep their cultural life as it was before because many western companies went and many international sources were shutted down for them. So, if you're one of them you try so hard just to break through the information wall that was imposed mostly by western side. On the other hand, if you're not so ambitious and have always been kind of pro-kremlin nothing changed for you. There is no any shortage of products or wage cuts. You just live your life as you have always lived and don't worry about economy. And this second group of people is dominant. So, in simple terms, sanctions don't work much
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Burning incense while keeping windows may succeed in allowing the smoke and odor to drift right into a neighbor’s window, including a neighbor who might otherwise been unaware of your burning practice. Many no-smoking laws require persons smoking to be at least 20-30 feet away from any openable windows or doors, even when smoking outdoors, for this very reason.Also, be aware that the scent and/or smoke and gasses from burning material, including incense, can cause flare-ups of various medical conditions and disabilities such as asthma, migraine, COPD, ADHD. While you have the right to free practice of your religion, other residents also have the right to reasonable accommodations, such as common areas free from additional contaminants and irritants, so you may want to off to buy and install high quality air purifiers in your unit (to prevent the noxious fumes and smoke from escaping) and in the common areas linked to your unit, such as hallways, shared landings, and such.
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DaveLOLI get up at 11:50, open my Word doc, get on the SB page, and check the breaking news while I wait for those 6 minutes to count down to midnight... and et voila, after 15 votes, Kevin finally makes it!JE
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DW The district wasn't considered competitive until the lines were redrawn. (Redistricting in NY became a mess because of some shenanigans from Cuomo) The Democratic incumbent ran for governor so it became an open seat. Santos ran in 2020 and was soundly defeated. The Republicans didn't have candidate so they threw him in for 2022 unopposed and unvetted. He road in on a wave of suburbanite fear of crime. The NYC suburbs flipped from blue to red after being inundated with fear ads from the right wing
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Such good news. Sadly, not so much at the federal level. Greenberg is quoted as writing, “I bet that there will be 10 to 20 Republicans who will work with Democrats to pass important legislation. ...” which might be more believable had more than one Republican voted against the rule changes which will allow the “Freedom” caucus to run the house into a dysfunctional circus. I hope Greenberg is right, but by voting for the rule changes the so-called moderate Republicans made the task of governing much, much more difficult.
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A United States Savings Bond purchased thirty years ago for $5,000, maturing this month. paid about $21,000.. Distressing to know that those who try to cash them on or after January 19 may not be paid.
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I’m a broker with 20 years experience in California. Owning a home here has never penciled out, especially with upkeep and property taxes. Having said that, with appreciation, they do serve as a type of forced piggy bank that you break open upon selling.
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A "Covid Deficit" that blew up in large part to pandemic deniers and mask shunners hobbling the economy and fillimg hospitals for an extended period of time.
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Part IAB• Her neighbor’s driveway AB(4)s her rose garden. Sadly, this year his son is learning to drive, and she’s had to replace several rose bushes already.AI• They had large new windows installed in the back bedroom which lent an AI(4) atmosphere to the formerly dark room.AR• The handler felt the judge’s decision to award the blue ribbon to the French Bulldog to be AR(9) and unfounded: he was convinced his Golden Labrador Goldie was far superior.• Operatically speaking, the leading soprano or tenor voice generally will sing a beautiful AR(4).• The artisanal jeweler carefully positioned an AR(5) of her finely crafted earrings so they would catch the eyes of people who passed by the booth.• He preferred to keep himself busy with AR(4) projects, especially if they involved drawing or painting or both. AT• Did you know that the AT(5) are the two upper chambers of your heart? Alternately, ancient Roman houses were often built with large central courtyards or AT(5).• Her sister preferred an AT(5) of roses essence, but she always chose patchouli oil.AU• The state Supreme Court justice entered her court deliberately, bringing an AU(4) of dignity and seriousness to the proceedings.BA (1-3)• Her mother always made BA(4) rum cake for Christmas.• The BA(4) cried the entire cross-country trip; no problem, I thought ahead and brought ear plugs. • My father preferred to use earthworms as BA(4) when he went fishing whereas my uncle swore by Limburger cheese.
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Anyone else fascinated by that such a huge majority of parents are prioritizing financial independence for their children above them having a family? I have a small child, and while I would love for her to have a good career and financial stability someday, I'm not raising her to be a worker. I want her to derive meaning and pleasure from her connections with people--whether she has children or forms a chosen family. I could care less what she does for a "living." (What a revealing phrase.)I wonder if my parenting priorities are shaped by my childhood with divorced parents; one family lived in deep poverty, and the other family was comfortably upper middle class. As a kiddo, there was great stress in my poorer parents' home, but there was unconditional love, warmth, and understanding. In my other home, I was blessed with piano, voice, dance, and ice skating lessons, as well as tutoring, camps, vacations, and other enrichment activities. And I was grateful for those opportunities but still longed for more warmth and love from my family.My husband and I are working to foster our child's compassion, open-mindedness, courage, resilience, independence, and sense of service. Like other parents in the article, we're much more invested in her emotional world than running her around nonstop to lessons and activities. It's hard work, but our family is happy. And we're proud of how our kiddo is growing.
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Mahatma (great soul) Gandhi's assassination 75 years ago today in New Delhi, India is a key milestone of legacy of tongevity of spirit of Gandhi's nonviolent struggle for India's independence from British rule. No human since Abraham Lincoln has had such a consequential impact on nonviolent change than Gandhi. Last August India celebrated its 75th independence day and 4 days ago India celebrated its 73rd Republic day with president of Egypt as chief guest of honor. Successive Indian govts embraced secular fabric of India that Gandhi promoted. Overall there is considerable inter-faith and inter caste harmony just like in USA where there is inter-religious harmony despite sporadic incidences of violence by a few. The greatness of Democracy in largest Democracy, India and the second largest Democracy, USA is based on equal justice in the application of law. No wonder that in this century, India and the USA have become strategic partners and world leaders for peaceful co-existence and rule of law. Mahatma Gandhi was born in the same decade in 1869 as the end of slavery in 1863 in USA by Hodgenville, KY born 16 th US president Lincoln inaugurated in 1861. There is an American in Louisville, KY who was also born in Hodgenville and is as tall as Lincoln, 6 foot 4 inches or as he likes to joke 5 foot 16 inches. He has a beard like Lincoln and in his younger days had a hair style like Lincoln. His favorite quote of Gandhi is "I don't eat any living being that has/had a mother"
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Coming from a German :Germany has spent decades free-riding on American security assurances and interventions while reducing military spend to such a degree that its own defence capabilities are barely existing on paper and certainly not sufficient in real life.This while singularly focusing on exporting as much as possible (even arms) abroad. Any demand for actual military support (Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, piracy) follows the standard German playbook : 1. Hemm and haw / delay as much as possible 2. Wait for the US to address it (with some UK / French assistance) 3. Get the checkbook out and pay for humanitarian aid / defense "training" / reconstruction 4. Continue the charade that Germany has equally contributed but in different waysGermany should have a military that is commensurate with it's economic standing, if only you contribute in the same way that other western countries do to joint military security goals. But only hundreds of addl billions will get it up to par, so it's easier to continue to free-ride again in the future
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Santos could be acting as an agent for a foreign interest. It certainly appears that someone with tons of money gave him $750,000 under the table to buy his influence. The man cannot be trusted. He belongs to the highest bidder.
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Only two car companies make a profit on their electric vehicles: Tesla and BYD. As stated in the article, Tesla earns an industry leading gross margin on every car sold, more than twice the industry average for gasoline powered cars. Tesla’s model Y was the highest selling EV in the US last year. This price cut spells trouble for Ford, General Motors and all other legacy automakers.
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The fortunes amassed by Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg, Brin and a few others, are the kool-aid that sucks minds both young and old into dreams of fantasy, while a billion dollar lotto winner every so often, scoops up those with more elementary dreams. All the while 300+ million Americans continue to plod on the road that got us here.The dream of easy money, acquired for little effort appears too be replacing the old axioms of hard work, and nose to the grindstone, as being the keys to success. Our new heroes have evolved from a perception, rather than something that is real.
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SkateboardingBeaver _Because_ it's excessive...and still affordable. The numbers I found give an ave. pay range of between $30k and $80k. A blanket buyout at $100k leaves them no room for negotiation--we're already giving away the house! My intention with this financial provocation is also to demonstrate that with the decline in mining, a buyout is ridiculously cheap even if you use sky-high numbers. Something more like, "you get the average of your last 3 years' wages for 20 years" would be a much, much lower number. But why quibble? If handfuls of cash make it easy to transition away from coal (read: to get Coal Congress to stop blocking meaningful environmental legislation), then so be it. Payoffs have a grand tradition, and this direct-pork method has multiple advantages. It's not being filtered through companies--so it get's to the people who need it most. This also robs coal companies of any ability to siphon off money to funnel back into political contributions aimed at protecting their business model. On the policy & political front, it obviates any argument that the Joe Manchins of the world put forth that they care about the little guy. And as a fat cash infusion into some of the poorest communities in America, it provides a wonderful natural experiment for testing the efficacy of substantial direct payments. All the rest is details. Like, maybe making payments depend on whether you've moved away from coal country after 3 years... Just some of my thoughts.
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The Republicans have been given the rather thankless task of running the economy, so that there is enough money for the Democrats to give away to their constituents in return for votes. Capitalism is not the most noble of economic systems, and it requires excess capital to be put in the hands of the private sector instead of handed over to the government. This can make it look like the Republicans are favoring the wealthy, but this is the system that raises the most money for the country to spend. Remarkable individuals like Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft have created the world changing products that have kept this country employed in high-paying jobs and wealthy enough to be able to afford the New Deal payments. Only capitalism gives college dropouts this ability. We still fall short of being able to fund Medicare and Social Security as they were originally written, because we have less people working to support more people living off the government. So the Republicans must take the responsibility of making sensible cuts in programs like Social Security, so that they do not run out of money. Raising the minimum age at which you can receive full benefits is not popular, but is necessary and sensible, considering the later age at which the population now retires.The Democrats do continue to lead the Republicans in self righteous congratulations to themselves for spending the money that American business has created.
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Federal government debt increasing faster than GDP? Annual debt service alone (~ $500B) approaching threshold of exceeding GDP growth? An eventual crisis? Are there eventual outcomes: tax increases, spending cuts, debt default?
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DavidS: Serious question? We just pull out our camping gear and set up the propane stove on the patio. The big concern during extended outages is not how we're going to cook but rather how we're going to keep the refrigerated food from spoiling.
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"If we impose work requirements on SNAP and on Medicaid expansion for able-bodied adults, we would have the ability to save $1 trillion during the 10-year budget window,” Mr. Gaetz said. 1)You need affordable childcare to go to work. 2) There's a severe shortage of childcare. 3) There's zero affordable child care if your kid has special needs.If you address the cost and availability of childcare, you won't need to impose work requirements. Low income parents stay home because they can't earn enough to pay for childcare, not because they don't want a job. I am so sick of Republicans acting like people are poor because they're lazy. It's a LOT of work to survive being poor. I'd like to see Gaetz try it for a month.
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Agreed we all need to pay our fair share of taxes and loopholes need to close Two questions does Congress have the backbone to do this with all the special interests they serve and what are we the voters going to do about this Lastly I am sick to death of hearing about Entitlement programs these are not free money I paid into social security for almost 55 years and even with Medicare spend almost $1000 per month for my husband and I for health insurance and a drug plan and supplemental coverage This in contrast to European countries that truly have a national health plan
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carolyn Tips are almost always far less than minimum wage, because a lot of restaurant work takes place at a time when there aren’t tipping customers. Opening, closing, washing dishes between the lunch crowd and the dinner crowd, all of that is work that pays waiters two dollars an hour in the US. The excess income from tips subsidizes a substantial amount of work that would otherwise not be worth it.
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Incorporeal Being the article says that 50% of his proposed units would have been affordable (aka income restricted) - the councilwoman just decided that they weren't "affordable enough". It was not a matter of 87% market rate.
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Paul They might be open to texting with you! Heaven forbid a phone call or get together for coffee or tea.
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Black George Floyd was killed for passing a $20 bill, yet our justice system sentences a white grifter who stole millions to a mere 5 months in prison, and wishes him well after sentencing. "White" collar crime, indeed.Three cheers for our corrupt justice system.
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“…the nagging voice that meritocracy installs in the back of your consciousness, constantly asking if you’re doing well enough, working hard enough, keeping up with the competition adequately to maintain your position and your edge.”1. Two thirds of the upper class have inherited their wealth. The careers of a majority of those folks (if they have one) have little to do with their financial standing, eliminating the opening point of the quote, which is that this is an assumed meritocracy. Of course it isn’t, even nobody is more sure of that then those that were born on third bass. 2. The rest of the quote assumes that only careers that bring in anomalous amounts of money are focused on, and the rest of us just slog along without a care in the world for our (apparently worthless) work. Yuck.
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Although no fan of Bibi and detest Israeli settlers, for those who blame Israel, one should instead ask Hamas, a terrorist org., which has Iran's support determined to annihilate Israel the following:- Where does it and/or Islamic Jihad get its 30,000 rockets? Like the Israelis have done for their civilian population, why hasn’t Hamas invested in protecting its civilians in building reinforced Bunkers? Is it a matter that they wish to depict disproportionality in the death rate, and gain perverted sympathy for their cause?- For non-peaceful purposes, why does Hamas continuously build Tunnels (est. 250miles worth!), mostly in densely populated Gaza?- Why does Hamas invest in terror, and not in civic construction projects (electric power, garbage refuse, water purification)?- Why does Hamas teach its young so much HATE for Israelis, when Israel is 25% Israeli Arab Christian-/Muslim?Lastly...1. Why don’t some of you who are negative to Israel ever take time to think about what Russia is doing in Syria and supporting Assad’s murderous regime. 2. How many times did Irael engage in peace, only for the PLO to throw away another 'opportunity'? Call it as it is, Arafat, who was born in Cairo (buried in France!! is celebrated murderer, who squandered not only peace, but his legacy is one wherever he went, violence followed him!
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ZERO empathy, especially in the so called right to work states (aka right to fire states). Companies shouldn't complain when an employee uses the same right to quit without cause with the same ease an employer has to fire without cause."the perpetual need to train employees has been a central reason for the production slowdown" is what a company that no longer wants to grow, innovate or compete thinks. Successful growing companies are always training new and existing employees - but that cuts into the tax-evaded cash piles of the idle owners."Productivity is what allows the economic pie to grow" Yea, but what's the point if all those who produced that bigger pie only get the same or fewer crumbs in return while the bigger pie always goes to those who already have massive stockpiles of pies?"If workers can produce more in the same amount of time, then their employers can afford to pay them more per hour" Yes, THEY CAN AFFORD TO PAY THEM MORE but DON'T, of course! The wealthy scalp and keep all those gains for themselves."pay becomes a zero-sum game: If workers want to make more money, then the money has to come from somewhere else." Like from where ALL the money is - in the wealth hoards of the largest tax evaders?"new hires often do not stick around long enough for that investment to pay off." Or they leave because they realize that investing their time, their life, their labor and their dignity will never pay off at that company - indeed, it would be a wasted life.
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Yeah, if you don’t know how to play the game drinks cost $18.00 to 20.00.
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A welcome topic always but especially now. Commandments become totems; ritual is easier to understand and so it displaces the spirit of the advice. For the sabbath, we did a lot of things. Getting bathed, dressed, combed, well-behaved were all part of my "sabbath." Tomas Sedlacek's book (apologies for omitting diacritical marks),The Economics of Good and Evil, threw a new light on the topic for me. Family, friends, community should not be relegated to one day a week, but reaffirming our deep commitments is a good thing. An untended garden goes to weeds. The extended family has contracted. The nuclear family is splintered. Many people are adrift. How good it might be to find ways to salvage the good in old customs, to revitalize rites that have little meaning for today, and to put people at the heart of our politics rather than the dollar.
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If Trump stole billions from the U.S. Treasury & Biden owed $1.00 in taxes, people would be trying to equate these issues as identical.I am so tired of this optic.
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It's more serious than many know, for a number of reasons. So-called extraordinary moves to keep government running include raiding the government employee Thrift Savins Plan (TSP) program--it's like a 401K-which is money employees voluntarily contribute to the TSP from paychecks each pay period, with a small matching funds component. The entire TSP is basically raided. The last time this happened (in recent memory), it took many months for the government to reimburse the TSP.Also on the line are discretionary funds and programs, many government agencies and programs are considered "discretionary," such as the USEPA, science, environment, and energy, domestic and international programs outside of defense. In 2019 these totaled 14 percent of federal budget, and of that science, environment, and energy programs totaled 11 percent ($75 billion).When the USEPA and other programs cannot pay their contract obligations their contracts go into default, and the government is obligated to pay triple damages, even if no goods or work was received. In the USEPA, we spent many months trying to straighten the mess out after the fact after government shutdowns. Plus, the extra money paid out for defaulted contracts goes against the current budget, thus a vicious cycle. Most often the defaulted work still needs to be completed at yet more waste and expense.This is NOT a prudent way to run our government. It's an un- mitigated mess.
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"...the scene in the film “Jurassic Park” when the velociraptors learned to open doors."Excellent analogy. I'm saving this.
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Feels like this piece is missing some links, mostly back to the source of this most recent resurgence in racial animosity and chaos making - the election of Barack Obama as president. The white nationalists and tinfoil hat brigade have been around forever and coexisted, sometimes in cooperation, sometimes not, for a long time. The Steven Bannons and Alex Joneses of the world used to be losers who lived in their grannies' basements and kept to themselves. But then the internet happened, disparate groups of unhappy, aggrieved people found each other more easily, the gamification of obnoxiousness elevated them, and Obama becoming president scared a lot of them into joining forces, aided by burgeoning social media that allowed it all to fester unchecked. Trump was the apex symptom of the disease, with the 2020 and 2022 elections proving mild treatment against it on the big scale. But the current poison in the discourse continues to worsen until we the people decided we've had enough and run these fools off.
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I have wondered if the federal government, at the behest of Big Pharma, has maintained the illegality of pretty much all natural occurring drugs in an effort to remove competition and improve profit. As is always the case ..... follow the money. I have used marijuana to relax and tried psilocybin which , at the risk of sounding pedantic, was truly mind opening and very smooth.
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tom "I like an occasional glass of wine I live by myself. So a bottle of wine is a commitment to drink it all"If you like fortifieds, try Madeira. They just about last forever after opening and can be had from dry to dessert, depending on the varietal.
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Ron Bartlett Composting doesn't attract rats, etc. if done right. On the other hand, throwing food items out in the trash in bags does attracts rats. The bags are very easy to rip open. And even if its in a trash bin, well, rats, squirrels, raccoons, possums, and bears can open trash bins.
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M Forget raising taxes on the wealthiest. Our failing, most expensive in the world, healthcare system (consumes 19% of our GDP - $4.3 trillion a year) has presided over a declining life expectancy since 2016. A single payer system (like EVERY one of the other high income nations who have exponentially longer lifespans than we do) would free up literally TRILLIONS to be spent on giving educational opportunities to our young people.
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What specific rules did the NFL change to make the game more exciting and how do they impact player safety? I can’t think of any. They should end Thursday night football for player safety, but that’s not a rule. The NFL keeps changing rules to make the game safer and some are done during the season (all other changes are done during the off-season). As for your question regarding facemasks and stiff arms, they are very different. A legal stiff-arm move is preformed by a runner by extending their arm with an open palm to push a defender away. If they runner grasps and controls, twists, turns, pushes or pulls the facemask during the stiff-arm, it’s a 15-yard penalty. The rule is: no player shall grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the facemask of an opponent in any direction. The player may be disqualified if the action is flagrant. If the foul is by the defense, it is also an automatic first down.As for your question why a defender can “slap” a receiver leaving the line of scrimmage, it’s actually a penalty if it’s direct and forceful. It’s called quite frequently and players know not to hit the facemask because it’s always called. They are standing still at the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped so no one has a running start to slap a players helmet. If they did, it would probably result in a broken hand, so no one does that. NFL Operations explains all the rules and gives video examples on their website if you’re interested.
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Peter Rasmussen The right to possess, carry, and openly display deadly firearms has nothing to do with guaranteeing democracy whatsoever. There are vigorous democratic republics in the world where firearms are largely prohibited for ordinary citizens. Democracy is strengthened not by the proliferation of by guns throughout society but by a system of social relations of equality, freedom of speech, public assembly, and open political and religious diversity without fear of repression by the state. Where guns are ubiquitous so is fear, and with fear comes lack of trust and the deterioration of the kinds of social bonds that make the preservation of liberty possible.
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Novak, for me, is the best player to ever have played.I may not agree with his take on vaccination, but respect his guts to stick to his principles. It is, after all his body, and he has the choice over what gets into HIS body. The fiasco by Australian Open last year was intentional humiliation affected on him. As another commenter mentioned, he simply shouldn't have been issued a visa in the first place. What ended up happening was hounding him like a criminal, and humiliating him on the international stage. What A Comeback, and what a Reply! Bravo!This champion has not just battled greats on the court, or just dealt with hecklers or biased tournament organizers; but has also had to deal with discrimination due to not being from a western world nation. For me, he's the greatest player ever. Yes, I'm not talking about only tennis here.I've been fortunate to witness this phenomenon in my lifetime.
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The Israeli-Palestinian war is one of the drivers of conflict in the region, perhaps the most important one, perhaps in the long run it would be in Israel's. best interest to settle with the Palestinians and obviate the prime cause of conflict. Israel has the upper hand and the power advantage, now Israel should move to establish the moral high ground. By pre-emptively attacking facilities in neighbouring states, Israel provides its enemies with grist for the propaganda machine and a rationale for the eventual prime conflict, open war with Iran and its allies.
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This is what $4 Billion a year buys us. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on Israel and I have never seen a penny's worth of return on our investment. Simply stated . . . America directly supports a Rogue state with US tax dollars. What a waste.
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Interesting, but misplaced. People who can and will spend five hundred dollars to eat imitation insects and quivering crustaceans simply have too much money. What this article is really about is income tax. Not too much celebrity, but too much money and in the wrong place. Add a five hundred dollar surcharge to restaurants engaging in this nonsense and the "Upper" class can go back to race horses and Lamborghinis to demonstrate their superiority to the peasants.
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Bankman Fried was only 5-10% less productive? "Separate, hidden account" with an $8B liability? Campaign contributions? First, clawback every penny in campaign contributions if the recipient doesn't voluntarily return the contribution. Second, if he was only 5-10% less productive knowing that he has swindled billions of dollars from investors (or suckers as I like to call them) then he is truly a sociopath. What a morally, corrupt human being. His parents assets should also be seized. Finally, shut down crypto. Ponzi scheme of the highest order.
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The biggest challenges faced by the industry are a public that doesn’t understand the business model; a U.S. culture that expects more for less, often at another’s expense; and a long and regrettable history in America of people working for low (or no) wages, and the customer’s right to heap scorn on that worker at will.It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about NOMA or a run-of-the-mill “Mexican” joint run by white Americans. Or a legit pho spot. Or an Indian restaurant serving samosa that are lovingly fried on site but distributed from a warehouse. A restaurant must handle rising rents and greedy landlords, a skyrocketing minimum wage and a shrinking labor pool with an understandable chip on its collective shoulder; equipment prices that make your jaw drop; food prices that soar at the whim of commodity traders; fuel surcharges for delivery; and a public glued to its phone, expecting to pay nothing for an experience that in its most basic form takes multiple people a full work day to prepare before the doors even open. And those people may or may not show up to work today, often with zero notice.For restaurants to succeed we all need to understand how expensive prices should be. Want a $20 minimum wage? Great, me too. That means your basic plate of nachos will need to cost $28 for us to make a small profit. Does that work for you?At the end of the day, a restaurant isn’t a business it’s a myth, and like so many myths it is no match for the churn of modern life.
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It appears that Putin has a firm grip on his domestic situation. His control of the media and its propaganda are effective. Putin may look to hold his gains rather than capture new territory. He may be betting that the US and Europe will pressure Ukraine not to launch any new offensives. Putin can say he stood up the West and sell a stalemate as victory to his countrymen.Of course he would face an expanded NATO, a heavily armed Ukraine as a neighbor, a damaged military apparatus and a sanctioned economy isolated from the West. The wild card is Ukraine which may not accept a stalemate. And who could blame them.
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Eddy Agree. As someone who entered the comp sci field in 2007, so after the dot-com bubble and lucky enough to be in a company that escaped the financial crisis, I feel like the FAANGM companies have ran out of innovation, and are now at the point in a company lifecycle where the goal is to squeeze margins, maximize ad revenue, etc. I truly hope that surprisingly good AI like ChatGPT unlocks the next wave of innovation and gets us out of this stagnation.
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Richard Pildes delivers a scathingly descriptive indictment specifically particularizing the ascendancy, aggregation, domination and extremist radicalization blatantly exhibited by the Republican Party to ferociously condemn collaborative efforts to negotiate and achieve legislative results beneficial to Americans. The Opinion accurately, with erudite prescience, describes the antecedent history belying the rise of Republican right-wing extremism, firmly melded and solidly fused with alarming nativism and racial demagoguery. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin to share the 2008 national ticket reflected a dangerous harbinger of the significant diminution of Republican moderate power and rapid descent into the cavernous abyss of vehement racial antagonism, virulent xenophobia and vicious antiimmigrant sentiment. The lurid display of chaotic dysfunctional ineptitude, glaring incompetency and sheer self-aggrandizement by Republican members engaged in mutually destructive diatribes and grandiosely staged performances confirms they are unfit to govern. Their farcical desperation is geared to maximize media attention. Scott Perry and Chip Roy resorting to playing the race card by not just nominating Byron Donalds but to opportunistically hijack quotes from Dr Martin Luther King, Jr's March on Washington "I have a dream" speech, arguing Donalds would be the first Black Speaker and that Frederick Douglass was a Republican was offensive. Racial pandering at its worst. Race matters.
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Robert J. Wilkinson Weather was not responsible for the majority of cancelled flights; rather it was Southwest systemic failures. I'm an 85 year old woman whose connecting flight from Denver to SFO was cancelled three times over the course of two days, in perfectly clear weather, and I was stranded in an around the airport for five days. When I finally got a flight to San Francisco, on December 31st, it was detoured to Fresno, in this case because of weather. Because I no longer drive I couldn't take advantage of Southwest's offer to compensate for renting a car to drive to SF. Instead, in addition to the hundreds and hundreds of dollars spent on hotels and transportation while in Denver, I paid $300 for transportation home by car, plus $100 tip.. What should have been a 3 hour drive turned out to be 5 1/2. Poor driver had to then make her way back to Fresno, through the flooded and accident-strewn New Year's Eve traffic. Before SW became headline news, and before the government intervened, SW customer representatives at the airport were very very firm that there would be no food or hotel vouchers or compensation.
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Annual returns of sixteen percent? What did he think this company did, smuggle cocaine by the ton? Print money? Was he really foolish, or did he assume he was investing in a criminal enterprise so it wouldn't be wise to look at it too closely?
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We need to both cut spending and increase revenue. The single biggest spending program to cut is Defense. Between Defense, intelligence, and war we have been spending $1 Trillion per year for a while now. The war in Ukraine put the lie to the notion that we need to fund the defense for the entire free world. That small, under resourced country is putting up a huge fight with help from their friends. Putin could not roll through Europe. So we need to spend a few hundred billion per year less on the military. We can ramp up when we need to but we need to stop enriching military contractors under the guise of defending the entire world.
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Dan M Actually, an H1B visa is for specialty fields, where a degree is required: From WikipediaThe H-1B is a visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H) that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. A specialty occupation requires the application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent of work experience. The duration of stay is three years, extendable to six years; after which the visa holder may need to reapply. Laws limit the number of H-1B visas that are issued each year: 188,100 new and initial H-1B visas were issued in 2019.[1] Employers must generally withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes from the wages paid to employees in H-1B status.The H-1B visa has its roots in the H1 visa of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952; the split between H-1A (for nurses) and H-1B was created by the Immigration Act of 1990. 65,000 H-1B visas were made available each fiscal year, out of which employers could apply through Labor Condition Applications. Additional modifications to H-1B rules were made by legislation in 1998, 2000, in 2003 for Singapore and Chile, in the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004, 2008, and 2009. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has modified the rules in the years since then.
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Your Investment Lost Money Last Year. So Why the Big Tax Bill? When you invest and where matters for taxes. But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises, our columnist says. Tax planning is usually the least of my financial concerns. Most of the time, just making a living, paying the bills and salting away money in suitable investments are much bigger deals. When you invest and where matters for taxes. But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises, our columnist says.
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Professor Aaron Tang and others of his caliber could likely make an erudite legal case that ALL preliminary decision papers, discussions, drafts of SCOTUS should be open to public review, lest a black-robed aristocracy w life appointments be allowed to conduct the people's business in total secrecy, thus again privileging a powerful few while preventing national participation in or even knowledge of this fundamental aspect of American democracy.
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I have managed restaurants, although I have never been an owner. It is miserable, back breaking work. Restaurants themselves rarely make appreciable money for their owners. Having said all that I question the statement, "We could raise prices, but any price adjustment that would wholly fill the cracks in our foundation would be so high that it would drive customers away". If you have not tried, how do you know? If you were going to close otherwise, did you try raising prices? Did you do so and see how many covers you retained, and if a profitable business could be run from that level of patronage? I hope you did, I fear you did not.The business problem with high end restaurants is that they are not opened or run to be a successful business, but to cater to a vision of the owner. That is great, so long as you have endless money to support your vision. But a vision is not a business. Yes, sometimes the two can coexist, but rarely. Make the business case first, and the vision second, and you might have something.
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Election Deniers Are Also Economy DeniersRoousseau’s Discourse on Inequality: "Rousseau arranges what he terms the “genealogy” of the causes of moral corruption describedand identifies the primary role of inequality in the causal chain Sage Journal Volume 73 Rousseau makes a compelling ,argument that economicinequality does shape how people see the world Paul Volcker , at age 91, NY Times InterviewMr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers. Mr. Trump “seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that, in kind of an erratic way, but there it is.” He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists “telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.” ... concern was dismissed too easily, with talk of worker retraining or some other solution far easier said than done. NY Times Oct. 23, 2018 Rousseau"Another mode of political failure arises where the political community is differentiated into factions (perhaps based on a class division between rich and poor) and where one faction can impose its collective will on the state as a whole. Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThat is very clearly the case in the US, where the Rich via campaign donations dominate the politics
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There are several reasons to support Harry and Meghan:1) Meghan is an American -- and was viciously insulted by the News Media of a minor country whose primary language would now be German or Russian is not for the US military.2) Harry is her husband -- who fought in combat alongside our soldiers in Afghanistan. About the only thing I can recall the Royal Family doing for America in the past 50 years.3) Plus look at their enemies:a) Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail --- who avoids British taxes by staying out of England and claiming the non-domicile loophole. Which makes the Mail's loud and fake pose of British patriotism rather hilarious. Although understandable given Meghan's win in the lawsuit against the Mail.b) All the vicious , anonymous bootlickers in the Palace -- whose venom is driven by the fear their gravy train might end and they might one day have to work for a living.c) What has blowhard Piers Morgan ever done? In contrast to Harry's efforts to help wounded military veterans.4) And the Royal Family? So scared of the British press they were willing to throw Harry and Meghan to the wolves. 5) Harry has to earn money now because he has a big Taliban and Al Qaeda target on his back due to his military service on behalf of the Crown. It takes at least $2 million a year to provide even a paltry, basic level of protective security.
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Ed Labor cost in Semiconductor industry is minor since FAB's - Semiconductor factories are highly automated.Issue is that Taiwan has invested heavily in that industry in past 30 years and result is that today TSMC controls up to 90% of the advanced semiconductor market.One more important point is that TSMC gets voluntary input how to improve their manufacturing for tech giants like Nvidia, Qualcomm, TI and etc. who use it.
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Bret suggests handling Trump's document mishandling should have been more patient and low key."2 years of negotiations and repeated contacts by mail and direct meetings before the raids was not patient and low key enough?Well Bret lives in a different world from mine. In his apparently $400k per year Camry driving couples represent the working poor. That should be news to 95% of the US population.
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I agree with the managing partner of Lawrence Wine Estates. A decline in young people not drinking $15 wines is not an indicator of future buyers of more expensive wines. As a collector, prices for collectibles have increased significantly. It’s not just 60 seniors driving the market. If anything, that age group will generally buy the $15 wines (or the sub-$35). After the twenties crowd mature and have more disposable income, they’ll gravitate to the collectible wines. I’m writing from experience. The problem with the $15 wines is with companies like Diageo, Constelllation, and Fosters which are putting out mediocre product. The world can do with less millions of acres of mass-produced wines.
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Eric B Documentalista Cheryl AnnYou are so kind to help with this issue. Many thanks.My iPhone iOS is up to date. I just played around —AGAIN!—with opening the Permalink, and finally figured it out.Up to a few days ago, I just had to tap your Permalink, and it opened and saved immediately in a new tab. Never a problem.Now, I have to tap the link, wait til a toolbar opens, then I have to click “Open in New Tab.”As I said, never had to do this before.Problem solved, all’s well. Cheryl Ann, I hope you see this post. Perhaps this will fix your issue, too. 🤞
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Modern corporations do not need and do not want a large, permanent workforce. They days of joining a company after graduation and working there for decades to retire with a gold watch and a pension are long gone. A more equitably organized society would acknowledge the way we live now by decoupling survival from the need for nearly continuous lifelong labor.This could be done in various ways: a guaranteed national subsistence income, extended unemployment benefits, subsidized continuing lifelong education, and Medicare for all. (Obamacare doesn't fit the bill, since loss of employment means loss of the minimum income needed to qualify for a program whose premiums, deductibles and co-payments make it unaffordable to those without jobs).Salaries while working would also have to rise to offset idle time between projects, an objective that could be achieved by strictly limiting guest workers, thereby raising wages for American citizens.
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Sean OConnor "DeSantis is a (the only, actually) candidate that could take evangelical voters from him. He's seen as having better personal values."Easy challenge, but really? Pushing a drug that his top donor benefits from sounds better than bragging about ability to shoot someone on 5th Ave or grab women (you know the rest, and I don't want to repeat it). There are millions of Americans. Is this the best you can come up with? We desperately need ethical politicians here in the USA!"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who has been criticized for opposing mask mandates and vaccine passports — is now touting a COVID-19 antibody treatment in which a top donor’s company has invested millions of dollars.DeSantis has been flying around the state promoting a monoclonal antibody treatment...."
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Michael Going to outer space is the multi million dollar midlife crisis prop, (the new extreme selfie). I'd hazard a guess it's to boost their egos, nothing more.
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As The GOP’s Saint Ronnie of Reagan once famously explained, his move to the Republican Party was not a matter of him leaving the Democratic Party, but a matter of the Democratic Party leaving him. Writing as a former Republican, I now feel the same way about the Republican Party’s descent into madness. This didn’t begin with Trump, or even Sarah Palin. Those of us whose memories reach back into the 1960’s recall the assorted wingnuts populating the GOP of the past sixty years. The Main Street Republican Party made a deal with the devil when it invited the rabble into the party, never once imagining they would take over the party - and the country - and try to drive it off a cliff. It will be very interesting to see how the pending game of budgetary/debt poker plays out in the year ahead. The disaffected elements of the GOP base feel they have so little invested in “the system” that they have nothing left to lose.If the Republican Party overreaches, forcing a debt ceiling breach and/or draconian budget cuts, we will be in uncharted territory. At some point its members - especially the less educated and less prosperous members - may have to confront the consequences of their devotion to a party devout of genuine strategy. I am done empathizing with these people.
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What kind of allies do we have in the Middle East?Israel is largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. Between 2015 and 2020 the U.S. sold Saudi Arabia 64 billion in weapons. When a beneficent ally like the U.S. asks their Middle Eastern allies to support the war in Ukraine, maybe Saudi Arabia could help out with the oil shock caused by the conflict, or Israel could let us ship our ammunition from depots in Israel to Ukraine, one might expect a more positive response than we got. Saudi Arabia chose to keep production down embarrassing the U.S. and helping Putin. Israel seemed more concerned about damaging its relationship with Russia if arms were shipped from their country. These are not the actions of allies when asked for help.
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Part of the problem is that education went from intellectual pursuit to cultural task. I was a former high school teacher in central Florida. Students don’t think about education as a means to expand their minds. Instead, it’s “doing school.“ Education in the United States has become another set of hoops to jump through.The problem is that generation X learned the folly of this. Getting the bachelors degree was not the magic key to unlock futures. Young students need to engage in their career exploration, so they can think about what they want to study as they move into high school and beyond. The country needs to get out of its four year obsession and start thinking about vocational schools, trade schools, and collecting transferable skills that can move between jobs.
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I grew up in a pretty volatile household. Studying and homework were not survival skills. My High school grades revealed it. I attended my freshman year in college immediately after High School and my grades reflected no change. For the most part I failed. For the next two+ years I worked full-time at a variety of menial jobs and paid my way in an apartment. This was a major wake up call. In the meantime my parents separated and divorced. I eventually re-entered college, again paying my own way, but renewed enthusiasm and experience in the working world. I developed new skills, life skills actually: studying, completing the assigned homework, asking questions when I didn't understand, and took voluminous notes. I was disciplined with my time; between 20 hrs of work and a full time academic schedule, there was no time for goofing off. I learned how to learn; absorbing the material with increasing efficiency, (and to this date, I can still identify trees by their Latin names and spell them correctly for example). I applied for grants, loans, and had a work/study job in my field. 3 years post graduation, I was invited to apply for a position in a firm where one of my school lab partners worked. He indicated at the time, he had wished he had my study habits when at the University. I was flattered. I didn't apply. The hunger to learn is mandatory. If you are going to college to party, or don't know what you want to study, don't waste the money.
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Gamecocks I will take our climate in New York over most of the rest of the US any day. The entire Great Lakes basin is one of the few regions in North America that has access to substantial water resources, and is protected from hurricanes and earthquakes and firestorms and drought. That’s why Micron is investing $100 billion dollars in a new chip plant near us. And New York is certainly an expensive state. We spend more on education per capita than most other states, for example. We are spending hundreds of billions updating our electric grid and converting to 100 percent sustainable energy, which will insulate us from fossil fuel dictatorships in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Which are also reasons Micron chose New York.Oh and by the way, we control the financial markets, which are mainly based in NY. That’s attractive for companies that need financial resources.
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They are Edgeworthia chrysantha flowers and are not spent. That how they open, very early in the spring, before their leaves. Now in some places. They are very fragrant.
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That jetliner is burning JetA-1 fuel(kerosene based). A Boeing 737-800 burns about 850 gallons an hour with direct exhaust into the sky. No catalytic converters on jet engines with thousands of flights everyday around the globe. It's a smokestack industry in the sky that some people just love and they should pay more to fly. Everyone thinks the skies and the oceans are open range. Earth is a closed range with an atmosphere that is thin and fragile and necessary for life on this planet. I suggest that folks fly much less or pay much more for the luxury to do so.
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lotus - I'm pretty sure your answer is "nope."The radical Republicans gave then-Governor Ducey a $300 million fund for "border security," $200 million of which was wasted on installing, then removing, shipping containers to briefly create a porous border wall. That and mythical election fraud are the AZ Republican focus.Reality hasn't been our legislature's forte. Reality, however, is making itself heard.
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Professor Short Hair Toss in some Koch, Mercer, and Theil dark money and you're spot on.One also has to finger McCain a bit too. One of his biggest mistakes was opening the door to this looney crowd when he chose Palin as a running mate. It hurt him politically and helped fire up support for Obama.
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In 1994 Ukraine voluntarily gave up its third in the world nuclear stockpile in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, UK, and US.What did Ukraine get in return? - Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and started a full-scale war in 2022. And the UK and US were squabbling with Poland whether to give Ukraine a handful of old Soviet aircraft to protect its skies from Putin's nightmarish bombardments of its children and cities. WHAT A SHAME! APPEASEMENT of a DICTATOR DOES NOT WORK. Proven in 1939 and in 2022!West should've given Ukraine Patriot missiles in Spring of 2021 when Putin first amassed 100,000 troops on Ukrainian borders. That would've shown putin our RESOLVE and SUPPORT of Ukraine, and MOST LIKELY it would have PREVENTED this war!Today's war can not be won with OPEN SKIES! NO FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE NOW!The longer NATO is waiting, the worse it has been and will get. War criminal putin MUST be STOPPED by ALL MEANS!
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But will Microsoft and all the other tech companies laying people off stop buying back their own stock? I think not!
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Yes- but only after 18 months of: Courtesy requests? Don’t know what you’re talking about. Subpoenas? No I’m good. Court orders? Nope I’m fine. You are fully aware that Donald refused to cooperate, you are fully aware he was extended simple courtesy requests. You are fully aware time and time again he confirmed he didn’t have anymore documents, only for more to be found. The raid was not the consequences of having documents, but the consequences of refusing to give them back. You know this.
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morGan, you bring up an important point: there's a lot of money to be made off all aspects of war.When President Eisenhower warned us about the "Military Industrial (Congressional) Complex," he meant not only fortunes built from making weapons, but also whole industries that would collapse if war (& skirmishes) ended. Also included are war profiteers and mongers -- those who benefit from death & destruction, and who advocate, agitate, and cheerlead for wars that further their business interests. Also included are congress members, presidents, secretaries of state, and military leaders who build careers off hawkish views for starting, or prolonging, wars. Wall Street, big banks/finance, big business, and entertainment are also on the list.Nearly a century ago, Smedley Butler, that era's most-decorated and well-respected Marine, an officer who had spent decades as a military leader, retired and travelled the country condemning the war machine as a way for the U.S. to invade other countries for big business to exploit that country's resources by decimating and killing the local people and the American soldiers -- who he saw as just kids -- he had led into battle. Butler said we often invaded for business reasons, not because the U.S. had been attacked.We should respect those who serve to protect our country, but also recognize that wars are often started, fought, and prolonged as part of a 'profits over people'-based business model.
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Ron DeSantis shows prowess in disputation without culture wars issues at hand as well. He has a bass voice which helps and an ability to turn an attack back onto the critic, as we saw at a press conference shortly after Hurricane Ian, where a reporter was decrying Florida’s preparations. He interrupted with “don’t give me that. I guess you’re trying to attack me, but what you’re really attacking is our first responders,” the heroes out rescuing people or opening shelters we all love, of course. He cleverly ignored the fact of local option in evacuation policies, and avoided allowing the conversation to touch on Sanibel Island.Even his culture wars offensives are carefully aimed, not directly at left-leaning activists or teachers at street level, but at Disney, or the US Dept. of Health & Human Services, or Andrew Warren, the state’s attorney who’d pledged not to act against doctors prescribing gender-affirming treatments. We hear lofty phrases, a duty to “protect child welfare,” to stop those “chopping private parts off.” Yet he approached the Florida Board of Medicine with a constructive argument, not just denunciations that might have turned its members off.Unlike the Boeberts in this game, DeSantis isn’t a buffoon. He doesn’t entertain the true believer’s thinking habits unless he’s with true believers, having matured since the days of endless House Obamacare repeal votes. He may endanger Social Security if elected president.
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alocksley Good advice except that LANTAM doesn't fly to Nashville. They do partner with DL, though they're better nonstop for FLL; AA is the better choice for MIA. In any event, the pax would have had to deal with the US carrier's frontline customer service. In Nashville, many of them would be hard pressed to find Chile on a map, much less understand the nuaces of international entry paperwork. I know — I live in BNA, and am EXP on AA.
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larkspur We had a balance budget in 2000 when Geo. W. Bush was elected. He and the GOP Congress pushed through 21 huge tax cuts before 9/11 and then a smaller on during the Iraq War. A budget has two sides: revenue and spending. These tax cuts and the inevitable reduced revenue are largely responsible for continuous deficits. Then the Trump tax cuts of 2017 opened another 1 Trillion gap. Where are the calls to raise taxes on people like Elon Musk who can spend billions to go to the moon or purchase Twitter?
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I started intuitive eating in 2020 to mend my relationship with food. I am happy to report that I am in disordered eating recovery now! By not obsessing over food, I nourished myself and had more energy to workout. I actually lost pant sizes by allowing myself to eat--that's not why I started this lifestyle change though. I went from thinking about calories and my body image almost constantly to feeling in-touch and happy with my body. It's liberating. Such a shame that so many people don't want to learn to trust themselves. Intuitive eating, if you read the book, allows people with diseases and disorders to do what is medically necessary, by the way. It addresses many of the concerns mentioned in the comments here. Some need to do actual research before shutting it down fully! I am just one person, of course. However, I am glad I opened my mind. I love food and movement!
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William WAUGH "$600,000 a year...by what economic calculation his service could be judged worth that much."Yes. Similarly, by what economic calculation are legal corporate lobbyists worth the similarly exorbitant sums they are paid? Indeed, 600K is a fortune to most. But at that level of international business in the energy sector, not a smoking gun of corruption. Worth investigating? Yes. Blatant proof of guilt by Dad, case closed? Nope.
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He might well win the primary. Kirsten Synema's endless glad-handing of the ultra-rich has worn very thin with many Democrats and rightly so. But he's very unlikely to be able to win a general election in Arizona, much as I wish he could. The situation underscores the need to open up our system of government so that the two-party system doesn't continue to restrict the voices that can be represented in the legislative process.
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Yes, and George Santos can fund his next campaign with ill-gotten funds (again.) At least these funds will be domestic - not Russian.
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Harry is wealthy in his own right with inheritances from the Queen Mother and his own mother Princess Diana totaling approximately 24 MILLION pounds. Perhaps more from Prince Philip and The Queen.The Royal family are historical and there roles are steeped in tradition.Harry doesn't know the real world and it seems his order of birth doesn't sit right .Like all families they have issues. His need to spill the beans for huge amounts of cash is crass and makes Meghan and him look foolish.Lets hope this is the end and they do some real good with their wealth in the USA ~ that country needs help too .
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And the UK government is shelling upwards of $120,000,000 to cover the costs of Charlie Mountbatten-Windsor's "scaled-down" coronation in May. Talked about woefully misplaced priorities.
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E Peterson You seem unaware that most politicians at city, county and state level have heavy campaign financing from the police benevolent brotherhoods, associations and unions and would stand little chance of competing against a police funded candidate. The cops own the pols and this is a lesson learned directly from the Al Capone and Michael Corleone style gangs.Just admit to yourself that you live in a very corrupt police state where cops can seize $2400 in Church donations from a reverend's car after Sunday worship simply for the purpose of re-felting the pool table and installing a new Slurpee machine in the local police detachment canteen and get away with no questions asked. You really think the elected DAs will ever try very hard to convince a jury that murdering a black kid in the toy aisle of WalMart is actually incorrect?A few more "dynamite" news reports and tell-all books will change exactly...nothing. Now, back to "The Wire" reruns...
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Tim and still "do-able" if both make just over $100,000. $135,000 in 2001 $s is not wealthy, but it was very "do-able".
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If it was appraised at 20 million, a fair price would have been about $9,750,000. The original owner got $14,500 which adjusted for inflation is about a quarter of a million dollars. The amount they got in 1924 might have been based on a fair evaluation at the time, but it's a moot point since the government had no legitimate right to tell them to move. There was no legitimate public interest person, short of some people not wanting Black people around.
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Eric B This was painful. I like this opening word, but the two times I've used it this week have been longer solves. Word 4 received a "despite being a valid guess...not a possible solution" commentary. I did not validate or check any words today, just played my gut. At this point, I'm not really even motivated to maintain my streak, so these SWAG 😎 playing days are a bit more interesting. Almost a "how sloppy can I play and still solve the puzzle?" approach.Wordle 573 5/6*🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ S84, L30, WL303⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 S93, L66, WL7⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ S91, L15, WL2🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 S37, L50, WL1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 S99WordleBotSkill 80/99Luck 40/99🎶 Yesterday 🎵Jan 12, 2022Wordle 572 4/6*⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 STARE S95, L85, WL12⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ DEATH S85, L15, WL4🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 LEANT S99, L38, WL1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAPT S99WordleBotSkill 95/99Luck 46/99This would have been a 3 if I had not been thinking alphabetically for letter 4. I should have LEAPT ahead and skipped the N. ☺️Great LakesInteresting analysis and I'm impressed with how much time you spent on working through all that. Thanks for sharing, as it does simplify what's happening with the bot's groupings in an easy to follow way.Happy Friday, y'all!
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So, our food prices are sky high so that investors can skim off $4 Billion from the "razor thin" grocery profit margin?Is this a nightmare, or am I really reading this?
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history teacher Merriam -Webster lists “tar BA(4)” as an open-compound phrase (two words) and describes it as “sometimes offensive”. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com</a>/Wiktionary lists it as both open-compound and closed-compound (one word), but describes both as “derogatory ethnic slur”. <a href="https://www.wiktionary.org" target="_blank">https://www.wiktionary.org</a>/Doubtful that NYT would allow this term in any of their word games, in my opinion.
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The 1619 project is nearly epistemologically identical to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States. Like many others, I read A Peoples History as an adult with a liberal arts education, much like I read Karl Marx’s Das Capital (well, at least vol. I). These histories are replete with facts, stories and quotes, and the truths are pretty eye opening. However, there is indeed a larger context. For example, Marx’s work illuminated the abhorrent 19th century labor conditions of the working class which lead to the abolition of child labor and the creation of the 40 hour work week. On the other hand, we’ve witnessed time and time again the failure of centrally planned economies and the negative outcomes of restraints on the free market. Yet, these are heady and complex subjects and a simple reduction to binary good and evil doesn’t do them justice. In short, they aren’t for kids.The fact that the United States fought a civil war to end slavery when it’s European counterparts abolished it earlier in the century is a stain on the history of the US that ever American child should learn, as did I in public schools in Pennsylvania in the 90’s. However, in response to the question of ‘why would we want our children to look at these atrocities without judgment?’ Because value- judgements are capricious. Trendy. What is valued as good today might not be at some point in the future.
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the price of gas went up 40cents/gallon in the past 2 weeks where i live. according to the financial media, china "re-opening" creates more demand and is driving up crude oil prices. good news for china is bad news for inflation.
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bubba Open carry was not allowed in the founders times. Even knives were regulated as public forms of intimidation breaking the peace. Open carry became a thing when the slaves were escaping north. The laws were so slave owners only could open carry to shoot escaping slaves as they desired.As we see in many states this institutional racism was expanded with Jim Crow. Also why black men with guns open carrying are assaulted by police. So it’s just a continuation of that mentality.
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Jim Equally important as the money supply is the method and amount of taxation on the other end. The main reason the Fed and government got away with so much money printing for the past 12 years is because the inflation that resulted from it primarily affected the stock market, not "Main Street," and that served to make the rich richer.What is rarely mentioned (because the answer will negatively impact the wealthy) is the effect a restructuring of the tax system can have on these problems. When huge amounts of money are injected into the system, it has to be "burned" at the end of the cycle, otherwise the money supply would increase infinitely, leading to uncapped inflation and collapse of the economic system, like an engine that is receiving too much gasoline.What has happened instead, is all of that excess money has pumped up the stock market and then the rich simply hoard the wealth. That's why we have 50 years of GDP growth with virtually flat wages. We have moved from an industrial economy to a financialized (and globalized) economy, and that has only hurt the majority of us in the USA who are workers.For a much deeper exploration of this topic, check out the lectures of economist Michael Hudson on YouTube. The solution to the current problem is what the media and government *don't* want to talk about: wealth redistribution. Even the hedge fund genius Ray Dalio freely admits this.
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People are living longer, but holding a well-paying job into your 60s and 70s is increasingly difficult. Life expectancy is longer. Employment expectancy—at least at good wages—may be shorter. That means retirees are likely to have a longer period of retirement to fund. If anything, that means Social Security needs to begin earlier, not later—and probably be increased, likely with stronger cost of living adjustments over the 20 to 30 years of a modern retirement. The loss of defined benefit pension plans—and their replacement with defined contribution plans like 401(k)s—has also not helped anyone but the upper middle class. Too many lower- and average-paid workers simply can't afford to save enough to build up a large enough retirement fund. Volatility in the stock market doesn't help. And individual accounts simply don't protect against various risks as well as group accounts. Raising the Social Security age—or cutting Social Security benefits—would be a disaster for Americans earning a median salary. But as we know from last week, Bret is mostly concerned about the struggles of couples making $400,000 or more.
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Pete Privatization attempts blossomed under Trump with a plan to open Medicare administration of benefits through non-medical entities such as hedge funds, investment groups, etc. many not medical companies at all. These companies would be allowed to administer tranches of Medicare funds and be able to retain up to 40% in profit at the end of the year. New and existing beneficiaries could be moved to these groups without their knowledge and permission based on whether their provider is associated with traditional Medicare. Biden has continued this pilot program, renaming it REACH. Go figure.
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