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  • in reply to: Herschel Walker #6508
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    [quote quote=6506]Leg and: [quote quote=6501]Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.[/quote] How do you weigh Trump’s impact relative to the 2020 Covid voting process anomalies and the Abrams litigation re voter access?[/quote]

    for the Georgia senate runoff?  I think trump basically gave it to the Dems. Didn’t he stir the pot on the wrong side of politics (like advocating for more covid aid?)?

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    in reply to: Herschel Walker #6503
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    Why should Christian minister come into play?  Warnock’s politics are wrong, regardless of his ministry.

    I am way past the personal values of a politician being the only reason to vote or not vote.  At this point neither party has the moral high ground so gridlock is a better solution.

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    in reply to: Herschel Walker #6501
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    Honestly the whole candidacy has been a disgrace.

    The only reason to vote for Walker is to have a Republican vote in the senate. And sadly I would vote for him for that reason alone.

    Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.

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    in reply to: And you thought the Millenials were bad… #6495
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    From the first article:  “But her dedication had a downside: ‘My hair was almost falling out, because I was working so hard.'”

    Poor girl, she’s so sensitive that she could tell that her hair was almost falling out.

    The second article is a bit less clear. It’s very possible that the 84 year old professor is an old codger who has lost his fastball, and that the kids he’s teaching expect to be coddled.  We have been on a long decline when it comes to academic standards and expectations for classwork.  I taught a class a few years ago at a local college and, after the final exam, got a nasty note from an “honors” student who was angry that her performance on the final might put her “honors diploma” at risk.  Kids are pretty entitled and empowered these days.  It isn’t like it used to be.

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    in reply to: Would you rebuild on Sanibel Island? #6485
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    I think it can be true that structures can be designed to withstand a cat 5 storm, but at the same time you can’t protect land.  The coastal erosion and restructuring that comes with a storm of this kind tend to re-establish the real estate goal line.  When your cat 5 resistant vacation home is now stationed in the middle of a newly-dredged jetty you have few choices but to move.

    A friend has beach real-estate near houston.  One of the storms in the past two decades brought his house from being 6 rows back from the beach to being 2 rows back.  It happens.

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    in reply to: In another brilliant move, CA bans gas heat. #6471
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    While we are at it, why not ban residential air conditioning?  It’s a huge and superfluous use of energy.

    Hot water?  Who needs it?  Let’s all do cold showers. Fewer unwanted babies that way too!

    In fact, we should ban industry from using electricity. They can just figure things out…maybe go back to water wheels. Anybody seen any good riverside manufacturing plants lately?

    Once you go statist, you should go all in. You will be cold, dirty, and tired and like it.

    Why?  Because it’s California!

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    in reply to: Interest rate woes #6462
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    They should just bump by 100 bps and get us moving back toward normalcy.

    Oh, and they should rapidly shrink the fed balance sheet too.

    The first one is more likely than the second.

    You want inflation to cease?  Take money out of the system.   Oh, that will affect employment and housing?  It’s only the chickens coming home to roost after trillions in stimulus to keep employment and housing intact.

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    in reply to: Biden and Newsom don’t like it when Republicans bus immigrants #6445
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    Saw some posts that are calling this “human trafficking.”

    Have to admit I chuckled at the flight to Martha’s Vineyard.

    Let me get this straight:  The feds allow people into border states and so the border states facilitate (not mandating) transportation to other states.  I see no issue here.  I could imagine that there’s some interstate commerce violation, but I’m not sure.

    The politics of this are, frankly, kinda mean but brilliant.  How is it any different from bussing folks to a supreme court judge’s house?

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    in reply to: Anyone know an ELF ? #6430
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    I always thought it was amazing that I got to know a few relatively conservative women at Stanford given how few there are statistically speaking. To run that gauntlet and not come out a complete liberal is impressive.

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    in reply to: Investigative journalist in Las Vegas stabbed to death #6425
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    I’m sorry this hits so close to home. It’s amazing to me that someone can escalate from “workplace bullying” to murder so quickly.  I get that his political ambitions were trashed but he didn’t deserve them. Tragic, tragic story for German, who appears to have fought the good fight for a long time.

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    in reply to: The Fed wants higher unemployment #6421
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    The fed would be right imho.

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    in reply to: Investigative journalist in Las Vegas stabbed to death #6418
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    This is nuts.  The ACTUAL elected official he was investigating, a guy named Telles, appears to be the murderer.  Guy did it himself it would appear.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/us/jeff-german-las-vegas-reporter-arrest-thursday/index.html

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    in reply to: What’s killing the San Francisco Bay? #6416
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    in a region where you basically can’t built without tens of thousands of dollars in environmental “studies” funding friends of the government the government allows human waste to flow to the bay?

    Your tax dollars at work.

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    in reply to: Our kids are smarter than us #6413
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    “He also noted that the department slowly  gutted the course content by nearly 40% to solve that problem.”

    a tragedy that is happening in almost every institution in America.  Can’t pass the test?  Ditch the test.

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    in reply to: Our kids are smarter than us #6405
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    I do agree that our kids are way beyond me in education. But their work ethic absolutely sucks. I love my kids and think they will do ok in life, but am shocked at how willing today’s youths are to just sit around and do nothing.

     

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