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Posts posted by Nice Guy Eddie
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1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:
Texas Tribune on Texas Congressmen's thoughts on Wall and whether a shutdown is worth it. 1 interesting is Cornyn saying "there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the border."
Is Cornyn actually showing a bit of sense now that he isn't in the senate leadership?
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Never tried WaPo but I've always assumed it had a higher percentage of political stories than NYT. I've had a NYT digital subscription for a couple of years now. Even their non-NYC local coverage is great.
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5 hours ago, Cajun said:
I've been to Spurs playoff games where fans had their faces painted black.
Shit, some of 'em were sitting right behind the players, talking to them at shoot around, laughing, smiling. Of course, they gave the opposing players shit during freethrows and inbounds passes.
Thank God I came here otherwise I would never have known they were flaming racists.
The NBA wouldn't allow any fan to stay in the arena in blackface paint. Popovich would personally toss the fan out. Now if you mean that had a spurs logo painted on their face surrounded by black, that's something else.
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Just now, Liquor and Poker said:
Aside from the relatively small risk of mutation destroying our herd immunity, I like to think of Anti-Vaxxers as a self-correcting problem.
It's harsh, but it keeps my blood pressure from spiking due to their total idiocy.
sad part is that many of the anti-vaxxers are themselves vaccinated. Their poor kids are the victims.
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Admittedly I know very little about federal govt appropriations but can funds be appropriated now but legislated to not be spent until a future year? I wonder if a compromise for both sides could a few concessions, including the $5B wall, but they don't take effect until 2021. Then both sides can campaign on it, including potentially stopping it, in 2020.
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58 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
amazing that they can't come up with a line that pins the blame on the Dems on why the federal workers are being used as pawns by Nancy Pelosi. Trump and team shouldn't even make it about the wall in public statements.
(FYI I put the shutdown blame on Trump but his team should have better messaging then this. Politics 101.)
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29 minutes ago, Deej said:
Diseases of the 1890's are alive in Portland...
gotta be on the lookout for Consumption or cholera.
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Sacklers being called out as Public Enemy #1 by the Mass AG: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/purdue-pharma-lawsuit-massachusetts-attorney-general-blames-sackler-family-for-creating-opioid-crisis-oxycontin/
QuoteThe Massachusetts attorney general is targeting Purdue Pharma and eight members of the Sackler family who own the company, alleging in a lawsuit they are "personally responsible" for deceptively selling OxyContin.
The attorney general, Maura Healey, sat down with "CBS This Morning." She alleges the Sackler family hired "hundreds of workers to carry out their wishes" – pushing doctors to get "more patients on opioids, at higher doses, for longer, than ever before" all while paying "themselves billions of dollars."
I understand that Purdue and the Sacklers and at least one person here want to say that Oxy was only a small percent of the overall opioid epidemic but I find that a weak argument. Do you really want to argue that you're not as bad as Mexican heroin or Chinese fentanyl? "Maybe I stabbed a few people but its not like I'm the Manson Family."
FYI, if Mass is success in going after Purdue/Sacklers, I imagine that other AGs will jump on the bandwagon. They all love public settlements. Always good on the resume when you run for governor or senator.
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18 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
If you exclude the falling poll numbers, what incentive does Trump have to reopen the government?
2020. Guarantee winning in 2020 is the main thing he cares about. Remember the shutdown started because coulter convinced him he needed the wall to win in 2020. Now he’s stuck. I assume he wouldn’t listen to anyone that he couldn’t push pelosi and Schumer around when he at least needed Schumer at the end of the last term. Now he needs both.
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3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
I've always thought of him more as Frank Burns.
Frank burns eats worms. We need a similar Ted Cruz saying.
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If the idea is an app for musicians, I would think finding a well known musician to put their name on it may be worth upwards to 50% of the revenue. And they will cover zero of the costs. Does your friend know famous musicians?
I would also question the market size for an idea. A musician who hangs around nothing but musicians may falsely think everyone in the world needs this. When in reality maybe 10,000 could find it useful, and 1% of them would pay $2 for it. Before anyone spends $1 on dev work, take the time to understand the feasibility.
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2 hours ago, Mole said:
I saw a report on FoxNews.com that Phillips, while a Vietnam era Marine Corps veteran, never actually deployed, so the descriptor of “Vietnam Veteran” isn’t true. I have no idea how that entered the story, probably just lazy journalism, but it’s one more case where the rush to report fast got facts wrong in such a way to increase the intensity of the situation. This is of course assuming the Fox report is true which isn’t guaranteed.
Marine Corps veteran vs. Vietnam veteran is a minor difference, but it’s just a little extra spice to help us lose our minds. Weren’t there reports of him getting spit on when he returned from Vietnam? I’ll have to dig up who said that (reporter summarizing vs Phillips’ own words) as well as what was actually said.
The media isn’t given time to check all facts because the reporter has 5 stories to write today along with 10 tweets to promote the online conversation. It’s the economics of the free news websites. There is no time to validate facts. When a newsroom cuts 20% of its staff but still produces the same output, quality will go down.
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https://www.tdi.texas.gov/consumer/cpmbalancebilling.html
Might be worth a shot to try the state when it comes to lowering your bill. From what I can tell, the first step is mediation with the doc over the phone, and if the consumer is not satisfied, a formal hearing. What doc is going to want to go to a hearing or send a rep. I bet any charge gets cut in half easily during the phone call.
Also don’t be afraid to tell the high charging facility you are reporting them to the local consumer affairs reporter. They might lower the bill by $500 just to prevent the reporter from showing up outside.
unfortunately telling a doc or facility that you’re not paying and to ding your credit does very little but make you feel better and they ding your credit.
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2 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Wish it didn’t take 61 to beat the freaking Knicks
Win by 1, 4 or 20. Its still a W.
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Just now, perfectchaos007 said:
WTF PJ
Does he have the knicks with the money Line?
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24 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:
It’s almost like people are upset that airports aren’t doomed or backlogged 3 hours or whatever that initial (wrong) report was from Atlanta. Serious question, do you guys want civilian travelers to be put out as some kind of point being made?
So as long as you’re not inconvneienced, the hell with govt workers not being paid? As already said, the fastest way to get this shutdown over is WHEN average Americans feel some pain. I just hope we don’t experience a problem where people get sick (lack of food safety) or god forbid die (plane crash.)
on a side note you know that trump is pissed at stephen miller for getting him into this border wall shutdown. Sure trump spoke about the wall for years now but he was happy with it as a talking point with little progress. He was talked into this by others like miller and coulter.
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Spokesman for one of the Texas RR commissioners on how SpaceX is falling behind: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/426463-is-the-space-industry-moving-beyond-spacex?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Weird opinion piece. SpaceX May eventually be passed by others but I don’t see them in danger yet, and I’m a big fan of blue origin.
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I assume the networks won't broadcast a 90 minute rally.
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the media and social media public need to back off from quick judgements about any short video clip. But they won't. I understand why ALL media outlets want to jump on a story because if something is blowing up on Facebook or Twitter, they want to get in the conversation as well. And its just not always feasible to get the full story when an incident that may be less than 5 minutes old has gone viral.
We all had the same thought when we saw the original short video. Somehow a young man and an older man came face to face. I didn't assume the young man got in the face of the older guy. Zero context of what is going on. They just were face to face. The older man appeared to be Native American based on his actions, and it looked like young man was a Trump supporter. He looked to barely be suppressing a laugh. I just thought he looked like an arrogant kid that shouldn't laugh in someone's face. He should walk away if he thinks someone is overly funny.
However people will not wait to understand the full story. I fully expect we see a murder in the upcoming years when the public doesn't wait for the full story from a viral video. The public will react without waiting for context or the full story. And by the way, that isn't a new concept. The connected world just makes it go even faster. Think about Emmett Till. In 1955, he was accused of harassing a white woman, so he was murdered. No one really cared to discover the full story.
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How about a similar setup playing Rosanna on an endless loop in front of Rosanna Arquette's house?
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5 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:
Why is it every time I see this thread the theme from The Addams Family goes of in my head?
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Announced that the Texans are playing the Jags in London next season. Exact date to be released later in the spring.
2023 Republican Government Shutdown: Same Shit, Same Story
in Cloak Room
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I don't see an issue about voting yes on both if you don't really care about the wall issue. And to be honest, it's not like Trump can build a sea-to-sea wall for 5B. The Dems should still fight him as a whole but I can see some would be willing to cross the aisle for either bill.