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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. 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.

  2. 4 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Nancy - 1
    Donnie - 0

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    Yep.  My guess is that he didn’t want a SOTU to only be televised fully on Fox News.   The networks could have easily denied the broadcast as it wasn’t really the SOTU. 

  3. 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. 

  4. 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.

     

  5. https://www.tdi.texas.gov/consumer/cpmbalancebilling.html

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/medical/article/In-mediation-doctors-reduce-billed-charges-by-12519873.php

    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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  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. On 1/18/2019 at 7:53 AM, Reagan1k said:

    In my world, we not only say sir or ma'am, we also go out of our way to hold doors open and we stand when a woman approaches or rises to leave a table; only sitting if she asks you to.

    When I was about 25, there was a female manager in my division. 

    On multiple occasions we would have lunch / dinner with colleagues or customers and whenever she approached the table or left the table I always stood. 

    One day she pulled me aside and said that I didn't need to feel obligated to do that as a subordinate.

    I told her that unless it made her uncomfortable I would prefer to stand anyway because my mother had the ability to kick me in the shin from 500 miles away if I didn't stand.

    She laughed and said that she appreciated the gesture and to carry on...that the world needed more gentlemen. 

    It's been my experience that when I consistently show respect and am courteous, I get respect back...maybe not in every situation, but on balance it seems to work out that the scales level. 

    If someone is offended by a "ma'am" I respect that too and oblige in the future.  That's the other side of the same coin, but it doesn't change the way I approach others.

    If a meeting is about to start at work, you stand up when every woman walks into the room?  What if a woman shows up 15 minutes late, you still stand, interrupting the meeting even more?  

  9. 23 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    csb but in college i had a wisdom tooth yanked and they gave me hydrocodone.  friend said take some with booze it feels awesome.  it didnt - in fact i didnt feel anything, at all.  traded the rest of the scrip to him for a case of beer.

     

    is there such a thing a resistance to it?

    I had a similar experience.  Don’t know if the prescription was weak or something was different about me.   It seemed to have the same effect that aspirin or Tylenol has for pain for me: little or none.

  10. 8 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

    She shoudn’t wait for the Mueller report.  There’s a ton out there now that’s impeachable, even without the Buzzfeed article.  Waiting just gives him license to destroy more.  But, before impeaching there should be some hearings getting a clear record of at the very least the emoluments violations.  The Senate probably won’t vote to convict even if there’s video of trump promising to sell out the US to Putin while doing blow and peeing on underage hookers.  But make a clear record, and make the GOP Senate vote on the record and own this shitshow.

    Yep.  From a political standpoint, the Dem ideal isn’t just about defeating trump (election or impeachment) it’s about taking the house (check), senate and WH.    Actually having gop senators refuse to convict when the evidence is clear, is the best path to take the senate in 2020.   Pelosi and Schumer are playing the long game.

  11. Cohen saying that trump told him to lie isn’t enough evidence of obstruction.  He’s a convicted liar.  Cohen not trump.   But if there are other witnesses or other evidence...   president pence.

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  12. I’m unsure why Purdue and the Sacklers are innocent of the accusations because fentanyl is worse (or the same or less dangerous) than OxyContin.   Given that Purdue have agreed to pay some of the largest fines in US pharm history and retracted many early statements about oxy, I think it’s fairly straight forward regarding their guilt of recklessly dropping oxy on America.

    of course in today’s world you can only fine guilty corporations.   Next to impossible for today’s ceo to go to jail for the crimes of the corporation.  So Purdue paying the fine is equivalent to an individual going to prison.   

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