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Posts posted by gmr548
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3 hours ago, CO Horn said:
Iâll bite. There are currently 10 Federal Holidays. Of these only 6 do most companies close. I donât think many businesses would close if they made Election Day a National Holiday. Not saying Iâm against it, just donât see the point.Â
Making it easier for the millions of Americans employed by the various arms of federal, state, and local governments to vote while establishing the cultural norm that would likely lead to some participation in the private sector? In general, when it comes to measures of expanding access to the vote, a pretty compelling argument should have to be made NOT to do it.Â
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3 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
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Globalist cuck.
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On 1/29/2019 at 9:44 AM, SmokeyTheBear said:
Can any GOP supporters really outline their platform at this point? Cause all I can see as their platform being is: move money from middle-class and poor up to the top percentages, limit civil liberties, limit voting population, choke all public services (education, utilities, infrastructure, etc)Â to allow for private enterprises to fill the void, get far-right judges into key positions to ensure this cycle continues for years.Â
And if you agree with this strategy, how do you think this will benefit the country long-term?Â
The funny/sad thing is that the platform of GOP supporters does not line up with GOP policy goals. The actual GOP doesn't believe a fucking word of what they're saying about trickle down, privatization, etc. being good for the country as a whole. They know it isn't. And they could give a fuck about abortion or guns at the end of the day, those are just good wedges. Their goal is to create a feudal system with corporations and their investors replacing houses of nobility, rolling back most economic and social progress made over the past 150 years. The rubes keep drinking the fucking kool aid though. Cause things were better when the coloreds and women knew their place, and Omaba might still be out there to take our guns.Â
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On 1/8/2019 at 1:32 AM, po elvis said:
hotels were ridiculous for NYE in New Orleans, but i did an airbnb near Tulane for 1/4 the price. ubering to the quarter was super easy and cheap.
We did the exact same for new years/sugar bowl. $10 or so lyft ride to the quarter if you are so inclined. There's also the street car. Honestly we really enjoyed staying outside of the zoo that is the quarter.Â
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2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
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GOP obsession/determination to discredit Pelosi is approaching "OU is a program in decline" thread levels of delusion.
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8 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
This poor bank executive just got his shit put on twitter blast.
Remember the fake accounts scam that got @WellsFargo in trouble to begin with? As CFO and COO, Tim Sloan helped enable it. He got rich off it. And he tried to cover it up. How's he the right guy to clean up the mess?
Fake accounts were just one of the scandals that went down at @WellsFargo while Tim Sloan was part of the bankâs top leadership. There are a lot to choose from. Like when they charged hundreds of thousands of customers for auto insurance they didnât need.
Speaking of auto loans, that reminds me of the time @WellsFargo didn't provide refunds to tens of thousands of people who paid off their car loans early. What a great way to treat loyal customers!
Then there are the 500+ customers who lost their homes because of a âcalculation errorâ by @WellsFargo. And what did Tim Sloan do to make it right? Sent the families affected some inadequate checks.
.@WellsFargo also agreed to pay $175 million to settle claims that it charged Black and Latino borrowers higher fees and rates on mortgages than white borrowers with similar credit profiles.
Of course, we canât forget the most recent @WellsFargo scandal that took place right under Tim Sloanâs nose. The bank has been gouging students with triple the fees of its competitors on college campuses.
I could go on but I don't need to: itâs clear that Tim Sloan isn't the right person to try to clean up @WellsFargo. His hands are too dirty from overseeing years of scams and scandals.Â
Thatâs not just an âinformedâ opinion. Thatâs a fact.
I really want to vote for someone younger than Warren/Bernie but it is getting pretty clear that they are the only D candidates that are serious about the kind of economic policy shifts we need to save this country from going down the path of corporate neo-feudalism.
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On 1/24/2019 at 10:21 PM, Helobious said:
Sunday, I'm walking through the courtyard at my apartment complex. A 12-13 year old girl coming my direction on the sidewalk is walking a mid-sized, brown & white dog on a leash. The dog sees me and really starts trying to get at me, girl can barely hold him back. I keep walking thinking the dog is just excited. I take a step past them and then I feel a bite on the back of my knee/lower thigh area. I walk away a few feet to try and walk off the pain and create distance between me & the dog. I guess the girl panicked, cause I turned around and they were quickly walking into a breezeway. I hobbled after them but they were out of view. I foolishly decided to go clean & sanitize my wound ASAP instead of trying to find the girl & dog.
A couple days later I go to the clinic. Doctor tells me my wound has healed almost perfectly, no infection. He also said the dog didn't get me that deep. He said he highly doubted that a domesticated dog would have rabies, and that the bite didn't at all resemble the carnage that rabid dog bites usually have. He didn't recommend getting a rabies shot. Problem is my apartment complex says there's no kids or pet owners in the breezeway where the girl vanished, and since I wasn't able to tell the breed of the dog it'd be hard to find. I've been prowling the complex everyday since looking for that fucking dog or the girl. Filed a dogbite report with animal control & everything but that won't help much.
Rabies shots are only available in ERs and cost well over $10,000 out of pocket from what I understand. Would you get the shots if you were in my position?Â
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You are almost certainly fine. If the dog were rabid it would not have walked like a normal dog for the girl and likely would have gone after her at some point. Someone is just a shitty dog owner and parent by entrusting their aggressive dog to their young daughter.
Rabies shots do not cost 10k, unless there is a special procedure for rabies from dog bites. That just sounds like a typical ER scam. I got one (it's actually a series of 3-4) a couple years back after a bat had been in my apartment while I was sleeping.
Side note - evidently bat bites are basically unnoticeable so I had no way of knowing whether I was bitten or whether it was rabid - going without a shot basically meant a 0.5 percent chance or whatever that I die within a month.
I went to a clinic in Sugar Land or somewhere over there that did immunizations, blood tests, etc. The shots sucked, but only because needles are by far my biggest fear in the world. They are my irrational phobia. They were just standard injections in the arm, no different than a flu shot. I don't remember the out of pocket cost, but I was not even a year out of college and on a high deductible plan from my job, so the cost was all on my broke ass. I'd remember if it was exorbitantly expensive. Couldn't have been more than a couple hundred bucks. In and out very fast too.Â
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Also, I have a Barclays account and have no complaints. I don't know if they still are, but when I signed up they were among the best rates. They have been steadily increasing them and have remained competitive - 2.2 percent now. Six withdrawals a month is a fuckload for a savings account. It does take a couple of business days to get money to your checking account, but overall it seems to be as good a place as anywhere to park your emergency fund.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Well, except that in the case of a savings account, it's not that complicated by far. You got interest rates and when will they change, withdrawal restrictions (that aren't unique to online), and transfer to checking time (which also isn't unique to online).
I see no drawbacks to rate shopping for a savings account for short-to-medium term savings. Checking accounts are another matter.
And unless one has a business-borrowing relationship with a bank (non-mortgage loan or line of credit), I don't know anyone anymore who wants or expects a personal relationship with a banker.
I think your sarcasm meter is broken.
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6 hours ago, Valmy77 said:
Ok those film clips make me legitimately concerned. Our defense was horrid defending those kinds of plays.
So they throw the forward pass, I see!
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12 minutes ago, Js1 said:
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Doubling down on the idiocy that got them absolutely obliterated in elections over the past four years. Bold strategy. I guess all the sane ones got voted out.
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2 minutes ago, The Peopleâs Elbow said:
Your schtick is blatantly disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. Youâre a purposeful liar.
Eat a bag of dicks.Â
Remember who he follows.
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30 minutes ago, Message Board User said:
Don't think I agree with these takes, but food for thought. IMO, Schultz is a problem for Dems.
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I see why one would think Schulz could find votes, but as I think it through I am with the second tweet. I don't think Schulz is going to take some big chunk of voters either way. Partisan lines have hardened a lot since Perot. See 2016 - the most vocal and enduring support for third party candidates in 20 years, both major parties putting up candidates that a significant portion of their bases openly dislike and turn off independents. All that, and the third parties got five percent of the vote. Since then, we've seen the paradigm shift and the lines redrawn in American politics, largely driven by opinion on the incumbent President. Very few people are neutral on him. If they want him gone, they will vote D. Trump is too polarizing for a third party to have success this time around.
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4 minutes ago, Js1 said:
I donât think the #s are made up, as the Tribune wouldnât report on it otherwise. The interpretation of âwhat it meansâ by the Trump/Abbott crowd is hilarious Bc if true, then it would be proof that strong voter ID laws enacted by a state with GOP control since 94 was a huge spectacular failure.Â
That's what I mean, the intensity of the reaction. It's like no one decided to a bit of 6th grade arithmetic before getting on twitter. Trumpkins will eat it up all the same though.
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3 hours ago, F250 said:
Other than enthusiasm, what does Trump bring to the table as a candidate? His experience as a mediocre-at-best businessman doesn't really make for a good Presidential candidate.
While Clinton has only been a SOS for two years, I think being Senator for the state of California gives her a pretty big edge, regarding experience, over Trump.
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It is pretty obvious that doesn't matter these days.
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4 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Oh boy, another manufactured crisis without hard evidence of illegal activity.
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4 hours ago, ndawg said:If these people are voting illegally, they certainly don't have a sympathetic government to show for it.
I invite any conservative to take a gander at our elected representatives and venture their best guess as to how many of them are in office because of the votes of illegal immigrants.
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4 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:So, for for 19 years, we've had either a Rick Perry or Greg Abbott administration and they've allowed 95K illegals to register? Â Does Voter ID not work?
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4 hours ago, Mole said:I havenât clicked the link, but the OP headline says 58k votes in the last election while the quoted part says 58k in elections dating back to 1996. Thereâs a big difference between 58k last election and 58k in one or more election over the last 2 decades.
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3 hours ago, phdhorn said:58K divided by at least 12, probably closer to 16-18 Texas elections since 1996Â (many years there are > 1 election, often in March or May, as well as November).
Even just using 12 (the number of elections every 2 years, not even including odd-numbered years or > 1 election per year, and excludes 2018... i.e. this is very liberally figured to give the "most" non-US voter percentages, the actual figure is probably well towards even less), that's about 4,833 non-US citizens per year average, never mind > 1 election per year.
That's barely out of the "human error" level. Texas had over 9 million registered voters in 1996 and now about 16 million. Even taking the average of about 12 million during this run, that's 0.04%.  According to a few general human error tables I've seen, this type of task (reading within a page of text and following directions) has a general error rate of 0.02-0.06 percent of participants.One thing is for sure, that rate on average could not affect almost any Texas election since 1996. I'd have to go back and see if anything outside of local dog catcher with like 33 registered voters in Bumfucksville had a separation rate of 0.04 or less... my guess is zero zilch, but I guess one or two is possible. Point: hasn't affected shit.
All this sounds like general dumbassery to me, just tracking people making mistakes. That ain't much, and certainly nothing with agenda written on it. Just people being human to me. ÂÂ
2 hours ago, Asithappens said:Yeah, where the fuck have our politicians been on addressing this issue?
Gov. Hot Wheels needs to take a stand on this. Stat.
Let me guess. He can't.
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1 hour ago, DanRydell said:Roughly 50k Texas residents become naturalized citizens each year. Since 1996, that'd be over one million people. So that would be fewer than 10% of those who got an ID or driver's license prior to naturalizing and who then registered to vote and/or voted after becoming a citizen.
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1 hour ago, Message Board User said:Not repeat anything our felon AG says.
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Gee, it's almost as if this entire dilemma that has suddenly appeared on the scene in the past 24 hours is completely made up and is a blatant attempt to rile up the gullible base of a certain political party.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
Itâs the $22 for a gotdamn roasted chicken that gets my goat. Fucking hipsters think that if they slap enough adjectives on something (âslow roasted, individually curated, free-range, Slappy Creek farmed, Rock Island Red hensâ) they can double the price. $22 chickens. $5 tacos. Fuck that shit. Iâm going to Pollo Regio.
15 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:Iâm pretty sensitive to issues surrounding economic and opportunity inequality. However, blaming one restaurant for operating within the current system doesnât really address any of the underlying issues. Itâs intellectually lazy. Letâs talk about why minorities are being forced out of the east side in favor of white people than can pay more. Itâs an education gap that is followed by and income gap. We can work on ways to fix this but itâs not going to be about one restaurant taking over a tire shop. Itâs going to be about pk-12 education supports and affordable options for college.
These are the correct answers.
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20 hours ago, TexasGolf said:
Here in Nola for the weekend sporting Texas gear and an LSU fan taps me on the shoulder saying playfully âweek 2 next year, we coming for yaâ.  Love it đ€đ»
"Go fuck yourself bitch" is the right reply.
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10 hours ago, CooterBrown said:
John Wayne
Ronald Reagan
The Shawshank Redemption
Sports
Marriage
Children
Patriotism
Italian food
JesusLife would suck ass without sports and Italian food.
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As for the boomers, they were brought up in an environment where the US was the unquestioned global economic and industrial power, and had everything needed to foster success: affordable housing, education, and healthcare, employment even for the uneducated, and the white ones benefited tremendously from racism too.
They didn't start the process of pulling the ladder up - they weren't in charge in the 70s or 80s - but they sure have kept the process going. They seem to have a really hard time grasping, on a fundamental level, that economic and social realities have shifted. Partially due to their own actions. And of course, they love them some climate change denial, despite overwhelming evidence. Which is really just a desire to not change their problematic behaviors and the system they've profited from their whole lives.
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Gen Z is in high school and below right now. Even being liberal with the definition, almost none of them have graduated college. You just praised millennials. U triggered?Millennials are betas whose kids will look back and think what a bunch of weirdos who created elaborate systems to connect online and take pictures of themselves just to create mental illnesses within each other and invented cyberbullying. Have yâall met some of these generation Z or whatever? Oh my gosh they are whip smart. And cut throat. Iâve seen 24 year olds handle Wall Street internships, Big 4 20 hour days, and have more money than most millennials who traded in their upward mobility so they could wear chuck Taylorâs to work and drink beer in the break room between moving some sticky notes from one part of the whiteboard to another.
just saying, my kids will need to step it up.
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Came here to post Torchy's specifically. I'll give you Austin too, though I don't feel nearly as strongly about that.
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2 hours ago, Incredulity said:
Do you think for yourself or rely on MSNBC for your daily marching orders?
$50 says you donât know the difference between a C-Corp and S-Corp off the top of your head.
Not an old, no cable. It is just incredible to me that anything to the right of Breitbart is all of a sudden the big, bad, liberal media. The liberal media treated Trump and the Rs with kid gloves relative to the magnitude of their words and actions for so long - and continues to do so in many cases - that they are as much responsible for the circus we have today as anyone. And yet Trumpkins will still whine and cry about "leftist propaganda." It's a pathetic state of affairs.
I sure as fuck don't know the difference between those, not at a particularly high level anyway - neither does Donald Trump or most of the American public, left or right. Which, if at all relevant, actually undermines to the idea that the article is "leftist propaganda." Bloomberg exists to report on business and financial markets. It is in the belly of the beast when it comes to free market capitalism. It isn't leftist propaganda. The article itself is attempting to simplify something far too complex to be simplified in a brief internet article. It doesn't do a particularly good job. But the overarching point that AOC's proposal of simply adding a marginal tax rate on the super rich is not some silver bullet is correct. The theme of the article is essentially that AOC's plan isn't necessarily going to have the desired effect. WhAt A lEfTiSt HiT PiEcE!1!1!
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54 minutes ago, pacman said:They are clever and complicated in the sense 99% of American can not understand, nor take advantage of, a tax code that is roughly 75,000 pages long.
This. It isn't cheating, but they have the best in the business doing their taxes for them. That is already going to result in favorable tax outcomes. Throw in some bullshit giveaways in the tax code and it is easy to interpret the situation as cheating, even if it's within the rules of the game.
What went wrong with the Boomers?
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This is a good summary. They have the audacity to scold Gen X and Millennials for their life choices, approach to work/life, or politics with seemingly no awareness that they were set up for success in a way no generation before or after them could, or ever will even come close to. They were born and came of age in a time when this country wielded economic dominance the world has never seen, and probably never will again given that a third world war won't leave anyone as last man standing. They were born with first and goal on the one and fumbled the ball away on third down. And they won't even be alive to see the havoc their leadership from the 90s until now will wreak on the world in terms of climate change, stratification of wealth, etc.