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Married to the Big D, father to escaped chickadees. Own a kitchen & bath store. Love to play hockey, exercise, the arts (movies, rock and roll, and comics), and tweaking my conservative friends for their lack of knowledge!
Interesting, so unwinding to where we were five months ago would be unsustainable......
11.11.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My brother called me and said, "Trump just pardoned all the planners of January 6th. That's crazy, especially after the shellacking they took last week. Politically, it's just stupid."
"No doubt."
"You know what it tells us?"
"What?"
"He's dying."
apnews.com/article/rudy...
I can't imagine a British company capitulating like American corporations have.
10.11.2025 15:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Do you know who would love Trump's latest, greatest idea of 50-year mortgages more than first-time home buyers will??
Banks.
I had to guess the rate for a 50-year note, but on this $320K loan you'd cut your payments by $104 monthly for the privilege of increasing total payments by $620K.
As a Bostonian, that's easy โย it's Ted and Johnny for the FU2!
05.11.2025 14:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Interesting, it seems like someone on the inside is trying to make Trump look bad by sharing the full video.....
01.11.2025 05:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Well, they damn well better be Antifa(scist). One million Americans died or were wounded fighting Fascists in World War II.
And they were proudly Antifa(scist).
I understand you were in gifted programs yourself, so I won't disregard your experience, particularly if you lost friends as a result, but I think their intent is to keep children challenged and engaged, so they don't end up pointing in the wrong direction.
02.10.2025 22:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The point is the gifted programs aren't about bragging rights, or creating separation among the kids, though we know some children aren't nice.
They're meant to help keep some children engaged, just as tech programs are available to the child who can tear apart a radio, but not tear open a book.
She was accepted and totally changed her effort, all the way through college, where she graduated with highest honors. That made me proud, because it took hard work on her part. I was a gifted student, but you could easily distract me if you gave me a more fun option.
02.10.2025 22:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A week later I got a phone call from the principal saying we needed to move my daughter to first grade.
Skip ahead four or five years and we were having problems with her doing homework. Something led me to think she was bored, so I told my wife that I hoped she'd get into the gifted program.
She said there was an area with books that she could read by herself. I said I didn't want my daughter sitting by herself and essentially treading water for the year, so I suggested placing her into first grade. The principal and I started arguing, but the next week my girl started kindergarten.
02.10.2025 22:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'll give you a counter argument.
We were at a meeting for our daughter to enter kindergarten. The principal said they'd learn the ABC's, count to 20, and start to read by year's end, yet our girl had picked up on those from her older sister, so I asked what they do when the child's at that level.
How about tattoos for guys that want to, um, show off during their chin-ups?
Where do the tats fall on the spectrum?
Sure thing, Lindsey, let's go see photographs of disenfranchised people in chains with their backs branded by whips, then walk out of there proud to be an American.
How about we be appalled by that so we do whatever is necessary for it to never happen again??
There's zero chance that's a trained ICE agent. That has to be a Proud Boy bounty hunter.
27.09.2025 06:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That's a straw man fallacy by Donald, tried to conflate being fascist with being part of the Third Reich, because he understands calling someone part of the Third Reich would be very heated rhetoric.
19.09.2025 05:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Someone who wanted a birthday card put back on the shelf.
12.09.2025 04:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And it came two days after Trump's birthday drawing hit the public's consciousness.
12.09.2025 04:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We had two months of distracting to take attention away from Trump's involvement with Epstein.
But when the Jobs Report showed only 22K added โ and a net negative overall โ then whoever is writing Trump's Truths tries changing the topic by reminding the world that Trump is involved....
If someone set out to dismantle the United States, they wouldn't do much differently than Trump and company have done.
And only people cheering it on would be Putin and MAGA.
What about your boss, Billy? The NYT had a long exposition on his mortgage fraud. Were you guys tipped on that??
04.09.2025 13:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Big deal, you have a bigger pool to choose from when your sisters become available.....
30.08.2025 05:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I love how she thinks a "sanitized diplay" means they were complaining that bleach had been used......
21.08.2025 03:31 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sadly, Trump didn't feel violated by it. It's the rest of us who do.
18.08.2025 18:31 โ ๐ 27 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Since when do federal agents shop at Walmart or Army-Navy Surplus?
18.08.2025 05:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0