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Looks like I picked the wrong year to log back on. Sorta having Deja Vu….is it 2020 again? Please tell me we won’t go into lockdown on 3/12. 🤣🤣

And if you fly into Houston, fly into Bush and hop on the 99 and take it to HWY 290/6.

He could just rally his side in Congress to make a deal happen….assuming they can get past the mumbling. 🤣

So in summary…a good bit of dems were racist a long time ago and over time felt let down by their party and left and decided they were now republican. So we have democrat bigots saying they are republican.

Guess it went over your head. Yes the Republicans were fighting each other, they were fighting each other because of needing to come to agreement with the Democrats over cuts. Then if you recall Trump throws in he wants some border wall funding adding in that wrinkle. Then Trump threw the Republicans under the bus making it their fault if they don't sort it out. This whole schtick about the Republicans only wanting or actually trying to do this with Biden is dishonest. For one, they tried for cuts and secondly they knew that if did not give in they would be the ones that hold it up they would get blamed and Trump would throw them under the bus. This is why it falls on Biden to get some compromise done.

There have always been negotiations on this even when Trump was office. Republicans and Democrats were fighting about making cuts or just raising the ceiling without cuts before Biden and I am sure they will long after him. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget/trump-blames-fellow-republican-leaders-for-debt-ceiling-mess-idUSKCN1B41RT

Almost 20% of younger people think the earth is flat. From Scientific American: Puzzled but undeterred, we used the information in the spreadsheet to calculate acceptance of the round Earth by age groups and found that only about 82.5 percent of millennials (as YouGov called 18–24-year-olds) agreed with “I have always believed the world is round.” That’s still dismayingly low, of course, but it’s not as dismayingly low as 66 percent. And those aged 25–34 turned out to fare a tad worse, with only about 81.8 percent agreeing.

That is better than the other four letter word you try to call me.......🤣

I think what he is proposing is reasonable.

That was hard to watch. I bet she is a joy to work with. Typical though, trying to spin things that folks hate trans people because they are trying to protect minors from making life altering decisions before their bodies are fully developed.

I have seen snippets of it, I am good.....as my kids would say.....it's cringey. 🤣

Not disinterested, but it is no surprise the I in MIC are fleecing us all. I will watch it later if I feel I need to be pissed off about something.....🤪

In other news..........water is wet and the sun is hot.

Anything to make some coin...........errr.....Bitcoin.

I’d argue that we are all political pawns….well low income and middle class.

I sat in a restaurant at the Tulsa airport in August of 2015 Trump was on the TV’s. We started talking about him and others that would be running and I said he would win the election. My colleagues looked at me like I was nuts. I said he’s the only one that Hillary can’t beat and people are tired of the same ole crap.

I’m a structural engineer and have worked on many types of projects…was in oil and gas for a while and now oversee about 30 engineers doing structural work in the nuclear industry. We have to follow code, there are very few items that are written so there can be much interpretation. The codes are written because of previous failures or disasters. And they get updated as needed, and if a code is interpreted a certain way it will be adjusted to make sure that becomes code. I suppose there is too much case law to put into actual law…but decisions in law are based on previous decisions as to be consistent?

Some things get lost in text. And I think we are arguing even though we are really on the same page. It’s that in reality we might as well flip a coin as to it being assault. It boils down to which side you believe more. Without speaking for you I think you said something similar. If I was on a jury for this case I’d have a hard time saying this was assault based on both their actions. On one hand it seems like the kid was just being dumb. On the other There’s enough for me to reasonably assume that if I was Higgins maybe there was a threat. But if Higgins used more force than he did I’d definitely rule in favor of assault. That’s about an honest opinion I can give. They both were really in the wrong.

I get there is case law and precedent and all that. My statement was probably a little bit dramatic…but to me…the law has a fairly wide area for interpretation. I have no experience in case law…or law…but I am used to interpreting codes and regulations and usually if you stray from them you better have a damn good reason. As to the balled up fist hypo…no we weren’t on the same page. I was visioning someone who’s made eye contact and maybe they haven’t said something but they sure look like bad news. Hence why I asked the gun question…..at that point I was like WTF does it take them. The gun question was legitimate and not meant to be obnoxious.

Did you not pick up on the sarcasm because I’m referring to how laws say one thing, are in writing, but don’t really mean what they say? The law says this, but……

Not sure why you would be referring to me. I’m the one citing the law stating how things line up with the law and apparently none of that matters because we interpret the laws and set precedence that is contradictory to the law or make such determinations so narrow that only one way works. If my line of work tried to interpret codes and regs like this lots of people would be dead. Find someone else to accuse of being a MAGA.

I didn’t know he was a MAGA. I’m quoting the law as it is written only to hear “well, that doesn’t matter because we do it this way.”

Lol True, but you know the distinction I’m making.

If I see someone walking up with their fist balled up and clock someone, then at a different time someone walking up to me in the same fashion and I grab them to stop them. Would it not be reasonable for me to assume imminent danger?