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Post by athn64 on Apr 7, 2021 15:10:28 GMT -6
🤔 Yeah mate. Throw it all in. I saw a Bernie post the other day talking about vision and dental care needing to be included cause it’s your bodies infrastructure 😂 I don’t care. Throw it all in. Whatever they can include and still get reconciliation, I'm all for it.
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Post by dc2london on Apr 7, 2021 15:12:37 GMT -6
Yamiche: why should business owners start a business here if they can do it more cheaply somewhere else? Raimondo: well you can't beat American ingenuity, American work ethic. Businesses want to be where their workers want to be, which is in strong communities with clean water, stable roads and bridges, good schools and reliable utilities. I wish " american work ethic" wasn't a selling point. It's not healthy or good. Like maybe we shouldn't always try to do the it the american way. Yes. My shoulders hit my ears when she said that.
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Post by dc2london on Apr 7, 2021 15:15:44 GMT -6
HOW DARE SHE APPEAR TO...EAT? publicly eating is only allowed for the female politicians during election times so we can laugh at their dainty ways, didntcha know? Ok but this will never not be amusing. Poor Pete. There's no attractive way to hand eat a pork chop. I think that's a pork chop?
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Post by blurnette989 on Apr 7, 2021 15:22:02 GMT -6
Once in highschool i was out to eat with friends and ordered a salad (i was vegan at the time). Well salad comes and the waitress had forgotten silverware. Everybody else had like burgers or whatever. So i thought I'd be funny and wat the salad with my hands in front of her thinking she's realize and bring me a fork. Nope. She deadpanned me and got me a refill on my soda. So i ate my whole salad with my hands, stole a set of silverware off another table, which i kept for years still wrapped, and wrote, "forks equal happy salads" on the receipt and tipped her more than 20%.
A few months later she was my waitress again. She clearly remembered me and did not care for me. 😂😂😂
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Post by blurnette989 on Apr 7, 2021 15:22:19 GMT -6
I like anecdotes.
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Post by jaygee on Apr 7, 2021 15:24:49 GMT -6
Oh boy. Pretty much.
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Post by Dr. Cox on Apr 7, 2021 15:54:19 GMT -6
publicly eating is only allowed for the female politicians during election times so we can laugh at their dainty ways, didntcha know? Ok but this will never not be amusing. Poor Pete. There's no attractive way to hand eat a pork chop. I think that's a pork chop? To be fair, is there an attractive way to do this?
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Post by dc2london on Apr 7, 2021 16:51:22 GMT -6
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Post by mathlete on Apr 7, 2021 17:11:48 GMT -6
Poor Matt. These never stop being entertaining to me bc he takes it all so good.
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Post by dc2london on Apr 7, 2021 18:16:37 GMT -6
So Gary Cohn did an interview saying the Trump tax cuts took the corporate rate too low and he supports the Biden corporate tax proposal 🤨
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Post by willow on Apr 7, 2021 19:24:47 GMT -6
This is my worry too.  With the record keeping they DIDN'T do added to the very young age of some of the kids they separated.Â
Its likely those kids will never be 'found' It breaks my heart. I can’t imagine the worry their parents have. They have no idea where they are and who is caring for them. It sounds like a mental torture that would drive me to the brink.
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Post by willow on Apr 7, 2021 19:26:13 GMT -6
Yamiche: why should business owners start a business here if they can do it more cheaply somewhere else? Raimondo: well you can't beat American ingenuity, American work ethic. Businesses want to be where their workers want to be, which is in strong communities with clean water, stable roads and bridges, good schools and reliable utilities. I wish " american work ethic" wasn't a selling point. It's not healthy or good. Like maybe we shouldn't always try to do the it the american way. I could easily move to Scandinavia and subscribe to their work life balance.
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Post by jaygee on Apr 7, 2021 20:45:55 GMT -6
One thing that always stuck with me from our adoption training is that bio parents who have closed adoptions often search for their children in the news. Like if they know their child lives in a certain city and then they hear of a tragedy like a child is hurt or dies in that city and is the same age as their child would be, they worry that it is their child. It makes so much sense to me because I know I would do that and it is heartbreaking.
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Post by mathlete on Apr 8, 2021 4:45:35 GMT -6
These are stunning.
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Post by mathlete on Apr 8, 2021 5:15:50 GMT -6
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Post by greykitty on Apr 8, 2021 6:33:51 GMT -6
We had consolidated elections here; as always, turnout was really shamefully small. Interesting that a lot of the school board races were contentious, mostly about whether schools were reopening in person quickly enough. In my area, it appeared the most conservative candidates, who were mostly newcomers to the election process, were pushing for in person right now and that school boards bungled the entire process throughout the year.
Turned out most of the voters who did turn out seemed happy with incumbents and the moderate pace to re-opening. This county was blue overall last national election, but margins (other than Biden) tightened compared to 2016. That said, some county races that traditionally have been Republican by large margins for generations were far closer than in prior years.
Referendums involving tax increases had a very hard row to hoe - if they passed at all, it was with small margins. That really IMO is understandable - our property taxes are really on the high side and people have faced a lot of budget constraints at home this last year. I think messaging involving tax increases have to be done clearly as benefiting everyone once implemented, and worth the investment.
Kind of a mixed bag overall - I don't think either party is throwing in the towel, but neither has bragging rights either.
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Post by richard on Apr 8, 2021 7:06:51 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH.
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Post by richard on Apr 8, 2021 7:13:40 GMT -6
I was not expecting to wake up and read about a firebombing of a bus (empty) in Northern Ireland this morning.
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Post by willow on Apr 8, 2021 7:18:16 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH. Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild.
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Post by Ls2012 on Apr 8, 2021 7:33:04 GMT -6
I was not expecting to wake up and read about a firebombing of a bus (empty) in Northern Ireland this morning. I've been following this for a few days and its just so damned sad and upsetting to see the violence reigniting there. Especially because it's sparking from a funeral being held last June. It's so petty and small.
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Post by jkjacq on Apr 8, 2021 7:43:42 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH. nope no thank you
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Post by sheilathetank on Apr 8, 2021 7:54:42 GMT -6
dc2london, can you give your opinion/insight on Biden's gun control EOs that he's signing today. On one hand I'm like "yay its something" but on the other hand the fact that its an EO that can easily be reversed and worrisome and they measures don't seem to be enough
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Post by crimsonandclover on Apr 8, 2021 7:56:54 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH. Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild. No thank you. I once read an article about a woman who conceived fraternal twins that each split into identical twins, so she was pregnant with quadruplets: two sets of identical twins who were fraternal twins to each other. I think when I read about it she was still pregnant, so I hope all went well with later pregnancy and delivery.
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Post by sheilathetank on Apr 8, 2021 8:04:58 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH. Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild. There's this woman I saw on tiktok who had the following pregnancies: singleton, triplets, twins, triplets. I'm just amazed at the statistical odds of that occuring. She should play the lottery with those odds. lol.
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Post by mc13 on Apr 8, 2021 8:19:49 GMT -6
This is not politics but GAH. Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild. 😳😳😳 woah. I can’t even imagine. We had a singleton then identical twins 18 months later. Cannot imagine that many babies at the same time....also why we stopped after the twins, MH was convinced triplets would be next. 🤣
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Post by jkjacq on Apr 8, 2021 8:20:13 GMT -6
dc2london , can you give your opinion/insight on Biden's gun control EOs that he's signing today. On one hand I'm like "yay its something" but on the other hand the fact that its an EO that can easily be reversed and worrisome and they measures don't seem to be enough obv not DC but any baby steps are good steps. It may not seem like it but a majority of america supports commonsense reform. I'm talking the average citizen who isn't afraid the gubmint gonna come to their house and take their guns. Once you talk with them about loop holes, gun laws, and the like they really support reform. So its a foundation on which we can build.
I like the report about the one that is reported to be a blueprint for ERPO/Red Flag laws for states. That is really important to get into every state.
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Post by cribs on Apr 8, 2021 8:21:46 GMT -6
richard it's been escalating all week. There isn't a lot of coverage either.
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Post by willow on Apr 8, 2021 8:24:27 GMT -6
Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild. 😳😳😳 woah. I can’t even imagine. We had a singleton then identical twins 18 months later. Cannot imagine that many babies at the same time....also why we stopped after the twins, MH was convinced triplets would be next. 🤣 My twins are 4 years apart from their older brother and it is still too much, lol.
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Post by cnf on Apr 8, 2021 8:40:41 GMT -6
Not exactly the same, but a woman in my local multiples group gave birth to twins, and then found out she was pregnant with twins 3 months later. There was also a lady who birthed statistical anomalies -- spontaneous quadruplet identical girls. The MN multiples group is wild. No thank you. I once read an article about a woman who conceived fraternal twins that each split into identical twins, so she was pregnant with quadruplets: two sets of identical twins who were fraternal twins to each other. I think when I read about it she was still pregnant, so I hope all went well with later pregnancy and delivery. Oh my god, hard pass on ALL OF THIS
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Post by hawkeye2015 on Apr 8, 2021 9:05:31 GMT -6
richard it's been escalating all week. There isn't a lot of coverage either. There was some violence last year before Covid too. Brexit isn't helping.
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