jp1
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While I agree that vague, directionless hate is not particularly productive, you have to give the man credit. As a reality tv star, par excellence,...

It’s actually the steel in the car triggering the sensor. Bike riders know to trigger the light by rolling over the little wire lines. This necame an...

It's interesting. I haven't eaten any beef in decades but reading these posts I can remember as clearly as if it were yesterday what a McDonald's...

Wow! So sorry to hear this. My heart goes out to you. I can't even imagine the feeling of loss you must be feeling now.

I think Dr. Suess's political commentary from 1941 sums it up pretty well.

And no, 'the democrats did it too' is not a valid argument. It's the argument of mean, fearful people to justify treating other human beings...

And there’s the difference. Canada ‘arrests’ them and treats them like human beings. We arrest them and treat them like the rapists and murderers...

And also those seeking asylum. That ruling from 2015 was about jails and prisons. Asylum seekers should not be considered criminals.

One woman took a decidedly different approach. She sued equifax in small claims court and got a $600 decision in her favor. Imagine if even just a...

SO swore that he didn't sleep at all during his, but apparently he did. They determined the obvious, that he did in fact have significant apnea. ...

THe social security benefit is calculated by averaging the top 35 years of a persons earnings, adjusted for inflation to current amounts. If you...

If by bipartisan you mean 37 democrats and 2 independants.

I didn't know this either but apparently you can through a program called the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program. ...

As a kid growing up in Colorado I always wondered what the crazy people in the eastern half of the country were thinking when they made those states....

Personally I was more worried about how to put 52 stars on the flag in an attractive pattern. I suppose we could go with 4 rows of 13, but the...

True, although the three new californias would still be 3 of the biggest states. It's not as if we're wyoming looking to gain even more...

back in the days when I was 5' 8" and 115 pounds no matter what I ate I didn't even think about what went in my mouth foodwise. Probably the...

After all that you certainly deserve the iced chai. Reading about your days makes my job seem positively easy, despite things like our filing system...

I personally hope to be able to work until 60 (ten more years) but then retire while I hopefully still have many years of active enjoyable life ahead...

I just put together a spreadsheet based on what the SSA says my benefits would be if I collected at 62(early retirement), 67 (full retirement) and 70...

I appreciate your trust that it will all work out. Personally i worry that the republican politicians will hesitate to fulfill their promised oath to...

So you think loudly announcing to the world that he could pardon himself is relatively unimportant? Personally i think one of the worst things...

Not as long as we have a president who thinks he's literally above the law.

If it is indeed the case that US citizens no longer want to do construction jobs it's probably for the same reason they don't want to pick fruit. ...

I assume they did that by paying them over the full year instead of the nine months? The organization I worked at knew that the performers were...

I’m some ways it does make sense that the employer has to fund unemployment more if more is paid out to people that worked for them. For example I...

There’s not much that should have a higher priority than that.

Geez, I would never have thought about the warranty on bedsheets. SO and I have had the same ones for years and have been in discussion about...

Actually yes, at least in Colorado. Around the same time as the Masterpiece Cake situation was happening another bakery, Azucar cakes was approached...

Yes. $170k is apples compared to the gorilla of $1.5 trillion that the tax scam is doing.

Only if the bible store normally sold satanic bibles. The wedding cake store presumably does sell wedding cakes. Just not to yucky gay people because...

Personally I'd vote out any politician I could that gave mega tax breaks to the wealthiest among us and do everything I could to point out how they...

Are you also outraged about the bank bailouts, the fact that powerful congressmen are able to steer pointless military spending to their districts,...

My understanding was that he said he didn’t make wedding cakes for gay couples but that they could purchase other baked goods. Presumably he...

Not compared to a generic wedding cake. The baker shut the conversation down just at the idea of a wedding cake, not a custom wedding cake.

Music has copyright law. A closer example, if one thinks making cakes is art, would be whether an artist who sells their paintings in a gallery they...

Actually no. The baker shut the discussion down before they got to cake details. He was not willing to make any wedding cake for them.

So if they object to interracial marriage should the baker be able to refuse to make a cake? Or if a muslim straight couple wanted a wedding cake...

Woolworths, and plenty of other places, had sincerely held beliefs that the races shouldn't mix while eating.

Undoubtedly it depends on what skillset one has. My father spent the last 24 years of his working life as an accountant working for the federal...

Dang. What a depressing pair of statistics. Undoubtedly there are people who've tried traveling and just don't like it, but I suspect there are...

Seriously? You’re blaming the victims? Unreal.

Don’t worry. Unlike Zimmerman, if you’re Walking around my neighborhood looking sketchy i’ll keep my distance and let the responsible adults take...

You’re the one that presented him as the posterchild for why we need the second amendment. To many of us zimmerman appears more to be the posterchild...

Or enough common sense to not start trouble where trouble doesn't currently exist. He would have survived either way, and if he'd gone the common...

I think we're already at the dystopia you're worried about. With things like civil asset forfeiture laws that don't require a conviction first, or...

It's really no different from every other appointment he's made. I mean really, a secretary of state that's a big oilman, a secretary of education...

Different scenario. Obviously anyone doing ‘spy’ work as the moron in chief would call it needs to be clear at any gathering of friends and/or family...

Those guys were pretty frugal with their words. Certainly compared to what lawyers do today. If they didn't mean every word in the amendment why...

Actually I think they wrote a bit more than that but I suppose the point of the rest of it doesn't matter to some people. Apparently the NRA thought...

I agree. Hopefully consensus will agree with Iris Lily that using a long running harshly racist comment like Rosanne did is far worse than just...

Float On, you can actually set facebook so that all tags of you have to be reviewed and approved. The photo will still appear on your friend's...

Personally I think it was reasonable of him to assume that it would be fine, but that it was also reasonable for you to say that it wasn't fine and...

As someone whose employer has been re-alligning or re this or re that for the last six years with the steady drip drip drip of layoffs the whole time...

I never heard about this until after I moved away so unfortunately I missed it. I did, however, get to experience the wackiness of a friend's...

When black people in Oakland tried to stand up to the tyranny of their local police back in the 60's the laws regarding what guns could be owned and...

As someone who got chicken pox at age 30 (20ish years ago, about 2 years after the vaccine for chicken pox became available) I hope you've had the...

While I would agree that it's a noble idea that people should be able to defend themselves against a tyrannical government I think Teacher Terry's...