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Lol. As of tonight, you just threw away your vote 🙂

I’m writing in Gary Johnson, heh heh….

I can’t believe my ultra conservative sibling and husband are both voting for Hillary. I’m laughing my ass off because last year, I remember the three of us ran into a Hillary crowd when Hillary was contemplating a run, and some volunteer approached us and asked “would you like a Hillary sticker”.. I didn’t say anything but my sibling and her husband literally said “HELL NO!”… Well, both of them wrote in Hillary. I was like “gee, I guess hell froze over…”[/quote]

Yup, I don’t know anyone who would actually vote Trump. I figured if I’m throwing away my vote I’ll go all the way to the left to do it.[/quote]

It’s a crime to photograph ones ballot. likely not going to see many prosecutions, but…

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also wall st j endorses cutting ALL,other welfare programs. streamlining. might save $.

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[quote=yamashi][quote=Reality]I skipped my HS graduation 36 years ago. Getting through HS didn’t feel like any big achievement. Only a total screw up would not get through.

College graduation I did walk though. There I felt like I accomplished something.[/quote]

I never understood why the big deal either. My next door neighbor’s kid had a graduation party last weekend that went through the end of the night. I remember some kids in my HS having those, but my dad’s response was “Why do you need a party for graduating HS? Aren’t you only accomplishing something that should be expected? Tell you what, we’ll have one when you get a PHD.” Needless to say, still waiting for my party.[/quote]

Well, partying is good. it need not be tied to anything specific but I don’t object to all night parties.

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trumps comments about the judge in the trump university. lawsuit reveal him to be unwise. I think he’d probably win if he could just STFU.

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[quote=Reality]I skipped my HS graduation 36 years ago. Getting through HS didn’t feel like any big achievement. Only a total screw up would not get through.

College graduation I did walk though. There I felt like I accomplished something.[/quote]

seems cool to skip graduation.

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I think high value coinage could make a comeback. what about a, $100 silver coin?

need new cash products. paper is dull

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ubi, not about growth but incentive zing better social decisions per article

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saw ZOOTOPIA on friday.

I felt it had a lot to say to our current political situation.

really

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[quote=flyer]Imo, concerning grads going forward–just like everything in life–some people will get what they want out of life–and some won’t. That’s nothing new, and has, and will always be true.

Imo, the problem, from what I’ve seen with my kids’ friends–most kids today are being conditioned to believe that everyone will get everything they want in life–so they have no coping skills if things don’t go as planned, and that is proving to be a real problem for many of them in the real world.

I agree that kids should be encouraged to go for the gold, but, imo, they should also be encouraged to develop skills that enable them cope with reality as well.[/quote]

+1

and,something about those grad. speeches triggered it bad for me. my wife got irritated with how irritated I got.

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David foster Wallace’s graduation speech is ok by me. of course he killed self.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-commencement-speech-of-all-time-2015-4

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Muhammad Ali

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he was really really cool.

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[quote=svelte]Oh give me a gd break.

It’s not as dire as you all make it to be.

I’ve got two kids.

One four year degree. Got a great job in the bay area this year. Making a lot of $$ but renting.

The other a certificate, not even a two year degree. Making an equal amount of $$ in SD, able to buy a house which the other kid can’t do. Will the 4 year degree win out? No doubt in the long run. But for now, neck in neck, both working office jobs for great corporations, both hard working, both going for the gold.

Let’s not be doom-n-gloomers. Is the world as it was 50 years ago? of course not. But human nature being what it is, there will always be lazy folks and those that will do whatever it takes to be successful. Degree or not.

As the saying goes, you can’t keep a good man down.[/quote]

ok. I was probably overreacting to all the cheerleaders, praise and optimism in my usually foolish way. but still. The Clash song would be different.

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I saw a,spectator wearing a,shirt that said STARVE THE EGO…

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[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=The-Shoveler]I think I remember the HS Grad speech,

It was something like

You’er not special, you’er most likely just cogs in the machine.
Welcome to the machine.

Yep I think that was the gist of it

But then again that was in the 70’s and things were a little fuzzy.[/quote]

Funny isn’t it? all those 70s kids could easily get into the machine and work. today the principal at the graduation I attended used the word amazing 10 times to describe the class who will likely be 50 Perc unemployed and avg. 100k in debt in just 4 years.[/quote]

I propose a moratorium on the use of the word “amazing” by those employed by school districts. It has become a throwaway word to use when they can’t think of anything specific to say. There are a lot of wonderful adjectives out there that never get used. I hear a lot of “phenomenal” and “fantastic”. How about honest, responsible, ambitious, curious, persistent, resilient, etc. etc.

My husband has to be out of town for work and may have to miss a middle school “promotion”. I had to stop myself from saying that it wasn’t a big deal because the ceremony is a bit of a farce. Actually, my daughter is playing in the jazz band – which, in my opinion, is good enough to do weddings. Frankly, I think they should do it so that we can cut down the fund raising.

Speaking of jazz, scaredy, are under 21 people permitted at the Temecula jazz performances you were mentioning a few weeks ago?[/quote]

Yeah. amazing should be banned.
I brought my 13 year old to jazz at the Merc a few,weeks ago.

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