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ParticipantRus: I am the 9-5 worker in our family of 4. My 4-year-old is also fond of “poo poo head” so glad to hear it is not unique to her. The 2-year-old is on the bandwagon now too. Won’t use the potty, but sure has a potty mouth thanks to the older sibling’s influence.
I guess I am in the same boat as you–I really don’t have time to “study” these days (unless it’s billable to my job or involves pre-school matters). I have a stack of books from floor to ceiling I hope to read when the kids are both in grade school and I presume I’ll have more time for those pursuits. There are various random things I’ve picked up along the way and some quick internet searches and quick scanning of some major news media (I am partial to Keith Olberman and the Daily Show, so now my Achilles heel is revealed to all the far-right wackos. His “Special Comments” are fantastic–he really is a wonderful, CRITICAL newsman, which is what the media is supposed to be!)
Glad to be here and just trying to participate in the greatest thing our founding fathers left to their progeny–open debate! Oh, and maybe learn a little about the housing market and the general concensus of when we hit bottom so us renters can pounce!
ParticipantRus: I am the 9-5 worker in our family of 4. My 4-year-old is also fond of “poo poo head” so glad to hear it is not unique to her. The 2-year-old is on the bandwagon now too. Won’t use the potty, but sure has a potty mouth thanks to the older sibling’s influence.
I guess I am in the same boat as you–I really don’t have time to “study” these days (unless it’s billable to my job or involves pre-school matters). I have a stack of books from floor to ceiling I hope to read when the kids are both in grade school and I presume I’ll have more time for those pursuits. There are various random things I’ve picked up along the way and some quick internet searches and quick scanning of some major news media (I am partial to Keith Olberman and the Daily Show, so now my Achilles heel is revealed to all the far-right wackos. His “Special Comments” are fantastic–he really is a wonderful, CRITICAL newsman, which is what the media is supposed to be!)
Glad to be here and just trying to participate in the greatest thing our founding fathers left to their progeny–open debate! Oh, and maybe learn a little about the housing market and the general concensus of when we hit bottom so us renters can pounce!
ParticipantRus: I am the 9-5 worker in our family of 4. My 4-year-old is also fond of “poo poo head” so glad to hear it is not unique to her. The 2-year-old is on the bandwagon now too. Won’t use the potty, but sure has a potty mouth thanks to the older sibling’s influence.
I guess I am in the same boat as you–I really don’t have time to “study” these days (unless it’s billable to my job or involves pre-school matters). I have a stack of books from floor to ceiling I hope to read when the kids are both in grade school and I presume I’ll have more time for those pursuits. There are various random things I’ve picked up along the way and some quick internet searches and quick scanning of some major news media (I am partial to Keith Olberman and the Daily Show, so now my Achilles heel is revealed to all the far-right wackos. His “Special Comments” are fantastic–he really is a wonderful, CRITICAL newsman, which is what the media is supposed to be!)
Glad to be here and just trying to participate in the greatest thing our founding fathers left to their progeny–open debate! Oh, and maybe learn a little about the housing market and the general concensus of when we hit bottom so us renters can pounce!
ParticipantI found myself–unwittingly–on the toll road early one morning, got to the toll booth and tried to figure out what the toll was. There was no attendant, no signs, just a number to call. I actually sat at the booth (no one behind me the whole time–it was pretty late) called the number but couldn’t reach anyone. Couldn’t turn around, so I drove through.
Well, for my trouble and good intentions, I received a notice that I would be fined some ridiculous amount (hundred bucks, I think). Then I read the fine print–I would be fined if I didn’t pay the toll (after the fact). So I called and paid the fine. I grew up on teh east coast–quite a few toll roads there (turnpikes). They have a basket where you throw in your change and/or they man one or two gates with real people–all night!
Point is, I feel your pain. it’s ludicrous to set up a toll booth and then not have it work properly or be set up (in modern california) for all the different possibilities, then impose on the driver to pay the fee.
I remember the stores in the mall out in those parts was having some killer sales…maybe the toll road just isn’t getting used enough?
ParticipantI found myself–unwittingly–on the toll road early one morning, got to the toll booth and tried to figure out what the toll was. There was no attendant, no signs, just a number to call. I actually sat at the booth (no one behind me the whole time–it was pretty late) called the number but couldn’t reach anyone. Couldn’t turn around, so I drove through.
Well, for my trouble and good intentions, I received a notice that I would be fined some ridiculous amount (hundred bucks, I think). Then I read the fine print–I would be fined if I didn’t pay the toll (after the fact). So I called and paid the fine. I grew up on teh east coast–quite a few toll roads there (turnpikes). They have a basket where you throw in your change and/or they man one or two gates with real people–all night!
Point is, I feel your pain. it’s ludicrous to set up a toll booth and then not have it work properly or be set up (in modern california) for all the different possibilities, then impose on the driver to pay the fee.
I remember the stores in the mall out in those parts was having some killer sales…maybe the toll road just isn’t getting used enough?
ParticipantI found myself–unwittingly–on the toll road early one morning, got to the toll booth and tried to figure out what the toll was. There was no attendant, no signs, just a number to call. I actually sat at the booth (no one behind me the whole time–it was pretty late) called the number but couldn’t reach anyone. Couldn’t turn around, so I drove through.
Well, for my trouble and good intentions, I received a notice that I would be fined some ridiculous amount (hundred bucks, I think). Then I read the fine print–I would be fined if I didn’t pay the toll (after the fact). So I called and paid the fine. I grew up on teh east coast–quite a few toll roads there (turnpikes). They have a basket where you throw in your change and/or they man one or two gates with real people–all night!
Point is, I feel your pain. it’s ludicrous to set up a toll booth and then not have it work properly or be set up (in modern california) for all the different possibilities, then impose on the driver to pay the fee.
I remember the stores in the mall out in those parts was having some killer sales…maybe the toll road just isn’t getting used enough?
ParticipantI found myself–unwittingly–on the toll road early one morning, got to the toll booth and tried to figure out what the toll was. There was no attendant, no signs, just a number to call. I actually sat at the booth (no one behind me the whole time–it was pretty late) called the number but couldn’t reach anyone. Couldn’t turn around, so I drove through.
Well, for my trouble and good intentions, I received a notice that I would be fined some ridiculous amount (hundred bucks, I think). Then I read the fine print–I would be fined if I didn’t pay the toll (after the fact). So I called and paid the fine. I grew up on teh east coast–quite a few toll roads there (turnpikes). They have a basket where you throw in your change and/or they man one or two gates with real people–all night!
Point is, I feel your pain. it’s ludicrous to set up a toll booth and then not have it work properly or be set up (in modern california) for all the different possibilities, then impose on the driver to pay the fee.
I remember the stores in the mall out in those parts was having some killer sales…maybe the toll road just isn’t getting used enough?
ParticipantI found myself–unwittingly–on the toll road early one morning, got to the toll booth and tried to figure out what the toll was. There was no attendant, no signs, just a number to call. I actually sat at the booth (no one behind me the whole time–it was pretty late) called the number but couldn’t reach anyone. Couldn’t turn around, so I drove through.
Well, for my trouble and good intentions, I received a notice that I would be fined some ridiculous amount (hundred bucks, I think). Then I read the fine print–I would be fined if I didn’t pay the toll (after the fact). So I called and paid the fine. I grew up on teh east coast–quite a few toll roads there (turnpikes). They have a basket where you throw in your change and/or they man one or two gates with real people–all night!
Point is, I feel your pain. it’s ludicrous to set up a toll booth and then not have it work properly or be set up (in modern california) for all the different possibilities, then impose on the driver to pay the fee.
I remember the stores in the mall out in those parts was having some killer sales…maybe the toll road just isn’t getting used enough?
Participant[quote=Casca][quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.
I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]
Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.
[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]
Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.
[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]
Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.
In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.[/quote]
Uncompensated activity….right. Those of you on the GOP dole need to fess up. Seriously, though, do you people have jobs? I can understand if you are retired or something, riding around on tractors out in Jamul all day and need to come in for a break from the heat, but you guys are at this stuff day and night!
Participant[quote=Casca][quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.
I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]
Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.
[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]
Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.
[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]
Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.
In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.[/quote]
Uncompensated activity….right. Those of you on the GOP dole need to fess up. Seriously, though, do you people have jobs? I can understand if you are retired or something, riding around on tractors out in Jamul all day and need to come in for a break from the heat, but you guys are at this stuff day and night!
Participant[quote=Casca][quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.
I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]
Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.
[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]
Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.
[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]
Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.
In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.[/quote]
Uncompensated activity….right. Those of you on the GOP dole need to fess up. Seriously, though, do you people have jobs? I can understand if you are retired or something, riding around on tractors out in Jamul all day and need to come in for a break from the heat, but you guys are at this stuff day and night!
Participant[quote=Casca][quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.
I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]
Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.
[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]
Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.
[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]
Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.
In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.[/quote]
Uncompensated activity….right. Those of you on the GOP dole need to fess up. Seriously, though, do you people have jobs? I can understand if you are retired or something, riding around on tractors out in Jamul all day and need to come in for a break from the heat, but you guys are at this stuff day and night!
Participant[quote=Casca][quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.
I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]
Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.
[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]
Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.
[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]
Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.
[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.
In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.[/quote]
Uncompensated activity….right. Those of you on the GOP dole need to fess up. Seriously, though, do you people have jobs? I can understand if you are retired or something, riding around on tractors out in Jamul all day and need to come in for a break from the heat, but you guys are at this stuff day and night!
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Your view of Cuba is a little at odds with Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/2007/01/11/cuba14886.htm%5B/quote%5D
HRW!! They do good work. In my youth, I used to work for them (stateside, unfortunately–or maybe fortunately if you don’t like drunken renegade Serbian paramilitaries shooting at you–or worse, from the female perspective).
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