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[quote=deadzone][quote=SK in CV][quote=FlyerInHi]Trump is doing so well.
He speaks what Republicans think but were afraid to voice.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/donald-trump-presidential-poll-debate/%5B/quote%5D

And the more he talks, the more he proves he’s a f’ing idiot. Not a jerk, though he is that too. An absolute idiot. He essentially said the 14th amendment isn’t constitutional. Spit my spicy noodle all over the table laughing at that one.[/quote]

If you are referring to birthright citizenship, I guarantee you that the majority of Americans are against it, particularly as it is being blatantly abused by Mexicans and others for anchor babies. Most politicians don’t have the balls to bring up this topic which is another example of why a guy like Trump, clown that he is, will continue to be popular.[/quote]

It’s one thing to be a bigot. That makes him, and just about everyone else that’s afraid of the “anchor baby” threat, a jerk. But arguing that the constitution is unconstitutional makes him an unmitigated idiot. And bonus idiocy to anyone that thinks repealing it will change anything.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Trump is doing so well.
He speaks what Republicans think but were afraid to voice.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/donald-trump-presidential-poll-debate/%5B/quote%5D

And the more he talks, the more he proves he’s a f’ing idiot. Not a jerk, though he is that too. An absolute idiot. He essentially said the 14th amendment isn’t constitutional. Spit my spicy noodle all over the table laughing at that one.

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111 where I am right now. Expected to match yesterday’s 117 by the end of the day. yippeeeeeee

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[quote=paramount]Maybe Trump is putting on an act for the Republican Party. Part of a larger plan?[/quote]

Yep. First guy out of the clown car.

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[quote=paramount][quote=SK in CV] They can’t really complain when their people want to follow an idiot.[/quote]

He may be a lot of things but idiot is not one of them.[/quote]

As a carny, you’re right. He’s a genius. He sucks enough people into the show to make a shit load of money. As a political leader? He’s an idiot.

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[quote=urbanrealtor][quote=La Jolla Renter]His debate numbers are so strong, he just might be able to run as a 3rd party candidate and win.

How can he get himself invited to the Democratic debate? I imagine he would pull just as well with democrats and mop up the stage with those candidates as well.

That’s how fed up voters are with the lame choices they have in each party.[/quote]

Are you serious or just having a piss with this comment?

You sound serious but the content is so absurd it reads like its from The Onion.[/quote]

I don’t know if he’s serious, and my reaction was the same as yours. But make no mistake about it, the Trump candidacy is real. The Republican party has spent the last 30 years telling their constituency to not listen to informed sources, and that informed people are the enemy. They got what they asked for. They can’t really complain when their people want to follow an idiot.

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Whatever the market will bear. .25 to .75 per oz discount to sell or premium to buy is not atypical. It’s also a relationship thing. Whatever the dealer thinks he can get from you, he will. That spread could be higher if you’re buying or selling a little junk. Maybe lower if you’re buying or selling a 1000 oz bar.

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[quote=DavidSD]I’m sorry, this is termite fumigation no repair necessary, it’s around $2400.

@SK in CV: but I haven’t signed the Financial Contingency yet. You are right, the contract doesn’t spell out exactly which fee & cost.[/quote]

Ridiculous for seller to ask you to pay for it. You get no benefit. I thought it was just the report he wanted you to pay for. You’re under no obligation to pay for any of it. He’s under no obligation to do the remediation. Take your deposit and walk away.

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You have a contract. Do what it says. It probably doesn’t address the cost of the termite report specifically, but it probably does have a drop dead date, after which the seller is entitled to keep earnest money. Legally, it doesn’t matter what you want or what the seller wants. What matters is what’s in the contract.

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By EPM, do you mean Enterprise Performance Management or something else?
At that rate, screw Matlab & verilog, I am going to switch. Can’t be that hard to learn that stuff, can it?[/quote]

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Both SAP and Oracle have their library of products. I have no idea how hard it is to learn. The people I knew who did it were all extremely bright, all with MBA’s, some of them also CPA’s. The one really hard part of the job is that they were all on the road >150 days a year, some of them closer to 250. Right before I left, there was a guy who lived in Atlanta I think, and spent 4 months in Cupertino doing an installation, commuting back and forth every other weekend or so. He was literally the only guy in the world who had ever done what he was doing. It’s a hard lifestyle.

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Everyone else that’s commented so far seems to think you’re talking about ERP stuff. I spent about a year working with a EPM consulting firm, and most of their experienced guys were making $200K, and many of them significantly more. It was my understanding that the ERP guys didn’t make quite so much. Qualified consultants were hard to find, some of them billing at $400-450/hr. SAP actually had a division that did the work themselves, but their sales side often seemed to prefer to refer the work out to boutiques.

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Hillary said marriage should be a constitutional right: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/04/15/shifting-position-clinton-says-gay-marriage-should-be-a-constitutional-right/. So if she wins in 2016, that technical difference wouldn’t matter. Assuming she would follow through and declare marriage as a constitutional right.[/quote]

I think you know better than that. Presidents don’t have the power to make declarations like that. Only the supreme court can decide, with any legal authority, whether a law is constitutional.

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[quote=AN][quote=Blogstar]These polyamorous people didn’t waste much time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/03/us-usa-polygamist-montana-idUSKCN0PD0BQ20150703%5B/quote%5D
It would be very interesting to see how this turn out. Now that both the SCOTUS and POTUS say that marriage is a constitutional right, I wonder how the defending lawyer(s) would argue for denying people their constitutional right.[/quote]

Neither the court nor the president said exactly that. The difference is technical but significant. What the court said is that denying same-sex couples the same rights as straight couples is a violation of due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th amendment. Whether a polygamist marriage would be similarly protected is arguable. No inference can be drawn from this court decision.

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So it was some kind of a conspiracy that AIDS did not get more attention? Even though, it was merely just identified and little was known about it let alone a cure? How much attention or $$ should the gov’t pour into each and every newly identified disease for it to not to be demonized? Would you say the same thing wrt to the $$ and effort the gov’t putting into research for Ebola?[/quote]

It wasn’t a conspiracy. It was an administration unwilling to lift a finger or spend a dollar on a gay disease. You can compare it to Ebola. But the two don’t look the same. Billions were and will be spent on Ebola this year. There have been less than a dozen cases in the US and 2 deaths. Reagan announced his big push to find a cure for AIDS more than 4 years after it was identified, and after more than 25,000 were already dead. Within 3 years another 125,000 would be dead.

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[quote=bearishgurl] You are referring to one husband living with two adult “spouses,” perhaps one legal spouse and one whom he’s not legally married to, correct?…

I personally don’t see what these “cults” practice (or even what “mainstream” LDS members practice) as a religion or a “church.”

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Yes, kind of what I’m referring to. But I’m getting that you think I’m still talking about people that are somehow connected to a cult or a religion. I’m not. The one family I’ve known since the mid-90’s, are 3 atheists that live in Torrance and have been together since at least that time. Not a traditional home, but not any cult either.

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