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svelteParticipantI love you scaredy. Funniest. Thread. Ever!
your last sentence sums it up beautifully.
svelteParticipantAnother thought that has been rolling around my head is that this election is a long time coming.
Folks have been leaving both parties for a long time. I think it is mostly the moderates who have been leaving. As more leave, the parties become more extreme which motivates more moderates to leave and it snowballs.
I see it more in the Republican party, and I think that is reflected in their candidates. Bernie is pretty extreme too though.
Just my perspective.
svelteParticipant[quote=La Jolla Renter]
Yes, you read those numbers right. In today’s over-stored and over-stuffed retail environment, the equivalent of almost one-fifth of the U.S. population is paying for the privilege to shop at a particular store. [/quote]Well. Another case where stats can be misleading. Many employers – mine included – give free Costco memberships to all employees.
I’m guessing many other employers to the same. So all those members didn’t choose to be members…it came along for the ride.
Also – even though we’re members, we haven’t set foot in Costco in several years. The crowds give me the heebie jeebies, and we found that buying in bulk led to overconsumption. Yeah maybe we could save 20% per ounce, but if we use twice as much at each serving because the large containers encourage us to do so, no savings were incurred and our beltline paid the price.
svelteParticipant[quote=paramount]Because libs are highly educated and so much smarter and better – well, at least in their own mind. We’re cool hipsters ya know. Craft Beer. Etc…
Libs/hipsters really do look down their nose at the working class – or as Trump calls them ‘less educated’.
[/quote]…OK, so you think libs are highly educated and smart…
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[quote=outtamojo]I thought libs were in favor of higher minimum wages and wanted all blue collar to Unionize so they can rise up against their oppressors and grab a more equal slice of pie.[/quote]Skilled blue collar workers are doing just fine. In general they make much more than min wage.
I think you are referring to lazy unskilled workers. Many of whom have been incorrectly taught (by teachers, parents, etc…) since a young age on that they are oppressed by white people and corporations.
[/quote]…now you think they are lazy and unskilled. So you think libs are highly educated, smart, lazy, and unskilled? Wow.
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Libs/hipsters really do look down their nose at the working class…
[/quote]I hope you realize that you could replace “Libs/hipsters” with “Wealthy Republicans” in that sentence and be just as accurate.
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I think part of it is the elitism that seems to go along with being a lib.[/quote]How can I be elite? I watch Trailer Park Boys regularly and enjoy it!
svelteParticipant[quote=flyer]I think there is great value in having NIMBY’s and Non-NIMBY’s involved in these decisions–as was proven with One Paseo. These developers were actually lucky to reach a compromise, since the developer of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon project in Carlsbad just conceded defeat by a small margin.
If everyone wanted to live their lives in the same way, there would be no conflict. Fortunately, we don’t, so I think the checks and balances these opposing POV’s offer help keep things in balance.
[/quote]…agree so far…
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Soon, there will be no more buildable land–especially in coastal SoCal–so these discussions will be moot.[/quote]Disagree. Even cities that have been built out for close to 100 years have land use disagreements and NIMBY residents. Old buildings come down, new buildings go up, ad infinitum.
svelteParticipantMy take on what has happened: we all played musical chairs while the market had cratered and interest rates were very low. We anticipated rates going up and built our nest / investments on places we wanted to stay long term.
Now we’re all settled in so nobody’s moving.
Interest rates are still low, wages aren’t increasing much, no incentive to move up the food chain property wise. It’s gonna be status quo for a bit.
I could be wrong, tomorrow’s March 1, a flood of new properties could spring up on the market overnight.
svelteParticipant[quote=utcsox][quote=svelte][quote=svelte]Man.
Now Rubio says that Trump “wet his pants”.
Not very presidential. He just joined Trump in the gutter.[/quote]
Trump: “He {Rubio} has really large ears, the biggest ears I’ve ever seen.”
Rubio: “Trump likes to sue people, he should sue whoever did that to his face.”
Come on! Am I watching a Presidential campaign or WWF?[/quote]
Check out the latest video posted from Marco Rubio youtube channel from 0:45.. I kid you not.
“Trump has small hands for how tall he is.. and you know what they say about men with small hands…you can’t trust em!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv7bT0ik3Wg%5B/quote%5D
Wow. Just wow.
svelteParticipant[quote=svelte]Man.
Now Rubio says that Trump “wet his pants”.
Not very presidential. He just joined Trump in the gutter.[/quote]
Trump: “He {Rubio} has really large ears, the biggest ears I’ve ever seen.”
Rubio: “Trump likes to sue people, he should sue whoever did that to his face.”
Come on! Am I watching a Presidential campaign or WWF?
svelteParticipantWhile he calls his rivals liars, Trump says this:
“I’m being audited now for two or three years, so I can’t do it until the audit is finished, obviously. And I think people would understand that,” the Republican front-runner said at Thursday night’s Republican debate in Houston.The Internal Revenue Service and tax experts, though, say he can.
“Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information,” IRS spokesman Anthony Burke said in an e-mail.
If he said “won’t” instead of “can’t”, that would be truthful to me. But “can’t”, that’s not truthful.
Further in the article:
“I’m always audited by the IRS, which I think is very unfair — I don’t know, maybe because of religion, maybe because of something else, maybe because I’m doing this, although this is just recently,” Trump told CNN. “Maybe because of the fact that I’m a strong Christian, and I feel strongly about it, and maybe there’s a bias.”
Seriously. Audited because he’s a Christian? As is most of America? This man is not dumb, he knows that is not the reason. He is trying to rally the troops but getting them riled up, that’s what he’s doing. I would consider this another white lie to stir the pot.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article62756312.html
svelteParticipantApparently they have been doing this for quite awhile at many locations, including I-15 and Aero Drive:
svelteParticipantI’m in favor of CA tint laws. I’ve ridden in a buddy’s car at night and he has tint on the front doors. Drives me nuts, I can’t understand how he doesn’t miss important things it is so hard to see out.
Whether yours is illegal or not I do not know, but the tint laws are good in my mind.
My wife got a ticket the other day for no front plate in one of our sports cars. She was none too happy. So I put the plates on all my cars now. The increase aesthetic that platelessness brings is not worth the hassle.
And actually the CHP guy that signed off on the fix actually apologized to me, said it was travesty to have to put the plate on the car and he wishes his fellow officers wouldn’t ticket it. He gets it, nice guy. One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl.
svelteParticipantNot much of a Hillary fan either.
I might just leave the Pres box unchecked, as I’ve done a couple of times before. Kinda my way of saying “all y’all suck”.
svelteParticipantMy neighborhood is spooky quiet, so I hold off on lawn mower, leaf blower, other noise until 9 AM just to make sure I don’t disturb anyone.
I have noticed someone the next street over who has apparently set his rule at 8:30 Sat to fire up his lawn mower.
I think you’ll get a harsher reaction starting a non-necessity like a motorcycle early in the day than you would a necessity like a lawn mower.
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