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Imagine flipping a coin 4,645,908 times and it comes up heads 52% of the time. Then, come back 3 hours later and flip the coin 150,000 times and it comes up tails 100% of the time. That’s MI (and probably PA and GA). And that’s what we’re supposed to believe?

...I would have had to hire a taster to sample my coffee each morning to make sure there wasn’t any ethylene glycol in it!

Reminds me of a Winston Churchill story when he was attending a dinner party where he was at odds with a lady who was also there. The conversation went something like:

Lady: "Winston! If I were married to you, I would poison your tea!"

Churchill: "Madam, if I were married to you, I would gladly drink it!"

The good news: The XYL had done it before I did. The bad news: Perhaps I kidded her too much about it. Karma’s a bitch!

I was in FL recently and went to an open-air restaurant for dinner. It was great to have a meal out. On the way back to the car, I couldn’t find my keys. I went back into the restaurant, told them I may have dropped my car keys, and several of us retraced my steps.

Nada..

I finally went back to where I parked the car just to make sure it wasn’t stolen. It was sitting there, still running after about an hour, with the doors unlocked.

Neera Tanden, appears to have deleted over 1,000 tweets since Nov. 1

Ah, yes, the old CYA move...

The fact that rural areas may not have 25mps Internet access hardly seems to me to be a gov't issue. I understand the FCC's role in regulating the Internet in general, but making differential pricing based on geographical area establishes a dangerous precedent.

Rural areas can have such access (e.g., satellite), it simply costs them more. If they felt it was worth it, they'd buy it. Arguing "but the poor children won't be able to do their homework" doesn't cut it either, for the same reason. Indeed, the proportion of children living in rural areas continues to decline, so a blanket "fix" would reach a declining number of people it's suppose to help.

I think our collective goal should be to get the gov't out of our lives, not more into it.

Seems hypocritical to me. Why couldn’t she offer the same olive branch when she lost the election in 2016? Now she is asking me to support a guy who’s been in DC for 46 years and never accomplished anything other than to line his own pockets.

From my earlier post:

This program should require a payback of all sums with interest. My daughter-in-law was a nurse by training but then decided to go to law school, using a student loan to pay for it. She specializes in health law. In her first case, she won and her share of the settlement was more than I earned in my last 6 years of college-level teaching. Even though she is family, why should my tax dollars pay for her education when she reaps the financial rewards?

She has already repaid her loan.

It also seems there is a scam afoot where "agents" sell minorities on student loans. There was a recent post on this, but I can't find it. Some other statistics confirm the higher ratio.

https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/racial-disparities-in-student-loan-debt

{Trump] is unable to “wrap his brain around the fact” that he lost the election to Joe Biden.

Easy to explain: It's because he didn't lose.

Truth is, he didn’t lose the election. The real question is whether he’s allowed to prove it.

My guess is that this one should go to the courts as a breach of Freedom of Speech.

Joy Reid could find something to bitch about in a phone book listing. Who gives a crap what she thinks. This PC-ness is a monumental waste of time.

She has paid the loan off and will not benefit if something this stupid goes through.

This program should require a payback of all sums with interest. My daughter-in-law was a nurse by training but then decided to go to law school, using a student loan to pay for it. She specializes in health law. In her first case, she won and her share of the settlement was more than I earned in my last 6 years of college-level teaching. Even though she is family, why should my tax dollars pay for her education when she reaps the financial rewards?

Still, no tears from me. Why should the US citizens pay for her child. Let her go through the legal process if she wants entry. Better still, stay in Mexico and work to make your gov’t more responsive to its peoples’ needs.

I often point out that history is strewn with the wreckage of Socialism, from New Harmony, Indiana, and Walden to modern-day Venezuela. I ask: Name a successful Socialist country. I almost always get the same answer: Sweden. So I ask them: Who owns Volvo. Their answer: The Swedish people. My response: Really? That's going to come as a surprise to Zhejiang Geely Holding in China 'cuz they think they own it.

Moral of the story: Liberals are taught to embrace Socialism even though they know nothing about what it is. They seems to have the inquisitive nature of a bag of hammers.

I learned to keep my pro-America/pro-democracy views to myself.

Not sure why, but that's very hard for me to do!!

I fought a similar battle in the universities. My Ph.D. is in Cliometrics and I tried to teach conservative economics a la Friedman and they did listen. However, I was pretty much a lone voice for conservatism. I ate a lot of lunches alone. Oddly, even though I was surrounded by very bright people, none wanted to debate the merits of Capitalism versus Socialism or any other "ism".

Before you can fix racial equality, you need to determine the cause of racial inequality. The 800lb gorilla in the room is this question: Discrimination is a learned behavior. Why are blacks discriminated against more than other minorities in the US? If you're honest, it's because of black behavior. We've thrown trillions of dollars at the problem, but the solution can't be bought. It has to come from within the black community. They need to police their own house and clean it up from the inside and earn racial equality.

And what makes him think that blacks want to be farmers? Most will just turn around and sell the land. This is disguised reparations and, as I pointed out earlier, reparations would required blacks to pay non-blacks a little over $600 billion per year since emancipation. Probably not what they have in mind.