@Alfred What is Kona Blue?
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She seemed genuinely conflicted, particularly about the GOP record on women's rights. I wonder if she isn't a GOP volunteer out of reflex in AZ
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Visited today by someone hanging door tags for Ted Cruz. It is garage sale weekend so we were out.
We declined and she asked why, answered politely but candidly.and she said, "Yeah, I am hearing a lot of that."
She talked for a while and said she was brought in from Arizona and wasn't familiar with Cruz, blah, blah, blah
Why do you think they can't find local volunteers for Cruz? ;-)
We didn't let her off easy. I let her know AZ candidate for Senate was pretty toxic as well
Roseated spoonbills right in our suburban park. I see herons and egrets all the time, but this splash of color is new for a subdivision park.
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Didn't know I needed Dave Bautista's political assessment but I did
Lewis Black on "undecided " voters
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBM40A8SaWo/
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Sam Weinberg:
Young people will make fun of old people for falling for scams and then vote for Jill Stein.
Further, if she is elected with a Pub Congress in power, she will face the same limitations Biden has faced.
Hugely important that we vote up and down the ticket to get anything lasting accomplished.
Pet Peeve: The answer to "If Harris is going to do all these great things why hasn't she done it already?" is NOT to diminish her role as Vice President and backhand agree that Biden was crap.
She cast deciding votes on important beneficial legislation and there is no reason to run from Biden's record.
The answer to the question is the House of Representatives. Since gaining control, Pubs have obstructed and delayed.
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Imagine going out to eat, you get a bill from the restaurant for the food and facility, another, LATER, from the chef, another from the server, another for the drinks, you learn how a restaurant works indirectly from all the separate bills. And no one informs you in advance of all the separate involved parties.
Sound nuts?
We need legislation to require billing for one event from one entity. All involved parties can bill through them. And , no bills coming in months apart for the same event.
Current Pet Peeve: Medical billing in the U.S.
Subset of the greater gripe of dysfunction of the whole healthcare system.
Getting peppered by small bills from MONTHS ago. Some are related to miscalculations of insurance benefits. Some are just the nonsense of billing all the different involved entities separately. Radiology, anesthesia, ordering doctor, facility, all separate bills delivered MONTHS apart. Why can't all bills be routed from one entity?
Interesting.
I have read elsewhere that younger generations are better at processing multiple streams of information simultaneously. They may even actually be able to multi-task (most of us just lose time hopping back and forth.)
But maybe they are losing the ability to follow long form writing.
I read a TON in high school, both for pleasure and assignments of classics. Not so much today.
Childless dog lady discovers key to a long life.
Sound reasoning to me.
@Alfred Tell us a Halloween Christmas story both heartwarming and frightening.
OK, with so much copycat content out there, this was unique.
If LinkedIn was real life.
Why are Red states poorer, sicker, and less educated than Blue states?
This article argues it isn't just a consequence of policy that doesn't work. The policies work as intended, to keep a source of cheap labor for the fat cats.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-are-red-state-citizens-poorer-2ef
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