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General Discussion / This mom may have considered her a future nyab so should she buy her

« on: Today at 02:17:23 PM »

..a cap and gown?

My son’s wonderful girlfriend can’t afford a graduation gown — should I buy one for her?

My son, who is in his senior year of high school, is dating a beautiful, sweet girl I’ll call “Amanda.” I’m very fond of her. This is an exciting year for them both because soon she will be shopping for her graduation gown. Amanda told me her mom has said she will have to wear her older sister’s dress. (Her sister graduated seven years ago.) Finances are tight for their family. I asked Amanda how she feels about it, and she isn’t happy.

I would love to buy her a gown. I remember being in high school and how exciting it was to be able to buy a new gown. My daughter is two years older and says that soon the girls in school will be talking about shopping for their new gowns. I really want this experience for Amanda.

The problem is, I don’t want to offend her or her mother with my offer. Should I stay out of this? Should I approach her mother? I have met her mom only a couple of times, and I don’t want to step on any toes. Even if my son and Amanda are not together by the time graduation happens, I would still want her to have a dress of her choosing and all the experiences that come with it. — OFFERING ASSISTANCE IN CANADA

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General Discussion / You know how crazy and stupid this lunatic is when even Trump had enough

« on: Today at 02:13:11 PM »

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Even Trump has had enough of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest stunt

The Capitol Hill chroniclers at Punchbowl News made a proclamation Monday morning: “The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden.” It’s a remarkable statement, considering Democrats only hold the majority in the Senate. But the “burn it down caucus” in the House GOP has achieved the impossible. They have torched their own congressional majority, leaving themselves a one-seat governing majority in the House of Representative s.

How? Republicans are running for the exits at an alarming clip. Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado left in late March; now Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin is leaving early. “This place just keeps going downhill, and I don’t need to spend my time here,” Buck said, per The Washington Post. But it’s not the place that’s going downhill; it’s that the Republicans are at all-out war with each other. On Saturday, that war hit a fever pitch, when embattled Speaker Mike Johnson was finally able to pass the $94 billion foreign aid package.

The very next day, the cover of the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post — Donald Trump’s onetime favorite tabloid — read, “NYET, MOSCOW MARJORIE,” and was emblazoned with a picture of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in a furry gray ushanka. And Monday, the Post published a column from Piers Morgan, the longtime Murdoch editor, calling Greene “Vladimir Putin’s chief ‘useful idiot.’”

“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s position on Ukraine was clearly a bridge too far for Piers Morgan and the New York Post,” said Howard Polskin, who runs conservative media tracker TheRighting. “I was surprised — pleasantly so — that she was dubbed ‘Moscow Marjorie’ in the headline. Hopefully, that moniker will be an indelible stain on her reputation.”

The Post wasn’t alone. Last week, Fox News’ website (which is also owned by Murdoch) published an opinion piece titled “Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP.” The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal (also owned by Murdoch) blasted “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene.” And far-right outlet Newsmax — not owned by Murdoch — ran a piece asking, “Who Put Marjorie Taylor Greene In Charge?”

The right-wing media industrial complex is sending a message to Greene loud and clear: Stop campaigning to oust Johnson. These outlets have no interest in repeating the disarray after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., triggered the end of then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership last fall. Johnson succeeded McCarthy, in large part thanks to Trump’s backing, but only after an embarrassing 22 days without a speaker.

But Greene seems not to be heeding the message. She went on Steve Bannon’s podcast Monday to repeat her demand for a new speaker. And she wasn’t the only member of Congress being obstreperous. Rep. Thomas Massie, who has backed Greene’s move against Johnson, attacked the speaker and Rep. Andy Barr, Massie’s fellow Kentucky Republican, on social media. In South Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Virginia, Republicans are campaigning against other GOP incumbents in primaries. This is not how members of the same caucus are supposed to behave, especially during a campaign year when Republicans are desperately trying to keep the House and win the presidency.

Late Monday, after Greene told Bannon she would continue her quixotic quest, Trump himself — the grand duke of “burn it down” politics — shot the whole idea down. “We have a majority of one, OK?” he told conservative radio host John Fredericks. “It’s not like [Johnson] can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he’s a very good person. … I think he’s trying very hard.”

Whether or not Trump’s intervention makes a difference, the pile of House Republicans’ failures rises higher by the week. Their attempt to impeach Biden fell apart when their star witness was arrested. Their other impeachment effort, of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ended with a whimper. And their attempted “Appliance Week” — a series of lame messaging bills about gas stoves and other household items — had to be humiliatingly scrapped. Republicans allowed Trump to pick their speaker, but it turns out he’s about as good at picking speakers as he is at being president. And the beneficiaries are Joe Biden and the Democrats.

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General Discussion / Besides "scumbags", are these Republicans "grotesques" too??

« on: Today at 02:10:18 PM »

Longtime conservative commentator George Will pulled no punches as he tore into who he described as the “112 ignoble House Republicans” who voted at the weekend against sending aid to Ukraine.

Instead, they voted “to endanger civilization,” Will wrote in his latest column for The Washington Post published Wednesday.

“Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious ‘establishment’), they voted to assure [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a European nation,” Will fumed.

The bill was passed this week after months of deadlock.

But despite its eventual success, Will warned the “cabal of grotesques [in the GOP] might yet predominate.’”

Among that so-called cabal of Donald Trump-devoted Republicans, he named and shamed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). They have staunchly opposed the funding of Ukraine’s defense from Russia’s ongoing invasion. Greene even threatened to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over his support for the bill.

Will ended his essay with an ominous thought.

“Today’s Moscow-Beijing-Tehran axis is, as the 1930s Axis was, watching,” he wrote, adding: “We can now see that the great unraveling that was World War II perhaps began with Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria. Without the benefit of retrospection, we cannot be certain that World War III has not begun.”

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General Discussion / Looks like CA Gov. "Nuisance" will be wasting more public $$$ and time

« on: Today at 02:06:14 PM »

Newsom sent CHP officers to fight crime in Oakland. Now he's sending them to Bakersfield

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he's sending California Highway Patrol officers to Bakersfield, an expansion of a law enforcement campaign launched earlier this year with an effort to tamp down crime in hard-hit California cities.

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General Discussion / Tesla is the "new Nissan" for the low-income folks?

« on: Today at 02:04:08 PM »

'Depreciating so bad': TikToker says Teslas could be the 'new Nissan Altimas' for 'low-income individuals'

Remember the old saying, “A car loses value as soon as it’s driven off the lot”?

Although this saying originated in the era of internal combustion engines, the principle remains true for today's advanced battery-powered vehicles. Even Tesla (TSLA), the leading force in America's transition to electric vehicles, is not exempt from this rule.

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General Discussion / Blame it on Summer blend again instead of the real culprit: GREED

« on: Today at 02:00:04 PM »

Price of gas soars to $7.29 in California city, above federal minimum wage — 3 oil stocks poised for profit

Gas prices can fluctuate widely, even within the same area, yet one exceptionally high price at a Menlo Park, California, station recently was quite notable.

NBC Bay Area reporter Scott Budman recently posted a photo on X (formerly known as Twitter) April 21 of a Chevron gas station that displayed regular self-serve gas priced at $7.29 a gallon.

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General Discussion / Like the one here that gets called out left & right, no one trust a serial LIAR

« on: Today at 01:57:43 PM »

George Santos ends comeback bid for Congress after raising no money

George Santos ends comeback bid for Congress after raising no money. Former U.S. Rep. George Santos on Tuesday said he is dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges.

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Marriage & Family Life / What should you do if you're the married friend?

« on: April 24, 2024, 11:52:56 PM »

I am attracted to my husband’s married friend — I’m starting to fall in love with him

I am an unhappily married woman with young children. I am attracted to a friend of mine and my husband’s, but he is also married. He’s a bit older, and I can’t tell for sure if he has feelings for me, but sometimes I suspect it. He has made me jewelry and gifts, and I’ve caught him looking at me a few times.

We have exchanged messages on social media and he often asks me questions about myself — what I like, etc. He’s just so quiet that I can’t tell if it all means anything. I could never leave my husband and break up my family, and I could never break up someone else’s family. But I’m starting to wonder and sometimes think I really am falling in love with him. What should I do?

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General Discussion / This lunatic may have punched 7 random women but doubt he'll be punished much

« on: April 24, 2024, 11:37:20 PM »

Man accused of punching seven random women in New York City is arrested
Police say the man punched women, sometimes in the face, on their heads, or on their backs.

A man accused of assaulting random women in New York City was arrested Tuesday, police said.

Daquan Armstead, 31, of East Bronx, was taken into custody on suspicion of hate-motivated assaults on seven women from late March to mid-April in Lower Manhattan, police said.

Authorities allege he punched women, sometimes in the face, on their heads, or on their backs.

When asked about the allegations while being taken out of the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force office, Armstead responded, "They spit at me." Police refuted the suspect’s claim that victims had spit on him.

It wasn't clear Tuesday evening if he has retained legal counsel. New York County Defender Services, which provides defense attorneys for many criminal cases, noted that a public record of his arrest was unavailable.

Armstead was arrested on suspicion of hate crime/assault; suspicion of attempted hate crime; and suspicion of aggravated harassment, according to the NYPD's Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information.

Police told NBC New York there have been 95 unprovoked assaults in Manhattan so far this year, with 50 of them involving victims who are women.

At least one arrest was made previously in connection with a series of attacks earlier this spring that gained attention after some of the women told their stories on TikTok.

The allegations involving Armstead do not appear to be any of the attacks seen on social media.

The department released a timeline of alleged attacks

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General Discussion / Sorry Bank Tellers as I've asked for the C-note many times over the years

« on: April 22, 2024, 11:46:09 PM »

I’m a Bank Teller: 3 Times You Should Never Ask For $100 Bills at the Bank

In short, most of our paper money is in hundreds — by a mile — but that doesn’t mean there’s never a bad time to walk into a bank branch and ask for one.

Whether you need a fresh, crisp C-note to put in a birthday card, a wedding envelope or just to stash in your emergency cash pile at home, you’ll want to pick your moment.

...“I would advise against requesting $100 bills at a bank branch during peak hours...
“It’s also best to avoid asking for $100 bills during times of cash shortages, such as after weekends or holidays...The Wrong Time Is Any Time You Don’t Call Ahead First. Call ahead and ask if they can fulfill your request before you head down to the branch.

For example when I asked for these C-note:

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General Discussion / Are Republicans really scumbags??

« on: April 22, 2024, 02:11:23 PM »

Texas Congressman Roasts Fellow Republicans on CNN: ‘I Serve With Some Real Scumbags’

Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales chose to fight fire with fire Sunday morning. During a conversation with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Gonzales railed against a number of his colleagues. “It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress,” he said, “but I serve with some real scumbags.”


“Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with them at drug parties,” Gonzales asserted. “Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi — these people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.”

“Look, it didn’t surprise me that some of these folks voted against aid to Israel, but I was encouraged to see by a nearly 10 to 1 mark that Republicans supported our allies on the battlefield,” the military veteran concluded.

A shocked Bash replied, “Wow. OK. I should say that the federal government did look into Matt Gaetz and those allegations, and they decided not to prosecute.”

Bash asked Gonzales if he’s trying to put the members of Congress “in a box.”

“Members… members are tired,” he answered. “We’re exhausted. It has been a brutal Congress.”

“But we’re also dug in. For some reason, these fringe people think as if they have the high ground. They do not. I assure you, the rank and file members that normally are kind of easygoing, doing the right thing, put their head down — they vote yes or no, but they’re not public about it.”

“Those days are over,” Gonzales said. “The fight is here.”

Gaetz announced in 2021 that he was the subject of a Department of Justice investigation for sexual misconduct. He denied the allegations as the New York Times reported the DOJ had launched an investigation into allegations Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a then-17-year-old and paid for her to travel to several states, a potential violation of sex trafficking laws.

Two years later, the DOJ announced it would not pursue charges against Gaetz. CNN legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid told TheWrap that ultimately, “the system” had worked in Gaetz’s favor. She explained, “A lot of people were curious about why that case didn’t go forward — they worried, because he’s powerful and his family’s wealthy, that he was getting off.”

“Here, the system worked — they investigated, looked at the evidence [and] it didn’t have quite enough, so they decided not to go forward.”

Watch the exchange between Gonzales and Bash in the video above.

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Marriage & Family Life / Elephant man can give many Hmong men a run for their money

« on: April 19, 2024, 11:25:37 PM »

Nick Cannon WHO? Elephant Man Reveals He Has 38 Kids, And Wouldn’t Mind A Few More
The dancehall legend has no use for condoms...so here we are.

Jamaican Dancehall legend Elephant Man recently revealed that he has over 30 kids, putting Nick Cannon and his dozen to shame.

“I have 38 pickney, start from mi a 17,” the Pon Di River artist shared during a recent Instagram Live session, Hot 97 reports. “Mi might ugly and all of that, but the gyal dem like mi bandy legs.”

When asked by DJ/ producer Noah Powa if he’s open to having even more children, Elephant Man responded affirmatively, adding that he doesn’t use condoms, so having another kid will always be a possibility.

“You nah sex your woman inna nuh condom, You ever go to your woman inna her house inna condom, yuh inna trouble,” he continued before detailing his relationship with his children and their mothers.

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General Discussion / Black MAGA members in Chi-Town not happy with Mayor Brandon?

« on: April 19, 2024, 02:22:33 PM »

Black Chicago voters rip mayor on extra $70M for migrants as recall petition gathers steam
'We need that money in my neighborhood,' railed one Black woman wearing a red 'Make America Great Again' cowboy hat
Infuriated Black Chicagoans showed up in force at a City Council meeting on Wednesday to protest Mayor Brandon Johnson’s request for an additional $70 million in taxpayers' funds to be spent on tackling the city’s migrant crisis, while a petition that would give residents the right to recall the mayor is gathering serious traction.

The progressive mayor, who has vigorously defended the city’s sanctuary policies in the past, wants aldermen to greenlight the extra cash in a vote on Friday despite the Windy City having already poured $300 million into housing, food and health care for the recently arrived migrants, according to the city's latest numbers.

However, critics of the spending spree blasted the mayor during Wednesday’s gathering, where aldermen were initially expected to vote on rubber-stamping the new funds. Aldermen deferred the measure, using the council tactic to stall consideration.

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General Discussion / The Dead Man is from Texas so getting called a "Democrat" must not feel good?

« on: April 19, 2024, 02:19:56 PM »

The Undertaker Recalls Argument With 7-Year-Old Who Called Him A Democrat, Threatened To Shoot Him

“He goes, 'I'm not doing anything I'm not supposed to be doing. You're doing something you're not supposed to be doing!' I was like, no. Then this kid, this seven-year-old kid, goes, 'Hey, I'll shoot you right in the face!'

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General Discussion / GOP can't make up their minds about abortion??

« on: April 19, 2024, 02:17:06 PM »

"You can go three hours that way": Kari Lake and Arizona GOP can't decide if abortion is bad or not