Mark Davis

A lot has to do with the location where it occurs. I'm wondering how long we are going to tolerate the things like occurred at Grand Central Station tonight. Property damage, police locking themselves inside, we should be arresting everyone causing damage and making threats. If those committing criminal acts aren't citizens, send them on their way.

I get the feeling she would be fun too

Just different times. I'd have either knocked that guy out after class or got knocked out myself during those years. Someone would have gotten laid out, even if it were me.

If you do rentals you are essentially leveraging yourself. It can be profitable but in this interest rate environment it certainly is more risky. I own rental properties and have a bit of experience in both college rentals and small single family units and one vacation property. I would say if you are considering this, you must pair it with buying your own home. It's not a consistent strategy to rent your primary residence but purchase properties to rent to others. The main reason is overhead and the simple fact that others won't care for your property as you would. Your best return on average will be your own residence for that reason and the differential in maintenance, repairs, vacancies, etc. When it comes to mutual funds, just remember the disclaimer past performance has no bearing on future results. I think we may be out of the long term double digit returns there, but that's just an opinion.

The most concerning part of all this isn't that people are speaking about things that Israel is doing wrong or could do better. All that is fine and people can have different opinions. What is problematic is all the morons who are chanting "From the River to the Sea" and openly supporting Hamas. One can argue that they are too stupid to get the true meaning of that I guess but if that's the case it's even more concerning that people that clueless are still motivated to action in such a way. We have a much stronger undercurrent of Marxism and hatred of Western culture in this country than I thought. That to me is way more concerning long term than anything a foreign military is capable of doing to us.

CNN constantly running the negative Biden polls tonight. You can tell they are really trying to push for Biden to step aside.

No, and I was an adult before I even realized that Truman's decisions there were questioned seriously. As someone who had a dad in the Philippines that would have had to be part of the invasion force for mainland Japan, I'm thankful President Truman didn't have such reservations.

Good thing that social media wasn't around during WWII. The Nazi's would have feasted on it with their propaganda. We inflicted horrible tolls on the citizens of Japan and Germany in WWII. War tends to do that, and unless you are fighting a vastly weaker opponent in open and sparsely populated areas, civilian losses are going to happen. You can tell we have a population who hasn't had to deal with those realities, that generation is almost completely gone.

That's my take. Consider what would happen if one side unilaterally laid down their weapons. The Palestinians would continue to exist, perhaps even find a governing authority to help them move forward and have better lives. The Israelis would be slaughtered and wiped off the map. It's pretty much an unsolvable puzzle though given the radicalization of kids there. When that's done from such a young age, there's not a lot of hope for salvaging the populace.

This is true. I agree Israel should do all they can to eradicate Hamas but it doesn't mean anyone better is coming to power. Israel doesn't want to govern that place, and let's be honest that Egypt and/or Jordan want no part of it either. And I mean that in either governance or taking their people in as refugees. Kids are radicalized from early ages, the entire area is full of radicals that is essentially ungovernable short of a strongman.

Sarcasm

The damn MAGA folks tried to storm the WH tonight. Yelling F Joe Biden over and over.

You know damn well we don’t protect borders.

It's really the only way the left views people. Whether it's college admissions, hiring, or victimhood of groups to excuse their activities. Those are all from the left.

They have a home in the young liberal crowd. When it came to BLM it's now pretty apparent they were accepting of the whole mantra, complete with the Marxism. Everything is now about race and the oppressed/oppressor. The end result in that kind of thinking is swirling the toilet bowl where no society ever can pay enough for the grievances of the oppressed. Israel is the oppressor here, and now even wanting to eliminate all Jews is acceptable to them. That's the type thinking we have been allowing to take hold.

Just those terms and ones like "colonizers". It's basically language to try and portray ones own country as what is wrong in the world and wrong in history. No country has done more for the betterment of the world in its history than the United States. Our country hasn't been perfect. But it's a dangerous view to allow to fester unchecked that somehow all these global ills track back to the West.

Haha I've been called a lot of things, but rarely liberal. I demand an apology.

I actually thought the right had gone too far with worrying about the woke nonsense. But seeing what we are now, this language and the use of these terms are essentially just Marxist views that I had really written off. I had thought the characterization of campuses was a bit overdone, woke nonsense but nothing that harmful. But it appears we have a bunch of Marxist nutjobs running loose out there on a lot of these campuses. Also they have a naive view of what war is. I'm nearing 50 and I can only comprehend it from what my dad's views were that shaped him in WWII. War isn't clean and pretty, it isn't always precision strikes and civilians die. To think otherwise and to try and hold Israel or the U.S. to those standards in dense urban areas is foolish. It can't be done that way in densely populated areas.

Maybe we should start a sponsorship program. I know I'd chip in to pay for some of their tickets out of my own pocket.

I'm wondering how long it is before President El-Sisi is labeled an Islamophobe for not wanting the Palestinians coming into Egypt. It's either he is a raving Islamophobe, or he realizes how radicalized that populace has become.

Apparently some fuel has gotten into Gaza as they have plenty to fuel all these rockets being launched. The view that if we let fuel in those hospitals would get it is fanciful. Fuel is already there, Hamas has just commandeered it all

They don't want a real fight. Their idea of a fight is being in a crowd and terrorizing smaller groups or individuals. The second it got one on one and someone threw a punch and drew their blood they would fold faster than you can imagine.