jerryskids

You may be correct that there is overlap; I was talking about his alleged attempt to take over the Capitol. I haven't read through the indictments, at least recently. Wouldn't that be some form of double jeopardy or similar? I know they are state and fed, but I would think that they would need to keep them separate.

He was POTUS for 4 years... did he lock her up? Or was he, I dunno, bloviating like he often does, but you Lefties take him seriously?

The 1/6 stuff is a joke. He wasn't charged with insurrection because... he didn't cause an insurrection. You know if the feds thought they had any chance of getting him on that, they'd have charged him. Instead they scoured the federal code for 4 obscure charges, none of which approach insurrection. 1/6 is the poster child for "let's dig through the codes and figure something out to charge him with." I've always thought the Georgia stuff is the most egregious that he did. He has the right to put his spin on what he said, but IMO it is fairly damning.

I said tuition, which your link says is $11K. It also says, at the very top: I also said that my kids lived all but two student-years off campus. I'm not saying that there isn't a problem in both public and private schools with costs -- that cost of living number you stated is unacceptable IMO, for instance. And the primary cause is... no checks and balances on these costs by the government who provides these loans. And, for anyone who thinks about incentives, paying off student debt will have the opposite effect -- schools can just charge more.

Thanks for posting this. It touches on the biggest reason I "support" Trump -- it's not that I like him, but there is clearly a double standard with him, and I don't like the political machine being able to file lawsuit after lawsuit at him. The standard for pretty much every significant political figure is: how can we possible interpret this behavior as NOT being illegal. Hillary, when confronted with illegally setting up a server, physically destroyed it. Literally, destroyed it. And the "investigators" said... meh, no harm no foul. Heck, Biden recently was determined "probably guilty but meh, he's old." Is there an outcry from the media to follow through on it? Nah... Fani Willis will face no penalties, but she also checks multiple intersectional boxes, so she would have to be standing over a dead body with a smoking gun, and even then we'd hear about the difficulties of being a black woman. What is the standard for Trump in NY: Well... whatever he did. Standard for taking confidential documents? Whatever he did that Biden didn't do. The standard for Trump is: how can we possibly interpret his behavior as illegal? And as the presumptive Republican candidate, this approach seems a wee bit like trying to influence the election.

ASU is about $10K per year for in state tuition, but that's list price. Two of my kids got free rides, and the third almost free, for HS grades or SAT scores. Basically, Arizona wants it's smart, college-qualified kids to go to school there, get jobs here, and contribute to the economy/tax base. Two of them spent 1 year in a dorm, the third, 0 years. The rest were in apartments or houses near campus they rented with friends. I presume that ASU has fairly robust need-based aid as well, but we never applied. One of our best friends was a high-level finance person there -- learned some inside info, like finance people hate lower-tier bowl games, because they cost more money than they generate. But I digress... tuition increases are controlled by a Board of Regents, and they often went years without changing. Her position was that they were not printing money.

I still can't get over that 43% (I think that was the number) of GenZ doesn't think Biden is doing enough for student loan debt. These people literally just graduated, or are still in college, and they already want free stuff. We've raised a generation of people with no ability to deal with adversity. And these are the geniuses that the Lefties here use as evidence of their party's greater brain skillz!

Data is still data. Furthermore, shooting data is not subjective.

So much wrong with this post. We seem destined to NOT learn from Europe, and follow through with mutilating people who are not trans. As I said here recently: when we eventually have this epiphany, and make no mistake, it will come, folks like you and squistion will smile dopily and say "oh well, our hearts were in the right place." And I don't doubt that. But that is the insidious nature of liberal positions.

I literally gave you a real-life example of a consensus among economists (at least at Harvard) to squelch data which didn't fit woke message on police brutality, for fear of hurting Fryer's career. And your response is "conservatives hate science." Is this your example of serious discussion?

I listened to about half of this and quit. What am I supposed to do with this info?

Doctors aren't radical leftists. They largely do what other doctors say to do. The more advanced the degree, the more people defer to others whom they perceive have expertise in other areas. Unfortunately, this deference tends to extend to political groups like the AMA, APA, WHO... if you've ever known a doctor, you know that they just want to do their thing and don't want to rock the boat, especially against political organizations which influence their future. Climate scientists... that industry has a fundamental systemic problem. One, everyone who enters the field does so to help save the planet. This isn't unique -- people go into cancer research to cure cancer. But failed attempts to cure cancer are the norm. Research results which contradict MMGW however... severe cognitive dissonance. Add to that, were you to publish such results, you would become a pariah in your field and never get funding again, except maybe from evil big oil companies. But see the first point -- you don't want funding from them. As an example, I just listened to an Honestly pod with Roland Fryer, a young, black economist from Harvard. Roland did a large study on police shootings which showed... police didn't disproportionately target black people. In the pod he discusses how many of his peers strongly suggested that he bury that part of the results (he DID find increased levels of lesser violence against blacks -- that part people wanted published). https://www.thefp.com/p/economist-roland-fryer-on-adversity-1c7 I also recently listened to a pod series on Freakonomics which discussed the widespread prevalence of academic fraud: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-there-so-much-fraud-in-academia/ Now, I can't say with certainty that these things (selective publishing, fraud) happen in climate science. I CAN say with certainty, however, that the system is built to encourage them.

I didn't state it well. The relevance is that we have a new class of people coming. Until recently we had something of a manageable flow of mostly hard-working people who would sneak over the border from Mexico, stay mostly in the shadows, work some menial jobs, often go back with money to support family... since Biden took over the word is out that the gates are open, and a bunch of people are crossing through Mexico to get some of that awesome American free stuff.

This report has been discussed here before; I don't recall if you were part of it. I do recall finding some major concerns about the methodology, but I haven't gone back to reconstruct. I will say, however, that figure 2 on page 10 (Country of Origin of Undocumented Immigrants in Texas, 2016.) shows that at the time the data was collected, 71% of the illegal immigrants in Texas were from Mexico. This does NOT appear to be the case now -- the vast majority seem to be coming from countries south of Mexico. Also the volume is much higher. Also also, we are increasingly providing services that weren't provided at the time. It is essentially using data for past behavior to justify current behavior. As a side note, that 71% number (86% if you include other Latin American countries) seems in contrast with your claim that the majority of illegal immigrants are visa overstays.

No, but thanks for the rec.

You've got such a simplistic Leftist mind, I view you as somewhat special needs. As such, it's hard to hate you too much.

Personally, I love @Frozenbeernuts new commitment to manifestation and his posts about it. It's a topic a I find very interesting on my spiritual journey. I'm not sure I buy it, but keep it up FBN, I'm open to the concept. I'm not looking to get rich, as I've done well enough to retire comfortably. Although extra money never hurts. But I do like the idea of becoming a vortex of positive outcomes.

I'd have to do the math to compare our ages (suspecting I'm older, 56), but Yes 90215 is on my Mount Rushmore of disappointing albums. Styx Mr. Roboto is also on it. I loved the earlier stuff from both bands, and these were just... eesh. I'd have to think of the others. Sounds like a good spinoff topic.

LOL, the oldest Gen Z'er is 27, they are maybe 5 years out of college. And payments were on hold during big chunks of Covid, IIRC. Have they been traumatized by student loan debt?

Timmy told me that $60B for Ukraine is mice nuts, so $5B is 1/12 of mice nuts$#@!

You seem to follow a faulty dichotomy logic: if we can't deport all of the illegal aliens, we shouldn't do it at all. Do you see the fault in this logic? The gun analogy is OK, but the problem is that the more onerous you make gun ownership, the more you affect law-abiding gun owners, not the criminals or psychos who don't really care about laws. That analogy doesn't apply to illegal aliens.

To be fair, to Tim the ongoing influx of illegals is a fait accompli, and deportation is a non-starter, so it kinda takes away the two most obvious and effective solutions.

Presuming that MA data was correct, a family of 4 migrants gets $93K per year for food, PLUS hotel costs and the other benefits provided by taxpayers (things like roads, emergency services, emergency medical, schooling?). Can we conservatively call the total $150K? Do you think a family of 4 migrants, on average, provides > $150K/year of value to our society?

Looks good, thanks for the heads up.

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