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Asithappens

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  1. As are most good Iowans, my friend.
  2. Well stated, even if coming from an Iowa Stater (Go Hawks!) I don't care for her, either. She (and AOC et al) need to be more judicious in their comments, be more sensitive of what's good for America (imo), in short, they need to grow up. As does the Dotard in Chief. Oh, if we could only have a Berkley Bedell back in House. Fuck Steve King.
  3. That's why you're a giant among the rest of us. We need more like you.
  4. Other than not meeting their quota, not much. Budget cuts to the Defense Department budget? Taxpayer savings?
  5. Again, thanks for your service (seriously), but "so no one else had to"? Really? That's a movie line, not a real life line. People volunteer for the armed services for a lot of reasons: vocational, to do something for 4 years, to actually engage in warfare. But to think that by volunteering you're saving somebody else from "having" to do it (and in a volunteer army....) is a bit much, imo.
  6. There was a news story fairly recently where some (woman, iirc) wanted to enact some kind of reg/law that would require gender neutral pronouns, or something like that, then about 5 minutes later she started using the "wrong" pronouns.
  7. Uh, no. I'm talking about Berkeley, you know, the topic of this thread.
  8. More virtue signalling from hypocrites. It's this stupid shit that helps Trump.
  9. Buying a used car and going to the county tax office with the seller. What do I need to do? What does the seller need to do? Will the seller keep the plates? Just do what the tax office says?
  10. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but we're not in the draft. If you were "forced" into the armed forces and got injured/disabled that's a little bit different than if you volunteered. There should be some medical benefits and things like that for disabled vets (obviously), but free tolls? Homestead exemptions? Come on. People need to stop suckin' at the gubmint teat so much.
  11. Another vote for this show. Just finished the latest season (3). Very good, imo. And it has some great, strong female characters.
  12. Wanting to "get what's yours" isn't just a lower socio-economic minority thing.
  13. I don't know about that. Filming it and putting their racist shit on blast may be the safer thing to do.
  14. Yeah, that's a fair point.
  15. Yeah, the guy (in that post) comes across as a lunatic.
  16. Look, thank you for your service, seriously, but where does the entitlement mentality end? There's nothing about being a disabled vet that should exempt them from paying tolls like the rest of us: those who served but aren't disabled, those who teach, those who teach in underserved areas, those who go into the ministry, etc. Pay your tolls and you won't get hit with a big bill (assuming the toll authority doesn't fuck up). It's like (Hazelton act, iirc) where not only service members but the dependents of service members (or something like that) get free tuition. Why the dependents? I'll probably get negged, but the entitlement mentality (as it applies to this aspect) is bogus.
  17. Disable vets need to pay toll road fees just like everyone else. There's nothing about serving your country/becoming disabled that entitles one to get free toll roads.
  18. He should've been fired for not pimping Slip Knot.
  19. What I've seen from past pages (giving reasons, not conclusions, i.e., saying "I know racism when I see it" doesn't provide a reason, even if the statement is true) is that the primary reason is that Trump wouldn't/didn't say the same thing to white European immigrants/non-native Americans. Which seems to imply what, I don't know. It's also interesting that if one uses the argument that Trump's assertion that native-born women of color "originally came" from other countries is racist, then why isn't the term "African-American" also inherently racist?
  20. Then answer my question. This seems more xenophobic and un-american than specifically racist. But Trump has spewed much racist nonsense in the past. I think he is a racist.
  21. No, I despise Trump and all things Trumpkin. But how is this specifically racist rather than Trump being an abject ahole?
  22. Siap, how is Trump's latest statement racist? I think he is a racist, but how is his comment of "go back to your shit hole country" necessarily racist?
  23. It's a full scholarship now? Covers everything? Tuition, r&b, books, etc? I thought it was just tuition.
  24. California is better than Texas in some ways. Just heard that California is spending money on the census which will help them with the count and could directly translate to more Reps/$. Texas? Not spending a dime.
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