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Y'all will probably still win district. We're just that good.

Of your list, only firefighters and police officers are government-type jobs. Those also carry a level of risk that the people sorting mail just don't face. The girl that takes your money at the tax office is a job comparable to a USPS worker, and they aren't making $75k a year. Just my opinion. "Efforts to shrink the Postal Service payroll would likely affect racial and ethnic minorities, women and veterans more than others. Postal workers are more racially and ethnically diverse than the U.S. labor force as a whole, according to Census Bureau data from 2018, the most recent year available. [Hidden Content]

Klein is reporting that BISD is about to vote to rename the stadium on I10 to once again "honor" Carol A. "Butch" Thomas. Any truth to those rumors? Naming the stadium after the current super was stupid. Leaving it named after him in spite of all of the corruption that occurred on his watch was stupid. They renamed the stadium (kinda like when they rename an army base or elementary school), and now they're supposedly going to re-name it once more? If it's true, that alone should force the state to dissolve BISD once and for all.

Y'all seem to forget that these are kids that saw our MLB destroy Ty Dennis in '15. I think that has more to do with the lack of morale over there than anything else. JK.... it's sad to see KV struggling.

it doesn't help that the post office is subsidizing the success of mail order firms like Amazon. The USPS underbids their "competition" like Fedex and UPS... Rural route carriers end up with loads of parcels that won't fit in their vehicles and each one is being delivered at a "loss" to the taxpayers so that Bezos can continue to get richer and his company can avoid paying any corporate income taxes. It's the American Dream. When somebody espouses the benefits of "diversity being our strength" or affirmative action, I just think of what all it's done for the postal service.

Nobody is saying good or bad... just that apparently the lucky ones made it here. The poorest black person in America is still rich compared to poor people in Africa. But African Americans (descendants of slaves or not) are angry that they didn't get left over there. Slavery is something that existed for thousands of years and exists today, but black people in the United States are owed something for whatever may or may not have happened to their great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. No justice, no peace, lol.

5% of all of the slaves that were shipped out of Africa came to the United States... It's also believed that slaves in the US had it much better than those that were sent elsewhere based on mortality rates. But we need to pay up. No the people who ended up with the other 95%, just us. It's our "original sin," lol.

"She a coon." Never gonna get elected up there.

Favorite show.

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I wasn’t really watching anymore. Too much mean mugging and chest thumping. I just thought they had a bigger “woke” audience than they apparently have. I felt like the NBA was the org that was most likely to be in affected by the protesting.

It’s not a hoax, it’s an overreaction. 2% of Hardin County has tested positive. With ten deaths to date (10/48,000 residents) its already wiped out 0.00020833 of the population here.

Yeah.... but you’ll get your steps in that day, buddy.

So...you’re concerned about a virus that has infected 35 kids without any symptoms? That’s what we used to call “not sick at all” or “not sick” or maybe “feeling pretty good.” There are 550+ active cases in Hardin County right now with 13 hospitalized. None on respirators. Nobody passed away this week. That’s not a epidemic or a pandemic. That’s a nasty cold.

My understanding is that the BC Little League games were the place to be this summer. They still held a season, and EVERYBODY went. Or at least that's what I was told. Maybe somebody else can confirm.

Exactly. It was kinda like “here’s the plan... I order the Treasury to work it all out” or something like that.

You need friends on both sides of the aisle when you're in the private sector. You'd be amazed at how often wealthy people donate to both candidates in a particular elections. I'm poor, though... I just have to let both candidates put their signs in my yard.

[Hidden Content] My understanding is that it was for the the SS and Medicare portions... the entire 7.65% that is withheld from the employee, as well as the 7.65% match that is contributed by the employer. The article doesn't spell it out in black and white. If you are an employee, you would save 7.65 and your employer would save 7.65%. If you are self-employed, you'd be saving the entire 15.3% self employment contribution that's required of you. In hard dollars the savings is the same, but it's not split between employer/employee if you're a one man show. That's my understanding, anyways. EDIT* The more I read, the more confused I get. What I just wrote was probably incorrect. [Hidden Content] I think we're all just stumbling around waiting for guidance.

It’s fuzzy. It’s a deferral at this point, not an actual holiday. As it stands those funds will still be due at tax time. At least that’s my understanding. My employer is trying to decide how to move forward. 1. No money withheld from the employees. 2. Withhold the money and hold it until we better know what’s happening. 3. just keep withholding and making payments to the gov as normal. It’s about managing our firm’s (and the employees’ risk). I think the principal is an interesting one because it will help self-employed taxpayers the most, and only affects those who are actually working. But overall I think it’s a bad idea to suspend payments into our most poorly situated social safety nets... Ss and Medicare.

Nothing.... except if she plays nice she gets to sit in the big chair if he goes on to his Heavenly Reward.

I think that Harris probably better than Warren as far as being a completely far left looney toon. Less dangerous to American Dream that most of us are trying to make come true. I was somewhat curious to see if he'd pick a dark horse (no pun intended) running mate that upon further inspection would turn out to be a little more moderate. If Biden is elected, I think that Harris will succeed him during his first term. I predict a whole lot pushing on Social Justice/Equality issues, but at her core I think Harris is just an old school, "what's in it for me" hustler. Which I can respect, lol.

I don’t think you understood me. I don’t have a problem with her being selected as a VP candidate. But spare me all of the “she’s the first empowered black female to ever be selected to run on a presidential ticket... what a fine role model for all of the young POCs here in America!!!” When in reality, she was laying down with men 30 years older than herself to get to her spot. She’s a much more successful Monica Lewinski. It’s not just nasty ol’ SETX redneck talk or some crazy insinuations (“Michelle Obama is a MAN”), it’s actually the truth, apparently. That’s all... no more, no less. Anybody that hold trump up as virtuous isn’t being honest when themselves, either.

Jessie Jackson is about to get cancelled, too. [Hidden Content] THIS is what I’ve been dying to see from leaders on the left. I’m dying to see what they say about the Reverend Jessie now.

It’s an unfortunate circumstance, but it again it only illustrates that claims of oppression against the black community are a joke. Every day you have black kids killing each other.... dead silence. You have instances like this where a black persons kills an innocent white 5 year old.... nothing. Or the black fellow that tossed the kid over the third floor railing at the Mall of America.... deafening silence again. But let a black man get killed by a white person (with a badge or without) and the 24 hour news cycle is all over that for two weeks straight.... rioting, looting, nationwide protests, celebrities speaking out, Democrat in the land is out blaming Trump, etc, etc.... When the statistics all show that each year almost twice as many whites die at the hands of blacks than vice versa. You’d never believe that if you just watched the news.

I’m with you, EXCEPT the guy she was boofing (Willie Brown, San Francisco Mayor) confirmed it. [Hidden Content] I don’t think it invalidates her as a vp candidate, but I’m not gonna pretend like it never happened, either. And if she’s the female role model that we’ve all been waiting for, it’s a little disappointing. So much for empowerment.