As a matter of fact I have free health insurance till I die due to my choice in employers. which has paid for 1 colonscopy and alot of other things over the years .not all of it but it much better than nothing at all.
Income from a job is not all about the hourly wage.
It is about the benefits as well. Such as the retirement I am finally able to draw,and the health care .

If employes make themselves valuable to the employer, they will earn a decent wage. If they go in to work with a newspaper and coffee cup and sit on their ass, they don't.
You haven't been around postal workers have you? Laziest bunch of sumbitches that ever drew a breath. and it takes a act of God to fire them. theft, can't fire, come to work dressed like a freak, can't fire them, don't half work, can't fire them. You almost have to kill someone while on the job to even be drug tested, because of the damn union.

Just because you disagree with a educated person does not mean they are wrong.
Europe has been a cyst on Americas ass since the beginning. It took a horrible war back in the 1770's just to break free of the control freaks.

Yea, the virus and biden were both over blown, fraudulent and etc. bidens democrats capitalized on a virus that was created in china and spread all over the world. we now have more expensive health care and alot of friends and family missing at the table on Christmas day

I would have rather we stayed with Eastern Standard Time and etc. if you want to do something early,change your schedule, not the clock.I think it was stupid to ever go with daylight savings time in the first place.

Some leader this guy,
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rather pathetic, he is supposed to support his city and it's people.

Well, if you use a plug, you don't have to! you can leave it handy for someone to grab and bring in out in the parking lot.

electrical box knock out pieces work in place of quarters to. You just have to file off that little tab that is stuck on it,use the right size of course I think it is the 3/4 hole that works on buggies.
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A quick google search might put some dings and scratches on your 3rd paragraph,

"The United States sends an estimated $15 to $50 billion annually to Europe, depending largely on fluctuating supplemental defense and humanitarian packages. The vast majority of this capital is driven by security assistance and reconstruction efforts in Eastern Europe."

"Trade: While not "sent" as government funds, US commercial transactions are the largest monetary flow. The US and Europe trade over ($1) trillion in goods and services annually, creating massive capital movement through foreign direct investment and market revenues. You can explore official bilateral trade summaries provided by the Office of the United States Trade Representative""

So where else would you folks get those funds if we didn't do a trillion dollars in trade with europe? sounds like you depend on the US quite a bit?

So they will go there in their new car and they're going to stay there until their welcome is worn out and they will leave there and they won't know where their butts will be but they're going away from there.

sheesh, all these theirs theres!

yea, the eu isn't wanting to help rid the earth of terrorist sponsers and Trump is saying ,ok well, we will just pull out since you aren't helping us. great idea, next time another Hitler comes along, maybe we need to sit back and wait till he beats it down, drains his resources then take it from the dictator and call the whole place ours!

always here to help my freinds

I use a mid 80's jvc setup as sound for my computer in the house, a newer Akai in the shop for the computer sound systme.

I carry a flip phone that is supposedly military grade,takes a pic and makes a call. has a calculator on and such, but to be honest, if I am working i prefer seperate devices and the 9 volt battery for the calculator is cheap and last a long time.

it werked fur me but i had the internet cookies I guess. It was about a fellow that was messing with his daughter and the town found out so he killed all 7 of his family, in 1927!

fellows, if you find you have a noisy dishwasher, it is my understanding that Flowers might help, and if it is really raising hell, chocolate candy along with the flowers should fix it.

Stay tuned for more helpful hints.

it won't ring and you can't call out on it. I think it allows them to see who is calling you without them knowing you can't answer.

must be 1 of the small Echo blowers, the 9010 would have blown the water out of the pool!

Sheesh, way back when but it shows people did weird shit even back then.
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the former union members I know have told me they wish they had all the money back they had paid in for dues as they didn't feel like they got a damn thing out of it. Most union boss's are assholes that live like kings off the dues

i have had it since 1982. I have others that are much older, 40's vintage but haven't had them that long.

Eye c hukt on hickbonics wurkt fur u!

damn unions.
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auto correct try's but it fucks up words nowadays so you can't trust it.

Have you not saw how weak and unsuccessful the restorative system is? I won't name him on a forum of this sort but a high school class mate who was on dope from 9th grade up, has been in prison 3 times. each time marking a calender everyday counting down to his chance to get some crack. he has been in rehab over 40 times now. at least 10 churches around here have tried to "help" him in their way,no luck, NOTHING will fix him. he is a worthless piece of shit that held a gun to his own mother to force her to remove her wedding band so he could sell it for crack. So many of the people that circulate thru the swinging doors of justice in this country are the same way. They don't want to be fixed,rehabed, they just want to be mean,high and don't care what they have to do to get it. those people set the bar for the system. Not the first time offender stealing a candy bar . BUT if you don't punish the theft of the candy and help them Learn there is a price to pay for negative actions, it may be a car,your money,whatever ,he steals next time.

It's the right to roam laws i am speaking of.
in other words,property owners have no real right to privacy on their own land.

The Freedom to Roam (Everyman's Right)Several Northern and Central European countries grant the general public the legal right to access, walk, and even camp on private, uncultivated land.Nordic Countries: In countries like Sweden, Norway, and Finland, you can freely hike and forage on private lands as long as you respect the privacy of homeowners (maintaining a safe distance from dwellings) and leave no trace.Scotland: Under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, the public has statutory access rights to most land and inland water for recreational, educational, and some commercial purposes.Other Countries: Similar, albeit slightly modified, access laws exist in Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic

Camp, forage? On private land? as in I wake up 1 morning and find some idiots camped out in my backyard? that I pay taxes on?? eh Nope.

You don't have comfortable homes and cars because your government over regulates everything keeping you in squaller and has successfully made you think it is great to ride around in a car that would get smooshed by a simple truck hauling cattle. Or living in a house the size of a friggen phone booth. or free health care meaning you get plenty of dope to make you FEEL good. Our system is flawed but at least if you work and try, you have a fair chance at a good living.

i read some last week about the work ethic over there, stores closing for weeks so the owner can go on vacation, leaving customers without and so on. Laziness is rewarded over there for some reason. We work to live as well. it is just we want More than the bare essentials. we want comfortable ,powerful trucks, nice homes, and other things we can use to allow us to enjoy life more. some countries over there just have laws allowing people to just walk thru your yard uninhibited like that is a thing? Europe may have some plus's but the minus's really add up to a place I am SO glad my ancestors got on a boat and left behind centurys ago

You need to dig back thru the post here, I admitted that some folks should not be pardoned or should have served longer sentences that actually did harm or damage. Dig thru and find for yourself but I did care.

why are they acting against us? Because they have all gone candy ass on us.

so, even a democrat says you can't blame it ALL on Trump, Gee there is a glimmer of hope for the democrats after all.
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me neither, nothing makes me want to hurl worse that runny egg whites!

well he may have went on a vacation or something. When I leave town ,i essentially unplug from all this and disappear.but not 2 weeks yet!

wear a oversize sweater and you won't have to bare arms.
You anti gun people are so dumb there is no hope. as for coming for you, what's the use? you are already so far out of it and old, what good would it be to terrorize you?
The young people and working people are the 1's that terrorizing would bring the most reward to the terrorist.
maiming and killing the people that make the country move would be a more effective way to harming the US as a whole that a bunch of old coots and karens in florida. How many people your age were in the Twin Towers on 9-11?


Besides ,you should want to have a gun Moreso than me, you can't run from danger, you are to old, a gun would be a way for you to protect yourself from something you can't run from.

when away from the house and computer, figuring board feet of lumber and etc, they are still just as handy, Ti 30 and ti 35 I think is the 2 I have.

you are so naive, your way of thinking is why the world is the way it is, you don't think you can rid the world of evil.
You damn sure can't with your attitude.

i never in all my high school years or time working, use music, I always used the awful beeping noise it makes that would wake up the dead if i was a mile or 2 closer to a cemetery
here is 1 like mine, they made a cassette player version to
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I think I have that actual model of clock radio in my collection.The 1 that I use that is setting here beside the computer right now, is from 1982. blue numbers instead of red Sounddesign brand Stereo clock radio! that mosquito truck appears to be a 67tru72 chevy step side pickup. I worked on those cig machines and loaded them at 1 time and when outlawed, had to go haul them all in. we tried converting them to sell condoms and toothbrushes and what not at motels but that didn't fly.
I loved the wood sided cars, so much more class than the wheeled washing machines people drive nowadays

I have several of the Texas Instruments machines. use a 9 volt battery. very reliable to this day and held near a am radio would play tones thru the radio.

Well we are about to see another mess unfold that we may not can blame felchy for but it will be a mess. A ship full of people with the hantavirus is being unloaded and the folks sent back to their home countries to spread the virus.
they should have been left on that ship with meds and food dropped to them by drone until the virus run it's course.


If you had been able to as I was, back when covid first hit, there was a website you could go to and track cases before they got to many, and that ship load of people off the florida coast with the virus, once they disembarked the ship, you could go to the website and follow along the interstates like 95,85 and see the cases build up near the exits where those folks fueled up and got food and such on their way home. this hantavirus will spread the same way. All because the damn fools want it to I guess.

1 thing you have never answered is the biggest question. How do you rid the world of the evil that contributes to our need to protect ourselves and our property? or our country?

HOW do you rid the human mind of the desire to steal, harm, hate? Answer that question with a viable and affordable and successful solution or several, and then you will be laying a corner stone to a solution.
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Edit, here is a google ai search that might help you answer the question but it doesn't cover who pays the cost of it or how successful it is.


Yes, the desire to hate, harm, or kill can be reversed and managed, though it requires conscious effort, often with professional help, to dismantle toxic emotions and rebuild empathy. Healing involves addressing underlying trauma, shifting from victimhood to accountability, and actively replacing violent impulses with constructive coping mechanisms.Here are key strategies for reversing these urges based on psychological insights:Seek Professional Therapy: Intensive therapy, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is crucial for managing violent ideation.Uncover Underlying Fear: Hatred often masks deep-seated fear, powerlessness, or trauma. Identifying the source of this fear can begin the healing process.Practice Forgiveness (for Yourself): Forgiveness is not about condoning actions, but letting go of the toxic burden of rage for your own wellbeing.Differentiate Feeling from Acting: It is possible to acknowledge feelings of hatred without acting on them. Cultivating a "pause" to examine the feeling prevents impulsive, destructive behavior.Distraction and Grounding Techniques: When harmful urges arise, utilizing coping skills like deep breathing, physical exercise, or journaling can help manage the immediate intensity.Rebuild Empathy and Social Connection: Actively combatting the isolation that feeds hate by connecting with supportive individuals or groups is essential for long-term recovery.If you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of harm, seeking help from a mental health professional is a crucial first step.

Iran is a dictatorship or, more precisely, an authoritarian theocracy

How much more provocation do we need.1979 hostages , backing terror attacks on allies and us.

Dr. Christine Grady, the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a renowned nurse-bioethicist who served as the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. She specializes in the ethics of clinical research, vaccines, and HIV/AIDS.
Key details about her career and role:

Role at NIH: Dr. Grady has led the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center since 2012, overseeing bioethics research and consulting.
Background: She has a PhD in philosophy and a master's in nursing, and has worked in clinical research, nursing, and bioethics for decades.
Recent Developments: Reports indicate she has continued to serve within NIH leadership as of 2023, while maintaining academic affiliations.
Independence: While she and Dr. Fauci both worked at the NIH, her role was in a separate department focused on ethics, not overseeing his work


Based on documents and congressional testimonies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided grant money to the US-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance.A portion of these taxpayer funds was subsequently awarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China to study bat coronaviruses.Here are the key details regarding this funding:Funding Amount: Dr. Fauci stated that approximately ($600,000) was funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a five-year period.Purpose: The grant was intended to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans.Controversy: The funding is at the center of a debate over whether it supported "gain-of-function" research—experiments that enhance the danger or transmissibility of viruses.Disputed Claims: Dr. Fauci has testified that the NIH "has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology," stating that the research in question was reviewed by experts and deemed not to fall under that definition. However, this has been disputed by some, including a former acting NIH director who stated that the NIH did fund research in Wuhan that fit the definition of gain-of-function, according to a 2024 House Oversight committee update.


He helped create his own nemesis. then it killed 1000's and you hail him a hero.

ananas, a large city about 30 miles from me built a long electric train track starting about 25 years ago, a big circle around the city so folks could supposedly get to ball games and such. i think the past 12 months 3 people have died on that train and most don't even pay ,they just hop on and ride, and the sad part is it has cut so many roads. Homes burn half a mile from the fire department that has to travel 12 miles to get back to within site of it's self. so many draw backs to it it is sickning. and 1 day,while waiting for my dad in the parking lot of a hospital, i watched that damn train come by 3 times over a hour, and twice blocked a ambulance with the red lights on. seconds count when you are on the way to the hospital.

well, are you not willing to die for your freedom? Your father was so that you could be free