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My grand uncle MADMI was on the beach on D2
He was a cook, which he described as peeling a lot of potatoes, making a lot of coffee, and packing and unpacking the mess.
…maximizing shit per inch of shingle
WOTD from Axios: Supply-side Economics; The Rich have too much Money.
The funny thing is the tone of surprise and mystery. Gosh! How can this be?
Time for some demand-side economics.
Poor people spend their money, the wealthy sit on it or try to stash it somewhere safe.
Reverse the tax cuts for the wealthy, add a wealth tax of 1%/year, increase the minimum wage, provide free health care, forgive student debt, etc.
The funniest movie I've seen in a long time is "Always be my Maybe". The restaurant scene full of uber-wealthy dot-com hipsters killed me… "$6,400 and I'm still hungry?!"
Not necessarily a "great movie", but a totally great rom-com.
Under any Democratic President, we’d be doing at least some of those things. But it’s also why I’m leery of Michael Bennet – given his closeness and familiarity with Wall Street finance games, I think he’d be more prone to fancy deal-making that advantages the biggest players and preserves their ability to play, (tax deductible charity write offs), rather than doing the simpler , structural changes, i.e. making them pay more taxes to fund the programs you mentioned.
My father-in-law was a combat engineer at Normandy. He didn't like to talk about it. But one time, my brother-in-law found him sitting in his truck, just sobbing: " All that blood! All that blood! "
It was not a cakewalk.
My great-uncle was set to be part of the D-Day invasion but as they left the port in NYC their ship hit another and blew a hole in the side. They went back to dock and had a three-week delay, ending up in the Battle of the Bulge and eventually The Last Battle. He turned 95 last week and we had the flag flown over the US Capitol that day dedicated to him. Congressman Collin Peterson delivered it to him last week at his apartment in western Minnesota. #thegreatestgeneration
Bennet brings the heat:
Politico thinks Bennet is in for the first two debates based on his polling. If Gov. Bullock qualifies as #21, things will get dicey, as best three polling points and the number of qualifying polls become factors — and thus far, I've not seen anyone try to discern differences between the 1%ers. The mystery will be over next Wednesday, when the DNC announces.
If Bullock makes it, then the bottom tier are likely all tied at 1% average exactly; then it comes down to most polls and then highest single poll. Complicated, and *someone* is likely to be butt-hurt over it. As it stands, that someone is Bullock.
Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act’s Coverage of Contraception
He's going to start fading among women with the continued raft of this kind of news.
Good news everyone, Biden's apparently against the Hyde amendment again, after he was for it, but against it, but really for it for decades!
Biden says he no longer supports Hyde Amendment
I stopped supporting restrictions that made it harder for women to get abortions once Republicans were finally successful passing other restrictions that made it harder for women to get abortions.
Oops! That'll surely come up in a debate and it's gonna leave a mark when Harris, Warren or Klobuchar fire back at him about it.
Good.
It's about time the Democrats started pushing back against the Old White Guys who have issues with women, especially in their own party.
If you're going to fix the country, you have to clean up your own house first.