February 21, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, paco said: I never went to camp. My parents loved me and wanted me around. Be less poor
February 21, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, 20dawk4life said: Be less poor My dad brought in ok $$$ (by NEPA standards) so my mom was a stay at home mom. They didn't need to send us to summer camp aka less expensive day care.
February 21, 20223 yr Just now, paco said: My dad brought in ok $$$ so my mom was a stay at home mom. They didn't need to send us to summer camp aka less expensive day care. That’s what all the poors say.
February 21, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, 20dawk4life said: That’s what all the poors say. That's what latchkey kids tell themselves to cope.
February 21, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, paco said: My dad brought in ok $$$ (by NEPA standards) so my mom was a stay at home mom. They didn't need to send us to summer camp aka less expensive day care. I'm not sure that's entirely true.
February 21, 20223 yr 32 minutes ago, Paul852 said: I'm not sure that's entirely true. For a sleepaway camp? Well, yeah, but they got the kids all day and all night vs just during work hours. Besides, you can't put a price tag on getting rid of the kids you don't like for a couple of months.
February 21, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, paco said: For a sleepaway camp? Well, yeah, but they got the kids all day and all night vs just during work hours. Besides, you can't put a price tag on getting rid of the kids you don't like for a couple of months. Not even. Day camps are pretty much equal (and in some cases more) than daycare. It's just daycare for kids in school anyway.
February 21, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, Paul852 said: Not even. Day camps are pretty much equal (and in some cases more) than daycare. It's pretty much just daycare for kids in school anyway. So, school.
February 21, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, paco said: So, school. Yeah, because those lazy teachers need 3 months off.
February 21, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, Paul852 said: Yeah, because those lazy teachers need 3 months off. Now you're getting it! Edit: TBF, some of them arn't lazy. They just don't know how to work smart. Otherwise how do you explain the claim "well, we need the summer to come up with lesson plans!!!"
February 22, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, paco said: Now you're getting it! Edit: TBF, some of them arn't lazy. They just don't know how to work smart. Otherwise how do you explain the claim "well, we need the summer to come up with lesson plans!!!" Some of the dumbest ditzy girls I boned in high school became teachers. If they were dumb enough to fall for my weak game in HS, they really shouldn’t be shaping the minds of America’s youth
February 22, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Outlaw said: Some of the dumbest ditzy girls I boned in high school became teachers. If they were dumb enough to fall for my weak game in HS, they really shouldn’t be shaping the minds of America’s youth I have never been more in agreement with you.
February 22, 20223 yr Trudeau using the emergencies act was an egregious govt overreach. Even the Canadian Communist Party has denounced the use of the act.
February 22, 20223 yr 41 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: I guess "freedom" is now a bad word. What the hell has happened? You know the answer to that. Frog in the kettle, 1984, etc.
February 22, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, NOTW said: Not sure what part of this somebody found funny. Quote According to the Daily Sun, one year could be taken off his sentence if he completes sex offender treatment. His sentence includes 7 and a half to 15 years in prison suspended for five years, a $4,000 fine, and he must register as a sex offender and comply with probation. That does not seem like a harsh enough sentence.
February 22, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, NOTW said: You know the answer to that. Frog in the kettle, 1984, etc. Yeah I know, things are totally Fed up
February 22, 20223 yr Quote When Boring People Turn Dangerous: Canada's Insane Power Grab The Canadian government's decision to freeze bank accounts in the trucker protests is a mad leap toward bureaucratic dystopia Matt Taibbi 14 hr ago On Christmas Eve, 2018, New York Times writer Andrew Ross Sorkin published, "How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings.” Chronicling the credit card history of the man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida Sorkin noted Omar Mateen had not merely spent $26,532 on weapons and ammo in the eight months before the 2016 attack, but had wondered if his doing so had raised red flags: Two days before Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, he went on Google and typed "Credit card unusual spending…” His web browsing history chronicled his anxiety: "Credit card reports all three bureaus,” "FBI,” and "Why banks stop your purchases.” He needn’t have worried. None of the banks, credit-card network operators or payment processors alerted law enforcement officials about the purchases he thought were so suspicious. Sorkin’s piece ended up being an argument in favor of credit-card companies, payment processors, banks, and others working together to bring about a Minority Report-style panacea in which society’s dangerous folk could be cyber-identified and stopped before they commit horrific acts. At one point he quoted George Brauchler, the District Attorney who prosecuted the Century 16 movie shooter in Aurora Colorado, James Holmes: "Do I wish someone from law enforcement had been able to go to his door and knock on his door and figure out a way to talk their way into it or to freak him out?” he said of Mr. Holmes. "Yeah, absolutely.” I’ve never owned a gun and have been sympathetic to gun control ideas for as long as I can remember. Sorkin, however, was not talking about gun control. He was theorizing a quasi-privatized vision of social control that would bypass laws by merging surveillance capitalism and law enforcement. In a rhetorical trick that’s since become common, he described how the failure of companies like Visa to block Mateen’s purchases made them "enablers of carnage.” Clearly, someone made the mistake of letting Sorkin see Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and Cliff Robertson now whispers from the beyond to him too. If those with power to act don’t stop wrongdoing, aren’t they just shirking their great responsibility? By the way, this same Sorkin once suggested he wouldn’t stop at arresting Edward Snowden, but go after the reporter who broke his story, too. "I would arrest him and now I’d almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, the journalist… he wants to help him get to Ecuador,” he said, on CNBC’s Squawk Box. It’s amazing how selective one can be in one’s authoritarian leanings. After Goldman, Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein appeared to commit perjury in 2011 when he told the Senate, "We didn’t bet against our clients,” Sorkin rushed an apologia into print saying "Mr. Blankfein wasn’t lying,” failing to remind audiences that his Dealbook blog at the Times was sponsored by… Goldman, Sachs. Sorkin’s Visa piece is suddenly relevant again, after fellow former finance reporter Chrystia Freeland — someone I’ve known since we were both expat journalists in Russia in the nineties — announced last week that her native Canada would be making Sorkin’s vision a reality. Freeland arouses strong feelings among old Russia hands. Before the Yeltsin era collapsed, she had consistent, remarkable access to gangster-oligarchs like Boris Berezovsky, who appeared in her Financial Times articles described as aw-shucks humans just doing their best to make sure "big capital” maintained its "necessary role” in Russia’s political life. "Berezovsky was one of several financiers who came together in a last-ditch attempt to keep the Communists out of the Kremlin” was typical Freeland fare in, say, 1998. Then the Yeltsin era collapsed in corrupt ignominy and Freeland immediately wrote a book called Sale of the Century that identified Yeltsin’s embrace of her former top sources as the "original sin” of Russian capitalism, a "Faustian bargain” that crippled Russia’s chance at true progress. This is Freeland on Yeltsin’s successor in 2000. Note the "Yes, Putin has a reputation for beating the press, but his economic rep is solid!” passage at the end: It looks as if we're about to fall in love with Russia all over again… Compared to the ailing, drink-addled figure Boris Yeltsin cut in his later years, his successor, Vladimir Putin, in the eyes of many western observers, seems refreshingly direct, decisive and energetic… Tony Blair, who has already paid Putin the compliment of a visit to Russia and received the newly installed president in Downing Street in return, has praised him as a strong leader with a reformist vision. Bill Clinton, who recently hot-footed it to Russia, offered the equally sunny appraisal that "when we look at Russia today . . . we see an economy that is growing . . . we see a Russia that has just completed a democratic transfer of power for the first time in a thousand years.” To be sure, some critics have lamented Putin’s support for the bloody second war in Chechnya, accused him of eroding freedom of the press… and worried aloud that his KGB background and unrepenting loyalty to the honor of that institution could jeopardize Russia’s fragile democratic institutions. But many of even Putin's fiercest prosecutors seem inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the economy… Years later, she is somehow Canada’s Finance Minister, and what another friend from our Russia days laughingly describes as "the Nurse Ratched of the New World Order.” At the end of last week, Minister Freeland explained that in expanding its Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) program, her government was "directing Canadian financial institutions to review their relationships with anyone involved in the illegal blockades.” The Emergencies Act contains language beyond the inventive powers of the best sci-fi writers. It defines a "designated person” — a person eligible for cutoff of financial services — as someone "directly or indirectly” participating in a "public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” Directly or indirectly? She went on to describe the invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act in the dripping-fake tones of someone trying to put a smile on an insurance claim rejection, with even phrases packed with bad news steered upward in the form of cheery hypotheticals. As in, The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets? Have been shared? By the RCMP with financial institutions? And accounts have been frozen? As she confirmed this monstrous news about freezing bank accounts, Freeland burst into nervous laughter, looking like Tony Perkins sharing a cheery memory with "mother”:
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