@LuFins-Dad said in Who here was in the piano business?: @ILM Sales and Sales Management. I manage a showroom for the Yamaha/Bösendorfer dealer in Washington, DC. I also run our Institutional Sales (Colleges, Schools, Etc...) department. Lu-Fin, Very nice. Maybe post the website?

@Jolly said in Trump & Immigration: @xenon said in Trump & Immigration: I really don’t understand the border issue. I remember a talk between Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan. Klein is super lefty (vox guy) - but even he understood that the border needs to be controlled. If for nothing else but protecting safety net spending. There seems to be a basic compromise here somewhere - but as Mik says in another thread - there’s been no real movement here for decades now. Seems a dumb position for Democrats to hold out on. It was half of Trump’s appeal in the first election. The Dems hold out on it, because immigrants, legal or illegal, tend to vote Democrat. That’s a pretty cynical take and would require unspoken coordination across Dems. I think the simpler explanation is that they’re playing by the old playbook of winning Latinos (which is where the traditional Repubs thought they needed to pivot in 2016). Remember Jeb’s guacamole? I think the current reality is that they’re losing more regular middle class white votes than they’re gaining across Latinos by being pro-easy-immigration. I think many Latinos who are here and vote probably want border control too.

I'm not sure I know what your point is but its more than optics. The protests surely spread disease.

That is funny!!

@Horace said in Don’t try this at home: In several weeks I’ll be having a tendon from a different finger attached to my thumb. My brain will think I’m moving that finer and my thumb will move. Until it trains itself to think otherwise. Horace - hope all goes well, and you get back (most of) the movement you had before. A friend from Taiwan lost his thumb and they attached one of his big toes in place of it. It obviously looked a bit unusual but seemed to work pretty good for him.

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Gee..you mean UN folks like to get it on too? Who knew?

Both Democratic and Republican congresses have had decades to act on immigration. In the meantime administrations still have to implement the laws as they are written.

Nothing like a pandemic to bring out the best in everyone

I suppose if I lived in Oregon I would understand. Living with non -Oregon privilege I understand the need to shut up.

Pale orange garbage.

@xenon said in Politician blames college for losing daughter’s support for his election: @Doctor-Phibes said in Politician blames college for losing daughter’s support for his election: @xenon said in Politician blames college for losing daughter’s support for his election: I dunno man - children and parents don't have to see eye to eye politically (that feels noraml), but to call your dad out like that on social media seems like there's some more fundamental parenting issues at play. Your kids aren't teenagers yet, are they? My kids are going to be perfect and never disagree with me, ever (their current belligerence notwithstanding). You'll never convince me otherwise. You think them being four is really bad, don't you? I hate to break it to you, but this is the good bit.

Idiots

No, I would say our sense of partisanship has.

When the anarchy settles down, and new policies are in place, I'm going to go down and get a job with Ze New Sekret Police. Think about it. In mainland China, what would be a great job, where you are safe from everything? Or the former Soviet Union? Yup. Go to KGB school or comparable, join the ranks of those that make life miserable while protecting yourself from any negativity. Besides, women dig guys in uniforms. Women do not dig guys in old-fashioned police gear, the hammer and sickle are way cooler. Even guys in "Red for Ed" T-shirts are boss, as opposed to a deputy sheriff's costume. Has there ever been a country where Ze Police are outfitted in red? Mao liked red everywhere. hmmm. Ax, do you know?

Hey Ax, should I have continued to read after: "Cogley, a political science professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, who wrote a series of opinion pieces against the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was named a deputy director for policy. Korzeniewski, a former campaign consultant to the pro-Trump..." ?

If this keeps up I'm gonna paint a Rebel flag on my car.

Its not even July. Let me see the polls in late September, early October. That said, the fact that Biden has a lead is a big story for the usual suspects.