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  • Messing with Ohio's Haitians

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    MikM
    @LuFins-Dad said in Messing with Ohio's Haitians: @mik I would suggest that you read Asra Nomani’s reporting on it. While they are registered and documented, there is a shit ton of illegality and corruption surrounding the process of the process, their employment, and their housing. It is essentially a modern day slavery/indentured servant status that is resulting in the community turning to heavy drug use, which is leading to more and more problems. These people are victims as well, and maintaining the status quo will make it worse. I've lived in that blighted city for several years. It ALWAYS had heavy drug use, even in the 70's. We've had the equivalent of slavery by illegals in this country as long as I've been alive. I'd venture to say it's still better than their prospects in Haiti.
  • From child star to literary heavyweight

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    Doctor PhibesD
    I can't read the article, but I seem to remember she had a lot of problems with eating disorders, alcoholism, and a truly horrendous mother pushing her.
  • Stranger Things

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    @Mik said in Stranger Things: I watched a couple episodes over Christmas. Meh. Reminds me of Lost vapid and spins and really goes nowhere. They had 3 years to get it right… I wonder if that was actually too long? They were reportedly still writing the last episode during filming. Maybe they had too many ideas and got indecisive?
  • NY Phil tonight

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    89th8
    And yes I'll die on the hill that the Ossia Cadenza is MUCH better than the cheap Tocatta Cadenza.
  • I have a new found respect for him

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    HoraceH
    I remember him getting cucked while he was a politician, by an elderly female who called him out in some town hall. That probably stung. We talked about it here at the time.
  • Bill Maher gives rules of thumb for evaluating news outlets

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    jon-nycJ
    Yeah basically a return to the way it was in the 19th and early 20th century.
  • Iran's water issues

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    It is funny how reading something like this posting can trigger a memory. Long long long time ago, I was kind of remote location and the office had a library and one of the books that I read was "The Marsh Arabs". It focused on the people in Iraq rather than Iran, but there were probably a similar group in Iran also. I hadn't thought about that book in years. LOL During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq—long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein—Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy, and moments of pure comedy in vivid, engaging detail.
  • I’m shocked - SHOCKED - there’s gambling going on in here

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    LuFins DadL
    Even the “small” gambling called Fantasy Sports completely destabilizes trust.
  • When you've lost Washington Examiner..

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  • Maybe we need a war to remind us of what matters and what doesn't.

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  • Pay the congestion fee or...

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    It's just another tax on motorists. London has an inner Congestion charge, an outer ULEZ (ultra low emission zone). We are taxed for use of the road, on buying insurance, on buying petrol/gas, now taxed for just being in certain places and for polluting certain places.
  • Classic comedic timing

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    Skilled comedian, obviously juggling well within his limits. I've seen him do his motorbike juggle, classic clowning
  • Notes on the treadmill crowd

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    jon-nycJ
    Very nice.
  • Trump rolls out health plan to major yawns

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    MikM
    It could certainly reduce routine PCP visits.
  • Kyrsten Simena news

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    89th8
    That lady was quite frisky.
  • Ein Volk, Ein Reich

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    MikM
    I guess it gives you what it thinks you can absorb.
  • WANT

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    AxtremusA
    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ear-Wax-Removal-NEXPURE-Ear-Cleaner-with-1080P-HD-Camera-Wirless-Otoscope-with-7-Pieces-Set-for-Ear-Cleaning/5114413996
  • From my sister who works at the sheriffs office

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    AxtremusA
    @jon-nyc said in From my sister who works at the sheriffs office: My sister was a dispatcher aged 24 when 'The Gainesville Ripper' serial killer hacked up five co-eds about her age. The movie 'Scream' is based on him. That freaked her out. She had details that no one sane wants to hear. Some day, if she's still willing to talk, I will be willing to listen.
  • It's a Conclave!

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    jon-nycJ
    lol
  • Yale JD, 2013

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    89th8
    TARS told me earlier that SCOTUS has been reluctant to address such a topic.