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« Reply #1320 on: October 08, 2023, 07:50:49 pm »
Nope, they have no business trying to take someone else's land.  Just like....
Just like the Gazans shouldn't.

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« Reply #1321 on: October 08, 2023, 07:52:22 pm »
Just like the Gazans shouldn't.

You find facts to be too hard.   DNA testing, lets put an end to it.
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« Reply #1322 on: October 08, 2023, 07:53:09 pm »

  Taking more casualties than your enemy is expected in an asymmetrical type of warfare.

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« Reply #1323 on: October 08, 2023, 07:53:21 pm »
One word: Detroit!
You know, it wasn't more than 10 years ago, I was living in my little house and my overhead was like 800 bucks a month. That included everything...taxes, insurance, cable....everything except groceries and gasoline. 
That was deal-able because groceries and gas weren't bad. Now, everything's doubled.  I don't know if that's the government or not. 
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« Reply #1324 on: October 08, 2023, 07:54:40 pm »
That's not a bad deal. I wish someone would have grabbed my dumb ass when i was 18 and sent me to trade school or into the Air Force or something so I could have learned a worthwhile skill and how to handle a grown-up job right out of the gate instead of fckng around in Ann Arbor smoking pot and drinking for a few years.

If you don't make the grade for college, you're sent to trade school or an apprenticeship program instead of high school.

I still remember kids (high school age) on a scaffold eating a sandwich and a flip top beer. Masonry or brick laying was big back then.

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« Reply #1325 on: October 08, 2023, 08:01:01 pm »
You find facts to be too hard.   DNA testing, lets put an end to it.
Go get them all to test and let me know how that works out for you. By the way, do the Syrians need to give Damascus back to the West Asians?

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« Reply #1326 on: October 08, 2023, 08:05:29 pm »
Can you switch to regular Social Security?
No. Worked 20 years at the post office... Paying into a different retirement system. After going crazy and trying to murder my supervisor, I lost that retirement. On jobs I worked before the post office, I qualify for 250 bucks a month. So I took the 914. Which disqualified me for the 250.
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« Reply #1327 on: October 08, 2023, 08:06:31 pm »
If you make the grade for college, you're sent to trade school or an apprenticeship program instead of high school.

I still remember kids (high school age) on a scaffold eating a sandwich and a flip top beer. Masonry or brick laying was big back then.
Let's face it. 90% of college degrees are utterly worthless. You can't buy smart. The kids should be being prepared for accepting the yoke of adult responsibility and I don't think that's been a prominent feature of the curriculum in the past several years.  I'm glad I took drafting and wood & metal shop in high school. That sht saved me.  I wish they would have had 4-H at my school.  Kids need more of that and less woke-itude.
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« Reply #1328 on: October 08, 2023, 08:08:02 pm »
Having a psychotic break with reality ruins one's finances.

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« Reply #1329 on: October 08, 2023, 08:08:31 pm »
No. Worked 20 years at the post office... Paying into a different retirement system. After going crazy and trying to murder my supervisor, I lost that retirement. On jobs I worked before the post office, I qualify for 250 bucks a month. So I took the 914. Which disqualified me for the 250.
Jesus. That's ridiculous.
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« Reply #1330 on: October 08, 2023, 08:08:49 pm »
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« Reply #1331 on: October 08, 2023, 08:10:05 pm »
Go get them all to test and let me know how that works out for you. By the way, do the Syrians need to give Damascus back to the West Asians?


Get back with me when you get serious. 
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« Reply #1332 on: October 08, 2023, 08:10:33 pm »
I considered murdering my supervisor to be my civic duty. He's dead now anyway.
 Too many pork chops.

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« Reply #1333 on: October 08, 2023, 08:10:50 pm »

Get back with me when you get serious.
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« Reply #1334 on: October 08, 2023, 08:10:59 pm »
If you make the grade for college, you're sent to trade school or an apprenticeship program instead of high school.

I still remember kids (high school age) on a scaffold eating a sandwich and a flip top beer. Masonry or brick laying was big back then.
I think they have a real formal trades arrangement in Europe too, maybe especially in Germany. I think when they use words like "Journeyman" it has a little more meaning than when we say it.
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