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Re: USPS tracking is an utter joke - 17 days ago
Quotetestcase Overall, I get MUCH better service from USPS Priority Mail then I do from FedEx or UPS. Yep, and as EMS, it works significantly better for overseas package shipments than either Fedex, DHL (Fedex) and UPS....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: Good intentions gone awry: The big business of relocating rescue dogs - 17 days ago
Quoteka jowct NYC's ACC is still killing adoptable pets from our own area... Why? Why not ship them west the way we do?....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: HUGE National Security Threat Suddenly Isn't! "Trump Relents on Huawei in China Truce" - 17 days ago
Quotevision63 Turns out we really get no 5G rollout without Huawei's massive bank of 51,000 patents. There was hella pressure to back off of the sanctions. Huawei is still signing up 5G customers despite US pressure QuoteSteve G. He traded away the Huawei sanctions for.....Nothing. 'We'll resume talking' What a moron Yes, SteveG, "what a moron".... I was in China during theby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: F/U murder 2-3 blocks away form me - 17 days ago
Quotespace-time O/P here: it's been almost 3 weeks now. Wife is reading the local newspaper (I didn't read the article yet) and apparently they have no leads yet. I find it strange that these days someone can commit a murder and leave no traces. Usually there are security cameras, OK this was a residential complex and probably no security cameras. Still, it appears she went home for lunby max - Tips and Deals
Re: Don't you love it when Chinese complain about Intellectual Theft? - 18 days ago
Most Chinese intellectual theft victims are other Chinese. OTOH, it is nothing new, it always has been around, even here, Chinese were just that much better at it. In the old days it would take about two years for our American competitors to ripoff our designs. We knew we had that window to make back the development money and make the market. When the Chinese came in they took it down to 6 montby max - Tips and Deals
Re: Can't get to bulb in $50 fluorescent kitchen light - 18 days ago
There may be no bulb....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: Etiquette / personal space question - 18 days ago
It is easy to spot Americans in Asia, they are the ones that leave the space in front of them large enough for two people to get in. And they do, constantly. one after another. In Europe the amount of the "personal space" differs by region, less in the south, as a rule of thumb, but not always....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: One of the biggest political upsets, for the better, and I missed it.... - 18 days ago
QuoteDennis S I think you just did. The usual mistake, again, Dennis the S?....by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: One of the biggest political upsets, for the better, and I missed it.... - 19 days ago
Quotemattkime link?? Yep, it is working....by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Universal health care - how should we get there? - 19 days ago
QuoteOmbligo QuoteTed King QuoteOmbligo Copy Medicare - it covers the bulk but you can purchase supplemental insurance for what isn't covered (drugs, eyes, dental, copayments, etc). In that way you are not changing coverage to those already on Medicare, healthcare providers are already familiar with the filing process, and it is already a proven system. Private insurers would still have a busiby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Kamala Harris - bad move - 19 days ago
QuoteDeusxMac QuoteLemon Drop So women leaders who prepare strategically are "cold and calculating?" I see. So women leaders are never "cold a and calculating"? Is that it? Are you calling her a cold fish, DeusxMac?....by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
One of the biggest political upsets, for the better, and I missed it.... - 19 days ago
County Judge here is a misnomer of a title, he is the county chief executive wielding real power, having control of the really big money, without any checks or balances, and the entire setup has been controlled by a very inbred, very comfortable political machine. A very strangely interwoven Democratic/Republican cabal making nice 6 figure incomes for a several thousand plugged in individuals andby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Chevy is working on a new Silverado that could be the first pickup to sell for $100,000 - 20 days ago
Down here you start with King Ranch edition...by max - Tips and Deals
Re: I like this idea.. Pawternity leave... - 21 days ago
Quotemattkime Eh, I'm not fond of things that make an equivalency of having a child and having a pet. Having had a pair of each, I would say, at the early stage they are about the same ....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: Any suggestions for a parking solution in my HOA? - 22 days ago
QuoteCarm I was visiting my cousin, and we saw the pizza delivery guy get his car hooked ready to be towed. The towing company made rounds often there because there was very few spots. The pizza guy pulled in, the tow truck was less then a minute behind him. Pizza guy went to deliver pizza, parked illegally. Tow driver had him hooked by the time he returned. And that is why Speedy is right. Toby max - Tips and Deals
Re: Biden steps in it again. - 22 days ago
Quotevision63 It's the "large majority of Democratic voters who are much younger than those men are" that are basically ignorant. Context and history is meaningless to them. They want to be powerful without doing any of the groundwork. All they know to do is get in the streets and shake their fists. The benefit from all of the success of the Civil Rights Movement. They can go whereveby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: " ‘Fox & Friends’ Calls Donald Trump ‘Weak,’ Tries to Goad Him Into War With Iran" - 22 days ago
QuoteGGD QuoteSpeedy Well, they went to all that trouble of setting up a war set for the “Faux and Fiends” show. And the script was all written and loaded into the teleprompters. You boyz are truly missing the good old says of Bill Clinton when we bombed a country that truly did nothing against us, yet every one of the hypocrites was cheering bombing of Belgrade and Clinton run genocide oby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Any suggestions for a parking solution in my HOA? - 22 days ago
Why not make it a bit more exciting? Hunger Games for parking spots.....by max - Tips and Deals
Re: A Big Stupid Mess:'Trump calls on foreign countries to protect their own oil tankers' - 23 days ago
We are switching to the Adobe subscription model of tanker protection. All of the supporters, defending that concept, can now have a larger stage. Or will they start a multitude of excuses how "this is different"...by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Stare decisis - 24 days ago
Two blind men describing an elephant.... Quotegraylocks for those of you who did not take latin in high school and wonder about the pronunciation of stare decisis here you go: stare decisis QuoteDeusxMac While there appear to be innumerable web sites pronouncing it like this link (including "lawyers")*, in Latin, the first word should be pronounced "stah-ray", not "stby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: I think I just fired a contractor - 24 days ago
QuoteRobert M Sarcany and Rick-o, Gotta disagree. Contractors can and do provide quotes in a timely manner. The amount of time depends on the size and complexity of the job. A quote to replace a front door - a relatively easy job for an experienced contractor - shouldn't take more than two or three days. Space wasn't being unreasonable and that isn't taking into account that the contractor eveby max - Tips and Deals
Re: Iran shot down unmanned US drone - 24 days ago
Quotedeckeda Quotemax Quotepdq I'm not in the mood for another poorly-thought-through ginned-up Republican war. like the very last one we handled, pdq, Obama's excellent adventure in Libya?.... Ignoring the bigger picture for the purposes of highlighting a paddycakes “adventure” does nothing for your agenda. When you’re ready to talk about what’s actually at stake here, let us knoby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Guardian propaganda picture of the week - 24 days ago
Quotevoodoopenguin As you continually point out. Why do you constantly go there when it seems to upset you so much? Seems to be like self flagellation, is it a penance? Paul SteveG's version is a kvetch...by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Tweet of the day (not his)... - 24 days ago
Quotedeckeda QuoteBernie ... Just saying What has anyone done to help this situation? Some of us voted for or otherwise helped elect an incompetent, racist buffoon but for some unknown reason it exacerbated this situation. Finally an honest admission of your own culpability for providing a candidate so fundamentally corrupted and flawed, a candidate so despicable and despised, the country hby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Another Latina is taking on the most corrupt Democratic political machine.... - 24 days ago
yep, when the the Democratic corruption becomes the new normal, if you cannot dispute the facts, argue the source...by max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Annals Of The Police State..... - 24 days ago
Quote’M A JOURNALIST BUT I DIDN’T FULLY REALIZE THE TERRIBLE POWER OF U.S. BORDER OFFICIALS My work as a journalist has taken me to many foreign countries, including frequent trips to Mexico. On May 13, I was returning to the U.S. from Mexico City when, passing through immigration at the Austin airport, I was pulled out of line for “secondary screening,” a quasi-custodial law enforcemenby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Meanwhile, in Oregon - 26 days ago
QuoteLemon Drop Gov. Kate Brown is awesome. Like her Governor peer to the north, Jay Inslee, she's doing the hard work on climate change which is what the people of her state want. These outlaw GOP state Senators are turkeys. QuoteAcer When the GOP leaves to avoid a vote to address climate change in Iowa, then they are wrong to leave. When the Democrats leave to disrupt a sweeping anti-uby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
The Democratic Night of the Long Knives.... - 26 days ago
The purge is on, Biden is being ambushed wholesale by the Democratic operatives. Most of this has been known, but not pushed by the major media. All of a sudden it is bubbling up all over, "coincidentally" and quite extensively.... QuoteDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declined to answer questions on the campaign trail this week about his son's overseas business dealings inby max - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Do you have hijacks in your thread? - 26 days ago
There is always a jack of all trades....by max - Tips and Deals