meansonny
Favorite team: | Georgia |
Location: | ATL |
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Number of Posts: | 25305 |
Registered on: | 9/21/2012 |
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re: Car shopping App/Website?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 9:51 pm
We've sold to carvana and bought through carmax.
Carmax doesn't negotiate price.
But you can often correct anything on the vehicle on their dime. You just have to look carefully and closely (one purchase had a nail in a sidewall of the tire)....
re: OT: The Mayflower- Live Pic
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 9:30 pm
We've got 17 year old lifeguards making $16/hr.
WalMart is starting $14/hr.
My 19 year old waits tables and averages about $22/hr.
My 18 year old working at Crumbl is about $15/hr.
Waffle House is hiring at $20/hr.
Last summer, my son was working for the water authority at $14/hr mowing lawn...
re: Is "Daily Wire Implode" on your 2024 Bingo Card?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 9:19 pm
[quote]quote:
pro 1st/2nd amendment - yes, even anti-Semitic speech.
His stance as a free speech advocate has taken a massive hit.[/quote]
Can you understand the difference between a platform and a publisher?
You do realize that the daily wire didn't fire Candace despite her attempts to ...
re: The Coming Social Security Crisis
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 9:14 pm
[quote]Could fix all of that by making hiring an illegal a felony.[/quote]
A felony for whom?
HR?
Shareholders?...
re: Two-time cancer survivor posts video explaining why he left Democratic Party over the ACA
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 8:52 pm
[quote]If you see a non profit organized or operated for the benefit of private interests[/quote]
Have you seen how many funds from non-profits go to other non-profits?
As you said... you are not going to get any top people to run an organization without paying them. It is basically splurging...
re: Is "Daily Wire Implode" on your 2024 Bingo Card?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 8:42 pm
[quote]It was likely a pure business decision for him to do an about face and to embrace Trump.[/quote]
He has openly said that he likes Trumps' policies while in office.
He didn't forsee that during the 2016 election (trump was a Democrat for most of his life. He also treated wives and busin...
re: The Coming Social Security Crisis
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 8:21 pm
[quote]Now wait a minute. An employer sends the employee portion plus the employer portion and the government can't reconcile a name with a fake number? Are you saying they can't or choose not to?[/quote]
It is a legitimate name and ss#.
It is not the legitimate person doing the work.
That is...
re: Is "Daily Wire Implode" on your 2024 Bingo Card?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 8:04 pm
Candace was announced to the daily wite March 9th 2021.
She left a few days ago.
It is obvious to me that she wanted out of her contract. She was trying to get fired.
At the end of the day, the daily wire and she decided not to renew a contract.
And it is pretty evident that both sides ar...
re: Two-time cancer survivor posts video explaining why he left Democratic Party over the ACA
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 7:34 pm
I don't look at non-profits any differently than for-profits.
The CEOs make bank for both.
The easiest way to eliminate profits in a non-profit is to pay salary.
The marketing arms of the larger non-profits also spend like Congress. So much so that there are non-profits who cater to the mark...
re: Worried about squatters occupying your vacant home? This NYC news anchor has the solution
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 4:01 pm
[quote]You need to retake physical possession of the house before the police arrive. Once they do the person inside the house is holding all the cards. There are usually retired LE who work part-time gigs as PIs or skip-tracers and so on. Hiring a well- connected former cop as an escort is a strong ...
re: Two-time cancer survivor posts video explaining why he left Democratic Party over the ACA
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:57 pm
What does "not-for-profit" mean to you?
Have you ever looked at the books for a nonprofit?
Do you even want to guess what the easiest way to avoid making profits is?...
re: Looking for a wife?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:36 pm
[quote]At least a third of young women couldn't explain the difference between conservative and liberal. The majority of them are disinterested in politics.[/quote]
That describes a ton of people who classify themselves as liberal....
re: Will anybody who previously support gay marriage admit it was a mistake ?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:31 pm
[quote]I blame it on the politicizing of it under this LBGTQ umbrella. When you identify with a group, you get lumped in with the best and the worst.
Now, fringe groups piled on under the same umbrella. I dont blame gay people, I blame the political activism.[/quote]
Do you want some irony?
...
re: OT: The Mayflower- Live Pic
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:25 pm
What kind of wages are people getting downtown Athens?
I'm in the boonies and the wages are going crazy here.
I would expect a liberal haven to be similar. But 35,000 students all looking for some scratch sure has a way of depressing the starting salary....
re: Will anybody who previously support gay marriage admit it was a mistake ?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:21 pm
[quote]Paraphrasing Sam Kinison:
"I don't understand how a man can look at another man's hairy a-hole and fall in love."[/quote]
True.
But for the same reasons, I can understand Sapphic attraction as we are probably enamored with the same body parts....
re: The Coming Social Security Crisis
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:18 pm
[quote]
If SS was a private pension fund, the managers would be in jail[/quote]
Personally, I think the people in charge of the US budget should be in jail too....
re: How many of you get a big tax refund check?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:15 pm
[quote]Young people need to defer gratification of fancy cars and large houses and save for their future or there will be an economic tsunami in 30 years that will rival the depression.[/quote]
I don't agree that cars and houses should be lumped together.
One is a depreciating asset.
Land is ...
re: Looking for a wife?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 3:08 pm
I saw those stats in a Pearl interview with Michael Knowles.
Without telling men to not get married, she was basically telling men to not get married.
Lack of quality and lack of legal benefits/protections, she's sees very little reason for the majority of men to seek a married relationship....
re: The Coming Social Security Crisis
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 1:52 pm
[quote]Something tells me people tend to over estimate how much they pay in to social security[/quote]
Agreed
As of last year, I paid in $116,675 and my employers paid $130,154.
I'm mid 40s.
The maximum income (not tax... income) available for social security tax in 1990 was $51,300.
The ma...
re: For the married OTers, do you do girls trips or guys trips?
Posted by meansonny on 3/28/24 at 1:25 pm
Our family does scouts.
So there are no "buddy" trips.
But we've had dozens trips with my sons and I in the woods or on a beach.
And I honestly enjoy hanging out with the other dads that I plan on continuing some of the trips (lake Lanier, snow skiing, Cumberland island) when the boys have alre...
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