Sorry Texas

Posted on February 5, 2024 by grim

… Louisiana, and Mississippi.

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78 Responses to Sorry Texas

grim says:

February 5, 2024 at 5:16 am

Thank you Canada, we need to keep this train moving.

From CBC:

Government extends ban on foreign buying of Canadian housing

The federal government is extending its ban on foreign home purchasing in Canada, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced in a release Sunday.

The rule, which was first announced in 2022, will now be extended until the beginning of 2027. It bans foreign nationals and commercial enterprises from buying residential property in Canada, with exceptions for some international students, refugee claimants and temporary workers.

“By extending the foreign buyer ban, we will ensure houses are used as homes for Canadian families to live in and do not become a speculative financial asset class,” Freeland said in the statement Sunday.

Experts have questioned whether the ban is having a significant effect on housing affordability in Canada, given the relatively small share of the overall housing market owned by non-Canadians. In 2020, for example, the share of the market owned by non-residents in some provinces measured ranged from two to six per cent.

In 2021, in B.C., only around 1.1. per cent of home sales included a foreign buyer.

There are also further exemptions to the home buying rules that allow for the purchase of buildings with four or more residences, or in some less populated areas.
leftwing says:

February 5, 2024 at 6:02 am

First
Chicago says:

February 5, 2024 at 7:57 am

Ten 410
Chicago says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:04 am

Ten 411
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:05 am

I’m glad to see the northeast and California still able to afford their Chardonnay and Bruno Magli’s loafers. As for the heartland of the country, you’re just a bunch of deplorables, to be replaced by those poor, undocumented folks seeking asylum.
Very Stable Genius says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:23 am

Boomer on Reddit says that after 30 yrs of working company declared bankruptcy and didn’t pay pension plan. He says “oh well”

Boomer is obsessed and loses sleep with people repaying credit card debt. But if company doesn’t repay it’s financial obligations to workers then “oh well”
TraitorJoe says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:25 am

That invader with the double middle finger was the perfect poster child for the entire Biden debacle. Just a giant FU to the majority of the country.
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:28 am

And now for something completely different: Everywhere I turn, I see this Taylor Swift’s name. Did she find life on another planet? A cure for cancer? Another dimension? I wouldn’t know one of this girl’s songs if you whacked me in the head with it. So, I just started playing her latest Grammy winning album on YouTube. I’m well into the 2nd track and so far, it’s all sampling with a lot of stuff wrapped around blush vocals. And the sampling is a mix of standard chord progressions. I’m aching to say ‘wow’ but right now, a minute into the 3rd track, all I’m saying is ‘huh’?
TraitorJoe says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:33 am

I was ready to give kudos to Phil for winning the World Cup final. Then he decided to announce it’s going to be a showcase for DEI. Forget it.
Juice Box says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:34 am

Ed – Aren’t you having a Taylor themed Super Bowl party too??
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:34 am

Song No. 4, same as 3, 2 and 1. No, I’m serious. It’s boring as hell.
Juice Box says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:43 am

Powell on 60 minutes. No rate cut in March….

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fed-chair-jerome-powell-60-minutes-video-2024-02-04/
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 8:53 am

Ed – Aren’t you having a Taylor themed Super Bowl party too??

Maybe that’ll make me see the light. Are there Taylor Swift snacks and drinks that I’m not aware of?

Where is today’s version of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’?
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:11 am

Fast: You are old, and just don’t understand Taylor Swifts appeal. It’s a young people thing.
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:33 am

the teenage guys hate her. My 9 year old daughter can’t stand her….but my daughter is also playing vinyl records of the Beatles and the Clash right now.

This Taylor Swift news thing has been going on for a while since her tour last year. Every single “suggested story” popping up on every feed was her…despite the fact I just scroll past it non-stop, the algos continually push it on you. It goes hand in hand with the model of making you angry to keep your attention.

NFL loves this because there’s no sports rivalries anymore. So, the guys finally have something to get angry about and they wall want the Chiefs to lose. Meanwhile, all the girls want them to win.
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:43 am

You are old, and just don’t understand Taylor Swifts appeal. It’s a young people thing.</I?

I was going to say that it's not an age thing because I saw of a song by a band called 'Hardy' on New Year's Eve, CBS, that was incredible. It was a meld of country, hip hop and hardcore into one. Truly different. I need to find that particular song.
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:43 am

Italics off… I hope.
No One says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:45 am

My 22yo daughter can’t stand Taylor Swift’s music. Not sure why. She had a section in Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame, but left country a long time ago. I think since going to school in NC and TN, my daughter started listening to more country, less rap.
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:47 am

I don’t see Taylor’s appeal music wise, but she has something that appears to young women, and I guess some young men. She is also a very savvy business woman, so good for her.
Very Stable Genius says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:49 am

Maga thinks “Fast Cars” is Luke combs country but it’s actually Tracy Chapman
No One says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:50 am

BRT,
Wow its a slippery slope for your kid, one day she’s listening to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the next day she could be listening to In The Court of the Crimson King, and before you know it, Lark’s Tongue in Aspic.
Very Stable Genius says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:50 am

Taylor Swift is in favor of women being in control of their reproductive rights
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:51 am

3b says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:11 am
Fast: You are old,

Hehe.

My vote for post of the day. Hehe.
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:52 am

No One: Country has a huge appeal across all demographics. My wife has been a huge country music fan since she was a kid. I have been to concerts with her and our friends. I am not what I would call a fan, but do like some of the new artists, and appreciate good music regardless of the genre.

In spite of what some sophisticated people might believe, theses concerts have people from all walks of life, young and old, and all races and ethnic groups. I have never seen a confederate flag at any of the tailgate parties, and the fans are well behaved and friendly.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:53 am

Very Stable Genius says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:50 am
Taylor Swift is in favor of women being in control of men’s reproductive rights.

Fixed it for ya.
No One says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:55 am

Also on 60 Minutes last night, a segment on how easy it is for Chinese to walk around the border and stay in the US. Besides restaurants and massage parlors, where else can illegal Chinese work?

Florida already has a shortage of good Chinese restaurants, and this bill by DeSantis will probably make things worse:
https://www.flgov.com/2023/05/10/governor-ron-desantis-signs-strongest-anti-illegal-immigration-legislation-in-the-country-to-combat-bidens-border-crisis/
I notice that my landscaping company in Florida has become more short-handed than usual this year. I’d say DeSantis got this backwards – make work easier, welfare harder for immigrants (actually I’d say the same for citizens as well).
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:56 am

Right now, I’m just hoping she does sing “The Guns of Brixton” at school.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:56 am

Maybe she is on TikTok and part of the #tradwife movement.

No One says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:45 am
My 22yo daughter can’t stand Taylor Swift’s music. Not sure why.

https://katiecouric.com/entertainment/what-is-a-tradwife/
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:58 am

Maga thinks “Fast Cars” is Luke combs country but it’s actually Tracy Chapman

It’s called ‘Fast Car’. Step off your Ivory Tower and loosen the top button of your $200 shirt ’cause anyone not living in an alternate universe knows who did the song originally.
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:00 am

No One,

my mom is going senile but she swears every Chinese person she runs into speaking Chinese is a spy. People try to call her out on it from a racist standpoint but she’s got 5 Chinese children, so she has a free pass.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:00 am

As America does away with the middle class, a larger part of America can relate to country music, lost your job, wife, house, car, dog.

3b says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:52 am
No One: Country has a huge appeal across all demographics. My wife has been a huge country music fan since she was a kid. I have been to concerts with her and our friends. I am not what I would call a fan, but do like some of the new artists, and appreciate good music regardless of the genre.

In spite of what some sophisticated people might believe, theses concerts have people from all walks of life, young and old, and all races and ethnic groups. I have never seen a confederate flag at any of the tailgate parties, and the fans are well behaved and friendly.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:03 am

Rich people’s homes? I’m sure they can make a spot in the basement for them to stay, then give them a few bowls of Chex Mix for dinner after they wash and fold the laundry.

No One says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:55 am
Also on 60 Minutes last night, a segment on how easy it is for Chinese to walk around the border and stay in the US. Besides restaurants and massage parlors, where else can illegal Chinese work?
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:06 am

I like Lainey Wilson a lot! She was awesome to watch on New Year’s Eve. I think she’s in NYC touring in June. That’s a must.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:08 am

No One says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:55 am
I notice that my landscaping company in Florida has become more short-handed than usual this year.

The workers have moved up to more lucrative businesses, like stealing catalytic converters, dealing fentanyl and Tide detergent.
ArticleMadeForFastEddie ChexOrOxyAsChexAreKnownInFLComment says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:12 am

This Florida Mall Has Gucci, Prada … and Soon, Affordable Housing?

A new law lets developers bypass local zoning rules if they promise “work force housing.” It has stirred an uproar around the state, most recently in affluent Bal Harbour.

By Patricia Mazzei

Reporting from Bal Harbour, Fla.
Feb. 5, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET

In Bal Harbour, Fla., an oceanside village north of Miami Beach, a luxury mall says it wants to help tackle one of the nation’s — and Florida’s — most intractable problems: a lack of affordable housing.

It is an unexpected move for a retail temple where Gucci, Chanel and Rolex are on offer. Affordable? Here?

But in a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, the Florida Legislature passed a law last spring intended to encourage projects like the one that the owner of the mall, Bal Harbour Shops, has in mind. Called the Live Local Act, the law allows developers to bypass certain local zoning rules and to qualify for tax breaks if their projects include enough “work force housing.”

Local officials around the state, stripped of their power to say no, don’t like it. And nowhere has seen more backlash to date than little Bal Harbour.

For 40 years, the mall’s owner, Whitman Family Development, has wanted to build a hotel alongside the shopping center, on Collins Avenue, the village’s main drag. Neighbors and elected leaders repeatedly rejected the idea. But when the new housing law passed, the owner saw a way in.

The company filed an application last month to build a 20-story hotel and three residential towers with 600 units, 240 of which would be priced low enough to qualify as work force housing under the law. If the plan meets the law’s requirements, the village of about 3,100 people — where the median household income is about $86,000 a year, well above the state average — will be unable to stop it.

After the application was filed, infuriated residents packed Village Hall to decry the project. The Village Council, feeling ambushed, vowed to try to stop it. Then, last week, the mall’s owner sued the village, in what seems to be the first instance of a developer asking the courts to enforce the new law.

It is a small-town fight over a big-time issue, with both sides making reasonable points and no compromise in sight.

“The law doesn’t make sense, the way it’s being used by the developers,” said Neca Logan, 60, the president of the Bal Harbour Civic Association and a lifelong village resident. “This will change our community for the terrible.”

The law resembles others that states have passed in recent years curbing local governments’ ability to block new projects as rent burdens escalate; the hope is to speed construction and backfill what has become a national housing shortage. But around the country, local officials are pushing back.

The Bal Harbour case is the highest-profile dispute yet over the Live Local Act, but it has upset municipalities all over Florida since Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed it last March.

Miami Beach balked when the owners of the famed Clevelander Hotel on Ocean Drive floated plans for a restaurant and 30-story residential building. (The owners have since reduced it to 18 stories.) Commissioners in Pasco County, north of Tampa, voted to sue any developer trying to use the law to build apartments on industrial or commercial property. At least two municipalities in Miami-Dade County, Doral and Florida City, temporarily suspended all development after the law’s passage.

Municipal leaders say they are exasperated with the Republican-controlled state government for overriding local authority. State legislators consider the law, which has prompted a slew of shelved developments to be dusted off and redrawn, a resounding success. Developers say that without the law, they would have no incentive to build anything resembling work force housing.

“I’m the first to admit that including multifamily residential has not been in the plan since its inception,” said Matthew Whitman Lazenby, the chief executive of Whitman Family Development, the mall owner. His grandfather, who opened the mall in 1965, had envisioned it as a central village destination with a mix of commercial uses.

“If we can do that while also doing our part to solve a real social crisis,” Mr. Lazenby said, “it seems like that’s an opportunity that we shouldn’t refuse.”

The units designated as affordable would be rentals; a mall spokesman said it was too soon to know the going rate. Mr. Lazenby has pointed to hospitality and service workers, teachers, nurses and police officers as examples of people who work in Bal Harbour but cannot afford to live there.

Several employees of stores and restaurants at the mall lamented long, expensive commutes in interviews last week and said they would love to live in Bal Harbour if the rent was within reach; they asked not to be identified because they did not have their employers’ permission to speak to the news media.

Renters in the Miami metropolitan area are the most cost-burdened in the country, according to a new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, which measured how many people spent at least 30 percent of their household income on housing. The report also found that Florida was the most unaffordable state for renters, followed by Hawaii and Nevada.

Miami has plenty of new rental units, but most are for the luxury market and not for the region’s service economy workers, who are employed by the hospitality, health care and retail sectors, said Ned Murray, the associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. Public-sector employees, like teachers and police officers, also often are squeezed out.

Anthony De Yurre, a South Florida real estate lawyer who is on the board of governors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and was involved in shaping the $700 million law, said that what affluent homeowners actually objected to was having less affluent people move into their neighborhoods.

“If you go to these meetings, the first response you get is, ‘We don’t want those people,’” Mr. De Yurre said. “These are the same people that are teachers in our communities, service and hospitality folks.”

The law is hardly a cure-all. Under its terms, at least 40 percent of the housing units in a proposed project must be set aside for people making up to 120 percent of the local median household income. In Miami-Dade County, 120 percent of the median is currently around $90,000 a year. But Dr. Murray said that most of the county’s service sector workers earned less than $20 an hour.

“When you do that math, we’re looking at renters that earn between $40,000 and $50,000 a year,” he said, adding that the law is “not addressing that real need.”

Residents and local officials see a different problem: that the law makes it impossible for cities and towns to block out-of-scale projects that would worsen traffic and overwhelm public services. The backlash has been such that state lawmakers are considering amendments to the law intended to address some of the concerns.

“We are very sensitive to climate change and sea rise and the impact on infrastructure, which we deal with every day here,” Mayor Jeffrey P. Freimark of Bal Harbour said. “As a barrier island, adding this type of load to it is, I would argue, unconscionable.”

In 2021, nearly 90 percent of Bal Harbour residents rejected a referendum put forth by the mall to build higher than its current 56-foot limit, which was set by another referendum in 2006. The newly proposed towers would rise 275 feet — roughly five times higher. The mall owner notes that the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, across the street, is about the same height.

On a recent weekday afternoon, the Bal Harbour Shops were bustling with local and international visitors enjoying a late lunch or strolling the open-air corridors lined with lush tropical foliage.

The high winter season used to slow down after Jan. 15, Mr. Lazenby said, but since 2021 has extended through Valentine’s Day. A previously approved mall expansion — also a sore subject for many residents — was underway, and the surrounding streets were choked with traffic.

“I don’t think anybody’s opposed to having work force housing in theory,” Ms. Logan said, “but not how he’s trying to do it.”
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:12 am

Very: Also when Luke Combs was getting grief from the left for his remake of Fast Car, and how Tracy Chapman would not get recognition from country establishment, blah, blah, blah, Chapman shut it down. She said Combs approached her about covering the song and that it was a favorite of his. She said she was honored he wanted to cover it, and had absolutely no issues with him doing it. And, she was paid 500k. Faux outrage shut down.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:13 am

BRT says:
February 5, 2024 at 10:00 am
No One,

my mom is going senile but she swears every Chinese person she runs into speaking Chinese is a spy.

She is not going senile. She is just watching every news channel, listen to the politicians, the newspapers in America. This country is bursting with anti-Chinese propaganda everywhere.

Tell a big lie….
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:19 am

Fast: Yes, she is very talented, and easy on the eyes!
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:26 am

Phoenix: It’s a little more than that, although there is still some of that in county music. But, whatever it is, it appeals to a lot of different people, and people you might not expect to listen to that type of music.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:33 am

3b says:
February 5, 2024 at 10:26 am
Phoenix: It’s a little more than that, although there is still some of that in county music. But, whatever it is, it appeals to a lot of different people, and people you might not expect to listen to that type of music.

It’s in my line of work where you notice this dramatically with educated individuals.
I work with all ethnicities and ages. I had one doctor I worked with when asked what music he wanted, it was “anything but Aerosmith.” Usually people pick genres to decline, but for him, it was just Aerosmith.

But you are right, it’s surprising the music different types of people prefer. Or hate.

But country is generally a polarizing genre. It’s either hated or loved.
No One says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:34 am

I’ve known a few people I’m about 90% confident have been spies for China. And know of a lot more that probably are. Keep in mind that China doesn’t mostly use or want full-time spies. Instead they want connections to people in a lot of positions from which they can get the info they need. Sometimes they get it for free from “patriots” or people just helping out their school friends. Sometimes they get it in return for banquets and attendance fees and girls. Sometimes they pay actual cash.

One guy I knew, a friend of a friend. He was a dean at a university in a couple of technological-associated departments. Fancied himself a romantic figure, despite being a nerd. Wasn’t actually brilliant at any specific subject, but he could make speeches, could put his name as the fourth guy on a paper and help get it funded, and would be the MC at a bunch of conferences in his field around the world, and especially in China. Turns out he had “girlfriends” in several Chinese cities where these conferences were hosted. With access to a lot of technology IP, I suspect he was living the high life in return for providing info to China. There have been some higher level professors caught doing this stuff. China has a program called “Thousand Talents” that is devoted to connecting with overseas Chinese positioned like this.

Another guy was more blatant. Runs a pro-China newspaper for the US Chinese community. It doesn’t make money yet it keeps on existing, almost surely supported by the CCP. And the guy of course has an excuse to try to know all the Chinese in his area.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:35 am

Something creepy happens to people when they collect too much money.

Tesla owner is pulled over by cops for driving down the highway while wearing new Apple Vision computer glasses
A user named Dante posted a video of himself getting pulled over for driving a Tesla while wearing the new Apple Vision Pro glasses
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:41 am

Phoenix; Agreed. And country although still somewhat polarizing as in loved/ hated, not as much as in the past. The audience is much bigger and diverse then it ever was. It’s not what some on the left think as only ignorant/ uneducated racists flying confederate flags listen to.
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:52 am

3b,

Whatsa matta, Lizzy’s not doing it for you? :o
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 10:53 am

Turns out he had “girlfriends” in several Chinese cities where these conferences were hosted.

Sounds like a plan. Good for him. Maybe they want to be American citizens too. Better than staying in China making peanuts so Americans can buy cheap goods.

My business is now being filled up with Eastern Europeans as well. Guess the economy is in shambles there now.
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:08 am

Phoenix, she’s is both going senile and watching all that crap.
No One says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:14 am

Phoenix,
Those “girlfriends” are working for the CCP’s spy program.
Nerdy balding bespectacled first gen immigrant Chinese guy living in the US, working for a second tier school, cucked by his ex wife, gets hosted by “Thousand Talents” outreach programs in China, and suddenly he’s the hero of China and successful Don Juan. Oh Ping, you’re such a wonderful lover, so handsome, your poems are so romantic, your ex-wife was so dumb, and by the way, can you send me that data from that paper on AI that you were talking about?
Libturd says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:14 am

I listen to pretty much all kinds of music except top 40 pop and prog rock. I am probably most partial to classical and jazz, but I also dig classic rock, reggae, alternative (if it’s still called that) techno, and even country. Though with the latter, I definitely liked a lot of the stuff from the 90s through about 2010. After that, there’s been a little too much of what I would call novelty country. For example, the save my truck, take my wife kind of stuff. Or the Applebies song. Just pure trash. Much rather listen to the Dixie Chicks, Brooks & Dunn, heck, even the early Taylor Swift.

Speaking of Swift. I can’t stand her pop music. And this coming from someone who actually enjoys a few Kylie Minogue, Beyonce, Katie Perry and even occasional Britney Spears tunes. The problem with Swift’s music is that it is all simple formula. Nearly every song is about breaking up and the chords and lyrics are extremely simplistic. She is kind of like Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. She basically takes a common theme, like Karma for example. She loosely adapts it to a relationship and nearly always a breakup of that relationship. The lyrics are rhymy and catchy, but are completely scattered and often non-sensical. But the meter is very catchy. Like Kylie’s Starship’s Chorus:
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up and touch the sky
Can’t stop ’cause we’re so high
Let’s do this one more time, oh

Here is some of Karma:
‘Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma’s a relaxing thought
Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap ’cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
Spider-boy, king of thieves
Weave your little webs of opacity
My pennies made your crown
Trick me once, trick me twice
Don’t you know that cash ain’t the only price?
It’s coming back around

It doesn’t even make sense. Yet she’s become a multi-billionaire with this formula. I find it terrible. If this was a country song, it wouldn’t get a single play. People actually listen to the story of a country song. This Swift shit is just lines that rhyme over a catchy chord hook. I give her credit though. I heard she puts on a great show and is extremely intelligent. I just can’t stand her music.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:16 am

Glitchy McConnell. All you need to get him to go into reboot mode is to speak a different word into each ear at the same time.

Oh, and how many billions appropriated for AMERICAN Homeless Veterans. Senior Citizens. Americans with cancer? Daycare funding. Road repair. High speed rail.
Billions for others, but none for thee- thee that are AMERICAN citizens, and who have had, and will have, paid out of their labor. Debt these Elected OLD GOATS are taking from American children by putting them in debt.

Knives are out for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is facing much of the fury from Republicans opposing the bill after he insisted last year that border policy changes be included in the funding package for embattled countries.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said the Republican Party ‘NEEDS NEW LEADERSHIP – NOW.’

‘This feels like an elaborate practical joke. But it’s not funny. Not one bit,’ Lee posted to X, formerly Twitter. I cannot understand how any Republican would think this was a good idea—or anything other than an unmitigated disaster.

The $118 billion deal, backed by the White House, includes $14 billion in aid to Israel, $60 billion to Ukraine and also $20 billion for securing the southern border amid a massive increase in illegal migration. It also includes billions for critical partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:17 am

No One.

No better spy on the planet than Pegasus. Read what it can do.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:21 am

Swift’s music is meant for women. Most women, especially feminists, love it.

Sorry Lib, but you ain’t her target audience. I work with her target audience. And they would storm the Capitol if she asked them to.
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:27 am

Since we are talking music, I do extra credit questions for fun on various topics on tests. This is today’s test.

16. You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day, try to run, try to hide:
a. I’m Mr. Brightside
b. Break on through to the other side
c. And boy got me walkin from side to side
d. Take a ride on the wild side

17. Who was not a member of the Beastie Boys?
a. Adrock b. Mike Love c. MCA d. Mike D

18. Who was not a member of the Beach Boys?
a. Dennis Wilson b. Brian Wilson c. Al Jardine d. George Harrison

19. Who was the drummer for Nirvana?
a. John Bonham b. Dave Grohl c. Taylor Hawkins d. Kurt Cobain

20. Who sang “Drop it like it’s Hot”?
a. Marhshall Mathers b. Andre Young c. Calvin Broadus d. Curtis Jackson
3b says:

February 5, 2024 at 11:54 am

No rate cut in March, market takes a dump; silly market.
Hughesrep says:

February 5, 2024 at 12:09 pm

Taylor Swift- 100 songs about breakups, no songs about BJ’s. Coincidence?
BRT says:

February 5, 2024 at 12:21 pm

From the songs I’ve heard, I’m just not impressed at all. But from a marketing standpoint, there’s obviously no comparison.
chicagofinance says:

February 5, 2024 at 12:40 pm

Ten 416; touched 418
Very Stable Genius says:

February 5, 2024 at 12:58 pm

She might formally endorse Biden during superbowl
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 1:19 pm

She might formally endorse Biden during superbowl

Can you pick up the wireless mic from the top of a 20,000-foot ivory tower?
Meatball Ron says:

February 5, 2024 at 1:26 pm

What exactly is wrong with e-verify and ensuring employees are authorized to work in the country with penalties against the employer for non-compliance?
SmallGovConservative says:

February 5, 2024 at 1:29 pm

Very Stable Genius says:
February 5, 2024 at 9:50 am
“… women being in control of their reproductive rights”

How, over the course of just 2-3 generations, did this country go from producing men who had the courage to storm the beaches in Normandy, to producing squirrely weaklings like this guy, who with the world literally unravelling thanks to our feckless leader, shapes his world view around women’s reproductive ‘rights’? What an embarrassing putz!
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 2:46 pm

Women’s reproductive rights: If the father insists on having the baby and the mother is set against it, can she be forced to have it? If not, does he have any recourse? And if she decides to have the baby, is he automatically forced to support her and the infant until adulthood if she insists?
Bystander says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Re: Swift, I never understood why people focus on music of today when the music of yesterday is far more interesting and practically infinite. The mp3 ushered in the end of real music. There is no money is it. Certainly there are some great talents like Billy Strings but if you never listened to Doc Watson then WTF? I’ve had Willie Nelson’s Honeysuckle Rose album in my car for 4 months straight. Let me know when any of them can write songs about true human heartbreak as poetically as Willie, Merle, Kris Kristofferson etc.

Luke Bryan? “Girl get your hot self over here, get me another beer” Pure garbage. Can Luke write this about women?

When you go out to play this evenin’
Play with fireflies ’till they’re gone
Then you rush to meet your lover
And play with real fire ’till the dawn

Get into jazz, bluegrass, afro-beat, even New Orleans/ cajun – you can go really deep cliff into brilliance from dead, penniless souls. Far more interesting. I have Fela Kuti on rotation in my main car. My 9 and 7 yos listen without interruption, 12 minutes of rhythm and textures. I even tell them what Zombie lyrics are really about. It is amazing stuff.
RentL0rd says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:28 pm

FatEddy loved Taylor Swift, until Orange man decided she doesn’t fit his agenda. It’s not an age thing.

I don’t care if my kids like her or not.. I don’t claim to understand them any way. But I do understand Orange theory.
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:35 pm

Rent,

Seriously… her music is boring as hell. It sucks. Guys like Neil Young and Roger Waters hate everything right of center but I could care less, I’ll still see them live.
Hold my beer says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:36 pm

Swift could never be in Twice
Fast Eddie says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:41 pm

Bystander,

Yep. Songwriters, for sure. Dylan, McCartney, Bacharach, Billy Joel, Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Jim Steinman, Carol King, Marvin Hamlisch, Steven Sondheim … on and on.
RealityRealityReality says:

February 5, 2024 at 4:57 pm

Small Gov Con,

The answer is electing to POTUS people that try to weasel away from danger like W Bush or did not serve in the military like your heel spur orange convict to be hero.

Meatball Ron;

There is the letter of the law, the spirit of the law for an average person, and the “wink wink got to be real and make me do it” of the law for a big corporation and its undertaxed biggest shareholder billionaire.

Let’s take a look at the Oligopolies of the meat processing industry. Originally meats were processed in big cities where labor and consumers were located (NYC meat packing district/Chicago Stockyards,etc). But unions were a problems so they moved the plants into red country.

But red country is underpopulated and the job is hard with frequent injuries, so they recruit newly arrived legal and illegal immigrants to work there. Of course they don’t recruit directly, they use multiple labor agencies that are the actual employers that are fungible and take the blame. But there is where the sausage is made. Illegal Juan Pablo become legal Johnny Paulie and gets to work and earn his well earn wage, but more importantly the agency gets to make money and the meat processor gets to be more profitable because Juan Pablo is desperate. When Juan Pablo looses 3 fingers, well all the legal paperwork will show that it was his fault and heavens to betsy he’s an illegal and get him deported asap.

The big four processors in the U.S. beef sector are: Cargill, a global commodity trader based in Minnesota; Tyson Foods Inc the chicken producer that is the biggest U.S. meat company by sales; Brazil-based JBS SA, the world’s biggest meatpacker; and National Beef Packing Co, which is controlled by Brazilian beef producer Marfrig Global Foods SA.

This goes on big time in the agricultural/meats/food complex and frnakly any dangerous professions where labor is cheap.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 5:18 pm

RealityRealityReality says:
February 5, 2024 at 4:57 pm
Small Gov Con,

The answer is electing to POTUS people that try to weasel away from danger like W Bush or did not serve in the military like your heel spur orange convict to be hero.

Well!, if we want reality we would also admit that there are plenty of blue donkeys that skirted those rules as well.
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 5:19 pm

HMB

I agree
Phoenix says:

February 5, 2024 at 5:22 pm

The only right a man has is to choose whether or not he hits it. After that all the rights belong to the woman and the state he knocked her up in.

Fast Eddie says:
February 5, 2024 at 2:46 pm
Women’s reproductive rights: If the father insists on having the baby and the mother is set against it, can she be forced to have it? If not, does he have any recourse? And if she decides to have the baby, is he automatically forced to support her and the infant until adulthood if she insists?
Hold my beer says:

February 5, 2024 at 5:51 pm

Phoenix

I think she’s plain and boring. About as charismatic as Al Gore
Hold my beer says:

February 5, 2024 at 6:30 pm

We will be bailing out California in 3 2 1…

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/vast-majority-california-flood-victims-165727741.html
RealityRealityReality says:

February 5, 2024 at 7:03 pm

HMB,

Please you making that comment is like the pot calling the kettle black.

Texas FEMA bail out for your Winter Storm because of your ” We Be Texas only Grid” cutting corners engineering. i heard the guy that designed it worked on the 737 MAX.

More importantly who is going to kick the bucket first? Trump or King Charles?
Hold my beer says:

February 5, 2024 at 7:37 pm

Hey doofus. The article is about how Californians don’t have flood insurance. Considerably less than 1% of households and office buildings do not have flood insurance in the hardest flooded counties.

A homeowner or landlord can control if they have flood insurance. They can’t control companies not winterizing the grid well enough.
RealityRealityReality says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:11 pm

HMB,

They can’t control directly. But indirectly they can elect the right people and lobby for the right laws and regulations that force utilities to perform up to standards.

Your governor is a mean spirited cripple. He’s angry because he was crippled by his own Texas size stupidity. Who the hell goes jogging right after a hurricane goes through? A dumbass like him would.

I can’t wait for people’s whining in 6 years or even less about the Trump dictatorship. It will go something like;

“I didn’t know they were going to draft my son”, “ Why am I in this concentration camp, I did do anything”, “The local party head took away my business”
leftwing says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:14 pm

“Swift’s music is meant for women. Most women, especially feminists, love it…I work with her target audience. And they would storm the Capitol if she asked them to.”

Well here is a little ditty for your co-workers. Maybe your ex- as well.

I may take 5:00 on, loop it, and send it to a few women I know…

https://youtu.be/MFfO-2AcFQM?si=8xT5UfQST0BCOZ42
leftwing says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:20 pm

“I can’t wait for people’s whining in 6 years or even less about the Trump dictatorship. It will go something like…Why am I in this concentration camp, I did[n’t] do anything”

Somebody remind me, when did this board get permeated by freaks with throwaway handles and severe mental illness?
Hold my beer says:

February 5, 2024 at 9:36 pm

Reality

By your logic since the Texas governor is a US citizen it’s his fault we have a porous border. That’s it’s everyone in californias fault for the crime wave and death spirals of the major cities. That its your own fault for all your personal data your car, phone, and web browser collect since you didn’t campaign for politicians who would stop that.

Like I said. You’re a doofus.

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