Politics Thread

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Palo Alto city records show that a building permit for an additional room and exterior door was issued to Ford and her husband on Feb. 4, 2008 — more than four years before the May 2012 therapy session where, she says, she first identified Kavanaugh as her attacker.

All the remodeling, including a new bathroom, was completed by February 2010. The only additional permits issued to Ford at her Palo Alto address are for "solar panels" on the roof, a "solar hot water system” in the garage, and an “electric vehicle charge station” for the driveway -- all of which were issued after 2012.

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https://www.realclearinvestigations....r_account.html

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Originally Posted by JTG

I just bought a used Outback v6 for 15k. It had every option they offer, and 71,000 miles. Go on Carguru about 3 months brfore you plan on buying. Have a search range of 100 miles, and chances are you can find a good used one, at an affordable price.

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I am in a problematic area here. We live in a part of the country that regularly has summer temps in excess of 110 degress and a 6-7 month period where temps average 100+. I am not sure buying her a car to cart around two children in that kind of climate with 71k miles on it is prudent or safe. There are too many what-ifs in that scenario that involve her and my children on the side of the road with road temps exceeding 120 degrees with a broken down car.

This was my point a few months ago regarding the purchase of vehicles. If you don't live in an extreme climate, you just don't understand the value of a new vehicle and its reliability vs a used vehicle and it's question marks.

We don't live in the midwest. Our winters are great, but our summers are absolutely brutal and continue to get worse. Decreasing the odds of having a any kind of summer car trouble with little children in the car and extreme heat seems like a no-brainer to me.

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Originally Posted by ArizonaXUGrad

CNN and Fox News cancel each other out. That isn't even fair to CNN here as Fox is so far out there they aren't even credible anymore. I would put MSNBC on there but they still have Maddow who is probably the best journalist out there right now.

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I think the downfall started for all news organizations a number of years ago, (maybe in the mid 80s?) when CBS put the news division under the control of the entertainment division. At that point, it became all about ratings and revenue instead of quality investigations and reporting.


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Originally Posted by ArizonaXUGrad

CNN and Fox News cancel each other out. That isn't even fair to CNN here as Fox is so far out there they aren't even credible anymore. I would put MSNBC on there but they still have Maddow who is probably the best journalist out there right now.

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You've been in the heat too long.

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Originally Posted by ArizonaXUGrad

I am in a problematic area here. We live in a part of the country that regularly has summer temps in excess of 110 degress and a 6-7 month period where temps average 100+. I am not sure buying her a car to cart around two children in that kind of climate with 71k miles on it is prudent or safe. There are too many what-ifs in that scenario that involve her and my children on the side of the road with road temps exceeding 120 degrees with a broken down car.

This was my point a few months ago regarding the purchase of vehicles. If you don't live in an extreme climate, you just don't understand the value of a new vehicle and its reliability vs a used vehicle and it's question marks.

We don't live in the midwest. Our winters are great, but our summers are absolutely brutal and continue to get worse. Decreasing the odds of having a any kind of summer car trouble with little children in the car and extreme heat seems like a no-brainer to me.

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My point was the Outback at 70k, is good for another 100k. And I might argue that -20 is just as dangerous as 100+. But I understand getting a new car. I got spoiled with 40 yrs of new cars courtesy of company I worked for.

My backup is AAA and Uber/Lyft but 20 yr. old Odyssey still strong @ 212k.

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Originally Posted by xudash

You've been in the heat too long.

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Google Maddow’s credentials and education. She fact checks and does quality journalism. Just because you don’t like the source material and her slant doesn’t make the work any less factual.


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This is amazing. A way too large portion of academia is such a fucking mess right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9...ature=youtu.be

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

This is amazing. A way to large portion of academia is such a fucking mess right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9...ature=youtu.be

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I was just reading about this.

Fake News Comes to Academia - WSJ

Some hilarious lines throughout that piece.

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Still, the paper claims dog parks are “petri dishes for canine ‘rape culture’ ” and issues “a call for awareness into the different ways dogs are treated on the basis of their gender and queering behaviors, and the chronic and perennial rape emergency dog parks pose to female dogs.”

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That’s both hysterical and scary. Too bad the WSJ article is behind a paywall.


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