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It's OK to be black, but please, act and look white. You on the bus with the dreads, you must be a drug dealer and you must want to kill me.
No, silly, the mom in the hijab wants to kill you. Didn't you get that memo?
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NYC has a fledgling bike share program. I would suspect any real change to gas consumption will be bottom-up, starting with cities, not top-down from the fractured fed, which formerly did the big things, like the interstate system. Big players will hold more sway, as California did when upping (a bit) CAFE standards started nudging Detroit to retool...a little....just because that market is so big.
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Not at all. Most racial minorities are perfectly law-abiding citizens and, in fact, are at greater risk than I am of being victimized by crime. Give me Cliff and Clair Huxtable as neighbors any day of the week over a Jesse Pinkman (meth cook on "Breaking Bad").
Ok, well, if the standard is a black lawyer and doctor on tv, that seems perfectly rational. Most minorities....does that mean individuals who bleed and breathe, or is it more of a monolithic whole of sorts, like the Borg?
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Are you arguing that greater cultural diversity and greater racial diversity naturally lead to higher crime rates?
Well played. :thumbup1:
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That seems to be the meme going around the liberal blogosphere and certain media outlets. So if that's where you get your news from, that's going to be your perception.
LOL.
Here's a FOX post AND a NY Times post, which quotes NYPD Commissioner (closet liberal, no doubt) “We’re trying to determine whether or not this is a real phenomenon,†Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said on Friday. “I mean, yes, something like this can happen. But we would like to have people come forward and give us any information they have.†Take your pick of outlets.
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For the longest time, I got the Crutchfield catalog, which has a lot of car audio. I think they have phone or online advisors who can talk you through it all based on model and year of the car, etc. They've been around forever and have a pretty good reputation.
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That's cool. DD just inhaled a great courses lecture series on neuroscience -- college level stuff -- while sewing a quilt. Sometimes ya just gotta ride along and marvel at the direction of the path.
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Not for anything, but you have no idea what it's like where Lisbeth lives. Perhaps she lives in very dangerous area.
Hey, I don't carry a gun and I find it disconcerting when I'm in a place where people are allowed to do so, but that doesn't mean I'm going to judge someone without having the slightest clue about where and how she lives. Maybe public transportation is very unsafe where she lives, and she feels safer in her car.
A fair point. I have a trigger reaction to the whole fear+gun = freedom thing, which is admittedly colored by my little liberal corner of the northeast.
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One of the high school orchestras around here used to set up gift wrapping tables in Borders (sniff sniff) around Christmas. Borders supplied the paper and supplies, and the students wrapped gifts for tips while some of them played their instruments. Gifts getting wrapped + Christmas serenade = big tips.
Just jogged my admittedly foggy memory. I had a little brass ensemble in high school to raise money for our UK trip. We played xmas carols for a buck a minute, and got gigs outside stores (sometimes inside) and whatnot. It wasn't a huge $ haul, but was major fun.
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DD is earning money for a Girl Scout trip to London and Paris in 2015. Monthly payments started last year. So far, she's had good luck with teaching Daisy first aid classes, and the ubiquitous cookie sales. DW also picks up time facilitating at the GS camp, for which the money just goes right back to our trip account.
The great thing about this setup is that GS activities are the source of funds for a GS trip, and everyone benefits. Translating that to an orchestra trip, how about lessons? Is your DD at the point where she could help out in something like a Suzuki class, or as a rehearsal assistant, etc.? Might be a long shot, but I see great satisfaction on this side with DD/DW working within a system for which they already have great passion.
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I have no interest in public transportation. I like the safety of my own vehicle. With my own vehicle I can have my gun too, as an extension of my CCW rights. On public transport, it would probably be gun free for the law abiding. Thug field day.
Ummm. Wow.
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I always count the number of doors from my room to the emergency exit. That way, in case the lights are out and we have to evacuate, we can feel our way along the wall counting doors and not just be wandering around in the hall trying to get out.
Beat me to it. Yes, count the doors.
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The model you seek sounds like New American Plate. It's also an awesome cookbook.
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Saying "I live remotely and need cheap gas or I'd not be able to afford to drive anymore!" is not a great reason to sustain what we have. " I need it cheap because I live where I do because gas is cheap", basically..... I mean, I completely understand the sentiment, I get it, I don't begrudge anyone that sentiment. (And I sure don't want to spend more on my sad 20mpg Chevy either). But in terms of policy, "it's too expensive to sustain what we have
is not a good enough reason. It'd be like saying "Here in 1850s Georgia I need slaves on my plantation, I can't afford to pay for labor! And the people who buy my clothes don't want to pay more for textiles either!" Everything in that statement makes sense and is true. Still not OK.
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Having done Nebel for 7 years, I concede the point that I can't pinpoint which grade first included evolution! You're probably right that it was in a later year. Bit of a blur.
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Diesel also costs more per gallon though. So I'm wondering if you would not just break even in the end.
It's more per gallon, but delivers more energy per gallon, which is why heavy trucks here use it (and trains), and why lighter diesel cars get great mpg.
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If Santa has a load of AR-15s from Walmart, then yes, he needs an escort.
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Schools and the government are pushing COLLEGE education, not skilled trades. Only the kids who "can't make it" are directed towards skilled trades. It used to be skilled trades were valued..
It's worse. At least here, the local vo tech has morphed into an academic academy, shutting off a truly altetnative route for future plumbers, electricians, etc. We will be a nicely educated people who have to up and move rather that change a faucet washer.
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this is exactly the information that Rosie and I were referring to.
As Tony Blair used to say during his PM's q&a sessions, I refer the right honourable member to the graph I posted some moments ago.
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Okay, thinking about tackle boxes instead of cute sewing baskets (alas! why must the pretty things be so unfunctional!), I found something I think will work better:
Thanks, guys.
Same one we got DD for xmas. Looks cool.
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What about subsidies for those who use trucks etc for farming, logging, transport ?
Idk. I think it's a pipe dream. This is one area where I think the feds of either persuasion won't do any kind of a good job. In bed with BigOil.
We have those, but they're hidden. There's a "light truck" loophole that affects pricing, taxes, and fuel economy requirements, and allows us to drive much larger vehicles than we actually need.
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As far as I know, tax on petrol in the UK goes into general taxation, rather than being hypothecated for infrastructure. Because of taxation, we are able to pay for a universal health care system and cheap university fees (USD 15,000 per annum for Oxford). For families, paying higher prices for petrol probably works out cheaper than paying US-level health insurance premiums (plus tax for some uninsured) or US-level university fees.
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And your infant mortality rates are better, too. Hey, it's all just money, and how much we want to pay. Getting 300 million people on board all at once isn't likely, but social security and medicare were each flamed in their early years as massive mistakes, so it's worth it to sit back and watch the soundbites being lobbed hither and yon. Churchill said America always does the right thing after we've tried everything else.
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The cost of an actual gallon of fuel is set on the global exchange markets. What taxes any nation adds on top is the big difference. Whether the US wants European-level infrastructure will depend on whether we are willing to pay for it. Historically, the answer has been "meh."
Sorry, 2005 is the first graph I grabbed. The point is the same, tho.
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Our jello cell had pompoms, rubber bands, styrofoam, clay, etc. None of the organelles were food items.
Help! Complete ignorance! Subwoofers for a car...
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First subwoffers, then those pneumatic thingies to make the car bounce up and down. Slippery slope.