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- Toddler The health bill is going to pass. so damn sad.
- I'm not so sure.
- Toddler Read a yahoo news article about Obama vs Trump, and so many of the comments are from obama haters saying he took away their guns, and ohter things Obama never did but they really...(more)
- Faux news
- Tribalism. we are so invested in our team that we believe all the lies about the other guy and forgive the faults of our guy.
- Also they say obama was divisive. I just don't get it.
- Toddler I borrowed $20 from my 8yo a week ago and she wants to charge me $8 interest. Not kidding
- Smart cookie
- This post has been disliked 3 times. sounds kind of bratty actually. what about showing some kindness and generosity?
- It's a good economics lesson
- In the real world you pay interest
- Not 40%
- not at that rate you don't
- This post has been disliked 3 times. sounds kind of bratty actually. what about showing some kindness and generosity?
- explain to her about interest rates and calculate what your interest payment should be. porbably about 10 cents
- This. Teach her instead of encouraging her to become a loan shark.
- Sounds like my dd. Good for her, pay it
- Op. She should have told me when I borrowed it. I thought it was 0% interest
- Tell her that. Split the difference
- This. My dd tells me up front. She knows I hate going to the bank
- Tell her that. Split the difference
- Op. She should have told me when I borrowed it. I thought it was 0% interest
- That will teach you to borrow money from her!!
- Smart cookie
- Toddler On or around that same day that Obama imposed sanctions, Trump’s designated national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, told the Russian ambassador by phone that the...(more)
- The report that Obama had commissioned was released a week later, on Jan. 6. It was based largely on the work done by the task force John Brennan...(more)
- It also carried a note of warning: “We assess Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the U.S. election to future influence efforts worldwide.”
- the package of measures approved by Obama, and the process by which they were selected and implemented, were more complex than initially understood.
- The expulsions and compound seizures were originally devised as ways to retaliate against Moscow not for election interference but for an escalating campaign of harassment of...(more)
- In one previously undisclosed incident on July 6, a Russian military helicopter dropped from the sky to make multiple passes just feet over the hood of a vehicle being driven...(more)
- An even more harrowing encounter took place the prior month, when a CIA operative returning by taxi to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was tackled and thrown to the ground by a...(more)
- In a video aired on Russian television, the U.S. operative can be seen struggling to drag himself across the embassy threshold and onto U.S. sovereign territory.
- He sustained a broken shoulder in the attack.
- In a video aired on Russian television, the U.S. operative can be seen struggling to drag himself across the embassy threshold and onto U.S. sovereign territory.
- An even more harrowing encounter took place the prior month, when a CIA operative returning by taxi to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was tackled and thrown to the ground by a...(more)
- In one previously undisclosed incident on July 6, a Russian military helicopter dropped from the sky to make multiple passes just feet over the hood of a vehicle being driven...(more)
- The expulsions and compound seizures were originally devised as ways to retaliate against Moscow not for election interference but for an escalating campaign of harassment of...(more)
- The report that Obama had commissioned was released a week later, on Jan. 6. It was based largely on the work done by the task force John Brennan...(more)
- Toddler Any good movies to rent? I spent the morning outside already - walked dog, played tennis. now I want to chill and watch a movie!
- Passengers was entertaining imo
- is that when they wake up on the space ship?
- Passengers was entertaining imo
- Toddler If you had a big patio - like 40 ft X 15 ft - with zero shade....what would you do? Build a pergola for half of it? Spend big bucks on a huge cantilever umbrella? Or spend a bit...(more)
- Awning
- This
- that's what I'm thinking but it could be 12K+
- Worth it. I'm in a sun state and they're common here
- okay thanks. even really big ass ones? I've only seen small striped ones. I want something a little more modern - gray/taupe colored.
- Worth it. I'm in a sun state and they're common here
- cantilever umbrella. I didn't spend tons of money (although you can)
- the one I like was like 7k I think...priced it out last summer and couldn't spend it
- you don't need to spend anywhere near that
- I know but I would want it to match the rest of my things out there
- you don't need to spend anywhere near that
- the one I like was like 7k I think...priced it out last summer and couldn't spend it
- awning...good for resale
- you don't think they look cheesy?
- np - i think they look super cheesy
- you don't think they look cheesy?
- i HATE awnings.
- Awning
- Toddler I am surprised, even now, that there is always one or two bigots on here when gay issues come up. not surprised really, just disappointed.
- me too. but i remember on here during the prop 8 stuff in 2008, there were still lots of posters who didn't think gay people should be able to be legally married. that they should...(more)
- np: For a long time there was a strong anti-gay voice here. People deny it, but I remember clearly.
- Same
- You can't expect everyone onthe planet to be on board with gay rights. There is nothing all humans agree on, this is no different
- me too. but i remember on here during the prop 8 stuff in 2008, there were still lots of posters who didn't think gay people should be able to be legally married. that they should...(more)
- Toddler Pregnant and have a terrible cough. It's causing me to cramp. What can I take if anything?
- Toddler Do you use the spray sunscreen?
- not usually
- Not for myself. Kids do
- yes
- Easiest way to get it on a moving target
- Lol
- no, don't trust their coverage
- yes
- Toddler After the election Obama ramped up his efforts to investigate and stop the ongoing Russians cyber attack on our country, but Trump has undone or failed to follow through on these...(more)
- Trump is clearly working with the Russians to undermine the integrity of our election process and our security
- Economic sanctions, originally aimed only at Russia’s military intelligence service, were expanded to include the FSB, a domestic successor to the KGB.
- Four Russian intelligence officials and three companies with links to those services were also named as targets.
- The FBI had long lobbied to close two Russian compounds in the United States — one in Maryland and another in New York — on the grounds that both were used for espionage and...(more)
- Why Is Donald Trump Reopening Russian Compounds Obama Closed as Punishment for Hacking?...(more)
- he Trump administration was initially going to link returning the compounds to having Russia permit renewal of construction on a new American consulate in St. Petersburg,...(more)
- Why Is Donald Trump Reopening Russian Compounds Obama Closed as Punishment for Hacking?...(more)
- The FBI was also responsible for generating the list of Russian operatives working under diplomatic cover to expel, drawn from a roster the bureau maintains of suspected...(more)
- Toddler Kids left for camp yesterday. My house is silent. The dog keeps looking at me like where is all the action
- You should send them to camp too
- I would be too lonely without the dog!
- ugh mine too. I'm enjoying the quiet kind of
- It is kind of nice
- I miss them tho!
- It is kind of nice
- You should send them to camp too
- Toddler I'm not religious but the Christians and Jews were on to something with this day of rest once a week. If I know I have one day of downtime per week I can do anything.
- You sound dumb
- Ope
- You mean gd was onto something?
- God? Yes.
- NP it's a Jewish thing gd or g-d
- lol
- God? Yes.
- that's just common sense. isn't sunday everyone's resting day because it's the day before people have to do go back to work?
- Jews rest on Saturday but in Israel Saturday is their Sunday
- No. Lots of sports and chores get done that day. That is not resting
- You sound dumb
- Toddler Ok. You all convinced me. I'm not getting a complicated mold trap sink
- Good
- Toddler The full extent of the Russian hacking wasn't clear until after the election, until Obama had ordered further investigation and he was about to leave office
- Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser, said that the DNC email penetrations were initially thought to be in the same vein as previous Russian hacking efforts...(more)
- “In many ways we dealt with this as a cyberthreat and focused on protecting our cyber infrastructure,” Rhodes said in an interview.
- “Meanwhile, the Russians were playing this much bigger game, which included elements like released hacked materials, political propaganda and propagating fake news, which...(more)
- “We weren’t able to put all of those pieces together in real time,” Rhodes said, “and in many ways that complete picture is still being filled in.”
- “Meanwhile, the Russians were playing this much bigger game, which included elements like released hacked materials, political propaganda and propagating fake news, which...(more)
- “In many ways we dealt with this as a cyberthreat and focused on protecting our cyber infrastructure,” Rhodes said in an interview.
- Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser, said that the DNC email penetrations were initially thought to be in the same vein as previous Russian hacking efforts...(more)
- Toddler This post has been deleted.
- So were 35 state voting offices
- sean spicer tweeted his password. twice.
- Toddler Talk about someone who has never smiled much in life:...(more)
- god he is such an ugly man
- Toddler Long Island moms, I just spent the last 2 days in nassau county, getting familiar b/c we might be moving there. There was so much traffic everywhere, at all times of the day....(more)
- Where? My mom is on the south shore and it's not that bad.
- we were driving out from queens to long island, manhassat and also westbury. Every road, slammed.
- Hmmm I haven't spent much time there.
- people were probably going to vacation places maybe? what roads were you on? what towns are you looking at?
- we were driving out from queens to long island, manhassat and also westbury. Every road, slammed.
- Yep. LI traffic is awful
- Drove from NYC to Lloyd harbor last week. It took me 3 hours. Long Island traffic is the pits
- I used to live in glen cove. Yes. That is how traffic is the majority of the time. It sucks.
- There is always traffic on LI. But I find the same to be true in N
- I worked on LI and lived in NYC. did that commute teaching for 5 years. so fucking bad!!
- Where? My mom is on the south shore and it's not that bad.
- Toddler DS has written a card and we have a gift - do we also write a card to the teachers, from the parents? He's 8. TIA
- Just from the kid.
- ^Unless you are very grateful to the teachers for something in particular.
- So nothing from the parents?
- Just from the kid.
- Toddler Do people ask to come to your country home?
- I don't have a country home specifically, but I live on a farm and people do ask to come.
- I'd like to ask someone where it us.
- yes. all the time.
- sometimes. but we are pretty liberal with invitations, most people who woudl want to come don't have to ask
- My friends that know they have an open invitation do.
- Actually, yes but it's nice that they want to come. I don't like freeloading relatives who just want to use it when we are not there
- No. Friends I associate with, await an invitation.
- How formal
- Mine are like: "oh, I'll bring an aeromattress"
- I don't have one, I do have relative who
- seem a little put out we won't come to theirs
- Toddler Obama should never have "gone high." I get that he was afraid that if he revealed the Russian thing, Repubs would dismiss it as partisan politics. But guess what? They are doing...(more)
- I will say it again: He did not take the Trump campaign seriously and so he did not want to risk hurting Clinton.
- That was the problem. Dems were too snobby to take him or his supporters seriously. Their smugness is respirator our mess
- you are an idiot. Obama tried to stop the hacking, Republicans ignored it and tried to stop him from stopping it
- He obviously didn't try hard enough
- Do you know what he did? He did a lot, both before and after the election, despite the Republicans who blocked his efforts
- You're like a dog with an one with this. He should have halted the election as soon as there was proof of tampering. The electoral college should have also not awarded him votes....(more)
- Republicans laundered Russian money. Ryan is on tape. Blame the actual criminals.
- Do you know what he did? He did a lot, both before and after the election, despite the Republicans who blocked his efforts
- He obviously didn't try hard enough
- I wouldn't call it snobbery. The Republicans also did not take him or his supporters seriously.
- Respirator ?
- Responsible. Typing on my phone
- you are an idiot. Obama tried to stop the hacking, Republicans ignored it and tried to stop him from stopping it
- That was the problem. Dems were too snobby to take him or his supporters seriously. Their smugness is respirator our mess
- Time to stop blaming Obama and Hillary for the corruption of the GOP and trump. They are behaving like mafia.
- Of blaming them for repubs being criminals. I'm blaming them for bringing a spoon to a gunfight
- they did dismiss it
- I will say it again: He did not take the Trump campaign seriously and so he did not want to risk hurting Clinton.
- Toddler When did you or DH stop doing coke?
- Neither of us ever did coke.
- fake
- Coke is not a big thing for people I know.
- fake
- I've never done it. Not sure how much he did. Never did it while with me.
- The only person who I know well that did coke was the asshole who went to LA to be on a TV show.
- who?
- You want me to tell you which of my friends did coke?
- Yes
- I'm not going to do that.
- Lol
- Yes
- You want me to tell you which of my friends did coke?
- who?
- He never did it. I've. Ever done any drugs
- Neither of us ever did it.
- Neither of us ever did coke.
- Toddler Left phone in Uber last night. Driver delivering it to my home. how much $ would you give him
- $40
- $20 but I bet he won't take it
- Thanks, I was thinking 40..He lives about 40 minutes away. Why won't he take it?
- He might. Np
- He may. But I've had this happen 2 times with taxi drivers and they would never take it.
- I would MAKE him take it- I would explain that it's important that he take this money and do something *GOOD* wit it
- Iwould do at lease $40
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- Toddler So basically, before the election Obama tried to get non-partisan support to stop the Russian hacking, but the Republicans failed to admit there was a problem and act. So he put...(more)
- He set up systems that needed to be followed up on by the next President, who he hoped would be Hillary, but it was Trump and Trump has done nothing.
- HE SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE. MORE I TELL YOU. MORE!!!!!!
- and Trump and the Republicans have done nothing because they are working with the Russians
- HE SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE. MORE I TELL YOU. MORE!!!!!!
- I think we need to acknowledge that he did not take Trump seriously as a candidate so he did not act aggressively.
- because at that point we didn't know how the Republicans had rigged the election
- Well, I don't know about that.
- read this article - it shows the timeline:...(more)
- Well, I don't know about that.
- because at that point we didn't know how the Republicans had rigged the election
- after the election the Obama administration kept trying though
- Rice again ordered NSC staffers to finalize a menu of punitive measures to use against Moscow. The list that took shape was a distillation of ideas that had been circulating...(more)
- Again, the discussion ran into roadblocks. Spy agencies wanted to maintain their penetrations of Russian networks, not expose them in a cyber-fusillade.
- Treasury Department officials devised plans that would hit entire sectors of Russia’s economy. One preliminary suggestion called for targeting technology companies including...(more)
- Rice again ordered NSC staffers to finalize a menu of punitive measures to use against Moscow. The list that took shape was a distillation of ideas that had been circulating...(more)
- Several senior administration officials called for imposing sanctions on Putin personally or releasing financial records or other information that would embarrass him.
- Some objected that the latter proposal would send the wrong message — the United States would be engaging in the same behavior it was condemning. In any case, it was not...(more)
- On Dec. 9, Obama ordered a comprehensive review by U.S. intelligence agencies of Russian interference in U.S. elections going back to 2008, with a plan to make some of the...(more)
- Obama’s decision to order a comprehensive report on Moscow’s interference from U.S. spy agencies had prompted analysts to go back through their agencies’ files, scouring for...(more)
- The effort led to a flurry of new, disturbing reports — many of them presented in the President’s Daily Brief — about Russia’s subversion of the 2016 race.
- The emerging picture enabled policymakers to begin seeing the Russian campaign in broader terms, as a comprehensive plot sweeping in its scope.
- The effort led to a flurry of new, disturbing reports — many of them presented in the President’s Daily Brief — about Russia’s subversion of the 2016 race.
- Obama’s decision to order a comprehensive report on Moscow’s interference from U.S. spy agencies had prompted analysts to go back through their agencies’ files, scouring for...(more)
- He set up systems that needed to be followed up on by the next President, who he hoped would be Hillary, but it was Trump and Trump has done nothing.
- Toddler Tmi...(more)
- Did you eat it with your ass
- Indian food?
- you have never had this happen to you before???
- fire in the hole!
- Toddler Dh works, I sah. I do 90% of kid stuff even when he is home. Weekends he spends a lot of time drinking beer and watching sports. If I ask him to do something with kids he'll say,...(more)
- It used to be this way. I don't know what changed.
- If you know it will never change just find ways to deal with it. No point in being mad about it. That doesn't change anything
- This. You need TOM accept it especially since it doesn't matter that much.
- np: how does it not matter? he doesn't spend time with his own children. he's not a partner in the family.
- Because she can't change it. She can fight about it or she can accept it
- Op I don't fight about it. I have discussed it with him and he agrees he does this and it is sad but fact is he doesn't enjoy carting them around etc. I am not raging or angry. It...(more)
- Right. I get that. I am saying don't waste energy with him though.
- I am still not understanding how it doesn't matter though. It matters to her. would it matter to you?
- It would matter to me. But there are also things in my marriage that don't matter as much and I learned long ago I can fight him on it and be miserable or I have to accept that...(more)
- I think she has a right to be upset about the fact that her dh doesn't show interest in being a part of their family
- I never said she didn't have a right
- I was responding to the "no point in being mad about it " and "you need to accept it" posts
- I never said she didn't have a right
- I think she has a right to be upset about the fact that her dh doesn't show interest in being a part of their family
- It would matter to me. But there are also things in my marriage that don't matter as much and I learned long ago I can fight him on it and be miserable or I have to accept that...(more)
- Op I don't fight about it. I have discussed it with him and he agrees he does this and it is sad but fact is he doesn't enjoy carting them around etc. I am not raging or angry. It...(more)
- Because she can't change it. She can fight about it or she can accept it
- np: how does it not matter? he doesn't spend time with his own children. he's not a partner in the family.
- Well I had to ask him just now to take them somewhere and I think he is morally wrong and fucked up for never wanting to spend time with his kids if it is at all inconvenient for...(more)
- She is dealing with it by posting here.
- This. You need TOM accept it especially since it doesn't matter that much.
- Personally, I would make plans for myself that didn't include kids.
- I'd leave the house every Saturday morning.
- Some men use work as a socially acceptable way to disengage from their families. Unfortunately, you have a dh who does this. You have to decide if it's worth it for you.
- ^^ he's a fireman. Not sure what work he thinks he's doing.
- How does that afford you to sah?
- Np every fireman I know has a sah wife.
- Really? Where do you live? I work with a woman with a firemen dh and seems like all of the wives work. She's told me many times she can't afford to sah
- South shore of li.
- Interesting. This woman I know is from LI as well. Her dh is a city firefighter. I though most of LI was volunteer.
- It is. They are city firefighters.
- Makes sens
- It is. They are city firefighters.
- Interesting. This woman I know is from LI as well. Her dh is a city firefighter. I though most of LI was volunteer.
- South shore of li.
- Really? Where do you live? I work with a woman with a firemen dh and seems like all of the wives work. She's told me many times she can't afford to sah
- There's real sah and then there's those who wouldn't make much more than paying for child care and transportation expenses so they don't bother
- And it's hard to find child care when Dh is gone for 36 hours.
- Np every fireman I know has a sah wife.
- Decompressing from all the shit he goes through to the job.
- what are his hours? a friends fire fighter DH works shifts and is often home 3 or 4 days in a row
- How does that afford you to sah?
- does he spend any time with his kids?
- get a job and even the playing field