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It’s weird because Southern California is the Mecca of fast, or at least easy food, and I’ve been utterly shocked they haven’t brought Nandos out here. It’d be super popular.
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Last year the Bills were complacent and exhausted against the Bengals. The year before, they panicked against the Chiefs. In order to win it all they have to be and remain in the moment during the playoffs. There is no question that they have the talent and experience, both on the roster and on the coaching staff. (Somebody needs to bring a large suitcase filled with smelling salts!)
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Poyer Charity Golf Tournament is back on
SoCal Deek replied to SCBills's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I’ve used this example before…as an Architect am I supposed to be forced to spend literally hundreds of hours designing an abortion clinic? This goes way, way beyond somebody baking a cake for a few minutes. -
Just go to a Nandos and get some peri peri chicken. We love that stuff! 😋
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Hawk…I’m not personally defending anyone by my comment. However if YOU want to toss out the concept of due process please tell us all now. Goose appears to believe that because he’s a lawyer he gets to make these decisions. Fortunately for the rest of society, that’s not the role of lawyers in our country.
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I absolutely love it. I drove two consecutive 5 Series and put about 150,000 miles on each one before getting the i4 electric. I got the electric on somewhat on a whim, just to see how I’d like it. It’s soooo much fun to drive and way cheaper to operate. (The wife drives a gas SUV.) I have admit I find it funny reading the comments on here. When you live in Southern California there’s no ‘stigma’ with driving anything. But I remember the buy American sentiment when I was growing up in WNY. I guess I assumed that was long ago passed.
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Oh I realize you were serious Doc. The question is who militarizes first? The citizenry or the government.
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Frank….You and I are simply saying the quiet part out loud. As I say on here ALL THE TIME, most things in life really aren’t that complicated.
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In general I agree. Where I offer a slightly different take is that I let people make their own choices….but for that take I believe those people trade away the right to complain when it doesn’t work out. Complaining about the outcome after the game has been played isn’t a good look for anyone. (Not even Bills fans.)
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Thanks Frank. I give you permission to go get that new car. 😂 In all seriousness it never ceases to amaze me how people think there’s a magic fast lane to success. Think about it….We readily accept and glorify the NBA star who were told is the first one in the gym and the last one to leave, shorting hundreds of free throws every day. (When he wins the championship he almost thanks his mom!) But when it comes to academics we chalk it up to the kid being ‘gifted’ as if little to no work or dedication is required.
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The Social Compact: I was going to start a thread on this topic but I’ll bring it up here. It seems to me we’ve lost sight of the Social Compact that civilized societies struck many many years ago. Here in the US we had the days of the Wild West in which people protected their lives and homes and property on their own. Law enforcement was virtually non existent. As a society we decided to trade away that system for a system of taxation in which we now pay others (police) to protect and serve us. In parts of Europe that social compact has gone so far as to completely disarm the citizens. The result is that the entirety of personal protection has been ceded to the State. Now we appear to be in a precarious tipping point in which criminals no longer fear that enforcement, and/or when some demand that the enforcement mechanism stand down in lieu of enforcing it. What happens next?
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My wife has worked at a Middle School in the public school system in Southern California for decades. Her school and her school district looks like the United Nations when it comes to racial diversity. Most of the posters on here cannot even fathom a society with such diversity. Every year, the same ethnicity of students rise to the top in grades, and dominate the spelling bee. It isn’t a coincidence. There are virtually no exceptions. She will tell you that the parents of these students value and reinforce the need for a good education to get ahead. It’s cultural. It takes hard work and dedication day after day after day. I have no idea why anyone thinks there’s some magic bullet.
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The foundation under Dr. Fauci is starting to crack...
SoCal Deek replied to JaCrispy's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
We’ll put you down as a ‘no’ then. 😉