Weagle89

Sorry for the delay. I am afraid I don’t have much insight into the depth of their feelings as they are parents of my nephew in-laws wife (so maybe a little more than extended family). My sister in law (parent of the nephew) is very progressive and has essentially cut off my wife (her sister) since we lean conservative and as such politics are rarely discussed with them. My feeling is they are moderates and likely supported Chavez until it was too late. They certainly see the economic disaster their government has wrought and desperately want a reversal. They left their adult son on Venezuela when they emigrated so they have extra skin in the game. I am not sure how much they depend on the social services in the us but I do know the mother is hard working and is trying to start a legitimate cleaning business to support the family. The father has not assimilated as well (doesn’t speak much English) and doesn’t work outside of the home currently. He is more of a house husband. My nephews wife is about to graduate with a bs in nursing.

I have extended family from Venezuela so yes I want Maduro removed but I have to recuse myself as to whether we should have a hand in it or how far we should push.

Reminds me of a comedian a while back who told a joke about the news reporting about and innocent bystander getting shot in an incident, the reporter saying "he was in the wrong place at the wrong time". The punch line was "Now we're blaming the victims?"

10 yrs remaining at 2.875%. Wife wants to move, but just can't justify that unless we can pay cash, so yes, while just short of being a boomer, I am part of the problem.

Similar to one I told my kids recently when they moved out on their own in crappy first apartments. "It is ok to struggle. It is not ok to suffer."

The other one is "It's ok to be frugal, it's not ok to be cheap", meaning to deny yourself can be good, but don't deny others what they earned/deserve.

Not sure it qualifies as wisdom, but I am old enough to be an elder,

I had a new one tonight. Went to dinner and when the check came, I wasn't paying attention so I filled in the tip line and put the total in the next blank line, only to find out that the next blank line was a "+ kitchen tip" line. The check had the standard 18%, 20% 22% suggestions at the bottom. Am I supposed to tip 20% for the standard tip, the add something for the kitchen tip and if so, is it a percentage, a few bucks...? Is there a standard for this (note, I just left the standard 20%+ tip, and crossed out the kitchen tip this time).

Not only is she past her child bearing years, she is also a lesbian so not sure why this is a big issue for her

East aurora. My son’s girlfriend grew up in that area so we were tracing some of her stomping grounds

Ironically I was just watching Fox News (I know, my mistake) to see what they were saying and they had a republican strategist and Democratic strategist on talking about the implications and what can be done to "take the temperature down". The "strategists" promptly start pointing the figure at each other, with the republican talking about this being the 8 year anniversary of the attack on Steve Scalise et al, then the democrat saying it is always right wing people doing these things, saying, "the trump shooter was a republican, the list of targets by this person were all democrats so obviously a right wing nut, and let's not mention Jan 6". I was quickly reminded not to watch the MSM.

Not exactly a tourist Mecca but going there to see our son in mid June. Other than Niagara, any suggestions for things to see places to eat?

Personal opinion but ever since the Sandusky thing came to light but there seems to be a concentration of this activity in Pennsylvania. My wife has a friend whose adopted son was “allegedly” molested by a teacher and the school helped cover it up and he got away with it. The kid is now in jail as the whole situation really messed him up. It is a very sad situation. There seems to something wrong with that state.