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I can tell you not all doctors are equal.

My wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness based on very little information. All "scientific testing" was completely normal. Guy did a physical exam and said, "you have "X" terminal illness", I'm sending you to a specialist in this disease.

No differential diagnosis, nothing to rule anything else out, etc. I've seen people that don't know what they are doing, I know what that looks like, early in my career, that was me sometimes.

We are waiting to see someone else.

I'm unhappy that anyone would die in such a manner.

I know what his political beliefs were and I have to ask this question. I wonder at some point during the attack on he and his wife he thought "I wish I had a gun".

Reminds me of a discussion I had with an anti gun friend of mine. I told her "I hope you are able to live your entire life without ever changing your beliefs, but me, I'm fully aware of what violence people are capable of and see the world differently."

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Bovino confirms a real ID is not sufficient to verify citizenship

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The REAL ID requires documents proving you were born here or have legal status.

Proof of Identity & Date of Birth:
U.S. Birth Certificate (original)
Valid U.S. Passport or Passport Card
Permanent Resident Card (Green Card)

If they gave a REAL ID to anyone that did not have the documents above, they basically negated all the possible benefit for issuing the REAL ID in the first place. Everyone wasted their time by going through the trouble and expense of getting a REAL ID.

It's like putting on a concert and printing actual certified tickets and having someone print free fake ones that are accepted at the gate. Suddenly the real tickets have no value anymore.

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I cannot think of a less qualified one in my lifetime......and I am old.

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Why do you believe Hegseth is unqualified? What did Austin have that Hegseth didn't?

Before you answer, consider that Eisenhower was only one rank higher than Hegseth when WW2 broke out. Hegseth was a major and Eisenhower was a Lieutenant Colonel. Was Eisenhower not qualified to be the supreme allied commander because of his limited rank and resume?

I think the insurance company made good on the truck if I recall correctly.

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They gave me a walker but I have basically been walking around the house without it since Friday.

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You are going to do fine then. My wife had one done a year and a half ago. There isno way she was walking around on it the first day, she was in too much pain for sure.

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Wrong. That Century Farm was not his to let get away from the family. It was his grandparents or great grandparents. He didn't earn it, he inherited it.

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This happened to my wife's family. Her father inherited a farm that his family was on so long the fort his ancestors built to keep from being killed by the Indians is a museum next door to the house my wife grew up in.

He didn't earn the farm, and it was slated legally to go to his kids when he died. He divorced and ended up marrying a woman that didn't even own a car. She was literally penniless.

She convinced him to sell and move out of state and just so happened moved to a state where the surviving spouse gets 100% of the assets. He died and she got everything. She died about a year later and her kids wouldn't even split the proceeds (around 1 mil) with my wife and her brothers.

Those kids, whose mother was penniless 4 years prior, split a million dollars and cut out the kids who were supposed to inherit the value originally.

Everything works out in the end somehow. I still believe that

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More taxes isn’t the answer. This state already has one of the highest effective tax rates in the nation.

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Exactly! If our state and local governments can't get by on the existing taxes, how are the other states with taxes 3% lower possibly managing.

Nope, you got all you're gonna get, figure it out.

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Damn baw some North shore soccer mom messed you up

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Believe it or not, I didn't hit her. That noise was all of our groceries flying around thr back of the car.

After watching the video, I was sure I hit her but I didn't.

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It’s less and less about turning wrenches as more about being an IT guy.

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I work on cars as a hobby, and I love it. I also spent 10 years investigating engineering failures/problems for a living and am very familiar with just about anything related to automation and industrial equipment.

Modern vehicles are so technical, the skills required to work on them are the exact same skills someone else is willing to pay more for.

A good automotive mechanic has to be able to understand and troubleshoot automation and controls, software, data communications, electrical systems, rotating equipment and complex process interaction.

A plant will pay more than a dealership for those skills all day long.

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Tweets like this go around all the time. Stories that include quotes and are very lomg for a tweet. Not sure why anyone would believe them

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During and after covid, my wife home schooled my son. She did it for 6th,7th and 8th grade. I wanted him to have the "high school experience" and enrolled him in private school.

Since we hadn't done any standardized testing, I was really worried where he was going to be academically, compared to his peers, considering he and my wife only did school work about 2 hours a day.

He tested 'in level' in only one subject, which was math. Everything else he tested several grades higher. He immediately started in honors classes and has done very well.

I'm not remotely surprised by the teachers statement. My son is a smart kid but honestly he didn't really try very hard during his time homeschooling.