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I agree with that statement, but that's not the bill of goods being delivered. In my opinion only one leg of that stool is doing their job most of the time. Too many parents are guilty of treating the school like a babysitter and only poking their nose in when something they don't like happens. Thank God for the good parents who pay attention and keep the school in check though. Without concerned parents look at that sketchy stuff they've tried to sneak into their curriculum. Luckily, most teachers are good, but the ones who put their personal agenda ahead of educating kids should be run out of the profession. Sadly, it's not happening because the fox (liberal bureaucrats and college professors teaching the teachers) is in charge of watching the hen house.

I'm not laughing at all. I learn about news stories that interest me 9 times out of 10 here first. Most of what gets skipped here is news I don't care about. Like @gregintenn said, I hear different viewpoints here too. At least they're as wide of a host of viewpoints as I can tolerate.

RFK Jr isn't the only one worried about what could come from the system: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who tweeted Wednesday that a Fed-issued currency would “allow the government to surveil all our private financial affairs … enforce dollar limits on our transactions restricting where you can send money … [and] freeze your assets or limit your spending to approved vendors if you fail to comply with arbitrary diktats, i.e. vaccine mandates.”

What Is FedNow? FedNow is the first government-created system for financial institutions to send and receive funds almost instantly. Ideally, FedNow would ensure you’d no longer have to wait a few business days, or bide your time over holidays or weekends, to receive your money. This means you can make payments—your mortgage, for example—ideally within seconds. You could opt to send funds on the due date rather than having to plan several days out for an online payment to clear, or up to a week for a check to be processed. For business owners, too, this means faster and smoother operations. They will be able to send and receive invoice payments, for instance, in real time online.

Is anyone following this FedNow initiative? https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/fednow-launching-soon/ Apparently in July the Federal Reserve Bank is launching a real-time payment system to compete directly with the current Clearing House’s RTP network that we've all been using since 2017 to process digital transaction.

With the exception of my LCP I download all my spare mags by one. I shudder to think if, God forbid, I ever needed to do an admin reload how hard it'd be to get that fully loaded spare mag into play. Maybe I'm compromising too much by giving up a round in each spare, but I'm already compromising when I carry my LCP instead of my P365 or carrying my P365 instead of my full size CZ SP-01 or by using a pistol instead of a shotgun or rifle at all. Sadly, life is full of compromises.

I pray you're right about his last part.

That's fair. I did notice how they try to present left, right, and center articles for each media story. At least they're trying and I commend that.

That was very interesting, thanks. I especially found this last part interesting. We pay lots of attention to our kids' (or in my case grandkid) physical safety, but we don't pay close enough attention to our kids' emotional safety. Example: my 8 yr old grandson got in trouble for saying vulgar phrase on the bus and was suspended for 3 days. I KNOW for a fact nobody in my house says that phrase. Recently he started preferring to use headphones when he watches YT on my tablet when I'm near. It didn't take much sleuthing to realize what's going on. So, we had a sit-down to discuss it my expectations for his behavior and to explain why he has to listen out loud now. First words out of his mouth were please don't tell anyone at church. That alone tells me he's embarrassed and knows it's wrong. I hope we don't have to revisit this, but I was a kid once and it didn't take long to learn how you talk among peers vs what an adult might hear.

They consider Fox to be far right and only consider CNN, Politico, Bloomberg, and NPR to be left of center instead of far left. I'm suspicious out of the gate.

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I'd like to know too, but I fear we're hunting flying unicorns.

Depends on who you ask, right? I'd argue there dozens of major news outlets that spin the news one direction and one major outlet that spins the news the other direction. None of them can be trusted completely.

My daughter just saw a hummingbird at one of my feeders! I'm a little jealous I missed it, but hope it leads to more.

I think his only hope is to argue that a previous shot killed the bad guy and he only abused a corpse with the last shot.

Many decades ago I gave my sister a ride to Kroger. I was standing at the end of the checkout while she paid for her groceries. When she yanked her hand out of her pocket to hand the cashier her money, I saw a skinny white cylinder about 2.5" long go arcing thru the air. I had better eyesight back then and instantly realized what it was in time to look my sister in the eyes, register her severe anxiety, and see her leap for it before it even landed. It bounced about an inch out of her reach and slowly took what seemed like an eternal ride down the conveyor belt toward the bag boy, who had also recognized it in mid-air and positioned himself in a spot to intercept it when it arrived. He scooped it up, cupped it in his hand, and returned it to my sister saying, "I think you dropped this, Miss". Either he had cat-like reflexes or I was too busy laughing at my sister's situation to react, but regardless, it was the funniest 2.5 seconds I ever had in a grocery store and I we've laughed about it 100 times over the years.

Yep, OCG turned out to be the cheapest I could find. I got 2 of the 17 round mags for $45 each. I can't wait to shoot my P365 with the big mags, but it'll be a few weekends before I have time. Even with the Maglula getting the 17th round in is a challenge. I decided 16+1 is good enough for me.

I keep wondering to what degree putting cell phones into the hands of kids at younger and younger ages is rotting their brains. I worry that all the focus on STEM and Vo-Tech in the world can't hold a candle to what FB, Candy Crush, and TikTok are doing to their brains.

One place we used to live had the best edged landscaping ever. I asked the grounds keeper what he used and he told me on the DL that it was diesel. It worked, but jeez. I like your suggestion a lot better. LOL

I hedged my bets in HS. I took all the classes I could to prepare for college, but I also took as many vocational/technical classes as I could too. Vo-tech classes are very important too and are just what some kids need to have a better future.

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