Gary, my experience with "wealthier" people is they don't care if their kids get drunk or stoned as long as nothing "bad" reflects on them. My X wife's sister who I love and get along with married into a VERY wealthy family. Her step daughter had her "sweet 16" party at their VERY large house with a pool. Many of the kids were in the bas…
Gary, my experience with "wealthier" people is they don't care if their kids get drunk or stoned as long as nothing "bad" reflects on them. My X wife's sister who I love and get along with married into a VERY wealthy family. Her step daughter had her "sweet 16" party at their VERY large house with a pool. Many of the kids were in the basement game room, with pinball machines, video games, pool table etc. Many more were outside. There was a keg of beer provided by the parents. (this was pre-social media) and a lot of uninvited kids were showing up. My Niece's parents asked Uncle Mike to go take a walk through and see how things were. I was younger, hipper...and they felt I was a good "spy".
Having been to Grateful Dead shows and made some pot brownies in my life, I recognized the smell of weed as soon as I opened the basement door. I confiscated 3 pot pipes from the stunned party goers....and told them the parents were ok with the beer, but not pot in the house. (I guess that level of bust, was too much risk) I gave the pipes to the collected parents who were knocking down martini's at a pretty good rate. Then they asked me to go troll outside.
WOW, the scene rivaled anything I had seen at a gig. Drugs, sex and rock & roll in an ever expanding parking lot. The word had gotten out and this was pre or very early cell phones. The liquor stores must have thought it was New Years Eve.
This party was in a DC suburb where a lot of elected and "influential" people live. I didn't witness any teenage rape that night...but all of the elements were there to make it easy.
I can't remember if the parents pulled the plug early...but they blamed the pot on "other kids", "outsiders"...not their sweet babies.
My best friend's graduation party was so boozy that guys were vomiting all over their front lawn. Back then, parents didn't get busted for serving underage kids, and back then the legal age was 21. In fact, the parents bought the booze and retired to their bedroom. I sloshed down tequila sunrises all night. 49 years later and I still don't remember how I got home.
Being a young woman, and being drunk, high, or both, or neither, is a dangerous thing. This is because of the patriarchy that still says Dr. Ford either lied or deserved to be raped. By extension, Kavanaugh said via the Supreme Court chorus that women's bodies don't really belong to them.
I had one of those I don't know how I got home nights. I had driven into Baltimore to the Marble bar to see the blues legend Muddy Waters and I had brownie and then drank a lot...I was missing my girlfriend who I knew was leaving town...and I might never see her again. I was trashed and drove home about 10 miles. Thank the spirits I didn't hurt anyone.
Tequila is my alcohol of choice in a good margarita...Corazone rep or anjeo and Tres agave mix are my go to...and I don't drive drunk anymore.
The Supremes and GOP "leadership" have made it very plain that they totally believe that man is meant to control women...just as the big planters in the south believed...or justified that Africans were put on this planet by their God to serve them and be their property. They were VERY willing to break away and form a new, more perfect nation based on that "fact" and to fire the first shots in our most bloody war...using mostly single shot weapons.
Sounds like a scene from a Molly Ringwald movie complete with the parent's not giving a shit.
I've played a lot of frat and sorority parties and never witnessed anything like that. But, I'm not a very observant person.
My high school GF was the valedictorian of her 800 person high school class. Her SAT score was 780 math and 800 English. She is head of the pediatric unit at a major medical school. She introduced me to marijuana and alcohol. I would be shocked if she doesn't still smoke pot.
It is amazing to me that the GOP is fine with owning guns and drinking beer cause, you know, freedom, yet they are opposed to legalizing pot.
I was listening to MSNBC this morning and they played a clip of convicted felon Donald Trump trying to distance himself from Project25 (sic) called them far right. He admitted that he knew some of the authors. Good luck with that Donnie.
FAceB fact checkers namely Alex Demas of the Dispatch is saying that most 2025 project does not have to do with the R party . This came from labeling a meme as "mostly false". It seems fb monitors some groups more than others & allows politicians to post false information & flat out lies.
I've read some of Alex Demas' fact checking. He states that some of the argued points are "partly false" which means, that they are also partly true. "Partly false" is not a good enough standard for Alex Demas to suggest that Project 2025 claims by the left are "mostly false." I have yet to read the full 900+ pages (and most likely will not be able to complete the reading.) I choose to take the advice of folks like Robert Reich, and other left of center commentators regarding this manuscript. I don't see Reich lying about any of this. His credibility is too high.
his alg has fav'd RW since it was invented as a way to rate women by their "hotness" We all fell for it. Just like we use google search, and forget to turn off the listening bro on our phone, and use google search, and buy from Amazon, and Audible (Amazon) and Whole Foods (Amazon) and store all our lives on the cloud (Amazon and 2 other guys)
Don never knows anyone that he worked with or embraced as soon as he perceives that they cost HIM votes. He tries to walk some weird middle ground and embrace or deny as needed.
He definitely is suffering from sort of cognitive problems. His memory is terrible. He doesn't "know" a lot of people even the ones he appoints to positions.
140 former trump aides contribute to Project 2025. 6 are former members of his cabinet, 4 ambassadors, and people from the RNC who helped appoint. I saw a video of the guy who is doing the hiring. He said that he and trump were just chatting, and trump asks this 28 year old who carries trump's bags around to run this department.
2022 trump quote (sort of) "Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as the Heridge ( yep) is to lay the groundwork...They're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do." he then praised several of the leaders.
Gary, my experience with "wealthier" people is they don't care if their kids get drunk or stoned as long as nothing "bad" reflects on them. My X wife's sister who I love and get along with married into a VERY wealthy family. Her step daughter had her "sweet 16" party at their VERY large house with a pool. Many of the kids were in the basement game room, with pinball machines, video games, pool table etc. Many more were outside. There was a keg of beer provided by the parents. (this was pre-social media) and a lot of uninvited kids were showing up. My Niece's parents asked Uncle Mike to go take a walk through and see how things were. I was younger, hipper...and they felt I was a good "spy".
Having been to Grateful Dead shows and made some pot brownies in my life, I recognized the smell of weed as soon as I opened the basement door. I confiscated 3 pot pipes from the stunned party goers....and told them the parents were ok with the beer, but not pot in the house. (I guess that level of bust, was too much risk) I gave the pipes to the collected parents who were knocking down martini's at a pretty good rate. Then they asked me to go troll outside.
WOW, the scene rivaled anything I had seen at a gig. Drugs, sex and rock & roll in an ever expanding parking lot. The word had gotten out and this was pre or very early cell phones. The liquor stores must have thought it was New Years Eve.
This party was in a DC suburb where a lot of elected and "influential" people live. I didn't witness any teenage rape that night...but all of the elements were there to make it easy.
I can't remember if the parents pulled the plug early...but they blamed the pot on "other kids", "outsiders"...not their sweet babies.
My best friend's graduation party was so boozy that guys were vomiting all over their front lawn. Back then, parents didn't get busted for serving underage kids, and back then the legal age was 21. In fact, the parents bought the booze and retired to their bedroom. I sloshed down tequila sunrises all night. 49 years later and I still don't remember how I got home.
Being a young woman, and being drunk, high, or both, or neither, is a dangerous thing. This is because of the patriarchy that still says Dr. Ford either lied or deserved to be raped. By extension, Kavanaugh said via the Supreme Court chorus that women's bodies don't really belong to them.
I had one of those I don't know how I got home nights. I had driven into Baltimore to the Marble bar to see the blues legend Muddy Waters and I had brownie and then drank a lot...I was missing my girlfriend who I knew was leaving town...and I might never see her again. I was trashed and drove home about 10 miles. Thank the spirits I didn't hurt anyone.
Tequila is my alcohol of choice in a good margarita...Corazone rep or anjeo and Tres agave mix are my go to...and I don't drive drunk anymore.
The Supremes and GOP "leadership" have made it very plain that they totally believe that man is meant to control women...just as the big planters in the south believed...or justified that Africans were put on this planet by their God to serve them and be their property. They were VERY willing to break away and form a new, more perfect nation based on that "fact" and to fire the first shots in our most bloody war...using mostly single shot weapons.
That's the mindset we are dealing with.
Sounds like a scene from a Molly Ringwald movie complete with the parent's not giving a shit.
I've played a lot of frat and sorority parties and never witnessed anything like that. But, I'm not a very observant person.
My high school GF was the valedictorian of her 800 person high school class. Her SAT score was 780 math and 800 English. She is head of the pediatric unit at a major medical school. She introduced me to marijuana and alcohol. I would be shocked if she doesn't still smoke pot.
It is amazing to me that the GOP is fine with owning guns and drinking beer cause, you know, freedom, yet they are opposed to legalizing pot.
The "leadership" of the GOP just wants power...the rest, is the rest
I was listening to MSNBC this morning and they played a clip of convicted felon Donald Trump trying to distance himself from Project25 (sic) called them far right. He admitted that he knew some of the authors. Good luck with that Donnie.
FAceB fact checkers namely Alex Demas of the Dispatch is saying that most 2025 project does not have to do with the R party . This came from labeling a meme as "mostly false". It seems fb monitors some groups more than others & allows politicians to post false information & flat out lies.
They're counting on no one, especially those on the right, to read any of the 850+ pages.
I've read some of Alex Demas' fact checking. He states that some of the argued points are "partly false" which means, that they are also partly true. "Partly false" is not a good enough standard for Alex Demas to suggest that Project 2025 claims by the left are "mostly false." I have yet to read the full 900+ pages (and most likely will not be able to complete the reading.) I choose to take the advice of folks like Robert Reich, and other left of center commentators regarding this manuscript. I don't see Reich lying about any of this. His credibility is too high.
Maybe so, but just before trump left office, he redesignated job classes which is one of the project 2025 tenets.
his alg has fav'd RW since it was invented as a way to rate women by their "hotness" We all fell for it. Just like we use google search, and forget to turn off the listening bro on our phone, and use google search, and buy from Amazon, and Audible (Amazon) and Whole Foods (Amazon) and store all our lives on the cloud (Amazon and 2 other guys)
How do we right this ship?
Don never knows anyone that he worked with or embraced as soon as he perceives that they cost HIM votes. He tries to walk some weird middle ground and embrace or deny as needed.
He definitely is suffering from sort of cognitive problems. His memory is terrible. He doesn't "know" a lot of people even the ones he appoints to positions.
140 former trump aides contribute to Project 2025. 6 are former members of his cabinet, 4 ambassadors, and people from the RNC who helped appoint. I saw a video of the guy who is doing the hiring. He said that he and trump were just chatting, and trump asks this 28 year old who carries trump's bags around to run this department.
2022 trump quote (sort of) "Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as the Heridge ( yep) is to lay the groundwork...They're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do." he then praised several of the leaders.