So you don’t want your house broken into

Not that I respect anything Lisa Bender said. She went on to say "...where calling the police may mean more harm is done..." She didn't actually say it was privileged not to want you home to be broken in to.

Just imagine you live in a bad neighborhood and someone breaks in to steal the property you stole from someone else. Because, how else are you gonna afford your clothes and your shoes? (This was from a sister cousin interviewed after her brother was shot trying to steal some shoes or something.) So, you don't have the privilege of calling the police to have them stop someone from stealing your stolen property, or take the chance they will find your stash of weed or meth you need to sell the next day to make your rent.

See, it's my place of privilege not to have stolen property or contraband in my house, so I can freely call the police. Plus I'm an old, white man. Who would be afraid of me?
 
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Of course, amidst all the cries to "defund" and/or "abolish" the police, what the vast majority of those taking the radical position to do so are conveniently forgetting is that what REALLY happens is that something ELSE gets put in its place.

And, of those who are in positions of political power who may be taking this radical position, THEY know that what REALLY happens is that something ELSE gets put in its place.

Because "power".

Those in positions of political power do NOT give up that power lightly. Abolishing the police means abolishing the means by which their own will may be enforced.

SO...it'll NEVER happen. Because the police will either remain OR they'll be replaced with something else that is still the same.
 
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I have a $15 in amazon e-bucks about to expire and I've been looking for something to use them on. $2 expire in 5 days and the rest expire Aug 1.
ebook version is $5 with the narration only a $2 add on. That covers half of what I need to spend.

Thanks.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I have a $15 in amazon e-bucks about to expire and I've been looking for something to use them on. $2 expire in 5 days and the rest expire Aug 1.
ebook version is $5 with the narration only a $2 add on. That covers half of what I need to spend.

Thanks.
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Msg me. I have them in audio books you can "borrow".
 
Brian K said:
Msg me. I have them in audio books you can "borrow".
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Thanks, but I always have amazon bucks about to expire. Might as well have amazon send some real cash to people who write stuff worth reading.
Besides, I tend to loan them out too :)
 
DrScaryGuy said:
Thanks, but I always have amazon bucks about to expire. Might as well have amazon send some real cash to people who write stuff worth reading.
Besides, I tend to loan them out too :)
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I've ALWAYS got stuff on my Amazon Wish Lists. I've got a list dedicated just to books, too.

Little gizmos, gadgets, and such are on another list...things I don't necessarily "need", but wouldn't mind slipping in when I do order something. Or things that might make a cool gift for various occasions, like birthdays, Mother's Day, etc.
 
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narration was terrible on book 1, but i liked the story.
i'll probably buy the other ones when i see them on sale...
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probably the worst narrator ever on any audiobooks. I have about 300 audiobooks in my library. That’s the one series I refuse to go back and listen to.
 
SO...it'll NEVER happen. Because the police will either remain OR they'll be replaced with something else that is still the same.[/QUOTE]

replaced with stormtroopers
 
One thing I've learned during the dystopian lockdown is that the local mom'n-pops know what Amazon, Walmart, and Lowes sell stuff for and have competitive pricing to match it. Where I am anyway. I've also learned that dirtbags and morons don't get up very early, so they're pretty easy to avoid during provisioning outings. So I'm weaning myself off of the REAL slave masters. F 'em. Especially Amazon and Jeff Bozos.
 
I’ve given this a lot of thought vis a vis privilege.

The only privileges I have received were two parents who loved me and are still married and alive. They taught me the value of hard work and they tried their best, with limited funds, to broaden my education through trips to the theater and classical music concerts.

Beyond that they have given me nothing monetary except for $50 every year on my birthday and $100 at Christmas.

I do accept that not everyone had these privileges but I cannot, nor will I, make apologies for how I was raised.

Maybe if other parents spent more time worrying about raising their children with the right tools to rise to heights beyond what they accomplished, instead of doing.....whatever the hell it is they are currently doing, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

But as my mom always said “If a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass every time he jumps.”
 
Chdamn said:
I’ve given this a lot of thought vis a vis privilege.

The only privileges I have received were two parents who loved me and are still married and alive. They taught me the value of hard work and they tried their best, with limited funds, to broaden my education through trips to the theater and classical music concerts.

Beyond that they have given me nothing monetary except for $50 every year on my birthday and $100 at Christmas.

I do accept that not everyone had these privileges but I cannot, nor will I, make apologies for how I was raised.

Maybe if other parents spent more time worrying about raising their children with the right tools to rise to heights beyond what they accomplished, instead of doing.....whatever the hell it is they are currently doing, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

But as my mom always said “If a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass every time he jumps.”
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And I would bet that if everything was exactly the same except you were black you would have ended up the same person thanks to the foundation your parents laid down for you to follow.
 
Chdamn said:
I’ve given this a lot of thought vis a vis privilege.

The only privileges I have received were two parents who loved me and are still married and alive. They taught me the value of hard work and they tried their best, with limited funds, to broaden my education...


I do accept that not everyone had these privileges but I cannot, nor will I, make apologies for how I was raised.
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I have thought the same thing many times recently. My parents were married for 71 years, and what they taught me, I have tried to pass along to my own children. Raising children almost seems to be a lost art, if the scenes we see on the nightly news are any indication. Too many of them seem to have been abandoned to the streets, instead of being brought up and taught by their parents. To those who told us "it takes a village" I say that the village is doing a piss-poor job.
 
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To those who told us "it takes a village"
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That phrase was true when the "village" was allowed to act. I remember a time when if you got caught stealing apples from Mr' Bernard's tree he called your parents and you got an ass whipping. Now it's, "how dare you accuse my kid of..." and you are as likely to have the cops called on you if you grabbed little billy by the arm.
 
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