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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
"If people won't take care of their neighbors out of altruism, it's not the government's job to do it."
I thought the government's job is to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But what do I know, it's not like it's written down someplace.
Preaching to the choir here.
He just (as far as I can tell) disagrees with the fundamental job of government, regardless of what's in the official documents from way back when.
I am completely failing to be interested in this meeting, because I'm leaving for the airport in a couple of hours.
What is this dating you speak of?
Your friend is Ron Swanson?
Hee.
I thought the government's job is to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But what do I know, it's not like it's written down someplace.
THIS.
I was going to quote "Cabinet Battle #1" ("These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em/Don't act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote 'em") but then I googled and learned that apparently Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble.
Meanwhile, I sit next to the CEO's EA, and she's over here answering the phone, "AT&T." Because (a) she has caller ID and (b) he is out of the office.
Dating.
I have no clue.
"If people won't take care of their neighbors out of altruism, it's not the government's job to do it."I'm getting real close to answering this sort of talk with, "So was it the orphan trains or the dying in the streets you like best about this approach?"
I was going to quote "Cabinet Battle #1" ("These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em/Don't act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote 'em") but then I googled and learned that apparently Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble.
Different document.
The Perseids meteor shower is peaking tonight, and it's supposed to be the best one in a decade.
Looks like it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in Chicago. Do I want to stay up all night and drive two to four hours south to see the Perseids?
I'm torn between "that would be awesome" and "no, sleep is good."
Perhaps the hivemind would help me brainstorm a solution to this problem. Faux-niece (my BFF's daughter) is 18 and has a job, and she needs to learn to drive asap. Because her mom is worn out from driving her to work and now to school. They live in a rural area and everything is far away, and there's no public transportation. (Also, if she doesn't learn to drive soon, she'll have spent ALL of her inheritance on clothes and make-up and there'll be no money left to buy her a car.) This sitch is getting dire. But her high school doesn't offer driver's ed (wtf), there are NO driver's ed schools within a reasonable distance, and her mom has wisely decided it would be a disaster for her to teach the kid herself. And they really need her to be taught on an automatic transmission, but both their cars are manual, so she needs a teacher with a car she can learn on.
How do people learn to drive?