In keeping with thread title … saw today that public school teachers in Portland, Oregon ALL are on strike today.

Their demands:

—23% pay increase (well yes, prices have shot up enormously recently … we’re all seeing that)

—Better tools for discipline (yes again … at last! Crack down!)

—Housing for students with no homes “so each student can get the best public school education possible.”

WHAT??

I’m reminded of the wonderful G.K. Chesterton quote, “The Progressive, generation after generation, ties himself up into new knots, and then roars and yells aloud to be untied.”

But there are practically no standards to even get a diploma in Oregon anymore. What do the teachers even do during the day? Fucking retards. I lived and worked in Portland 20 years ago. It was a decent place then. Plenty left and weirdos, but not crazy in your face and full on lunatic like it is now.

The car companies are going to dump EVs, watch.

Nah. They are going to double down. They will get more governmemt subsidies and tax breaks. And with this deal the price of regular vehicles will just keep going up making most new cars and trucks unaffordable to most working people.

There was some little idiot on Twitter on a video looked about 19 years old saying you have to vote for Biden because we don’t want another horrible Trump term.

Fucking infant.  No doubt still lives with mommy and daddy doesn’t buy his own groceries or have a 401k that’s flatlined since Biden took office.  Wasn’t even born when 9/11 happened and has no clue how international politics works.  This country is in extreme danger and we have spoiled little brats voting that have no goddamn idea what they’re doing.

I used to believe in everybody having the right to vote. Now, I think that voting should be a privilege that should be earned. You only get to vote if you have skin in the game and are able to pass a competency test to be able to cast a vote. This idiot cares more about hating Trump than he does about Biden ruining our economy and getting us into another world war. He'll probably cheer when nukes are used.

Why isn't this being reported in the mainstream media outing the FBI as Fascist, corrupt, and operating illegally against the American Citizen?

Because not only are they in on it, they are their biggest supporters.

IMHO, those tunnels are boobytrapped or are being filled with a shit ton of explosives as we speak. The IDF goes in them, then Hamas blows them up with them in the tunnels. Also, they don't go in the tunnels, but Hamas blows the tunnels during the ground invasion and kills a bunch of IDF anyways, such as was done during WWI trench warfare. Even destroying the tunnels could set off massive secondary explosions, and then blaming the Israelis for killing a bunch of civilians. We haven't seen anything yet.

I have never seen that movie!

I have the whole first half memorized.

Back on topic. Ain't no pussy free

Glass or gas fireplace?  We have a gas starter in our fireplace, but  my wife is allergic to wood smoke.  We are thinking about what to do there.  She likes the look of the glass pebbles with the flame coming out but an alternative is to convert to gas flame with the concrete wood looking logs.  Either way we need to replace the firebox and we're just not motivated enough for that yet.  Maybe when the snow starts flying and a fire in the fireplace would be very cozy.

Gas insert with fake logs. It would have been $10,000 plus to fix the chimney, etc., to burn wood. The gas insert was $1,600 and $500 to run the gas lines to it.