Discussion: What Is Your Pet Peeve?

(This was observed on Sunday at Maplewoodstock's senior/all access tents)  

People leaving personal items on a chair intended for public use by those with physical limitations who are unable to bring their own seating with them and then walking away for an extended period of time expecting others to respect their personal claim to public property in a situation where seating is very limited and others are in need of using the chairs.  

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Discussion: Rose Garden and White House happenings: but which party will win? GOP. DNC, or the NSDNC?

mtierney said:

From the WSJ….what is feared as “ might happen” already has in CA…

All of Gavin Newsom’s Donors

The Governor, his wife and California’s ‘behested payments.’

By The Editorial Board

June 26, 2026 

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation (NYT)

(If I had a dollar for every example of Trump's corruption, and another dollar for every time mtierney ignores it, I'd be rich enough to bribe Trump)

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Discussion: What Is Your Pet Peeve?

joan_crystal said:

Part of the problem is that the handicapped parking spaces and the van accessible spaces in town are being taken up by vehicles that display neither a handicapped license plate or a handicapped placard.  

I have always felt that people who misuse handicapped spots should be subject to prison sentences. Fines are no deterrent. If we want to stick with fines, they should be extreme... like thousands of dollars per violation. 

In case it matters ... I walk with a slight limp (sometimes) but I do not have a handicapped license plate or hang tag and truly hope I never need one. I am just enraged when able bodied people can't show the slightest courtesy to people who truly need these spaces. Entitled and ableist a-holes.

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Discussion: Rose Garden and White House happenings: but which party will win? GOP. DNC, or the NSDNC?

Paul Krugman made this observation about Trump's speech last night. It was of course horrifying to see him setting out the first step in his plan to interfere in the election. 

But anyone listening from the beginning heard this outrageous introduction:

Trump Can't Get No Respect 

His biggest lie wasn't about elections

Donald Trump surprised me last night. I expected to hear lurid lies about the 2020 election. What he offered instead was mostly dreary innuendo that convinced nobody.Which is not to say that his speech was free of lies. Indeed, more or less every word he spoke was a lie, including “a,” “and,” and “the.” But the most spectacular lies weren’t about U.S. elections. They were at the beginning, when Trump boasted about America’s place in the world.Here’s the part that caught my eye:

"We had transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, crime ravaging our cities, and the whole world was laughing at us as a nation, but not anymore. Two years ago, our country was dead. Now, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. America is respected like we have never been respected before."

In reality, one of the most spectacular consequences of Trump’s return to power and the mess he has made since has been a collapse of global respect for America. The chart at the top of this post is from Pew’s Global Attitudes Survey, but you don’t need a formal survey to know that the world increasingly despises the U.S. Just travel overseas and talk to people.

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Discussion: Rose Garden and White House happenings: but which party will win? GOP. DNC, or the NSDNC?

mtierney said:

PVW justifies illegal immigration

Do you ever stop lying?

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Discussion: What Is Your Pet Peeve?

1.  People with their devices in speaker mode in public

2. Littering

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Discussion: Mr T is on the air!

Listen in tomorrow. Gonna be fun. 

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Discussion: What Is Your Pet Peeve?

Did I mention this before?

I think all cars should come with 2 minutes of horn use per month. City or suburbs. After your two minutes is used, no more horn. (DMV wouldn't approve it, I imagine, because the horn is a key safety device in the car.)

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Discussion: Rose Garden and White House happenings: but which party will win? GOP. DNC, or the NSDNC?

GoSlugs said:

This has actually been a good thing for Canada.  The Canadian hospitality sector has been delighted to offer its services to the people of the globe who would like to come to North America but have no interest in spending money in the US.

Of course, it is a two way street.  Lots of Canadians who would have been traveling to the US now choose to spend their loonies in Europe or Mexico.

You spend your loonies, we elect ours.

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Discussion: Mitch McConnell Alive or Not?

Kimmel is doing well. 

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