New York’s Hasidic Jewish schools take public funds but fail to educate kids

Barnie2years comments on Sep 12, 2022:

At least, unlike the Amish in Pennsylvania, they don’t just end schooling at the eighth grade. And all teachers are apprenticed by other Amish teachers, not state certified. It kind of guarantees a good retention rate when you are shielded from knowledge and choice.

There is a woman who recreates celebrity photos. These are not the funniest ones. [dailybee.com]

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Love the boobs!

Eleventy billion?

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Way more than he could possibly spend in the time he has left.

“Gray Divorces” [psychologytoday.com]

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

This is so sad. And one reason I will probably stay single the rest of my life. I couldn’t deal with another divorce.

Video: TFG Loads Boxes onto Plane from FL to Bedminster, 3 Days after Feds Ask about Missing Files

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

I’m certain he has these boxes of top secret documents all over the place.

Kenneth Copeland: Ending forced prayer in schools led to mass shootings

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

The mental defects of these people is astounding! Nothing to do with the easy availability of weapons of mass death within the past decade or more.

So terribly sad the guilt this innocent man has borne.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

What a terrible thing to carry around with you when there was no conceivable way of knowing what was going to happen. Like survivors guilt when a bomb goes off and you were not affected because you went to the bathroom, but your friends were killed.

How The Big Lebowski Inspired Its Own Religion

Barnie2years comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Well, I guess according to this I qualify as a Dudeist! 😂 I definitely go with the flow.

@Triphid has not posted since the middle of July.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Several people have been wondering the same thing. I hope Evangeloon didn't go psycho on him! Though he was having some medical issues as well.

New Rule: Checking In On Jared | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

Barnie2years comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Old, but still relevant!

CNN panelist says it would be “in the spirit of forgiving and giving” for Joe Biden to invite ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 10, 2022:

I found it interesting in one of the news briefs on the day she died, I think on ABC, they showed clips of her meeting with various American presidents, starting with Reagan and ending with Obama, completely ignoring Trump's visit! Had me laughing! Later programs showed her with Ugly though. I feel that if the Royal Family wants him there, they will send him an invitation. Just like Simone Cowell said when Jimmy Kimmel asked him if he would be going to the funeral. :-)

Kharkiv Offensive: Russian Forces Retreat As Ukraine Takes Key Towns -- BBCNews

Barnie2years comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Basically, at the very beginning of the offensive!

Trump Is a 'Deeply Wounded Narcissist': Ex-White House Lawyer

Barnie2years comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Amazing how people are suddenly just realizing what anyone half aware knew decades ago. Certainly long before he ran for president.

Senate to vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage in coming weeks | PBS NewsHour

Barnie2years comments on Sep 9, 2022:

This is so sad! Human rights are going backwards rather than forwards in this country.

This is a very good sign unless the supreme Court ends up with the case. [youtu.be]

Barnie2years comments on Sep 8, 2022:

They almost had to. The consensus that it was a erroneous decision and had all kinds of flawed legal arguments. We’ll see where it goes from here, but it has to go to someone not indebted to Trump for their job.

Mich. judge declares 1931 abortion ban unconstitutional | The Hill

Barnie2years comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Temporary reprieve at best. The Republicans will run it to the Supreme Court where it will be reversed.

Politicians, Police, Military Officers on Oath Keepers Membership List

Barnie2years comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Military and police have always had extremists in their ranks. The volunteer army made sure of that. In the Red states, KKK membership was almost a requirement to be elected or get a job on a small town police force.

Pregnant Alabama Women Held in Etowah County Jail for Months to ‘Protect’ Fetus, Report Says

Barnie2years comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Welcome to Republican Nirvana!

I hope you can see this cute little doggie video. [facebook.com]

Barnie2years comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Sneaky dogs.

Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list - Los Angeles Times

Barnie2years comments on Sep 7, 2022:

There was never any doubt in my mind. Kind of like Southern law enforcement and military pretending there weren’t Klan members in their ranks.

Analysis: Sterling returns to the 1980s, and it may get cheaper still | Reuters

Barnie2years comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Now would be the time to go finance wise. Of course they are having inflation the same as us.

Steve Bannon expected to face state indictment in New York

Barnie2years comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Another Trumplican untouchable. Trump, sons, Guliani, Bannon, Jared. All facing court time, none actually in jail, sentenced, prosecuted, basically untouchable it would seem.

These Christian preachers have no idea how masturbation works

Barnie2years comments on Sep 7, 2022:

I wish! 😂😂💦

Noctura: A term by doctors for those who frequently have to get up at night to pee.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

I’m so happy that there's a name for it. Now I can get up and pee at night feeling validated! 😁😁

Letters From An American 09/05/2022

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

The Far Right has been pursuing this agenda almost unobstructed for decades! Blocking court appointments during Democratic presidencies and fast tracking them during Republican ones. The SCOTUS handed G W Bush the president office in his first election. And that was before the fascist majority of judges we now have was in place. The Republicans have played the long game while Democrats were focused on just winning the presidency. They have overtaken state and local government, which allowed them to gerrymander state voting districts and guarantee House seats. Governorships allowed them to change voter laws and media takeovers assure that their messaging is at the top of the page. How we extricate ourselves from this mess is going to be a multi year challenge, if it can be done at all. The regression of Russia from the progressive Gorbachev to the Stalinist Putin was relatively quick in historical terms. Our decent into a Russian style “democracy” has been a slow, but unstoppable it seems, disaster. We will know if it can be slowed down in November.

World’s first inhaled COVID vaccine approved in China: How does it work?

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

They figure out how to give it to you on a sugar cube like the polio vaccine, it could really become popular! 😂

Harvard Legal Expert Said One Particular Footnote In Recently Released Affidavit "Makes It ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

Everyone was sure the judge deciding the master case could not rule in Trump’s favor too. But she just did! I wonder how much of his cult’s donations that cost? I am so done getting excited over the POSSIBILITY that Trump is going to face any kind of justice! I want to celebrate on the day he is found guilty of anything and spends his first day in jail! I have a couple of bottles of champagne for the occasion, if it ever happens!

Is that too much to ask?

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

Sounds reasonable to me!

When America becomes too depressing to think about, there's always Birds of Paradise.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 6, 2022:

Damn, and I thought dating in the human world was a lot of work!

Flat Earthers indoctrinating their children at very young ages

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

The whole concept of home schooling is a disaster waiting to happening.

Scrub all Trump appointments!

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

The Secret Service and DHS record scrubbing to me is as much a concern as these files. In a way, I understand that as the president’s security detail, they are privileged to information of the most personal kind. If that bond of trust is broken it would make it much more difficult for future presidents to feel comfortable with them being around so closely. It would be equivalent of them writing tell all books after their service. Their job is to protect the president, not squeal on him.

Anti-gay WI GOP candidate had 'many sexual encounters' with male colleague

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

That would explain why the Republicans picked him as their candidate. The Republican primary winners this season trend toward the most loathsome and wacky.

Labor Dayi enjoyed listening to interviews from Studs Turkel ; who was an awesome human being- ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I enjoyed reading his book.

Paul Krugman Views Bitcoin, Crypto As Useless, Wasteful, Ponzi Scheme

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I have no interest in crypto. It sounded like a con from the very beginning.

Bed Bath & Beyond CFO Falls To Death Days After Company Announces Massive Closures and Layoffs

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

Was he criticizing Putin's Ukranian war too? Economic downturns can cause this kind of thing. It was quite common during the market crash for people to do building jumps out of depression or guilt for their part in the ruin of the economy.

After Teaching For 11 Years, I Quit My Job. Here's Why Your Child's Teacher Might Be Next.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I know it is of little consolation, but this is not an American problem. I read the French newspaper Le Monde and France is in the middle of a major educational crisis, as bad if not worse than ours. They are so short on qualified teachers they are putting people in teaching positions with a minimal amount of education. Even the universities are having problems filling teachers. The medical field is almost as bad, with a flood of professional leaving hospitals and other medical facilities at alarming rates. I have no idea if the problem is throughout Europe or just in France, but it does not bode well for our world's future .

Stabbings in Canada kill 10, wound 15; suspects at large

Barnie2years comments on Sep 5, 2022:

So much for the mass killings not happening when firearms are not available! Of course, the difference is that had they had semi auto weapons, all 25 might have been dead and probably the rampage would still be ongoing.

If a mature woman, enamoured of her husband, said you could ask her any questions you liked about ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I have asked! At least two said sex was no longer part of their life. Of the women I asked who were not in love with their husband, it was pretty much the same. That just seems to be the women I am friends with I guess. I hope others have a satisfying sex life.

In case you forgot, gentlemen…

Barnie2years comments on Sep 4, 2022:

It’s been so long, I forget.

Right-Wing Extremists Are Targeting a Children’s Hospital and Suicide Hotline Now

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

Like Biden, the rest of the Liberal side and the media need to start speaking out and calling them out for the fascists they are. But on Facebook you have to do it very, very carefully! 🫣

Officials Were Hesitant to Give Sensitive Intel to Trump: NYT

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

Trump is a joke! The moment he ran for office and won, the country was on a downhill slide that is proving very hard to stop.

Self love is something we all need to practice however this picture looks like suicide instead.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

That is kind of an odd picture for the text.

He didn't really walk back his threat of riots; he lied that he had said something else.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I hope they roast his ass down in Georgia!

I'm posting this for one reason.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

This is some of the worst police work I have ever seen on boxing her in. My (conservative) son got on me for pointing that out. And I didn’t realize that she had a kid (kids?) in the car. But it still looked like a keystone cops movie to me.

Russia to bid farewell to Gorbachev in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I make him more like Stalin myself. My guess is he has the Siberian goulags ready to fill up.

Britain Slips Behind India To Become World's 6th Biggest Economy | Business Standard

Barnie2years comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I saw India just put their first, Indian built, aircraft carrier to sea. They already are a nuclear country.

Republicans Attack Ranked-Choice Voting After Palin's Alaska Loss

Barnie2years comments on Sep 2, 2022:

This was inevitable and they will do whatever it takes to get rid of it by their next election in November, I’m sure.

Transgender youth: Texas' family services are 'on the brink of collapse' by requiring child abuse ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 1, 2022:

In so, so many ways.

Top Republicans privately fear midterms will become Trump referendum

Barnie2years comments on Sep 1, 2022:

I hope they lose biggly in the House too!

Found one of these in one of my garden beds today! Took a picture, but it blended in with the ...

Barnie2years comments on Sep 1, 2022:

Wouldn’t want one of them sneaking into my bedroom at night! 😱

As I was saying in a previous post, this is NOT normal.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 1, 2022:

Sure wouldn’t want to be outside! And the damage it would do to cars and anything else not covered! 😳

Never have I ever..

Barnie2years comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I went to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, PA for ninth grade. I survived! I never wanted to do a second year! I've never had a successful long term relationship. My second marriage lasted 22 years, but most of them were not successful.

Ha!!! WOO HOOOOO!!!!!! seeyasarah k byenow [youtu.be]

Barnie2years comments on Aug 31, 2022:

More good news! First New York, now Alaska! Yippee!

Letters From An American 08/30/2022

Barnie2years comments on Aug 31, 2022:

The only thing I find sad in this essay is the top, addressing the return of industry to the USA. Not that the jobs are coming back, not that the new factories are being built in Third World areas of the country, in desperate need of jobs. The sad part is they are going to Red States in which NOT ONE member of their Congressional delegations voted for ANY of the bills that are encouraging these companies to expand in their states. And the people of those states are so brain washed by their consumption of Fox News that they will not turn their backs on the traitors who showed no interest in improving their lives. This is what pisses me off!

Just a reminder…

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

My cats were never allowed outside. My sister took hers out on a leash. I wouldn’t leave my dog out unaccompanied, why a cat?

In case anyone doesn't already know this brilliant hack.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

I generally do mine two minutes for one ear maybe four for two. I started getting fresh corn much more often once I found this way to make it.

Neena Pachoke, Wisconsin News Anchor, Found Dead of Apparent Suicide at 27

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

One of the things that kept me alive in my younger, depressed days was the thought of what my suicide would do to the people who I loved. My parents and family, friends etc. I’d be dead, it would have no effect on me. But they would spend a lifetime trying to figure out what they could have done to prevent it, why they had missed the cues (if they actually exist), guilt over something they had no real control over.

Many years ago a group of us went to this.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

Here in Lancaster dwarfism is fairly common among the Amish. But most any genetic deficiencies are multiplied by the limited gene pool. They have a book of Fishers (family name genealogy) and as he said, if you are Amish, your family is in that book. There is a medical group here that actually studies the genetic issues of the Amish.

U.S. can't punish Christian hospitals for refusing to do abortions, gender surgery | Reuters

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

Sadly in many areas of the country religious based hospitals are the only ones available within a reasonable distance.

Trump Demands Reinstatement or a 'New Election, Immediately!'

Barnie2years comments on Aug 30, 2022:

Then the 2016 election should be redone, since Comey came out two days before with his false narrative about Hillary’s emails that proved to be garbage. Comey helped Trump win that election then got shafted for by the nitwit for doing his job after.

For some reason I had to look up the history of the PPP loan program.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 29, 2022:

So many of them were profiting from it, of course they didn’t want to make changes!

My fellow evil heathens are going to ruin the world.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 29, 2022:

I failed the divorced part thrice! But I’m all good on the abortion and teen pregnancy ones! 😂

Former Elder Robert Lee Harris Convicted Of Killing Wife In Kansas

Barnie2years comments on Aug 29, 2022:

What a den of the damned we have here! 😳

AOC makes it real…

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

Love the one top right!

Letters From An American 08/27/2022

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

It’s about time the political male Left show some spine! Instead of leaving the Squad out there to take all the abuse. Call the traitors out based on facts and their actions, rally the true Patriots to stand up against the sinister lies of the Trumplicans. We are the true majority.

This reads like an Onion article. How?

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

I never had a physical punishment in school. Worst was having to stick my gum on my nose for an afternoon. A friend I went to school with in France was a regular at having his bare bottom spanked in front of the all male second grade class. He still calls her a sadist! I did get plenty of physical punishment at home from dad, so it wasn’t that I was an angel by any means in school.

[agnostic.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

I just block these kinds of posts after checking out their profiles. They are getting more clever and high jacking entire newsfeeds at this point. But unsolicited friends’s requests are a definite red flag.

It sounds like my frequently used statement "We all want what is best for America.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

These people live in a world of hate and fear. At some point, hate and fear become violent. The violent faction is out there, just waiting for someone to light the fuse. All the Trump acts of obvious treason are white washed and painted as acts of patriotism, dismantling of the left wing deep state. It won’t end well.

MAGA Republicans Fit Definition of Fascism, Says White House

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

About time we go on the offensive publicly. Just saying what most of us here have been saying for the past six years. At least we are not calling for them to be lynched, which the MAGA clan don’t seem to have any problem saying about progressives.

Flat Earth Believer Shaquille O’Neal Tries to Destroy Science: “I’ve Lived on a Lake for 30 ...

Barnie2years comments on Aug 28, 2022:

Sports does not increase the thought process. Hershel Walker being another prime example!

Women’s Equality Day

Barnie2years comments on Aug 27, 2022:

It took a hundred years to get them! And a hundred years later to take them back.

Brooklyn Public Library makes banned books available to teens for free : NPR

Barnie2years comments on Aug 27, 2022:

And fascist states are already working methods to block them. You know, like China or Russia would do.

Scientology. Well, at least that have that one good thing going for them...

Barnie2years comments on Aug 27, 2022:

Are you sure about that?

Intelligence agencies fear that Trump has been leaking information on U.S. spies overseas

Barnie2years comments on Aug 27, 2022:

Given his disdain for the country’s security agencies while he was in office, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Top Staffer for Major Anti-Abortion Group Arrested for Soliciting a Minor

Barnie2years comments on Aug 26, 2022:

Why does this not shock me! They want to ban abortion to keep their supply of victims fresh! 🤬

That's right, get those little hands up.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 26, 2022:

I hope it’s soon! And I wish they would just let the Justice Department do their job instead of trying to put witnesses and agents lives at risk by exposing their names. When he is charged and on trial, then the information will come out.

The Treaty of Westphalia - YouTube

Barnie2years comments on Aug 25, 2022:

Having recently read a large tome on 17th and 18th century Europe, this seems pretty close to accurate in a sarcastic way. The various major countries were constantly warring, creating treaties which were shortly broken, new alliances formed, new treaties signed. Then war would break out, treaties ignored until , exhausted, they would sign new treaties to catch their breath. Then start all over again.

Trump: Mitch McConnell Is a 'Pawn for the Democrats,' Must Be Replaced

Barnie2years comments on Aug 25, 2022:

😂😂😂 Much harder to gerrymander statewide Senate elections than House elections. To win Senate elections they need to flat out cheat, which they are doing their very best to accomplish in all the Red states. A little harder to do in the purple ones.

Wow, Trump said so much crazy stuff i didn't see any press about this attempt to literally ...

Barnie2years comments on Aug 25, 2022:

The MAGA crowd wants this country to have a Russian style “democracy”. One Party, one leader for life, with total control over everything from school boards to the presidency.

Any news on @Triphid? Apparently he hasn’t logged in since July16th?

Barnie2years comments on Aug 25, 2022:

Wow, it has been a long time since I read one of his adventures! Maybe Evangeloon got loose and did him in?

Now Christians are targeting women who wear pants

Barnie2years comments on Aug 24, 2022:

Anyway! If he wants to follow Jesus he should be telling men to wear robes like Jesus did and Arab Muslims still do. Next he’ll be requiring women in his flock to wear head coverings, like the Amish and Muslims do. Sounds like back when I was in high school, women weren’t allowed to wear pants then either.

HUGSLEEP

Barnie2years comments on Aug 24, 2022:

I can’t even stand a sleeping bag! I’m changing my sleeping position several times and change my covering. This would never work

YouTube divers Adventures With Purpose find Kiely Rodni's body

Barnie2years comments on Aug 24, 2022:

These guys had some special tool and a ton of knowledge on how to use them. It’s what they do and why they are so good at it. Same reason there are specialist groups for collapsed buildings or avalanches. And different groups that specialize in searching forests and mountains. Average police forces just don’t have that experience.

Uhmmm.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 24, 2022:

When you’re nuts, show it loud and show it proud!

Man tests positive for monkeypox, COVID and HIV at the same time - BNO News

Barnie2years comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Wow! He needs to find a new dating pool! 😱

Just keeping you abreast of the latest news

Barnie2years comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Anyway! Damn killjoy! 😂

Brain stimulation improves short-term memory in older adults for a month, study finds [cnn.com]

Barnie2years comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Electro shock for seniors! Better than LSD! Get them little gray cells jumping! 😂

Trump files motion to bar the government from reviewing seized materials.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 23, 2022:

He certainly does keep a lot of lawyers busy filing his wild ideas. He definitely works on the principal that if you throw enough shit at the wall, eventually some of it will stick.

[agnostic.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 22, 2022:

I get messages from women look like that I check the profile. Usually a minimum of information, odd personal information and interest in me! 😂 I usually just block them.

The battery on my little PriusC finally gave up the ghost after 9 years.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 22, 2022:

Beautiful!

Fat chance!

Barnie2years comments on Aug 21, 2022:

Never forget!

Never eaten one, never will…

Barnie2years comments on Aug 21, 2022:

I stopped one time on a road trip to see my parents in Florida, just to see what the fuss was all about. I was not impressed and have never been to another for religious and political reasons alone. Same with Hobby Lobby.

Central Bucks passes book policy some view as a book ban - WHYY

Barnie2years comments on Aug 21, 2022:

And then they call progressives the cancel culture?

I could think of better uses…

Barnie2years comments on Aug 20, 2022:

Gotta test with short hops! 😂

Apparently it’s a real thing?!?!

Barnie2years comments on Aug 20, 2022:

You have to come up with something to explain god’s total disinterest in all your pleadings. Otherwise you might tend to think he may not exist!

[tiktok.com] Case closed 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Barnie2years comments on Aug 20, 2022:

Yep! Fantasies are usually better than reality! 😁

Today, I got cornered by an old woman in a thrift store who admired the vintage bean pot I was ...

Barnie2years comments on Aug 19, 2022:

You do seem to attract the best people! 😂 You must send out an unconscious approchable vibe! 😁

Walmarts effect on our economy

Barnie2years comments on Aug 19, 2022:

Interesting and not really new information. I think the last time I was in Walmart was ten years ago.

After threats, Fargo School Board restores Pledge of Allegiance at meetings

Barnie2years comments on Aug 19, 2022:

This was very predictable. The vicious Right can organize high threat levels very quickly an no one wants to put their family at risk to preserve an ideal. And police will do nothing without actual action taking place. And many surely support the ones making the threats.

Cheato should be worried. It doesn't take 6 hours to plead the 5th.

Barnie2years comments on Aug 18, 2022:

Trump said fifth almost 500 times in his testimony. So maybe.