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So people shouldn't be allowed to buy stuff and sell it?

So the owner of the golf shop by my house shouldn't have to buy the products he sells? Titleist should just give him stuff that he doesn't have to pay for?! You're joking right? Where do you think businesses get the merchandise they sell? The problem with MLM is people with no sales skills buy that merchandise and can't sell it. No one would hire them for sales, but they have a dream and believe it's as easy as it looks, and lose their investment. Those restaurants that have probably closed in your neighborhood. Those owners had to buy food to sell. They failed because they couldn't sell enough to stay afloat not because buying stuff to sell is a scam.

Did you read my post? Apple is a multi level marketing scheme. You buy something in the store and folks all the way back to corporate gets paid. All those multiple levels. The key difference between a legit MLM company and a pyramid is with MLM the customers receive a product or service. Again, the problem with MLM is anyone can buy themselves a sales job. People who would never last in straight commission sales buy the hype and fail. In a pyramid scheme there is no product or service. The newest members basically pay the oldest until there is no money coming in.

They are. But almost what corporation uses MLM. You buy a new car. The salesman earns a commission. The sales manager earns a commission. The general manager gets his cut. The Ford factory rep gets paid, the regional managers get paid, it goes all the way back to the President of Ford. All those multiple levels get paid. Buy something at Walmart and all those levels get paid. Pyramid schemes are different because they have no product or service and are illegal. Where MLM receives a bad name, and I believe justifiably so, is they "hire" anyone. There are people that have no business in sales and they fail. That's not the fault of MLM, that's poor hiring. They would have failed at opening any new business.

I ended a thirty year business career and retired to educated. I've been teaching 12 years now from 8th grade in a poor school where most kids had a parent or less with little or no education and now I'm teaching seniors who generally have two college educated parents at home. A couple things I would do. First realize that as a society we're starting at an incredibly inequitable point. Poor kids with uneducated parents don't have books at home, they don't have parents that have the time and energy to teach them much. My current students have been surrounded by educational opportunities since birth. How do we fix that? Pre school programs. It's not much, but I've got nothing else. Lower home values mean less funding for schools. So poor schools have higher student to teacher ratios and less experienced teachers. I'm at a destination school in a destination district. I'm surrounded by quality educators who make me better each day. So the kids who are already ahead of the game have an advantage 24/7. We need a system that encourages our best educators to rotate into schools that need the best. They also need a guaranteed rotation back to the top schools they rotated from. When Texas implemented a new rating system for schools it did exactly what most teachers and administrators knew would happen. It identified the most affluent areas of the state with the highest educated parents. Based on these ratings the general public somehow believes I'm suddenly a better teacher because my students are performing better. My students have all the advantages from food security to parenting. This is already too long. I'll stop here.

No he can't, not something that was actually almost presidential in tone.

Nice Trump speech today. About four continuous years too late.

Probably reading this and happy he's missed.

That would be the most interesting set of court cases in a long time.

Ok. How about remembered but not acted on? People won't leave the Republican party in droves, there won't be much talk about election security. It will be much like the hordes that were walking from Central America to invade that turned around right after the election. Or building the wall. There will be something new to debate during the next election cycle. The shock goes away.

Trump is a television star, a social media maestro. This isn't reality for some people, it's a show with zero appreciation for the gravity of the situation. I rejected the cult label being applied until yesterday. It's the most accurate way to describe those individuals that committed acts of terror at the capital.

What is going to be great is we will survive this. Life will go on and this will be forgotten. What is going to be horrible is we will survive this. Life will go on and this will be forgotten.

Great speech

Lindsey Graham

Lincoln has been quoted multiple times. That seems to be the theme. It's chilling that both Republicans and Democrats are pulling examples from the Civil War. Think about that. Civil War era.

Drinking game. Every time a senator mentions a date, drink a shot.

This entire process has increased my faith in our court system and their ability to rise above the partisan process that placed them in their positions. Go Romney

I love our Senate. Tossing out a few idiots like Cruz, but there are dozens of great people there. I told my son I'd walk 10 miles to vote against Cruz, but I respect John Cornyn. These speeches from both sides of the aisle are really good.

I'm impressed that so many senators have speech writers who do such a nice job of historical research. This has been interesting.

Not so bold prediction. The Republicans will regain the Senate at the midterms.

Three ways to view this. You know turnout will be low there so send your best person their to rally. Or, you know he's a liability but you have to put him somewhere, so send him to the fewest voters. He's turning off the moderate, sane, voters and the once grand old party will dive to the mainstream over the next two years.

My daughter lives in the heights, I'm in San Antonio. Franklin started with a food truck as well. I think you'll relate to this.

In Franklin's book he spends a couple pages just on cutting for serving. When I was travelling more for work I would keep the Texas Monthly rankings in my truck and plan my route around visiting some of their small town picks. Pinkerton's is near the top of my list to visit when they get opened here. I haven't tried that much coffee in my rub. This time I tried some of Fiesta's Uncle Chris Steak Seasoning which was an interesting twist. But course salt and pepper and a dash or two of coffee is my usual go to. One issue with the WSM is being just 17" I'm kind of maxing out with about a six or seven pound brisket. I do miss my offset where I would put in six 12 pounders. I had a few neighbors that would bring me theirs when they knew I was going to be cooking brisket. This one was just the flat which is a challenge. Plus the butcher had over trimmed it. I'm still a bit of a slave to my thermopro. Who can resists bluetooth cook gear? I'll adjust when I wrap from about 165 to 170. If it stalls at 165 or so I'll let it run out a little before wrapping. Then I start checking when to pull it off at 203 or so. There was a rib joint near one of my customers on the south side that I would stop at back in the mid 90s. He didn't have much indoor seating but folks would be sitting on hoods of cars eating. And those cars ranged from barely running to showroom Mercedes. I wish I could remember the name of the place. He's probably retired by now but I hope someone kept it going.

She posts some great stuff. I love her account.

BTW those RV owners tend to be conservative and possibly are why we have "Lyin' Ted with the ugly wife"* instead of Beto. *Trump comments about the esteemed Senator from Texas.