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Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« on: November 29, 2021, 10:26:07 AM »
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Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things

Sometimes, what you need is more important than what you want.

Recently, President Biden signed a very large infrastructure bill. Such a bill has been needed now for decades, but hasn't been able to make it through Congress or past the President's desk. Now, the 2021 bill doesn't have everything in it that everyone hoped would be in it, but...it passed and has been signed. It will fix things that need fixing and create a bunch of jobs. What wasn't in it can be delivered in another bill at another time.

Now, the Senate is considering Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill, which also is desperately needed. Some things many people wanted were removed from that bill in the House, because it was clear they wouldn't make it through the Senate. The Senate will probably remove a couple more things before it passes there. Then, it will get passed again in the House and Joe Biden will sign it. It won't be the bill that everyone wanted and it won't contain everything everyone wanted, but it will finally pass and millions of people will benefit.

My wonderful wife and I have been married for almost 30 years now. She mentioned that she would love to get a diamond ring for our anniversary - the diamond ring we couldn't afford 30 years ago. I said, "Sure! OK! You pick out one you like and it's yours." So, she started looking online. "Jebus, those things are expensive!" she said. "Show me one you like," I responded. She did, but said, "That 1-carat total weight 3-diamond ring is just too expensive!" And so it was. I said, "Let me look around."

It didn't take long for me to find a 3-stone, 1-carat total weight diamond ring that looked almost identical to the one she first showed me. I sent her a link to it. I explained that the three stones were J-colored stones with some small inclusions. They weren't perfect, flawless, water white diamonds. The setting was 14k yellow gold, rather than the 18k ring she first found. The price was just 1/3 the price of the other ring. I told her, "The diamonds are set in yellow gold, so the slightly off-color diamonds will look almost exactly the same. The inclusions in those stones will make it a little bit less sparkly, but you won't see them unless you use a loupe."

So, she ordered it. It arrived a week later. She put it on and loved it. Like the infrastructure bill and what will be the BBB bill, it wasn't perfect. However, nobody will ever notice that, even her. It still symbolizes our 30 years of marriage and sparkles on her finger just fine. She loves it. I love it. We love each other. And that's the point. She has that diamond ring now. We could finally afford it.

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WTF does that shit bill have to do with a ring???
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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2021, 10:34:09 AM »
Well, it looks like Minnesota Moses stiffed his wife.
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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2021, 10:45:16 AM »
I see he's back to bragging about his inherited money, without crediting his dear parents for their hard work.

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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2021, 11:13:58 AM »

     The allegory makes no sense as it relates to BBB, unless rockhead is jamming a ring up his wife’s rectum despite the righteous howls of indignation from his other wife.

     
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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2021, 11:45:31 AM »
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"The diamonds are set in yellow gold, so the slightly off-color diamonds will look almost exactly the same. The inclusions in those stones will make it a little bit less sparkly, but you won't see them unless you use a loupe."


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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2021, 11:52:08 AM »
Did that garrulous word salad have a


If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2021, 03:19:33 PM »
Did that garrulous word salad have a




I trust this was a rhetorical question...  :whatever:
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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2021, 05:27:00 PM »
I trust this was a rhetorical question...  :whatever:

Pointedly so, :rimshot: . :-)
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2021, 10:43:53 AM »
Pointedly so, :rimshot: . :-)

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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2021, 04:48:00 PM »
"Pellucidly Clear"

 :-)

TF is pellucidly and why am I seeing it everywhere all a sudden?
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Re: Some Things Are More Important Than Some Other Things
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2021, 05:03:03 PM »
TF is pellucidly and why am I seeing it everywhere all a sudden?

DU member malaise has a habit of saying "Let me make this pellucidly clear."