Around here it is the Orthodox Jewish community who takes over school boards. Shit is insane in Rockland County and in the Five Towns on Long Island because of it.

Fred Thompson was in the political arena before he was an actor.

You shouldn’t be excited for FDR’s ghost, he was a real douchebag in person. My Nana worked full time so my mom had a babysitter/nanny growing up who worked for the Roosevelts on Long Island. She had stories. Eleanor was nice though.

Love their delivery service, I got my mattress there as well and both times the delivery guys were early, super nice, and very quick.

Also, per my mother, always get the 3 regular cushions instead of the 2 big cushions. They hold up better and you can move them around more.

People rag on IKEA - I’ve had a dresser and a wardrobe for over 12 years that still look great and I am not nice to my belongings. Except for 2 chairs from TJ Maxx and my sofa my whole living room is from there and I am happy with it. My Bromma footstool is probably 8 or more years old, I got a new cover for it, it…

I had a $400 IKEA couch for like 7 years. I slept on it for a year at the end of my marriage. The only reason I got rid of it was that I didn’t have the stamina to put new covers on it (it was the victim of a ceiling leak). It held up great and was super comfy. Now I have a couch from Macy’s that was $1100 on sale for…

I feel that way every time I have a customer with a German name who was born in Brazil or Argentina. I’m not a nice person.

It depends on the country. Some you go through US Customs before you board. In Aruba you go through one security check where you just show your passport, then customs, then a regular security check (baggage, scanner, etc). So then when you land in the US you don’t do customs you just leave the airport.

Bush senior looked better at the Super Bowl, and he had just gotten out of the hospital.

30 is young! Neither of my parents even went to college until they were 30, and they already had 3 kids. My mom went to nursing school and ended up becoming a nurse manager, and even though she is 70 and retired, she still works per diem when she wants extra money to travel or whatever. You’ve got plenty of time to…

He’s talking the talk at least with the G20:

We had a coal/wood stove growing up, now my parents have a gas fireplace. The same is true for everyone I know who had one - they either use natural gas or a pellet stove to heat their house now. There just isn’t as much of a market for coal, are they blind to that?

Oh I wrote “The Republicans did obstruct Obama and openly bragged about it.”

Done! Those questions were for the birds.

My dad does say when he was in class in the Navy in the early 1960's the officer teaching them said our relationship with Russia goes in peaks and valleys, and that now that he is 75 he’s seen that for himself. But this is definitely a valley, and it freaks me the fuck out. My dad’s sub was deployed in the Cuban…

That was all Staten Island and my neighborhood in Queens. I’m fucking surrounded by them.

My friend posted a link to the ABC story about the Russian ship being near Groton. A few Trump-lovers tried to say it was normal and happens all the time. Except, I grew up in CT, my dad was stationed in Groton, and he then worked for a company that made parts for subs for 46 years. It is not fucking normal, and it…

I saw a huge difference in salary from when I moved back to NY in 2002 to when I got this job in 2013. No one wants to pay any more. Which is why I just applied to be a train conductor with the MTA.

Yes but I also think Mattis will have more sway with other members of the NSC and the cabinet to talk up his strategies and convince the president they were his own.