The most important thing to do right off the bat is to accept that emergency maintenance will happen. It is a fact of life. Don’t cross your fingers and hope for the best. Accept it will come from time to time and plan how to handle it.

​Can we at least put Clapper (perjury), Brennan (illegal torture, spying on the Senate, perjury), Comey (stealing gov docs, being a douchebag everyone hates), Clinton
(muh emails, bullshit foundation), Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Powell, Bolton, Abrams, Rice, Frum, and several others I'm forgetting off the top of my head (lying us into the Iraq war) in prison too?

Explain the Clinton emails thing, please. And the "bullshit foundation". Do so with facts. I'll wait. Take your time.

The email thing is pretty obvious although in and of itself, it was overblown. I mean, before Comey said he wouldn't bring charges for what amounted to no particular reason, he pretty much said she was guilty AF: 

As far as the Clinton Foundation. Well you could ask their own law firm, Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett.

​Or Doug Band.

Or perhaps even Chelsea Clinton.

Or the king of Morocco.

Or an endless series of coincidentally-timed large donations/speaking fees from foreign countries or Wall Street.

Admittedly Trump's foundation was also bullshit, but it was tiny and mostly dedicated to buying large portraits of himself to feed his narcissism in the weirdest way possible.

​What do you mean they found nothing? Many of the emails were marked confidential or top secret. You're not allowed to send confidential emails over a private server. You're also not allowed to delete 30,000 emails after receiving a subpoena (some of which had confidential information) and not all of which were recovered.
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The Chelsea link was by far the weakest as she was just expressing her concerns. The others are more noteworthy, particularly the one discussing Simpon, Thacher and Bartlett. Their foundation was really sketchy.

 Realize, that every email has a recipient, often times multiple. Even "deleted" emails ended up having recipients and trails.

Just curious, what do you think was in those emails? How many investigations into EVERY OTHER PRIVATE SERVER are you demanding?

This is a CLOWN argument. It was a CLOWN investigation.

The DELETED emails were deemed by her to be not related to work. Imagine what would happen had she deleted emails and they found ONE which was related to work, that she tried to erase? I mean, of the THIRTY THOUSAND EMAILS they weren't able to find ONE email, or recipient, that somehow displayed illegal activity?

C''mon, Peter Pan, just stop it. There's no equal action for every action to justify whatever preconceived nonsense you want to conjure.

It was a farce. It was investigated MULTIPLE TIMES. It was the ONLY private server investigated. Stop making shit up to make yourself feel better about whatever it is you believe.

it's [sic] embarrassing. Maybe not to clown show parler users, but to realists.

And I read the very article you're referencing. Did you?

Yes, it was investigated and she was found to have illegally used a private server, sent classified documents on it repeatedly and deleted emails after receiving a subpoena. I had no idea you got to delete emails you deemed not related to work after receiving a subpoena (even though several of them actually did contain classified information). Good to know.

And the "Colin Powell did it too" defense fails badly BTW. Again, from the not-so-Trump friendly WaPo:

1. Clinton exclusively used a private email account to conduct State Department business. Powell did not.
2. Clinton had a private email server, located at her house. Powell did not.
3. The rules governing electronic communication changed considerably — and got more strict — between Powell's time in office and Clinton's.

Again, while she was blatantly guilty on the email thing, it wasn't especially huge compared to normal government corruption. (I remind you I was originally comparing what Snowden and Assange have done to various politicians, not singling out or even highlighting Clinton).

And yes, Trump's nepotistically inclined daughter and son-in-law as well as others in the Trump admin used private emails. And they should have been punished too. It was definitely hypocritical (which is not unusual for Trump). Though none of them were Secretary of State nor did they set up private email servers for all business. I haven't seen it confirmed that they used them for classified info, just government business. Which would be a big difference.

I mean General Petraeus went to prison for keeping classified materials in his desk and sharing them with his mistress. A navy cadet was sent to prison for taking a selfie with a radar screen in the background and sending it to his girlfriend. Clinton set up a private server in her own home. I mean, why would she even do that?
And alas, yes, I read the article. And I quote,

"What the governance review lawyers found was a board and charity in disarray organizationally. It was staffed mostly with insiders, practicing weak oversight and inattentive leadership, and possessed of a loose dedication to best practices for foundations of its size and to Arkansas state and IRS regulations governing conflict of interest...

"...But the issue of conflict of interests went beyond the fact that the board did not enforce compliance with its written policy. The review seemed to find some of the issues that have come up on the campaign trail recently. 'Some interviewees reported conflicts of those raising funds or donors, some of whom may have an expectation of quid pro quo benefits in return for gifts,' according to the review."
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That's pretty damning from an internal review by a law firm they hired themselves.

Blah, blah, blah. If I had a quarter for every article regarding California's demise. Even as far back as the early nineties, Time ran a headline regarding the shine coming off the Golden State. My investments in LA and SD have yielded 500%+ appreciation in the last 20 years, and my CAP rates are double digits. I'm not even going to get into the glaring numerical errors in the article. Stay in KC, I'll remain in Cali.

Great analysis. As a resident of the state, our family has seen many friends leave the state over the past few years and know many others who plan to leave but are waiting for their opportunity

Yes, there are still deals on the MLS, even ones that hit the 70% (or 75%) rule. But they are very few and far between, and you have to keep your ear to the ground and act quickly to get a shot at those few diamonds in the rough.
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That being said, while there might not be a lot of good deals to be found there, there are still good reasons to use the MLS (which you have to be a real estate agent to access), particularly for assessing a property's value.

Every disagreement is between two (or more) opposing sides. But what if you put yourself on the tenant’s side to argue against something else entirely? By doing this, you can radically reduce the tension and hostility between you. After all, why would there be any hostility if you are on the same side?

1. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Fear is the biggest thing that stops people from going after their dreams. The fear of failure, rejection, humiliation, etc. can be debilitating for just about everyone. And that’s what makes Susan Jeffers’ book so worthwhile.

She flips the concept of fear on its head. Instead of hoping that fear will go away, this book will change your paradigm about fear. Instead, fear becomes something you should cherish and seek after. As she notes, “The fear will never go away as long as [you]continue to grow… The only sure way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.”
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Once you begin to embrace fear and living “just outside of your comfort zone,” you can learn to handle and confront fear instead of avoiding it and vainly hoping it goes away on its own.

​​I must have lost my damn mind and somehow forgotten about Dale Carnegie. How to Win Friends and Influence People as well as How to Stop Worrying and Start Living should both be added to this list.