# Let your mini-rants march on! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747 "2020-03-01T12:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/81 "2020-03-08T03:54:13Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > A mini-rave for a change: got my taxes done and after putting aside for this upcoming year’s property tax I’ll have left over ~$300.00 from my fed/state return and another ~$300.00 later this fall when I receive a special “homesteader” credit I qualify for. My returns basically pay my property tax so it’s nice to have a bit left over. Beyond jealous. I paid a shit ton in cap gains when I sold my apartments this year. But sadly made enough to trigger some BS that means I have to pay all my Social Security back. More checks to write. I make it worse by complaining loudly about giving a fucking dime to the current administration. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/82 "2020-03-08T06:26:49Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Urm 😕… it’s only been trumpeted in the news recently, and any casual search brings it up. Try Googling Hillary testify. It has been all over the news. Having my husband work in Libya before and after the revolution, I have google alerts. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/83 "2020-03-08T16:24:31Z")
Um, **eenerms** and **lumpy** … If: a.) not one but two Dopers have looked into what you’re talking about, and found nothing, and b.) I google the phrase “finally Hillary Clinton is being held accountable for the Benghazi debacle”, and found nothing, then, uh, yeah - this is some mighty obscure shit. So yeah - NOT all over the news. (heh - Fox, maybe?). I’m guessing these google alerts of yours, **eenerms** , are from Breitbart back in the day? Yeah usually not a pit thing, but cite, or continue getting :dubious: at. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/84 "2020-03-08T17:25:58Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Um, **eenerms** and **lumpy** … > > If: > > a.) not one but two Dopers have looked into what you’re talking about, and found nothing, and > > b.) I google the phrase “finally Hillary Clinton is being held accountable for the Benghazi debacle”, and found nothing, then, uh, yeah - this is some mighty obscure shit. > > So yeah - NOT all over the news. (heh - Fox, maybe?). I’m guessing these google alerts of yours, **eenerms** , are from Breitbart back in the day? > > Yeah usually not a pit thing, but cite, or continue getting :dubious: at. Look at CNN March 2 2020.. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/85 "2020-03-08T18:02:57Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Look at CNN March 2 2020… It would be helpful if you would post a link. On the other hand, never mind. I don’t think this is real. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/86 "2020-03-08T18:31:09Z")
I’ll oblige. > **[Hillary Clinton must testify in email case, judge rules](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/hillary-clinton-must-testify-in-email-case-judge-rules.html)** > > Controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state may have helped doom her 2016 race for the White House against Donald Trump. Note I didn’t find this on my own. **Lumpy** helpfully told me what to search for. This lawsuit was brought by a private organization, Judicial Watch, not the DOJ, so nothing might come of it. That’s probably also why it got so little publicity. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/87 "2020-03-08T20:57:59Z")
And this has nothing to do with Benghazi itself. It has to do with the private email server that people found out about while they were investigating Benghazi, roughly the equivalent of getting a search warrant because someone was suspected in an armed robbery, and finding some weed. You’re not likely to get any Benghazi closure out of this. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/88 "2020-03-09T03:05:42Z")
Tomorrow is going to be a very bad week. Stock futures down 900. Price of oil collapsing by 20%. The $VIX at $46 and expected to go higher. [To quote](https://northmantrader.com/2020/03/08/vix-shock/): > [@](#): > > Let’s take the longest and slowest recovery business cycle & the most indebted global economy, use cheap money to jam markets to the highest market cap to GDP valuations ever and then shut down the global supply chain and then let’s see what happens with central bankers having the least ammunition available in any cycle. Hillary Clinton’s email server? Who even has the fuckin time to relitigate 2012? Oh, yeah: hate filled idiots and stupid Republicans. Oh, wait, did I repeat myself? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/89 "2020-03-09T03:22:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Tomorrow is going to be a very bad week. > > Stock futures down 900. Price of oil collapsing by 20%. The $VIX at $46 and expected to go higher. > > [To quote](https://northmantrader.com/2020/03/08/vix-shock/): > > Hillary Clinton’s email server? Who even has the fuckin time to relitigate 2012? Oh, yeah: hate filled idiots and stupid Republicans. Oh, wait, did I repeat myself? Plus wasn’t someone involved intimately with Trump also mucking around with government-related E-mail on their private server? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/90 "2020-03-09T03:29:14Z")
Yes, [Ivanka](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-used-a-personal-email-account-to-send-hundreds-of-emails-about-government-business-last-year/2018/11/19/6515d1e0-e7a1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html). ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/91 "2020-03-09T07:39:06Z")
Stupid virus…closed all the Pubs in Florence, Italy. If they serve food you have to be a meter away! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/92 "2020-03-09T10:17:04Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Yes, [Ivanka](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-used-a-personal-email-account-to-send-hundreds-of-emails-about-government-business-last-year/2018/11/19/6515d1e0-e7a1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html). Crooked Ivanka! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/93 "2020-03-09T10:32:51Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Crooked Ivanka! Lock her up! ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/94 "2020-03-10T02:36:44Z")
I picked the wrong week to run out of toilet paper. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/95 "2020-03-10T02:48:50Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I picked the wrong week to run out of toilet paper. Dammit. No problem here. TP and paper towels are two things that appear to be high-margin items that are frequently on deep-discount sales, so when my favorite brand of either is on sale, I tend to buy vast quantities! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/96 "2020-03-13T15:36:59Z")
Holy shit, I love you youngest grandson, but if you do not stop licking me… He is eight going on four\*, and in a super nasty, gross kid phase right now. The timing could not be worse for him to feel the need to spread his bodily fluids everywhere. I warned his interpreter at school today that he was in a mood so they could be prepared. I might have kept him home, but we were on the way into school when he did it. \*development delays and limited communication skills due to late diagnosis of hearing issues ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/97 "2020-03-14T02:07:16Z")
I am currently having an argument with a woman online she says that the coronavirus kills only old people and the flu kills everyone so we shouldn’t be worried. I’ve corrected her and she’s accused me of only agreeing with her, and now she’s accusing me of arguing to argue. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/98 "2020-03-14T02:19:10Z")
Accept the simple fact that some people are just plain stupid. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/99 "2020-03-14T07:39:38Z")
Having a very rough week. I don’t know if it’s just exhaustion, some kind of flare-up, or if this is my new normal. I still don’t have a diagnosis and my appointment with the neurologist is not for another six weeks. Yes, I’ve called my doctor and yes, they’ve tried to get it moved up- no dice. I’ve been essentially bedridden. I can get to the bathroom (but usually not without falling at least once. My poor knees are all banged up), but the kitchen is a whole different ball of wax. I’m not strong enough to hold myself up anymore and my balance and stamina are just in the toilet. When I do get up- like literally get to my feet with my crutches, not “get up” as in “go to the bank and stop at Target”- it often takes so much effort that I then don’t have the energy to continue standing and fall right back down. I can’t go get myself something to eat or drink, I can’t properly take care of my cats, I can’t go deal with my family, and I can’t go to work. I do have a friend who brought me some snacks today, so I now have granola bars within reach, at least. The doc says going to the ER would probably be an extremely expensive waste of time because it’s not an emergency and I have an appointment and they’ll be much too busy with Coronavirus stuff and probably won’t be able to do anything for me, soooooo… that’s that, then. So. However much you might imagine that this sucks, it sucks more than that. And staying in bed watching hours and hours of TV might sound relaxing, but things don’t stop happening around you because you aren’t able to deal with them. It’s not like the world stops and your job no longer needs to be done and your bills no longer need to be paid and your house no longer needs to be cleaned and your family puts their crises on pause. Instead, it all just kind of spirals out of control while all you can do is watch helplessly. Anyway, six more weeks til the appointment with the neurologist, which I don’t think is going to be the magical turning point I (and everyone who has to deal with me) would hope for. In the meantime? I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747/100 "2020-03-14T07:59:35Z")
Easily distracted by everything Coronavirus. So I made blueberry quick bread. After I put it in the oven I realize I forgot the melted butter, still sitting on the stove. So I took it out and mixed in the butter and put it back in the oven. After 20 minutes it’s still rather dense. Yep. Forgot the baking soda and baking powder. Need to go back getting out all the ingredrients before starting a recipe. I guess I’ll see if I can slice it thin and make weird biscotti or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-your-mini-rants-march-on/848747.md?page=6)