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The Morning Rant
"So, during the CNN Climate Change Town Hall Meeting, every single one of the Democratic presidential candidates pretty much pledged themselves to the destruction of the energy economy of America. They were falling all over themselves and each other into supporting every cockamamie energy idea ever thought up by imbeciles: punitive carbon taxes, stop all fracking, close all of the coal mines, and shut down oil refineries. Kamala Harris thinks the government should tell us what to eat and what straws to use.. Bernie wants there to be fewer brown people. "You can't make this stuff up. They actually got up in front of a TV camera and said these things. If I was an SNL writer trying to write a parody of the Democrats, I'd reject this for being too ridiculously exaggerated. Granted, it was CNN, so you know everyone else was watching 'My Mother the Car' reruns on Nick at Night, but still, I'm starting to think this was a stunt pulled by some hitherto unknown genius prankster deep down inside the GOP to see how big a fool he could trick the Dems into making of themselves. And aside from the miniscule audience, it looked like the prank was a spectacular success. All the Dems now look like a bunch of raving lunatics who want to hurt America. If our media was even within shouting distance of being honest, the Democrats would be finished as a national party."
Live look at viewers watching this marathon CNN town hall on climate pic.twitter.com/Lxzqdd9z4Y
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) September 4, 2019
In Embarrassing Gaffe, Biden's Head Falls Off During Town Hallhttps://t.co/QiO4aYYV8W
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 5, 2019
Compare & Contrast:
You Know Things Have Gotten Crazy When Whoopi Golberg Is The Adult In The Room:
Because Florida:
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For the 'Ettes:
Wednesday's celebs: Actress Isla Fisher and actor/prank artist Sacha Baron Cohen, who are husband and wife. (h/t Wolfus Aurelius for suggesting today's celebs)
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:12 AM (ClOmq)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:12 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:12 AM (ClOmq)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:13 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:13 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 06, 2019 11:13 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 06, 2019 11:14 AM (pkvuH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 06, 2019 11:14 AM (iikV8)
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:14 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: Someguy at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (4i8PS)
Antifa: "We're so proud of what we support we cover ourselves in black from head to toe."
Maybe they should talk to each other about transparency, huh?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (ppBhU)
Decided I'm sick and tired of feeling like a sick, tired land whale. Starting the Keto program today. Just for today. Will see how I feel tomorrow - could be time for a 3-day fast. Probably overdue, actually.
Shitstorms are coming on multiple fronts. Land Whales won't survive.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (NWiLs)
If the map ain't right, you must indict!
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (xiQZY)
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (sjdRT)
Huh...and here I thought he was pan sexual. Meaning he preferred sex with pans.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (VJZgq)
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (2LelM)
*spies Insom*
*running, flying, seizing*
*POUNCE!!!*
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:15 AM (d7Ww2)
Wah-HOOO!! Happy Friday!!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Insomniac
White Chocolate is my fave
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (T6t7i)
If the map ain't right, you must indict!
So the people that gave us a felon for their Presidential candidate and three years of fake collusion think owning hotels and scribbling on a map is impeachable.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Insomniac
White Chocolate is my fave
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (arJlL)
White chocolate, strictly speaking, isn't chocolate.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (NWiLs)
If by "fake" they mean "early NOAA track", then...
yeah.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (arJlL)
Not bad. Half-credit.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (5P8WL)
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You used the words 'genius' and 'GOP' in the same sentence.
This is of course pure bullshit.
Be advised that your punditry license is one under review.
Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (dmoiP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 06, 2019 11:14 AM
Eight verry rucky number!
Posted by: You know who else at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (8ScvI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (d7Ww2)
Thanks Nurse. I am mostly undamaged.
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (sjdRT)
The other disturbing thing was how easily they all spoke of dictating how Americans eat. When did that become OK? No, really, why do they think it's any of their GD business what one eats?
My body, my choice, a$$holes.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (bDqIh)
Those Dutch ovens are a bitch.
And I beg you, don't go anywhere near the Instant Pot.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (arJlL)
White chocolate, strictly speaking, isn't chocolate.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (NWiLs)
Is this like that assless chaps thing?
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (AM1GF)
Presidential candidate and three years of fake collusion think owning
hotels and scribbling on a map is impeachable.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (8erNz)
There are people who think that DJT's continued consumption of oxygen is enough to draw-up articles of impeachment.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (ctGui)
If the map ain't right, you must indict!
If he used a sharpieYou should vote for the harpie
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Insomniac
You're afraid he''l disguise himself as Da Nurse and pounce on ya
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (arJlL)
The same people who label Israel as 'Palestine.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (19g6/)
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Just go on a cave man diet (meat and vegies) and take a walk every other day. You will be fine in a month. Also, rub dirt on it and drink water.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (2LelM)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: DR.WTF at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (TyGe9)
Maybe set up an email address where we can not only submit shoes but dresses?
Just a thought.
Also, do not search shoe pron. It is more disturbing than searching shoe porn.
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (l/6vt)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (xzZPy)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (19g6/)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (sLVyZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (bcbK8)
take a walk every other day. You will be fine in a month. Also, rub dirt
on it and drink water.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (2LelM)
Don't forget to slap hot iron on it.
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (sjdRT)
Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan, number one exporter of potassium
All other countries have inferior potassium
Kazakhstan, home of Tinshein swimming pool
It's length thirty meter, width six meter
Filtration system a marvel to behold
It remove 80% of human solid waste
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, you very nice place
From plains of Tarashek to northern fence of Jewtown
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan
They very nosey people, with bone in their brain
Kazakhstan, industry best in world
We invented toffee and trouser belt
Kazakhstan's prostitutes, cleanest in the region
Except of course for Turkmenistan's
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, you very nice place
From plains of Tarashek to northern fence of Jewtown
Come grasp mighty penis of our leader
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (19g6/)
I bet you were there when he invented the hoagie, right, Joe?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Tami at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (cF8AT)
That's not home, no matter who'd be happier sending me there.
Posted by: Allie at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (tPMGd)
Too bad it wasn't on broadcast TV.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Xh73e)
Posted by: Insomniac
White Chocolate is my fave
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:17 AM (arJlL)
White chocolate, strictly speaking, isn't chocolate.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM
More white cisheteronormative patriarchal privilege keeping the brownie down!
Posted by: Marcia Bianco at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (8ScvI)
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bDqIh)
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He just looks burnt out on drugs.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (vg8iE)
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I started last month.. In 2000 I went on the Atkins diet.. Lost 100 pounds.. Sadly they have creeped back on.. Good luck to you
Posted by: It's me donna at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (19g6/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Regular joe at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (6/uwW)
I would assume it's so.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (RJMSR)
IOW, he looks like a Kennedy.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (bDqIh)
You forgot the part about no forks and spoons, you have to do everything with a five-inch hunting knife.
Okay, this is the 21st century, so you can buy one instead of chipping it out of stone, and we'll let you own a toothbrush so you don't have to pick your mouth clean with it.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (19g6/)
That's because it is.
And you need to do something about that eye, Joe. It looks terrible.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (bcbK8)
Posted by: irright at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (pMGkg)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (DJFLF)
Yes. You sound disappointed.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: FrodoB at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (i5RAz)
Sugar. Lots 'o sugar.
*moderately interesting fact o' the day - while the US limits the amount of sugar as a percentage to still use the label "chocolate", the EU doesn't - so manuf. dump far more sugar into their mix. Just don't tell the "yurrup is always mo'better gooder" crowd*
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (d7Ww2)
In the exact words of the Roman Senators from History of the World, Part I - "Fuck The Poor!" That's how.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (FiUMj)
how does making energy more expensive help poor people?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (d7Ww2)
Because they won't have to pay for it. You will pay for them.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (RJMSR)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (TyGe9)
What about meeting in the stomach? That's OK, isn't it?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (VJZgq)
At Grand Central Station in NYC
A Trump supporter on reparations
"Pay up! Y'all say I deserve it! Trying to buy my vote!"
"I will immediately turn it over to the Trump campaign!"
Video: https://tinyurl.com/y5tgrjhk
Posted by: Tami at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (arJlL)
I'm reasonably certain I'd know the difference.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (NWiLs)
I would assume it's so.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (RJMSR)
We don't do it nearly so often, so it may be a novelty to them.
Posted by: Someguy at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (4i8PS)
One of them asked me to participate in a survey, so I did for bleeps and grins.
There were loaded questions about the "coming recession", questions about job insecurity, etc. So I assume sometime soon there will be a greatly publicized "poll" stating how Americans are not confident seeking jobs in this economy.
One of the questions was if I support UBI:
Universal Basic Income.
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 11:24 AM (sLVyZ)
how does making energy more expensive help poor people?
Less automation -> More backbreaking toil!
Full employment!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (oVJmc)
The remainers have painted themselves into a corner with no way out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (5P8WL)
hmm...
Must be my general mood bleeding through.
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (N4xQB)
Because jerbs.
Or something.
Green jerbs?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (6qErC)
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Chocolate and Fruit should NEVER meet.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM
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What he said.
Posted by: irright at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (oZ6kz)
https://tinyurl.com/y322fx96
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (l/6vt)
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: irright
Chocolate dipped strawberries.
Fight me.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (ctGui)
Posted by: josephistan at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (7HtZB)
I just received an offer letter from a private company that comes with a hefty pay raise. However, I currently work in the public sector (dodges tomatoes) and in theory am working towards a pension (dodges more tomatoes.)
My current job is quite cozy and literally stress free, but also quite boring with limited mobility for the moment. I've ran the numbers and I'm still torn. Obviously almost nothing can beat a pension, but I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes time for me to collect.
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (k76MH)
I think Beto looks like the archetypal inbred scion of wealth-too
retarded for anything useful so he's assigned a career in politics.
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Uu+Jp)
I think he just looks like an asshole with the fucking arrogance to think he's suited to run anything above a car wash.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (2LelM)
Posted by: FrodoB at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (i5RAz)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (arJlL)
I'm reasonably certain I'd know the difference.
Posted by: Insomniac
That's good !
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (arJlL)
how does making energy more expensive help poor people?
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That's why we'll need another welfare program.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM (TyGe9)
I love me some raisnets.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (RJMSR)
"You can't make this stuff up. They actually got up in front of a TV camera and said these things.
Too bad it wasn't on broadcast TV.
Posted by: Braenyard
It will be. Trump isn't an idiot.
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (T6t7i)
Not here. Fruit and chocolate, together, is just plain gross to me. Ruins both of them.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (TyGe9)
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He just looks burnt out on drugs.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM (vg8iE)
Not mutually exclusive.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (6qErC)
how does making energy more expensive help poor people?
You have to look at it from these Dems' perspective:
-- It is a fight to save the planet from the people who are threatening with their various "bad" habits
-- That means they are siding with the planet against people
-- Making power more expensive means they'll use less (punishing the enemy); same applies to meat-eaters, frackers, etc.
They are fighting *us* to save the planet.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (bDqIh)
And I bet I've been beaten to the punch, anyway.
Yay, Gorilla Pundit!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (TyGe9)
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Chocolate and Fruit should NEVER meet.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM
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What he said.
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Yep. And beware of the chocolate fountain.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (2LelM)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (wGbBR)
One of the questions was if I support UBI:
Universal Basic Income.
Posted by: kallisto
If you support UBI, why would you be looking for a job? Just pay me.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (ctGui)
Posted by: ShainS -- Cancel #ErasureCulture at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM
Slap hot iron to it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (8ScvI)
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (77WP
You know what's weird, when I read this, the voice in my head was that of a black blues singer.
"Woke up this morning"
(guitar riff)
"feeling tired and worn out"
(guitar riff with drums)
"Saw a land whale in the mirror"
(guitar riff with bass line)
''And just had to... SHOUT"
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (5P8WL)
________
Don't underrate the importance of this. By choosing CNN, they get the advantage of complete secrecy without the bad optics of saying it's closed to the public. They avoid April Ryan's recent problem.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (VaN/j)
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:23 AM (8erNz)
Or a comb...combs work.
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (cF8AT)
I can't be the only one who scrolls thru these posts, and thinks "oh, I got something to say about that!" Then keeps scrolling, and forgets what we had to say about the earlier part of the post!
White chocolate raspberry brownies... Good grief, I'm sorry, what were we talking about?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (cY3LT)
I just received an offer letter from a private company that comes with a hefty pay raise. However, I currently work in the public sector (dodges tomatoes) and in theory am working towards a pension (dodges more tomatoes.)
My current job is quite cozy and literally stress free, but also quite boring with limited mobility for the moment. I've ran the numbers and I'm still torn. Obviously almost nothing can beat a pension, but I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes time for me to collect.
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf?
If you leave now, are you eligible for a partial pension ?
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (arJlL)
The Consitution is not a suicide pact, and that's the Dems' problem with it. They like suicide pacts, dammit!
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (DuZls)
Maybe not, but two of my sons love it, and it goes really well with raspberries. Link to recipe please?
Posted by: Annalucia at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (S6ArX)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: ShainS -- Cancel #ErasureCulture at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (WqPYg)
No. Kallisto has already identified her.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (5P8WL)
I just received an offer letter from a private company that comes with a hefty pay raise. However, I currently work in the public sector (dodges tomatoes) and in theory am working towards a pension (dodges more tomatoes.)
My current job is quite cozy and literally stress free, but also quite boring with limited mobility for the moment. I've ran the numbers and I'm still torn. Obviously almost nothing can beat a pension, but I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes time for me to collect.
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (k76MH)
Listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head, like a certain uncle did one grey December morn.
Posted by: josephistan at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (7HtZB)
They also last time I looked permitted use of really nasty artificial sweeteners with minimal or no labeling requirements.
If cane sugar is bad enough, and HFCS is worse, then most of the fabricated stuff is Satanic.
I had a bottle of Mexican Squirt the other day. I loved it. But I'm used to going without soda now, though I consume a gallon of lime fizzy-water a day.
Given a CO2 tank and some fittings and a couple liter-size bottles, you can readily make your own for just about nothing, but you have to have room to refrigerate the water before you carbonate it and it's mortal combat with my wife to try to get enough refrigerator space to do this, so I still end up buying a lot of it.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (8erNz)
So all week long I've been chill about my little cardiac episode. Nothin' to it.
Today I finally looked up what myocarditis actually is.
HOLY SHIT! I COULD HAVE FUCKING DIED!
Talk about delayed action response.
Anyhow...I highly recommend To Have and Have Not. Hoagy Carmichael is great as "Cricket" and of course Bogart and Bacall are electric together. It's live footage of a guy totally falling for a chick.
Bacall has fascinating voice, btw. They didn't have her sing much.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (cY3LT)
Heh, I forgot the cheesecake!
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (cY3LT)
Well, looks like I've made my last Peter's Pence contribution under the incumbent.
https://tinyurl.com/y5ovojn7
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (SgVRT)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions
no way I'm eating anything that looks like little rat turds
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (d7Ww2)
"Woke up this morning"
(guitar riff)
"feeling tired and worn out"
(guitar riff with drums)
"Saw a land whale in the mirror"
(guitar riff with bass line)
''And just had to... SHOUT"
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (5P8WL)
*slide guitar solo*
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)
Any advice?
What area are you in? Is your city/state/ whatever fiscally solvent? How close are you to retirement? The farther from retirement, the more likely you'll get screwed.
Also... do you want a challenge? If you're older and closer to retirement, maybe you don't. Maybe you don't need to move forward at this point n your career. However, if you are on the younger end of the scale, maybe you want to move up, have a challenge and potentially make more money.
Finally, which will make you happiest?
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (l/6vt)
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (hLRSq)
How long until retirement? Stress free is also worth more than a pay raise IMHO.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (RJMSR)
free, but also quite boring with limited mobility for the moment. I've
ran the numbers and I'm still torn. Obviously almost nothing can beat a
pension, but I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes
time for me to collect.
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (k76MH)
Public-sector pensions aren't going anywhere. They'll liquidate everyone else's private 401k's to pay for public-sector pensions if they have to.
For your situation it all depends on the money. Will you enough more to offset the loss of the pension? Is your public-sector job essential? I.E. if we have a massive Depression is your public-sector gig still going to be there? Odds are the private-sector one won't.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (CQ3Qb)
I gift you with my standard helpful advise:
Dont fuck up.
Follow this advise and you will never fuck up.
Yer welcome!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (sLVyZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (ctGui)
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And where's the money come from (the infinite printing press?) once most people stop working?
Posted by: ShainS -- Cancel #ErasureCulture at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Caliban at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (QE8X6)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 06, 2019 11:13 AM (O2RFr)"
..OK, fine, lefties, give it a go. We're going to pitch your asses into the sea out of a plane for trying to ban meat, though.
" I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes time for me to collect.
"
If we're talking more than 5 years out, I'd get really worried about your ability to collect that pension for very long.
Posted by: lurker (the other one, but spelled with a P) at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (67XdO)
Dear American Driving Public - you like $4+/gal gas? Because that's how you get $4+/gal gas. You're welcome. Signed, Trump 2020
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 06, 2019 11:30 AM (8ScvI)
I dont think 30 years ago people would have believed it
Posted by: 18-1 at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (3cfl2)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:20 AM
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What he said.
Posted by: irright at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (pMGkg)
More for me.
Bleh.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (cY3LT)
At least against calling them Brownies.
Also. Universal Background Checks.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (TyGe9)
"Gun control" has nothing to do with controlling guns and it never has.
"Gun control" is simply the latest example of the standard 3 phase game
plan of bigots:
1. Identify a group the bigots want to feel superior to.
2. Demonize the group as dangerous through propaganda.
3 Take away the rights of the group through bigoted Jim Crow style "laws".
This is how bigots attacked Blacks, American Indians, Italians, and
Japanese Americans... the list goes on and on. Law abiding gun owners
are simply the latest group being attacked by bigots.
Bigots are the bottom 10% of humanity, and as such, suffer from
Dunning-Kruger false confidence that they are right, when, in fact, they
have no actual solutions to anything and hope to prevail simply through
the pure viciousness of their attack.
"Gun Control" is a "Jedi mind control trick" designed to get people to
focus on objects and not notice that what is really going on is the
bigoted suppression of a group of people's rights.
Posted by: An Observation at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (huFup)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 06, 2019 11:14 AM
Eight verry rucky number!
Posted by: You know who else at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (8ScvI)
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Only when paired with another eight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (iikV8)
STILL NO INDICTMENTS
WHERE ARE THE INDICTMENTS
ONLY INDICTMENTS WILL DO
Andrew McCabe is out fundraising for the party he helped break the law. He gets praise for it. His reward will be YUGE.
Posted by: Quilp at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (Bf3hj)
Yeah, I never contribute to that or the other Vatican stuff.
That being said, I have a theory. The lower eschalons might very well be manipulating everything that Franscis says in the translation. You know, the dishonest media. So what he says and means might be very different than the translation, which might be really biased.
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (l/6vt)
no way I'm eating anything that looks like little rat turds
At what size do the rat turds become tempting?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (oVJmc)
"I would rather be dead in a ditch" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October. _Boris Johnson
https://tinyurl.com/y654utha
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (Xh73e)
And I bet I've been beaten to the punch, anyway.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (Ki5SV)
Yes, the lady was identified by kallisto at #52.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (5P8WL)
I dont think 30 years ago people would have believed it
Posted by: 18-1 at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (3cfl2)
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Anti-porn? Sort of similar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (iikV8)
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:26 AM (k76MH)
You don't know the private sector! They expect results!!!
Posted by: Dr. Raymond Stantz at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (SgVRT)
That's why we'll need another welfare program.
Posted by: bicentennialguy
Everyone will get a trillion dollar coin with Paul Krugman's face on it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (Kpl3J)
There's some hardware in the cellar of the Tower of London that needs to be dusted off and put to use.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (a72/q)
Posted by: zeera Moron Author Working on Book TWO at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (T9rmq)
ha!
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (Xh73e)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (oZ6kz)
>>Chocolate and strawberries.
This is how I know you are gay.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (TyGe9)
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Have you ever known the warmth of a woman?
Because chocolate and strawberries are pretty much seduction reduced to edible form.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (arJlL)
No, but I will get refunded all the money I've paid into it.
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (l/6vt)
I'm in New York, which is about as far from fiscally solvent as a state can be this side of Illinois and California. I have a long way to go 'til I'm eligible to retire as well.
I know politicians in Illinois have floated taxing 401k's to pay for their state pensions, and if that ever happens, NY will be right on their heels.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (k76MH)
HOLY SHIT! I COULD HAVE FUCKING DIED!
Glad you're OK, A.H.!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (QMFmh)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:18 AM (NWiLs)
You shut up! You shut up now!!
If you want to get pedantic about it, which I know you don't, cheesecake is neither cheese nor cake.
Just love it. That's all it wants. Your love and to get in your belly.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Insomniac
You're afraid he''l disguise himself as Da Nurse and pounce on ya
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019
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I just want him out of the way so that Isla will be back on the open market.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (ClOmq)
Posted by: Vic at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Floridachick at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (O3dw0)
They expect results.
And they expect you to bank for your own retirement and fund your healthcare.
Posted by: Regular joe at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (6/uwW)
Posted by: Eye of Sauron at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (ymnmz)
Benefits and proximity to retirement.
This is one area where I think we're getting it wrong in this country, there are a lot of 'health insurance slaves' who are, for health-history or family reasons tied to their job because they'd never get tolerable coverage elsewhere.
I don't want to see single-payer, but I do want to see health coverage somehow separated from employment, and if restaurants and hotels can be required to post their prices then so can healthcare providers.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (8erNz)
Yes, the lady was identified by kallisto at #52.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor
What's the connection between today's two stars?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (aKsyK)
If that's your game? Good luck to you.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (oZ6kz)
This is the same advice the US government gave New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (3aI0K)
"Woke up this morning"
(guitar riff)
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:27 AM (5P8WL)
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Did you hear the story about the blues singer who died in his sleep? He didn't wake up that morning.
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (DuZls)
Dragged my carcass out of bed and to the shower, and was confronted by
the image of a pale North American Land Whale in the mirror. Been
noticing that my clothes, which fit quite comfortably 3-4 months ago,
are now, once again, uncomfortably snug.
Decided I'm sick and
tired of feeling like a sick, tired land whale. Starting the Keto
program today. Just for today. Will see how I feel tomorrow - could be
time for a 3-day fast. Probably overdue, actually.
Shitstorms are coming on multiple fronts. Land Whales won't survive.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06
I think you have the makings of a good blues song here.
Posted by: Roland THTG at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (88+cf)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (TyGe9)
So pissed I would marry them.
Even if it was a dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (cY3LT)
Obama told Kentucky he was going to eliminate coal and they voted for him both elections.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (Xh73e)
~~ 1 comment every 6-7 seconds
Cannot. Keep. Up.
Posted by: Hands at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (786Ro)
Where did the bad fruit and chocolate man touch you? Show us on the doll.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Eye of Sauron at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (ymnmz)
It is situations like this that make me think the Boomers will lead the charge toward a more universal coverage system, gov run or not.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (wGbBR)
Check out California's 3%-at-50 'public safety' worker retirement. You'd be quite entertained at who qualifies as a 'public safety' worker, and it's basically 20 years service and age 50 and you're set for life.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (8erNz)
solvent as a state can be this side of Illinois and California. I have
a long way to go 'til I'm eligible to retire as well.
I know politicians in Illinois have floated taxing 401k's to pay for
their state pensions, and if that ever happens, NY will be right on
their heels.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (k76MH)
I'm surprised that people here have any doubt whatsoever that state pensions will be bailed out by the Feds. Not just the pensions but every state liability will eventually be bailed out by the Feds regardless of the party in power.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (CQ3Qb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (QMFmh)
Doesn't surprise me at all. In my personal network, the most faithful Christians are AA.
Sirius' Elvis channel plays his gospel music on Sunday mornings. As good as the King is, his spiritual music knocks everything else outta the park.
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (2LelM)
My benefits are ridiculous, in a good way. I pay next to nothing for medical and everything is covered. (From what I've encountered so far anyway, hopefully I never have to fully test that.)
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (k76MH)
What I meant was, if you leave now, will you be eligible for a pension when you're 65 ?
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (arJlL)
Stress will put you in the grave faster than you can exhaust any retirement. That said, this looks to be all about how close to retirement you are and can you keep your wits and sanity at your current job that long.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (77WPm)
Patrami is the most sensual of ALL the cured meats.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:22 AM
It makes fewer of them, comrade nurse. This is whole point, da?
Posted by: Your Betters at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (19g6/)
That's because it is.
And you need to do something about that eye, Joe. It looks terrible.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019
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The pic OM chose makes it easy to remember that Carmichael was mentioned as a model for James Bond by Ian Fleming in the first Bond novel (and maybe one more, later). He has Vesper Lynd think that Bond looks much like the young Hoagy Carmichael.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (ClOmq)
~~ 1 comment every 6-7 seconds
Cannot. Keep. Up.
Posted by: Hands
>>
And this is a slow day.
Posted by: FrodoB at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (i5RAz)
Posted by: Hands at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (786Ro)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (aKsyK)
Were they both in Key Largo?
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (DJFLF)
The forecast shown in that map was wrong. Everyone unquestionably admits it was wrong. So, they are mad at Trump because they claim that he says it was wrong in a different way than they say it was wrong.
gawd, it made my brane hurt just to write that much about it.
Posted by: Dr. Raymond Stantz at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (Kpl3J)
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Where in NY are you?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (2LelM)
Posted by: kallisto
I agree
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (TyGe9)
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Confirmed: You have never known the warmth of a woman.
It's not "my game," it's something women like. Lots of women. As in: an *entire industry* exists to meet this feminine need.
Which you consider gay or something.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:36 AM (TyGe9)
Talk about delayed action response.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (cfSRQ)
Good grief! Are you recovering, I hope?
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (3aI0K)
blast from the past
Posted by: BignJames at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (X/Pw5)
Yes. WOMEN like it.
Men do not.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (TyGe9)
I just received an offer letter from a private company that comes with a hefty pay raise. However, I currently work in the public sector (dodges tomatoes) and in theory am working towards a pension (dodges more tomatoes.)
My current job is quite cozy and literally stress free, but also quite boring with limited mobility for the moment. I've ran the numbers and I'm still torn. Obviously almost nothing can beat a pension, but I'm not sure if pensions are going to exist when it comes time for me to collect.
Any advice?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:26
Are you in Cook County, Illinois, New Joisey, New Yawk, or KaleeFORnya? RUN.
Bill Murray still own a part of the Seawolves?
Posted by: Heirloominati at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (7zptT)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (oVJmc)
Strappy sandals.
I think I will have a burger, fries and a drink with a plastic straw for lunch today, before the Dems make it illegal to do so.
Posted by: Czech Chick at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (ok6SQ)
That has to be the fourth consecutive dropout where I thought, "oh. You were actually running?"
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (wA9n3)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (arJlL)
Nope.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (k76MH)
And now he's out?
Posted by: blaster at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (ZfRYq)
Shake, shake, shake, Senora,
Shake your body line, whoa!
Shake, shake, shake, Senora,
Shake it all the time
Work, work, work, Senora,
Work your body line
Work, work, work, Senora,
Work it all the time
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (3aI0K)
Not gonna fight over it - just send your unwanted desserts my way. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (arJlL)
exhaust any retirement. That said, this looks to be all about how close
to retirement you are and can you keep your wits and sanity at your
current job that long.
Posted by: DocJ
I read an interesting article which purported to show that for every year over 60 that you work, you lose 2 years of life due to stress. I have no idea if the science was any good.
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (T6t7i)
Obama told Kentucky he was going to eliminate coal and they voted for him both elections.
People want to believe that their fairy tales are real.
Posted by: Floridachick at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (O3dw0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (LJjst)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (Xh73e)
Uh, no. Not quite. Jug-Ears got 41% against McVain and 38% against Rmoney in Kentucky.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (77WPm)
>> What you really need is pastrami on rye with spicy mustard - now THAT'S a meal.
Patrami is the most sensual of ALL the cured meats.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (TyGe9)
(Deeply sniffing and moaning)
Posted by: Joe Biden's Stink Eye at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Social Justice Baker at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (oZ6kz)
I recognize the name, and looking at her filmography, I see I've seen her in a thing or two, but yeah, her name might as well be "Generic Actress."
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (aKsyK)
Kallisto-
Cheer up !
Its FRIDAY !
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (arJlL)
OK.
me happy now
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:39 AM (DJFLF)
Can you insert a little shifty-eyed, laughing-out-loud image of PDT at about that point of your discussion, there?
Posted by: m at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (4PQOl)
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (XT36w)
It's Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
Now imagine the reaction to a White guy saying ..
It's Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:35 AM (arJlL)
Nope.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf?
Ouch.
Follow you're heart and recognize that relying on NY to remain solvent is a gamble.
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (KP5rU)
Not gonna fight over it - just send your unwanted desserts my way. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (bDqIh)
I think Garrett just said to himself today, "self, I think I shall try to start a fight on the ol' AoSHQ."
Which won't be the first time he's tried.
Or succeeded.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (cY3LT)
I heard that Colbert drilled Biden in an interview. So the DNC word is out to the media to put an end to this before it gets much worse.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (QMFmh)
She worked with Hoagy in a movie called Johnny Angel in 1945, one of her film noir roles, with George Raft.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (ClOmq)
The Democrat leadership would live to 130 if they didn't sacrifice themselves for us like this.
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (Y9zp1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (19g6/)
They honestly couldn't do more to get Trump elected.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (iAwUQ)
Its FRIDAY !
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:33 AM (arJlL)
OK.
me happy now
Posted by: kallisto
LOL !!!!
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (aKsyK)
One of the few movies he missed out on. Watch enough TCM, and you can tell that there was a time when he must have camped out at every casting directors doorstep, begging for parts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (Kpl3J)
Seriously, even if I find work that pays better so I can live decently, at my age the odds I'll get a good retirement in 20 years are looking poor. And even then, 20 years puts me damn near 70!
FML. I'm going to die on the job.
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (AM1GF)
The free-healthcare-for-illegals (they all raised their hands) and stop-fracking-day-1 "moderate" Demcrats.
Or maybe it's a its-a-shame-we-live-in-a-country-where-everybody-makes-their-own-choices "moderate" Democrat?
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (DuZls)
And i guess the solution to "compare and contrast" is that Beta needs glasses.
Posted by: Flyover at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (B5K06)
Kanye West is dropping a gospel album called "Jesus Is King."
I'm gonna resist the obvious West goes South joke. There is a weird thing about a lotta rappers, and that is their professed love for Jesus, in spite of what their lyrics and lifestyles might indicate. Not sure what to make of it, but it does seem sincere. Maybe it's a "where the need is greatest" thing. I know it is in my case.
Posted by: Caliban at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (QE8X6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (YslsA)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (TyGe9)
My company? Fully vested after 5 years.
80/20 - Time in service + Age (at least 55) equals 80, you secure lifetime medical/dental at Aetna's 80/20. (Retirees benefit)
59 & 1/2 to access your 401(k) without penalty.
That's why I've been here 30 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (ctGui)
So the DNC word is out to the media to put an end to this before it gets
much worse.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (QMFmh)
The Media has chosen the fake Indian. They need Biden to drop to clear the path.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: JT
And best of luck in whatever you choose to do.
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Marcus White-T at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (BqBId)
So why the feminist porn? Makes more sense on a Monday if you ask me.
Posted by: Anonymous Gerbil at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (19Cvz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (ClOmq)
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (DuZls)
https://instantrimshot.com/
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (5P8WL)
They honestly couldn't do more to get Trump elected.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (iAwUQ)
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But, wait, there's more!
MSNBC is doing a *longer* "Climate Summit" and we have LGBT-palooza coming up.
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (DuZls)
Posted by: nurse ratched
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (ctGui)
Seriously, even if I find work that pays better so I can live decently, at my age the odds I'll get a good retirement in 20 years are looking poor. And even then, 20 years puts me damn near 70!
FML. I'm going to die on the job.
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (AM1GF)
You aren't the only one.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (5P8WL)
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Yes. No damage, but I have to take it easy for a month or so.
Kind of frustrating because I don't feel bad at rest, but moving around wears me out really fast.
Still, I really dodged a bullet. Didn't realize that until today and now I'm a bit unnerved by it.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Caliban at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (QE8X6)
Realizing that you need forgiveness is the first step towards obtaining it. For many, it's also the only one they take.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (J+mig)
*******
Ice-T has told wannabe Gangbangers that is not the life you want, If I stayed in that environment I would be dead
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (BqBId)
This.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (TyGe9)
MSNBC is doing a *longer* "Climate Summit" and we have LGBT-palooza coming up.
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I wonder what all those studio lights and satellite transmitters run on.... It can't be electricity.... That would hurt the planet.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Panchito Pistoles at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (c9PA0)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:28 AM (arJlL)
No, but I will get refunded all the money I've paid into it.
Posted by: shibumi, in house selling hell at September 06, 2019 11:29 AM (l/6vt)
I'm in New York, which is about as far from fiscally solvent as a state can be this side of Illinois and California. I have a long way to go 'til I'm eligible to retire as well.
I know politicians in Illinois have floated taxing 401k's to pay for their state pensions, and if that ever happens, NY will be right on their heels.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (k76MH)
In that case, I'd say, "take the private-sector job, and use the refunded State pension money as the nut to start your own 401k."
And if the the private sector job offers the potential for you to bail out of NY, and moved to a lower tax State, so much the better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (a72/q)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (d7Ww2)"
Only if she drinks the whole bottle.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (oZ6kz)
She worked with Hoagy in a movie called Johnny Angel in 1945, one of her film noir roles, with George Raft.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I missed that in my sloppy IMDB search.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (aKsyK)
And do what? The few black colleges that exist already have black athletes.
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (NAs56)
It's harder than it looks.
Posted by: Skyler White at September 06, 2019 11:44 AM (Dh1wo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (d7Ww2)
I hope Insomniac is paying attention.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (5P8WL)
You don't say.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (ZLI7S)
Thomas BrewsterForbes Staff
Posted by: Ha at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (MAstk)
This was one of those 'act in haste, repent in leisure' situations that almost seemed reasonable at the time, but wherein the labor-left took advantage of one of those crises that may not be allowed to go to waste.
In the dotcom boom you could get $45-50K (guessing) as an Oakland PD recruit or you could get $60K+ plus a nonqual option package vesting in three years, potentially worth millions, in a deskbound admin job requiring no particular tech skills at Cisco or similar*. I think by 2000 there were PDs in the state that were offering $80K to start.
So local and state government, by the time you factored in the higher numbers and the earlier retirement ages, basically doubled pensions. Make the next generation figure out how to pay for it.
Then the dotcom bubble croaked, at least for a decade, but public pension and compensation stayed where it was.
* Riskier pre-IPO firms carried a premium over that, I know a couple, he was a low-level HR type and she was a supermarket clerk, they both took jobs at one pre-IPO networking startup that exploded at their IPO and a couple years post-offering they were building their 5000sf slash-and-burn house in Los Altos and paying cash.
Posted by: JEM at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (8erNz)
Shitstorms are coming on multiple fronts. Land Whales won't survive.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:16 AM (77WPm)
Dear DocJ, try for a week to 10 days, strict. You must get the excess glucose out of your system, and it's not going to feel pretty. (AMHIK) BUT, after the week, you will feel better.
Pro tip: get rid of all the bread, cookies, sugar, fruit, chips, crackers, pasta, etc.
I feel for you, I knowhow it is.
Posted by: Flyover at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (B5K06)
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This is the same advice the US government gave New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (3aI0K)
What a racket. Same thing as every time a black dude is killed by a cop. We're going to hear how innocent the poor fella was.
So now, every time there's a natural disaster (as long as there's a Republican in the White House), we're going to hear how slow the response was. Even while the water is still dripping from the sky.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (KP5rU)
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There's a question if they will be as good as ban-a-palooza was, though.
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (DuZls)
Wishing you much luck on this. Thanks for asking the question here.
Posted by: m at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (4PQOl)
Right now, IL doesn't tax Soc Sec or pensions. If they begin taxing pensions, that would hit state govt retirees right where it hurts (retired legislators too). That is the very constituency that wields power in IL DEM circles.
I think they will tax income "on the rich 1%," & businesses (again) before they turn to pensions.
Posted by: mnw at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (Cssks)
Thank you!
And thanks to everyone for the help and advice, you're all the best.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (k76MH)
Posted by: Caliban at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (QE8X6)
Living in sin is suffering. What a difference it makes to hear that one can live better than they are.
Posted by: Someguy at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (y178e)
I hope they stretched before reaching so far for a hot take.
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (T6t7i)
It's hard to run a carwash when you keep spending capital on meth and you're too high to work all the time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (QMFmh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (kQs4Y)
"China is eating the Tariffs."Billions pouring into USA. Targeted Patriot Farmers getting massive Dollars from the incoming Tariffs! Good Jobs Numbers, No Inflation(Fed). China having worst year in decades. Talks happening, good for all!
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (BqBId)
It's Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
Posted by: SMOD at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM (3aI0K)
So... separate but equal, then?
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (T6t7i)
Funny thing about that. My entire department was laid off ("restructured") when I was 63. Literally the day I left there my reflux and BP spiking stopped. Fortunately I was fully vested and also have a 401k. Now I'm working at a small medcomms agency and laughing off the stress.
Posted by: Caliban at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (QE8X6)
"I would rather be dead in a ditch" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October. _Boris Johnson
https://tinyurl.com/y654utha
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:31 AM (Xh73e)
After reading the comments in that article I would think the UK deserves to kneel before allah.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (AM1GF)
You aren't the only one.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (NWiLs)
Same here, but I'll probably be first off this ship of fools despite being younger. Bad hearts in my family. 15 more years and I'll be as old as my dad when he went (early 50s).
Sometimes genetics is destiny.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (7MHNI)
Men do not.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:37 AM (TyGe9)
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A distinction without a difference.
It's not something I would eat on my own because it is best *shared*.
And it does taste good. The perfect opener to a perfect evening.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (cfSRQ)
MSNBC is doing a *longer* "Climate Summit" and we have LGBT-palooza coming up.
Posted by: Axeman
Surprised they haven't yet scheduled a gun control palooza.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (aKsyK)
It's Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
Written by former ESPN personality Jemele Hill.
One-trick pony, it's all about race with that one.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (bDqIh)
*******
Jemele Hill the Black Dyke formerly of ESPN
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (BqBId)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (LJjst)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Bruce at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (vd8XM)
Sucks to be your own country, huh?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (ctGui)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (kQs4Y)
long as there's a Republican in the White House), we're going to hear
how slow the response was. Even while the water is still dripping from
the sky.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (cY3LT)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Bahamas are a British protectorate. So, actually, they're BoJo's problem. Not ours.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)
1h
Update on Sen. Grassley's inquiry of Hunter Biden and China's acquisition of Henniges.
The Treasury responded to Grassley, but gave no timeline on producing the CFIUS papers and other documents the senator requested.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (BqBId)
>It's not something I would eat on my own because it is best *shared*.
>>And it does taste good. The perfect opener to a perfect evening.
I wish you the best of luck with your transition.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (NWiLs)
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The Democrat leadership would live to 130 if they didn't sacrifice themselves for us like this.
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (Y9zp1)
So nice of them. Their constituents however, they'll be living well into their hundreds.
That's how it works, right? All those non-employed Democrat voters, they're living longer than us working stiffs... right?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (cY3LT)
My plan is to retire by 60. I don't need a whole lot to live on and am basically debt free right now. The only positive of not having children. I wish though I had some kids.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (RJMSR)
It's worse than 1929 out there man!!
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (FiUMj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (LJjst)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:19 AM (bDqIh)
Geez, I would've loved to had said that (with innocent face on) to the fascist knitting group I quit. Those women were insufferable. You can kill babies in the womb, but cannot kill animals to eat...
[walks away mumbling]
Posted by: Flyover at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (B5K06)
That's what I said yesterday: How did the GOP get control of the Democrat debates? I didn't think they had this in them. Maybe they're learning from Trump."
Posted by: rickl at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (xjiRE)
ESPN now is "serving sports fans"...
I guess the woke shiite didn't work out so well. Tough.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Welp, I known where I'm goin'
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (arJlL)
long as there's a Republican in the White House), we're going to hear
how slow the response was. Even while the water is still dripping from
the sky.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:45 AM (cY3LT)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Bahamas are a British protectorate. So, actually, they're BoJo's problem. Not ours.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)
But what about the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine!!
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Flyover at September 06, 2019 11:41 AM (B5K06)
No. See #52.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (5P8WL)
Sometimes genetics is destiny.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est
Given how poorly I've kept myself over the years, I'm not expecting to see 70 at this point. So I guess it's academic in any event.
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (AM1GF)
Keto doesn't work that fast. You've got to give it at least a week for "I feel like shit. Something must be happening!" Then it's up to you to either retreat back to comfort food or power thru the carb flu for a month.
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (NAs56)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (RJMSR)
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My plan is semi-retire at 50, full retire 55ish. I've been squirreling a lot of money away with that plan in mind. I don't need much to live on and by the time I hit mid 50s, the kids will be out of the house.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (FiUMj)
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at September 06, 2019 11:40 AM
Don't let it be forgot
that once there was a spot
for one brief shining moment
known as Pramalot
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at September 06, 2019 11:51 AM (COzlW)
I guess it depends whether u liked the job in the first place.
Posted by: mnw at September 06, 2019 11:51 AM (Cssks)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2019 11:51 AM (LJjst)
.....
American voters support 94 - 4 percent requiring background checks for all gun buyers. Gun owners support universal background checks 90 - 9 percent.
92% for Rep voters
https://tinyurl.com/y3b8a8c5
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While Republicans are very much against gun control laws (Support-=30%, Oppose=62%), they very much favor (89%) requiring background checks for all gun buyers.
https://tinyurl.com/c6znooc
.......
Look at Table POL4_1 on page 35 on this one for the crosstabs:
https://tinyurl.com/y5slxzm7
73% of conservatives "Strongly" support requiring background checks for all gun sales. 16% "Somewhat Support"
....
These are all recent polls. A lot of you guys are in denial on this.
Yes, most Repub voters are strongly against gun control... but strongly in favor of background checks - for all gun sales, including private.
So.. call bullshjit if you like, but you should come up with some polls that say otherwise.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (so+oy)
Draw out 4% per year and keep your income level eligible for free healthcare from Obama.
Remember: if you do not game the system, the system games you.
Posted by: Regular joe at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (6/uwW)
at least a week for "I feel like shit. Something must be happening!"
Then it's up to you to either retreat back to comfort food or power thru
the carb flu for a month.
Posted by: t-bird at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (NAs56)
Oh, I know - just to clarify the decision is not "Keto for one day and I'm back to donuts" - it's "Keto for one day and then decide whether to do a 3-day fast and then back to Keto or just plow ahead with more Keto"
Not very pithy, but there it is.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (77WPm)
Posted by: blake - used pronoun salesman
at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (oZ6kz)
1h
Update on Sen. Grassley's inquiry of Hunter Biden and China's acquisition of Henniges.
The Treasury responded to Grassley, but gave no timeline on producing the CFIUS papers and other documents the senator requested.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (BqBId)
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Oh good another investigation that will last 3 years and produce no results.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (FiUMj)
Will someone propose the death penalty for anyone who doesn't swear fealty to the LGBT agenda?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: JT at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (arJlL)
You can do it DocJ! You need more than a day to see results; there will still be too much glucose in your body. But it is so worth a try. I've lost 50 pounds doing keto, I have so much more energy and brain power and stamina. I feel like a little Energizer battery. It's amazing.
Two ways to do it:
Option 1: Go full turkey. Reduce carbs to
Option 2: Ease into it. Cut out all sugars the first week and try to swap some of your carbs for other things Second week, no sugar still, and reduce carbs to <80 grams a day. Third week, no sugars and reduce carbs to <40-50, fourth week, no sugars, reduce carbs to <20-30. Then repeat the fourth week again and again.
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (TyGe9)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (Xh73e)
Sorry, shouldn't have built so close to the water
Posted by: Bruce at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (q1Pj5)
whatsoever that state pensions will be bailed out by the Feds. Not just
the pensions but every state liability will eventually be bailed out by
the Feds regardless of the party in power." Posted by: Brian
something big has to happen ... a lot of that TARP money went to Dem areas to prop up insolvent public pensions, or other Dem operations. I forget the details.
It really looks like the DeepState globalists work with the FedReserve to arrange their bailouts for bad banks, and move us toward Globalist control. This chart shows rates have come down since 1980, but they raise them at key times, then they get the bank bailouts for billionaires (SL, TARP). They raised at the end of Bush, set up for Obama, then gave Obama "the store" with ZIRP and QE and made the global banks (the ones that caused trouble) bigger than ever. As soon as Trump gets in ... "OK, now lets raise and reverse the QE (QT), our commie globalist stooge is out".
It's like they have a plan. long term rate chart ...
https://tinyurl.com/y5c6sve5
Posted by: illiniwek at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:49 AM (RJMSR)
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My plan is semi-retire at 50, full retire 55ish. I've been squirreling a lot of money away with that plan in mind. I don't need much to live on and by the time I hit mid 50s, the kids will be out of the house.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (FiUMj)
I was able to retire early, thanks to an inheritance. I pretty much had to. I found out that the market for minimally qualified 60-year-old computer support techs was mighty thin.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (5P8WL)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (TyGe9)
The news there is that there might actually be 10 Republicans in Chicago.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (77WPm)
I guess it depends whether u liked the job in the first place.
Posted by: mnw
I've got too much to do to spend 9+ hours a day working/driving to and from work.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (ctGui)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2019 11:34 AM (Xh73e)
Uh, no. Not quite. Jug-Ears got 41% against McVain and 38% against Rmoney in Kentucky.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:38 AM (77WPm)
Coal counties in Ohio went overwhelmingly against Gaylord after that Kevin Williamson level dumbfuckery. It was one of the first instances where I thought maybe he's not nearly as smart as the unfree presstitutes were claiming. Of course the McQueeg brain trust of Schmidt and Wallace didn't do one fucking thing in response.
Oh well, it could've been worse: we could've had McRINO or Mutt...
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (y7DUB)
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well I guess in the absence of GHB...
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (DJFLF)
I put the roofie in the pudding pop!
Posted by: Bill Cosbi at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (cY3LT)
Speedy recovery, A.H.!
How's the Michigan Werewolves story going?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (kQs4Y)
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Well, I didn't get a lot of writing done in the hospital.
I figure I'm halfway through. While I was getting an ultrasound done on my heart I talked with the technician about how freaky it would be if the heart wasn't beating, but I was talking, making small talk. Might be a good scene.
She nodded and said "you'd be a zombie, then." So maybe not vampire, but something I'm filing away for later.
I'm feeling like a pilot who comes back from a mission all giddy and brimming with confidence.
"They never touched me."
And then I look at my aircraft and see it was shot to hell and there's a huge hole a fraction of an inch from where I was sitting.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (cfSRQ)
Will someone propose the death penalty for anyone who doesn't swear fealty to the LGBT agenda?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (Uu+Jp)
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"Will you support the death penalty for 'deadnaming'--including all members of their immediate family?"
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (DuZls)
we cannot, however, swoop in and start running things. that would be an invasion.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: mnw at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (Cssks)
*********
SOOOOO Lets see sweetheart, Qunnipiac & Politco HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (BqBId)
So.. call bullshjit if you like, but you should come up with some polls that say otherwise.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry
Poll me.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (ctGui)
Posted by: josephistan at September 06, 2019 11:25 AM (7HtZB)
Then we must counter the Jacobins with the Jacobites.
Only, this time successfully.
Makes loyal toast with hand over the water glass.
Posted by: Fox2! at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (MwFQu)
Posted by: The Bulwark at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (TyGe9)
Yes, most Repub voters are strongly against gun control... but strongly in favor of background checks - for all gun sales, including private.
So.. call bullshjit if you like, but you should come up with some polls that say otherwise.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (so+oy)
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It is 100% bullshit bruh.
In 2014 the state of WA had a ballot initiative for background checks on private gun sales. It passed with 60%.
So in one of the most Democrat states, this got only 60% support. But nationally it has 90% support. If you believe that, then I have a lovely beachfront condo for you in Yakima. Really cheap. Call me.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (FiUMj)
Posted by: mnw
Not many people do.
Posted by: Bruce at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (vd8XM)
My plan is to retire by 60. I don't need a whole lot to live on and am basically debt free right now. The only positive of not having children. I wish though I had some kids.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019
*
*
I just turned 66 and am healthy. If I can hang on 3-4 more years in this nasty climate, then maybe I can bug out to someplace better, work part-time, maybe do some editing consulting on my own and my own writing as well.
I could start taking SS now, of course, but if I wait a few more years the payments will be bigger. (If, that is, the whole project doesn't fall apart.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (ClOmq)
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well I guess in the absence of GHB...
Posted by: kallisto at September 06, 2019 11:46 AM (DJFLF)
I put the roofie in the pudding pop!
Posted by: Bill Cosbi at September 06, 2019 11:54 AM (cY3LT)
You put the roofie in the pudding pop!
Who me?
Yeah you!
Couldn't be!
Then who?
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (NWiLs)
This clip is about how American government economics work, but it applies equally to the scientific approach of our polling outfits, even on the rare occasions when they aren't deliberately lying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-PtEJEaqY
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (QMFmh)
On average, nearly three homeless people are dying daily in [LA]he county, nearly double the rate of deaths by homicide. Illness, addiction, accidents, suicide and the ravages of being unsheltered are among the primary causes of death.
"We know the research says that people who are what's called rough sleepers, those who are living on the streets and not in a shelter or a car, are 10 times more likely to die than the regular population," said Dr. Susan Partovi, citing a study in Boston. Partovi has been administering to homeless people in Los Angeles for years.
The average age of the first 666 homeless people who died in L.A. County as of Aug. 25 was 51, well below the county's average life expectancy of roughly 80. Homeless people are dying on sidewalks, along riverbeds, and in tents, parks, shelters, vehicles, motels and hospitals. . .
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yyyfp3qu
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (bDqIh)
Are there children to be, umm, 'cherished'? We might be convinced to do a little a disaster relief...
Posted by: The Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (QrTqV)
******
Most IG reports take 2 years & this one dwarfs any other IG Investigation, BUT I am sure you knew that right Poindexter ?
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (BqBId)
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His brother was Bacon Cheeseburger Carmichael.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (0p42d)
we cannot, however, swoop in and start running things. that would be an invasion.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (d7Ww2)
I stormed the beaches of Castaway Cay...
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (NWiLs)
No matter how well they rebuild, everything is going to get smashed to bits again in 20 - 30 years, maybe sooner. Accept it if you're gonna live there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (RJMSR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (LJjst)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
So you don't mind the Chinese moving in?
Which they already are, you know.
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (AM1GF)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Bahamas are a British protectorate. So, actually, they're BoJo's problem. Not ours.
Posted by: DocJ at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)
But what about the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine!!
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:50 AM (cY3LT)
Fine, I'll say it.
If something close by is getting blown, the President should come.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (cY3LT)
Will someone propose the death penalty for anyone who doesn't swear fealty to the LGBT agenda?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019 11:53 AM (Uu+Jp)
Biden will pledge to grope & sniff the hair of anyone, of any gender, on the first day of his Presidency
Posted by: josephistan at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (7HtZB)
That seems well above the avg life expectancy of a Homelss Junkie, though.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (TyGe9)
Like Duke Nukem Forever, or Chinese Democracy.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (BqBId)
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Out: #TwoWeeks
In: #TwoYears
I can't believe some people still take these investigations seriously. Suit yourself.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 11:58 AM (FiUMj)
You want to talk about slavery, The Bahamas (yes, The is capitalized) was pretty much ground zero. You were either a pirate or a slave.
Great conch fritters though.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 11:59 AM (ZLI7S)
I've got a feeling that was probably the MSM quoting one asshole as I'm sure the people there must know that a ton of assistance is going to be coming from the U.S. and the Commonwealth.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 06, 2019 11:59 AM (Dh1wo)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 06, 2019 11:48 AM (TyGe9)
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Severely heterosexual poster sock-puppets known homosexual to gay-shame hetero guys who like to seduce women with chocolate and strawberries.
This site is fully of surprises!
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:59 AM (cfSRQ)
******
No Reply Hahaha I knew it, just more pants shitting
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (BqBId)
On second thought, yeah, they're fucked.
Posted by: Hong Kong at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (QrTqV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (0p42d)
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His brother was Bacon Cheeseburger Carmichael.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (0p42d)
Who went on to become Mayor McCheese.
And now you know the rest of the story
Posted by: josephistan at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (7HtZB)
pledged themselves to the destruction of the energy economy of America
And according to these miscreants, Trump is the enemy?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (vtcmf)
You want to talk about slavery, The Bahamas (yes, The is capitalized) was pretty much ground zero. You were either a pirate or a slave.
Great conch fritters though.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019
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I keep thinking Bermuda is close to the Bahamas and Cuba, but it's way up north and a good ways (800 miles?) out into the Atlantic. About the same latitude as North Carolina, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (ClOmq)
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 11:32 AM (cfSRQ)
Not for this woman.
Why oh why spoil perfectly good chocolate with fruit?
Posted by: Flyover at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (B5K06)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 06, 2019 11:52 AM (so+oy)
A dog knows what to do with a poll.
Posted by: zombie John Diefenbaker at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (a72/q)
Reminds me of the Pink Floyd song, Just Another Brick to the Balls.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (v2EHp)
Look into "Intermittent Fasting". This really works. It's not easy, necessarily, but it is simple. Pounds will melt away, even without exercise. Have to count calories.
http://www.burnfatnotsugar.com/assets/if.pdf
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (faqzI)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (BqBId)
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Oh, come on, we all know that a full investigation takes less than an hour. I see it all the time on CSI.
Really complex ones? Two-part episode, tops.
Posted by: Convalescing Author A.H. Lloyd at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (cfSRQ)
She nodded and said "you'd be a zombie, then." So maybe not vampire, but something I'm filing away for later.
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My son has dextrocardia, and it's always a good test of who's read his file before checking him out - they'll put the stethoscope on the left side of his chest and make a face. Hubby will point to the right side and say "All the action's on that side."
IIRC*, previous versions of the heart surgeries he's received resulted in collateral vessels developing in the left arm such that it messed with things like blood pressure cuffs. Apparently that was entertaining for the patients to see the reaction to unknowing nurses.
*I may be describing this wrong - Muldoon could correct me if I am.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 12:02 PM (bDqIh)
Reminds me of the Pink Floyd song, Just Another Brick to the Balls.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (Uu+Jp)
Iron Dong
Posted by: Insomniac at September 06, 2019 12:02 PM (NWiLs)
Reminds me of the Pink Floyd song, Just Another Brick to the Balls.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 06, 2019
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Krav Make American Great Again?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:02 PM (ClOmq)
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Well, then let them do the protectoring.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 12:02 PM (0p42d)
Option 1: Go full turkey. Reduce carbs to
It's a tough way to eat; I HAD to be strict the first few months. No cheat days, and it took 6 weeks for my body to finally be fat adapted. I carb cycle on occasion now, and I do fasting. But I would never go back to my old carb filled ways.
Reddit keto is an amazing support group, if you need it.
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (v2EHp)
http://www.burnfatnotsugar.com/assets/if.pdf
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (faqzI)
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It's something you can do if you're mainly eating fat. Fat sustains. Carbs make you peckish.
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Allie at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (tPMGd)
Fake News is reporting "bodies floating in the water" down in
the Bahamas!
That's according to people in shelters down there.
My ass.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (604/s)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 12:02 PM (
In a limerick preferably.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (RJMSR)
you can get hired in QA pretty late in years.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at September 06, 2019 12:03 PM (JKpVF)
******
No Reply Hahaha I knew it, just more pants shitting
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 12:00 PM (BqBId)
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My reply is simple: You're naive if you think any of these investigations will lead to anything. But have at it if you must. And be sure to tune in to Sean Hannity weeknights at 6, to see his exclusive breaking news on the latest developments.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (FiUMj)
Crabs gotta eat, same as worms.
Posted by: garrett at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (TyGe9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (KZzsI)
phuck the bahamas. not our monkey. or circus, or something. let the EU clean it up.
Posted by: chavez the hugo
American climate change caused the hurricane dontcha know?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 06, 2019 12:05 PM (Dh1wo)
I'm old enough to remember when Mueller would be investigating Trump until 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 06, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)
Reminds me of the Pink Floyd song, Just Another Brick to the Balls.
Hung Fu.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at September 06, 2019 12:05 PM (xkSJa)
*eyes hamsters suspiciously*
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 12:05 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Axeman at September 06, 2019 11:43 AM (DuZls)
I would like to believe that the progressives are really, really, really overplaying their hand here. They really believe that all of America hates Trump just like they do and all of America is onboard with the Green New Deal and the rest of the progressive agenda, just like they are.
I hope 2020 will show them otherwise.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 12:06 PM (5P8WL)
They're still part of the commonwealth but that doesn't mean anything other than ceremonial shit.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 12:06 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: mnw at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (Cssks)
I got the same impression. Leave the dollars, take your white ass back home. Will not be back.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 06, 2019 12:06 PM (q1Pj5)
*******
Sounds like someone has their panties in a knot, Too Bad, So Sad
*******
I don't live like that I live my life, if nothing happens then I will get up the next day & live my life just like I did when The Chocolate Buddha won twice.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 12:07 PM (BqBId)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yyyfp3qu
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 11:56 AM (bDqIh)
So bums die prematurely? In what sense is this a problem?
Posted by: zombie John Diefenbaker at September 06, 2019 12:07 PM (a72/q)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (KZzsI)
It's actually a Johnny Angel (1945) reference.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 12:08 PM (5P8WL)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 06, 2019 12:08 PM (oZ6kz)
The city of Freeport is one of the most dangerous places on earth.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 12:09 PM (FiUMj)
I was in the Bahamas once. I didn't get the impression they liked white people very much.
Posted by: mnw
Reminds me of Hawaii once you get outside the touristy zones. They bitch and bitch about their culture, but you can't eat culture, and they sure seem to do a lot of eating.
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 12:09 PM (T6t7i)
Blue cities like LA, SF are encouraging more homelessness under the guise of "caring" when it is resulting in death and rampant disease.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 06, 2019 12:09 PM (bDqIh)
"Anatomy of a presidential fiasco:
Trump has spent the week aggressively defending his false claim about the hurricane forecast. Here's a timeline, comment by comment."
No one cares, CNN. Stop torturing your poor lone viewer already!
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 06, 2019 11:57 AM (Kpl3J)
Or learn to build something that a hurricane can't smash. Give me a an island in the Bahamas, and I would build a concrete dome, anchored to the bedrock.
Posted by: zombie John Diefenbaker at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (a72/q)
Don't know the lady, but the guy is Hoagy Carmichael. He was my grandmother's cousin.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at September 06, 2019 11:47 AM (7MHNI)
+++How weird. My ex is also related to Hoagy Carmichael in a cousin-wise sense.
For me, white chocolate just tastes sweet without any flavor.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (9+jnX)
Posted by: Bill Hedrick at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (6vJUd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019 12:04 PM (KZzsI)
It's actually a Johnny Angel (1945) reference.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019
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I too tend to mix up Key Largo and To Have and Have Not. Both starred Bogart and Bacall, and both were set in the Florida Keys. But the first had Claire Trevor (and a hurricane), and the second had Hoagy Carmichael.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (ClOmq)
These channels are not what they portray themselves as. They pose as news and opinion sites, and while the news part is mostly a joke that's not what I mean.
They're safe spaces for lefties. They are a comforter for the left to hide under, somewhere they can go to run away from Bad Orange Man and how awful life is.
Its not just helicopter parents and snowflake upbringing that makes them this way. They actually do know what its like to fail, on a small scale: they play a lot of video games. But every time they fail, they get to reload, ressurrect, have another life, heck there's even cheat codes, pulling up the console.
They want that cheat code. They want to restart the game. Trump won and they only know one way failure works: you get to do it again until you win.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (KZzsI)
Instead they get $60B for BigSandy, funded by the rest of us ... and most of the money disappears into the connected/corrupt pockets. Then we bailout Puerto Rico, now the Bahamas demand we fix them, but they loved their "independence" ... and all those tourist dollars.
But it is "for the children". Except the massive debt is piled up against ALL children, and unsustainable debt is turning us into a commie state by proxy of monetary policy. The children all own a half million before they are born, to fund what politicians have promised, but stolen.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 12:11 PM (RJMSR)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 12:11 PM (sLVyZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:12 PM (ClOmq)
Posted by: mnw at September 06, 2019 11:55 AM (Cssks)
I think Jamaica is the same.
My niece's wedding reception is being held in Jamaica, but it's on the section of the island (Negril) where white people can go, and it is too dangerous to go anywhere else.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at September 06, 2019 12:12 PM (5P8WL)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
It's already gone. It takes a moment for Ye Olde Banhammer to do its magic.
Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, passing on the brown acid at September 06, 2019 12:12 PM (AM1GF)
Hoagy was in a bunch of films for a while. He wasn't a particularly capable actor and while he wrote a bunch of fun songs, he wasn't really a very good singer, either.
I too tend to mix up Key Largo and To Have and Have Not.
To Have and Have Not was the first appearance of Bacall (and started their romance), and was based on a Hemingway story, loosely. Key Largo was okay but not as good a film. Somehow it didn't have any real menace.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (KZzsI)
Pride month and the Stonewall anniversary are over. What is next on the docket?
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (hvf9s)
Will you guys at least admit it's taken a little longer than you expected. The #TwoWeeks snark didn't just create itself.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 12:11 PM (RJMSR)
Don't you know that all the times the were saying two weeks they really meant two years?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (CQ3Qb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:01 PM (ClOmq)
I pride myself on not knowing anything about any islands anywhere. Often don't even remember which ones are in the Atlantic and which in the Pacific.
I kinda take the view of me and water the way Garrett feels about fruit and chocolate. They don't go together.
And if you take a shower regularly, you ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (cY3LT)
most of the money disappears into the connected/corrupt pockets. Then we
bailout Puerto Rico, now the Bahamas demand we fix them, but they loved
their "independence" ... and all those tourist dollars.
As Dorian was bearing down on the Bahamas, I turned to my wife and told her we'd be paying for the cleanup. She said "why, the Bahamas aren't part of the US". Just wait, I said.
We'll pay.
Posted by: pep at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (RJMSR)
Dude, honestly - the f*ck is your problem?
You pepper every thread with these little headlines. And if any commenter expresses the smallest bit of skepticism about how things will turn out, you immediately go ad-hominem and call them names and insult them.
Most of us would love to see the deep state in deep doo-doo. Some say nothing will happen. Some say some things will happen but not enough. Some are optimistic the whole cabal will go down. But you act like there are no gradations between. You immediately dump all over anyone who calls things into question.
Your act is getting tiresome.
Posted by: Hands at September 06, 2019 12:13 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 12:11 PM (sLVyZ)
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Yeah, I'm not usually one to say someone should be banned (unless it's like some moby trying to get ace in hot water with advertisers, such as Mark Matis).
But he did give that guy repeated warnings, and every opportunity to stick around.
Bye, Kurt!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 06, 2019 12:14 PM (QMFmh)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 06, 2019 12:14 PM (Dh1wo)
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
You don't believe were on the eve of destruction
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Boy, Dorian is getting around!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 12:14 PM (0p42d)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 06, 2019 11:42 AM (BqBId)
That's almost 6 gallons of fluid, depending on density.
Posted by: Fox2! at September 06, 2019 12:15 PM (MwFQu)
Hoagy was in a bunch of films for a while. He wasn't a particularly capable actor and while he wrote a bunch of fun songs, he wasn't really a very good singer, either.
I too tend to mix up Key Largo and To Have and Have Not.
To Have and Have Not was the first appearance of Bacall (and started their romance), and was based on a Hemingway story, loosely. Key Largo was okay but not as good a film. Somehow it didn't have any real menace.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 06, 2019
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THaHN made a better movie than it did a book, or so I recall, not having re-read it in a bunch of years. There's another version of the same basic story (boat captain being hired to haul some people somewhere by night) with John Garfield. I need to look it up.
As for KL, right, it seemed sort of flat. Good [performances by Bogart, Robinson (as always), Trevor, Barrymore, and Bacall, but the tension was not there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 06, 2019 12:16 PM (ClOmq)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 06, 2019 12:14 PM (Dh1wo)
As well as CVS. I really don't have a problem with retailers banning open carry. That was a given, at least in Texas, when they passed open carry. If they attempt to ban all carry then I have a problem.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 06, 2019 12:17 PM (RJMSR)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 06, 2019 12:19 PM (YslsA)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 12:19 PM (sLVyZ)
"Anatomy of a presidential fiasco:
Trump has spent the week aggressively defending his false claim about the hurricane forecast. Here's a timeline, comment by comment."
No one cares, CNN. Stop torturing your poor lone viewer already!
Posted by: LizLem at September 06, 2019 12:10 PM (hvf9s)
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Trump could have nipped this in the bud or just ignored it. Instead he's spent 5 days on it giving the MFM fuel for the fire.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 12:19 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 06, 2019 12:19 PM (n4y+3)
Chocolate covered strawberries and apples are hit or miss. It depends on the chocolate and quality of the fruit. I've had lots of bad ones. Apples are the worst, since they like to use the sour baking granny smiths instead of real snacking apples.
Also, who knew Whoopi would actually have some sense in her noggin? Granted, she's freaked out from the unsuccessful routing of commies in Hollywood. I'm guessing she's one of the few who actually saw McCarthyism as a bad thing not to be used against your enemies.
Posted by: soulpile at September 06, 2019 12:20 PM (wJAJb)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 06, 2019 12:20 PM (FiUMj)
Pride month and the Stonewall anniversary are over. What is next on the docket?
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Bakeries must bake two QWERTY wedding cakes for each hetero cake.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 12:21 PM (0p42d)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 06, 2019 12:21 PM (sLVyZ)
Posted by: kathysaysso mixalot at September 06, 2019 12:23 PM (vkS2Z)
"Anatomy of a presidential fiasco:
Trump has spent the week aggressively defending his false claim about the hurricane forecast. Here's a timeline, comment by comment."
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He extrapolated from an official map! Burn him, hang him, then impeach him!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 06, 2019 12:25 PM (0p42d)
which is worse than running a coup after rigging an election, worse than selling uranium and tech assets to Russians. ...
Posted by: illiniwek at September 06, 2019 12:32 PM (Cus5s)
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He just looks burnt out on drugs.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at
I think he looks like Spicoli...Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...lleno de rabia at September 06, 2019 12:35 PM (fGaMb)
Flood insurance programs at least remind folks it is a flood zone. It is the disaster relief monies that bail out folks and (mostly) cities who took no precautions that are the more evil in my book, and its not so much that helping out a city that got devastated by a 100 or 500 year natural disaster is bad, its just that the people whose money is getting spent don't get to decide whether they are pitching in because "that could have happened to anyone or anyplace" or NO "you were irresponsible twits and this town, or house should not be rebuilt, and if it is, I'm not going to be a party to it"
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 06, 2019 12:37 PM (n4y+3)
Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at September 06, 2019 12:41 PM (eZfF5)
The other bad side of all the "remittances", is "they didn't build that", which really does apply to foreigners coming here and taking jobs from locals, then sending the income that should circulate in the community that "built that" infrastructure, sending it to subsidize the failed states Mexico/Guatemala. The foreign invasion short circuits the local economy, props up the corruption of the narco states. (and patriotic complainers must be murdered by Pelosi's MS13 pals)
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Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)