leh-nerd skin-erd

I was just coming here to post this. Glad to see we have new blood in office. Perhaps female perspective will help her out state leadership back on track. That said….we’re to believe the Lt Governor had zero knowledge of her boss sexually harassing employees, and was totally, completely in the dark on the COVID death count? No one warned her, no one raised red flags, she wasn’t interested in looking into the numbers occurring on her watch? Sure. Meet the new boss, likely same as the old boss.

Well, this is different than what you proposed initially, where the unwashed who required treatment spilt medical treatment with the hospital/doctor/waaaambulance on a fitty/fitty basis. Be that as it may, you would have no argument with me if health insurance companies were able to surcharge individuals based on individual health characteristics that posed an above average risk to the collective. Or, refuse coverage for irresponsible individuals who wait until they need coverage to buy it. Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of the liberal/dem mantra we’ve been fed the last decade or so, but hey, screw your freedoms and such.

You’re perilously close to being called the Joe Biden on this board based on your faulty recollection and cognitive skills. I do like the Pepperidge Farm Sausalito cookie though, don’t ruin that for me.

You’re projecting Homey. Not a good look.

I think moving forward there should be a department established at the federal and state levels to…review an individuals tax return. They could be empowered to analyze, consider or maybe even contest returns that are filed. Then, maybe, we could get away from people with no earthly clue what they are talking about speculating about ones tax returns. Maybe some day.

That’s world class foolishness on several levels. Contractually, morally, ethically and taken in context with all the crazy #%** people do with respect to their own well-being, just plain silly.

This actually sounds a lot like the Biden approach to dealing with the Taliban. The main difference of course is Biden is kneeling in Washington, safe and sound in the adult day care center at 1600 Pennsylvania, while the Afghanis are being slaughtered every moment of everyday because of Biden’s actions. Circle of life I suppose.

He’s got us fighting and disagreeing about the wrong stuff! We need to keep the reasons the other guy is stupid in front of us. We’re not animals.

Son of a.....this Biden is good, damn good.

I can jump in here. I’m a creative bird, so I’m just spitballing now but I hope you can follow me. In your version Jim, people make decisions, receive value in your exchange for consideration, and when all is said and done, they live up to the terms of the bargain they entered into. How tedious. If that life was a movie, you have to ask yourself Jim, would you go to see it? Of course not. It lacks pop, tension, drama, protagonists, a hero, danger, and ultimately a Matt Damon, because Matty D ain’t showing up for that dog. Now in the Guv version, sure, people make choices and sure, people go through a UCLA or a Tulane or what have you, and sure many or most have jobs that would allow them to pay on their loans—but you introduce a bad guy, institutional greed, a comely exchange student, a game of hacky-sack at the Quad and zip zap zoop you got Nicholas Cage starring in a thriller fighting valiantly against Big ED. I see killers in blazers with those fancy elbow pads and mock turtlenecks, I see drunken encounters with spies posing as college recruiters, and damn if I don’t see @oldmanfan in a role as an unlikely hero of the cause—picking off bad guys with a sniper rifle while perched on the cat walk above the $500,000,000 football stadium built on the broken dreams of first gen college kids from Iowa. I guess what I’m saying is you buy the steak for the sizzle, right? Oh, and obviously, iron sharpens iron.

Oh, it’s the case Jerry.

This is silly, SunnyD. The numbers suggest that tens of millions of Trump supporters are vaxxed, that tens of millions of those who supported Biden (or not) are not. I think most of the vax hesitant simply say "I'm not convinced the vax is necessary in my case, and since it's not a federally mandated vaxxine, I'll decline.". The real problem here is that Biden has chosen an inconvenient time, pandemically speaking, to try and thread the needle between requiring vaccinations for all (save those that the vax would do harm to) and keeping his vax-hesitant voting bloc intact and happy. In this regard, he's weak, feeble, old and his decisions as CIC are the cost in loss of life is staggering. This is what happens when you put an establishment polly in the WH.

You’re assuming the chaos was inadvertent of course, but with Biden’s experience in foreign affairs one can never be sure. You’re correct on what must be done to get the survivors out. Step one is unfortunately to remove the top guy from his post. There seems to be no appetite for doing so.

I’m not all book learned on the Chemistry and such like this fine lady, but if she was willing to seek out opportunities for substantive personal growth, she might take a hankering to what brother Dale laid down. Getting close to one hundred years of relevance. Spoiler alert: I believe “The pitfalls of calling people dumb” is in Chapter 1.

I read somewhere he had a hook on his foot?

My goodness. It’s a rainbow world and we all have seats at the table.

Well, in the interest of full disclosure....I just don’t know if I believe it was even botched anymore. It defies logic and common sense that we could be there as protectors for 2 decades and screw this up so badly. I really don’t know who to trust anymore. About 20 years ago, I met a man from Afghanistan who was a doctor. I liked him right from the start—roughly my age, young family similar to mine , lived in the community. He spoke passionately about his country, loved it like we love ours. He was a practicing Muslim who spoke about the bastardization of his religion. He was my personal physician for a number of years. My favorite visit was when I had an infection in my finger, he looked at it, told me he had to drain it and said in a very Afghani-esque voice—“This will not be unpainful.”. I looked at him and said “Are you telling me it’s going to hurt?”, he replied “Yes” and he was correct. Anyway, we agree on the horror that is about to befall many decent people in Afghanistan.

You’re not just getting worked up, you’re losing control. Coming unglued. Shaking apart at the seams. One of the warning signs that you’re going down a rabbit hole of crazy is when you declare no one cares like you do. Celebrity stalkers say that sort of thing. On the border and kids in cages, perhaps VP Harris should consult with your boi Joe B. He was very adept at keeping kids in cages when he was VP for tye 8 year pull and keeping it in the downlow. He’s got another 40 years experience f*ing up the border, too. He can probably guide her towards keeping the kids in the cages and deep sixxing the news coverage on that sort of thing—works wonders to turn out the “independents” I’m told. You should consider stepping back for a while. With all your experience in the field, you could be an advocate and truly change hearts and minds. Seriously, do you think anyone trusts an old man breathlessly and wide-eyed yammering on about how “Trumpist don’t give a damn about the country and want their children to die”? That’s nutso kookoo as ol Blue Eyes used to say. I voted for Trump, cannot imagine voting for him if he runs again in 2024 (a lot of reasons, including watching Biden supporters like you explain away his obvious decline), got vaxxed, love my children, family and country.

Using this logic, wouldn’t true freedom of choice include an individual deciding whether or not they wanted to contribute the hard-earned fruits of their labor to school districts be they pro or anti mask mandate? Plenty of people on all sides upset with school boards. I don’t think the school districts would want that option available to consumers, do you?

I would have thought that, but Doc, unless I’m Bidening badly, he’s chastised other posters for even discussing Biden’s mental capacity while riffing on how it’s all about the normal effects of aging. Never mind that the normal effects of aging aren’t necessarily resume fillers on any job with high stress and absolute authority, but jeesh—getting upset because people point out the obvious?

I’m not sure if he’s willfully stubborn on this issue or simply in denial. Biden in recent years is the shell of the person he was even 5 years ago. Much was made of Trump bullying a painfully dithering Biden in the first debate, but that was Biden’s shtick his entire career—a lovable blustering bully who was full of $&**, knew he was, everyone else knew he was and stayed in his lane. There was a time when he could have mounted a substantial and sustained defense, but that time was long gone. Now, he’s out of his lane, he cannot hide behind others to carry the mental torch, he’s been exposed and his capacity to think clearly is diminishing by the hour. If I was a betting man, I’d say where his support of Biden is concerned, it’s tough to admit he was wrong. Pride goeth before the fall.

Well, I’m not so sure that the debt issue is off the table. Why run with that early when it can be used to buy off supporters later? It’s likely a little soon to run with it after he set Afghanistan ablaze, but watch for it in 2zed22. You could be correct on Wuhan btw, but the promise of easy money for the perpetually victimized...

Bill is part of the Maple Leaf menace and must be treated as such! I understood your perspective in the first post and assume Bill did as well. As for sense in customs, immigration policy and the like—we’re all being played by people who benefit obscenely with the ongoing crisis at the border. Personally speaking, I’m moving past that. Tens of millions of people voted for a guy who’s been a key architect of our national border strategy for decades, and is complicit in the victimization of countless people on both sides of the border in the process. Meanwhile, try securing an enhanced driver license to cross the border at the local DMV without the required 3 sets of ID and see how that goes.

The people who voted for Biden got exactly what they wanted. Be it his experience in trueishmaadacotyimpresdion, his friendship with Margaret Thatcher and Ho Chi Min, his past record on legislation, etc, he was their guy. My personal opinion was that for many, the allure of student loan forgiveness was too great a carrot to pass up and that carried the day.

When you have borders, somebody somewhere has to be kept out or the game is up. You’re the new undesirable, ya mutt ya. ps: I ordered three pizzas from La Hacienda and had them thrown out immediately.