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My experience with S Florida has been positive and free of debauchery. In fact, beyond the beautiful weather, or perhaps because of it, it seems alive and popping. Great place to get out of the winter weather.

I felt your question was forward and a bit presumptuous. In polite company, when queried as such, the wisest course of action is to simply press on. Thank you for the update on the Villages. I’ll avoid that area moving forward. I prefer South Florida anyways, where the temps stay pretty consistently high during the winter months. Glad all worked out with the chutney. We can disagree without being disagreeable.

When the strangers go into the bedrooms, living rooms or closet off the back bedroom, they only whisper. You know, hushed tones. On the one hand, these strangers could just be saying "Hey man I like what you did with the hardwood flooring..." but on the other, it could be something much more nefarious. Ah, you had a dinner swingers party, a "dinger" if you will. That totally explains the living room reference. I can only tell you with all sorts of people doing all sorts of things in your living room, I wouldn't trust that the salsa is fresh.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I thought perhaps it was a case of mass hysteria, or maybe collective dementia.

Gosh, don't let the secret get out about the hijinks at this dinner party, or you'll be overrun with 'child bearing aged females' looking for delightful conversation about oddly specific independently yet collectively decided 3-5 day periods of reflection, a strong stock market and...new regimes in your living rooms? What was that last part all about?

He was great, good, sharp as a tack, and designated by the elect as He who might heal…until he was awful, bad, and kept getting confused between the two aids—Medi and Kool.

I can't remove the circus atmosphere these thing bring without thinking of how Kavanaugh (and others) have been treated. I understand you not wanting him to be confirmed, can certainly see why the opposition party wants to delay them all, but the system is a joke. The 'guy's own mother' has said more than that, though, too, and explained her fragile mental state at the time she wrote her email. Btw--you thought the attack against Kavanaugh was a joke, and good for you for acknowledging it. Interestingly, it didn't seem to impact how you voted, which looking at it from the outside, seems a lot like apathy over the abhorrent behavior of democrats up to and including Harris. It's yet another reason I don't pay much attention to concerns about Hegseth.

It depends on what you mean by 'screen/background check. Verifying that a political appointee doesn't have a criminal record is one thing, or that she employed an illegal immigrant and beat the tax man while angling for director of IRS is another. When background checks devolve into the absurdity of the Brett Kavanaugh spectacle, where unfounded allegations of wrongdoing can derail a person's prospects, I'm not a fan.

@The Frankish Reich...more Herbert Hoover trivia. I believe you were interested in flipping something Hoover-related a week or two ago, though I cannot recall the context.

Ancient history? He was a headliner in getting out the vote 30 days ago. The purity test argument is hysterical.

No, Trump hasn’t been pardoned. I was referring to Hunter Biden. Correctomundo. Pardons are a political reality, as is the fact that some people are above the law. Seems a waste of energy to spend much time worrying about who gets what.

Interesting that it wasn’t really the “crazy uncle” that tipped the scales in the election. Also interesting that this “informed” Democrat missed the whole implosion of Biden and cl#sterf#ck of a campaign for Harris. I hope he stays similarly informed in future years.

With luck, you’ll get your wish with at least one notable exception.

Might have been good to know that our government was knuckles deep in the Wuhan partnership early on. Might have been good to know it was involved in development of COVID early on. Instead, he went to a baseball game when the country was locked down, avoiding people like the plague and wondering what was coming next.

@Tiberius actually confused Singapore and Cincinnati, another country Trump abandoned to the Russians.

JB tells the story of a fight he got into at Notre Dame when he was a young guy. Hunchebacked fella and he liked the same girl, Joe took him out behind the abbey and worked him over real good.

At first I read that as 'degree milf'. I was thinking about asking them for a brochure, but it all sounds kinda boring without the milf part.

Ah, you're down with the drama. It all makes sense now.

I'll tell you this, most people love me in Eastern Ohio, and if I make you sick, maybe you don't have what it takes? The corrupt Biden DOJ tried to steamroll me but I only got stronger--I didn't get physically ill over that. I got shot and it didn't make me physically ill. I'm very popular there, actually, very big numbers out of Coshocton and Dover. Not Dover as in Delaware---they like Sleepy Joe over there, but he's retired now. I beat him badly in the debate--he was rambling like he didn't know what day it was--you may have heard, but after the debate he went home crying, so I call him Cryin Joe--actually Cryin Gina Joe.

I'm at about 10, though some are names I don't recognize anymore. My thought is that the negativity from another poster can drag me down, but I can work around that. Imo some posters are gigantic time wasters, and I can handle that as well. When a poster mixes negativity with time wasting, I occasionally remember to add them to ignore.

This really seems straightforward to me. If the director has a guaranteed term, he/she stays. If not, if the director has the support of the incoming President and can do the job, he/she stays. If not, the director should offer an action plan to win the support of the incoming President. If that fails, he/she should resign.

Fall of Singapore, 1942. Tibsy has determined that Trump was working with Hirohito. This explains @Tiberius absence from the board after the election…he’s been hard at work reviewing the microfiche to get in front of this breaking story.

I am willing to pay more for items, yes, if our current system of anarchy, strife, loss and pain is replaced by an orderly process that deals with legal immigration. I’m still surprised, frankly, that this position bothers you. You must really be bad with budgeting. No, it’s sad and tragic for so many people. Trump is dealing with a problem decades in the making, and the only reason the phrase “mass deportation” arises is because of the anarchy and chaos at the border. Solve the problem and the problem will be solved. Again, you’re part of the problem with your consumerism and constant need for cheaper goods.

But when taking things one at a time, shouldn’t you start at your beginning? What you wrote, the singular most important thing to you, according to you: Well thank goodness no one has "fixed" the "problem" at the border. Our economy is way better because of it. In the big picture, you’re not about the lives of illegal/legal immigrants, it’s about you and your double-quarter-pounder with cheese, two large fries and your large chocolate shake for as cheap as you can get it. There’s a better way, Tibs, but you have to see beyond the paper plate loaded with food in front of you, and the new android you feel you need so desperately. You don’t need it. Now that we’ve addressed that, yes, deportation is going to cause strain and angst. Many things in life do, and wanting everyone to have a safe place to land so the 4th 45” television you purchased is cheap cheap.

The problem is multi-faceted: It starts with a process that encourages individuals seeking a better way of life to risk their lives on a dangerous journey, where murder, assault, rape, death and victimization is common place. It seems clear to me that you don't care about those people, or perhaps you're comfortable with the price they pay so you can get cheaper Cheese Doodles at your local Walmart; It extends to this side of the border where a significant number people continue to be victimized, trafficked, and manipulated, though it apparently is acceptable to you because you save an extra 50 cents on the frozen pizza you get at the local Dollar General; It extends further to people in this country--some here legally, some not, and many citizens victimized by crime, though their suffering does allow you as a privileged American to get your fruit at a 10% discount; It goes further still with benefits funded with taxpayer money at the expense of other necessary and important social programs, but you make pretty good scratch so f*** everyone else, right Tibsy? It rewards business and individuals exploiting the system by paying people under the table, defrauding the taxpayer further, but I get that you like it's good for you and the price of peppers and onions; It seems to me that in the chaos of illegal immigration, we subsidize people/countries that don't have our best interest at heart. That's a bad idea. The US is indeed a country of immigrants, and a clean, neat, safe an orderly process should be our collective goal. I don't know why it isn't. That doesn't seem to be something you're interested in, but I understand you gotta take care of you first. You're the problem, Tibsy, not the solution.