Memorial Day 2024

[DRYANKNPULL]

The P&R section is 97% politics.  Politics is bloodsport and bullshit.  Biden or Trump does ANYTHING and the outrage or devotion is basically predictable because "politics".  Policy may have some life or death implications, but I don't see much talk about policy at all anymore because everyone is talking politics.

To answer the other poster's question about wokeness and DEI in the military and sex changes - I really don't think it's an issue worth devoting much debate too.  If an adult wants to cut their penis off and be a woman and do a sex change, I mean, whatever.  I know and deal with a thousand people a week and can think of one customer I had years ago that seemed to be a man dressed up as a woman and my daughter recounts to me 2 people she grew up with that seem to be wandering around the sexual spectrum.  This is what you want me to worry about?  Or vote to?

I mean, if I was the political party that claimed to care about fiscal responsibility that has spent money like a drunken sailor since 2000 and had its most recent president run up all time debt in one term with huge inflationary practices that are directly contributing to the problems we are having today, I'd probably start working people up over social causes too.  The party of "individual rights" has cleaved MORE citizens of their individual rights over the last 2 decades than any other group.  It's always easy to rile up emotion.  We've had partisan kneejerk around here forever - left and right, but now there is a cult of personality and I'm not really down with that.     

My choices in women have been questionable but there is a lot of truth to those stereotypes about crazy. 

Cerdo privately encouraged me several years ago to at least stick my toe in the pool of crazy. I can vouch that the pool is deep and wide and the chemical balance is not always properly maintained.

[Cerdo]

I figure Bass probably wonders what day he'll wake up with a knife in his chest.  I've wondered that too but I still can't get the memories of the great sex off my mind. 

[Son of Spam]

I figure Bass probably wonders what day he'll wake up with a knife in his chest.  I've wondered that too but I still can't get the memories of the great sex off my mind. 

[DirkPiggler]

I figure Bass probably wonders what day he'll wake up with a knife in his chest.  I've wondered that too but I still can't get the memories of the great sex off my mind. 

Not going to lie, I'm shocked you're still with us.   Not Woopig us...alive us. 

[BASS]

Cerdo privately encouraged me several years ago to at least stick my toe in the pool of crazy. I can vouch that the pool is deep and wide and the chemical balance is not always properly maintained.

But it's a helluva fun pool. Sometimes. Others it is quite maddening.

[BASS]

I figure Bass probably wonders what day he'll wake up with a knife in his chest.  I've wondered that too but I still can't get the memories of the great sex off my mind. 

So far so good. Going on another cruise at the end of July. We'll see if get pushed off the upper deck this time.

[DRYANKNPULL]

But it's a helluva fun pool. Sometimes. Others it is quite maddening.

I haven't found it to be too maddening. You just have to recognize it for what it is quickly as possible and walk away from it during the free trial. Don't buy a membership and realize there are basically unlimited pools out there that you can try.

[Son of Spam]

Usually, if they are very attractive and single and are not dating anyone regularly,  there is a reason. Not every time, but a lot of the time.

[Cerdo]

I haven't found it to be too maddening. You just have to recognize it for what it is quickly as possible and walk away from it during the free trial. Don't buy a membership and realize there are basically unlimited pools out there that you can try.

See.  This is your experience and wisdom talking.  Once you start feeling like you're rescuing a cat from a tree, then move on. 

[The Whyte Boar]

The P&R section is 97% politics.  Politics is bloodsport and bullshit.  Biden or Trump does ANYTHING and the outrage or devotion is basically predictable because "politics".  Policy may have some life or death implications, but I don't see much talk about policy at all anymore because everyone is talking politics.

500,000 people at least are dead in Ukraine because or policy pursued by this government, specifically Joe Biden and crew.  It never had to happen, it could have stopped within days or weeks of starting but our government's policy favors it.  And it is paid for with my money.

To answer the other poster's question about wokeness and DEI in the military and sex changes - I really don't think it's an issue worth devoting much debate too.  If an adult wants to cut their penis off and be a woman and do a sex change, I mean, whatever.  I know and deal with a thousand people a week and can think of one customer I had years ago that seemed to be a man dressed up as a woman and my daughter recounts to me 2 people she grew up with that seem to be wandering around the sexual spectrum.  This is what you want me to worry about?  Or vote to?

I could make arguments about the military, but let's not muddy rhe waters.  I could largely agree with you were it limited to adults.  It isn't.  Governments across the country are encouraging children to undertake life altering procedures and limiting the ability and rights of parents to have a say in these matters.  That's policy enacted by government that has real world and real time effects on individuals altering and destroying lives.

I mean, if I was the political party that claimed to care about fiscal responsibility that has spent money like a drunken sailor since 2000 and had its most recent president run up all time debt in one term with huge inflationary practices that are directly contributing to the problems we are having today, I'd probably start working people up over social causes too.  The party of "individual rights" has cleaved MORE citizens of their individual rights over the last 2 decades than any other group.  It's always easy to rile up emotion.  We've had partisan kneejerk around here forever - left and right, but now there is a cult of personality and I'm not really down with that.     

Spending is a government policy issue that cuts across party lines.  It is too high.  It should be drastically cut.

As for the party of "individual rights" cleaving the rights of more people, I agree the Democratic party of civil liberties has become downright fascistic and is basically willing to target anyone that disagrees with its craziness with lawfare and or increasingly draconian laws. 

[Hognrock]

I figure Bass probably wonders what day he'll wake up with a knife in his chest.  I've wondered that too but I still can't get the memories of the great sex off my mind. 

Crazy fucks the best. You might wake up with a knife in your chest and/or had the best sex ever

We still need to have some beers together. Maybe SonofSpam can arrange that.

[BASS]

Crazy fucks the best. You might wake up with a knife in your chest and/or had the best sex ever

We still need to have some beers together. Maybe SonofSpam can arrange that.

Invite me please

[Hognrock]

Invite me please

If me, SoS, Credo and you have beers the world might implode and Rick B will be there watching. It would be fun though. 👍🤘

[Corn Pop]

I used to be unfazed by politics. Oh what a peaceful feeling. That was back before Covid and George Floyd and the Summer of Love.

[animal]

Thought this deserves an honorable mention. It was on the internet so it has to be true.


Hedy Lamarr, often proclaimed "the most beautiful woman in the world." The 26-yr-old Lamarr was thriving in Hollywood when, in September 1940, Nazi U-boats hunted down & sank a cruise ship trying to evacuate 90 British schoolchildren to Canada. 77 drowned in the bleak north Atlantic. Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi-occupied Austria, who had been making America her home since 1938, was outraged. She fought back by applying her engineering skills to development of a sonar sub-locator used in the Atlantic for the benefit of the Allies. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to her to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

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