Voltaire

I was thinking it the other way since Russia keeps killing off their young men, they may have extra.

If a dude is over 100, you score negative points for him.

I'm thinking of getting a machine gun on my forehead and $ signs on my cheeks but what's been holding me back thus far is the worry that I might regret it later.

I guess it depends on how I'm being treated. If he's an entitled a$$hole making demands with a chip on his shoulder, no I won't use the pronouns. If he acts like an otherwise normal decent person who wants to be friendly and get along and treats me well, I may. I dunno. The only time I've been in a similar situation is with what seems to be a trans-person at the grocery store checkout lane. my personal default setting is friendly, hopefully that's reciprocated, at the checkout counter it was. Later, on the way to the car, I talked about this seeming trans person with my wife and we called him 'him'. I didn't do it to disparage the person, we'd been treated well. I respect the person's dignity, it just occurred to us it was probably a 'him' we'd been dealing with. We don't avoid him, we always go in the shortest line, which sometimes is his and sometimes isn't. Also, it's not a for sure thing that this person is a man. We're kind of guessing; one of the worst outcomes of all this trans stuff has made it really hard for fugly women, whom this might me, and who back in the day would have gotten the benefit of the doubt.

My wife is on the phone right now with a Chinese friend urging her not to let her daughter go to school in California.

You're talking about eugenics and stuff that fringe racist right wing figures propagate. How us and various Asian cultures have spent the last 3000+ years of civilization culling the sociopath gene from our DNA while the reason other races are more prone to violence is that they never did so. I'd as soon leave such thinking in an unopened box and just deal with the fallout of having evil turds arrive every so often because trying to fix it by searching out certain DNA factors will lead to a worse place. Also, its not just the fringe right. Look at how loosely the fools on the mainstream left are at labeling everything Nazi and fascist that they disagree with. Who's going to be the ones making these decisions?

If the GOP had actually wanted to defund SNAP, they could have done so. They had full control of the budget after all, as even you must surely have noticed. Instead, those of us that aren't fed lies constantly, are able to correctly point out to the braindead observers on the other side that money for SNAP was fully funded in the bill which the entire GOP voted for and the Dems rejected. But keep believing and regurgitating lies. Its par for the course.

Well they're trying to save some bucks and shorten waiting lines by cutting off illegal immigrants as well as able-bodied useless people dedicated to sitting on their ass rather than look for work.

I don't understand the Democrats who think they were winning the shutdown and were undermined by the eight. Right wing commentators had been saying the exact opposite the entire time. IMO, nobody was winning the shutdown, it was a stalemate until the end, and nobody won in the end. Also, I don't think the eight Dems caved nor do I think they lost but whatever. I dunno. It seemed like a perfectly evenhanded deal to me; I wasn't exactly thrilled with the concessions offered the Dems to make the deal either but I'm glad its done. Its for the Dems to figure out how they want to react to the compromise. Seeing Rachel Maddow as spokesperson for those who think they were winning and lost. It wasn't my take at all, neither side was winning and neither side won, but do I like seeing them piss and moan about it and thinking they lost. If they want to engage in a circular firing squad, I should support anything that weakens their party, but seeing the sane eight punished by the freak show fanatics for doing the right thing isn't bittersweet, it kinda sucks actually. Its better to have Democrats who reject the Borg implants the rest of them have.

The entire Democratic Party encourages men with a fetish for being in the proximity of pooping girls to get their jollies off by buying a dress, some mascara, and moving to a blue state. It's a hill they're willing to die on.

A lot of top teams clashing this week.

Aldol may not be the future of robotics, but if Lifecall offers to fork over $20 for it, it can be avoid the scrap metal junkyard and be salvaged as a spokesman for their commercials.

You take out a loan when you're 25 and don't pay it off until you're 75? Brilliant. Well, I'm 53 so.... let me see here...

The Dems healthcare plan may suck but at least they have one. The problem for the GOP is even after all this time, they have never have come up with a plan to replace it. Or maybe they have and its on me since I've not seen it. I'm talking from the lead up to McCain's thumbs down up through today ... maybe I'm missing something. If so tell me. If Obamacare gets tossed, what happens the day after to replace it? I genuinely don't know.

Everyone hates Hitler for reasons that have nothing to do with his pen1s nor his sex life, which was something private was for him and Eva Braun to deal with. LGBTQ activist historians are already going through history claiming a bunch of people were gay, which the vast majority probably weren't, because it was frowned upon, but it maks the "researchers" feel special like they found something lurid. Ask yourself this question. Suppose a perverted fake LGBTQ activist historian, known for making up sh!t, who has access to and inclination to rewriting the sex life every person in history based on shoddy evidence, who in all of history would they most desperately want to paint with the micropen!s label?