Voltaire

on this Tim, squistion and others exchange. I'm learning more about Joe and FBG and what went on there today than I have the entire time since I left 20 years ago.

In my case, 95% of the time I can successfully tap dance through the minefield. You'd be surprised how infrequently I get dragged in the mud. Not like what you've had to endure, and despite that you are way more polite and kind than I am. I've tried to dial back my snarkiness to make my posting style more like yours because I respect that about you. Still comes out though on occasion.

Fifty years later, we still don't know what Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, do we?

I don't like how that forum was run but it was Joe's prerogative to do as he liked and I do know he engaged in a whole lot of time and effort for years on end to patrol it as he saw fit. As for Mike, you hardly see him and most everything goes through. It's run like Biden's border wall around here. I wonder if you FBG guys have a preferred approach.

Two weeks from now. Lions 34 Chiefs 21. Seven minutes left Detroit Ball at their 22 yard line 3rd and eight. KC with three timeouts left. (((BOOM))) As I roast, I'll be so focking pissed.

I had a post dated to 2008 where I praised Snopes for their dedication to accuracy... ... my eyes popped out of my head and I just deleted it to hide the evidence.

So I was focking around with you guys as lunch was being prepared and my wife just starts laughing for seemingly no reason. This is what we had, and I enjoyed it: https://www.yamibuy.com/en/p/savory-express-shrimp-shaomai-20pcs-17-64-oz/3146103011 Now that label you see at the website is slightly altered from the one we bought. The picture the same, ingredients. nutrition facts etc. all the same but in the fine print, something hilarious is missing. --- This warning applied only to California. Not applied to 49 other states. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium which is known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/ --- If you go down to the bottom of that yamibuy link you can click on the disclaimer and see for yourself all the things California requires them to put on their website. I can imagine how that conversation went. Some poor Asian guy with a penny-ante exporting business is delighted he has the opportunity to sell his shrimp in the US. He meets a useless California busybody government official for the first time to get the paperwork done and he blows his mind when she tells him the only way to do so is if he includes this bullsh*t cadmium warning on his label. Anyway, for for part, seeing as we'd already purchased the product, and since my wife and I hold both California and California bureaucrats in such contempt, we were willing to roll the dice on the cadmium. Pretty good shrimp.

:facepalm: It is an easy mistake to make. When I played around with my Kim Jong il alias back in the day, sometimes I'd leave and go do something. When I'd come back, often I'd have forgotten that I was logged out of my regular user name, and so -it must have been three or four times - that I'd be making serious posts as Kim rather than ridiculous ones.

Oh, don't get me started. Here, I'm a goofball like the rest of you, but at work I am expected to be the adult in the room who reports dress code violations, not checking them out like their 13 y/o classmates do. I shouldn't talk about them.

Ah, Yes. (sigh) I can't be the only one who misses the days, not so long ago, when we always had a good 8-10 tranny threads on page one at any given time. I hadn't realized until this moment that I was suffering from withdrawls.

This.^^^ Agreed they were quite close in beliefs and in exiting the Overton window but their styles were too dissimilar to be the same person.

I have a hard time with that. They were both posting at the same time and had similar views but different posting styles and personalities.

Tim, few if any kids this age listen to any news media at all of any sort. Now, the bullies picked up biases from somewhere, most likely their parents, but how many of these parents do you think are listening to conservative media in a congressional district that always votes 61-87% Democrat in presidential elections? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York's_6th_congressional_district These migrants are dealing with negative social and cultural issues in an inner city where conservatives have next to zero influence and where minorities make up 99% of the student population. Turning to your ever useful go-to boogeyman does not work here. The problem for these kids, wherever it lies, lies somewhere else. Even you should realize that.

Thank you. It is a deep and informative look at the situation with fair criticisms of Biden's failures. There's another deeper and relevant point the article doesn't touch on at all. Here's a short clip reminder on illegal immigration illustrating why Democrats' being propensity for being kindly and generous leads directly to their inability to grasp the concept of unintended consequences. Apparently nobody in 2020's Democratic Party could wrap their head around the notion that there is not unlimited resources for getting every person on the planet who owns a pair of shoes to be clothed, housed, fed, and provided with education and health care provided to them by US taxpayers. Here you see 100% of your own party's presidential candidates demonstrating the short-sighted mentality that has caused the massive tide of migrants entering illegally to go through the roof. If the clueless a$$hole in the middle of the stage, and the nine other clueless a$$holes surrounding him don't put their hands down, nothing will be accomplished and nothing will change.

This is really the opposite that I've been believing but in the last hour, you, Hell Toupee, and ES&C -liberals and conservatives alike- are all telling the same story.

We "climbed" Congshan mountain in Yunnan which is the southeasternmost mountain of the Himalayas. I put "climbed" in quotation marks because what we actually did is take a cablecar ride to the top and ran around the length and breadth, up and down each trail, of the national park at the top of the mountain. Interesting place. Dali was its own kingdom 800 years ago with it's own culture and language before China's Yuan dynasty (read: the Mongols) expanded and absorbed it. Internet says it's 13524'. That's as high as I've ever been.

https://www.greatschools.org/new-york/queens/1992-Jhs-226-Virgil-I-Grisson/ You had me curious. MSN failed to mention that 1% of students are white.

Intersting. I have always been under the impression that Joe was a committed leftoid who only cracked down on conservatives.

I teach Middle School now. Kids this age can be brutal to each other.

Get in on the action now before the market is saturated. I would estimate that 95% of the 8th graders at my school want to be TikTok influencers.

The accusation has lost meaning in the last few decades. When it was reserved for the likes of David Duke or Richard Spencer, you didn't want to get touched by it. Now that math is racist and showing up to work on time is racist, and the label is applied to people who refuse to move off of colorblindness or opposing anti-racism indoctrination or affirmative action are racist, the word is broken.

The 49ers are named for the gold miners in northern Califronia. The 76ers are for the Declaration of Independence. I figured the Colorado '14ers must be like pot legalization or something but clearly I'm way off.

My wife is on a visa overstay. That's because her visa was issued for six months but the system is backlogged and the process to secure her Green Card is ongoing into the thirteenth month. Under Trump, the processing time was completed in 3-4 months. Finally, two weeks ago, we did get some movement and a request for documents from INS and were told to expect be complete within 60 days. No contact information to follow up existed. Also, calling the INS website website's phone number, all you get is a phone tree. There is no option or chance to connect with a human. The INS does have a poorly programmed bot answer its emails with overarching tropes and lacking any useful information. There is no way to contact a human being that works there, we went through Congressman John James' office.

Trump haters around here are the only people capable of watching a video like this and still think that Biden takes the border seriously while President Trump does not. Then, after they struggled unsuccessfully to convince the rest of us that Biden wants to fix the border and Trump does not, they conclude there's something wrong with us.

Have you bothered to ask yourself where this "Trump wants the border crisis to continue so he can use it against Biden" line that you, worms, and Rusty so uncritically swallowed came from? Think on this: Who would write such a thing? a) some political hack connected to the Biden campaign and wants to smear President Trump. b) somebody with knowledge of the inner thinking of the Trump campaign. ------ Now try this ----- Think on this who would believe such a thing? a) people who already predisposed to hate President Trump b) people informed about and able to compare and contrast the positions of President Trump and Biden on the issue of border security. --------------------- If you cannot see through such easily transparent Biden propaganda such as this, I cannot help you. Again, for the record. You are being deliberately lied to and manipulated. The truth, if you bother to check, is that Trump has stated that he WOULD support the bill if it contained actual security. **Input error. Does not compute.** Now, again, we don't know if it will contain actual border security but judging by the people who are participating in the negotiation, other than one Senator and that is important, presumably he is working in good faith. Personally, I don't rightly feel many of the rest of them have a shred of interest in border security but most of the ones involved despise President Trump and have a vested interest in keeping him from returning to office.