Engorgeous George

I have pretty universally argued that most every President has abused the pardon power. I see a trend in the abuse of it with it increasing each of the last 8 or so administrations and that means I believe this President has abused it more than the last, just to be clear. I beleive the next President is likely to continue this disturbing trend regadless of the political party that gets the Office next. I am pretty cynical of all politicians of all stripes, but only because i have been a bit of a student of history.

Why the age limit for Justices and not for Presidents, Senators, or Congresspersons? Were I trying to justify the unjustifiable i would argue that the others at least stand for election every so often and can be tossed out by the voters, but if the question is Constitutional competence it seems they should all be treated the same.

I remember seeing an interview he did when playing. He was touting his sartorial splender. He had a private habedasher he would have make a new $10,000 hat made each week and allegedly would wear them only once. At the time I posted in some thread that we would eventually see him lamenting that his compensation as a pro was unfair and insufficent as he would run out of money that for reasonable folks would have been generational. Seems he made it. No different from the guys who need $100,000 dollar grills or million dollar necklaces to wear to clubs were they get rolled by gold digging whores before they jump into their Bentleys, drunk, and crash them on the way home.

Bone chaps and stirrups. Waaaay more severe than run of the mill bones spurs.

Headline: Karen Bass' policies have driven hotel room prices to unprecedented levels shutting out the working class and middle class. Spencer Pratt AI video expected soon.

Milwaukee had a smell about it in the 60's and 70's. As you drove in along I-94 you would pass the yeast factory out at about 75th street. Next would come the Usinger's sausage factory and then Ambrosia chocolate factory right downtown along with Schlitz, Miller, and Blatz. You would also get the smell from the lakefront and harbor and the alewives coming up the Milwaukee river and dying. I don't get back often anymore, but the City does not smell like the City of my youth.

I would hope that maybe we can find ways to feed needy children. Whether we prioritize taht as a government program or a public private partnership may be a discussion, but I would hope that we can accomplish that. What I do not support is prioritizing feeding kids to teh point where that prioritizing means we forego oversight of the funds so that massive fraud can occur. To my mind fraudsters should be sentenced as if they stole from each and every tax paying American so maybe 180 million counts of theft and additionally should be sentenced as if they are deliberately starving each child deprived so maybe a few million more counts of child abuse. If we put these fraudsters away for life or better yet killed them we would get a lot less fraud. Making them disgorge what of their ill gotten gains we can get our hands on and putting them in jail for a few short years, presuming they do not flee the country, is insufficient.

My buddy is gone now, dead 30 years. I should buy one of the final run of cases of Schlitz and pour one or two out for him.

I had a buddy who worked there as a Scab during the strike of 81. I use to drop him off and pick him up as it was not advisable for Scabs to park at the plant as their cars may not have made it through their shift. He worked on the short fill line. The short fill line was a side track off off the bottling line. As the bottles would race by an electric eye those bottles that were not filled to the approprite height were kicked into a side track. That side track was not sufficiently busy to have auto packing of them into cases as those machines were expensive, so when there were 24 bottles moved into the side track he hand packed them into cases. On average in an 8 hour shift he would have to pack four cases as short fills were not all that common. He was paid $15 per hour as a Scab in 81, damn good wages, particularly given his value to the company was to fill 4 cases with bottles which maybe took 2 minutes out of an 8 hour day. Now those short fill cases were transported by another guy down to the employee store. They were sold for $1 per case. So Schlitz was paying $120 in wages to produce $4 of product value. Not great business for them but good for my friend who needed the summer job. Now when I would pick him up I would have trash thrown on my car by the picketers, but my car was trash so no real harm. I would pick my buddy up by the door next to the employee store. He would come out with whatever number of cases of short fills he packed that day. (For those that don't know short fills averaged 11.5 ounces instead of the standard 12.) We would head out to where our group would meet to party out in lake country The four cases would not last all that long as we had a hard drinking group, but they helped subsidize our drinking for the night. The next morning after dropping him off for work I would go to a nearby liquor store and I would return the bottles. We would get 96 cents per case for the returns meaning we were paying 4 cents per case for Schlitz. At that price the stuff tasted all right.

A male or female minor?

For the humor of it maybe you can list what type of amigo you think or thought I might be. Could be a good humor thread of its own or a nice diversion here. I vow to take no offense.

Not to my understanding. To the best of my knowledge each representive represents around 750,000 people so in populous states they have significantly more reps and in sparse states only a scant few Reps. Perhaps I have that wrong but I don't think so. If I do have it wrong I should apologize to those folks I used to tutor for their citizenship test. Now Senators one could argue are not fairly distributed by population, but they represent states equally if not population so. This was an agreed encouragement to get states to join the union. It was fair when we agreed to it, maybe not entirely so now, but it is a bulwerk against the tyrany of the majority.

She no makeda dresses but she takeda money.

Kids are paying THOUSANDS of dollars for prom dresses? From the one dress pictured they do so to look like transvestite hookers. Where does the money come from? Tough to convince me we are in an economic crisis if folks have thousands for prom dresses and thousands or at least hundred for phones.