Engorgeous George

My first wife, if animated, looked like Princess Jasmine. She was a sport about it too. She bought a pretty elaborate Princess Jasmine outfit and could do her voice extremely well. Too bad she was a complete psycho.

Likely not. On the other hand regimes living under the thumb of a powerful foriegn country become resentful and radicalized more often than not. This may have cost Iran more dearly under Trump, but who is to say thay may not have been preoared to pay that cost out of pride?

Difficult to say. It may have happened sooner. Who knows? I do know this, Trump has a higher opinion of his abilities than is warranted, as do is supplicants.

Remember when Stevedores loading and unloading ships with cargo nets was a thing? They are gone replaced by longshoremen who too will someday be mostly replaced, this time by automation. As cargo has shifted to uniform containers the ground was set for much more automation.

Waiting for Iran to become a nuclear nation looks increasingly untenable, not just for Isreal, but for the world. The center of the Arab world is shifting from Riyadh to Teheran though iranians are not really arab. perhaps i should have written the center of the Muslim world. I do not trust Trump's competence either. I do trust he and Vance on this more than Harris and Walz though only ever so slightly more, but frankly neither is the leadership we need.

I would have loved to be that guy! So sort of a Hunter Biden?

Like Donald Trump, or Paris Hilton?

Except technology, oil wealth, and religious funamentalism in charge of a government has ratcheted up the intenisty and frerquency of attacks on Isreal. In the 60's to the 90's we had one state of affairs, now, I believe another entirely. The old status quo was nearly tolerable. The new paradigm is shifting rapidly, and in a very bad direction.

Well maybe Smokey the Bear.

When asked about this Kamala Harris said she thought Alladin defeated Jaffar and then she cackled.

It would indeed. The question to ask is it not more disasterous to allow the status quo to continue. Isreal being attacked every few months. Shipping in the Red sea to be disrupted and threatened. Terror cells around the world, likely including our own country to be funded. You stand squarely against appeasing Putin yet you take an appeasement line here.

She is thinking that she hopes it it not obvious she is more vacuous than Lauren Boebert. Alternatively she is wondering if she has on her collar.

So we know where their launchers are and should rectify that situation immediately. Also, clearly the monies Biden released, and the iranian oil profits are funding this and the attacks on American assets. it is time to shut down their oil production. I just hope the Chinese do not decide that when America has substantial assets in the mediterranian, has supply disruptions in its own counyry due to strikes and a hurricane, and has next to no stategic oil reserve and is occupied with an election that this would be a good time to advance their interests.

More likely he had a jewfro.

I always thought Take it Where you find it would be a good campaign rally song.

I believe that portion, that "sampling" if you will of the Battle Hymn was the third movement of the song American Trilogy.

I am just saying the questions we ask are a reflection of ourselves. Not an earth-shattering observztiuon, i know, but one worth reminding ourselves of, from time to time.

I lament that we are in a time where research, supposed scholarship, has devolved to asking blantantly partisan questions, likely, in my view to add feul to the raging partisan fire. I need shelter from the storm, from the raging fire.

I was completely unfamiliar with him. I was jsut looking him up in Wikipedia. He has an interesting resume and background. He spoke bluntly and crudely, for certain. Whether his crudeness dismisses his position I do not opine. I note that Gen. Patton, LBJ, and Nixon were all said to be crude men from time to time. Trump as well, of course.

Is your objection to the characterization, or the secondary place in that billing?

I was not applying for the position, only setting forth what the offer might mean. It is a fairly generous offer though, for some. Whether HellToupee would find it so only his response will tell.

Imagine conducting such a study. What does it say about us that a researcher thought such a study would reveal something interesting about ourselves?

You are offering $924 a week or $48, 084 a year. Not bad, especially since you have a propensity for paying under the table, tax free. I could not have lived off that as my primary income prior to retirement, not by any means and not in an inflationary economy also known as an opportunity economy, but as supplemental retire income that would not be too bad, I could afford coke and strippers one night a week..

You have some sort of independant support for your position you would care to share with the class?