Engorgeous George

I was alive when only Nixon could go to China. Now, amybe I will live through Only Trump could stop trade woith China. Yesterday I took note of the vehicles on my block. Ten homes, 35 vehicles, a remarkable 3.5 vehicles per home. More than one vehicle per person. What interested me was that out of the 35 there was one Ford and one Dodge. There were multiple BMW's, Audi's and Mercedes. Plenty of Toyotas and Lexis'. A few Hyundais. No Hondas which surprised me. Two Nissans. I guess my block is a microcosm of our trade imbalance. I am part of the problem if it is a problem. Ten years ago my driveway had two Fords and a Dodge, today, a Nissan and two Hyundais

I think they (slaves) were heavily used for sugar cane harvesting and rice cultivation and banana harvesting. They were then brought from the caribbean to the mainland for cotton harvesting during the three generations or so that practice was at its height. I was fascinated to see hand picking of cotton in machine harvested fields. I had a very difficult time thinking that could be a productive use of time.

So slavery was from 1794 through 1864. That is a pretty short period. I thought it flourished for a hundred years before that and more and involved not just cotton but tobacco, row crops, and labor from building railroads, dikes and dams, to mining and forestry. The explosion after the cotton gin indeed happened, but signaled the beginning of the end and Jasmine certainly knows no one in her family who ever picked cotton. i know there were several aborted attmpts at developing harvesters in teh 1820's. The first practicle one was patented in 1850 though there were unpatented ones prior to that. The first fully mecahnical, gas powered, harvester came about just following WWII.

Because that was the beginning of conception of machines to do slave labor. It lead rapidly to better seperation machines, but also to mechanical harvesters. Inteerestingly i did see some people in a harvested cotton field hand picking missed bols just two years ago.

I guess she is unfamiliar with the cotton gin, I'm guessing, like kamala, she's a vodka gal and does not touch gin.

Heading over to negotiate tariffs on heroine from the golden triangle. We are tired of our trade deficit with them. If they want access to American Markets they can pay, just like everybody else.

When the economy collapses as Tim says it will, when my savings are nearly depleted and my teeth hurt because I can't afford proper dental care, I am going to rely on Gravy Train for my meals. Its soft and with its own gravy I should be able to afford it and to chew it. Screw those survival food boxes that keep food for 30 years so you can weather the apocalypse while all around you die. I am going to make my own bucket for way less money. I'll just fill a Home Depot bucket or two with Gravy Train and I should be good to go.

I had presumed he was tqalking about injecting it intervenously when he was talking about blood purification. Was he suggesting drinking, like replacing the tonic in a gin and tonic?

I wonder if Little X wiped any boogers on the walls of Marine 1?

So no Panicrats?

A million is not much anymore, not when twenty dollar bills are the new ficve dollar bill and 100 dollar bills the new $20.

I have some of his detractors on ignore myself as I too find little value in some of them.

@Fnord is good people. That he comes to conclusions different from my own does not impugn his logic, not entirely, and perhaps not in the majority, though to the latter I think it does. He simply gives posters the benefit of the doubt until all doubt is removed. Me, I only go so far as to provide the benefit of the doubt until 99% of the doubt is removed and I incorporate action and practice into my calculation as well as self-serving words. Maybe @Fnord is to be congratulated on his patience and his grace in assessing others. Maybe I am too harsh in doing so..

Alone there is always the unlikely possibility the Mod made it up. When coupled with Tim tactically admitting it once confronted with it' the evidence seems compelling. When then compared to his behavior here, well you are entitled to reach conclusions different from those I have reached.' I know this, Tim has been advised to grow, to change many times. Often he directly resists. Sometimes he states he will heed advice and he cites that as personal growth, yet he never sticks to his vows of change. He pretends he wants reasoned discussion but what he wants is to endlessly repeat his dogma and to try to pretend it is the authoritative last word on a subject when it never is close to that. He does not want, and is not open, to discussion. He wants to proselytize his orthodoxy. He lies about his intent and his motives. The thing is he has lied to himself. He believes he is open to a conversation, a discussion , he is not. He is to be pitied as he has successfully deluded only himself.

Maybe shift to turtle and or Emu eggs.

Would be a long drive for me just to witness a run of the mill show. I might consider it for a truly epic show. i just know it i do i will stay out of the Capitol building and will not be wearing any Shaman gear. Best to fly below the radar at such events.

Maybe trump will get Kristi Noem out there on a horse, in nothing but boots, a cowboy hat, chaps,and a small leather vest. That would be better than Snoopy but may still fxall short of Santa Claus. I hope doge identifies this as waste and abuse. It is not fraud, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

By memory, which is failing, Trump tried something siilar in his first term. I believe that one was canceled or severely scaled down.

I have read that the reason the American antelope evolved to run as fast as it does was because of the speed of Dire Wolves. I have no idea whether that is true or not but i found the theory interesting.

That seems compelling evidence. Will Tim claim it is some sort of A.I. deep fake?

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan. I find one of them sexy.

And we should acknowledge that and reciprocate. Sadly Trump seems to have needed The Isreal Prime Minister to come here and say for the consumption of the press that Trump is Isreal's best friend and to imply that Trump got something more when they talked. I thought my position was clear that we need to immediately accept all reasonable deals, even existing ones, and immediately adjust our tariffs as to those countries. i suspect with regard to Viet Nam there is some trepidation that China may try to wash goods through Viet Nam, but trepidation be damned. Learn to track goods through the global supply chain and address abuses if they arise, not by trepidation.

I never had any hops. I was practically nailed to the ground. Still, in gym class in the 8th grade I made 5 feet in the high jump.

Clooneys career impacted me not in the least except for oh Brother Where Art thou and maybe a bit in Burn After Reading.