Engorgeous George

Only people who have ignored his 50 year track record.

A Charles Whitman reference. Nice.

Do doves cry? Does the Pope sh!t in the woods? Is there really such a thing as a wrong hole?

Oh I got fairly comfortable with whoring, but I had my limits.

Just let 'em finish. Maybe he will even bring you a fish after.

That b!tch did not have to say my clothes were tacky and then go out with Jeff Borchardt of all people.

The most urgent words shouted, notuttered to me were "jalmosdoen goumang!". That is Korean for "Wrong Hole!"

I can appreciate that. No offense taken that you are passionate about your team.

65 and I started to notice three years ago and retired 18 months ago. My family has a history so I was monitoring things fairly closely as is my Doctor.

Well for many years I toed the company line. I gave great service to folks made to look better for my efforts. I was a loyal employee and company man. Still, after decades of being managed by fools with political objectives, after decades of suffering the inefficiencies and foolishness of a large bureaucracy it became increasingly difficult to hold my tongue. My final years I could no longer suffer fools gladly, and due to my finances I did not need to. I take some pleasure in the fact that some of my warning which went unheeded have blown up in the faces of the bosses I left behind. I also take satisfaction in the programs I created and left in place and the acomplishments I achieved. Like many I have a love/hate relationship with my former job. I do note that pain in the ass though I was my last year they keep asking my to come out of retirement for a few major projects they currently have including one rather large laibility matter. I frustrated them, but I was highly successful litigating the type of matter they are currently facing. Unfortunately for them I have relinguished my license as I have some mental deterioration occuring and it would be irresponsible of me to represent clients at this juncture, especially when 8 figures are involved.

This certainly looked like your year before the injuries on defense piled up. As a Packer fan I feared Hutchinson and Anzalone the most and they are both out though I guess there is some hope for a return late in the playoffs, if they make it that far. I fear Gibbs and St. Brown and LaPorta but in the Lions current state I have some hope for Thursday night. Still the Lions have looked impressive most weeks and if healthy seem like the team to beat. I guess I will be happy for their fans if they win one. Yours has been a long suffering fan base but a fan base which has hung in there regardless, time for some reward, maybe. Also, I would get a kick out of it if the Lions get a Superbowl while the Vikings remain blanked in that game. Good luck on the health front. I know what it is to see promise fade due to injuries, and that really sucks.

The Lions may be as depleted defensively as they have been in the past 5 years. From that standpoint it is a good time for the Packers to get them. I hope the Packers have a plan for containing Gibbs and for covering Laporta. Sometimes it feels to me that the Packers have not covered a tight end in three decades.

I stood up and walked out of a DEI training, a mandatory training for every City employee. The trainer who had been paid $100,000.00 to provide15 sessions over a two week period so that all employees could get exposed (Why not only one session and record it I don't know, they wanted the live experience I guess). The training was insultingly rudimentary not to mention derivitive of trainings previously given by H.R. The Trainer was trying to make a point about culteral differences among races and being open and accepting of all. She used a hypothetical to demonstrate her point. Her hypothetical was massively insulting to christians. I am no christian, but I was offended for them. i was not about to listen to that Trainer a minute further. I got up and walked out. She stopped her presentation and asked where I was going. I told her some place I did not have to listen to an overpaid undereducated snake oil sales persons who does not even appreciate the subject upon which they are lecturing. You could have heard a pin drop. For the next several days I had numerous employees come up to me and thank me for what I did. I also note that the Trainer had the rest of her sessions cancelled. Regardless I got written up. I had an official repremand placed in my personnel file by the head of litigation and our operations manager who both found the lecture 'extremely informative and thought provoking".

I guarantee my father would not do so for me. I guarantee my grandfather would not have for my father. I likely would not do so for my sons. I absolutely would for my daughters.

I thought you had to pay russian whores extra to not pee on you.

A nutty coincidence.

They should give the Vice President something to do along these lines. Maybe they can be given the power to annul marriages.

Will he pardon Jill?

My DEI experience. My office brought in two women of extremely limited experience to supervise the litigation department and the operations group. At the time I was senior in the operations group and third in the litigation department litigating a narrow band of specialty issues. I had no problem with the hires. I did not apply for the openings myself as I did not want the responsibilitiers involved being towards the end of my career and being paid actually more than those positions were rated for.. I did have serious reservations over whether these hires had the experience for the jobs. I thought other candidates were much better. (I do note that the among the stated reasons for the hires was diversity though that was not the only reason as our office was more than 50% female and had representation at the managerial level. The real reason was cronyism, they were friends of an insecure boss looking to surround himself with sycophants). Shortly after the hires we had a motion served on us. The notice was served on me though it should have been served on the new head of litigation or operations manager (She was out as usual while I was available to accept service). I took the notice immediately to the operations manager and to the new head of litigation (turned out she was in after all, she just did not want to accept service). I hand handed it to each and I did an e-mail notification to the big boss along with a sample notice to our elected officials so that he could forward that notice if he wished. I then washed my hands of the matter as was appropriate. 19 days after receiving the notice of the motion I was speaking with the chief administrative professional for the litigation group in the elevator on the way down from work. I liked speaking with her as she possessed all the assets a toxic male such as myself prizes. I learned that our office had not drafted a reply to the motion, more less filed a response. Our response ws due on day 20. There being no bosses around I retuned to my desk and drafted up a sample response and then e-mailed it to the big boss, the head of litigation, and the operations manager. This took me into the early morning to research and draft the responsive pleading. I did not leave the office that night. I showered in the gym and returned to work When the muckity mucks arrived they had no thanks for my efforts nor was there any consequences or even opprobrium for them having dropped the ball. Instead I recieved criticism for one section of my response which the head of litigation thought inappropos. She demanded I take that section out. I told her she was free to do so as ultimately it was her responsiblity to file our reply. She did. The matter was set for a hearing. The new head of litigation was to be lead council with a junior attorney second chairing. I went to the motion hearing as it was in the courtroom over from where I was appearing that morning and I had some interest in the matter having drafted what became our response after editing. The head of litigation had not shown up and neither had the second chair. The matter was called. The head of operations informed the bench that our attorneys were running late. The court continued the matter for half an hour. When that time had run neither the lead nor second attorney had appeared, nor had they contacted our office nor the court though our office was frantically trying to contact them. The court told our operations manager she,the court, was about to grant the motion as being unopposed. The court was pissed. The operations manager looked around unsure what to do. I stood up, entered my appearance, and told the court I was ready to argue the matter. The hearing was held and in addition to the arguments from our pleading I raised the arguments that had been deleted from our pleading by the head of litigation. The court ruled in our favor based upon those deleted arguments. (This later really pissed off the litigation manager who thought I argued the issues to show her up. In reality the court sort of directed the arguments in that direction and luckily I was familiar with that case law having read it and written on it in preparation of the sample response.) Walking out of the courtroom the operations manager told me thank god I was there as she had Never argued a case or motion before any court and she could not have done what I did, which was to argue for the better part of an hour with no preparation or expectation I would be arguing the motion. I was stunned. How could our office have hired such inexperienced incompetants. Upon return to the office I recieved no thanks from the boss nor the two attorneys who had shat the sheets. (Turns out they were late due to not having planned for routine traffic. I had warned them that they could not expect to commute from their homes to the court for a 9:00 AM hearing in less than two hours as traffic was always horrendous that time of day. I always planned to arrive at that courthouse by 7:30 for any hearings or trials set at 9:00 AM or before.) The head of litigation did, however, prevail upon the boss to have me removed from the litigation roster as I had overstepped my bounds by not demanding a continuance in the face of the judge threatening to rule against us, or such was her opinion. That was fine with me. Then she noted that on my last e-mail to her I had not listed my pronouns which she stated was office policy. i pointed out that such a policy had been discussed but had not been adopted and that even were it adopted I would not comply with such nonsense. I stated the office could change my e-mail signature block lines, but that I would not. I recieved a written repremand in my personnel file for insubordination. I tendered my resignation. I did so by e-mail and that final e-mail did not have my preferred poronouns listed in the signature block. The head of litigation has since been moved out. She now works for a neighboring jurisdiction. The head of operations is still there. The policy of listing our preferred pronouns has been sacked as it was perceived as pandering and unprofessional. Me, I have done a lot of kayaking, rafting, fishing and hunting and have taken quite a few road trips to visit old friends and to attend concerts I loved. I was fortunate I was close to the planned end of my career and could afford to essentially tell them to shove it.

Apparently we are gullible.

I love corruption stories as they inform us as to the possible behavior of our electeds, and they inform us about the biases and motives of the opposition party and of the press. Are they a Roschach test for us observers as well, no doubt they are. I suspect your current dislike of this has to do with your political affiliations and the administration which just abused the power. You would like the story to fade away so it causes you no cognitive dissonance. Do i have any proof of that opinion, no, just an abidding suspicion .

Maybe also make it such that if a President pardons a campaign donor that the Presicdent must personally repay all of the donations not to the donor but to deficit reduction and if the presidnet canot make that payment then they cannot issue the pardon.

This subject comes up at the end of every administation. I do not have an answer for the problem of abusing the power. It would be nice if there was an amendment stating that if a sitting President vows publicly to not pardon a person at any time while he or she is sitting that they cannot thereafter go back on that pledge or vow. without themselves serving any sentence in the stead of the pardoned person. That might eliminate insincere vows used in campaigns.

This might reduce the pool of folks willing to run for president as well as those willing to serve in an administration. Then again, who knows, maybe it would not. I know the founders had some conceerns along these lines, but who knows how it would work in practice unless we actually implement it. Would you eliminate the power entirely, or just as to members of the presidential family, administration, and donors? Meaning what about those requests from convicts wholy unassociated with the administration. There are always a few such applications that may have some merit, you know, actual miscarriages of justices.

So he would know, then.