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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 1, 2024 3:24:20 GMT -5
such a Southerner.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 15:18:02 GMT -5
yeah. this little demon has been toiling away just below the surface of American Consciousness for decades.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 13:32:56 GMT -5
this explains why the gun lobby has so much money to spend. not being critical, and i thank you for saying that. People in my world of exhibition and competitive shooting spends ungodly amounts of money. It is hard for someone who is not into it to think how much is spent on it let along how many are into it. i spend over $100/month on music purchases, and thousands per year seeing live music. most people who are not as music obsessed as i am can't fathom it. for them, music is FREE. that is how they like it, and how they will continue to like it. i used to bowl. and fly airplanes. those were also expensive hobbies. i get it. i just didn't know. thanks, again!
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 13:14:53 GMT -5
that has got to be an expensive hobby. there is no way those rounds cost less than $100. that is more money than chain smokers spend in a week. it is a very expensive time out. Last week my daughter and i went out I haven used my personal 9mm in a while so I took that and a 22. I shot 750 rounds alone with those 2 on a tues afternoon cost approx $175 add in 100 for lunch expensive afternoon this explains why the gun lobby has so much money to spend. not being critical, and i thank you for saying that.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 13:11:41 GMT -5
i want to get back to the terrorism issue for a second.
Americans seem to have little idea what engenders it. typically it is DISPLACEMENT. the proximate target for terrorism is a sense that a certain group is being displaced by another group: culturally, religiously, and/or economically. this is pretty much the case with 100% of terrorist events. that is thing one.
thing two is that these groups are generally ORGANIZED. at least in it's most DANGEROUS form (the one we should be MOST concerned with) it is. all difficulties are overcome through careful planning, and thoughtful research, and, crucially, $.
thing three is that the target for terrorism is people who will be frightened enough to change their politics because of it. the idea is to attack democracy by making the electorate feel vulnerable.
so, if we agree on all of that (and we should, it is a fact), which group is most likely to cause us trouble this year in the US due to numbers, organization, and $$? white nationalists, or Hamas? and given that fact, why should i NOT think that this entire border scare thing is cover for Civil War II?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 12:44:29 GMT -5
ok. pigs are flying.
Dershowitz is defending DEMOCRATS.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 12:41:58 GMT -5
Trump is claiming he is more popular than Taylor Swift.More infamous- yes. And Swift does not have fans willing to kill people for her. More popular? No. Trump = middle school mean girl arguing over who likes who best. it depends on what one means by "popular". if it means "well known", then maybe. the problem is that there are many places on this green Earth where American music and celebrity is more well known than American politicians. Swift is a worldwide phenomena to a degree that DT is not. if it is "well liked" or "admired" it is not even close.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 12:36:27 GMT -5
it is the same policy that Trump had for three years.
was that treasonous?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 12:35:05 GMT -5
that has got to be an expensive hobby. there is no way those rounds cost less than $100. that is more money than chain smokers spend in a week.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 3:24:22 GMT -5
the stock market is not up because of Trump. it is up because of consumer confidence, which is booming.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 31, 2024 3:22:32 GMT -5
modern slavery.
MERICA!!!!
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 30, 2024 15:42:32 GMT -5
if they really cared, the funding would have been in place before their bills passed. after all, what generally PRECEDES a bill is an analysis of "fiscal impact". that way, they can set up funding by, say, increasing sales or business taxes in the state to OFFSET the cost. that was not done, here. ergo, they don't give a fuck. I listened to an NPR story this weekend about one of the most broken foster systems in the US - the one in Texas. Especially for kids with mental health problems (not uncommon in child abuse /neglect cases) they get shuttled around, sometimes spending months in ‘temporary’ groups in hotel rooms, two to a bed. Mental health counseling usually isn’t available at the temporary shelters. Every time the kid changes foster homes, the mental health treatment facility usually changes, too. Case workers have huge caseloads, not many resources and the get blamed if anything goes wrong - usually they quit within four years. So yeah, Texas doesn’t care about the kids. They don’t care if abusive parents have even more kids. apparently they don't care about healthcare workers, either. triple whammy.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 30, 2024 15:40:20 GMT -5
Yeah, just waiting for the fat lady to sing on that one.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 20:25:19 GMT -5
you'll be alright come tomorrow. but tomorrow might not be here for you.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 19:24:23 GMT -5
how many did it kill?
over 100?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 19:23:23 GMT -5
the "fertility risk" would create immense opportunity for people like Musk, who seems incapable of not fertilizing his female partners.
my interpretation of his reaction is that he wants it that way, without the rest of us thinking about it too much.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 19:19:10 GMT -5
Meh - John McCain was considered a carpetbagger when he first ran in AZ, and then we reelected him 842 times. dayum! i KNEW he was old, but....... i knew John McCain. John McCain was a friend of mine. Lauren Boebert is no John McCain.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 19:17:29 GMT -5
she's about his daughter's age. feisty. the kind of woman that does it for him.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 19:15:44 GMT -5
There was trouble down in Africa, riots over in France Nuclear war was at hand seems a likely chance When the Russians lost the Olympus, they got a little pissed ′Sent a few nucs over, the kind that never miss World was in turmoil, where was Jesus now He was down in Mississippi behind a mule and a plow Looking for a place to plug in my TV when I finally realized it was WWIII Fallout wasn't too bad down in the south, Jesus cooked good barbecue, the kind that burned you mouth People came from miles around for just little taste, most of′um didn't make it 'cause a all that nuclear waste But if you survived this nuclear holocaust come down to Mississippi for some of the Jesus hot sauce Looking for a place to plug in my TV when I finally realized it was WWIII I′m been in Washington it′s nothing but a ruin, I'm here with the Sex Change Band, they don′t know what they're doing. I can smell that Dixie chicken I can taste that barbecue, far from Mississippi got me little confused Jesus in a Cadillac or at least a private plane nation′s capital with radiation on the brain Looking for a place to plug in my TV when I finally realized it was WWIII -Root Boy Slim. WW3
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 17:52:01 GMT -5
it is all loosely tied together.
pun intended.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 17:34:20 GMT -5
yeah, it is 2nd on my list. i plan to visit this year. The Algarve region is gorgeous and wonderful weather... that is precisely the area i am looking @. Faro.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 17:12:15 GMT -5
yeah. probably not my first choice. having said that, the cost of living 38% that of the US, including a staggering 17% cost of HOUSING. picture yourself in a coastal village, with a sea view, in a six bedroom, four bath two story Mediterranean style house that cost you $400k. kinda makes you not worry much about their version of Trump as much. especially with a Yacht sitting down in the harbor and a 15 minute boat ride to Greece. Just read that Portugal is a superior relocation spot for Americans. yeah, it is 2nd on my list. i plan to visit this year.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 16:50:51 GMT -5
i have seen worse than this, for the record. in parts of Asia. at least the squats have running water.
but this is more of a distraction than anything else. my point is that you can get by without TP. if you are going to hoard....find something that will save your life.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 16:37:32 GMT -5
that is why i brought up the sacks of beans. but TP is not actually necessary. in Turkiye, you almost never see it in public toilets. i won't describe how they get by, but they do. one might think that Americans are more resourceful than Turks. but i guess not? astonishing how spoiled we all are. and, again, embarrassing. In the early 70s, I was in Greece for vacation. I some how remember a bathroom toilet where I basically place my feet in a marked spot and did my business over a hole. No toilet paper and I don't remember what I did about that. ETA: It was called a squat toilet. In old Roman days.... The sticks on the left are called axylospongium or sponge on a stick to wipe your ass. The little aqueducts you see in the picture carried fresh water which you dipped your axylospongium in to clean it after use. Fresh for the next shitter to use! There were also small aqueducts under the seats which carried the waste away to god knows where. yep. they call them "the squats". they have their own term, but that is what it translates to. the nice ones have a hose. the not-so-nice ones expect you to somehow make do without one.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 15:47:14 GMT -5
Added a little bit to the fund title. Yeah, we need a whole second fund for people who have been financially raped by him. All those contractors and lawyers who didn’t get paid. The Polish workers who built his first big skyscraper and didn’t get paid. candidly, that is why i named it the way i did. but then it occurred to me that Rudy could apply for funds. not sure i like that idea.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 15:45:20 GMT -5
Hopefully an adult gets elected. there appears to be a few running. those that didn't raise their hands when asked if they had ever been arrested.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 15:44:00 GMT -5
she is one of those people like Palin that is overflowing with confidence, without having done much of anything to earn it. she sounds like she got a GED (i think she did), and never worked a real job in her life. she doesn't understand the difference between foolishness and rebellion. and she doesn't understand that by vacating her district, she invited the fury of a handful of Republicans who are now running against her. all of those factors will come to play in her election. i don't think she stands a chance of winning. and thus ends yet another despicable chapter in MAGAdom. yes. i am predicting she loses. which is good for the GOP, and possibly the country.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 15:35:40 GMT -5
Now for a "lighter" note of how I became an "Accidental TP Hoarder". First the set up: I live by myself and have always had this rather irrational fear of getting diarrhea and running out of TP and being too sick to get new TP. So for as long as I can remember I have always had ~3 packs of TP in the house -a full one and an opened one in each of my two bathrooms. So when we were all send home to quarantine I went for some food but the empty paper goods shelves didn't bother me at all. Then late June I decided to pick up a pack because I could see that come winter there could be shortages again. Now you may remember that at the time they only sold those huge packs. I put it in storage but forgot I bought it and did the same a month later. I said some unlady like things when I realized what I had done but TP doesn't spoil so no real harm. But sooooo much TP... Now my sons have a bit of a warped sense of humor. So come Christmas when we exchanged gifts using Zoom for opening there was this humongous box DS1 had delivered to my home. You guessed it: he (living in S'pore) found this whole TP shortage hilarious and he had ordered this as a gag-gift. Thus the Accidental TP Hoarder was born I gave some of it away to friends who could not find any when they needed it. Or they needed it but were sick so they couldn't go to the store. And here I am. Almost four years after that fateful start of this whole thing and I checked my supplies. In a few months I will need to put TP on the "buy when on sale" list to maintain my pre-Covid reserves. hope you have some water and rice. they will save your ass sooner than TP. pun intended.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 15:34:08 GMT -5
that is a bird, not a country. Ok, ok…Türkiye.😎 yeah. probably not my first choice. having said that, the cost of living 38% that of the US, including a staggering 17% cost of HOUSING. picture yourself in a coastal village, with a sea view, in a six bedroom, four bath two story Mediterranean style house that cost you $400k. kinda makes you not worry much about their version of Trump as much. especially with a Yacht sitting down in the harbor and a 15 minute boat ride to Greece.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 29, 2024 14:09:13 GMT -5
i can't contain myself. i just gotta say this. when i was traveling to Pacific Mexico a year ago, there was a couple in the pharmacy buying Ivermectin. i am basically 100% sure they were doing it as an investment because of the QUANTITY they were buying. it was about the size of a shoebox. it was in the KILO range. it was far more than they could use personally. i am SURE they were bringing it back to the US to sell. people like that are disgusting to me. i mean that without reservation. i find disaster capitalism (that is you, WCPS) disgusting in general. but doing it for fake medication like this is beyond disgusting. it makes me want to move to another country. seriously. it is INTOLERABLE. Turkey?😎 that is a bird, not a country.
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