winsor

Sure, but when negotiating a minefield my focus is not the lovely flowers therein.

I have worked with women who went below the radar by playing the airhead Barbie doll type, but actually had minds like steel traps. I get no sense that Harris is pretending to be a moron - her track record makes clear that what you see is what you get. Her opponent is beneath contempt by any measure, but she is just as bad when all is said and done. The US of A is an adolescent society as empires go, so it's useful to consider what kind of ghastly "leadership" has been survivable historically. The policies supported by Harris have been the kiss of death to every nation that has put them in practice. On the other hand you have a sociopathic candidate driven solely by greed and self interest, and it is thus possible that he will avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg. With Harris our goose is cooked Either way, this election goes beyond 'hold your nose and vote,' it is one of having barf bags available at the voting booths. BSBD, Winsor

Better to remain silent and be thought ignorant than to speak and remove all doubt, or words to that effect. I wish we had the modern equivalent of Silent Cal, as opposed to the blithering idiots on both sides of the aisle that are now the norm.

"In June 1943, U.S. Representative Andrew J. May revealed to reporters that Japanese depth charges were set too shallow, giving American submarines a higher survival rate during World War II. May said the Japanese didn't know how deep U.S. submarines could dive. The press conference was held after May returned from a war zone trip, and the story was published in many newspapers, including one in Honolulu, Hawaii. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, the Japanese adjusted their depth charges after May's revelation, but the change cost the Navy 10 submarines and 800 sailors." This caused a great deal of alarm amongst the populus but, when all is said and done, politicians operate by a completely different set of rules. Appealing thought it may be to apply the guillotine to the King, the aftermath is NEVER what was intended or expected. I've been to rather a few countries after revolutions or civil wars, and the worst outcomes were ALWAYS the result of the best of intentions. When I was a teenager I viewed with derision those possessed of naivete. I now see naivete as a great luxury - "if I didn't know now what I didn't know then..." I am less fearful of greed and self interest than I am of well intentioned zealotry - not that I am a fan of either. BSBD, Winsor

All the way!

If there was any hint of balance, you might have a point.

Think Richard/Rachel Levine.

To some, "Quotations from Chairman Mao" is reactionary.

I think the Dobbs decision was technically correct, even though I'm pro-death. Using the First Amendment to keep people from inflicting their superstitions on others could be grounds for ensuring that first-trimester abortion be safe, legal and available. A careful review of the Constitution fails to support policies I recommend. Among those is a more complete separation of powers, such that members of the Judicial branch are kept out of the Executive or Legislative branches except as employees.

Nah, putting up with the Mango Mussolini any further is positively revolting, but the alternative is on a par with Rome turning their defenses over to the Visigoths, which was catastrophic. I'm sure it sounded like a good idea at the time...

Guard is State, Reserves are Federal. Different chain of command.

That and she's Reserve, not Guard, and an Officer, not NCO.

It seems Tulsi Gabbard didn't have to retire.

I know enough people who loathe the Republican candidate but utterly despise woke Marxism that your evaluation is not entirely accurate. The choice is thus akin to having to choose between having to eat excrement and poison - which can be a tough decision. BSBD, Winsor

Agreed Trump is FUBAR. I wish the Democrats didn't try to make him look good by comparison.

I was referring to Blofeld, of course.

As a cat owner, I'm sure he'd appeal to childless women of a certain age.

I dispute the 'smart' part. I've seen no indication of that.

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Any form of "DEI."

Nailed it.

It ain't the years, it's the mileage.

My mother taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. In highschool I was in town with a friend and stopped by to meet her for lunch. Trying to find her classroom, we stuck our heads into an Anatomy classroom for directions. I saw a number of students trying to do well on the assignment, with an uncomfortable subject trying not to move. My heart went out to all the participants, but my companion just about lost it. He was like an American on a nude beach for the first time. Like a nude jump, where pretty much nobody's on the menu, there is little about an Anatomy class that one could describe as erotic. Turning on the TV in France after a late night at work, there was a couple being affectionate. It soon went way past soft core, and they appeared to enjoy themselves greatly. Broadcast TV porn apparently stopped sometime later, and the reason was ad revenues. It seems they could make more money showing something else, so they did. Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying that sex is like air, it's no big deal unless you're not getting any. This I suspect that the people who freak at seeing naked people are mostly envious. When travelling I prefer societies where, if a young woman wears Daisy Dukes nobody bats an eye. On the beach outside of Leningrad a beefy woman changed into her bathing suit out in the open, but Russia dances to a different drummer. Anyhow, I fully expect my kid to have access to much that is not to my taste. I figure freaking out over it doesn't buy much, and he seems to roll with it if I give him a straight answer to a straight question if the subject comes up. YMMV. BSBD, Winsor

Doesn't take much imagination. A fellow teetotaler with a can-do approach (you have to break some eggs to make an omelet) Time to resort to The Art of the Deal! If you were a Stable Genius it would be pretty obvious. BTW, did Mr. Ed qualify as a Stable Genius

You don't think that he was being the tiniest bit facetious? If someone "identifies" as something or another, opinions vary as to the extent to which one should humor them. The NAACP bigwig that took a lot of flack because she had 100% European bloodlines had at least as good a case as someone who "identifies" as a sex other than the one revealed by a basic blood test.