JoeWeber

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  1. JoeWeber
    Rum snob, actually.
  2. JoeWeber
    Some years ago I switched from coffee to tea on the theory that it was the coffee that made me such an asshole some days. It wasn't, of course, but still I never went back. You just can not beat a fine second flush Indian Assam.
  3. JoeWeber
    Not enough El Dorado 21 can cause severe bouts of anxiety and persistent cupboard rustling.
  4. JoeWeber
    Would you mind fleshing this out a bit?
  5. JoeWeber
    Pfizer. The shot is approved and it's safety is backed up with tons of data.
  6. JoeWeber
    Yep, and it can not be counted out. You're good and you and Amy also, probably, have an umbrella for you kids, T & I are good, and from what I can tell most of the liberal types here are also good. Same with most of the liberal types we know who are older than 50. But the way things will be for our friends who don't fit into the conservative world view is a very sad contemplation.
  7. JoeWeber
    Not to impugn your legal credentials but are you sure some paid to opine expert on MSNBC and Youtube is certainly correct. I hope so, absolutely, but you know, inquiring minds and all.
  8. JoeWeber
    Dude, take a chill pill. I've had seven Covid jabs, three under the Dutch system and four here in the US. As soon as the rejiggered bivalent jab is ready I will have had 8. Getting the vaccine is smart for the individual and smart for a member of society who is out and about exercising their free migration rights. Just like not speeding through a school zone it's what you do if you care more about not harming others than you do about being a several minutes to a critical doctors appointment. The jab is safe and all of the counter arguments are weak either factually or statistically.
  9. JoeWeber
    And that sums it up entirely with the Trump and Trump enablers defense: it has nothing to do with right or wrong its all about landing on the Get Out of Jail Free corner.
  10. JoeWeber
    Grrrr... The Georgia case has been assigned to Judge Scott McAfee. +/- 35 years old, a lawyer for 10 years and a judge for seven months. Was Doogie Houser unavailable?
  11. JoeWeber
    By Friday the 25th at Noon Trump and all 19 named defendants must either volunteer for arrest or face consequences. If they book the bastard I have a bottle of 1996 Grand Cru Burgundy that will be sacrificed.
  12. JoeWeber
    What's to discuss? The Redite migration to places of no imagination continues apace. When are you going?
  13. JoeWeber
    10 indictments handed down in Georgia. DA to speak after the Clerk logs the results into the system, presumably an online system. It is late there now, for sure.
  14. JoeWeber
    Except now we have Trump Judges implanted everywhere and and equally perfidious republican coverup party playing defense.
  15. JoeWeber
    That's as beside the point as this manufactured brouhaha over my observing that the detainees hold dual citizenship. I explained why I included that fact a few times and if that's not satisfactory so be it. Too bad there seems so little interest in the actual matter.
  16. JoeWeber
    I'm an EU resident not a citizen, yet.
  17. JoeWeber
    I wouldn't say red herring, maybe light pink herring, but it is a fact and I was simply observing it.
  18. JoeWeber
    No.
  19. JoeWeber
    As in 5 soccer moms kidnapped off the streets of America? Yes. I am not making my point well enough, I guess. I tend to categorize folks with multiple citizenships as internationalists who should have a fair knowledge of the risks, in this case, of holding US citizenship in a hostile nation. But that is just one aspect of this, the paying of vast sums of money as one component of this hostage release is just bad policy. Hey, I know, why not call me out for victim blaming, too?
  20. JoeWeber
    You are being silly. It was simply being descriptive of who they are: folks of Iranian decent with Iranian and American citizenship living and/or working in Iran where they were detained. That is worldly people who must have known there was some risk of detention simply because they were dual citizens.
  21. JoeWeber
    Agreed. I'm as happy to let the hostages sue Iran as I am Slim, of course. I just really think we made a mistake for everyone, not just the US. But it's not a done deal yet and hopefully it goes to hell and President Harris kiboshes the whole thing
  22. JoeWeber
    Money is fungible and the $6 Billion in hostage money is unlikely to cause them to be any more humanitarian; they'll just use the boon to make more boom. Worse setting a hostage price is foolhardy. No matter, let's say you're right and that they are now disagreeable and dangerous actors because the United States kicked a nice dog until it became a mean dog. If you feel okay, because of some sense of right letting it play with your kids that's your call, but I think the damn thing needs to stay in it's cage until we're sure it'll play nice again.
  23. JoeWeber
    I think the Biden administration is blowing it big time. I don't care who these dual citizenship folks are or what trumped up charges were leveled against them. Whoever they are, they aren't 5 soccer moms kidnapped, with their minivan, off the streets of America and no way should we be trading 5 of our prisoners and $6 Billion Dollars for them. Thinking that the money will only be spent on humanitarian programs is foolish. We are giving Iran $6 Billion to spend on their armament programs and there is no other rational way to see it. Even if there is some inside poker we can't see we are still setting the per hostage price at $1.2 Billion. Not smart.
  24. JoeWeber
    What does your friend do that he has such access?
  25. JoeWeber
    Maybe Godfather Biden took it in untraceable cash and blow from Hunter? Sure, that's it. Prove it's not true if you can.