JoeWeber

Some, again. Some isn't a number, it's a feel. Yes, yes, of course, of course, even one is too many and blah, blah, blah. But I am unconvinced that the actual number is worth all of the pearl clutching. Texas, the only state that even makes a stab at it, as far as I know right now, finds that murder, rape, and other crimes are committed at conviction rates significantly lower than for US Citizens (adjusted for them also being Texans, I'm guessing). June 26, 2024 CATO Policy Institute paper: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-06/Policy-Analysis-977-new-release-date.pdf

How do we all not simply advance to the obvious: this is all manufactured bullshit not worth our time as a society. Let's get on with making bathrooms with stalls only and with sinks outside or separate while at the same time looking at remodels of existing public bathrooms. Also, just to move things along, so to speak, and keep the hanky panky to a minimum let's install automatic door openers on all stall doors set to go off with a buzzer after 5 minutes.

Nonetheless it's is going to happen. People are getting more pissed by the day because it's ever more obvious we are getting screwed, our doctors are a big part of the problem, and we do not have the best healthcare or outcomes in the world, period. I recently couldn't get my heart medicine refilled for the umpteenth time until I made an appointment with my cardiologist and had my time wasted for an hour waiting and 5 minutes with the bastard not to mention scheduling my days around it all. Of course during and after Covid telehealth was no problemo and he even took my word on my blood pressure. I need to get my next echo out of yearly insurance sync for my medical so it will be out of pocket, oh well. I asked how much that would be and he said someone in the business office would know, as if he hadn't a clue, then mumbled probably hundreds but probably not thousands, and scurried off knowing he'd just made an ass of himself. Not to put Jay's knickers in a twist again but we used to laugh about people going postal when the actuality was no laughing matter. Hopefully health insurance gets fixed before we are wrongly laughing about that, too.

Indeed not! Better to lay in wait, silent and unseen like a viper, and then pounce on drivers doing next to nothing wrong and give out obscene tickets to bolster their cop cred instead of humane warnings as they once did.

Of course, it was just Trump being Trump; he really doesn't mean what he says. He is simply pandering to an especially ignorant part of his base and the remaining willfully ignorant part of his base. Everyone needs to just be reasonable and read between the lines and hope for the best. In the words of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: You gotta believe.

Sorry to inform you in a public forum but that is what prejudice is. That is what misogyny is. That is what bigotry is. If you are cool with your legacy here being that, fine by me. But there is still time to recognize those truths and say you get it and want to change.

Holy Shit! Jim Jordan released a report titled: "THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION’S OPEN-BORDERS POLICIES: THE CASE OF THE ILLEGAL ALIEN WHO BRUTALLY ASSAULTED A TEENAGE LOUISIANA GIRL". For sure it's "Fair and Balanced". I'll put it on my reading list. Thanks.

Well then, are you willing to reassess your concerns about a flood of rapists crossing the border given that your concerns are based on fantasy? I'm curious, how many undocumented Mexican types have saved a documented someones life after crossing?

Plenty? So enough? Good and Plenty? I have yet to see the number, please tell us that number.

That was worthy of a chuckle.

I just love how willingly they now unmask themselves everywhere in general and specifically here on SC. Their 15 minutes to crow here is about to come to a screeching halt and they don’t want to waste a second. Even Jay who, you know, just drops by every decade or so to marvel at our liberal circle jerk has now joined in almost minute by minute and even updated his avatar to be more relevant. Finally, puppy kicking is back.

I wonder if she called him "Sir", before explaining a policy that could see her fired? Suppose?

Freed from any obligations to control prices........ Expecting prices of raw materials to increase under Trump, construction and manufacturing businesses pare down work forces as a way to say Merry Christmas Trump Voters?

Sometimes a question answers itself: we must send nicely worded letters commending them for jobs well done while observing in the softest possible terms that even the price of cake has risen impossibly to where all chance for a comfortable retirement with full bellies has vanished for the billions of people who aren't paid millions per year or more. Confirm that the slightest hard feelings are in no way held by those freezing to death in unheated hovels owing fuel costs or whose loved ones are dying horribly while health care approvals are awaited. Maybe include a nice box of Godiva Chocolates as a thank you for reading the letter.

You can pretend how you like but your obsession with male homosexuality comes across as projection. It makes me wonder if you didn't choose Green Beret's for the purpose. Go ahead and tell me I'm a fag or that I think like a girl or whatever is next up on your program of deflecting insults. I couldn't care less as neither are personal attacks to me.

When you state “Their gayness is evident” you are making a judgement.

How evident? Like he made me hold the yappy dog in a flower shop evident? What exactly are gay people doing to you that you don't like?

If you say so but it does seem odd for a Head of HR to publicly bemoan a sensitive corporate internal matter with a plus one at a party.

Any chance she was pandering to you because she knows your bent and so as to not embarrass your wife who actually has the job? Nah, that wouldn’t happen at a corporate holiday party.

Always it's a homosexual expectation on the right. I know Skydekker's face from his avatar only, if that's even him, so sneaking up on him from behind for a reach around would entail at least as much risk as hope. Less risk and more hope than giving it a go with a Green Beret, I suppose. No matter, this statement by Kevin O'Leary of O'Leary Ventures and Shark Tank fame was online today regarding the ambush murder we've enjoyed discussing: "If anything good is going to come of this, it's going to be policy change because you've basically got people lighting up their torches, just like in the Frankenstein story and going to the castle, and they're going to burn it down," O’Leary told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “And you got to hear that, so if you're an executive saying, 'get me more security guards,' wrong answer. That’s just wrong.” So Jay, it is possible for some of us to observe, imagine, and contemplate a thing without condoning the event or dismissing it's basic horror.

Well, in fact, I do have one extra at the moment. However we do have a rigorous application process that, for you, can be expedited. Can you sign your name?

You have too much of a $1.3Trillion Dollar company to dump at once? Alrighty then. So would you enjoy your own private airport for your flying and jumping pleasures?

Because he serves a higher purpose; his posts here, and what he inspires others to write, are uplifting and give meaning. His message of offering foregiveness and understanding to those who have less and who nature has left confused gives meaning and keeps me from being a complete asshole as, apparently, God intended. Come to think about it, maybe his words spread wider would help more folks like me if we did grab his silly self and drag him screaming upstairs to a 6th floor window and bombs away!

I won't be as untroubled over the demise as some. I have learned much here, especially from my antagonists and, if selfishly, will miss it and all of you.

Bill doesn't fret such things, he just likes playing the fields.