JoeWeber

No Ken, there are 19 words that have a Q not followed by a U. Assuming U is not Q the answer may be in the number 19, a prime number with significant biblical meaning. Napthali had 19 cities, In Samual 19 men were killed and Nebuchadnezzar burned down Jerusalem in the 19th year of his reign. In ancient times it was known as the number of surrender and it is the only whole number preceded by 18 and succeeded by 20. Coincidence? I don't see how. You might want to open your mind a little.

Roger that. It's easy to call it buying friends but what is it called when they are your friends? Sometimes you take one for the team. Omaha Beach, or Ploesti, for example.

Is there a single topic on any forum on any planet you don't feel qualified to parachute into and make an asinine statement or ask a vacuous question? The evidence suggests not.

Why are you not a Moderator here?

Right on, Brother, I also like where the economy is right now, it's just where I think it's going and why that irritates me. I was good with the Paris Accords for two reasons: I do think CO2 is an issue and I think it pays dividends in many ways to hang with friends who trust you and stand by you. China, well, they needed a good swift kick in the nuts for a lot of reasons and maybe tariffs were the right play. But China only plays the long game and considering they are on track to own the world in a few hundred years, or less, I might have tried to be sure there was a win for the USA in there somewhere. With President Dipsy Doodle I'm seeing long term losses only. But even if I liked his policies, and while he's put money in my pocket I do not, I like to think I am honest and true enough to hate him and want him gone if he turned out to be a lying, corrupt, self dealing, miserable ass who denigrated the office of the Presidency and eroded our power, standing and influence in the world. That the self styled patriots in this forum fall short of that conclusion is, to my mind, a sad commentary.

Hopefully one of SC's better forensic dumbologists can offer a more authoritative opinion but that has to be one of the most ridiculous analogies any right wing hypno-boy has ever posted on this site. Elvis Presely was in the be outrageous business. Our President is supposed to be in, what seems now a long, long time ago, the not be outrageous business. You know, calm and steady like the leader of a great nation not a gaudy uniform wearing buffoon like Gaddafi.

Go for it. Sounds like a hoot.

It's known as Caetextia. It's the inability to perceive context. It's like when someone is showering but only washes the bits they can see because nothing else, apparently, exists.

For fucks sake dude, it's the goddamn Presidency of the United States of America not an Amway dealership or the Presidency of Zimbabwe. We don't expect or want our President to try to recuperate his losses by using the power of his office. This unbelievable horse shit is why I'm beginning to think you are hopeless. You probably think using congressionally approved military assistance money to extract personal gain from a friendly country while their soldiers are being killed by one of our main geopolitical adversaries is just business as usual and no big deal. Bottom line: our Prez is losing money at his hotels and golf courses so of course he needs to squeeze a few foreigners to get himself straight, right? See, fucking moron intellectuals are just wanking themselves over nothing again.

Isn't that the truly frightening thing? I don't believe Ron was just offering a bit of kumbaya from a homey, I believe he's simply programmed to see, read and hear as he must. And, as he's shown time and again, he'll go to any length to make it come out right including arguing that you can not see the truth in one thing until you see the fallacy in another. We are living in a very weird world.

You're getting closer. Now just leave out the hyphen and you'll be left with inner party. Yes, I can grasp your points but deciphering illiterate screeds is, quite frankly, boring. You're committing no crimes nor are you in school, as you pointed out, but illiteracy is not a virtue. If you were trying I'd be the first to give you a pass but you don't try. Instead you insist that I try to understand how you communicate. Sorry, man, you aren't speaking a foreign language so the obligation is not mine. I'm not woke by a ninny President or his angry acolytes who think mocking is an adult thing to do. It is not. It is, in fact, dumb. Spelling former President Obama's name with a zero instead of an O is a childish thing to do, again and again and again, and is also an intentional disparagement. Worse, it isn't funny. It was not my intent to disparage your family. It was my intent to disparage the sort of simple mindedness that might inspire someone to insult thoughtfulness with this stultifying nonsense: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” Deep down you must know that is a ridiculous thing to say.

And then stood on your heads chugging PBR's? How went the discussion on whether Enceladus, Titan or Europa are good candidates for finding life in our solar system? Were the anti-vaxer's at the table yet unpersuaded by the evidence? I can only assume all were perplexed by the recent discovery of ancient snake fossils with hind legs that sort of fuck up previous understandings. No?

Seriously, Rich, if you aren't able to find spell or grammar check solutions before you post you should stick to the "we smoke fatties before we type" forums. Yes that's damn harsh but this is a more thoughtful forum than you should post on. It's just not O.K. to spell relevance "relivence", prestige "prestege", "innerparty" for whatever the hell that means, or to spell former President Obama's name with an "0" instead of an O. Your posts drag down the quality here. Please up your game.

You're tugging my ding-a-ling, right? Even if I agreed with you that Trump and his base were mocking me, and I do not, mocking is a school kids game not an adults game. For damn certain it isn't a game for Presidents. He is a national embarrassment who has degraded the office of the President for that alone. Trump has serious mental issues, extreme narcissism being only one, and how anyone can buy into the bullshit that attempts to explain it away for any fucking reason period is simply baffling. You are being played. "The final, most essential command of the Party is telling people to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears". - George Orwell

Good point. Maybe there should be a Double Heart like button.

You certainly cannot be faulted for your reading comprehension. In fairness, he is a republican so I need to communicate at his level. Quid Pro, NO!

Sorry. Foolish of me. Carry on.

Well I'll be dipped in doo-doo and rolled in crumbles. You do have a bit of self awareness.

I was so focused on jabbing you in the ass, I fucked up. Please accept the most sincere apologies I can offer you. Now, I won't disagree I can be an intolerable moron at times but after a full head of hair and an acceptable manhood my sense of humor is my most prized possession. Please take that back.

I was hoping this would be debunked, but so far no. Trump supporters and future repeat voters, and I do mean you Brent, airdvr, Ron and anyone else, your President tweeted this photoshopped image of himself. Do you honestly believe he is of sound enough mind to control our nuclear arsenal? Our military? Our Domestic and Foreign policy? Or even hold your daughters hand? You voted for him so you own this. What will it take for you to come around?

It was a quip, nonetheless I stand corrected. Also, I have no doubt your mere presence can be a deterrence

Nice try. Just the act of typing Canada and Mexico in your travelogue should have caused an instant desire to hit the delete button. I'll just assume you were on missions to understand the world and not on the cheap pharmaceutical bus. Also, and you're forgiven because the right so often gets it wrong, Puerto Rico is us. Sorry Brent, but world travel isn't like skydiving where you can jump at a few places decades ago, quit the sport, and still claim to be a skydiver. The world is way bigger than a dozen countries that are mostly all accessible by a comfortable train ride, never suffering time zone lag. That, and it's the cheap shoe producing nations in the East, which you've denigrated twice now, where our main focus should be. Not 1980 Lithuania.

Aren't you precious? You tucked yourself away in upper back woods Georgia decades ago to escape America and you have the unmitigated gall and audacity to question my desire to live here? And it's not like you're getting your affairs in order to return to the fold. Nope, you spend your days ringing your hands over the horrid dissipation of American society, praying for Jesus, Q or, for all I know, Rip Van Winkle to swoop in to save the day all while stock piling hat tin foil on your 40 acre hidey hole somewhere back in the sticks even further away from America. How does knowing that I enjoy travel, meeting people from other cultures and am fully convinced that understanding, as best I am able, those who share our planet give you the idea that I hate capitalism? Trust me, I love capitalism; it's been good to me. That, to be blunt is why when those who either have put no thought into the problem or don't own a pot to piss in or a window to toss it out of start discussing taxing the rich I'm inclined to request a little non-subjective clarity. I simply believe, and don't drop your ammo, that the best way to protect it's benefits is to include a certain fundamental fairness into a system that has always operated in shades of grey. For you, to put it mildly, everything is Black or White.

Cute reference. Have you ever been to the Philippines? No? No surprise. I don't need you to fight for me. More importantly, I don't want you to think I need you to fight for me. Get out, man. Go to the weird places without an American flag sewn on your shoulder. You might learn something.

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