JoeWeber

Please direct my attention to where Jerome Powell stated that my positions were false. Not yours, mine.

That's the problem. They don't always dribble spittle, pick out their nose hairs in distraction, or tell you about the time they were abducted, but in every case they absolutely identify with their captor and empathize with their abusers goals. Oh, and they vote.

They own that portion of inflation that can reasonably be attributed to the stimulus, maybe 30% depending on whose lies you believe. But then they also own any societal benefits that can be attributed to the stimulus. No matter, it is apparently the case that our increasing national debt is as salubrious, at least until those nasty economic feed back loops kick in, as increasing levels of CO2: more food, more jobs, higher wages and so on.

The individuals involved are also similar such that they are also members of the same species, which is interesting but hardly relevant. Like you, I also safe any gun handed to me no matter the qualifications of the giver. I also take great care where I point a gun regardless of whether I personally safed it or not. Nor do I consider any gun safe just because the safety is on. The point is that just because Baldwin plays a gunslinger on TV doesn't mean he has a good understanding or practice of safe fire arms behavior anymore than he would understand warp drives when playing an alien. It could be that just like a trusting student accepting a final gear check from a JM before jumping his accepting a "safed" gun from a qualified, SAG card carrying, gun handler was what he and his co-workers considered safe. Maybe his checking of the handlers work would be considered insulting in that line of work. As far as pulling the trigger goes, have you ever sat in a goose pit and the guy in the next pit over had a discharge as he was standing to shoot? Maybe Baldwin was lying about that but maybe he is also a victim of his own ignorance and has bouts of normal, human, mis-rembering. To my mind, unless the safety protocols on the set included a responsibility by him to recheck the "experts" work he should get a pass and the handler should get a cell.

That's ridiculous.

How would you have executed that withdrawal that was negotiated by Trump? Helicopters off the roof of the US Embassy? Like the retreat from Chosin? Mao's Long March? Or would you have emulated Leonidas at Thermopylae? There was no good option and no way to control every nasty variable. If you want someone to blame for those soldiers deaths blame George W. Bush and yourself if you voted for him.

I assume you'll agree that it is possible his copy didn't have this information. I think you need to cut him a little slack here.

The similarity ends where SAG is involved and kids without knowledge, discipline, or direct supervision are given a responsibility that might cause an accidental game of Russian Roulette because they have a union card.

Time to start passing the Chapatis.

Well, it isn't your country that's up for grabs and either way you'll be stuffed with internet talking points so I can sort of see your lack of concern. The value of the content of the debate is always debatable and often forgettable, no doubt. So the real reason to watch it fore to aft is to see if on her first side by side with Trump if she could come off as appearing Presidential. That's what can turn an election and that she did. Sorry you missed that.

Good plan, vignettes always tell the whole story.

It's always fun to vent and hope you are wrong.

Yes, well as a dogless Catamaran sailor, I approve this message.

She won, as if winning were the standard, by a mile. Trump showed himself to be the ignorant ass that he is. I'm looking for a 2 point Harris bump. Make that 3 points. Taylor Swift just endorsed Harris/Walz.

That may satisfy Ken but I need more. I think your next 5 posts need to start with the phrase: "Okay, so some days I have a crappy attitude but..............."

I'll give you all of that and an Argentina and still see no more than a smoldering camp fire not a powder keg with a lit fuse. Sure Black Swans happen but they aren't necessarily any worse than White Swans or the odd, unexpected Orange Swan which the nation and world also survived. Harris will likely be a place holder for a better Republican down the line while Trump definitely fits the fool me twice mold.

You don't read SC half awake you read it half hammered. No wonder you don't understand Brents insightful science lessons or Rich Ravizza's cogent repartee.

Makes sense, I suppose, if your goal is more Trump voters.

I doubt any Harris supporters here will argue that we lucked out and got the best possible choice; it was simply Biden or Harris. I fear her less than I fear our system of choosing leaders which is clearly hopeless and becoming more so.

Same song, different lyrics, still boring. It's Trump or Harris and Trump, by any measure, is a vastly larger risk. She'll have a cabinet, advisors, and probably a Republican House and Senate: no need to oil the doomsday machine.

That's becoming my sentiment.

Back when I was with the Bird and Bunny people we’d defeat timber sales(the loggers do pay something) by making the roads egregiously more expensive than normal. The Forest Service often paid more for the road than they got for the timber. A spotted owl feather here, an endangered sedge there, and next thing you know they’re tossing in the towel.

Pretty much if you just admit you’re an idiot, you’re good these days. Might even get yourself a needed hug to calm down.

Well, if anyone could know a complete asshole when he sees one Dick Cheney is a stand out for sure.

I give it two minutes before the NASA report form was filled out and in a stamped envelope.