when i first happened upon joeuser in april 2004, it was a maelstrom election year politics in which no aspect--no matter how seemingly trivial or mundane--seemed to pass without comment. so how to explain why, despite months of absolute batshit lunacy to date, all of which is almost certain to be eclipsed every hour of every day from now until election day, no one here seems to have anything to say.
[quote]Now if you question our government you are racist. [/quote] examples?
consider this a purely anecdotal observation: from age 8 through 16, i lived in a suburb of detroit consisting of mostly two-story multi-bedroom/multi-bathroom brick homes occupied by their owners, single families whose single wage earner held blue-collar jobs at local car factories, steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, foundries and other manufacturers. female parents in only two of perhaps fifty families of kids with whom i hung out worked and both were single (1 was widowe
quantifying/defining what constitutes a middle class in contemporary america is sufficiently complex to warrant application of justice stewarti's mystical approximation of obscenity as so elusive it defies legal description and therefore able only to be "known" when encountered. it's a concept more relevant to europe since--at least officially--there's no provision for aristocracy and thus no conventional upper class in america. there is a class of people wh
years ago, a friend and roommate--at the time, a nascent writer who would become, of all things, a professional poet--arranged a party at our home to celebrate a reading by local artists elevated by virtue of a special guest: allen ginsberg. ginsberg had agreed to be interviewed later that evening by my friend for a local publication. one question--i can't recall what was being asked--was framed in the context of how "the people" (read proletariat) should or shouldn't resp
[quote who="Jafo" reply="11" id="3596077"] it was a wise decision to elect an altzheimer's sufferer just because he once shot cowboys and Indians in the movies. [/quote] you're overlooking his heroics during wwii--shot down over nazi germany, escaping from that pow camp, stealing priceless tech intel and destroying a key enemy installation after bomber-jacking a flight back to britain
[quote who="BONEHEADdb" reply="5" id="3595463"] The "President" we have now has turned the middle East over to Russia while turning his back on Israel. [/quote] if only. short of turning the middle east, isreal included, over to itself, encouraging russia to bleed itself dry for the next 70 years in that foolish endeavor works well for me. hell, i might even feel sorry for them eventually.
like jimmy kimmel, i'm looking forward to trump's first outdoor rainy day speaking event.
i'd have no problem copping to lurking if that were the case. more accurately, i occasionally drop by whenever circumstances seem favorable, ie i become aware of an issue that strikes me as being sufficiently important, ludicrous or both to the point those joeusers who've fallen by the wayside over the past 5 years can no longer remain silent AND i choose to disregard good sense and project deadlines to join them in that endeavor. fortunately for my clients but sadly for
couldn't say it any better now. http://al-fahryd-i-nhumon.joeuser.com/article/408226/Donald_Trump
and then this: produced by the same people who brought us "Is the Pope Catholic?"
i couldn't resist dropping by to discover whether manufacturers of measles vaccine were part of the conspiracy. then i found this which demands a caption: "hey doc, you can go on and on about how this will only hurt for a moment. according to my former embryonic associates i should be shooting you up with truth serum. gotta
in the event an effective ebola immunization vaccine be developed...
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="10" id="3145856"]You saying we should adopt a really really bad idea because, hey, the last really bad idea was horrible but didn't kill us? [/quote] i wasn't defending, much less supporting carbon credit swaps. ridiculously useless for any purpose--slime bait comes first to mind despite an overall lack of interest demonstrated by so many truly despicable, rabidly aggressive flimflamming parasitic investment buncos. whooops. i seem u
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="6" id="3141456"]Very thin reed (CDO's) to tie your flag to, there, kb.[/quote] i gotta confess i've no personal experience in speculative markets since mid-1982 when i optioned 100 oz of platinum at a time when spot platinum was very close to that of gold--both having declined a considerable amount during the previous couple months. i held a 6 month option and needed only a $45 increase by the first market day of 1983 to profit. Unfortunately it
[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="5" id="3141182"]Pretty sure it is "carbon credits"... which is what I heard the 1st time through, and the second time to verify.[/quote] well there ya go.
somewhere right around 2:50 "i'd devise fictitious products like _______ and trade them in imaginary markets" can't quite hear what the product is but it sounds much more like carbon something than it does synthetic cdos. i guess that's probably because synthetic cdos trade in an unimaginably under-regulated market. the very thing i'd advocate if i wanted america to fail.
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dammit. please delete #7 for me.
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[quote who="Bahu Virupaksha" reply="4" id="3110213"]for a member of a occupying military force to indulge in massavres[/quote] i can't be sure why you chose to characterize bale's actions as indulgence. do you totally reject the possibility bales is profoundly ill. are you convinced each soldier in every army on earth harbors a desire to do something similar so the only real difference between bales and his peers is they're somehow better at exercising impulse contro
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[quote who="Bahu Virupaksha" reply="4" id="3110213"]for a member of a occupying military force to indulge in massavres[/quote] i can't be sure why you chose to characterize bale's actions as indulgence. do you totally reject the possibility bales is profoundly ill. are you convinced each soldier in every army on earth harbors a desire to do something similar so the only real difference between bales and his peers is they're somehow able to exercise impulse control?&n
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this isn't a rhetorical question and i'm unable to search out an accurate answer at the moment so i'm tossing it to you bahu. are you able to tell us how many non-afghans working or living in afghanistan have been murdered over the past decade by afghan citizens who may or may not have been driven mad by ideology or extreme religiosity. how many of those killers worked with or were employed by nato or the un. of those, how many appeared to have been considered
this is gonna cause all kinda problems. is he a carpenter who might get all upset pondering the tax consequences of possibly, sorta in the near future maybe going into business for himself which then, who knows?, anything could happen earn him more than $250k at some point? or is he really a professional community activist who never once during his adult life earned a single shekel making something with his hands? then there's his radical approach to replacin
i lived in michigan when george romney was governor. i was introduced to him and shook hands when he dropped by to support my father's candidacy for a seat in the state legislature. (my dad ran as a republican in our district where about 9 outta 10 voters loudly proclaimed themselves to be emphatic bout being democratic.) a few years later, during the 1967 uprising, george ordered occupation of my neighborhood by michigan national guard troops armed with combat weapons
[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="4" id="3109380"]king of class struggle[/quote] ain't that an ironic characterization? didn't know monarchists were one of the warring classes. based solely on those things obama has actually said and done since his inauguration, i'm fairly sure his eventual place on the american political continuum is gonna fall slightly to the right of such wild-eyed firebrands as dirkson and rockerfeller. you--along with everyon
btw america went socialist some time back when the first farm subsidy check was tendered and cashed.