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Re: Dubya momentarily confuses Putin with himself… - Yesterday

QuoteSpeedy Word have never been that man’s friend. Nor has Excel ever been one of his standards...

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Hometown pranking - 2 days ago

QuoteSpeedy Quotemrbigstuff Does shooting the water tower contaminate all the water? Minimally. I fully expect this to be another wave of GQP insanity - they've already attacked 5G towers, so why wouldn't they go after the fluoride in the water? How many bullets would it take to cause meaningful levels of lead poisoning?

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Right-Right-Right wing Mastriano wins GOP primary in PA - 2 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop This is not the Senate race in which Fetterman is the Dem opponent. That GOP primary is still too close to call. I hope the lady wins... she may be GQP crazy but I don't doubt that at some point she'll do something so far outside the right's rationalizations it'll seal her defeat.

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Madison goes down - 2 days ago

The worst part is that clown is in there until the end of the first week of January of 2023 and gets to collect all the benefits of having been a one time member of the US Congress: 1) Health insurance for life 2) Pension 3) Secret Service protection if there's a viable threat against him 4) Endless consulting $$ for lobbying firms I'm just waiting for the day when it comes out that he is a

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: college parents peoples: did you scour the Internet forums for advice on college tuition? - 4 days ago

QuoteFormerlySaleenl I found really helpful and people that I have talked to have confirmed that the advice is solid. You know, I followed the first step and googled an elite college I know a child is vaguely interested in attending but thinks is entirely unaffordable along with some approximate financial info. The result was a bit... peculiar. Total cost was $75k Tuition was $58k Ro

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Re: One America News forced to admit the obvious on air - 4 days ago

So would that make it "Twice indicted for impeachment, election sore loser and insurrection fomenter ex-President" - or do those need to be proven in a court of law?

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: password plus?!....Hunter Biden reportedly used profane password on infamous laptop..... - 4 days ago

So, if this Mac Isaac fellow is to believed, he is unable to positively identify the person who brought in the laptops; he's also probably in violation of state reporting laws for child pornography. I mean, it's supposedly Hunter's laptop. The GQP seems to be missing the claim that OF COURSE there HAD to be kiddie pics on there, didn't there? g=

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Your tax dollars at work... - 4 days ago

I would expect something like this needs to go through an RFP, at least 3 committees and a thorough vetting / review of the product before it's acquired. Whosoever is responsible for this, while a pittance of concern in the national scheme, should be called out and have many stern letters written at them!

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Just another Saturday afternoon in America - 4 days ago

Quotemrbigstuff QuoteRacer X Quote$tevie I am seriously beginning to wonder if there is something "in the water", so to speak. Like when they learned that lead exposure as a child was one cause of violent behavior. I do understand about FOX, and Trump, and Tucker Carlson, etc. But at the same time, I wonder if we will eventually find out that there is, in addition, some physical or die

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Margaret Atwood: "I invented Gilead. The Supreme Court is making it real." - 4 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop A lot of people want us to be a white Christian theocracy. It's hard to call it "extremism" when our last President, many media outlets, and most of one political party seem to be on board with it. Except that none of the Christian chuckleheads realize that by putting their "faith" on the pedestal of power they'll be putting the nation in peril of decad

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: New NBC poll on abortion rights, midterms - 4 days ago

QuoteBuzz ....and what woulda happened had Gore been awarded FLA in 2001 ? ? ? I'll bite. The September 11th plot would have been foiled. The trillion$$$ spend on Afghanistan and Iraq invasions - going predominantly to US military contractors and arms dealers - would have been focused on climate science and taking preventative steps to ensure global emissions don't exceed 1.25 degrees C. A

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Biden starving American babies while feeding illegal babies - 7 days ago

If only there were some natural, safe, time tested, proven way of feeding human infants that didn't involve the government or all these evil corporations nor baby-eating alien paedophile leftists... I get not everyone can do it, but maybe also not enough people are?

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: The Ozinator! Dr. Oz goes macho. He’ll be bach (schilling quack remedies on late night infomercials, before he knows it)! - 8 days ago

QuoteAcer Quotesteve... They always leave out the well regulated part. The SCOTUS said it was OK to ignore that part may years ago, so the precedent has been set...oh, wait... Well... the GQP says that all regulations are dangerous government overstep - if they were really important to running the country they would have been included in the Constitution's articles (and not those suspect Amen

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Elon Musk continues his descent into being a caricature - Will reverse Trump’s ban on Twitter - 8 days ago

Has no one else concluded - as I have - that Musk's goal is path of least resistance for his dream of Mars colonization? Yes the Twitter acquisition is partly about his SEC troubles. But he may have done the calculus - the FAA is still determining whether or not to do a full environmental review of the Boca Chica Starship factory / launchpad (which suggests that they probably will do it -

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: IVF could be banned in many states. - 12 days ago

QuoteOmbligo states which ban abortions will also likely ban in-vitro fertilization. So I've already asked why there is no funding for artificial wombs... Now I'm going to ask why some charlatan "scientific revolutionary" doesn't just produce some sort of homeopathic water to "bless" these in vitro zygotes so that ensoulment is prevented. Takes away 99% of the religiou

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Re: PSA: Proof reading auctions is probably a good idea - 12 days ago

Quotepdq ...and what's a "sutter"? I'd assume it's something that goes with the misspelled "count"?

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Re: New poll: big majorities want expanded SCOTUS and term limits for justices - 12 days ago

QuoteCa Bob they could reduce the current court to, say, 4 members, and those with the least seniority would have to leave. Naw, if they can reduce it, just reduce it to 6, kick out the Trump-nominated judges, then expand it back to 9. Problem solved. Oh, and anyone who has close relatives actively working to undermine national sovereignty probably should be removed under a cloud of suspicio

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Free 256 GB SSD from Microcenter - 12 days ago

I got mine a couple days after it was posted here. A couple days ago I started getting text messages that I had to use my coupon before it expired??! I already used it, so I'm wondering if their system would allow me to use it again like they don't have it properly set up (you order the drive and it lists a ~$30 checkout price depending on your local tax, but you show up with the coupon, a ba

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Re: Brazil’s ex-president Lula claims Zelenskiy equally to blame for war - 15 days ago

QuoteSpeedy Quote This guy is potentially even more dangerous than far-right Bolsanaro. They both should be in jail (or in Lula's case, back in jail) Nope, not worse than Bolsanaro. Right. The lattre wants to actively deforest all of Brazil ASAP for cattle herding. I can't imagine anything more terrifying except possibly his "covid's not real" policies. The US has left a LOT

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: The Constitutional is for men only - 15 days ago

The US Constitution also says nothing about: Chickens - eliminate the Food and Drug Administration - let the states decide how chickens should be kept and prepared for human consumption. Credit Cards - guess they should be illegal if any given state deems it moral. Airplanes - so states ought to be able to ban their flight in their airspace if their electorate consider them unsafe dangers

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: So on the presumption that Roe gets overturned... - 16 days ago

I still want to know, if the antiabortionists are so keen on preserviing the souls of protoplasmic foeti... Where's the funding for developing artificial wombs??! Likewise, since we've seen the success of sampling wastewater for covid detection, what about finding and preserving those miscarried embryos that might get flushed away?

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Former Idaho lawmaker found guilty of raping intern - 20 days ago

QuoteOmbligo Most likely it will be overturned on appeal when the court finds that the judge should have declared a mistrial when she ran crying off the witness stand. That was highly prejudicial and simply telling the jury to ignore it is naive. Ugh. I hate it that you're probably right! We need to as a society figure out a better way to protect the sensitivities of victims of this nature s

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Russia bombards Kyiv during UN chief's visit - 20 days ago

Quotegadje QuoteRgrF Putin retaliation for the General Assembly vote supporting Ukraine. Who has the more deranged leader Russia or North Korea? North Korea did not start a war under its current leader. But c'mon, let's send Trump and Rodman to Pyongyang and do whatever it takes to engage Kim Jong Un in a campaign to reclaim NK's historical territory in Vladivostok and beyond...

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: The Biden administration deserves some credit for the amount of western support for Ukraine - 20 days ago

Quotegadje Finland, Japan, Georgia: now or never. Japan's already in SEATO, the south east asian equivalent of NATO... which I did not realize was dissolved in 1977 because it was too transparently a tool for US diplomacy. Huh. Sweden and Finland are now considering membership, since they have little to lose and everything to gain. Georgia is unlikely to be able to join NATO given their dis

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: crotch rot?!....video surfaces of Madison Cawthorn with his 'male aid's' hand on his crotch..... - 20 days ago

OK this is one thing. Almost a bigger question in my mind is how does a paraplegic rack up multiple speeding violations? I presume he has specially modified vehicles that allow him to operate the pedals with his hands or something? Given that we have seen multiple cars, that can't be cheap. I suppose when you're a running dog lackey of NRA/Russian/Trumpist funders they keep him rolling in it.

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: MTG: “Satan’s controlling the church” - 22 days ago

QuoteAcer No Pope, or Catholic President (Biden) is going to tell a Baptist what to do. It's not the baptists I worry about, it's the evangelicals.

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: FU to Severance negotiation - 23 days ago

QuoteAcer Stock is not loss until you sell... You know I hadn't considered that even if they drop to $0 after I get them I can still take the loss on my taxes!

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FU to Severance negotiation - 23 days ago

Following up on First I appreciate the insight and considerate responses offered by our MRFriends - thank you! Second, I decided to send what some might call an ill-considered email to the head of HR, the company president and founders, and my management chain, detailing how pernicious their termination of my employment merely as a cost cutting measure was to the company and to me. I also

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Re: The Biden admin’s entire climate budget is $44.9 Billion. - 24 days ago

QuoteRgrF Musk just paid $44 Billion for Twitter - Anyone else see a problem here? Nice juxtaposition and exactly what I was thinking to retort before I opened the thread... If you think the US government doesn't have enough money to fight climate change, send in the armed forces - they know how to fight! :-D (The DoD has 16 times more budget for fighting... so it's just a matter of the

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: So Elon Musk now owns Twitter - 24 days ago

Hm... are those offshore oil platforms SpaceX bought for purposes of launching / landing Starship on Super Heavy far enough offshore to be in international waters? If so, guess where Twitter's new headquarters will be?

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting