winsor

Trump is incapable of lying. In order to lie, one must have some concept of truth and falsehood, and I have seen nothing to indicate that Trump can conceive of such abstractions. He blurts out whatever crosses his mind, with no concern one way or another regarding its veracity. You give him way too much credit.

How about a massive decrease in population? At a population of 20 billion, we're screwed regardless. A stable population of ~1 billion has options.

Kinda depends on who you ask. Some places you get a medal and others you face execution for the same thing.

He can only pardon Federal convictions. Parking tickets not so much.

Mind you that his attire changed abruptly when it was implied that he was gay. When he was offered a discharge for homosexuality, he put on a uniform and finished his tour.

The killfile feature no longer works properly. It says "you've chosen to ignore...," and then includes the dreck that I must skip over manually.

I'm allergic to cats, so I'm somewhat biased. I suppose feral cats are an improvement over rats and the like, but they're more likely to wipe out songbirds. I've heard the comment that any veterinary condition that costs more than $1,000 to address is fatal. Having an epileptic, diabetic dog at home, I wouldn't repeat that sentiment in my kid's presence. Wild dogs, feral cats and pigs are invasive species, and I've lived places where game regulations allowed them to be shot on sight with no season or limit. All of them are considered edible by one culture or another, and there is a nonzero chance that I've been served them in my travels - though only wild boar knowingly. I never watched the show, but I seem to recall mention that ALF liked to eat cats. To each their own. .

I dunno, I’d say he’s at least as qualified as The Donald for the Oval Office. Then again, so’s my dog.

If they negotiate peace now they lose the entire country. What's your point?

I thought he was on the list.

Living in Cook County, IL, NYC and Philadelphia, one becomes inured to a certain level of hijinks around the polling booth. It's pretty much only when the freestyle approach gets egregious that it's newsworthy. As far as Trump winning in 2020, it is a matter of numbers. Given that, if you turn over a rock whatever crawls out from underneath will vote Democrat, it stands to reason that more votes went to his opponent. Also, since he is one of the most repellent individuals in the history of U.S. politics, a fair number of people would vote for pretty much anyone to get him out of office, and others just stayed home. Do Democrats suck out loud? Of course, it's their job. Does Trump suck worse than anyone but Hillary? That's what has kept him in business (so far). We are given to the illusion that, when removing a bad person from contention, -Saddam Hussein, Mummar Khaddaffi, Evner Hoxha and Josef Broz Tito come to mind - they will be replaced by well adjusted and sage leaders. Perhaps that has worked, but I can't think of an instance offhand. Both Trump and Biden are prime examples of the principle that 'the scum rises to the top.' BSBD, Winsor

If you swear fealty to the Magic Jewish Zombie all is forgiven.

"That's DOCTOR Evil! I didn't spend eight years in Evil University to be MISTER Evil!" In a sense, choice of pronouns is what's in the script - but there's a line. As a matter of courtesy, I'll go along with what someone wants to a point. Divine went by she/her, Harris Milstead went by he/him. Whatever. My problem with Rachel/Richard Levine is its defense of sex reassignment for children. That's FUBAR, and there's not a chance that I'll 'respect' that position. If it is limited to him/her, I'll generally go along with it. If someone wants something else, perhaps 'that royal asshole over there' will suffice. Or, even better, I'll happily make no reference to them at all. BSBD, Winsor

To conflate someone who was born with both sets of apparatus with someone who decides to change teams is disingenuous. Dylan Mulvaney might be a lot of things, but "woman" is not on the short list. There have been people living as the other sex throughout history - females with fake beards to be a Pharaoh, actors in ancient Greece who played only roles of the opposite sex and so forth. People getting surgery to present as other species, taking 'furry' to another level. is apparently a thing. An acquaintance has made a fortune 'transitioning' people who seek to customize their sexuality surgically. I understand the issues stemming from someone with a entirely legitimate congenital anomaly. If I'm expected to 'respect' people's severe mental issues, I can't help you. BSBD, Winsor

Ya ni znaiou, Tavarisch

A PA really doesn't warrant refutation. You're right, as far as you can tell.

The following tweet seems to cover most of the bases: Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling It’s been amazing this week to watch the left invert every rhetorical device they’ve used since 2020, all to avoid having to criticize terrorists dedicated to Jewish genocide. It would be hilarious, if it weren’t so reprehensible. 2020: Silence is violence. 2023: People can’t be expected to comment on every situation. It’s okay to just keep silent, especially while events are still unfolding. ———————— 2020: If you’re nitpicking small details instead of focusing on the big picture, you’re doing so to avoid your complicity in atrocities. 2023: 40 babies weren’t actually beheaded. 40 babies may have been killed, and some of them may have been beheaded, but that’s not the same as 40 getting beheaded. Details matter. ———————— 2020: Universities must proactively take a stand and speak out in opposition to racism. “Academic freedom” is a false concept used to enforce oppression. 2023: Universities need to maintain neutrality and ensure that they do not make any statements that jeopardize the principle of academic freedom, which is a paramount virtue in the realm of scholarship. ———————— 2020: You must immediately and forcefully condemn an attack, even if investigations are ongoing. 2023: You can’t expect us to release statements opposing an attack within four days, when the facts are still being discovered. Israel hasn’t even allowed UN investigators at the scenes of these “alleged massacres.” ———————— 2020: People are responsible for their words, even if they are just working-class teenagers in small towns. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. 2023: Graduate students at the most prestigious university in the world are just kids and cannot be held accountable for statements they sign. This is cancel culture. ———————— 2020: Believe all women. 2023: Where is the physical evidence of these “alleged rapes”? ———————— 2020: It’s not enough to be non-racist. If you are not actively anti-racist, it means that you are, in fact, racist. 2023: How dare you question whether I support terrorists just because I haven’t actively spoken out against Hamas freedom fighters. ———————— 2020: We don’t get to tell people in affected communities how to deal with their pain in the aftermath of violence. 2023: It is Israel’s responsibility to ensure that violence doesn’t escalate. ———————— 2020: Anything that disproportionately affects one group of people is oppression and must be condemned. 2023: Settlers—a term that includes all Israeli Jews—are not civilians and are therefore all valid targets for attacks. You can't fix stupid. Ron White

BDA shows that it was a short round from Gaza. Israel has no reason to hit a hospital and every reason to avoid doing so. The nice people in Gaza seem to have fucked up and had a rocket fail. Anyone with experience with things that go bang can point out the characteristics of the point of impact that point to the damage being caused by the local team. Having screwed the pooch, SOP has them blaming Israel. The reality is that we didn't do it. End of story.

He's the kind of guy who gives a bad name to whoever and whatever he is.

It's that river in Egypt again. Similarly, when the "children killed by gun violence" statistics are bandied about, the fact that the lion's share are teenage gang bangers working out business disputes is somehow overlooked. It turns out that, absent these numbers, juvenile fatalities due to firearms are well less than drownings, traffic accidents and the like. Go figure.

What, you don't?

I'm getting weary of the showmanship that is the drive to impeach whoever is in charge. It brings to mind the lazy Barrister who gets to court. and reads the brief from the Solicitor to the effect of 'no case - abuse the plaintiff.'

In grad school there was a guy who fancied himself as a real car guy. He had a Volkswagen on which he put a fiberglass body (Replicar), and he then tried to register it as a 1938 Frasier Nash. He was incensed when the dullards at DMV insisted in identifying it as a 1968 Volkswagen. There are all kinds of custom cars out there, some of which are latish model Chevys with vintage looking bodies installed. Very nifty. I've known people who had wonderful replica autos, AC Cobras come to mind. One guy had an AC Cobra replica that was head and shoulders above the original. Having said that the difference in price between an original 427 Cobra and the new manufacture version is orders of magnitude. Regardless of how wonderful is the new version, if you were to put it up for sale as an original it would constitute fraud. Having been around original equipment women and the aftermarket variety for rather a while, I am fine with either (socially, at least). When someone claims that there is no difference, I take the DOT stance. BSBD, Winsor

From a New Jersey perspective, the indictment is nothing new. I also don't understand why anyone has a problem with legal actions against Trump. He's the worst thing to happen to the Republican party in living memory - he makes Tricky Dick Nixon look like a picture of dignity, integrity and competence by comparison. Perhaps the dumb sonofabitch has floated to the top one time too many, and people avoid being on his shit list as a matter of long term survival. My hope is that he can be removed from the public eye without becoming a martyr. Since the man is entirely without honor or shame, getting rid of him will take some doing. Maybe he could choke on a chicken bone and have enough brain damage that he would be a drooling, incontinent invalid thereafter. Once he's out of the limelight, I have little hope that we will have anyone worthwhile from either side of the aisle come to the fore. Policies such as forbidding childbirth without financial responsibility (birth control, sterilisation or mandatory abortion would be useful tools), immigration contingent upon acceptance of a fair proportion of the national debt (like $330,000 apiece now) and a zero -based budget would be a start. Other than that it's simply business as usual, and it's only a question of quite how we're doomed. The problem is that Trump, like Climate Change (tm), is but a symptom of much bigger problems. BSBD, Winsor

Should have flown there. The Los Alamos airport is an experience, the runway being on a finger mesa. You land uphill to the West and take off downhill to the East regardless.