Are you accusing my ilk of stealing elections? Well we Chicagoans
always get that rap, and probably for good reason, but since we are
all dems we are just stealing it from each other. There is that
story about us stealing the 1960 election from Tricky Dick, but even
if he had won Illinois, he still would have lost the election. And
speaking of stealing, what about the shenanigans the GOP pulled off
in Florida in 1992, giving the election to Dimwit who embroiled us
in the Mideast? The Mideast may well have boiled over without us
breaking Iraq, but we would not have been in the middle of it.
I was being sarcastic about the fat cats being rich, and what I was
alluding to was there is likely some advantage to spending a
gazillion dollars on a political campaign. Didn't Obama say we
needed smarter government? Sounds more like the kind of thing he'd
say. But of course smarter is a relative thing. Some people think
smarter would be the rainbow coalition marching up and down the
street singing songs of love, and some people think hiding out in
the swamp with a big sack full of ammo would be smarter. Different
strokes for different folks as the song goes.
Soros was a republican boogeyman, but apparently not for long enough
for you to have heard of him. Maybe he was more of a Fox creation.
When Beck drew his diagrams there was always a prominent square with
arrows coming out of it representing Soros. But probably you never
watched his lunatic hour. It was something I tell you.
And I guess you never saw those costumed tea partiers on tv.
Really, it was all over tv. Not likely we would have much of a tea
party presence here in the true blue city of Chicago, but the more
distant burbs are very right wing and I never hear anything about
tea partiers attending meetings out there, and I don't see any of
their letters from any tea party organizations in the newspapers.
Which I might say are dying. It has nothing to do with somebody
running them into the ground, they are losing out to that awful
internet. Newspapers will continue to shrink and go out of business
and there is nothing to be done about it.
You know I heard NPR talking about Petosky yesterday, I came in at
the end of it so I didn't get the whole story, but I got the
impression that it was quite the hot spot in like the twenties.
And I looked up that Cheboygan craft brewery. Maybe their
Lighthouse Amber Ale is the beer that displeased you in that
restaurant. I would have gone with their IPA, and I see where they
are coming out with an American pale ale. That might be good.
I see from their history that there was a Cheboygan brewery way back
when and at one point they brewed something called Bohemian beer,
Stroh's used to claim to be Bohemian beer, and I guess I drank my
share of that, but really it never tasted any different from
Budweiser or Millers or any of those beers that were all you could
get before the golden age of beer that we live in now.
They have a name for yellow beer now. Well they still call it
lawnmower beer, but the classier name is American lager. The next
time you are in a classy Cheboygan restaurant to impress the
hypothetical wife, who my guess is will not be impressed, you might
inquire as to what they have in an American lager. But your fondness
for Milwaukee's Best makes me think you have discovered the truth
about American lager/lawnmower/yellow beer which is that the
cheapest one is the best one.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Fat Cats and Alley Cats
Your ilk is always accusing my ilk of buying elections. So what's better, stealing them? I suppose you're right that there are more fat cat Republicans than fat cat Democrats. So what's wrong with that? Like you said, those guys didn't become rich by being stupid. Does that mean that there are more intelligent Republicans than intelligent Democrats? Of course virtue does not always accompany wealth and intelligence, but it doesn't always accompany poverty and ignorance either. Your friend Obama said something a long time ago that makes sense: "We don't need bigger government, we don't need smaller government, we need better government." True as far as it goes, but then we need to define "better", because one man's better is another man's worse.
I remember you saying something about George Soros once, but I have never heard of him before or since. Like I said, you follow that stuff a lot more then I do.
I don't remember seeing a lot about the Tea Party on TV, but I'm pretty sure that I never saw them wearing any kind of costumes. We have a local chapter here in Cheboygan, I've never seen them on TV, but I have read about them in our local paper. They seem to be focused on local issues, and routinely attend city and county board meetings to speak against some local boondoggle proposal. I have never heard of them conducting street demonstrations or otherwise making a spectacle of themselves. They write letters to the editor and their leader occasionally writes a guest column in our local paper.
The opinion page is the only thing in that paper that I'm going to miss. They print all kinds of opinions there, even opinions that are critical of the paper itself. Hopefully, after they get their tax write off, or whatever it is they are hoping to accomplish by running the paper into the ground, somebody will buy the paper and restore it. It would be shame to see over a century of journalistic tradition perish from the Earth. It never was a perfect paper, rumor has it that it was once nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for typographical errors, but it was our paper.
If you take a closer look at Mullet Lake, you will see a narrow channel that goes from the north end of the lake through Cheboygan and out into Lake Huron. This is the Cheboygan River. Be sure to bear left when you come to the Forks, or you will end up in Black Lake instead. The Black river is wider than the Cheboygan river at that point, and it looks like it should be the main channel, but it's actually a dead end. Crooked Lake, near Petoskey, is also a dead end at the other end of the inland Waterway, where the Indians used to portage. I understand that there was a proposal at one time to cut a channel from there to Lake Michigan, but it never came to pass.
Our local stores carry all kinds of craft beer, and we even have our own craft brewery in town. I tried some of their beer once in a restaurant, but it was some kind of amber crap and I didn't like it. I try to patronize our local businesses as much as possible, but not to the point that I will drink beer that I don't like just because it's local. If they ever come out with a good yellow beer, I will buy it, even if it's more expensive than Milwaukee's Best.
I remember you saying something about George Soros once, but I have never heard of him before or since. Like I said, you follow that stuff a lot more then I do.
I don't remember seeing a lot about the Tea Party on TV, but I'm pretty sure that I never saw them wearing any kind of costumes. We have a local chapter here in Cheboygan, I've never seen them on TV, but I have read about them in our local paper. They seem to be focused on local issues, and routinely attend city and county board meetings to speak against some local boondoggle proposal. I have never heard of them conducting street demonstrations or otherwise making a spectacle of themselves. They write letters to the editor and their leader occasionally writes a guest column in our local paper.
The opinion page is the only thing in that paper that I'm going to miss. They print all kinds of opinions there, even opinions that are critical of the paper itself. Hopefully, after they get their tax write off, or whatever it is they are hoping to accomplish by running the paper into the ground, somebody will buy the paper and restore it. It would be shame to see over a century of journalistic tradition perish from the Earth. It never was a perfect paper, rumor has it that it was once nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for typographical errors, but it was our paper.
If you take a closer look at Mullet Lake, you will see a narrow channel that goes from the north end of the lake through Cheboygan and out into Lake Huron. This is the Cheboygan River. Be sure to bear left when you come to the Forks, or you will end up in Black Lake instead. The Black river is wider than the Cheboygan river at that point, and it looks like it should be the main channel, but it's actually a dead end. Crooked Lake, near Petoskey, is also a dead end at the other end of the inland Waterway, where the Indians used to portage. I understand that there was a proposal at one time to cut a channel from there to Lake Michigan, but it never came to pass.
Our local stores carry all kinds of craft beer, and we even have our own craft brewery in town. I tried some of their beer once in a restaurant, but it was some kind of amber crap and I didn't like it. I try to patronize our local businesses as much as possible, but not to the point that I will drink beer that I don't like just because it's local. If they ever come out with a good yellow beer, I will buy it, even if it's more expensive than Milwaukee's Best.
Pilsner Urquell si, Capri pants no.
I think the reason I brought up the fact that the current tea party is
largely funded by fat cats was a way of slamming it for its grass roots
pretensions. I'm guessing at the beginning it was more of a grass roots
thing, there were organizations that people joined and they went out
a-protesting or something, anyway you used to see them on tv making a
spectacle of themselves. You know those hats, I have slammed them, but
actually they are kind of cool, and a puffy shirt isn't all that bad,
but those Capri pants, I have to say, even though our founding fathers
proudly strutted around in them, not very manly in my humble opinion.
And it seems like they did use to protest the fat cats back in those days, and even though it was pretty clear that they would never ever vote for a democrat, they pretended to be outside the party system. And it seems like there were actual tea party organizations back in the day. I don't think they went in for carrying cards, not their style, but I think they used to endorse candidates. You don't see that anymore.
Anymore it is a top down sort of thing, the candidate declares himself a tea party kind of guy and then the fat cats back him and buy ads and then voters of that ilk vote for him.
There are Democrat fat cats. Remember when George Soros was the devil? Whatever happened with that? You never hear about him anymore. I don't have the wiki research at my fingertips but I'll gladly wager that the reps have far more and far richer fat cats than the dems.
But is having fat cats pour unlimited money into campaigns wrong? I think it is. I think it violates the one man one vote principle because in the shouting match of debate some of us have just one of those cones and others have big amps like a rock band.
But is that effective? I think I agree with you here, i don't think it makes much difference in like a presidential campaign where both sides are spending bazillions and the ads come in blizzards so you can't hardly tell which side is which. Look a poor Jeb! (the explanation for the ! is that it makes him more exciting, but one wag has pointed out that calling it brocolli! does not make it bbq ribs) he started out with way more money then the rest of the clowns, and as the crown prince clown will gladly tell you, he is at three percent.
But I think it makes a lot of difference in the down ballot races, certainly it is not that hard to buy a close state rep seat, and then you can control the state house and come reapportionment time gerrymand it to beat the band and gain some federal representatives. And that money just sloshes around and helps the candidate in various ways. And these fat cats are always fighting to get legislation passed that will allow them to give more, and if they were dumb would they be rich?
You know I saw that when I was mapping out my route, that little hat that the state of Michigan seems to be wearing (is there a name for that?) and there is sort of a line of lakes and rivers from Petosky to Mullet Lake, but I wasn't sure if it went clear through.
I guess all I have to do now is find a collapsible canoe I can get into the elevator and buy a case of Dinty Moore. If I don't eat it all I will be glad to share when I get there. But no yellow beer. Any local craft beer pale ale will be fine, or maybe you could stock some Pilsner Urquell, the beer of the homeland.
And it seems like they did use to protest the fat cats back in those days, and even though it was pretty clear that they would never ever vote for a democrat, they pretended to be outside the party system. And it seems like there were actual tea party organizations back in the day. I don't think they went in for carrying cards, not their style, but I think they used to endorse candidates. You don't see that anymore.
Anymore it is a top down sort of thing, the candidate declares himself a tea party kind of guy and then the fat cats back him and buy ads and then voters of that ilk vote for him.
There are Democrat fat cats. Remember when George Soros was the devil? Whatever happened with that? You never hear about him anymore. I don't have the wiki research at my fingertips but I'll gladly wager that the reps have far more and far richer fat cats than the dems.
But is having fat cats pour unlimited money into campaigns wrong? I think it is. I think it violates the one man one vote principle because in the shouting match of debate some of us have just one of those cones and others have big amps like a rock band.
But is that effective? I think I agree with you here, i don't think it makes much difference in like a presidential campaign where both sides are spending bazillions and the ads come in blizzards so you can't hardly tell which side is which. Look a poor Jeb! (the explanation for the ! is that it makes him more exciting, but one wag has pointed out that calling it brocolli! does not make it bbq ribs) he started out with way more money then the rest of the clowns, and as the crown prince clown will gladly tell you, he is at three percent.
But I think it makes a lot of difference in the down ballot races, certainly it is not that hard to buy a close state rep seat, and then you can control the state house and come reapportionment time gerrymand it to beat the band and gain some federal representatives. And that money just sloshes around and helps the candidate in various ways. And these fat cats are always fighting to get legislation passed that will allow them to give more, and if they were dumb would they be rich?
You know I saw that when I was mapping out my route, that little hat that the state of Michigan seems to be wearing (is there a name for that?) and there is sort of a line of lakes and rivers from Petosky to Mullet Lake, but I wasn't sure if it went clear through.
I guess all I have to do now is find a collapsible canoe I can get into the elevator and buy a case of Dinty Moore. If I don't eat it all I will be glad to share when I get there. But no yellow beer. Any local craft beer pale ale will be fine, or maybe you could stock some Pilsner Urquell, the beer of the homeland.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Nothing New Under the Sun
The reason I brought in that content from Wiki is that you asked me about it and I didn't know, so I looked it up, and I didn't want you to think I made it up. Sure enough, rich people support conservative causes. So what else is new? From what I read, it seems that there is nothing new about the Tea Party movement except the name, and even that is getting old by now. Apparently a bunch of conservative and libertarian types got together and re-branded themselves as the Tea Party, nothing wrong with that as far as I can see. It's not surprising that rich people would be drawn to a cause like that because they stand to lose from any kind of redistribution scheme, while the poor people stand to gain, or at least they think they do. Of course there are rich liberals too. I think the principle difference between them and the rich conservatives is that the rich liberals feel guilty about being rich, while the rich conservatives do not. Maybe the rich liberals feel enough guilt for both of them, which is why they are not content with only giving their own money away, but would rather drag the rich conservatives down with them. Notice I said "maybe". Truth be known, a guiltless person like myself finds it difficult to identify with guilt ridden people, so I can only speculate about their motivation.
I haven't seen a Star Wars or other superhero movie in a long time, probably since my daughter grew up and left home. Kids used to be the target audience for shows like that, but I don't know if that's still true today.
Navigating the Great Lakes in a canoe is certainly possible. The Indians used to do it all the time, but we don't know how many of them died in the attempt. What you would need to do is stay close to the shore and keep an eye on the weather. When the wind and waves kick up, just pull out somewhere and wait it out. I seem to remember reading about a guy who circumnavigated Lake Michigan like that, but it took him all summer, or maybe it was two summers, I forget. He must have had some way of obtaining food and other supplies along the way because he couldn't have lived off the land like the Indians did. When you get to Petoskey, a short portage will connect you to the Inland Waterway, where you will have a smoother passage than if you continued along the shore and under the Mackinaw Bridge into Lake Huron. There are a couple of inland lakes along the way that can get pretty rough, but nothing like the Great Lakes. You will pass through one small lock on the Crooked River, unless it's still (or again) closed for repairs, in which case you can portage around it. When you get into Cheboygan, there is a public boat launch just past the Lincoln Avenue Bridge on your right, which is about three miles from Beaglesonia. Give me a call, and I'll come pick you up.
If you choose to go the whole Great Lakes route, you can paddle right up the Cheboygan River about a mile, go through the lock, and the boat launch I told you about will be on your left, just before the Lincoln Avenue Bridge. The structure at the mouth of the river is not a lock, it's just a break wall. If you want to avoid paddling upstream against a current that can be pretty stiff at times, go to the right of the break wall instead of up the river. There you will find a nice sandy beach from whence you can call me to come get you.
I'm sorry, but my hypothetical wife will be no help to us at all. She just hates the kind of conversations we have at the institute, probably like the wife of the Greek guy who founded the Skeptic School of philosophy. The word "skeptic" comes from a Greek word that means "porch", which is where they used to gather for their discussions because their hypothetical wives wouldn't tolerate that crap inside the house.
I haven't seen a Star Wars or other superhero movie in a long time, probably since my daughter grew up and left home. Kids used to be the target audience for shows like that, but I don't know if that's still true today.
Navigating the Great Lakes in a canoe is certainly possible. The Indians used to do it all the time, but we don't know how many of them died in the attempt. What you would need to do is stay close to the shore and keep an eye on the weather. When the wind and waves kick up, just pull out somewhere and wait it out. I seem to remember reading about a guy who circumnavigated Lake Michigan like that, but it took him all summer, or maybe it was two summers, I forget. He must have had some way of obtaining food and other supplies along the way because he couldn't have lived off the land like the Indians did. When you get to Petoskey, a short portage will connect you to the Inland Waterway, where you will have a smoother passage than if you continued along the shore and under the Mackinaw Bridge into Lake Huron. There are a couple of inland lakes along the way that can get pretty rough, but nothing like the Great Lakes. You will pass through one small lock on the Crooked River, unless it's still (or again) closed for repairs, in which case you can portage around it. When you get into Cheboygan, there is a public boat launch just past the Lincoln Avenue Bridge on your right, which is about three miles from Beaglesonia. Give me a call, and I'll come pick you up.
If you choose to go the whole Great Lakes route, you can paddle right up the Cheboygan River about a mile, go through the lock, and the boat launch I told you about will be on your left, just before the Lincoln Avenue Bridge. The structure at the mouth of the river is not a lock, it's just a break wall. If you want to avoid paddling upstream against a current that can be pretty stiff at times, go to the right of the break wall instead of up the river. There you will find a nice sandy beach from whence you can call me to come get you.
I'm sorry, but my hypothetical wife will be no help to us at all. She just hates the kind of conversations we have at the institute, probably like the wife of the Greek guy who founded the Skeptic School of philosophy. The word "skeptic" comes from a Greek word that means "porch", which is where they used to gather for their discussions because their hypothetical wives wouldn't tolerate that crap inside the house.
paddling my own canoe
There's usually some kind of fucking with the format when you bring some
content from one place to another. Happens to me all the time when I
try to bring stuff into email. I think the best thing to do is write
out everything you want to say and when that is done, you import the
foreign content.
I'm not sure why you brought that content into Beaglesonia. Doesn't it just prove what I was saying that the fat cats are largely bankrolling the tea party? Way back at the beginning I think the Tea Party was more grassroots and you would hear the tricorners rant about the evil of big business, but I don't think any of them say that anymore, certainly not any candidate bankrolled by them.
Newspapers in general have gone down the tubes. I get both the Trib and the Sun-Times, but they have much less news than they used to and a lot more of that celebrity crap, just traversing the news from one section to the other it is hard not to keep up with the Kardashians.
Speaking of showbiz crap, how about this star wars hoopla? I guess the first two or three movies weren't so bad, but then they were the same old same old and pretty juvenile, and now everywhere you go it's star wars this and star wars that? And who gives a shit? And how come half our movies and tv shows are about superheroes anymore? I know i spend a lot of time complaining about kids these days, but adults these days are nothing to write home about either.
Actually there is a marina right underneath Marina City. It's owned by a different entity than the condo association so we get no special privileges. I wonder though if i could get some kind of small or collapsible canoe, or maybe a kayak that would fit in an elevator and I could just bring it down and plunk it into the water. I could probably hide behind some big boat and get past the locks and then it would be clear paddling all the way up to almost Canada, illuminated by the flames of the city as it was being taken over by those undesirables, and then right under the bridge. Is that a lock at the mouth of the Cheboygan? I reckon I could get past that too, and then I guess I would paddle through that crowded town with no room for Beagles' elbows, and then i would beach my craft (is that the way you boaters talk?) and open up my nostrils for the clear scent of freedom and follow my nose to Beaglesonia.
Just think, instead of just the hour I spend in the morning and you in the evening we could talk like this all day long. Probably into a tape recorder so that it could be preserved for prosperity. I'm sure your hypothetical wife would not mind transcribing then into print, and bringing us sandwiches and beer throughout the day. I would however require a nice pale ale and none of that yellow beer that you like.
Alrighty then. See you soon.
I'm not sure why you brought that content into Beaglesonia. Doesn't it just prove what I was saying that the fat cats are largely bankrolling the tea party? Way back at the beginning I think the Tea Party was more grassroots and you would hear the tricorners rant about the evil of big business, but I don't think any of them say that anymore, certainly not any candidate bankrolled by them.
Newspapers in general have gone down the tubes. I get both the Trib and the Sun-Times, but they have much less news than they used to and a lot more of that celebrity crap, just traversing the news from one section to the other it is hard not to keep up with the Kardashians.
Speaking of showbiz crap, how about this star wars hoopla? I guess the first two or three movies weren't so bad, but then they were the same old same old and pretty juvenile, and now everywhere you go it's star wars this and star wars that? And who gives a shit? And how come half our movies and tv shows are about superheroes anymore? I know i spend a lot of time complaining about kids these days, but adults these days are nothing to write home about either.
Actually there is a marina right underneath Marina City. It's owned by a different entity than the condo association so we get no special privileges. I wonder though if i could get some kind of small or collapsible canoe, or maybe a kayak that would fit in an elevator and I could just bring it down and plunk it into the water. I could probably hide behind some big boat and get past the locks and then it would be clear paddling all the way up to almost Canada, illuminated by the flames of the city as it was being taken over by those undesirables, and then right under the bridge. Is that a lock at the mouth of the Cheboygan? I reckon I could get past that too, and then I guess I would paddle through that crowded town with no room for Beagles' elbows, and then i would beach my craft (is that the way you boaters talk?) and open up my nostrils for the clear scent of freedom and follow my nose to Beaglesonia.
Just think, instead of just the hour I spend in the morning and you in the evening we could talk like this all day long. Probably into a tape recorder so that it could be preserved for prosperity. I'm sure your hypothetical wife would not mind transcribing then into print, and bringing us sandwiches and beer throughout the day. I would however require a nice pale ale and none of that yellow beer that you like.
Alrighty then. See you soon.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Groups in the News
Fundraising
Sarah Palin headlined four "Liberty at the Ballot Box" bus tours, to raise money for candidates and the Tea Party Express. One of the tours visited 30 towns and covered 3,000 miles.[216] Following the formation of the Tea Party Caucus, Michele Bachmann raised $10 million for a political action committee, MichelePAC, and sent funds to the campaigns of Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio.[217] In September 2010, the Tea Party Patriots announced it had received a $1,000,000 USD donation from an anonymous donor.[218]Support of Koch brothers
Main article: Political activities of the Koch family
In an August 30, 2010, article in The New Yorker, Jane Mayer said that the brothers David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch and Koch Industries provided financial support to one of the organizations that became part of the Tea Party movement through Americans for Prosperity. [219][220] The AFP's "Hot Air Tour" was organized to fight against taxes on carbon use and the activation of a cap and trade program.[221] Former U.K. ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer wrote in the Daily Mail that the Tea Party movement is a mix of "grassroots populism, professional conservative politics, and big money", the last supplied in part by the Kochs.[222] A Koch Industries company spokesperson issued a statement saying "No funding has been provided by Koch companies, the Koch foundation, or Charles Koch or David Koch specifically to support the tea parties".[223]I got this from the same Wiki article I referenced yesterday. Copying it here has apparently done something to the text format, and I can't seem to get it back the way it was, so this will have to do. I noticed that the statement I quoted yesterday has been edited a little, but it still says basically that the Tea Party was propelled to fame by the election of President Obama. All I really know about these guys is what I have read and seen on the news, so if you want to know more about them, I suggest you read the Wiki article for yourself. I am not, nor have I ever been, a card carrying member of any Tea Party organization.
Okay, now it's worse. I can have this size or this size, but nothing in between. Maybe it will straighten out when I go away and come back tomorrow.
My access to the news media has recently been diminished because we have allowed our subscription to the Cheboygan Daily Tribune to expire. The paper was bought out by an outfit in the Upper Peninsula some time ago, and they seem to be deliberately running it into the ground. The are engaging in deceptive billing practices, and have moved the printing operation from Cheboygan, where it has been for over a century, to Sault Ste. Marie, laying off ten local people in the process. There is no other local paper in the region that duplicates the coverage of the Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press is way to big for our tastes. I don't know how I'm going to fill that void. I can get much of the national and international stuff from Wiki, but I don't know what I'm going to do about state and local coverage. I hate to increase my viewing of the TV news because I think that's where I get my bad attitude about minority groups. Besides, my hypothetical wife would never stand for it, she just hates the TV News, says it's too depressing.
I'm sure I've told you before that I have nothing against individual minority people, it's when they form themselves into groups that I get paranoid about them. Of course the news doesn't tell you about the millions of ordinary people who live their lives without causing any trouble. Every time you see these people on the TV they are swarming in a big mob and making a public spectacle of themselves. One gets the impression that they must breed like rabbits and are hell bent on crowding the rest of us right off the planet. Truth be known, I probably don't have anything they want, but I feel sorry for anybody who does.
Isn't there a place to keep a boat right under your building? I thought that's why they call it "Marina City". Other tall buildings have parking garages under them, I thought yours had a marina. I always wanted to live on waterfront property, but it's quite expensive and usually quite crowded. We have the best of both worlds here. When the snow melts in the spring, or we get a lot of rain, we can look out our windows and see ducks and geese swimming around in front of our house. My hypothetical wife insists that a muck hole in the swamp does not qualify as waterfront, but she doesn't recognize Beaglesonian sovereignty either. Women ain't got no imagination at all!
Muzzle loader season ended Sunday. I only went hunting twice out of a possible ten days, and didn't see anything. I've been really tired lately, and just getting through the everyday chores has been about all I could handle. The weather didn't help any, we've usually got snow on the ground by now and deer season, like Christmas, doesn't seem quite right without it. I'm not complaining, you understand. If all the rain we've been getting would have been snow we'd be buried alive by now, and that's no fun either.
yuletide on the southern bank of the lake
I never understood TARP very well, my main impression is that if the
banks had gone down, much as they deserved it, it would have been bad
for the rest of us, the recession would have been longer. I guess we'll
never know now exactly what would have happened if we hadn't.
I think most everybody was for it at the time, the political candidates, the big economists. It seems like anybody who was president would have done it.
It would have been nice if afterwards they had gone after some of those guys and put them in the iron hotel, but the only guy who talks much about that is Bernie Sanders. They did pass some regulations to hinder that thing in the future but the reps are always trying to repeal those regulations.
Aren't most tea party organizations anymore PACs funded by the Adelsons and the Kochs, and their ilk? At first you heard some of the haberdasherly challenged carping about the fat cats, but anymore I think they have been bought off by the big money.
When you say you got a little carried away with the xenophobia are you saying you don't really want to expel all those people and build all those walls?
Fast boat? Were we talking about fast boats before? Oh you mean like the one I have anchored at the end of Navy pier so that when the invasion of Muslims, Asians, Hispanics (are you sure you didn't mean to include blacks and gays?) takes over Chicago, I can hop into it and head north and take a right just before Canada and land on the freedom soaked borders of Beaglesonia. I hear it is guarded by some Elmer Fudd type character but he is mostly asleep. Maybe I cold bring him a nice cut of Whole Foods venison.
Marina City Christmas Party tonight. I will be wearing my Santa hat and eating and drinking and glad handing, but the word is that there will be a tv and at 8PM they will be tuning into the Republican convention. All us nice blue staters watching the clown show, snickering into our craft beers. I am telling myself I will just steal a glimpse every now and then, but I don't see how, having once turned my head I will ever be able to turn it back again.
I am still a little unsure of what you expect the hordes of undesirables to do to Cheboygan that you are huddling in the swamp with that taped up Old Betsy guarding against.
Speaking of Old Betsy, what is the Beagles vs deer score so far?
I think most everybody was for it at the time, the political candidates, the big economists. It seems like anybody who was president would have done it.
It would have been nice if afterwards they had gone after some of those guys and put them in the iron hotel, but the only guy who talks much about that is Bernie Sanders. They did pass some regulations to hinder that thing in the future but the reps are always trying to repeal those regulations.
Aren't most tea party organizations anymore PACs funded by the Adelsons and the Kochs, and their ilk? At first you heard some of the haberdasherly challenged carping about the fat cats, but anymore I think they have been bought off by the big money.
When you say you got a little carried away with the xenophobia are you saying you don't really want to expel all those people and build all those walls?
Fast boat? Were we talking about fast boats before? Oh you mean like the one I have anchored at the end of Navy pier so that when the invasion of Muslims, Asians, Hispanics (are you sure you didn't mean to include blacks and gays?) takes over Chicago, I can hop into it and head north and take a right just before Canada and land on the freedom soaked borders of Beaglesonia. I hear it is guarded by some Elmer Fudd type character but he is mostly asleep. Maybe I cold bring him a nice cut of Whole Foods venison.
Marina City Christmas Party tonight. I will be wearing my Santa hat and eating and drinking and glad handing, but the word is that there will be a tv and at 8PM they will be tuning into the Republican convention. All us nice blue staters watching the clown show, snickering into our craft beers. I am telling myself I will just steal a glimpse every now and then, but I don't see how, having once turned my head I will ever be able to turn it back again.
I am still a little unsure of what you expect the hordes of undesirables to do to Cheboygan that you are huddling in the swamp with that taped up Old Betsy guarding against.
Speaking of Old Betsy, what is the Beagles vs deer score so far?
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