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Meet the Press: Crazy year in politics.
Jimmy Dore: Jeb Bush believes in the miracle of billionaires.
The business of New Year’s resolutions.
Let’s Get Political:2015’s Top U.S. Politics Headlines.
Being upset sells. Hate sells. Love is great but it doesn’t seem to motivate people like hate and being upset motivates people.
Without hate and being upset at someone would only leave us pretty much lonely. You might have your significant other and offspring to love and keep you company but even the most loving pretty much gets tired or takes for granted thier company.
Sure everyone needs some loving to survive, but it’s the hate that drives us to battle and interact with each other, at least that’s what it seems.
Without your advisories you pretty much don’t exist.
For instance, take this blog, the number of comments in a thread contrastly differ if the trolls are around. Without them it gets pretty quite here. Was or is that the problem at Sound Politics blog that everyone here talks about (I’ve only visited once and don’t remember if that is the right name of the blog). Over there, with every liberal banned, there isn’t much interaction or activity.
Seems like with Boob hiding in a cave, and the Ape waiting for the Boob to return, the comments here have gone down. Is it because of the holidays! Or did everyone decide they better start working before they get fired from thier jobs?
Fear and fight – it keeps us going. Love? Ehh, not really do we have to love. I think the only reason one man and one woman marries is so they can procreate, people are nothing more than a piece of equipment in a manufacturing facility.
Thank God for Rabbits.
@1,
I look at it a bit differently. Love and hate, or positive vs. negative, is all the same. The point is these are emotions.
Liberals in the 20th century came to emphasize rationalism over emotionalism in our political rhetoric. Developments in the study of psychology and cognitive science in the early and middle parts of the century gave rise to this. But it many ways this was a mistake.
People don’t actually form judgments or reach decisions in the ways we supposed they did. We are essentially emotional animals who then recruit rational reasons to support our emotional decisions. Liberals have to rediscover the positive emotional basis for our political philosophy, rediscover how to “sell” that, and then follow up with the rational support. Conservatives have kicked our asses in this area for decades. But their underlying flaw has been that the rational support has been almost entirely false. That is now catching up to them. Liberals have a way to go still. But since the rational support for our agenda is actually based in reality, we have a substantial long term advantage.
@1 This comment points out the difference between humans and rabbits. War is mankind’s favorite sport; reproducing is rabbits’ favorite sport. Who would you rather have as neighbors, people or rabbits?
@1 A brief history of Sound Politics, commonly abbreviated on HA as “(u)SP,” which stands for “unSound Politics”:
Back in 2004, when Republicans lost a governor’s race by 133 votes, (u)SP was the most widely-read conservative blog in Washington. Republicans hurled all sorts of never-proven charges about the election, such as King County election officials were corrupt, their candidate “won” because he had more votes in the first two of three vote tallies (under law, only the final recount counts), etc. The GOP sued to overturn the result under Washington’s election contest law, and after spending more than $2 million on legal fees, their handpicked Republican judge in a forum-shopped Republican county awarded them 4 less votes than the final recount, increasing the Democratic victory margin from 129 to 133. Meanwhile, (u)SP’s proprietor, Stefan Sharansky (he spells it Sharkansky, and likes to be called “The Shark”), forced King County taxpayers to pay him $225,000 for minor technical violations of the Public Records Act, in connection with his demand for 600,000 pages of records from the King County Elections Office in connection with the disputed 2004 governor’s election. After Shark got his money, he faded into the background, and his blog, (u)SP, withered on the vine. Now, it’s essentially defunct.
Sharansky is some sort of IT guy, and his wife is a highly paid corporate lawyer. The two of them acquired notoriety for an incident at a restaurant. Their kid was running wild through the restaurant, making noise and disturbing other patrons, and a waitress did something the kid’s lousy parents failed to do: She told the little monster to be quiet. So The Shark complained to the manager, and the waitress — a single mom working two jobs to make ends meet — was fired. Well, that’s conservative jackassery for you; it’s exactly what you’d expect from a rightwing thug who lined his own pockets with taxpayers’ money. After that, The Shark and his Missus became permanently branded as waitress-hating assholes.
By the way, before he received the $225,000 settlement from the county, The Shark solicited donations for his legal expenses on (u)SP, and there’s no evidence he ever shared any of the $225,000 with his generous donors.
After The Shark essentially abandoned his own blog — after he got his payday, he didn’t really need it for anything — a few hangers-on and loiterers tried to pick up the slack, mostly by reposting stuff from their own individual blogs, but after a year or two the rightwing whining about the allegedly “stolen” governor’s election faded away after the local rightwing radio talk shows moved on to ranting about other topics, and with both The Shark and the election out of the picture, and nobody posting original material on (u)SP anymore, it just sort of died. It didn’t help that the little cowards still reposting articles there suppressed dissent and banned liberal commenters from the comment threads, because that policy reduced what was left of (u)SP to nothing more than a circle jerk in which a handful of regular commenters merely told each other how great they were.
So there you have it, a succinct autopsy of what was once Washington’s most influential conservative blog, and now nothing more than a corpse. Meanwhile, HA, whose existence closely tracked (u)SP’s, but with much shallower pockets, continues to thrive.
@4,
it seemed to me that a few of the uSP hangers-on were of the deeply unhinged, sovereign citizen, criminal fraud types (which says more than enough about Sharkansky). If memory serves one or two of them have been charged with major felonies. Didn’t one of them murder some poor soul by running him over with their car?
Carson loses his campaign manager and communications director in the same day, and yet the easy money keeps right on rolling in.
Is running for the Republican nomination the best retirement job a millionaire ever heard of, or what?
Easiest fucking prediction ever:
Carson stays in and continues to raise through Super Tuesday. Drops out and rolls the remaining funds into some fake-assed “foundation” for “American Values” or some shit like that. Then just keeps right on raising and spending and most importantly living on other people’s money!
Such a beautiful thing.
@5 Dunno. You know more about that stuff than I do. Can you post the details (naming names) for our reading enjoyment? I didn’t know the uSP denizens were out there killing people, but it doesn’t surprise me.
@6 “Carson stays in and continues to raise through Super Tuesday. Drops out and rolls the remaining funds into some fake-assed ‘foundation’ for ‘American Values’ or some shit like that, paying himself, his wife, and his children big salaries to run it.”
Fixed.
@3 As much as it disturbs me, I believe our species developed it’s large brain through war. Much like animals develop large horns for dueling over mates, we developed a brain to outsmart ourselves. And we now have exaggerated emotions to match.
@9 There’s quite a bit of material from purveyors of “serious” thought on this subject. One not-so-serious example (but still quite credible) was James Burke’s TV series “Connections” in which he pointed out many times in history that great advances in science and technology were driven by the striving of nations to destroy one another.
@10,
for the first ten or so years after their invention practically every single integrated circuit we produced was gobbled up the the nuclear weapons industry. And, of course, we wouldn’t have the intertubes if not for the efforts to make a nuclear command and control infrastructure that could withstand a massive nuclear attack.
But now consider the cost. Due to a massive lie about Soviet nuclear capabilities, we mostly squandered the post-WWII economic dividend producing enough nuclear weapons and delivery systems to wipe out the USSR and China four or five times over. In the process we almost blew ourselves up at least a dozen times (we got really fucking lucky). By diving down that nuclear rabbit hole (apologies RR) we breathed life into a corrupt and failing Soviet system and prolonged it well past its natural shelf-life.
Ted Cruz wants us to do the same thing with ISIS. I suppose the big tech dividend will be better artificial limbs. Neato.
You know, I really am gobsmacked by the level of ignorance displayed by Jeb! Bush! Twice in twenty four hours he’s said some really stupid and downright offensive things. He called the Tamir Rice ruling the “system working” in “Chicago” when it was a twelve year old killed in Cleveland while playing in a park, not Chicago. What kind of sick “system” is that? Then he called a state rep “Hurricane Katrina” and pronounced it was her new nickname from the Bush family for being a real go-getter. He’s demented. I just have to wonder if he hasn’t suffered some sort of head injury.
@6 how do they get away with something like that? American people (I am one – but I don’t consider myself one of the stupid ones) are pretty stupid.
@5 Thanks for the Autopsy. Not sure if you were trying to be funny, but that post made me laugh.
@2 I hear what you are saying. I agree. Kind of like the Ebola scare. Sure I had some concerns, after all living in NYC when it was an issue. But I felt that the hospitals (TexASS) that didn’t know how to deal with it was the problem, and not necessarily the people with the Ebola. I felt that they should be monitored but not held captive in a tent. Perfect example of of rationale vs fear.
Boob, the Ape and the rest of the Homophobes should check their pants.
http://www.queerty.com/james-b.....y-20151230
“Also, if I’d been macho, I’d just have had an audience full of men,” he added.
Is this why we pretend the NFL is all about the Cheerleaders.
If interested in some possible humor, take a look at the comments section of the article. Might give you some insight into gay people, or the ones that comment on that website (I don’t regularly – I don’t know why?)
@15,
Well, fear works too much of the time and it’s cheap and easy.
All sides rely on it too much. It’s become a big part of what passes for news media today. The point of which is that once we become “scared” the way our brains work changes. We actually become more susceptible to suggestion and we lose the capacity to carry out complex reasoning. But the effect is short term.
Positive emotions like sympathy, empathy, cathexis, etc. engage and activate the prefrontal cortex enhancing executive function. Decisions thus rendered are longer lasting and become features of our personalities.
Consider the typical liberal empathy for the disadvantaged. Liberal political philosophy emphasizes government establish and maintain some basic provision of needs at public expense for those unable to provide for themselves. The emotional basis for this is empathy. Liberals put themselves in that position. And they view the failure to provide as a moral failure. We can then go on to examine rationally how society benefits greatly from this kind of policy. But it starts from the emotional rendering of the circumstances and positioning in terms of moral judgement.
Contrast that with conservative political philosophy that emphasizes self-reliance and minimal government intrusion into affairs of personal finance. The emotional basis for this is resentment. Conservatives resent the burden created by the failure of others. And they view that as a moral failure on the part of those unable to provide for themselves. They can then proceed to explore in rational terms how society benefits from policies that emphasize personal responsibility and self reliance while punishing the moral failure of need. Or they can seek rational support from exploring how policies that provide for the needy contribute to moral decay among the needy, while punishing the morally upright. But again it all starts from the emotional rendering of the circumstances and positioning in terms of moral judgement.
On many important issues liberals have big potential advantages over conservatives because liberal political objectives permit rendering the circumstances through positive emotions. We just have to decide to do it and not be embarrassed about it. Resentment is not ethically or morally superior to empathy. It’s just easier.
@13 As I’ve said all along, you stupid humans are an inferior species, especially the Republican ones.
This guy threatened to kill the cops who pulled him over, then sucker-punched a police lieutenant, then injured seven more cops in the process of getting him behind bars. But he isn’t dead. He’s white.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411668/-White-man-threatens-to-kill-police-knocks-one-out-sends-two-to-the-hospital-injures-7-officers?detail=emailclassic
Took a gander at one of the klownservatic blogs (a quite poplular one amongst the teahadis) and the blogger repeated some on the ground report from a Karson supporter at a rally.
Sooooo credulous. Fleeced, exploited, lied-to by the klownservatic grifter complex.
@20,
I swear, I gotta get in on it before the dumbshits run out of money or age into poverty. Honestly, though, I’m not sure I could live with myself after. Not because of victimizing these gullible conservative tools. That’d be an honor.
I’m just not sure I can spew the hate, blame the victims, and exploit the xenophobia and still look in the mirror.
Maybe if the mirror was on a boat…
@17. When MSNBC starts to overdose on fear stories, I tend to stop watching. I tune in for fair and balanced news and opinion (in the original, non 1984 double speak version of the term), not endless “be afraid” stories
As I understand it, when Fox News goes into fear story overdrive their audience watches more?
@21. Sadly, if a person has no morals or ethics, they can make a fortune fleecing the rubes. Look at the Prosperity theology preachers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
@23,
Brothers and sisters, I want you to join with me now! Get up off your sofa and approach the television! I want you to join with me now and see in your mind the object of our prayers! Your beloved ministry needs new hand-tooled leather upholstery for it’s G650. But we can’t do it without you! We need you to pray hard on it, brothers and sisters! And we need more than your prayers! We need your tithes! Oh yes! For in this way, by giving generously of your hearts to support the prosperity our ministry, you guarantee your own prosperity!
Pray with me now!
I could do this shit.
@21 You can get in on the game of fleecing the rubes by playing the stock market. After all, that’s the one-percenters’ game. They invented it, they play it, and you can go along for the ride.
I swear, Republicans are racists simply for love of the game.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st.....skin-tone/
The loon’s head will implode – Carson campaign goes into in flaming tailspin.
“Ben Carson’s presidential campaign in total disarray after 20 staffers follow top advisers out the door”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....-the-door/
@ Steve @ 27:
Ben Carson was never a “serious” candidate for the office. He was the joke candidate, the man who was just a face to put on party advertisements when soliciting donations from the general public. His entire candidacy was a GOP/Fascist smokescreen for the underlying purpose of making money for the Party.
It was: “See? We has our black people too! and we know he’s a honest Conservative cause he loves Jesus more than anything else in the universe!”
It was a facade, an entirely artificial construct of the Oligarchs and for a while there, it was very, very lucrative.
No more. People came to realize that he’s an utter imbecile, and does not possess the intellectual capacity or the psychological wherewithal to make a factual statement about anything.
Shrug. The Noodles do have a sense of humor, and every meatball in the sauce has it’s own particular characteristics. I suppose it’s like anything else. If it gets overcooked then you just toss it to the dogs. No one else would swallow it.
@28 Grifter Hands will make his Herman Cain curtain call when he runs out of OPM.* (* Other people’s money)
We survived into the new year without ISIS (or ISIL, your choice) killing us in our sleep. Perhaps Trump can turn down the hysteria a notch.
But probably not
What’s interesting about this chart from Reuters is that while Jews have become slightly more Republican since 2012, nearly every other demographic group has become more Democratic, except for blacks who were already nearly totally Democratic.* Doesn’t look good for the Pubbies in ’16.
http://www.motherjones.com/kev.....re-anymore
* Offhand, I can think of only 5 black Republicans: Puddy, Herman Cain, J. C. Watts, Allen West, and Grifter Hands, who are quite a collection of colorful characters if you ask me.
@ 28 RR
Apparently Both Mr Cain and Mr Carson (and apparently our local Schizo) are pretty dedicated aficionados of W. Cleon SKousen who is mostly famous for being a certified radical racist nutball since the late 1950s.
Interesting, that.
How Carly Fiorina, arguably the most dishonest of the current crop of Republican crooks and liars, gets around campaign laws.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....carson-pac
@33,
telling that the indisputably most financially corrupt and dishonest of all the candidates is the one with the most legitimate corporate pedigree.
You gotta have real brass to invest your life savings in the companies these people operate behind a veil of secrecy and accounting trickery that makes the FEC look like tiddly winks.
Been a while since I dropped by. Puddy still around? Keep up the good work, Wabbit.
Ah, the Power of Prayer.
It certainly is a wondrous thing.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1644418579108826
Sez it all.
Happy 2016 HA DUMMOCRETINS. May you continue to demonstrate to Seattle, King County, WA State and the rest of the United States how backward your thinking is and how much of a low information voter you continue to be!
This will increase the pressure in TPPS’ Neanderthal cranial orifice!
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Rock on Dr. Ben!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/c.....arter.html
The most of any Republican candidate in the 4th Quarter. Of course Heilary gets her big wad from Wall Street because she was senator when Wall Street was attacked in 9/11!
@38- all that while his campaign implodes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01.....type=Blogs
You can’t possibly believe he is doing well.
Happy New Year DUMMOCRETIN Suckas!
Affordable Care Act: Not so affordable after all suckas! Those SCOTUS Tax penalties for Americans without health insurance set to rise in 2016. Thanks Two-Useless-Terms Obummer!
– Households that opt to go without health insurance in 2016 are set to get hit with an average Obamacare fine of $969.
– And households without insurance that earn too much to qualify for financial aid to buy Obamacare plans will pay an even larger fine for 2016 — an average of $1,450, versus the average of $1,177 for 2015.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/08.....think.html
That “affordable” health care bill you DUMMOCRETIN gave us in 2010, on a reconciliation vote when none of them had read the entire 2,400-plus-page bill, sure keeps getting harder to afford. What did Nancy Pelosi say again? Something about passing it so you can read it, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a crock of horsesASS manure! Direct from WA State right?
Think about this suckas: ObummerCare exhanges are collapsing across the country, and more than 2 million peeps aren’t paying their subsidized premiums. Get that? 2 million and they get some dole money to help and still not paying! ObummerCare premiums continue to skyrocket in 2016, right through family budgets!
So what is the bottom line about ObummerCare in 2016?
– ObummerCare harder to buy than ever!
– ObummerCare offers less value than ever!
– ObummerCare more expensive than ever!
Can I keep my doctor? NOPE!
Can I keep my health care plan? NOPE!
Give y’all a high five suckas! Ties right in with that Heilary video Puddy posted earlier today!
@37 “Happy 2016 HA DUMMOCRETINS. May you continue to demonstrate to Seattle, King County, WA State and the rest of the United States how backward your thinking is and how much of a low information voter you continue to be!”
We wish you a happy new year too, Spudnutz, for the non-political portion of it. As for the rest, we hope you and your ilk suffer the ignominious defeat in November that your kind so richly deserves.
Our thinking is “backward”? This from a moron whose party wants to drag us all back to the 19th century? I’m laughing so hard I can hear my ribs cracking!
@38 Yeah, Ben raises a lot of money, and spends most of it on fundraising, which doesn’t leave much for campaigning.
If a campaign were a football game, this would be halftime, and Ben would be in the locker room firing his coach and offensive coordinator, sacking half his team, throwing out his playbook, and hoping for the best when he goes back out on the field.
Ben’s new campaign manager is a retired army general affiliated with Liberty University. Good luck with that, Ben …
@40 “Households that opt to go without health insurance in 2016 are set to get hit with an average Obamacare fine of $969. And households without insurance that earn too much to qualify for financial aid to buy Obamacare plans will pay an even larger fine for 2016 — an average of $1,450, versus the average of $1,177 for 2015.”
Good. I’m tired of paying higher insurance premiums to cover the emergency room bills of those freeloaders.
@40 So what is the bottom line about ObummerCare in 2016?
– ObummerCare harder to buy than ever!
– ObummerCare offers less value than ever!
– ObummerCare more expensive than ever!”
So? How is this different from what we who pay our own freight endured for the last 40 years?
Good. I’m tired of paying higher insurance premiums to cover the emergency room bills of those freeloaders.
Poor DUMMOCRETIN are freeloaders Roger senile? Do tell!
@45 What are you babbling about now, jackass? The poor don’t have to freeload; they get Medicaid. Unless they live in a Republican state where they’re kicked to the curb and left to die.
46 A Greed conservative not being Christian, how consistent. There are atheists with more Christian behaviors!
Best wishes to all for a great 2016.
Except fuckwad and bickle (sounds like a comedy team doesn’t it?)…they can both rot in hell.
Speaking of Carly….
She stepped in it big today and for what? Some people don’t get sports or sports fans. There was a game today called the Rose Bowl. It’s kind of a big deal if you follow college football. It featured Stanford of the Pac-12 against Iowa of the first in the nation primary.
No, abandoning what should be your team to pander to Iowans makes Iowans think you’re a complete sell out. It doesn’t gain you respect, it costs respect. Putting that on Twitter also costs you a TON of respect at your alma mater. Have fun around Palo Alto, Carly. People will be laughing at you there for the rest of your natural life. Your next invitation to be commencement speaker or honorary degree will come in 2000-never
BTW, Stanford 21-0 after 1 quarter, 35 nothing at half, 45-16 final and one of the smart kids from Carly’s alma mater set a pretty impressive record with 368 total yards.
But then Carly was never going to be president. She can now occupy herself with being rich, just like Dr. Ben can go back to being rich now that all those donors are backing a loser. Dr. Ben has sunk to 4th nationally, 4th in Iowa, 7th in New Hampshire, 4th in SC, 4th in Nevada, while Carly? Seventh or Eight mostly. Hell even Kasich is ahead of her in a few. But what the hey, if Dr. Ben can hang on til Super Tuesday he’ll squeak out a 4th place finish or two then and it’ll be all Benmentum from there.
But I see the Piddles character is still impressed with his fundraising numbers. He’s the pets.com, the Lincoln Savings and Loan, the Wamu, the Enron of Candidates. People keep throwing money away when any rational observer can see that it’s all over save the last gasps of graft.
@ 48 czechsaaz:
“People keep throwing money away when any rational observer can see that it’s all over save the last gasps of graft.”
Only a conservative would fall for the sunk cost fallacy when it comes to political fundraising.
And church tithing.
And military expenditures.
And public stadiums.
Etc.
If there is public money involved, there’s graft to be made. Just ask Timmeh.
Customers complain as Uber prices surge near 10X on New Years Eve
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/c.....years-eve/
How amusing. People who really don’t understand the cruel consequences of capitalism. It’s cheap when you don’t need it, and they will charge you your life savings and your first born when you do, to maximize profits.
Suckers.
Vote for Bernie in the primary!
http://www.techinsider.io/chin.....es-2015-12
Conservative anti science is catching up with us. Reminds me of the anti intellectual movement at the beginning of communist China. When i was a kid, conservatives hated Russia and China, now they want to be copy them.
http://singularityhub.com/2012.....led-labor/
“The question no one seems to have the answer to, however, is what is to become of unskilled labor, and those hundreds of millions whose jobs are never coming back?”
Democrats are thinking about this, conservatives seem to think the enemployed will magically vanish. Conservatives don’t want their taxes to go to the lazy “takers”.
Saudi Arabia executed 47 people yesterday, including some anti-government protesters. They don’t have free speech in that country, but they’re arguably more civilized than us, because they wouldn’t have killed Michael Brown for shoplifting cigars; they would’ve chopped off his hands, not his head.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sa.....nt-cleric/
House Republicans kicked off the New Year by promising to waste the taxpayers’ time and dime on yet another fruitless attempt to repeal Obamacare.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/go.....arenthood/
The Palins are ditching their posh Arizona digs. Does this mean Sarah won’t run against Sen. McCain? Or are they simply overextended now that her lucrative Faux gig has been terminated with prejudice?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sa.....5-million/
@48 Shows the woman is 100% mercenary and will sell out anyone for a buck or a vote. In that respect, she fits right in with the GOP crowd.
150 Somali Workers At Meat Factory Quit Because Not Allowed To Pray
Well, lookee what we have here: Cargill doesn’t know how to respect other people’s religious beliefs and practices, so now they’re minus an entire workforce.
The company said it fired the workers, in line with company policy, because they didn’t show up for work for 3 days after the company refused their religious accommodation request. Fair enough, they were fired for unauthorized absence, not because of religious discrimination; if the company discriminated against Muslims per se, they wouldn’t have been hired in the first place.
The company also said it fired them because their absence disrupted production. Fair enough; Cargill has a legitimate business interest at stake here. But doesn’t firing 120 workers disrupt their production even more?
Slaughterhouse work is physically hard, nasty, minimum-wage work. That’s why so many Somali immigrants were working there; you can’t get Americans to do this work on the terms offered by companies like Cargill. So now where is Cargill going to get 150 replacement workers from? Sneak them across the Mexico border? Bring them in on a boat from Syria?
I’m sure either of those options would be perfectly acceptable to this company, as long as they can get their production line running again. I doubt that Cargill gives much of a damn what Donald Trump thinks of Muslims, Mexicans, or Syrians, no matter how much dark money they contribute to GOP candidates and causes. All they want is cheap labor, and they’ll take it anywhere they can get it from.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/02/.....index.html
@48 Scant few in the old ‘hood would return Carly’s affection. If she were crossing a street in Silicon Gulch and got run over by a bus, the passengers would demand that the driver back up and do it again.
@56
http://whqr.org/post/worlds-la.....rs#stream/
Probably why they are looking to automate out the whining workers with their religious demands.
56 are religious leaders hiprocrites if they don’t defend the religious rights of the Muslims workers?
@59 CAIR has gotten involved in this case.
@46,
You called them freeloaders Roger senile.
B U S T E D!
@61 Not. Different “them,” ya dumb twit.
@3 War is not humans favorite sport. We are social animals, more so than rabbits. The answer to your question depends upon the status of the larder. Rabbits may have gardens, but not larders, but rabbits can be added to the larder. Generally unless one lives in some south Pacific Island one cannot add humans to the larder.
@4 I actually met the Republican poster boy from the lawsuit. Wish I’d known that at the time as he wasn’t the person I was expecting to meet. An unannounced change of who was President of an organization. He’s still out there but I don’t know if he’s still working in the King county auditors/election office.
@9 Nope we developed our big brains through sex. Language is one clear driver of our big brains. War is one driver, but mere survival is a more important driver.
If I were working in a place where workers get 2 breaks and a lunch hour, but the company gave a certain bunch of other workers another 3 breaks a day so they could pray, I’d be pretty pissed off. That’s flat-out discrimination.
@11 You leave out the conventional forces of the USSR posed at Europe.