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1: Inmate Central, In places of worship (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-04-17, 15:04:52 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
2: Inmate Central, Meanwhile in Florida... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-04-17, 15:03:19 (76.112.185.250)
and Texas. P.S. Not the end of the world but you can see it from there. .......
3: Inmate Central, Nuke the heat then bleach the fallout (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-04-16, 13:29:33 (76.112.185.250)
Or buy salt futures. .......
4: Inmate Central, An African American man with good lawyers (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-04-12, 19:04:13 (76.112.185.250)
A sign of the end times .......
5: Inmate Central, Perhaps my use of 'craven' was inadvised... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-21, 18:37:27 (76.112.185.250)
However, I surveyed his messages on this asylum prior to my post, and honestly there's a lot not to like about him IME. As you know, craven doesn't mean subhuman, it means cowardly like many who went .......
6: Inmate Central, The liberties we have to stand on our hind legs and live free (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-21, 16:57:26 (76.112.185.250)
For more specifics you'll have to ask your Messiah Orange Julius, your redneck neighbors, redneck preacher, etc. .......
7: Inmate Central, Noman, you're an inarticulate child with nothing to say... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-21, 16:35:29 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
8: Inmate Central, Here's a quote that surely must have influenced Roddenberry... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 23:35:11 (76.112.185.250)
"In humanity's manhood, patriotism-the love of country-will not perish-far from it-it will grow to embrace the world, for your country and mine will be the world. Your "state" and mine will be the .......
9: Inmate Central, Gene Roddenberry was a disciple of Korzybski (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 21:48:55 (76.112.185.250)
Yes, have read all of Korzybski. He influenced a few of the more optimistic writers of science fiction, as well as the grifter of L. Ron Hubbard. .......
10: Inmate Central, AFAIK from reading the Federalist Papers... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 21:41:29 (76.112.185.250)
Many Founders believed that a liberal constitution would serve to protect individuals from tribalism. Though today half the voters hope to see our liberties suspended by Orange Julius. .......
11: Inmate Central, Maybe? Maybe you should know your own motivations (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 21:17:56 (76.112.185.250)
Be honest. As a grown up why does 'woke' bother you? What are you hiding or hiding from? .......
12: Inmate Central, Thanks, I almost forgot about our lizard brains... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 16:55:00 (76.112.185.250)
Guess I was preoccupied trying to figure out how a person as craven as Story could get something out of Star Trek. .......
13: Inmate Central, Good point. IME the words are nearly interchangeable, though... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 15:48:46 (76.112.185.250)
For instance, our free trade agreements didn't write themselves nor were they written by market forces. Special interests wrote them and delivered them to congressmen wrapped in unmarked bills. ::: .......
14: Inmate Central, Cut-and-paste indicates his inability to articulate a thought (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 15:38:44 (76.112.185.250)
There's no there there. In his head there's nobody's home. Must be so sad to be an empty vessel or clanging bell. .......
15: Inmate Central, So, you watched Star Trek but its lessons were lost on you? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 15:23:28 (76.112.185.250)
At least the original TV series, which was based on Alfred Korzybski's 'Manhood of Humanity' before the movies lost the moral. .......
16: Inmate Central, TLDR (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 15:00:04 (76.112.185.250)
Please, what's the point? Please in ten words or less, what's your point? .......
17: Inmate Central, Agreed, woke is a Rorschach word. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-20, 13:47:30 (76.112.185.250)
A loving person should have no problem with it, but haters try to make it a code-word of the culture-war of the Sleepwalkers who find hating easier than waking to the facts of American history. .......
18: Inmate Central, TARP socialized 700 banks during the last financial crisis (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-19, 10:13:24 (76.112.185.250)
But market forces killed Congress from making any meaningful reforms based on lessons learned because at the time market forces were working overtime to line the pockets of WSJ journalists, regulat .......
19: Inmate Central, I love the Atlantic (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-19, 09:52:47 (76.112.185.250)
May it survive another 165 years. .......
20: Inmate Central, God save us from 'natural market forces' (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-18, 15:25:36 (174.128.181.84)
Evidently, the globalist clowns at WSJ are too stupid or craven to face the fact that 'natural market forces' destroyed our industries and middle class and ushered-in the evils collectively c .......
21: Inmate Central, Ogres and Pygmies by Robert Graves (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-18, 14:39:48 (174.128.181.84)
Those famous men of old, the Ogres They had long beards and stinking arm-pits. They were wide-mouthed, long-yarded and great-bellied Yet of no taller stature, Sirs, than you. They lived on Ogre-Strand .......
22: Inmate Central, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-17, 18:20:15 (76.112.185.250)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/731 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/732 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/733 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/734 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/735 https://www.gut .......
23: Inmate Central, Did Oleg Burlakov fall from a window? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-17, 12:35:11 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
24: Inmate Central, He'd be nuts to leave Ann Arbor IMHO (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-16, 18:58:09 (76.112.185.250)
It's a nice community. .......
25: Inmate Central, Living in New England, I owned a 1972 Gremlin (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-16, 18:51:43 (76.112.185.250)
Love it, but it didn't love the snow. .......
26: Inmate Central, Haven't you heard? Noman is an island (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-16, 18:46:10 (76.112.185.250)
A special case indeed. .......
27: Inmate Central, Philly looked old and tired. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-16, 16:05:43 (76.112.185.250)
Lots of 10+ year veterans that couldn't hold up as the season wore on. As for Fatty Matty, the Ozempic looks like it's working wonders. .......
28: Inmate Central, without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-16, 15:55:04 (76.112.185.250)
People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to .......
29: Inmate Central, 17 February 1951, pp. 89-93 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-15, 17:59:39 (76.112.185.250)
A consensus embraced for 73 years by both major parties. Sometimes called the Washington-Wall Street Consensus. " A prominent factor in the rise of conservative and right-libertarian organizations, po .......
30: Inmate Central, Wojciech, in case you misunderstood the term (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-15, 10:05:34 (76.112.185.250)
Attached is more information about neoliberalism. .......
31: Inmate Central, I expect that TB will embarrass Philly and its Fatty Matty Patty on Monday (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 20:19:19 (76.112.185.250)
If so, the Lions may be going facing San Francisco on the way to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. .......
32: Inmate Central, Also what neoliberalism looks like (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 19:42:28 (76.112.185.250)
Gary, Indiana, is less than 25 miles from the ivory towers of the University of Chicago in whose bowels neoliberalism grew like an economic virus that enriched a few Americans and impoverished most .......
33: Inmate Central, the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country's. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 16:01:33 (76.112.185.250)
Netanyahu will go down in history as the worst Jewish leader ever .......
34: Inmate Central, Refs gift Dallas with a horse shit horse-collar and touchdown (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 15:13:37 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO we're looking at a gerrymandered post season. .......
35: Inmate Central, Autoworkers and big three staff get employee discounts... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 14:25:11 (76.112.185.250)
ncentives allow them to purchase below cost. Automakers underwrite dealer losses, and when the corporations go bankrupt, the government bails them out via corporate welfare. AFAIK nobody buys Big T .......
36: Inmate Central, Evidently, regmac skipped reform school the day they taught philosophy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 12:44:58 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO it's worth ten seconds, if you get a good laugh out of it. Remind meof an unlikable version of Professor Irwin Corey. .......
37: Inmate Central, Yeah, Gore and climate scientist worldwide (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-14, 12:15:29 (76.112.185.250)
Though, drinking bleach boosts the body's natural freon for superior air-conditioning. Skol! .......
38: Inmate Central, What a bunch of sissies! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-13, 12:12:02 (76.112.185.250)
LOL! .......
39: Inmate Central, Boeing and Nothingness... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 18:44:29 (76.112.185.250)
by Jean Paul Sartre. .......
40: Films/DVD Asylum, Seems that Amazon is building an outlet around the corner from me... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 14:01:47 (76.112.185.250)
If I can pick up my orders there, then I'll cancel Prime entirely. .......
41: Inmate Central, Agreed, it was weird (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 13:12:22 (76.112.185.250)
As if they quoted Rachel Maddow talking in her sleep. But you and I differ in that for me 'woke' isn't a four-letter word. Acknowledging the fact that there has been racism throughout American hist .......
42: Inmate Central, Apologies jedrider, I meant no disrespect to you. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 12:25:14 (76.112.185.250)
I agree that Boeing bean counters lost sight of the firm's mission. But the MSNBC article was poorly edited. I'm beginning to think that MSNBC has become unable to publish anything that doesn't spe .......
43: Inmate Central, I consider myself woke, and (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 12:03:09 (76.112.185.250)
I love the philosophers of the Enlightenment -- the only period in human history that may justify IMHO one's being a Western chauvinist. But the non sequitur threw me. .......
44: Inmate Central, ???? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-12, 11:44:39 (76.112.185.250)
???? .......
45: Inmate Central, Heaven forfend that we build more inclusive and equitable societies :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 21:47:28 (76.112.185.250)
Which offends you more? Inclusive or equitable? .......
46: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Tubes (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 17:55:38 (76.112.185.250)
Tubes .......
47: Inmate Central, Words are useful. But sometimes, words are inadequate to grasp what we want to convey. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 17:52:58 (76.112.185.250)
"A lot of people in the Western world tend to try to separate and put things into boxes. But [mental health] is not at the individual level, rather for Tribes, it's experienced at the community-level .......
48: Inmate Central, The Feeling of Losing Snow (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 16:37:57 (76.112.185.250)
Circa February 1965, one of my fondest memories is time spent with my dad when trapped by a blizzard in downtown Detroit. After a music convention, we were forced to spend several days in the Sh .......
49: Inmate Central, Truthy in the Highest but (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 16:03:00 (76.112.185.250)
I didn't follow how Boeing Woes led into child labor. Does Boeing use child engineers? .......
50: Inmate Central, IIRC Silicon Valley many CEOs have doomsday bunkers (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 15:57:24 (76.112.185.250)
and TV preachers who got rich preaching revelations, and then started to believe their own horseshit -- the ones who know they're going straight to hell when they die. P.S. And probably Putin, Opra .......
51: Inmate Central, Bill Belichick was exposed like the Wizard of Oz (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 15:38:03 (76.112.185.250)
And I expect that Fatty Matty Patty will be sacked unless the Eagles do well in the post season. .......
52: Inmate Central, Warm winter so far (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 15:26:32 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
53: Inmate Central, The unscrupulous can profit from fluffing up end of times crazes.. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-11, 13:48:05 (76.112.185.250)
Since fear causes irrational behavior, in fear there are great opportunities for grift and power, wherewith the practiced confidence man presents himself as a refuge and savior in troubled waters. .......
54: Inmate Central, Whereas here people hold their heads high and work for a bowl Fruit Loops (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-10, 17:26:46 (76.112.185.250)
Whereas, here people hold their heads high and work for a bowl Fruit Loops .......
55: Inmate Central, Like a bird-brain looking in rear-view mirror... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-10, 12:46:56 (76.112.185.250)
As usual .......
56: Inmate Central, IOW our great unwashed masses should stop buying goods made in the PRC (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-10, 12:38:25 (76.112.185.250)
So that water, air, etc., survive for our great unwashed posterity? .......
57: Inmate Central, Rate of Change (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-10, 00:25:48 (76.112.185.250)
' .......
58: Inmate Central, I booked a flight to Antarctica (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-09, 18:40:45 (76.112.185.250)
Going to scuba dive with the Mighty Quinn. .......
59: Inmate Central, Philosophy teaches us that Science isn't an exact science :( (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-09, 13:32:37 (76.112.185.250)
It's human nature believe whatever one wishes to believe. .......
60: Jazz Alley, Selmer Mark VI (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-08, 20:50:02 (76.112.185.250)
factory trip .......
61: Inmate Central, Philosophy teaches us that Science isn't an exact science :( (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-08, 16:41:17 (76.112.185.250)
Psychology and theology that people believe what they want to believe. .......
62: Inmate Central, No surprise after our Best and Brightest gave us Vietnam (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-06, 12:02:04 (76.112.185.250)
Thank heavens I missed that nightmare :( .......
63: General Asylum, IThanks, I'm going to try Mozilla Firefox (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 16:41:05 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
64: Inmate Central, I just hope they destroyed all the Gefilte fish (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 16:38:13 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
65: General Asylum, Right, but I balk at letting PayPal dictate my choice of credit cards... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 12:34:43 (76.112.185.250)
No biggie, just another brick in wall. .......
66: General Asylum, It doesn't work after all... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 12:17:20 (76.112.185.250)
Microsoft grifters simply re-installed the start page in spite of my wishes. I think my solution will be to switch from Edge to a more satisfactory browser. .......
67: General Asylum, Eventually, peons will shoulder the blame for all corporate failings... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 11:51:53 (76.112.185.250)
I anticipate that the Great Unwashed Masses will be moved to reservations when U.S. banks move all our pittance of savings offshore, when county governments lose all property records, deeds, etc. U .......
68: General Asylum, If you hate Microsoft Start, do this... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-05, 11:29:07 (76.112.185.250)
How do you disable Microsoft Start? Open the Run window by pressing Win + R on the keyboard. In the Run text box, type msconfig. To disable this feature, uncheck the Load startup items checkbox on the .......
69: Inmate Central, When I was an undergrad studying philosophy and history (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-04, 16:30:42 (76.112.185.250)
One of my professors was a historian whose other job was recruiting students to become CIA analysts. I knew some of the recruits. Thet were a mixed bag of ranging from intelligent students who spec .......
70: General Asylum, Rant: PayPal has become a grift (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-04, 16:00:31 (76.112.185.250)
No way to settle a negative balance that was incurred via express checkout. The only options are to get a debit card or get an Amex card. PayPal will accept no other payment options and meanwhile whil .......
71: Inmate Central, Yeah, on this I regretfully agree with you :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-04, 12:52:28 (76.112.185.250)
IIRC Qatar and the Saudi's are pro-Israel, anti-Iran, anti-Hamas, but pro-Houthi in the complex world of hydrocarbon geo-politics, e.g., the U.S. has military bases in Qatar. Meanwhile Qat .......
72: Inmate Central, You did a number on both of them (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 18:23:17 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
73: Inmate Central, Non sequitur -- Google it (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 17:37:01 (76.112.185.250)
desperately irrational thoughts! .......
74: Inmate Central, Admit it, your benighted thoughts didn't cause Gay to resign (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 15:25:50 (76.112.185.250)
She resigned because she was caught plagiarizing. P.S. From 1901-2023 a total of 621 Nobel Prizes were awarded. So agreed, far less than the millions (by your count) of outraged Harvard students. P .......
75: Inmate Central, Kelce' Handlers Are Worried (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 09:59:57 (76.112.185.250)
Not counting Taylor Swift :) .......
76: Inmate Central, Agreed, because she plagiarized her way to tenure (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 09:53:24 (76.112.185.250)
But let's be honest, your opinion didn't get her fired. She resigned, and your opinion didn't force her to resign. To assert otherwise would be megalomania. .......
77: Inmate Central, Brad Allen's crew was suspended then reinstated AFAIK (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 09:32:35 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
78: Inmate Central, Harvard Corporation is the second wealthiest institution in the world... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 08:41:13 (76.112.185.250)
Second only to the RCC. Gay's salary is a drop in the bucket for the college or the Harvard's Law School (where she's tenured, at least for now.) P.S. Yahweh solicits handouts from the Vatican but .......
79: Inmate Central, Yep, regmac and Jazz Wanker (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 08:21:38 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
80: Inmate Central, Such as Walter Reuther? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 08:18:53 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
81: Inmate Central, Credible sources report that plagiarism led to her resignation. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 08:08:06 (76.112.185.250)
It wasn't Jazz Wanker's disapprobation. .......
82: Inmate Central, That's your story and you're sticking to it, as usual (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-03, 07:54:35 (76.112.185.250)
The opinions of wankers like you caused Gay to resign? .......
83: Inmate Central, Don't forget about Chicago and the Austrian School (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 21:12:41 (76.112.185.250)
That gave us fifty-plus years of failed neo-liberalism. .......
84: Inmate Central, More like for the past few centuries, Chris (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 20:59:47 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
85: Inmate Central, This place is hardly a summit of intellectual life. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 20:43:09 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
86: Inmate Central, Another ideological donnybrook, I imagine (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 20:36:25 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
87: Inmate Central, But opinions don't matter unless you contribute to the school's endowment... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 20:31:39 (76.112.185.250)
Let's be honest, you didn't do the math prior to posting your stupid claim. P.S. My opinion matters because I'm an alumnus and, though I dislike Gay, I detest the culture war hypocrisy of this entire .......
88: Inmate Central, Do the math? If Harvard college matriculates 1,968 per year... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 18:06:57 (76.112.185.250)
It would matriculate two million students in how many years? The answer is 1,016.3 years. P.S. This isn't an SAT trick question-- just fourth-grade math. .......
89: Inmate Central, The grift is as plain as the mustache Nikki Haley's face (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 14:27:35 (174.128.176.87)
. .......
90: Inmate Central, I slept but there were black women named Gay in my nightmares (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 11:35:57 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
91: Inmate Central, There were three counting regmac (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 11:33:51 (76.112.185.250)
She couldn't withstand his virtuoso copy-and-paste technique. P.S. But those who lack reading comprehension, should not that she wasn't fired. P.P.S. I wish the Asylum were non-aligned in the culture .......
92: Inmate Central, Newsflash: 1+1=2 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 10:04:00 (76.112.185.250)
Little known facts not taught reform school. .......
93: Inmate Central, Probably, Swift and Kelce are running a grift (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 09:24:10 (76.112.185.250)
To increase music or ticket sales? This is America where nothing is it appears. Land of the con game and masquerade. .......
94: Inmate Central, Lions win by a higher score had not Goff thrown INTs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-02, 09:06:06 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps 31-20, 34-20? .......
95: Inmate Central, I understand your point of view, but (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-01, 14:04:56 (76.112.185.250)
The NFL Commissioner already suspended the officiating crew; and IMHO he ought to continue to the obvious conclusion that the Lions won. After all, the NFL isn't a SCOTUS with zero accountability .......
96: Inmate Central, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-01, 09:14:44 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
97: Inmate Central, Did Fatty Matty Patty call the defense? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2024-01-01, 07:22:23 (76.112.185.250)
He's sure a fuck-up! .......
98: Inmate Central, The tainted win may undermine Cowboys self-confidence going forward (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 10:41:17 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
99: Inmate Central, Fire Brad Allen (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 10:34:18 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
100: Inmate Central, Makes me sick, too (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 10:26:19 (76.112.185.250)
:( .......
101: Inmate Central, Now Lions will kick Cowboys' butts in the playoffs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 10:19:52 (76.112.185.250)
Looks like refs are crooked or not impartial. .......
102: Inmate Central, America was and is a magnet for hucksters. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 10:12:32 (76.112.185.250)
Hucksterism once was the domain of holy men, gurus, founders of religions, etc. Cases-in-point: the tablets that Yahweh gave Moses; miracles of early Christianity; hawking pieces of the True Cross .......
103: Inmate Central, Lions beat Cowboys 21-20 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 08:57:45 (76.112.185.250)
Robbed by officiating according to all observers. This just means that Lions will ream Cowboys in the playoffs. .......
104: Classical Court, Composer Kevin Puts (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-31, 08:47:46 (76.112.185.250)
We had beautiful snowfall this a.m., and I heard a good choral concert on CBC Radio, a piece entitled 'Home' based on a volume of poems entitled 'The House of Belonging' by David Whyte Happy New Year! .......
105: Inmate Central, RE: Whores (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-30, 11:47:55 (76.112.185.250)
Let's not forget about celebrity endorsements and hi-fi reviews. Whoredom now is so ingrained in American culturey that we hardly notice, but it was a novelty circa 1830-70 when Melville, Poe, M .......
106: Inmate Central, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-28, 07:29:52 (76.112.185.250)
During the first half of the nineteenth century, unprecedented numbers of young men were leaving their rural homes and families to seek work in the booming cities of industrializing America. As tho .......
107: Films/DVD Asylum, I too had high hopes for Napoleon until his blunder after Borodino (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-28, 06:38:49 (76.112.185.250)
But seriously, Hollywood makes nothing but crap these days. .......
108: Films/DVD Asylum, Mediocre movies and commercials :( (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-28, 06:28:20 (76.112.185.250)
What a deal! I stopped going to cinema houses, because (1) I refuse to be force-fed commercials after buying an overpriced admission ticket, (2) digital projected on the big screen nauseates me, (3 .......
109: Inmate Central, EV report (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-27, 05:53:58 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
110: General Asylum, As for me, biblical prophecy takes all the joy out of holidays (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-25, 10:09:29 (76.112.185.250)
I wish there was a Labor Day prophet, e.g., Eat the Rich. Oh, wait, that was Jesus of Nazareth. There should be an Eat the Rich Chorale for Labor Day. :) .......
111: General Asylum, I'd say second-quintile brow at best :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-25, 09:53:37 (76.112.185.250)
Not like La Mer, which always cause me to have an orgasm. .......
112: Inmate Central, But why did INRI choose to be born on Dies Natalis Solis Invicti? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-25, 09:46:16 (76.112.185.250)
Coincidence? I think not !!! .......
113: Inmate Central, Mason Rudolph looked good (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-25, 09:40:25 (76.112.185.250)
I hope the Lions sign him as backup to Goff and Hooker. .......
114: Inmate Central, Lions prove that coach and OL are the true skilled-positions (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-25, 09:35:50 (76.112.185.250)
You build a winning team around head coach, blockers, and QB IMHO. .......
115: Inmate Central, RE: Happy Festivus everyone! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-24, 09:00:04 (76.112.185.250)
! .......
116: Inmate Central, No, like all American history it's a repressed memory (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-23, 08:43:03 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
117: Inmate Central, You have no choice but to admit all is well with our economy... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-23, 07:50:08 (76.112.185.250)
Or continue lying to yourself. .......
118: Inmate Central, Never give a sucker an even break, Ivan:) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-22, 03:27:30 (76.112.185.250)
Bird-brain looking in rear view mirror. .......
119: Inmate Central, Is that what you learned in community college, reform school... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-22, 02:42:46 (76.112.185.250)
Or in whichever institution, you were so poorly educated? .......
120: Inmate Central, "...picking on Rudy..." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-22, 02:33:58 (76.112.185.250)
To the contrary, I'm sending him money now that he's bankrupt. :) .......
121: Inmate Central, "...effectively saying the southern border should be borderless..." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-21, 06:52:10 (76.112.185.250)
Those migrants aren't drug mules AFAIK. The social libertarian in me says it's better to let drug addicts be drug addicts. If you have a better idea, please share let's hear it. IIRC the Eisenhowe .......
122: Inmate Central, Yeah, each page is a rear-view mirror for bird brains (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-21, 01:57:33 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
123: Inmate Central, Donate to Rudy Giuliani's war on self-inflicted poverty (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-21, 01:53:24 (76.112.185.250)
The thing is that most of America's wars have failed or backfired including our war on drugs. Just warms my heart to see Rudy's war on republicanism has failed as well. Chicago? Give it back to .......
124: Inmate Central, You can lie to consumers, but not to investors (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-19, 07:49:46 (76.112.185.250)
The rich must get richer, but if lying to consumers wasn't allowed there would be no commercials, no politics, etc. .......
125: Inmate Central, Are you using "passional" in the sense used by William James? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-18, 05:04:07 (76.112.185.250)
Also, what is "Socialist morality"? .......
126: Inmate Central, "The stock market is making rich people richer." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-17, 19:56:43 (76.112.185.250)
Maralago Mussolini told a crowd of supporters in Reno, Nevada. While he prefers to make poor people poorer. .......
127: Inmate Central, Looks like the entire economy is humming along... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-14, 04:18:53 (76.112.185.250)
Bidenomics:) .......
128: Inmate Central, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-14, 04:11:29 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
129: Inmate Central, Agreed, plus free speech was a lunatic culture-war issue... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-14, 04:10:04 (76.112.185.250)
Moral of the Story: Don't let your babies grow up to be university presidents in America. .......
130: Inmate Central, So, DeVry? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-12, 09:57:21 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
131: Inmate Central, Enquiring minds wonder which university is losing your neo-liberal ministrations... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-12-12, 09:35:35 (76.112.185.250)
??? .......
132: Inmate Central, And religion is just politics, as well (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-14, 21:49:59 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
133: Inmate Central, Not a prophet but I can guess the end-time fashions (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-14, 18:50:34 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
134: Inmate Central, Because war is just politics by other means (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-13, 15:36:35 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
135: Inmate Central, (i) LOL (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-13, 14:09:40 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
136: Inmate Central, Proof of climate change (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-13, 08:27:46 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
137: Vinyl Asylum, February 1889 Magazine Article about Thomas Edison's New Toy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-11, 19:34:13 (76.112.185.250)
Tech news from 134 years ago. .......
138: Inmate Central, One of Solomon's Proverbs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-11, 12:47:37 (76.112.185.250)
Don't have a girlfriend until after you're married; and if you see her in a dream, whisper her name so as not to wake your wife. .......
139: Inmate Central, Eventually, GM's engineers will organize and demand the right to make reliable products (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-11, 12:38:40 (76.112.185.250)
Engineers want to take pride in their work just like everyone else. .......
140: Inmate Central, IDK but that the MSM often employ mid-brow psuedo-intellects to espouse far-right opinions (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-10, 12:45:33 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO that's precisely what William F. Buckley was in his day. .......
141: Inmate Central, Victor, I don't patronize 'x' because I dislike its owner. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-10, 12:18:57 (76.112.185.250)
P.S. Last night I was reading bandurist history, in particular the story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus who were Kharkiv performers and some of the few bandurist survivors of Stalin's Holodomor and .......
142: Inmate Central, Honda workers will soon be able to pay their bills. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-10, 11:28:16 (76.112.185.250)
'...hikes by Honda as well as Toyota Motor Corp. following the UAW's tentative agreements demonstrate the domino effect on the labor market..." P.S. dark_dave56: Your question is being answered in Det .......
143: Inmate Central, Drunkenness is preferable to sobriety in Russia (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-08, 17:32:03 (76.112.185.250)
Sad about your ancestors, though. One day at a time... .......
144: Inmate Central, "...the big three had to pay us back for striking them" (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-08, 16:56:44 (76.112.185.250)
American workers will soon be able to pay their own bill. .......
145: Inmate Central, Probably just more honest in self-reporting (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-08, 16:08:45 (76.112.185.250)
If so, Turks are the biggest liars :) .......
146: Inmate Central, Baristas soon will be able to pay their bills... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-08, 09:52:40 (76.112.185.250)
And their union dues as well. .......
147: Inmate Central, Ohio is the canary in the coal mine (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-08, 09:39:05 (76.112.185.250)
Once Ohio goes libertarian, evangelical fascism is done for. .......
148: Inmate Central, So named because he farts? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-07, 11:40:49 (76.112.185.250)
Give him Beano for dogs which comes in both boy-dog and girl-dog strengths. .......
149: Inmate Central, If God had an automated phone attendant... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-06, 09:09:05 (76.112.185.250)
No prayers would be answered :( .......
150: Inmate Central, Union 'bump' (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-05, 10:48:15 (76.112.185.250)
American workers gain for the first time since the assassination of Walter Reuther. Shows what honest labor organizations can accomplish. .......
151: Inmate Central, The Bandurists perform around here regularly (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-03, 14:27:55 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
152: Inmate Central, Link doesn't work :( (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-03, 09:07:18 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
153: Inmate Central, Jim, I don't care for the analogy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 20:17:58 (76.112.185.250)
The Gazans are more like prisoners of their Hamas overlords. Aren't they? .......
154: Inmate Central, Yeah, Diana Ross was a living doll (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 16:58:12 (76.112.185.250)
Other Motown singers, musicians, composers, and producers attended Cass Technical High School, as well. It had great music and performing arts departments. Before moving its offices to West Grand Blvd .......
155: Inmate Central, AFAIK the Dubya-Cheney fiascos left a lasting distaste for trigger happiness (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 09:29:26 (76.112.185.250)
Maybe it's been replaced by a temporary, or even a lasting, love of peace? Evidently, there's a price we pay for being an aggressor nation in that it twists the minds of our children and their twisted .......
156: Inmate Central, I was fortunate to attend Detroit's Cass Technical magnet high school... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 07:23:06 (76.112.185.250)
Located downtown, my daily bus ride was an hour each way with one transfer. Many companions in high school and on the bus were Jewish, African-American, Greek, Italian, Anglo-American, Hispanic, .......
157: Inmate Central, 'The Military-Industrial-Complex Complex' by Paul Krugman (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 06:27:02 (76.112.185.250)
Just one man's opinion, but he's an economist not a mere statistician. So, food for thought rather than empty calories IMHO. .......
158: Inmate Central, Dai's an American, isn't he? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-11-01, 05:29:41 (76.112.185.250)
So, ignorant regardless of ancestry. .......
159: Inmate Central, It's not called debt slavery if you're a capitalist... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-31, 07:06:22 (76.112.185.250)
Then it's called finance. .......
160: Inmate Central, But did anyone like my joke about Russian U-turn? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-31, 07:03:07 (76.112.185.250)
Get it??? .......
161: Inmate Central, Agreed. contiinuing resolutions are as old as stupidity itself. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-30, 13:33:23 (76.112.185.250)
And probably wasted more than a trillion dollars in defense spending. .......
162: Inmate Central, Yeah, not to mention a recourse to budgetary continuing resolutions (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-30, 10:00:08 (76.112.185.250)
AFAIK CRs provide short-term funding at prior year levels. They are a vastly inefficient and expensive method of funding federal agencies because they add a great deal of uncertainty to contracts w .......
163: Inmate Central, What it's called when Russian forces meet Ukraine fighter (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-30, 09:14:36 (76.112.185.250)
Russian U-turn .......
164: Inmate Central, Evidently, our elites are still not through... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-30, 09:02:33 (76.112.185.250)
The saddest fact is that both our Congress and our courts neglected to make meaningful reforms after the crash, allowing the purpose-built moral hazard to live forever. Divine forgiveness is nothin .......
165: Inmate Central, That's why we should die in as much debt as possible (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-29, 07:45:49 (76.112.185.250)
The 11th Commandment given to mankind reminds us that you can't take debt with you when you die. Unfortunately, only elites have lawyers sufficiently crooked to navigate in capital waters. ::: TOPIC:: .......
166: Inmate Central, I have firearms for home defense, CCW permit, carry a sidearm, etc. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-28, 07:24:45 (76.112.185.250)
But I'm not into the fetish in a Freudian perverse or paranoid way. IME paranoids have an all or nothing attitude. .......
167: Inmate Central, Agreed, I don't see why it's newsworthy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-28, 06:55:33 (76.112.185.250)
Why would a person who doesn't live in peonage adopt the pose of an ubermensch, as if the highest goal of mankind is paying bills? .......
168: Inmate Central, Soon enough no country on earth will admit American refugees (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-28, 06:19:25 (76.112.185.250)
It's widely known that Americans are half-crazed. In other words, about 50% are totally gone. .......
169: Inmate Central, Buy low, sell high (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-28, 06:07:32 (76.112.185.250)
But Wall Street bailouts and insider trading help. .......
170: Inmate Central, Seems like he'd easily find a donor heart (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 13:08:56 (76.112.185.250)
Back in the days of Stalin, many nomenklatura would have gladly died to give Stalin their hearts. Maybe Putin has a body full of hardened arteries? .......
171: Inmate Central, But ownership is concentrated in fewer households. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 13:01:47 (76.112.185.250)
Households headed by militia types and fetishists. .......
172: Inmate Central, Viktor, nobody wants to ban all firearms... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 12:56:44 (76.112.185.250)
I'm only concerned about assault weapons used in public mass murders. Also, I want firearms out of the paws of human pit bulls. I don't understand the fetish. .......
173: Inmate Central, Nor would I want my daughter to date a statistician. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 12:23:38 (76.112.185.250)
Soon he'd have believing that four inches is a normal erection. .......
174: Inmate Central, Don't know the full story yet (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 10:48:39 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO America's love of guns is just nuts, though. Details hardly matter at this point. .......
175: Inmate Central, I'm glad to see autoworkers & other earners win higher wages (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 10:44:29 (76.112.185.250)
after 50+ years of the trickle-down scam. Glad to see most Americans siding with workers. .......
176: Inmate Central, Dimon's not an economist (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 08:49:42 (76.112.185.250)
Harvard Business School product just like Dubya (Bush the Decider) and an entire century's worth of scoundrels and morons. Yet somehow Dimon pretended to be an economist on the New York Reserve Board. .......
177: Inmate Central, My guess is that the gubment will bail out Wall Street as in 2008-09 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 08:13:22 (76.112.185.250)
I do feel sympathy for California homeowners who wish to sell at this time. Or who want to drink water, use water, etc. .......
178: Inmate Central, Even Jamie Dimon supports taxing elites (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 08:04:27 (76.112.185.250)
To bring down the debt created by the trickle-down hoax. .......
179: Inmate Central, On October 28, 2008, Treasury gifted $25B to JPMorgan Chase (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 08:01:11 (76.112.185.250)
On October 28, 2008, $25 billion in funds were transferred from the U.S. Treasury Department to JPMorgan Chase, under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). This was the fifth largest amount transf .......
180: Inmate Central, You clarified the fact that you just don't know (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-27, 07:45:16 (76.112.185.250)
With all due respect, different folks have differing emotional attachments to guns. My response to them is revulsion. I own several for home protection, but I don't love them. I want them controlled, .......
181: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-26, 12:01:46 (76.112.185.250)
Yeah, he'd go for the MTG type of whacko. .......
182: Inmate Central, What are the other options? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-26, 08:30:04 (76.112.185.250)
AFAIK when MIC costs rise, the payer will be either Wall Street or the taxpayer. Seems obvious. .......
183: Inmate Central, Wouldn't want my daughter to date a firearms instructor (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-26, 08:20:44 (76.112.185.250)
I'll apologize if it proves to be untrue. However, I understand from early reports that the suspected mass murderer in Maine has a history of mental illness, but nevertheless is a professional firearm .......
184: Inmate Central, The Onion was the first journal to take an unprincipled stand... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-25, 17:34:01 (76.112.185.250)
On the Le Grand Déportation des Acadiens, after which its headquarters relocated to the future Province of Nova Scotia. .......
185: Cable Asylum, I understood a little of this video (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-25, 07:24:19 (76.112.185.250)
:) .......
186: Inmate Central, Agreed, it's reported primarily in click-bait media (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-25, 06:39:07 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
187: Inmate Central, Those who don't learn history from Jumbotron... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-25, 06:00:25 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
188: Inmate Central, Oligarchs: Take Heart! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-25, 05:47:56 (76.112.185.250)
Dick Cheney got a spare heart probably from an Iraqi child. Putin will find his needed organs in some warzone, too. .......
189: Inmate Central, Sixty years of monogamy is what gave me dementia. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-24, 09:58:08 (76.112.185.250)
After sixty years senility comes as a blessing. .......
190: Inmate Central, Money's no object in the MIC (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-24, 07:15:55 (76.112.185.250)
So, stockholders will never be required to foot the bill for defense spending. .......
191: Inmate Central, Viagra poisoning (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-24, 06:46:06 (76.112.185.250)
May cause stroke or cardiac arrest. .......
192: Inmate Central, Good advice (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-22, 17:39:11 (76.112.185.250)
I'm watching 'Reno 911' .......
193: Inmate Central, I'm just glad that a very stable genius has our nuclear secrets (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-22, 17:37:45 (76.112.185.250)
in hand. .......
194: Inmate Central, Time for more Benghazi hearings (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-15, 15:26:22 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
195: Inmate Central, Physician, heal thyself... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-15, 15:20:25 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
196: Inmate Central, E-Stat, please don't pretend to be an economist (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-13, 17:12:44 (76.112.185.250)
IIRC the FED manages the money supply. Treasury prints money at the FEDs direction. Unless Treasury prints money, interest rates rise. So, interest rates move in the opposite direction of money supply .......
197: Inmate Central, ??? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-13, 06:51:13 (76.112.185.250)
perch? .......
198: Inmate Central, IME pendulum swings if elites don't assassinate Sean Fain first (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-11, 17:25:28 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO Reuther's assassination was the final act in the tragedy of the American middle class. Per Wikipedia: "On May 9, 1970, Walter Reuther, his wife May, architect Oscar Stonorov, Reuther's bodyguard .......
199: Inmate Central, The NYT had an excellent article this morning (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-10, 18:29:51 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps all public schools should follow DOD's model? But DOD schools are well-resourced, safe and secure, and its teachers and administrators are well-paid. A far as I'm concerned, gender and sex-pe .......
200: Inmate Central, The elites have sufficient resources to settle the national debt. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 22:48:16 (76.112.185.250)
That's good news, if only the great unwashed masses would demand that elites pay taxes. .......
201: Inmate Central, Son of Caligula was just helping his pals in the Kremlin (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 21:28:41 (76.112.185.250)
Useful idiots are nothing, if not useful. .......
202: Inmate Central, It's obvious and has been reported (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 17:58:26 (76.112.185.250)
Thom Hartmann, author and political commentator posted "Hamas apparently knew how to get around Israel's Iron Dome defenses. They probably learned this from Iran. Iran almost certainly got the informa .......
203: Inmate Central, Don't gamble. just stick to wine, women, and song (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 16:37:36 (76.112.185.250)
No waste, no want, as they say. .......
204: Inmate Central, I don't fret about bond markets... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 15:39:36 (76.112.185.250)
What I find more interesting is the re-emergence of a robust labor market and militant labor movement. With any luck, the U.S. middle-class will resurrect itself. See attached article to read the writ .......
205: Inmate Central, Dialectics on the value of boutique fuses? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-09, 15:09:40 (76.112.185.250)
Those are the best you'll find here. .......
206: Inmate Central, Yea, winged monkeys had better schooling... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-08, 02:48:09 (76.112.185.250)
But they also played hooky on the day when they were supposed to be taught American Government 101. All MAGAs and all winged monkeys skipped that day. .......
207: Inmate Central, You'll never play football again with gonads on your knee (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-08, 02:37:49 (76.112.185.250)
It would interfere with cheerleading, too :) .......
208: Inmate Central, Commander is an animatronic spycam -- not a real dog (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-06, 12:07:18 (76.112.185.250)
He only bites MAGAs and winged monkeys. .......
209: Inmate Central, Were the amount $1,051B rather than only $1,051.38... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-05, 14:42:58 (76.112.185.250)
Officer Preston Hines would be presidential material. .......
210: Inmate Central, Commander being paid by Burisma? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-05, 14:34:52 (76.112.185.250)
First Dog is going to the dogs IMHO .......
211: Inmate Central, Headache, just like real champagne (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-03, 18:26:20 (76.112.185.250)
I hate the bubbly :) .......
212: Inmate Central, Champagne + Ripple = Champipple (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-03, 15:42:29 (76.112.185.250)
It was health food when I was in college. I hate to see the Ripple brand co-opted by a pusher of oat milk. P.S. IIRC the original Champipple was Vernors Ginger Ale plus Ripple. You had to come throug .......
213: Inmate Central, World is going to the dogs :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-03, 12:57:11 (76.112.185.250)
Does anyone remember when Ripple was the preferred libation of by Fred G. Sanford? .......
214: Inmate Central, KUMHO MAJESTY 9 SOLUS TA91 XL (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-10-02, 17:45:12 (76.112.185.250)
This Kuhmo tire is good IMHO I didn't care for Kelly tires, but never tried Falken. .......
215: Inmate Central, A true hero (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-30, 08:45:16 (76.112.185.250)
May have prevented Rocket Man and Pocket Man from nuking us all to death. .......
216: Inmate Central, Labor ought to be willing to cyber-attack unfair competition (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-28, 12:34:02 (76.112.185.250)
If Canadian or U.S. governments are unwilling to protect their wage workers (at present these governments exist only to protect plutocracy AFAIK) then IMHO protectionism must devolve to industrial uni .......
217: Inmate Central, "BEAN COUNTERS....Rule...." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-25, 14:15:04 (76.112.185.250)
I've heard the same about Ford. That's why IME auto engineers should organize themselves. Many engineers take pride in their chosen work and don't wish to be forced to design shitty vehicles. U.S. aut .......
218: Inmate Central, "... UAW strike is getting around 75% support" (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-25, 14:04:31 (76.112.185.250)
It's a no brainer that neoliberalism destroyed our middle class. Only morons fail to realize it. .......
219: Inmate Central, Nobody knows for certain (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-25, 07:56:09 (174.128.181.185)
But I doubt that E-Stat has the skills to sabotage a ham sandwich. :) .......
220: Inmate Central, Reuther didn't bend his knee to plutocrats. Same with Fain... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-25, 07:23:40 (174.128.181.195)
In the past, labor was willing to engage in civil disobedience rather than graft. Reuther barely survived an assassination attempt in 1948. The gunmen were linked to old man Ford's enforcer Harry B .......
221: Inmate Central, IIRC Margaret Mead mentioned the importance of knowing one's history... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-24, 18:05:11 (76.112.185.250)
And discussed why it is that our plutocrats' minions are so opposed to the teaching of American history. .......
222: Inmate Central, E-Stat, regmac: Did you take the wife and kids to Centerline? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-24, 17:47:57 (76.112.185.250)
Or were you home dreaming Zarathustra? .......
223: Inmate Central, jedrider, you might enjoy Ghostbox Cowboy (2018) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-24, 08:45:58 (174.128.181.233)
It's partially a satire about the dumbing-down and grifting-down of our entrepreneurial class with references to 'Apocalypse Now'... It kind of ran beneath the pop culture radar, but IME most everythi .......
224: Inmate Central, Victor, are we talking about the same film? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-24, 08:36:21 (174.128.181.233)
In 'The Conformist' who was the "oversexed 95yo feeble man"? I don't recall that part? P.S. IME it's a great film. P.P.S. I sure hope that I'm still oversexed at 95yo :) .......
225: Inmate Central, When E-Stat mentioned something he "discovered long ago" (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 15:54:46 (76.112.185.250)
One certainly hopes to hear something profound. One hopes it wasn't an ingrown nostril hair that he discovered especially if it's from long ago :) .......
226: Inmate Central, OK, the first sentence says that you're grateful (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 15:24:43 (76.112.185.250)
Where's the beef? But IT is a career for the herd. You're not Zarathustra. More like Sisyphus... .......
227: Inmate Central, Give me a break. The entire herd went into IT (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 11:40:30 (174.128.176.68)
P.S. The U.S. Treasury, as much as it loves socialism for the one percent, isn't going to bail-out robots. It bailed out the automakers in December 2008 because there were human beings in those jobs. .......
228: Inmate Central, It's a state of mind for plutocrats without scratch... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 11:21:41 (174.128.176.68)
Those who fail to duck when the pendulum swings. P.S. Nobody knows for sure, but I hope the pendulum has swung. Our labor unions were controlled by cynical swine for so long, but they have some ideal .......
229: Inmate Central, Hobophobia? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 11:04:30 (174.128.176.68)
OK, I can't resist. What did you discover long ago? P.S. Please try to be profound rather than your usual trite. .......
230: Inmate Central, I certainly don't blame the engineers (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 10:59:25 (174.128.176.68)
More than a few of my friends and relatives left GM because management expected them to design shitty products. A few went to FANUC Robotics. The thing about robots is that they are susceptible to .......
231: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 10:29:32 (174.128.176.68)
I'm guessing you're not a part of the plutocracy, but you seem to dislike industrial wage workers. Is that a phobia you picked up in community college? .......
232: Inmate Central, Link has been corrected (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 10:21:15 (174.128.176.68)
. .......
233: Inmate Central, Poor quality is baked into products by GM engineers (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 08:43:56 (174.128.176.68)
The science behind it, for example, is to design a clutch that fails 100 miles after the warranty expires. GM probably awards its engineers for poor design. No Detroiter in his right mind buys a GM ve .......
234: Inmate Central, The 40% raises are simply back wages... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-23, 08:18:46 (174.128.176.68)
The Mustang QA problem may have been sabotage. Who knows? Can we all agree that neoliberal trade agreements didn't write themselves? That the WTO didn't create itself? Obviously, they came about th .......
235: Inmate Central, It would be a good analogy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-22, 08:12:07 (174.128.181.19)
If we were nuking our own kids. .......
236: Inmate Central, Banning cash is going to require global cooperation (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-21, 06:00:24 (174.128.180.201)
But cooperation among plutocrats has never been a problem is the era of neoliberalism. So long as it keeps peons desperately competing against one another, the holy spirit of cooperation descends u .......
237: Inmate Central, Except that American still knew how to accomplish great things... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-20, 16:30:53 (174.128.176.121)
Ninety years ago, the federal government took on and solved big problems. However, perhaps today it only could construct a Potemkin Village, if that. .......
238: Inmate Central, How about crypto? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-20, 13:25:53 (76.112.185.250)
Will the New Panopticon have visibility over crypto transactions? .......
239: Inmate Central, If each soul lived behind a paywall, each could be sold, not freely given (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-20, 11:55:08 (76.112.185.250)
Today every click we make, every word we enter into the search engine is recorded. Every step in the network is observed and recorded. Our life is totally reproduced on the digital network. Our digita .......
240: Inmate Central, peppy m.: Hop on before the idiotism train leaves the station... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-20, 08:42:12 (174.128.180.232)
Lunacy and incompetency are so passé and lacking in spirituality. .......
241: Inmate Central, Agreed, a person too simple in faith to fall prey to anti-christs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-20, 05:22:24 (174.128.177.249)
Too simple to become addicted to twitter or gadgets. I've got far to go but am trying to begin by not having opinions. When I read or hear a proposition -- even one as simple as 'The cat is on the .......
242: Inmate Central, Kirk57 check out attached article (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-19, 17:00:22 (76.112.185.250)
Not sure about Gurdjieff's use of idiotism. Probably, because he thought God was the top idiot, and because man is made in His image, all men are someplace on the idiot stairway to heaven. But for Byu .......
243: Inmate Central, Yeah, but a few of those 'stans have natural resources... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-19, 08:12:18 (174.128.180.105)
Including enough water to fill a swimming pool :( Borat's O Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world All other countries are run by little girls Kazakhstan, number one exporter of potassi .......
244: Inmate Central, Eschew, or Huachuca, as Geronimo would say (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-19, 08:04:30 (174.128.180.105)
. .......
245: Inmate Central, If the capitalists are mistaken, there will be bailouts as usual (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-19, 07:52:52 (174.128.180.105)
Note, this is less an opinion than a truism. .......
246: Inmate Central, But wasn't he desperately seeking publicity? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-19, 07:48:37 (174.128.180.105)
As opposed to idiotism which is all about privacy. One can't have both celebrity and idiocy. A public figure may be subject to cancel culture thereby discovering that he's a #13 per Gurdjieff's classi .......
247: Inmate Central, I'm trying to become an idiot... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-18, 06:21:00 (76.112.185.250)
If I understand him correctly, Philosopher Byung-Chul Han advocates idiotism as way to preserve some freedom and privacy in the global surveillance state. AFAIK idiotism involves not holding, or at .......
248: Inmate Central, California is no longer viable. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-18, 05:29:55 (76.112.185.250)
Things will only get worse. .......
249: Inmate Central, But the refs have declared open season on Lions' defensive linemen (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-18, 05:26:52 (76.112.185.250)
They refuse to call holding penalties. And coach MCDC has a policy of not complaining about refs' unfairness because it instills a victim mentality in the locker room. IMHO MCDC'S policy is good, but .......
250: Inmate Central, I'd get the hell out of California (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-18, 05:18:57 (76.112.185.250)
Fuel is affordable in Michigan. .......
251: Inmate Central, IMHO Russell Brand should be hanged on suspicion (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-17, 04:02:20 (76.112.185.250)
I've always advocated this. Am I the only one? .......
252: Inmate Central, Don't the grieving parents get a toaster oven or concert tickets? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 16:55:12 (76.112.185.250)
To compensate for the loss of a tax deduction? .......
253: Inmate Central, All neoliberals (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 09:03:11 (76.112.185.250)
Swine IMHO. .......
254: Inmate Central, I'm hoping that the new labor militancy is an inflection point like Solidarity was in Poland (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 09:01:46 (76.112.185.250)
Of course, it will require civil disobedience which is 70+ years overdue IMHO. .......
255: Inmate Central, IMHO U.S. labor has been unwilling to engage in civil disobedience (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 08:53:09 (76.112.185.250)
Labor's elected leaders have been co-opted since Taft-Hartley (1947) as none of them want to go back to working on the factory floor, driving a truck, stocking shelves, etc., having tasted the idle li .......
256: Inmate Central, P.S. I would support zero taxation on wage income (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 08:02:13 (76.112.185.250)
As it is, hourly workers pay a small percentage of income taxes. Why not give them a raise via zero marginal rate below mean per capita income? Make it revenue neutral by taxing the ruling class? ::: .......
257: Inmate Central, Germany is ninth on the HDI (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 07:49:45 (76.112.185.250)
Its manufactured products are generally superior to ours, but its bosses are paid less. Our CEOS are obscenely overcompensated IMHO. Americans are sick of the trickle-down scam IMHO. .......
258: Inmate Central, Not a revolution but an inflection point (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 07:39:47 (76.112.185.250)
Just as trickle-down was an inflection point, the pendulum swings. IMHO MAGA proves that even the most ignorant people aren't totally stupid. .......
259: Inmate Central, Inherent or not, I wouldn't own one (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-16, 07:34:02 (76.112.185.250)
Though I'm sure they're often sweet. .......
260: Inmate Central, Yeah, I knew a German Shepherd who was trained to allow a burglar inside the house (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 18:24:40 (76.112.185.250)
But wouldn't allow the burglar to leave until his owner came home. .......
261: Inmate Central, Looks like my first wife after half a dozen kids (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 18:18:10 (76.112.185.250)
Liposuction and Botox. .......
262: Inmate Central, IMHO start taxing churches and don't tax wage workers (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 17:59:17 (76.112.185.250)
In lieu of increased wages, just don't tax wages. To make it revenue neutral, tax the fat cats who own everything. Tax Musk, Orange Julius, etc. .......
263: Inmate Central, Lower-tier is for kids living in mom's basement (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 17:04:54 (76.112.185.250)
SNAP for the babies. Grandma daycare. Basically third-world conditions. .......
264: Inmate Central, AFAIK In Rhenish Model nothing is nationalized (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 16:59:06 (76.112.185.250)
But it's not pure cannibalism either. .......
265: Inmate Central, That's where community colleges come in (at least in Michigan) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 13:29:37 (76.112.185.250)
Undercompensated industrial workers are taught by underpaid, undereducated adjunct teachers. Often companies pay their tuition. The UAW will be OK now that the crooks have been overthrown. IMHO it's a .......
266: Inmate Central, Agreed, automation isn't new (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 10:33:59 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO, however, WHAT IS NEW is the anti-liberal or anti-elite political climate. The militant MAGA forces that Orange Julius unleashed and the new labor militancy are perfectly aligned, in perfect agre .......
267: Inmate Central, You may be misinterpreting the historical moment (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 10:09:32 (76.112.185.250)
The hegemony of U.S. elites may be less secure than you think. .......
268: Inmate Central, No, but Detroit is ground zero for robotics design and manufacturing (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 10:02:12 (76.112.185.250)
A little strategically applied cyber warfare is capable of disabling an awful lot of robots. So, robots can stage sit-down strikes. .......
269: Inmate Central, It's gonna' be fascinating to observe the struggle (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 09:53:28 (76.112.185.250)
If there's one thing that MAGA and U.S. industrial workers have in common, it's their opposition to the neo-liberalism that destroyed decent wages. In the eternal class warfare, they now find themselv .......
270: Inmate Central, Time for profits to trickle-down to Wall Street? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-15, 04:29:46 (76.112.185.250)
UAW strikes Wayne's Ford Bronco, Toledo's Jeep and Missouri's GM truck plants .......
271: Inmate Central, Sounds like Big Brother is Madison Avenue (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-13, 03:56:20 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
272: Inmate Central, Doing the math, it appears that Rodgers did quite well this season. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-12, 16:34:42 (76.112.185.250)
Now he can sit back and enjoy some ayahuasca tea. .......
273: Inmate Central, Maybe Jackie O put a hit on that philanderer? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-12, 05:55:53 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
274: Inmate Central, At least the Packers came away with a couple of draft picks (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-12, 05:51:53 (76.112.185.250)
And relieved from paying his contract. P.S. Jets defense looked good. .......
275: Inmate Central, IDK but I think he's trying to cash in before he croaks (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-10, 17:25:12 (76.112.185.250)
With a best seller for conspiracy freaks. .......
276: Inmate Central, Not as perplexing as Bounty Paper Towel Math (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-06, 12:26:36 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
277: Inmate Central, Couple of things that may be true... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-06, 12:22:32 (76.112.185.250)
AFAIK Copernicus' view was accepted because it hewed closer to Occam's razor vice more complex models. Also, Copernicus escaped persecution because he worked and published far from Rome at a time when .......
278: Inmate Central, Mostly still believed in this country (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-06, 11:33:34 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
279: Inmate Central, Thanks, I noticed things unraveling on Saturday... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-06, 11:28:01 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
280: Inmate Central, Very Nice! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-01, 17:29:34 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
281: Inmate Central, Only the luckiest survive in a penal colony (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-01, 17:21:56 (76.112.185.250)
All others see it from six feet below ground. .......
282: Inmate Central, All we peons can do is to enjoy water while we have it. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-09-01, 04:00:38 (76.112.185.250)
Probably mega-billionaires have enormous stockpiles of good water to last a lifetime. .......
283: Inmate Central, Probably, there's no technological solution (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-30, 14:29:50 (76.112.185.250)
That's why the situation is poignant. .......
284: Inmate Central, Zero, Nada, Nyet, Null Class (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-30, 14:27:42 (76.112.185.250)
Find another planet? .......
285: Inmate Central, I think Rod meant to say there's no solution (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-30, 14:24:47 (76.112.185.250)
Nothing feasible short of mass extinction. .......
286: Inmate Central, In Detroit they stopped reporting on crime many years ago (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-30, 14:21:30 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO it's not worth thinking about because nobody has solutions. Perhaps we put a penal colony in Antarctica after it melts. Perhaps a productive society would evolve there as in Oz. .......
287: Inmate Central, Possibly, but propaganda is stronger than economics (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-30, 14:14:53 (76.112.185.250)
As proven by the Mad Men on Madison Ave. .......
288: Inmate Central, A man applying for an Australian visa was asked... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-27, 16:40:56 (76.112.185.250)
Q. Do you have a criminal record? A. I didn't know it was still required. .......
289: Inmate Central, I feel left out, too (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-27, 16:37:34 (76.112.185.250)
As one who worked hard and played by the rules. .......
290: Inmate Central, IMHO the cause is human nature not poverty (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-27, 16:32:53 (76.112.185.250)
Narcissism, psychopathology, sociopathology, criminal insanity, etc. We know that lords and barons in feudal Europe murdered their own offspring. Same thing in imperial Byzantium. Scripture tells us t .......
291: Inmate Central, We read Bastiat at Harvard (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-27, 13:06:28 (76.112.185.250)
He was a liberal vis-a-vis economics, e.g., free trade, laissez faire thievery -- same policies that destroyed the middle class here. Americans have turned against these policies -- now it's build bac .......
292: Inmate Central, IIRC 1848 was the year when serfdom finally ended in Western Europe (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-25, 17:14:50 (76.112.185.250)
Before that 98% of the populace was enslaved. Bastiat and the FEE must see this as a catastrophe. After all, serfs were chattels. IMHO this is just more neoliberal pablum. America has turned its back .......
293: Inmate Central, I'm trying to not form opinions that are unnecessary for my survival or happiness (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-25, 16:23:24 (76.112.185.250)
So, by analogy to not make a meal from scratch or from a can when I'm not hungry. Also, by analogy a highly opinionated person is a fathead food addict who can't stop eating and who needs a shrink to .......
294: Inmate Central, Am I supposed to have an opinion about this? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-25, 12:48:30 (76.112.185.250)
No disrespect intended, but after reading linked article on the Ethics of Belief, I'm trying my best to have less opinions. I guess if I knew for a fact that there were lots of sober Europeans or thir .......
295: Tubes Asylum, Does Russia still make and export tubes? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 22:37:37 (76.112.185.250)
For instance, EH? .......
296: Inmate Central, Good question. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 22:30:08 (76.112.185.250)
Giving government that much power would create a more totalitarian social order that I don't favor. In Michigan, there are social workers in child protective services who may petition a court to remo .......
297: Inmate Central, What a way to go:) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 21:15:12 (76.112.185.250)
I think the girls were prettier back then. YMMV. .......
298: Inmate Central, Pants that stick in the wormhole (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 12:59:28 (76.112.185.250)
During time travel. .......
299: Inmate Central, Easy date to remember (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 12:56:22 (76.112.185.250)
Falling one day prior to Maralago Mussolini Mugshot Day. .......
300: Inmate Central, 7-11 near Area 51? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-24, 10:42:50 (76.112.185.250)
Or just inbreeding? .......
301: Inmate Central, '51, it's a dry heat in hell... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 16:51:20 (76.112.185.250)
Probably more tolerable than Texas. .......
302: Inmate Central, I'll bet it costs less than a presidential motorcade (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 16:48:17 (76.112.185.250)
Or less than a Secret Service detail. Admittedly, many parents are addicted, vicious, irresponsible, etc., but it doesn't justify allowing children to suffer. YMMV. .......
303: Inmate Central, It's a dry heat... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 11:26:59 (76.112.185.250)
Like Hitler and Stalin said to Mao upon his arrival in hell. .......
304: Inmate Central, This? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 11:23:18 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
305: Inmate Central, It's not in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 11:01:56 (76.112.185.250)
Maybe it's in the Book of Adolf, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot? Or written on the keg of swill you're sucking down? .......
306: Inmate Central, My grandparent's taxes paid Ford and GM (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 10:53:45 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO Ford should have been tried at Nuremburg.. .......
307: Inmate Central, Now there's a leap of faith... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 10:37:34 (76.112.185.250)
Every disadvantaged child must have parents that are drug addicted? Not only that but every underprivileged child should be punished like a galley slave? Victor, I like you better when you express int .......
308: Inmate Central, Lack of reading comprehension? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-23, 10:27:27 (76.112.185.250)
Or simple lack of general intelligence? .......
309: Inmate Central, Doesn't Putin have something analogous to our Navy Seals? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-22, 18:29:09 (76.112.185.250)
Capable of taking out Prighozhin? .......
310: Inmate Central, School lunches help malnourished children (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-22, 18:22:24 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO it's just religion in action. Whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc., simple decency requires it. But decency wasn't part of Rand's (to use the term very loosely) Philosophy. I'm not religious, .......
311: Inmate Central, I avoid those cities and Detroit as well. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-17, 11:54:21 (76.112.185.250)
Does anyone have an answer? .......
312: Inmate Central, Agree 100% that white-collar crime pays best (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-17, 11:49:34 (76.112.185.250)
And is punished least. .......
313: Inmate Central, So, it began prior to the passage of Prop 47 in late 2014? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-16, 08:57:06 (76.112.185.250)
Now that's an inconvenient truth. .......
314: Inmate Central, Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the Coprofied? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-16, 08:50:58 (76.112.185.250)
At the very least. .......
315: Inmate Central, I spent one night in a Detroit precinct lock-up for DUI (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 17:00:05 (76.112.185.250)
Fifty years ago. Received a slap on the wrist and called it quits. .......
316: Inmate Central, I'd save them if I knew how... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 16:54:41 (76.112.185.250)
I have sympathy but no solutions. .......
317: Inmate Central, When they wrote the article, they all must have been on fentanyl (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 16:52:12 (76.112.185.250)
What gives it away is saying that "Conservatives Should Ask: 'Does Trump Walk with Us?'" without realizing that conservatives are in the other party. .......
318: Inmate Central, Sadly, I have no clue... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 16:43:56 (76.112.185.250)
If I had a cure for addiction, I'd probably die penniless and homeless. Convicts have no trouble getting narcotics in prison. Sad. .......
319: Inmate Central, If there were edible alcohols, I'd stop drinking :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 11:14:52 (76.112.185.250)
Yust yoking. I don't consume alcohol .......
320: Inmate Central, What would be different absent Measure 110? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 11:12:04 (76.112.185.250)
I've been libertarian as to victimless activities, but I'm willing to listen to anyone who thinks there's a lesson to be learned here. Is returning to status quo ante the lesson? .......
321: Inmate Central, Thank Heavens for Viagra rolling machines (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 08:22:40 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
322: Inmate Central, I thought modern America was a 'Dystopian Nightmare' (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 08:20:48 (76.112.185.250)
And at least partially the creation of media such as the National Review, Scripture, etc. .......
323: Inmate Central, If someone invented a pill or machine that cured addiction... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 08:13:25 (76.112.185.250)
They would probably die homeless and penniless. If there's a moral to this story, it escapes me. .......
324: Inmate Central, National Review has always been... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 07:57:28 (76.112.185.250)
Is in cahoots with organized crime, organized religion, and neoliberalism. And it's never been right about anything. .......
325: Inmate Central, Yeah. and without alcohol we wouldn't have sports. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-15, 07:41:37 (76.112.185.250)
Life isn't perfect, but I don't want to go back to Prohibition. My dad told me it didn't work but Al Capone loved it. .......
326: Inmate Central, Does anyone know what's causing these unholy temperatures? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-13, 10:13:58 (76.112.185.250)
Conditions here in Michigan have been swell, but elsewhere it seems like the end times :( .......
327: Inmate Central, My Gob! Poor Grusch may have been heavily medicated (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-10, 22:38:50 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps his testimony should be taken with a grain salt. .......
328: Inmate Central, That will cause a deficit in space (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 16:23:45 (76.112.185.250)
UFOs displace space but the offset is not easy to calculate. Part of it may be in Hunter's pocket. .......
329: Inmate Central, My Gob! UFOs created the deficit (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 16:19:52 (76.112.185.250)
This calls for more hearings. .......
330: Inmate Central, At least Barnum would be better off (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 16:09:55 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
331: Inmate Central, Also, brains are leaking into the anus (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 16:07:52 (76.112.185.250)
Which creates worm holes in Wonderland large enough to drive a rabbit through. .......
332: Inmate Central, Nothing but trouble but he still loves them??? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 12:29:13 (76.112.185.250)
This may be the key to understanding those who support Orange Julius. .......
333: Inmate Central, The morons and liars on TV say that UFOs move fast (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 12:22:53 (76.112.185.250)
I don't believe in UFOs. .......
334: Inmate Central, You're welcome. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 09:35:42 (76.112.185.250)
What I believe is that people who spread conspiracy theories are psychiatrically paranoid. And their deep need to believe causes them to become angry with those who don't believe as they do. It's almo .......
335: Inmate Central, Story, you're free to believe anything you wish (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:49:21 (76.112.185.250)
nt .......
336: Inmate Central, Funny that UFOs move blisteringly fast but... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:46:22 (76.112.185.250)
They don't break the sound barrier nor create a sonic boom. They must have good mufflers. .......
337: Inmate Central, I had a great Dodge Monaco 1969 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:43:12 (76.112.185.250)
Love that car. But every Jeep buyer I know thinks Jeep is a POS. .......
338: Inmate Central, Certain inmates are going to believe in every conspiracy... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:24:33 (76.112.185.250)
Except the one the led to the insurrection. .......
339: Inmate Central, Is not Inmate Central just such a room? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:21:04 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO that's what makes it so precious. .......
340: Inmate Central, I've seen flying a SNAFU (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:15:52 (76.112.185.250)
That's just a faulty parachute. But never seen a flying FUBAR. That could be an entire Russian airborne division. .......
341: Inmate Central, Twaddle (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:07:18 (76.112.185.250)
IMHO just idle conspiracy theories. I'm betting a cup of coffee to the first person who brings an ET to my neighborhood. .......
342: Inmate Central, If it's on TV, it must be true :( (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-07, 08:02:20 (76.112.185.250)
No disrespect intended, but IMHO you have a need to believe this stuff, so you choose to believe it. Everyday life not interesting enough? .......
343: Inmate Central, Sure, but that's the exception that proves the rule (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 16:04:09 (76.112.185.250)
He must use vintage Brylcream which has an irresistible aroma when aged in the tube for fifty years. Or whale blubber. .......
344: Inmate Central, To clarify, I meant no ETs on Earth (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 15:51:52 (76.112.185.250)
I didn't mean no ETs on the entire cosmos. I think they must exist somewhere. Jeez, I couldn't afford to buy that many coffees! .......
345: Inmate Central, I've known some pretty dumb USAF veterans (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 11:05:07 (76.112.185.250)
And anyone who hired David Grusch in any capacity made a big mistake. He's probably going to write a book and make millions. .......
346: Inmate Central, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 09:13:54 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
347: Classical Court, A truth so obvious that it can't be in a Florida textbook (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 08:09:38 (76.112.185.250)
The nation is stranger than 'The Heart, She Holler'... .......
348: Inmate Central, I'm sure I've seen more FUBAR things than this, but... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 08:02:04 (76.112.185.250)
Right now, I'm laughing too hard to remember instances. .......
349: Inmate Central, regmac: I'll wager a cup of coffee there are no extraterrestials (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 07:54:39 (76.112.185.250)
I'm so good looking that they would have abducted and molested me by now. But alas, I remain an UFO virgin. .......
350: Classical Court, Raping While White Gets Them Eight Years Probation (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-06, 07:28:26 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps the judge was hesitant to put these lovebirds in a male penal institution? .......
351: Inmate Central, Peccadillos (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 10:35:24 (76.112.185.250)
Or peckerdillos. .......
352: Inmate Central, Where's Jerry Springer when we need him most? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 08:29:25 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
353: Inmate Central, He somehow had his family jewels preserved in a mason jar (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 08:27:38 (76.112.185.250)
Word to the wise: Don't store them in the pantry with the regular preserves. .......
354: Inmate Central, Agreed. It's great that you love your work... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 08:21:07 (76.112.185.250)
You must have an aptitude for math. .......
355: Inmate Central, One might add "ball's in your court" (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 08:17:17 (76.112.185.250)
Oakland County, MI, civil court that is. .......
356: Inmate Central, Truth is stranger than the Onion (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-05, 07:25:56 (76.112.185.250)
America's Finest News Source. .......
357: Inmate Central, Let's just say I didn't have heel spurs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-04, 08:54:09 (76.112.185.250)
Nor a brain made of bone. .......
358: Inmate Central, We all read books, as well (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-04, 08:41:57 (76.112.185.250)
My dad was an auto worker. But he was tri-lingual, and knew a hell of a lot about history, and I loved learning from him. .......
359: Inmate Central, I don't get the concept of useless knowledge (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-04, 08:37:52 (76.112.185.250)
I get the idea of subtractive skills, such as those practiced on Madison Ave., and in politics. .......
360: Inmate Central, Many are psychopaths (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-04, 07:48:51 (76.112.185.250)
Including many successful serial killers. I studied abnormal psychology after retirement. Then looking back at my work life, I could how some of my peers or superiors could have been psychopathic. ::: .......
361: Inmate Central, I'm pretty sure that it helps to have parents who value education (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-04, 07:42:56 (76.112.185.250)
My family was working class. My dad was sole earner, and my mom was homemaker extraordinaire. They managed to put their three kids through parochial school which wasn't inexpensive. For that, I worshi .......
362: Inmate Central, ghost of olddude55: Your comment about underachievement... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-03, 19:51:17 (76.112.185.250)
Reminded of a joke about an underachiever expressing great respect for family tradition who said: "The death penalty, it was good enough for mom and dad, and it's good enough for me." :) .......
363: Inmate Central, David Brooks admits that he's to blame (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-03, 12:11:41 (76.112.185.250)
Brooks has been the patron saint of trickle-down and neoliberalism. .......
364: Inmate Central, Goober, I agree with your criticisms of neoliberalism but ... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-02, 16:46:38 (76.112.185.250)
Taiwan's not part of the equation. Nor, in fact, are Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, or Japan. These have been high-wage economies for a long time. US industries went to China, Philippines, Vietnam .......
365: Inmate Central, Goober, are you confusing Taiwan and the PRC? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-02, 13:06:23 (76.112.185.250)
Because Taiwan isn't a low-wage country compared to the PRC where wages are at least 60% lower than in Taiwan. That's why American industries moved to the PRC. And since the PRC joined the WTO, Taiwan .......
366: Inmate Central, Photo from the comedy film 'The Death of Stalin' (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-01, 13:26:13 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
367: Inmate Central, I love the smell of burning Putin in the morning... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-01, 05:09:36 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
368: Inmate Central, "... use our military might funded with tax dollars to defend those who got our jobs." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-08-01, 02:54:26 (76.112.185.250)
Who might those be? .......
369: Inmate Central, Like what we already have? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 21:21:45 (76.112.185.250)
This country was built by slaves and immigrants. .......
370: Inmate Central, It's about economic power which means standard of living (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 21:19:37 (76.112.185.250)
As I understand the article, it's not saying that the world's population is declining. Rather it's saying that China had expected that its middle class would continue to grow as its economy prospered. .......
371: Inmate Central, Must keep a sense of humor as Planet Earth dies (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 21:00:32 (76.112.185.250)
Fossil fuel execs are laughing all the way to their banks. .......
372: Inmate Central, Nation states ought to be able to liberate those assets (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 19:12:59 (76.112.185.250)
Expropriate, nationalize, or whatever correct term is. .......
373: Inmate Central, Mojave Desert is on fire (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 19:04:59 (76.112.185.250)
Got marshmallows? .......
374: Inmate Central, So much for the next dominant superpower? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 19:03:19 (76.112.185.250)
But in order to escape a similar fate, doesn't the US need immigration? .......
375: Inmate Central, TVs fertilize right-wingnut neurons. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 18:41:14 (76.112.185.250)
One might say it's a very fertile mind. .......
376: Inmate Central, If one sincerely wished to MAGA... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 18:37:13 (76.112.185.250)
Wouldn't they support living wages for workers? Wouldn't they support re-industrialization? Wouldn't they support those very things that labor unions stand for? That's what I mean. .......
377: Inmate Central, That's why your intellect makes Inmate51 look like a moron (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 09:45:00 (76.112.185.250)
Oh, wait a minute! He is a moron. .......
378: Inmate Central, That's one way to look at deindustrialization (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-31, 03:28:32 (76.112.185.250)
MAGA not welcome here. .......
379: Inmate Central, SAG-AFTRA strike human interest story (see link) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-30, 05:22:44 (76.112.185.250)
In the 1980-2000 timeframe, people just sat back and watched the deindustrialization of America. Psychologists say wage workers watched with more than a modicum of self-loathing as they identified wit .......
380: Inmate Central, What could go wrong with that? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-30, 04:11:41 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
381: Inmate Central, Pickup trucks are getting too expensive for ordinary cowboys (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-30, 04:07:40 (76.112.185.250)
I predict that cowboys will become truck jackers and will be forced to bring their own gun racks (BYOGR) .......
382: Inmate Central, You want very much to believe in UFOs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-30, 04:02:38 (76.112.185.250)
I think some members of Congress and SCOTUS are aliens. But the question arises, why would they hold hearings that might expose them as such. P.S. It's not credible that alien craft can travel so fast .......
383: Inmate Central, It was a brain fart per the party line (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-29, 02:44:47 (76.112.185.250)
And come to think of it, isn't that the party platform? .......
384: Inmate Central, Most years between 1984-2000 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-29, 02:40:52 (76.112.185.250)
If you're like me, you'll soon tire of the mediocre content from Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube TV, etc. The situation with SAG-AFTRA convinced me to quit these services. Sure, many of the artis .......
385: Inmate Central, US House of Representatives is a get-rich-quick scam (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-29, 02:19:08 (76.112.185.250)
The technical term is 'fund-raising' scheme. Yust yoking. There are some decent folks my side of the aisle. But mostly it's Benghazi, Pizza Gate, space alien hearings, etc., etc., etc., interrupted by .......
386: Inmate Central, I'm for Plato's philosopher king (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-28, 08:06:50 (76.112.185.250)
The krol filozof minus all the pieprzenie tylka. Wojciech, you don't qualify for both reasons. .......
387: Inmate Central, I heard he only bites those carrying cocaine (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-28, 07:32:09 (76.112.185.250)
Because he likes the taste. .......
388: Inmate Central, With intelligence officers like this What, Me Worry? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-27, 19:52:38 (76.112.185.250)
David Grusch who told Congress this week that the US has evidence of alien life previously made a claim that the Vatican was part of a massive UFO cover-up. .......
389: Inmate Central, Parasite Legacy Kids are running the country, too (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-27, 19:26:20 (76.112.185.250)
From Wall Street to D.C. .......
390: Inmate Central, Affirmative action for the wealthy (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-27, 13:02:15 (76.112.185.250)
Elite universities are bastions of left-of-center ideas, yet advantage four groups that are already privileged: children of graduates, recruited athletes for sports like rowing and fencing, children o .......
391: Inmate Central, As a libertarian, I think all taxes should be voluntary... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-27, 03:08:26 (76.112.185.250)
Like tithing. Or at least voluntary for income below, e.g., 200K per year. .......
392: Inmate Central, Law-abiding means abiding by Nazi law? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-27, 03:01:13 (76.112.185.250)
You know that law in Poland after September 1, 1939, was either Bolshevik or Nazi. Underground resistance fighters were busy assassinating the so-called law-abiding collaborators. .......
393: Inmate Central, AKA the attacks on 'eastern elites' and education (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-26, 17:31:36 (76.112.185.250)
American anti-intellectual traditions. .......
394: Inmate Central, You could have simply said 'I resemble that remark.' (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-26, 06:30:18 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
395: Inmate Central, Wojciech, I can easily imagine you working in a death camp (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-26, 05:46:06 (76.112.185.250)
Auschwitz Employee of the Month for 67 months in a row between May 1940 - January 1945. .......
396: Inmate Central, See link below for Mark Twain's complete essay Concerning the Jews (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-26, 05:35:16 (76.112.185.250)
Personally, I always liked and respected Jews for their wit and intellect, except for those of the Orthodox persuasion who seem as superstitious, if not as stupid and ignorant, as most Christian Ameri .......
397: Inmate Central, You're diving buddy's never been to Detroit (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-24, 20:04:09 (76.112.185.250)
Graveyard of muff divers. .......
398: General Asylum, Never made in London AFAIK (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-22, 05:16:43 (76.112.185.250)
IIRC used to be made in Scotland and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. .......
399: General Asylum, No, but the prices haven't gone down (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-22, 05:14:39 (76.112.185.250)
Not sure about the quality. .......
400: Inmate Central, It's OK by me cuz I don't drive much (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-22, 05:11:47 (76.112.185.250)
But AFAIK Michigan currently has a budget surplus, so I'd be surprised to see it here. There are plenty of good reason to leave California. Stay north of Mason-Dixon, though. .......
401: Inmate Central, How about Bud Light in the Loafers? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 17:07:14 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
402: Inmate Central, AFAIK the entire content streaming business is unprofitable (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 17:00:13 (76.112.185.250)
Also, very little content is worth a damn IMHO. .......
403: Inmate Central, No thanks -- I prefer muff diving (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 16:54:41 (76.112.185.250)
Free diving is for those who wish for Darwin Awards. But that's true of some muffs, too. .......
404: Inmate Central, AFAIK Prigozhin is still on the lamb (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 16:48:55 (76.112.185.250)
Or what in Russia what they call a free man. .......
405: Inmate Central, Humans eating bugs or vice versa (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 16:45:36 (76.112.185.250)
Some bugs may taste good, but it's gotta be an acquired taste. .......
406: Inmate Central, Time to get the hell out of California? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 16:39:39 (76.112.185.250)
Nothing good happening there. May have been nice 100 years ago. .......
407: Inmate Central, Do people still use Twitter? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 16:36:03 (76.112.185.250)
I can't stand the owner but YMMV. .......
408: General Asylum, Tannoy Westminster Royal always in fashion (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 06:44:54 (76.112.185.250)
In fact, any of the big Tannoy DCs. Sadly, now made in Jina. .......
409: Inmate Central, RIP Tony Bennett (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-21, 06:41:09 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
410: Inmate Central, That's no sweat for an Audio Asylum Inmate :) (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-19, 14:41:09 (76.112.185.250)
Actually, I break into a sweat just thinking about it. .......
411: Inmate Central, Agreed, Mother Superior Jumped the Gun (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-15, 15:05:53 (76.112.185.250)
She's not a girl who misses much... .......
412: Inmate Central, Senator Paul Displays Fish Intelligence? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-13, 10:21:18 (76.112.185.250)
So, maybe Charles Darwin had a point... .......
413: Inmate Central, That's what Wagner Group fighters say when they go to hell (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-12, 13:59:59 (76.112.185.250)
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot, too. .......
414: Inmate Central, A male? Well I'm gonna' take a cold shower... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-10, 13:30:28 (174.128.181.6)
. .......
415: Inmate Central, What ever happened to Vin Mariani? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-07, 17:51:46 (76.112.185.250)
The Cocaine-Infused Wine Beloved by Popes and Presidents .......
416: Inmate Central, It's not something I care to imagine. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-07, 12:35:26 (174.128.176.118)
Nor would I watch a death match between predators on video. Who watches such things? There must be an audience, for such things persist on YouTube. But my first question on a dating app is whether the .......
417: Inmate Central, Perhaps the backup plan is nuclear? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-07, 12:25:52 (174.128.176.118)
Would it surprise anyone? .......
418: Inmate Central, Mother Earth is in failing health. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-07, 12:24:02 (174.128.176.118)
Some people will survive. .......
419: Inmate Central, Slick Willie? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-07, 02:29:45 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
420: Inmate Central, Having resided less than a year in Texas (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-06, 17:26:32 (174.128.176.118)
IMHO it should be returned to Mexico immediately if not sooner. .......
421: Inmate Central, We're in a Golden Age of Illegal Sports Streams (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-06, 12:54:33 (76.112.185.250)
But why should anyone have to break the law to watch the Mets? By Kaitlyn Tiffany "...It used to be uncomplicated: We would go to work and then we would watch the game. Week after week, we would gr .......
422: Inmate Central, Makes Appalachians look like east coast elites (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-06, 12:42:15 (76.112.185.250)
Except that Buriatians may have potable water supplies which are scarce in Appalachia. .......
423: Inmate Central, I'm no angel (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 17:43:24 (76.112.185.250)
Everyone contributes to our species' demise. .......
424: Inmate Central, SCOTUS has yet to rule on the legality of shooting blacks on sight (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 17:41:36 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps Clarence Thomas will recuse himself to an underground bunker. .......
425: Inmate Central, Nice! (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 13:16:22 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
426: Inmate Central, SCOTUS agreed with affirmative action before it disagreed (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 13:15:12 (76.112.185.250)
It's okay by me, because African Americans are smarter than Caucasian Americans who have lost their edge after 200+ years of unique entitlement. Entitlement will make you lazy.American whites seem .......
427: Inmate Central, It doesn't speak well for the Secret Service (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 11:17:23 (76.112.185.250)
I would think they had drug-searching guard dogs? .......
428: Inmate Central, Ditto, it's mostly crap (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 11:01:14 (76.112.185.250)
Chicken has zero flavor unless you grow organically on your own. .......
429: Inmate Central, No thanks, I'll enjoy music till the earth catches fire (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 10:57:31 (76.112.185.250)
You keep your noose -- it's shaped like the zero in your soul. .......
430: Inmate Central, Jews are the smartest group in the world (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 10:50:46 (76.112.185.250)
The people of the Book. I have nothing but admiration. East Asians are smart, too. IMHO African Americans are not far behind. The dumbest shits in the world are American Caucasians, who probably lost .......
431: Inmate Central, How would you know? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 10:44:29 (76.112.185.250)
It's your opinion only, and a stupid one at that. .......
432: Inmate Central, Philosophers from Buridan to Leibniz call it... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-05, 10:42:24 (76.112.185.250)
The Liberty of Indifference when one or more alternatives are equally good or bad. Pick your ambrosia or pick your poison. The choice is literally free and ethically unencumbered. It happens :) ::: TO .......
433: Inmate Central, Agreed, but when candidates are equally qualified (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-04, 19:53:29 (76.112.185.250)
And there are fewer spaces than candidates, then you select by lottery. P.S. Musicians auditioning for certain symphony orchestras perform behind a curtain, so judges choose only by what they hear. So .......
434: Inmate Central, Personal stash of Dr. Harold Bornstein? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-04, 19:00:01 (76.112.185.250)
Trump's former personal physician. .......
435: Inmate Central, Did Maxine Waters run in a presidential primary? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-04, 18:47:28 (76.112.185.250)
I recall that Bernie Sanders did run against Hillary Clinton. Bernie as a leftist, Hillary as a centrist. .......
436: Inmate Central, I sense a Darwin Award in his future (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-04, 11:41:16 (76.112.185.250)
:( .......
437: Inmate Central, Wouldn't a lottery be fair and color-blind? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-04, 11:38:49 (76.112.185.250)
P.S. Harvard college has a legacy system that favors the children of alumni wealthy who donate huge amounts to its endowment fund. The legacy system is equally unfair as it allows inferior intellects .......
438: Inmate Central, It would be less costly not to care about the future of our species (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-03, 20:32:26 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps there are no wormholes and perhaps there are species more deserving than homo sapiens. I wouldn't be surprised. .......
439: Inmate Central, IMHO Bernie is the extremist (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-02, 14:36:40 (76.112.185.250)
I can't make the same point about democrats, because moderates control the democrat primaries. .......
440: Inmate Central, What's a muscle-car without shiny tires? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-02, 14:32:51 (76.112.185.250)
Definitely less of a babe magnet :) .......
441: Inmate Central, We might find a wormhole in space-time? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-02, 13:22:55 (76.112.185.250)
We're gonna' need one when Earth dies. A shortcut to another habitable sphere. I'm all for it, so long as we leave the MAGAs behind. "Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for pett .......
442: Inmate Central, Hopefully, the bear will be pardoned (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-02, 13:07:56 (76.112.185.250)
Allowed to live rather than being euthanized. It was simply being a bear. And the dog was simply being a dog. But the woman? Jeez, who punches a bear? .......
443: Inmate Central, Extremists definitely control the GOP primaries (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-07-01, 18:55:53 (76.112.185.250)
But most voters in the general election are moderates. This gives me a little optimism about the mental health of most Americans. .......
444: Inmate Central, Answers available from simple Google searches (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-30, 10:16:51 (76.112.185.250)
Different states may have different rules. IME the primary system will be the destruction in due time of the GOP as independent voters who favor moderates determine outcomes in general elections. I wo .......
445: Inmate Central, Under our federal system... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-29, 12:40:57 (76.112.185.250)
Doesn't each state control its own primary? .......
446: Inmate Central, Meaningful statehood history? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-29, 12:37:09 (76.112.185.250)
How do you define that? .......
447: Inmate Central, Yes, I'm aware that China Annexed Tibet (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-29, 12:34:25 (76.112.185.250)
But what has it to do with Crimea? .......
448: Inmate Central, So, you're saying that Gen. Jack D. Ripper can't be trusted? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-29, 08:46:18 (76.112.185.250)
With state secrets? .......
449: Inmate Central, ??? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-29, 06:19:38 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
450: Inmate Central, Chinese support Ukraine's desire to liberate Crimea (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-28, 19:01:49 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
451: Inmate Central, Shoigu fell from window? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 11:53:26 (76.112.185.250)
How many generals fell from windows? .......
452: Inmate Central, Did Disney move from Florida to Moscow? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 09:08:48 (76.112.185.250)
A great victory for Governor Sanctimonious? .......
453: Inmate Central, Looking for true love? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:54:07 (76.112.185.250)
It can't be bought... .......
454: Inmate Central, Putin is his undertaker suit (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:52:38 (76.112.185.250)
Prepared to bury or be buried. .......
455: Inmate Central, P.S. Also hoping that Musk and Zuckerberg destroy each other (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:46:18 (76.112.185.250)
or at least pummel one another into comas. .......
456: Inmate Central, Sort of like here before January 6, 2021 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:34:23 (76.112.185.250)
Or before September 11, 2001. .......
457: Inmate Central, Which Satan is least likely to use nukes? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:32:41 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
458: Inmate Central, Prigozhin more likely to use nukes (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:22:21 (76.112.185.250)
Hopefully, he and Putin destroy each other. .......
459: Inmate Central, I'm thinking that Prigozhin may flatten the Kremlin (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:09:27 (76.112.185.250)
and burn Moscow. .......
460: Inmate Central, I favor a submersible for Lukashenko, Putin, Prigozhin and Orban (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 08:05:23 (76.112.185.250)
Giving them a front row seat to view the Titanic. .......
461: Inmate Central, I'm OK with offering Chris to Prigozhin or Zelensky in a prisoner exchange (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-24, 07:59:50 (76.112.185.250)
But seriously, I hope that Putin and Prigozhin destroy one another. P.S. Russia is such a pathetic place with an inglorious history and never a moment of freedom. .......
462: Inmate Central, Jealousy of people who are getting laid once in a while? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-22, 11:55:59 (76.112.185.250)
Probably you don't get lucky very often. But don't begrudge those who follow God's directive to go forth and multiply. .......
463: Inmate Central, To which countries are you referring? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-20, 18:39:55 (76.112.185.250)
Check your facts... .......
464: Inmate Central, "Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-20, 14:20:26 (76.112.185.250)
IME white Americans are generally the dumbest people on earth. I'm ashamed to be part of the demographic. IME Jews are the smartest group, followed by East Asians and African Americans (except for the .......
465: Inmate Central, IDK but neither Snowden nor Assange strike me as heroic (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-20, 07:13:08 (76.112.185.250)
Ellsberg seems to be a hero. .......
466: Inmate Central, Napalm the Russian trenches (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-19, 08:37:26 (76.112.185.250)
International law does not specifically prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets. It's especially effective against entrenched defenders. Yum, Crispy Critters... ::: T .......
467: Inmate Central, Russia loses four companies on Tavriia front over past 24 hours (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-18, 07:43:39 (76.112.185.250)
77 units of enemy military vehicles were either destroyed or damaged." Details: Apart from the military personnel and weapons, Tarnavskyi said, 12 Russian ammunition storage points were destroyed. ::: .......
468: Inmate Central, Daniel Ellsberg Dies at 92 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-16, 16:56:28 (76.112.185.250)
RIP .......
469: Inmate Central, How about 'Black' in black ink and 'White' in white ink? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-13, 05:39:57 (76.112.185.250)
But seriously, I don't believe it. .......
470: Inmate Central, Now he's in hell awaiting Maralago Mussolini (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-13, 05:36:51 (76.112.185.250)
Coming but not soon enough. .......
471: Inmate Central, Isn't the Triad nuclear? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-05, 16:24:01 (76.112.185.250)
Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF) concept for conventional symmetrical warfare being tested in Ukraine counter-offensive. .......
472: Inmate Central, What Petraeus means by army-wide effect (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-05, 02:14:04 (76.112.185.250)
Quote: "I think that this counteroffensive is going to be very impressive. My sense is that they will achieve combined arms effects in other words, they will successfully carry out combined arms opera .......
473: Inmate Central, We have to be pragmatic rather than ideological. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-04, 22:47:34 (76.112.185.250)
U.S. law enforcement acknowledged struggling to curb this online fentanyl marketplace, in part because many of the transactions are encrypted. "We know it's happening. We still cannot get cooperation .......
474: Inmate Central, IMHO we should ban crypto currency entirely (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-04, 22:33:30 (76.112.185.250)
Also, can't our labs develop vaccines to protect people from the deadly effects of fentanyl? .......
475: Inmate Central, Ukrainian counter-offensive (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-04, 14:17:35 (76.112.185.250)
Petraeus predicted the Ukrainian offensive to be very powerful with army-wide effect. .......
476: Inmate Central, +1 (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-03, 22:27:57 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
477: Inmate Central, My guess is that Biden's 'witless statement' wasn't sincere. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-01, 23:44:17 (76.112.185.250)
Perhaps Eliot Cohen is the witless one? .......
478: Inmate Central, Russians dying in trenches like World War I (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-06-01, 17:18:02 (76.112.185.250)
Counter offensive should begin when the ground dries up. .......
479: Inmate Central, Nothing other than going on vacation (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-31, 19:40:51 (76.112.185.250)
And they have lots of time for that. .......
480: Inmate Central, Didn't Intel off-shore its production? (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-31, 19:24:41 (76.112.185.250)
I try to imagine how different the US would be today had it not been for neoliberalism AKA globalization. .......
481: Inmate Central, Ukrainian offensive to start in days, Defence (sic) Secretary says (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-31, 19:18:28 (76.112.185.250)
In a few days according to this article. .......
482: Inmate Central, All our best and brightest went to Trump University (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-31, 16:50:10 (76.112.185.250)
. .......
483: Inmate Central, Monster (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-29, 21:36:55 (174.128.181.131)
. .......
484: Inmate Central, AFAIK China is a capitalist nation governed by the Chinese Communist Party (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-25, 18:39:30 (76.112.185.250)
But China isn't an 'imaginary threat' by any means. .......
485: Inmate Central, Don't give any credence to what Ken Fisher says (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-25, 18:28:06 (76.112.185.250)
He's probably selling off his investments this evening. He just wants to beat everyone to the punch. .......
486: Inmate Central, Agreed, but billionaires should not be required to pay taxes... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-25, 18:14:39 (76.112.185.250)
Yust yoking. .......
487: Inmate Central, Let's hope 'they' don't default (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-24, 21:10:05 (76.112.185.250)
P.S. We are 'they'... .......
488: Inmate Central, Don't let the scum crush Liberty (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-24, 21:05:12 (76.112.185.250)
The west created freedom, reviled by eastern despots. .......
489: Inmate Central, But businesses aren't run by political ideologues. (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-24, 19:40:16 (76.112.185.250)
And fascists. .......
490: Inmate Central, Surplus SS funds must be invested in US Treasury securities (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-24, 19:36:52 (76.112.185.250)
US Treasury securities are deemed to be the safest investments, much safer than, e.g., loaning the surplus to Maralago Mussolini on a promissory note. AFAIK, if the government defaults SS checks will .......
491: Inmate Central, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-23, 15:33:43 (76.112.185.250)
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, .......
492: Inmate Central, Ask me again next week (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-22, 15:59:44 (76.112.185.250)
If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling. .......
493: Inmate Central, Teen who saved sister from alleged kidnapper with slingshot speaks out (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-19, 16:16:55 (76.112.185.250)
"I get my slingshot, got a marble and rock then I shot [the suspect] three times in the head and chest," said Owen. .......
494: Inmate Central, AFAIK it's a common way of valuing inventory (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-19, 09:46:49 (76.112.185.250)
The current value of an item is the cost at the time you acquired the item, but the replacement cost is what it would cost to replace it today. IIRC the Pentagon can account for where its inventory is .......
495: Inmate Central, Stocks, sell 'em if you got 'em. Buy back in after the collapse (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-16, 15:00:49 (76.112.185.250)
What Happens If the U.S. Defaults on Its Debts? A default on government debt—which sits at almost $31.5 trillion—would send shock waves through global financial markets as confidence in U.S. borrowers .......
496: Inmate Central, Nuance (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-16, 14:32:23 (76.112.185.250)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance .......
497: Inmate Central, P.S. Sachs and Chubais created Putin and other Russian oligarchs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-15, 15:22:55 (76.112.185.250)
Created out of the dregs of the Soviet Nomenklatura, Bratva (organized crime) and military opportunists. People insist Chubais (The Redhead) must be imprisoned for the privatization process. April .......
498: Inmate Central, The USSR had its Nomenklatura -- We have Jeffrey Sachs (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-15, 15:05:21 (76.112.185.250)
Russian aid controversy With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded a project by the HIID to help rebuild the Russian economy on the ba .......
499: Inmate Central, Putin will make an exception for you... (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-14, 17:52:16 (76.112.185.250)
Just show him your Asylum posts. In Russia, conservative means autocrat. And Christian means devil worshipper. .......
500: Inmate Central, "...the way GAO runs things..." (0.00)
Posted by Jay Buridan on 2023-05-14, 17:42:41 (76.112.185.250)
Did you mean DLA? .......
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