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  1. 35 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

     

    I've always respected Mr. Carter.  I voted for Reagan in his second term 

    I have a cross the aisles voting history, especially at the state level, and with the US Senatorial/congressional candidates.  I love to poke the bear at the democrats because they have such a holier than thou attitude at times IMO, but recognize the hypocrisy of the GOP as well.  

    I had voted McGovern in 72, being 18 yr old draft eligible freshman.  4 years later I was a new grad and Carter was proposing the windfall profits tax.  Thus I started voting my pocketbook.  This generally became voting my personal contentment for several decades until the second gulf war.  That was a Bush issue rather than a party issue.  After than began the slow conversion of the pub party by the tea party and other "populist" movements, which closed the door for me.  I don't contest the moral high ground stance of the dems, but would remind you it is the pubs who say Trump is God's choice.   

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  2. Real frito pie was at the Kangaroo stand across from junior high (it had been the HS in the 50's).  Cut one of the long sides of the bag open and dump the chili in, top with onions.  15c. When my dad would sing the "One Meatball" song, I would always think I would not do the one meatball for 15 cents, I'd be very content with the frito pie.

  3. 21 minutes ago, Tom said:

     

    I don't hate "old" people, but the average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78 years old.  13 years between getting Medicare and SS and when you statistically are expected to die.  Sorry, but that's old. God bless you if you're some outlier who's 68 and runs marathons and deadlifts trucks and has another 30-40 years in front of you, but you're still old generally speaking.

    The that's from birth.  If you make it to 65 life expectancy is around 85.  So that's a considerable future.

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  4. 6 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    It's fun to talk about being on Brisket's ledge, while secretly thinking these fucks are going to get theirs, but this shit legitimately pushes me onto the ledge. Why has god forsaken us? I'll be drunk when the bomb hits, and I hope I'm at ground zero. Y'all M'fers can duke it out with the zombies. 

    I saw god at the club dining room last night, he was hosting a big table.  Seemed to be having an all right time.  I think he was having a manhatten for openers.

  5. 20 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    What some would consider hate speech others would not.  just look at the comments from the Muslim congressman regarding Israel. 

    Hate speech/anti semitic or just criticism ?

     

    I don't at all dismiss that thereis  useful discussion to be had around what is or isn't hate speech.  And that was my point about the poor analogy.  There are no useful discussions to be had about the persistence of gravitational effects. 

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  6. 10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    It was also a midterm.  Look, I hope y'all are right, but my space on the ledge is reserved.

    Right.  Like never forgetting the WI, MI, PA lesson, we should never forget the general capacity of the American voter to make a horrible choice.  It's a real tradition.  Except there is no country song about it.

  7. Parents who are the age of boomers at this time, at least within this society, get anxious when they see their well provided for and well educated grown kids struggling, versus the assumed "right" schedule we hold in our heads based on our own lived experience.  I now wish I had not been so susceptible to this emotional pull.  With one, hard working, smart, just sort of unlucky kid, I have meaningful sized loans that will not likely be paid back in my lifetime, and a subsidized  rent situation in a house I own that I can't see how and when I can get them out of there - and still have an intact family life.  I could have a yuge boat had I not been such a gullible dad.

    Its a boomer thing that I'm in this situation.

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