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by Burning Petard
Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: All our own work
Topic: Home for Random Thoughts
Replies: 4335
Views: 552100

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

What about the power of the almighty Coca-Cola? Perhaps that would be Alphabet Inc. today.

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by Burning Petard
Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Uhhh, sure, ok ???
Replies: 7
Views: 86

Re: Uhhh, sure, ok ???

I cannot figure why anyone would go to Georgetown for two years, then transfer to Penn--unless it was like why I dropped my minor in German. I realized I could not meet the department standards for a BS with a minor in German.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The United Police States of America
Replies: 539
Views: 66027

Re: The United Police States of America

Remember the rules of this site: above all argue.

Scooter territory is not a bad place to be.

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by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 17, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The United Police States of America
Replies: 539
Views: 66027

Re: The United Police States of America

Training? This activity near the end of the training involved hitting him in the head with enough force to break teeth and bones in his neck. Just what was the product of this training exercise supposed to be? How was this experience expected to make him a better cop?

snailgate
by Burning Petard
Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Plans for Tax
Replies: 9
Views: 115

Re: Plans for Tax

I see alot hand wringing and alligator tears about the heavy tax burden of 'the old family farm' when grandpa dies. The reality is that grandpa is still the owner because he does not trust his kids with the asset and the kids don't want to be farmers anyway.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Actual Musk X-Tweet from Today
Replies: 11
Views: 122

Re: Actual Musk X-Tweet from Today

I have been reading about problems with Tesla auto pilot for it seems as long as they have been selling it. I know of no other brand car that has hit a fire engine or oil tanker broadside, with the driver sitting sober, but inattentive, behind the wheel. Just recently I read of a driver who unplugge...
by Burning Petard
Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:56 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Plans for Tax
Replies: 9
Views: 115

Plans for Tax

Trump has posted that the 'rich and famous' who support Harris are stupid. Maybe. Maybe the rich and famous who endorse any politician think the rest of us are stupid. But anyway, Trump was decrying a Harris proposal for taxing unrealized capital gains. I heard about this a week ago from a 'small bu...
by Burning Petard
Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:57 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Trump's Data Source Identified

There is 'some' basis' for the story of cats feeding these alien criminals and mental hospital escapees from Haiti in Springfield Ohio. One person was arrested, accused of eating a cat, in Canton, Ohio. She is a fully American citizen. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-ohio-woman-accused-0030151...
by Burning Petard
Wed Sep 11, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Re: Debate Night in America

One question in my mind as I reflected on the debate. Here in this BB I have met and lost friends and good people. This little virtual community has a history. One of those I miss is RayThom. I can imagine what his reaction would have been to last nite. So I will post the question: How many cats doe...
by Burning Petard
Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:08 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Re: Debate Night in America

I spent a few minutes after with NewsMax, a very pro-Trump cable news network. They were hot about the moderators. Did not do any fact check on Harris with all her lies. I don't know about her lies, but I did think the moderators gave her a free ride on the very first question: Are you better off to...
by Burning Petard
Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:49 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Re: Debate Night in America

I don't think any votes were changed. snailgate
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Re: Debate Night in America

When does he lie? My own BS detector says that when ever he begins relating what someone said to him and claims they began "Sir" I know what follows is a lie. A former high level staffer said that when he begins to play his 'air accordion' what follows is pure fiction, I puzzled about that until I a...
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: 2024 Presidential polls and projections
Replies: 88
Views: 8823

Re: 2024 Presidential polls and projections

I am more interested in Congress. The GOP has had at least 6 years of Gerrymandering to get safe districts, and their current strategy of fixing the local vote counting system. I am anxious to see how that works out.


snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debate Night in America
Replies: 42
Views: 465

Re: Debate Night in America

I m very afraid She is gonna treat him with respect, as if he were a real political competitor within the American tradition, If she does, she will come out just like Neville Chamberlain vs Hitler. Trump finds history, truth, reality as all trivial and pointless, Of course I will be watching. snailg...
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:46 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: We're gonna need a bigger iceberg
Replies: 21
Views: 295

Re: We're gonna need a bigger iceberg

Your model did not do well in your bathtub but the actual thing set speed records across the Atlantic that still stand unbroken.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:15 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: New Accessory for your Tesla
Replies: 9
Views: 271

Re: New Accessory for your Tesla

Jeff Stahler, the cartoonist up above, clearly never participated in a Pinewood Derby. These are a tradition for Cub Scouts and one ages out at about 10.5 years.


Snailgate, former Den Chief, who never did a pinewood derby either.
by Burning Petard
Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The "left wing" media
Replies: 14
Views: 397

Re: The "left wing" media

Please note the definition given in the post above for "Vietnam Veteran" IS NOT from a US Department of Defense document or organization. It has even less authority to speak for veterans than the VFW or The American Legion. I served from 1 June 1960 active duty to 1 October 1963 and Army Reserve, wi...
by Burning Petard
Sun Sep 08, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The "left wing" media
Replies: 14
Views: 397

Re: The "left wing" media

That is the puzzle isn't it. The most ardent supporters of Trump are those who are hurt the worst by his policies. I frequent a forum similar to this for fans of a particular old brand rifle. That brand went broke, was bought by Remington who went broke, and is now made by Ruger. The typical poster ...
by Burning Petard
Sat Sep 07, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: The "left wing" media
Replies: 14
Views: 397

Re: The "left wing" media

I guess my education was very neglected. I thought the USA was a functioning democracy long before everyone had access to running water. I must also be having senior moment memory problems. I live in an area where political ads show up on major tv network programing for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and ...
by Burning Petard
Fri Sep 06, 2024 1:16 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: When will 'too much' be 'enough'?
Replies: 9
Views: 331

Re: When will 'too much' be 'enough'?

Yess Big RR, this is a justice issue There is no consensus about what is supposed to happen to the incarcerated while the are in (beyond make them uncomfortable and do it cheap). EVERY ONE OF THEM is going back on the street, unless we are willing to keep them in cages until they die. Very little mo...