Clown,

"Literally any discussion with pedophiles supporters is pointless."

Are you talking about children holding your pants up?

No. I use a belt.

Db,

"crazier than a fecalhouse rat"

At least I saw I needed help and got it.

Can't say the same for a lot of the characters I read on here who might benefit from doing the same.

Rein,

"Bathhouse Bill"

Anytime someone refers to my employment history of about six months working the front entrance at a bathhouse in a large city, I'm going to give some details.

Seems to me you have that on your mind.

I worked sometimes evening shift and sometimes morning.

Morning shift you'd find white bath towels all over and empty bottles of poppers.

And there were small rooms with doors people might have used for privacy you had to wipe down.

Dan,

"mail-in ballots"

In the words of Laura..."are we back to that again?"

Rein,

"Nice try"

Kennedy and Trump do some some things in common.

They were both big womanizers.

Laura,

"To equate Trump with Kennedy is blasphemous to say the least. Trump isn't worthy to polish Kennedy's shoe."

That just shows how badly your mind works.

The thing they have in common is they are both extremely popular and have a following.

Certainly not that they are anything alike....

You can not force this to happen like has been attempted time and again.

It just has to happen.

So many people have heads full of facts, but they can't think.

Tor,

It's a desperate attempt to make this guy into a God.

Men like Kennedy and Trump just happen.

Tor,

"Does Talarico remind anyone of him?"

No.

Dan,

One more thing about Excel.

An under-utilized part of the Office family has been VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)

It is software technology that goes back to the 90's but Microsoft can't kill it. Too many businesses rely on it. Starting in 1993, it came built right into Office. Right-click any Worksheet Tab and select View Code. You won't see fancy ribbons. The interface you see is exactly the same as it's been with every version of Office.

Too many businesses have critical macros or VBA programs (whatever you call them) they can not do without. And in a funny way, those macros also insure those businesses will continue using Office so they can run macros they depend on.

I began programming in BASIC back in the 80's in the DOS environment. You can also program in Windows Visual Basic (not DOS and not VBA).

Working as an accountant, I created VBA programs I used for very sophisticated functions that made my life easier. It was a natural progression from Microsoft PDS BASIC to the Windows environment.

There are alternate ways of creating functions you can employ in your job but none are as easy as VBA and amazingly powerful.

I had some excel files I used on the job with very few cells I manually entered anything into. Everything happened via VBA and I used the spreadsheet just to hold the data.

And VBA isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Any accountants who aren't utilizing VBA for small repetitive daily or weekly needs might want to consider taking a class and learn to do real honest to goodness programming creating Forms you see on the screen you place your fields and buttons you click on telling it to do things and save the work on a worksheet.

This long winded post shows my teacher side.

Clown,

I'm not getting into anything with you here.

buh-bye...

Dan,

Did the full time college thing for 3 years until a teacher at work approached me about their other employer having some weird system issues. They offered me a deal. Pay me real good for 6 months to figure things out.

So I did.

Gave me time to find other work and fixed their problems.

Dan,

"You were a glorified Excel Spreadsheet installer."

I've never mentioned this.

The for-profit college I taught accounting in the evenings and kept their computers running decided to create an IT degree program. They asked me to do it.

At that time, there was only 1 Vue testing center for Microsoft certifications in the area. I turned the college into a Vue testing center. All exams were proctored.

The first graduating class had 2 guys who completed their MCSE. They were "paper MCSE's" as the old saying goes, but they had the knowledge and hands on skills working at the college. That was years ago. They did manage to build respectable IT support careers, got married and raised families.

I was teaching Active Directory, Windows OS and other stuff.

I found teaching to be the most rewarding part of my career and really time consuming.

Always either getting ready for a class, teaching a class, or talking to students after class or grading their work.

And I filled in for Excel if I had to.

Dan,

"FFS, just admit if it wasn't her laugh, you would've found something else insignificant yet disqualifying."

I never said her laugh was THE reason I didn't vote for her.

You're a very single minded person. Your mind just stays on unimportant details.

The sort of job I did for decades, you'd be overwhelmed.

Laura,

The man Corky linked to sounds interesting.

You should click on the heading and get introduced to this man.

He actually has something to say.

But, like I said, he has plenty of time to shoot himself in the foot.

Mod,

One thing we know for sure.

If Kamala had won, Obama would actually be in office for a 4th term.

If the shoe was on the other foot, Democrats would be screaming bloody murder.

But...they don't care.

I can't blame them. Republicans would do it, too, if they could (and actually may have the opportunity someday)

Just politics.

Corky,

That was a pointless video. I watched 3-5 seconds of the opening and it was another waste of time video.

What a kooky vain society we've become people who live in front of cameras because they like looking at and hearing themselves.

If it was truly educational, that's one thing. But a video that starts out where I can pretty well guess he's mocking people and I have no time for that.

That's why I rarely click on anything from Corky. It's usually asinine and geared towards simple minded people. I have ideas what he might have said and don't care to know for sure.

Now...if someone wants to put it in a post, I read it.

Donner,

That is actually funny.

Legal,

Tell me 5 thing Kamala promised to get done.

Zed,

Trump or Cackles.

That was the choice.

Sometimes people vote against someone, rather than for someone.

I voted against Kamala.

Dan,

"Thanks for proving my point you're willing to find ANYTHING against a Democratic"

I don't like fake.

Maybe you're used to it but I prefer authenticity.

I've listened to a few sound bites from Talarico.

He has some original thoughts.

He still has plenty of time to shoot himself in the foot.

And, he does a little too much grinning like Mamdani, whose photos creepily remind me of a Guy Fawkes mask with that frozen grin.

The trick will be aligning with Democrats without really aligning with Democrats and still coming across as his own man.

Dan,

"BillJohnson blames Obama for making gay marriage legal. He'll NEVER forgive Obama. Never."

You're obsessed with that idea I am against gay marriage.

All I ever said was I would have preferred Civil Unions to avoid possible religious implications tied to the word "marriage."

You are a non-stop liar. You are absolutely the worst on this site I've responded to. Just lie, lie, lie....you're pathetic how you lie. Don't bother saying anything more you might think I'll respond to. Unless you lie some more and I have to correct you.

What I AM very glad about is Obama being directly involved in gays being able to openly serve in the Armed Forces. That's almost unbelievable when I think back picturing how we had to be careful. You might get the word out to some other gays you know in the military maybe we're meeting someplace for drinks on the base or someone's place. I remember there was a ship's store that was run by a young gay guy. After hours we would go there and lock the door and basically just talk.

Obama got rid of DADT.

I was in even prior to that. Simply no gays allowed. Obviously, everyone lied when they joined.

hmmmmmmm.......

This guy sounds interesting...however...if he really wants to get the attention of Republicans he needs to stand on his own words and ditch Obama.

Sy,

"Do the same today with modern costs and credit checks."

I have a screen shot I took a years ago of my credit score.

It said 850.

Now it's dropped about 30 points without an income.

I declared bankruptcy back in my 30's.

Yes...I worked diligently.

I always delivered what I promised I could do.

In today's financial climate, I'm sure it's a lot more difficult.

Clown,

Here's my favorite story.

Starting back in my late 20's, for about 20 more years, my wife, kids, and I attended a large church regularly. On Wednesday nights they held dinners that were extremely well attended. You paid, went through the buffet line, then sat at long tables in a room about the size of a basketball court.

The place was always packed and LOUD. Really, probably over the fire code. There were only two ways in or out. One on each side of the room.

People arrived gradually, but leaving was an entirely different thing.

When dinner ended, everybody tried to leave at once. Both exits looked like sand funneling through an hourglass shaped like a V aiming for the door. People packed together shoulder to shoulder trying to get out. And it was loud.

Now here's the part I like. I'm very tall. In that room there may have been only one person taller than me. When I stood up, I could see over almost everyone's heads and they could usually see me.

Years earlier I had worked for a very busy family owned florist shop.

With all the noise from people talking and pushed together, I faintly heard, "Computer Man... Computer Man..."

I figured that might mean me, so I turned around.

Pretty far back behind me I saw am arm waving. It was one of the women who helped manage the florist shop trying to get my attention through that crowd.

So I waited for her, we talked for a bit, and made plans for me to come by.

I've always liked that story.