Every day he wakes up, Trump is an embarrassment to the United States by his very nature.

That bust next to his right elbow. Is that where the secret phone to DadVlad resides?

#178 | Posted by Danforth

"Every rule in the Navy handbook is the result of a dead sailor."

-When was "the President is a compulsive liar" era?
Always. At least your lifetime
#148 | POSTED BY EBERLY

FFS, Eberly. I don't know who you're answering, but . . .

AI, via the Office of the US Historian, while it lasts:

While historians and critics note that he faced political fallout from overly optimistic economic forecasts, standard campaign exaggerations, and secrecy surrounding military actions (like the Iran hostage rescue), [Jimmy Carter] was never credibly accused of malicious or deliberate major deception.

Federal law bars felons like him from gun ownership.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

But not from being commander in chief. What a wonderful world.

AI doesn't capture these types of "religious" stories.

PS. According to my Russian sister-in-law, we still have three family plots there. The last of the DBT2 family holdings on the island.

That and all the stuff my brother accumulated that his kooky spouse will try to foist off on me eventually. Gets her medical information from the Internet and her news from Moscow via satellite.

Actually, the apartment she is in, either my father or brother has occupied since the mid 80s, and she not too long ago got rent control. Perhaps 1500 per month for life in old Vanderbilt territory?

I should get my name on that lease.

Madbomber-involved threads are always intriguing. And don't mess with Danforth on the rules.

All that said, going up a ways, the Obamas are quite far from populists. Popular, yes. Populists, no.

Data centers are people too.

Private memos get out anyway because people are stupid.

Ergo, data centers are stupid.

Philosophy 000

I was referring to the big doors that entered the terminals on either side.

When I was on Staten Island a few years ago burying my brother in that same cemetery, I was happy to see still open, and proud to patronize with my younger issue, Joe and Pat's.

3. I bought some of those trick playing cards. If you fan the cards one way, they're all different, but you can turn the deck the other way and see the same card repeatedly because all those cards were cut a couple mm different from the others.

AI:

The 1956 Republican platform, supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's re-election, promoted a "modern Republicanism." It combined a commitment to fiscal conservatism and a balanced budget with the preservation of New Deal social welfare programs, infrastructure investment, and strong anti-communism foreign policy.

Domestic Policy and Labor
Social Welfare: Pledged to extend and refine the Social Security system and protect worker benefit plans.
Labor Rights: Supported raising and extending the minimum wage, improving unemployment benefits, and revising the Taft-Hartley labor law to improve conditions for unions.
Civil Rights & Equality: Endorsed equal pay for equal work regardless of sex and expressed support for civil rights protections.
Education & Health: Promised federal assistance for school construction to fix classroom shortages and supported federal health reinsurance programs.

Economy and Infrastructure
Fiscal Management: Emphasized balancing the federal budget alongside realistic tax cuts targeted at small businesses and individual taxpayers.
Agriculture: Acknowledged federal support for farm pricing and stabilization, aiming to balance agricultural abundance with market stability.
Infrastructure: Championed large public works, including the expansion of the Interstate Highway System and cooperative resource development.

Current republicans are the worst.
But they've always been the worst.

#16 | Posted by eberly at

Nope.

Let's truly MAGA by returning the GOP to their 1956 national platform.

Eb: MAGA is an existential threat to this nation in a way that Nixon, Reagan, and their ilk never were, except for maybe Grover Norquist in the later Reagan years (another closeted GOP operative; imagine that).

I can only imagine that Romney is loved by his family, not his constituents, and certainly not Democrats. He wasn't even as popular as his VP pick, Eddie Munster. Romney is admired for his attempt at healthcare reform. In some respects he might be as crazy as RFK Jr., I don't know.

McCain was worthy of respect for what he endured, ended up worthy of great respect after some political missteps (the Palin thing was his own johnson talking). Do people like him? He was more human than Romney, but that's a low bar. And he could be honest when he talked, which was refreshing.

Crazy on top of stupid wrapped in arrogant and squeezed into a fetid tub of orange sludge is not a good look.

I tell people about that pizzeria as it was always my last stop before boarding to go home. A little kiosk right in the circle before the banks of double doors.

Unique among pizzerias (I tried them throughout three boroughs for 17 years), they would slightly salt their crust, which you could taste. Just ever so different from the others.

Grape drink. Always at Nathan's at Coney Island. More good mustard.

Excellent mustard, you are correct.

When food trucks first started appearing on NYC streets, my brother was working two (publishing!) jobs in Manhattan while living on Staten Island and would find himself with a few hours between shifts. Back in simpler decades, he would ask a food truck vendor if he could crash in the truck for a few hours.

What happens at the One Book Bookstore?

without prior written inquiry and explicit authorization from the copyright holder.

A statement being added to copyright pages.

The Content of this book is expressly prohibited from being used for:
Training artificial intelligence systems,
Training machine learning models,
Data mining operations,
Automated content generation systems,
Large language model development,
Any form of algorithmic learning or pattern recognition without prior

But people will still cheat.

Back in my youth, I would haunt the huge book warehouses on Fourth Avenue down in the teens, where you'd be looking at one shelf of books, with two other shelves behind it, for acres up down and sideways. Probably all Starbucks and fashion stores and NYU now.

Self-publishing has evolved into quite something from 25 years ago. Now it is--or can be--entirely legitimate and with better attention to detail than royalty publishers have time to provide. And the secret is that even if you publish with a royalty publisher, you're still doing your own marketing (book tours, etc.), unless you happen to come with a PR agency in tow.

And I'm amazed at the number of people who just want desperately to be "authors." I've worked for two mainline Protestant pastors who said they wanted "author" on their tombstone. Didn't mention thanks to the Big Guy.

I worked for a company out of North Carolina last century, as you say, called Pentland Press, a UK subsidiary. Pure vanity press, with less and less attention to content, although I think they were more legit in the UK.

Right before I moved to the VA/TN state line, I worked on a book that was a woman taking her meager divorce settlement to publish a book containing all the alleged scandals, faults, and shortcomings (physical and psychological) related to her former spouse, in addition to all other violations of theology and geometry (Toole, Dunces) that he may have committed. The book was rank and vile by any measure.

The lady author's name was Goforth, as I came to find out was a not-uncommon name where I moved to, and I shuddered the first time in NE Tennessee, where the author lived, to see a Goforth mailbox.

I thought they'd folded, but a few years later I received another call from Pentland with a more legitimate project. I mentioned my previous experience and told them to go pluck that book of the shelves and scroll through it. They were unfamiliar with the title.

The response I received was one of horror.

Damn, that probably means my S&H green stamps are worthless now too. (preinternet rewards system)

I wonder how many folks here got their degrees because they could draw Binky? (distance learning)

Walking back was a poor way of saying it.
#11 | Posted by BellRinger

Just admit that, on some level, words mean nothing to you, nor being held accountable for them.

I haven't heard her name for a long time, and I feel worse hearing it now.

Just her name. What an irritating human.

I think she reminds me of too much of a wing of my family. The irritating ones.

+++

I've seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers once. My sole memory is a closing shot of a zombie running a floor waxer. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.

Kinda like the DR sometimes.

Same type of dreck that goes through people's medicine cabinets at parties.

Oops. My bad. The Rodman factor.

She has been said to be the driving force behind the development of her brother's cult of personality, modeled after that of their grandfather, Kim Il Sung. Thae Yong-ho, a North Korean defector and former diplomat, said in 2017 that Kim Yo Jong organized all major public events in North Korea. She was said to have encouraged her brother to present an image of a "man of the people" with, for example, rides on fairground attractions and his friendship with basketball star Dennis Rodman.

his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

I'd like to put Trump in negotiations with Kim's sister, about whom there is not even agreement on her birthyear.