All you need is another traffic problem in DC.

LOL... this is the same guy whining about taking down statues... because of their "historical significance."

It's just more of that Scientology, Tony Robbins blippity blop. I got the unabridged version on my Audible... it was a freebie... with a subscription... 15 minutes in... I could tell it was yet another self-indulgent money guru... la Napoleon Hill... giving himself a reach-around while I listened...

Blaming the poor for being poor... when really it's all a crap shoot.

There was another one I got with the same deal named Elizabeth I CEO... that one was good...

I rinse my rice before cooking. Same with beans and about all dry goods that aren't flour. If there are oogers present they float to the top.

Then I cook them in boiling water.

It's a mid 20th century self-defense mechanism I learned from growing up poor and buying out of bins and not something in bags.

If the mission is accomplished and weapons stock depleted... why are we bombing them again?

I was born in the South but raised not to use the word. My early years as an Air Force brat had a lot to do with it... I'm sure. Then the MLK phenomenon...
After that... Richard Pryor burst onto the scene with his comedy albums... he said it frequently... and the word morphed again... then there was an era where we "played the dozens" as sort of a game... hurling insults at one another and all bets were off... nothing was sacred. It was fun! Lots of laughs... then it morphed again...

I didn't know when to use it... if I would use it at all.

To get clarity... I asked friends I respected. In my circle... I had friends who used it and those who didn't. Generally, about half of my Black friends never used it... as far as I know. One of them told me that she never used the word unless she could use it in an empowering way. It's a hard word to empower with...

She's a class act... so I follow her method.

Trumpanzee sure seems to like doing things ess backwards... first bissing off the allies... before starting a conflict that will involve them.

Once again, this is the way it is done in Germany. And it's not done based on race and income level. It's based on academic performance. And even those who aren't tracked to go to university in grade 4 are still eligible to attend college if they perform well enough, but Germany pays for student's tuition, so it makes no sense to try and prepare all students for college, when the majority don't need it.
It's called being a good steward of taxpayer dollars. Or Euros, in this case.

#26 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-27 12:07 PM | Reply | Flag: MMMHHMMMMM

Canada also had a educational program like that... The UK... Netherlands. It doesn't stop anyone from getting a higher education in those countries either. I've known Canadians from the backwoods... Canada is mostly backwoods... who started boarding school apprenticeships in large engine diesel mechanics at grade 9 graduating 4 years later... ready to work... on both sides of the border... or Mexico even...

Also "high school graduation" wasn't the bruhaha there that it is here. You are expected to graduate. Doh!
Geeze now adays they have kindergarten graduations here... caps... gowns... pomp and circumstance...and you wonder why today's kids are such little attention freaks.

I like how Liberals chirp that Iran is stronger than ever. The sadder part is that is what they want. Never mind that their military is gone as well as their economy. The miscalculation that this administration made was thinking right after the first invasion that the people of Iran would rise up and take over. It will happen but obviously will take longer than expected.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-08-27 12:23 PM | Reply PPPPPFFFFTTTTT

Did you ever consider they don't need all that chit? Before our last foray into the neighboring regions... 24 years ago... Iraq and Afghanistan were already crushed by economic sanctions... three decades of war... trashed infrastructure consisting of mostly rubble... significantly smaller and malnourished population... no viable military... less than adequate armaments... and yet...

Sooooo...perhaps the only reason Trumpanzee hasn't said "mission accomplished" is he can't fit in a flight suit?

Well... they know he's an old man whose days are numbered... once he's dead... they don't have to honor anything... that's one way for the Arabs to get in the pocket of Americans.

I tested in the top 15 percentile academically... but had no interest in academics because they served no practical purpose in my life... other than that I like learning about new stuff. I'm a trade school artist who studied pre-press production rather than "studying fine art". At the time... printing was the second-largest industry in the country... a no-brainer... blue-collar artists and artisans.

I've taken a lot of college/university coursework... but only to polish my skill set... or to find out more about something I found interesting. For example... I took a real estate course and even pulled a license. Not because I wanted to sell real estate... I didn't know how to buy a house... I wanted to buy a house... so I learned what that entailed... and managed to sell one or two... or I had sloppy handwriting... so I took a calligraphy class... things like that.

My favorite professors were usually adjuncts who were... almost always non-degreed professionals.

Even though printing has lost its luster as a profession... knowing how to spec and set type allowed me to move into HTML... web design... I learned how to use laser-based equipment... light-sensitive strata... design and fabrication... CAD... photo optics... all sorts of things that allowed me to gig work once my kids were grown... 3 decades ago. So many basic skill sets can translate and adapt as things change. It helps if they can pay the bills in the mean time.

What a fancy way of saying... hey... people are paying more for the chit we're selling them.

That's the European model... where kids are tested to determine whether they are academically inclined or would be better served learning a trade... it allows youngsters to start learning a trade ASAP. I think it makes more sense than the US model... where academic excellence is the criterion everyone is measured against... and why we test so badly overall. Higher education is free there because they've weeded out who best benefits from it.

Nonacademic kids should leave school with a job skill... earning enough to put them in the running for adulthood. Skilled labor is more respected there... whereas here we have a post slavery caste system in play... young adults graduating in debt... unable to get employment and pay for an education track they probably shouldn't have been on in the first place... because it's more than IQs...it's temperament.

Hell... even the military promises enlistees "on-the-job training"... that the government will pay for ... if the enlistee is willing to kill people... on demand. Professional hired guns... who can also twist a wrench if they survive the experience. Then there is the societal pressure to hire "vets" even if they are damaged.

Removing trades from high schools coincided with the end of conscripted service... and is used as a means to coerce people to join.

Football is a mock battle between men in padded suits and helmets... used as a commercial to sell beer and Viagra... mostly men take it seriously... like it has real meaning.

Canada's Carney hates the USA:
#17 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-08-25 11:52 PM | FLAG EYE ROLL

and sooooooo.......?

You do realize... the US has never won a war... of any kind... against Canada.

Canada is NOT afraid of us.

Furthermore... like Cuba... Canada is INTERNATIONALLY very popular... unlike the USA (thanks to wannabe tough-guy numbskulls like you trashing other countries because someone told you to)... which is no longer popular.

Canada was our staunchest ally in Afghanistan...

I was thinking more along the lines of a case of cell phones made in China, spray-painted gold, with " Make America great again" decaled on the back side... which is waaaaay more than his Appalachian contributors got.

... to say the least... eh?

It was written... A legion of Angels... two abreast... carrying her to her heavenly reward... god bless god bless

I throw the best temper tantrums... people are afraid of me because I throw the YUGEST temper tantrums... the like of which the world has never seen... since January 6 2020.

Ground beef is served ground because it's the toughest cut. What about the prime cuts of beef?

It's John Quincy Adams' fault. The dummocrats won't tell you that... they used to call communists Whigs back then. Who gives their son a middle name like "Quincy" anyway? Only Antifa leftists with their Q ideology... if he were in Palestine... they'd throw him off a roof... speaking of roofs... looky... my ballroom plans...

DC in the summer...

Finally!

Russia has been getting its ass kicked by a country the fraction of Iran's size with no end in sight. You really want to go with that, comrade?

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-18 08:34 PM | FLAG PPPPFFFFTTTTTT

Now we know why... and it makes sense... Apparently... Russians are good at playing the long game... Russians aren't afraid of sacrificing their lives... that's how they defeated Hitler... against the odds... on the ground... face to face.

For the single "D-Day" we had... they had a hundred before we got there.

Finally... time for boomers to get the feck out of there... gezus... what a neurotic bunch!