Wikipedia:

In 2023, during the ongoing Gaza genocide, HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) were criticised because products from Hewlett-Packard Israel were provided to the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel Population and Immigration Authority. The BDS movement called on consumers and organisations to boycott all HPE IT services and products, as well as the printers, computers and printer cartridges of HP Inc. In 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was identified in a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that listed companies facilitating the occupation of Palestine -- it states:

"Before IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) maintained the database and its Israeli subsidiary is still providing servers. Hewlett Packard (HP) has long enabled the apartheid systems of Israel, supplying technology to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the prison service and police. Since the 2015 split of the company into Hewlett Packard Enterprises and HP Inc., opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries."

"HPE is mainly owned by institutional investors, who hold around 88% of all shares. The 5 largest shareholders in mid-2025 were:

Vanguard Group Inc (169,804,055 shares held)
Blackrock Inc. (137,553,957 shares held)
Capital World Investors (73,552,085 shares held)
Bank of America (51,846,776 shares held)
JPMorgan Chase (47,124,039 shares held)"

If I worked for HPE, I wouldn't be making any long-term plans.

Underrated drummers . . .

When asked for a young drummer he really admired, Buddy Rich (!) mentioned this up-and-coming coed:

Wait for the solo. Karen Carpenter.

2026: The Steamrolling of the United States

So why don't you STFU, shht stain.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-04-11 09:22 AM

And a good morning to you, sir. Not enough sugar in those cornflakes?

4 = That ain't Boaz's writing.

Gene Clark: "Is Yours, Is Mine."

Wrecking Crew backing: Glen Campbell, Leon Russell. Also w/ Van ---- Parks on keys.

I got people in Detroit. Great city. I don't mind the urban detritus at all. If you're too much of a ----- to put up with it, stay away.

Boazreborn. Allah be praised.

Is he fat?
Is he Jewish?
I have no idea.

"Jew" is not, by itself, an insult. Tone of voice, of course, matters. And audience. And intent.

But any self-respecting fat Jew should have no problem owning up to it.

just a little clue for you.....even though you're lying trash about boaz.
"a bigger Muslim hater than Boaz?"
---you "aint" seen nothin yet...

#183 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Oooh, shrimp has added Boaz to his pantheon. What a credibility boost!

My formatting was lost. I wanted to point out C0RI0LANUS's present tense.

-Having Amerikkka as a neighbor is bad all around.
LOL

#3 | Posted by eberly

You see hyperbole. Fine.

How are US relations with Canada and Mexico right now under Trump, compared to any presidency of most of the last century, Democrat or Republican?

Db,
How do you explain the fact no countries other than the usual two are coming to Iran's aid?
#124 | Posted by BillJohnson

You didn't answer. Went with your best shot and blew it.

"-I don't know any radical leftist that are married with children."

And I don't have the energy to determine who on this board was clueness enough to suggest this, but whoever did is horribly wrong.

111.

Bill: Name three US foreign policy failures in your/our lifetime.

I'd say this is one.

US actions in Central America in midcentury and beyond are another. (Both parties)

And of course the ridiculous debacle in Iraq/Afghanistan. (Obama didn't change much of Bush's foreign policy in a practical sense, which the left excoriated him for.)

Your turn.

James Dobson's not running the country.

#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

No, but his ilk and other Christian theocrats and their followers are largely responsible for Trump's election.

The problem is clerics whose authority depends on never backing down, regardless of who pays the price.

#17 | Posted by BillJohnson

James Dobson?

Persian civilization predates European. It'll be around. Like the Chinese. We're short-timers, by a long shot.

The civilization that's being destroyed is Western. The rule of rich white men in everything from economics to government to academia has been eroding since the 1970s. Or maybe before with independence movements in the 20th century.

And of course, American civilization started tanking at any point you want to choose, going way back. Most recent manifestation was a 2015 escalator ride. It ain't gonna stop after a staircase accident or defenstration by same.

[BillJohnson] said Trump would have [his] support no matter what as long as he was effective. [BillJohnson's] words.

#31 | Posted by censored

I wonder how effective Trump's policies and actions have been for Bill in the last few days.

"Do you know why people hate Trump?"
Because he's the current GOP president.
The next one will be hated just as much.
Fact.

#6 | Posted by BillJohnson

I don't know why anyone takes you seriously enough to respond to you.

"Actions . . . have consequences - in this case a population flight. Do look at recent news and see the flight to freedom is ongoing." --Msgt

Cf. the Great Migration.

From Wikipedia (the link messes up):

African American "Great Migrations":
The original Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern United States (c. 1910"1930), sometimes called the Great Northward Migration
The Second Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941"1970)

The geographic cure often comes with unforeseen consequences.

DJT has received large funds from a whole lot worse people, and worse governments.

Bill Gates gives money away to lots of people, many times for good causes, and a lot more than he may have given MTG.

You got nothing to stand on anymore, shrimp. The more you dig in, the worse you look.

"moving out of high-tax states into areas where taxes, and often overall living costs, are lower."

Not to mention their generally lower quality of life and health and education outcomes.

I guess people can enjoy counting their tax savings.

The OP's interest in the internal migration for financial reasons of the US well-to-do is noted. Maybe LFT is trying to make a political point.

And regarding the spider hole, sorta, when the police found Charles Manson he was curled up in a cabinet under a kitchen sink.

I'm having a hard time coming up with what their inventory might have been.

"She went on to say, while she's losing money on every transaction, she hopes to make it up on volume."

If she has a nice derriere, her head's in the right place.