"When might the songs about Pres Trump's vice, i.e., his War of Choice against Iran start appearing?"

1982

"a billion here a billion there and pretty soon you're talking real money"

This famous quip about government overspending is widely attributed to U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. However, no official written or audio record proves he actually said it, and Dirksen himself reportedly noted that he let a catchy reporter's misquote stand because it sounded so good.

Earlier Versions: Similar budget jokes appeared in print as early as 1938.

always got a kick out of that one....

"bull-pasture-pastries"

heeeeee... lotta time in the sticks... never heard it put that way...

but yes if you need a detector get a detector... don't build everything into everything as an added $$ feature...

Sick.

I must say Coriolanus, you are all over the place...

"If the Democrats have a genuine national convention in 2028 -- unlike the sham AIPAC carnival in 2024 which befouled Chicago-- USAF Major Jason Watson should be a keynote speaker."

Looking forward to at least the possibility of that... and, I suspect, and hope for, a number of epic speeches...

Sick.

"Heroism isn't always displayed in a combat zone, as USAF Major Jason Watson has demonstrated."

Many instances of this going way back... the Major is exceptionally articulate which, to me, enhances his potency...

#6

Gee, can I be your friend....

Summer 69 just graduated we pondered getting up there but no car no gas no money no time to hitch.... Jimi cemented in history....

btw apologies to anyone still coping with the "16 Tons" earworm from last week's music thread....

Decades have a way of well... slipping into the future... as he said... these last 5 or 6 or...7? whooosh...

I don't give a sheet what "they" pull... my phone data is not "property".... what a pantload....

So much fate determined by BALL PLAYERS.... those that travel internationally for sports "events" I really don't get....

Would be seriously trying for those of us "in the back" as my globe trotting corporate emissary bro used to call us.... but those pod-like posh bed booths "up front" do seem pretty sweet... only seen by me in movies and vids of course....

and yes a loud drunk is insufferable even on a short puddle jumper ride....

Another among many many threads preaching to the choir here with no not a one suggesting what the flook to do about any of it... do this? join that? take this step? go after this one? Need actions or at least ideas for action... otherwise just a long ongoing jerking.... until "they" do something about anything....

btw... if I had a (non-violent) realistic idea I'd put it out.... just can't join the whining...

somewhere in the #eighties or so this lovely thread went down a rabbit hole .... hasta luego amigos....

#81

so it's a contest of some sort....?

#75

"Besides being flat and plain, old and worn out, the people there were like slave labor zombies; all hope lost. It was very sad to see."

He's a poet... didn't know it... maybe his feet show it...

#46

Point may be, as in those many so-called "la mierda hole" or just plain 3rd world countries... what are the barriers to the residents doing something about moving on?

#45

"I've driven through the rural areas of the South....yikes,..no thanks. It's not a secret and none of us hardly need a study like this to educate us on what challenges exist in the South. It's been debated here a million times already anyway."

Now now now... ever stop to eat or stay with anybody local.... doubt it....

#44

"If you hate pine trees, stay away from Georgia. At last count, 4000 for every man, woman, and child in the state. What horrors."

Word!

Most boring long drives....

#41

Did he have the "Show me those -------!" big hand painted sign and the stars and bars flying... I pulled in right behind the kid to get my oil change....

Fight Fight Fight!

for my son, I'm shorting oil and gas....