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lechacal, it’s more than just “an Internet chat room”, and you know that as well as anyone here. Friendships here moved far beyond the chat room stage long ago, and we’re no longer merely responding to anonymous posts by people we don’t know.
“Biff, diss me much? See my 1:10 post ^^^”
You mean being each other’s Brooklyn Bridge walk therapists isn’t enough! Sheesh…
🙂
Yes, thank you too, CGar. It’s hard getting recognition when one posts at the same time as Montrose!
CGar,
take some advice from Humphrey Bogart on women:
“I never met a dame who don’t understand a good smack in
da mouth.”
…uh, kidding. Remember, I’m the guy against Burkas. 😉
“It’s the nobel you basically don’t have to do anything real for.”
I dunno, Lech, I think trying to improve the lives of your countrymen/people/mankind has a reality to it. Being recognised while you are still alive is nice, too. I’m pretty sure no one who ever received a Nobel Peace Prize was thinking they qualified for one, either, when they were out there doing good work.
“The Chinese guy is cool and all, but the nobel peace prize is kind of a joke.”
I would agree there have been more than a few very questionable recipients of the award over the years, but overall, I think this still sends a strong statement and hopefully means something in many peoples’ eyes. I already had a couple of friends born and raised in mainland China email me to express their joy over this. I think it’s hard to fully grasp what it means to people, including me, who didn’t grow up in China (or visit China on the Internet, as Rob would say)
Pete, re my accountant, I agree, grandpa.
…ok, back from my Snickers break to restore some
sanity to the economic/political discussion;
1. 41.8 million Americans on Food Stamps is not a viable
economic policy, no matter what Nancy Pelosi says.
2. Bush left office with a 400 billion deficit and a credit/liquidity crisis.
Two years later the deficit is 1.4 trillion and we’re facing a sovereign debt crisis. Those trillion plus deficits are projected out several years more.
3. Obviously after 4 years of a Democrat congress and two years of President Obama’s economic policies we are moving in the wrong direction. Check out the unemployment numbers.
4. The stimulus didn’t stimulate. In fact it was just revealed that something like 72,000 dead people received stimulus checks? what were they trying to stimulate?
Worse, no one seems to know what the dead did with the stimulus money either.
5. examples like that show why the government is not the solution. It is, in fact, the problem. As Reagan said:
The scariest words you can hear are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help!”
etson, not your boobs but your rump did come up on a brief segmt of the convo
Please don’t filter yourself Rob. Don’t give in to the reversion to the average that always always happens in human groups. Keep doing your thing please.