I’m heading up to Connecticut for a few days with ABC, so I spent the day cleaning the house, getting ready, and making sure the piglets would be safe with their new dog sitter. My former dogsitter graduated (BOOO!) but I found a new college student who is only a sophomore at the local college, has two rescues of her own, and loves animals, so I am set for the next few years are far as dogsitting goes.
Got a solid coat of wax on the Honda for her maiden voyage, a full tank of gas, got my jumper cables and emergency equipment and road flares and battery charger and all the stuff I carry in my car at all times because I like to be prepared, just finalized the iphone playlist, and it looks like I am set.
Greg Allman died today, so I made sure I put a bunch of my favorites on the list. For my money, Live at Ludlow Garage is one of the best live albums ever, although the Fillmore and the Atlanta International Pop festival are amazing, too.
At any rate, I hope you all have a safe Memorial Day weekend, and I will post dispatches from the road when possible. Hopefully our god damned President will refrain from starting a war or committing treason this weekend, but I don’t have my hopes up.
Sandia Blanca
Bon voyage, John!
Olivia
It sounds like you are totally prepared for the trip. Have a safe trip and a wonderful weekend, John and everyone else!
efgoldman
Don’t forget the mustard, and your hip waders for walking out of the muddy farmer’s field.
rikyrah
Have a safe trip, Cole?
JanieM
The mayor of Portland pulled no punches.
And…a bit about the people who died, one with the wonderful name of Taliesin Myrddin in particular. Sad beyond words.
Eric S.
Safe travels, John. I like your preparedness.
SiubhanDuinne
@JanieM:
The killer’s name, Christian, offers its own bitter irony.
Laura
Happy motoring Mr. Cole.
SiubhanDuinne
Safe travels, John, and have a great weekend with ABC.
Ascap-scab
Umm, condoms?
SiubhanDuinne
Actually a bit late for that.
James Powell
Pants, man! Did you remember to bring pants?
SiubhanDuinne
@Ascap-scab:
O-fucking-bligatory.
https://youtu.be/gkrheaWuShU
Jacel
Remember: Always carry a towel.
schrodingers_cat
Yeh Ishq Hai from Rangoon
(This is love..)
Romantic song with strong Sufi undertones.
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: That was most excellent, thank you.
I wonder what he’d make of Twitter?
mai naem mobile
Don’t forget the mustard. Drive safely.
seaboogie
@SiubhanDuinne: I think the WV overalls are an effective contraceptive, unless ABC makes Cole strip in the driveway again…
JanieM
@SiubhanDuinne:
Truer words….
Aleta
Have a great weekend.
Mobil RoonieRoo
Have a safe trip. We are off to our annual family reunion to tomorrow. Hope both our trips are safe and uneventful.
nalbar
Never go on a trip without this
https://www.amazon.com/Slime-1034-T-Handle-Tire-Plug/dp/B000ET525K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1495938901&sr=8-3&keywords=Tire+patch
and one of these
https://www.amazon.com/EPAuto-Portable-Compressor-Digital-Inflator/dp/B01L9WSTEG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1495939042&sr=8-3&keywords=Tire+pump
One side benefit of having them is if you see someone on the side of the road…you can be a hero with little effort.
.
SiubhanDuinne
@chris:
Dont rite notty wordz on wallz if u cnt spel
brendancalling
Truck saga is over: today I bought a 99 Chevy S-10 LS,4wd (which I will never/rarely use). Three hours later,my realtor called and told me my bid was accepted for a house in Old Hickory.
In related news, anyone want a 97 Subaru for parts?
Felonius Monk
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thanks for that. Haven’t heard that in years. It brought back memories of three teenage Boy Scouts sitting around (circa 1955) listening to that entire album and playing that song numerous times.
sukabi
Well John, probably too late for the “not committing treason” unless you’re talking about a new instance…as for the other, it will depend on if his lawyers have been able to convince his staff to keep him ball-gagged and strait-jacketed with a constant drip of thorazine…otherwise he’ll be twittering up a storm digging his hole deeper.
tybee
gregg allman
please call home
SiubhanDuinne
@Felonius Monk:
Oh yes, I memorised the entirety of that first TL album! I think I could still sing every song, word perfect. The Irish Ballad. Lobachevsky. I Hold Your Hand in Mine.
:-)
Did you know, Lehrer is still alive and sharp at age 89? A friend of mine had lunch with him a few months ago.
Mark
@brendancalling: I have a 96 Chevy S10 4WD. Less than 47K miles on it. Drove it today. Still a good little PU.
Gemina13
Safe journey, Cole, and may you and ABC have a great time together.
There’s a lot of sadness and rage up here in the PNW over the Portland murders. A close friend of mine works at the Portland Superior Court as a clerk, and isn’t expecting the arraignment until later in the week – but she also knows the sister of one of the deceased (I think it may be Taliesin Myrddin), and is having the expected, “Oh, shit, no” reaction. Most of my circle is going, “We know the death penalty is wrong and unjust, but holy fucking hell, we want to fry this racist bastard.” Two good people, dead for trying to keep a white supremacist piece of shit from bullying two young Muslim women. Fuck him right in the skull with a fully-operating chainsaw.
And then there’s Gregg Allman. All-around good guy and great musician. My older brother introduced me to him by way of playing The Allman Brothers’ albums when babysitting me (he named his daughter after the song “Melissa”), and I realize I need to thank him for that.
Gemina13
Following John Schindler on Twitter has been a real hoot since January 21. I realize he’s probably farther right of me than I’d be comfortable with, but I can’t help enjoying his pleasure as one shoe after another drops on the Orange Shitgibbon’s head.
ruemara
@schrodingers_cat: I like it. Sounds like Coldplay.
I’m nervous about the upcoming Comic-Con. Worried my reimbursement for the work trip will come in too late to find a room or a decent flight price. And I’m peeved that I’m being shorted by nearly 7 hours because post trip they said they would only pay for 8 hours of travel (was 12 hours 1 way & 9 hours to return) and they wouldn’t reimburse me for paying for lunch for my fellow workers, they would only pay for my meal, even though we all ate on my dime. I swear, I’m working for a decent place, I just haven’t seen such blatant illegality before. My lawyer friend asks if I want him to write a letter. Lol, no. Wait until they fire me.
@brendancalling: Congrats on both house & truck. Um, pass on the Subaru.
J R in WV
@Gemina13:
And no link? I’ve heard his reporting may be a little over the top… but that’s OK in this case.
John, be careful, have a good time!! Keep in touch!!~!
ETA: that’s what my Grandma and Mom would say whenever we took off to go home, or anywhere. The all purpose WV farewell you might way. Usually took 20 minutes, too, the Long WV goodbye.
Walker
@Gemina13:
If the people of Portland want to take action about this, they should do something about the law enforce/judge that kept the guy out of prison the last two times he was sentenced. This guy was a known violent felon who benefited from extreme white privilege in the courts.
satby
Skipping the whole thread to wish you a safe journey and happy visit!
Mary G
@J R in WV: Here ya go.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mai naem mobile: The Mustard is a myth, there is no Mustard.
frosty
@ruemara:
Sounds pretty normal to me. I only get reimbursed for my own meals, unless I can buy lunch for a client and call it marketing. And if I’m not traveling overnight, my meals don’t get reimbursed. If travel time is over and above the work day, it’s on my time. That’s the norm for engineering consulting.
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: Wow, didn’t know Lehrer was still with us. Maybe he’s on twitter
Steve in the ATL
@ruemara: you don’t need a lawyer (did I really just say that?)–you can simply call the IS Department of Labor.
I have always told my clients that I can handle the EEOC for them–there is a lot of gray area as to whether or not that was discrimination, and as you all know I am incredibly charming and persuasive–but when it comes to the DOL, get out your checkbook. You either paid them or you didn’t–not much room for me to argue (i can argue whether a job is exempt or non-exempt, usually, but if that is not the issue then wage and hour matters are pretty much cut and dried).
My bill is in the mail.
Barbara
@frosty: It depends if they would have paid the other workers for their own lunch if they had their own receipts. If that is the case, then they are just taking advantage. Travel time in my world is not reimbursed when the person traveling is salaried. The only question is how much of it “counts” for the bottom line, and increasingly, bringing actual work along to do while traveling is often an extremely good idea if you want to hedge your bets.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: I didn’t know that, but it makes me very happy.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
So is the check.
You still going to be in Boston next weekend?
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: yes! Arriving Thursday afternoon. Who can explain the T to me?
Steve in the ATL
@Steve in the ATL: “IS Department of Labor” of course means “US Department of Labor” but I wasn’t paying close attention since I know efgoldman’s retainer check will bounce. Again.
Jerry
For those of you sticking around the house this weekend and wondering what to binge upon, might I suggest season two of “Master of None”? It’s beautiful, it’s well written, it’s well acted, it’s well directed, it’s just well made TV. Watch it, you’ll love it.
Gemina13
@Walker: I agree. Can’t remember the guy’s name, but he did an excellent tweet turning the words of many RWNJs (“why don’t Muslims police their own people”) on the white community in Portland. And really, why the hell not? Why didn’t, and why don’t, more people stand up and say, “This bullshit is dangerous, and we want this person stopped”?
frosty
@Barbara: Good points all. If one of us picks up the tab for everyone we get covered, though the expense report is a little more complicated.
Steve in the ATL
@frosty: travel time wage and hour rules are bizarre. For exempt workers, they matter not. For non-exempt workers, it depends on various factors that make little since. For example, if you are traveling on a non-workday (say, Sunday), then travel time is compensable if it falls during the hours you work on a regular workday, but not for the part, if any, that falls outside your normal work hours on a regular workday.
Why? Who the fuck knows. Most of these rules were written in the 1930’s and make little sense today.
Caveat: I’m typing this from memory, which is tricky since (1) the rules are non-intuitive and make little sense; (2) I’m not getting paid for this; and (3) I went out to dinner earlier and have had a couple of bottles of wine. Caveat emptor! (caveat: my Latin may be equally impaired).
Gemina13
@J R in WV: Here’s a link to his Twitter page. He makes interesting reading, especially for someone like me who knows espionage solely from John LeCarre and Tom Clancy novels: John Schindler & The Lizard Group
SiubhanDuinne
@chris:
@satby:
Me too. I knew he was alive — that is, I’m positive I would have known if he had died (it’s not as though I wake up every morning and ask myself “Hmm, I wonder if Tom Lehrer is still alive”) — but at his age he could so easily have slipped into dementia or extreme physical frailty. I’m sure he looks and feels his age, but apparently he’s still in good mental and physical shape.
My friend was seated next to him at lunch last September, and reported that they had a good, lively, intellectual conversation for a couple of hours.
Gemina13
@Gemina13: And I just threw up in my mouth a little with this Tweet from Schindler:
Bruce Godfrey @BruceGodfrey [Replying to @20committee]
We were awfully gentle to Lee and so many others, brother. His statues still litter the South.
John Schindler @20committee [Retweeted Bruce Godfrey]
Lee was an honorable man fighting for an evil system. He paid the price. Don’t compare him to treasonous filth.
Steeplejack
@Gemina13:
You need to close your link (by pressing the “/link” button) after you insert the URL, otherwise the “Reply” button gets enveloped, as in this comment.
ETA: And I see you sorted it out.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: speaking of, there’s a song from the last season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that Tom would probably like if he saw it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck-UhvbCDAk
Mike in NC
Way back in the late 1980’s there was so much paranoia in the air that I actually drove from Boston to Philadelphia one time with an M-1 carbine wrapped in a blanket in the trunk of my car. Later it was stolen when my parent’s house was robbed.
Lyrebird
@Steve in the ATL: Well you made it through your car rental experience, right? This should be easier!
Not sure what the subway map doesn’t cover… Check w/your hosts or clients or whoever re: which station is closest to them. eg if you’re headed back to Somerville, probably talking Davis Sq or Porter Sq station.
When you’re in a station, one thing to keep in mind is what “inbound” (twds the center of Boston) vs “outbound” means and/or knowing the final station name for where you’re going, e.g. “Alewife” for the Somerville case. And in that case, if you’re not really into subways, take that Silver Line bus (stops outside every terminal, just past baggage claim) to the Red Line (T) to save yourself some line changes.
Major Major Major Major
@Gemina13: Schindler is not somebody I’d want in my party, but I’ll take him in my temporary coalition.
ruemara
@frosty: I’m an employee and that’s not travel law. At the very least, such constraints are to be informed ahead of time.
Steve in the ATL
@Lyrebird: Thanks. Flight lands around 5 pm on Thursday, so the T seems infinitely smarter than driving. Plus my wife gets freaked out in Atlanta traffic, so even sitting in a parked car in Boston would probably kill her, and she doesn’t have enough life to make that worthwhile.
We are staying at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel so we shouldn’t need a car anyway.
Can I get a 7-day pass at the airport? Couldn’t figure that out from the MBTA website, which makes only slightly more sense than a street map of Boston.
ETA: you have quite a memory!
Chet Murthy
@ruemara: When I worked for Giant Incompetent IT Corp, the joke amongst the Distinguished Engineers (who were, with notable exceptions, neither the one, nor the other) was that these sorts of short-changing on travel, were what “ground transportation” was invented for.
Obv. I never played such games, but I hear it was prevalent.
The part of your story that really blows my gasket, is your picking up the tab for employee meals, and them not reimbursing you. I remember back in the day, the rule was, the lowest-ranking employee at the table submitted the expense, so that …. mumble mumble mumble … but in any case, it was all on the up-and-up: you just listed the names of all the employees at the meal.
FFS, corps seem to continue to go downhill.
Major Major Major Major
@Chet Murthy:
Mm-hmm.
Chet Murthy
@Major Major Major Major: So I heard it explained, the fact that almost all taxis don’t give receipts, is … hmm … convenient.
The Lodger
@Steve in the ATL: No matter what you’ve heard about driving in Boston, the truth is worse. Stick with the T, use cabs if there’s no way to get where you want to go using transit. Have a great trip.
Major Major Major Major
@Chet Murthy: in my experience they give blank ones.
The Lodger
@Chet Murthy: That must depend on the city. It’s been years since I didn’t get a receipt for a taxi ride.
Lyrebird
@Steve in the ATL: Hey, you’re welcome!
Sounds like taking the quick & free bus to the subway (Blue Line), heading inbound, & switching to the Green Line would be simplest. And Arlington Station is served by *all* the Green Line trains, just don’t go to Lechmere and you’ll get there. Would recommend printing a closeup map of the area around the hotel just bc it’s located at an irregular intersection. Safe, pleasant, just potentially confusing. Have taken students there multiple times.
I can’t recall re: passes, and it’s quite possible (efgoldman knows?) that your trip in from the airport will be free. Park Plaza is *super* convenient to a lot of stuff so on many days you might just walk or hop a cab from there, I dunno…
Additional caveat: if you and/or your spouse like to pack really heavy suitcases, maybe try to bring less than you’d planned.
Can you tell I’m a teacher? Happy if any of this is of use.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Their website is pretty good, but I can answer specific questions. So can Flying Toaster and aimai, if they’re around.
Don’t plan on using it late at night. Bars are open, but the T isn’t.
Lyrebird
@The Lodger: Roughly 10 years ago, a friend took me out to dinner in downtown Boston… Drove, partly to show off his new GPS unit. Which wanted to send us the wrong way into one-way streets, etc etc etc. Have never heard the “Recalculating… Recalculating…” refrain more in the space of an hour than during that trip!
eclare
I’m here in third world country of Memphis, and my power just went out. And it is scary.
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: what type of lawyer are you? Other than a powerless one.
eclare
@Steve in the ATL: not an attorney, CPA
Cacti
Well shit. I go out to the beach for a day, come home and find out Gregg Allman has died.
Not a good month for rock legends.
efgoldman
@Lyrebird:
I’m old enough to remember when you could easily drive around Boston at night, and park!!! too.
And if you knew where they were, there were lots where the attendants went home at 600 or 700, and if you went in after that, you could park for free. There was one in Bay Village, another in the theater district. There were on-street places near Fenway, too, but they were harder to get.
For Steve – Free Silver Line bus outside the terminal (follow the signs) Terminates at South Station. From there, it might be easier to take a cab to the hotel. If you want to stay on the T, take the Red Line subway two stops to Park Street. Go upstairs and take any Green Line train outbound two stops to Arlington. The Park Plaza is a long block from the exit.
Lots of traipsing up and down stairs or escalators at each change. That’s why a cab might be easier and more convenient, with luggage.
Shalimar
@Gemina13: What price does Schindler think Lee paid? He never suffered any consequences for his part in the rebellion.
As for Schindler himself, he seems to be the most grounded and honest of the big 3 Russia twitter conspiracy theorists, but never forget part of his work is a column for Jared Kushner’s newspaper. Always be aware he could spread false rumors to derail or discredit the investigation.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: excellent–thank you!
We are booked Saturday night but might be available Friday for a meet up, if there is interest so soon after the last B-J Boston atrocity!
efgoldman
Not the price he should have paid, but the Union did take most of his estate for a Union dead cemetery.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: on the other hand, he ended up being president of the most prestigious liberal arts college in all of Rockbridge County, Virginia from the end of the war until his death five years later, so that was pretty impressive. It’s an inspiring lesson that once can bounce back from a second place finish.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Visitors from exotic foreign lands are always welcome. I’ll email Anne Laurie when I know she’s around in the morning. It’s hard for me to organize anything from 50 miles away in RI.
Some places are hard to get into on Friday nights, and parking can be a problem.
At least I know i won’t have to drive home in a sleet storm like last time.
Patricia Kayden
@Sandia Blanca: Lol!! Love it. He’s not even leaving our shores but Bon Voyage just the same.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
If he, and every other traitor general they could find, wasn’t hanged, he and they should have died in prison.
eclare
I am here in total darkness, it is pretty freaky.
Major Major Major Major
@eclare: what’re you doing in a cave?
Steve in the ATL
@Major Major Major Major: she’s testing out Plato’s allegory
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: five years in rural Virginia is not that far removed from prison
Major Major Major Major
@Steve in the ATL: How will she know how it’s going?
Steeplejack
@eclare:
No candles or flashlight?
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@brendancalling: One of the old company houses?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@JanieM:
Al Giordano is tweeting out the FB rants of this guy. He was a Bernie or Buster. I’m sure you know but others might not that Oregon was founded as a racist paradise – the charter forbade blacks from living, working or owning property there.
Portland Mayor and New Orleans Mayor have stepped up this week to give really helpful white guy input about race. Maybe Bernie could step and do the same thing and help to heal the divisions he’s created.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
he doesn’t deserve to be eased out this nicely
Chet Murthy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I can see the confirmatoin hearings going … *well*. Really, really well.
kdaug
Hang tight, chief. Take care
Redshift
@Gemina13:
That statement just leaves me blinking in incomprehension, mentally. How can someone acknowledge that it’s evil, and still believe a person can fight for it “honorably”?
Chet Murthy
@Redshift: And he hiterally had to abrogate his oath of allegiance to the United States, in order to take up arms against it. ISTR in history class we were taught that Lincoln called for Lee to lead the Union forces, only to learn that Lee had thrown in with the Traitors in Defense of Slavery. Of course, there’s also that: Lee was a slaver who beat his slaves and probably did much worse.
A Nuremberg tribunal of that era, would not have been kind to him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
1) yeah, right, “schedule change”, sure, Donnie, I’m buying it
2) his campaign?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Redshift: are the treasonous filth we shouldn’t compare him to his brother officers, the soldiers following his orders, or his bosses Davis and Stephens?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He filled the paperwork for his 2020 run on January 20th.
Gemina13
@Steeplejack: Thanks, Steeplejack. :)
Gemina13
@Major Major Major Major: I know what you mean. And apparently, Schindler’s claiming he tossed out the bait so he’d know who to block. The man may know his shit when it comes to intel and espionage, but there seem to be some unsavory concepts floating around his brain.
Major Major Major Major
@Gemina13:
That’s a very strange thing for him to say.
Gemina13
@efgoldman: Quartermaster Montgomery C. Meigs decided Lee’s old family estate would make the perfect burial ground for the casualties of the Battle of the Wilderness. And as far as I know, that was the only price Lee paid, because so many on the Union side considered him a “friend” and an “honest man.” I know there are many who will argue that Lee was a paragon of virtue who only took up arms because he felt his beloved state of Virginia was under undue attack. I think at the very least, he should have experienced the special kind of exile written about in “Man Without A Country.”
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
I think, have always thought, that all officers should have been taken into custody for treason, and treated with more dignity the lower their final brevet rank. So Leftenants not so bad, colonels and up, all hung, every one. Especially those who engaged in irregular warfare, i.e. killed civilians.
Treason in defense of slavery, I cannot think of a worse crime, geopolitically. Until now, treason in support of an enemy nuclear power, which didn’t exist back then.
Gemina13
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve been reading a friend’s Facebook page about the removal of Confederate statues and monuments in New Orleans, and much of what Schindler had to say at the start echoed what many were screeching when my friend declared he hoped that Landrieu had at least one particular monument broken up and dumped in the river. I haven’t revisited that Twitter conversation, and I don’t think I have the stomach for it, at least not tonight.
Gemina13
@Redshift: I’m puzzling that one out too. How do you serve an evil government or military authority, and still get people to consider you honorable? Sentiment for the “noble” Lost Cause? Good God. The Civil War was fought because several states were outraged at being told it was immoral to trade in human beings and to stop it. Lee may have been an able commander and general, but that does not excuse him.
Major Major Major Major
@Gemina13: Personally I can’t see any reason to revisit that conversation, but YMMV.
Gemina13
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think Schindler was referring to the Trump Crime Family et al.
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
I think, have always thought, that all CSA officers should have been taken into custody for treason, and treated with more dignity the lower their final brevet rank. So Leftenants not so bad, colonels and up, all hung, every one. Especially those who engaged in irregular warfare, i.e. killed civilians.
Treason in defense of slavery, I cannot think of a worse crime, geopolitically. all those officers were scum fighting for a despicable cause, against the most progressive government in the world at the time.
Until now, treason in support of an enemy nuclear power may be a worse crime, which didn’t exist back then. That’s where Trump is going, making people fear for their need for fallout shelters for the first time in 40 years.
Gator90
@Steve in the ATL: The IS Department of Labor, if it existed, would no doubt have some very enlightened policies.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gator90: Doesn’t that depend on what the meaning of IS is?
SFAW
Safe travels, John. Best to ABC, enjoy your stay in lovely CT.
Oldgold
tEsting
Oldgold
@Oldgold:
brendancalling
BTW while you’re in Connecticut, make a run to New Haven for Pepe’s or Modern Apizza!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Oldgold:
If you don’t highlight some text before you press the Bold button, then it’s a two-step process: press once to indicate the start of the bold text, then press again with the cursor positioned where you want the bold to end. If you don’t do the second step, the bold will continue all the way to the end of the comment and also engulf the Reply button, as happened in your comment here.
The same holds true for italics, quotes and hyperlinks.
Ruckus
@Chet Murthy:
I haven’t used a cab in a number of years but if I used a credit card they always gave me a receipt. Although when I did use cabs not all of them took credit cards. Although the last few years I was traveling for work the company also killed off the company credit card and made us use our own and reimbursed us. OK for the older folks who had cards but a lot of the younger people didn’t have one or the limit on their one card was so small that it was useless for travel purposes. I traveled so much that there were times when my company card would be maxed out and I’d have to use my own anyway.
Ruckus
@The Lodger:
Flown into Logan and driven in Boston a few times and never found it to be as bad as I expected. That said, if I was going there and staying in town, I’d take public transit or cabs and never think about driving.
Ruckus
@J R in WV:
No need for fall out shelters now. Fifty-sixty yrs ago the bombs were not as powerful nor as numerous. Today? Don’t bother with a shelter, enjoy the instant tan and then………………
Also think of it this way, with our highest level of government in bed and debt with the other countries with the most weapons/delivery systems, why would they bother to start a nuclear war? What we have to worry about is numb nuts starting one when he finds out he can’t stiff them like he has everyone else he’s every done business with. And I worry far less about China, considering how much military hardware we’ve sold them and how much major mfg we have done there. There is a synergy between us that doesn’t exist with Russia.
No One You Know
@Gemina13: Good Lord. Was Lee the Comey of his time-in his own way?
Sincerity seems to have parted ways with integrity and quality, no?