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On 4/20/2023 at 5:48 PM, Coss said:

Saddle sniffers. That's one I hadn't encountered

  I was puzzled at why you would say such a thing (saddle sniffers). Now I know.

Have you been thinking in the toilet again, Mekong?

I interact with believers all the time so it's normal for me, not "amazing". Most people are NOT atheists. If you are amazed at what is normal...well, let's not go there.

Sorry, I misunderstood your post. But I still think you are a good writer based on my reading your posts over the years.

I’m actually an atheist.  That statement is hypothetical. There are still billions of Christians; therefore, it’s not so amazing as you state.

Nice one, Cross.  I think you have real talent.

If a person is murdered, is that good because that person is in heaven now? If a rocket blows up soon after liftoff, is that a success because they can learn from their mistakes?

It's all over the news that it's being called a success.  It looks like a failure to me and to most people. I heard that Musk lost about $15 Billion recently.  He seems out of touch with reality.

Fox's troubles have just begun.  Next up is Smarmatic, which is asking more $Billions for spreading Democracy busting lies about them. Also, the shareholders are suing the FOX directors for not doing their jobs.  Further, one of it employees is suing for damages.  Hopefully, Fox will go out of business.

On 4/16/2023 at 6:04 AM, Mekong said:

...whilst on the toilet, I have most of my best thoughts there.

Aha! That explains some of your behavior on this board.  But you are not the only one. The author, Henry Miller, used to write about it:

"All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content."

You are also right, Mekong.  Nobody is above the law, including immigrants and Trump.

I remember Suadum also.  I'm sure we exchanged a few words years ago. Sorry to hear that he has died.

6 hours ago, Coss said:

Yes,  but the people whom you complain about , are busy making the next cute waitress,  who goes on to become a small business owner and makes a son,  who becomes a rugby player great.

Society is a goal, not a status ...

I think you are right.  Generally speaking, the immigrants will enter the workforce and become productive members of the society.

Christian Troy -- I remember -- I called him out once for using the straw man.  Then he disappeared from the board.

My daughter just gave me a bag of Ghirardelli milk chocolate caramel bunnies for Easter breakfast, nothing else.  I need to get something more than this.  I'm thinking Ramen noodles with a stick of Slim Jims and Nori on top.

5 hours ago, Coss said:

Lindsey Graham, literally begging, for money for Trump

 

 

 

He was also begging for votes for Trump down in Georgia to overturn the election.  I heard that he will not be indicted for doing that but who knows. 

It looks like Trump is on track to become one of the notorious villains in US history and to turn the Trump brand into mud.

Trump said he just likes publicity, good or bad.

Speaking of intestinal evacuation, once many years ago in Pattaya, I decided to try durian fruit for the first time, so I bought one from a street vendor. It tasted ok but I was bedridden for about week after eating the fruit.  It didn't occur to me at the time, but the fruit must have been rotten because the vendor gasped when she cut the durian open and looked inside.  Would a Thai street vendor knowingly sell a rotten durian to a unsuspecting foreigner? [The answer is yes, I think.]

...reminds me of the baseball bat scene with Robert De Nero in The Untouchables:

Trump committed another NY City crime when he intimidated the DA with his baseball bat post.

Justice is catching up to Trump. The latest is that Trump will be indicted next week. He will have to go in to get a mug shot and be finger printed.

According to Jimmy Carter, plutocracy has gotten so bad in the US that people were willing to take a chance on anyone new, like Trump, in hopes that things will turn around. But that is not what happened. One of the first things Trump did when he got into office was to cut taxes for the rich and support plutocracy.