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"California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 05-31-16 at 10:13 PM
I can't vote for Osama bin Clinton, so I guess it's Trump.



foonermint: Hooligan Enabler

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"RE: California Primary"
Posted by cahaya on 06-01-16 at 01:30 AM
I'll see your Trump and raise you 3 No Trump.


Ragtop Ride by foonermints

He's got Diamonds for Melania, Clubs to clobber his political opponents and Spades to bury them with. Alas, he's void in Hearts.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-01-16 at 08:30 AM
LAST EDITED ON 06-01-16 AT 08:31 AM (EST)

I'm feeling the Bern.

I figure, a place holder for 4 years is the only thing left to hope for.

(I'll drive over tonite).

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-02-16 at 10:33 AM
OK, I'm not really feeling the Bern. But of the three, he's the least dangerous.

Hillary is a proven liar (yeah, I know, she's a politician, lying is not unexpected) and flatly incompetent and maybe a soon to be convicted criminal. I will not vote for her just to have a female President. I personally would like for the USA to have a female president, but there are plenty of other, more competent women around, and hopefully one of them will be able to fulfill that laudable goal.

And Donald (Hey, I'm on first name basis with these guys) is dangerously unpredictable, dangerous because (among a myriad of other considerations, which also include being a soon to be convict) he will have his hand on the nuclear button. What if Putin makes fun of his hair, or his predilection for Russian women? Boom! That's what.

His ego is a ticking time bomb. And he has nukes.

And as he openly states, he's a business man. And the focus of his entire life has been to figure out how to manage events so that his business interests come out on top. We should not expect him to reverse a lifetime of focus on himself. He cannot be relied upon as president to change now, and not put his business interests over the interests of the country. The odds are that he owns a wall building company.

I see old Bern, hopefully restrained by a Republican Congress and Senate, and even being the socialist that he is, as being the least likely to really screw the national pooch.

"The National Pooch?"
Posted by foonermints on 06-02-16 at 09:31 PM
I hear Monica Lewinsky is still available.

Ok, Ok, /Monica jokes.
But if we get Hilary does Monica come too?
Worked for Bill!

"RE: The National Pooch?"
Posted by kingfish on 06-03-16 at 08:30 AM
She's a blabbermouth. And that's her best feature.

(But what the hell, I'm game)

"RE: The National Pooch?"
Posted by cahaya on 06-03-16 at 03:08 PM
She could do a lot more than just blabber with that mouth of hers.
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by cahaya on 06-03-16 at 03:05 PM
The San Diego Union-Tribune suggests that you vote for Ronnie!


"Nixon"
Posted by foonermints on 06-03-16 at 09:56 PM
Was More Fun!


Handcrafted by RollDdice

Bernie? Could always go for Gerald Ford..
Or Herbert Hoover..

However I REALLY like this guy..

"RE: Nixon"
Posted by kingfish on 06-04-16 at 11:13 AM
An admirable fellow indeed.

Of course he's dead. Which would make him the best possible choice.

"Well.."
Posted by foonermints on 06-04-16 at 09:49 PM
We've already had the black Khrushchev.


foonermint: Hooligan Enabler
Better Red than Dead?

"RE: Well.."
Posted by kingfish on 06-06-16 at 08:44 AM
I wonder how much that $10,000 note is worth?

(jk)

"RE: Well.."
Posted by cahaya on 06-06-16 at 02:05 PM
LAST EDITED ON 06-06-16 AT 02:05 PM (EST)

With that 8-of-a-kind of zeroes in the note's serial number, I'd be collecting it.

I have a large collection of world currencies with unique serial numbers with low-number, high-number and poker hands as the main criteria for collecting them. I have one bill with all 8's in it and another with all nines and a three. Most of them are Malaysian with a few US bills and Indonesian rupiah (all 5's in this case).

"RE: Well.."
Posted by kingfish on 06-06-16 at 02:19 PM
Any bill with an all zero's serial no. would have to be fake, right?

I bet Fooner's monkey would sell one at a discount.

"RE: Well.."
Posted by cahaya on 06-06-16 at 02:59 PM
Yeah, according to the Feds who print the money, serial numbers start with 00000001 and can end up at 99999999, usually less than that due to the number of bills printed at a given print site (denoted by the leading letter) and the year.

Google 'US currency serial numbers' and you'll also find sites that actually buy and sell the "fancy" serial number bills I posted about earlier. I could cash a few of them in, literally!

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-08-16 at 08:14 AM
Well Fooner, you should have voted twice. I mean, I'm sure there are lots of dead relatives you could have represented.

Now we'll have to learn to do the Nazi salute to Adolph Clinton.


Bernie got burnt.

"HagBag"
Posted by foonermints on 06-08-16 at 10:50 PM
LAST EDITED ON 06-08-16 AT 10:54 PM (EST)


Got a Lieutenant General visiting tomorrow. Bet he doesn't like her either.

The wonders of Jumping Bird
Stuff about Benghazi..
Heard from my friend that was in Iraq. She said that Hillary pays 39% less to her women staff then the men. Don't know if it's true.

"RE: HagBag"
Posted by kingfish on 06-09-16 at 08:23 AM
LAST EDITED ON 06-09-16 AT 08:27 AM (EST)

Is that a first Louie General, or a second Louie general?

I heard the first Louies make the second Louies shine their shoes and iron their underpants.

(you will give me a head's up if they start sending drones this way, I hope? Old times sake?)


"Acquisitions "
Posted by foonermints on 06-09-16 at 10:00 PM
LAST EDITED ON 06-09-16 AT 11:57 PM (EST)

This Guy:

http://asc.army.mil/web/tag/lt-gen-michael-e-williamson/

One Hell of a nice guy!


“Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.”
I will give you a "Heads Up" about the drones..

"RE: Acquisitions "
Posted by kingfish on 06-10-16 at 08:52 AM
LAST EDITED ON 06-10-16 AT 08:53 AM (EST)

Face to face? Are you going to tell him what you really think? Really really really think? Need any help prepping? (Will need to shift drone alert status to DefCom "Red")

All the generals I've known (one) have been very nice fellows.

(I think the spoon is responsible for making Rosie fat. But not for making her a flaming A'hole.)

"RE: Acquisitions "
Posted by cahaya on 06-10-16 at 10:38 PM
LAST EDITED ON 06-10-16 AT 10:39 PM (EST)

I know one general fairly well, but he's a Malaysian army brigadier general who is the husband of one of my lady's cousins. He and I used to sit down and chat about military history and the various treatises on the art of war. He was trained in the U.S. and knows his stuff, with a wry sense of humor.


Wayang kulit puppet show by tribe

His quarters would have made Patton (or rather, Monty) proud, an expansive British colonial bungalow in the midst of the military grounds.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-10-16 at 11:51 AM
It's going to be a classic case of voting for the lesser evil: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. No question who's the lesser evil here.

I'll be moving to D.C. next month so I'll get a nice, closeup view of the whole brouhaha over the next few months, even if I can't vote.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-10-16 at 12:05 PM
That's been Bernie's line, why he should be the Democratic candidate.

Sad times.

A very long shot possibility is that there will be a GOP revolt at the convention (possible, not really very likely) or a third party candidate on the ballot getting elected in November (almost impossible - but hope should never die).

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-10-16 at 12:08 PM
Yah, I'm looking forward to seeing how the GOP sort themselves out at their convention. About 40% so far seems to want some kind of a change: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-convention-block-gop-insiders-224152
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kidflash212 on 06-11-16 at 12:18 PM
Moving to D.C.?
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 06-12-16 at 00:19 AM
I ws born there.
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-14-16 at 07:59 PM
Yep. Research fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. I'm also hoping to do some teaching of a module at Gallaudet, should know soon.

T-minus 24 days before I'm on my way.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-15-16 at 09:39 AM
Congratulations.
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by cahaya on 06-15-16 at 11:35 AM
Wow, grats! As a Canadian, this must be a big change for you to come to the U.S. in D.C. to work (and possibly teach). Just curious, is your family also moving with you to D.C.?


Pepe's summer 2013 sig blast

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-17-16 at 05:32 PM
It'll just be me after Labour Day as there's no guarantee beyond the 10-month program and it didn't make sense to uproot the whole family and give up the house until there is something more permanent. I do have the option of going back to my current college job as I will be on secondment leave.

We go down to D.C. on July 12 after a few days in Philly and the kids will come later in August and stay for a few weeks before heading back for school.

I've spent quite a bit of time in D.C. over the past few years for projects and class recruitment trips (about 10 trips in total since 2008), so the area between the Capitol and Gallaudet is already starting to feel like a second home.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-18-16 at 10:41 AM
Congrats again.

(In the US, it's 'Labor Day'.)

"Won't The French"
Posted by foonermints on 06-18-16 at 04:48 PM
Ever learn how to spell?

Oh cr@p.. is that Quebec?

Sheeit, even I know how to spell "Quebec"

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-20-16 at 06:12 AM
Thank you.

Heh...I'll be fighting tooth and nail to bring down the Can'tadian spelling with me. Colour, honour, labour. I'm also bringing double-double, cheque, aboot, eh, zed, two-four, etc. Ya hoser.

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 06-16-16 at 01:17 PM
Not going to Pontificate when Trump wins the election?


Hilary or Trump? Jesus! Where are the Gorn when you need them!

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 06-17-16 at 01:17 PM
There has been a lot of talk from and about them.

So, I thought I'd write a country western song, "How hitting the bottle couldn't cure the Lying Jibber Jabber Blues, but I did it anyway, that's just my way (or the highway)".

"Err.."
Posted by foonermints on 06-18-16 at 03:14 PM
That's extremely bad, you know. Pretty hard to figure out a rhyme, let alone a refrain.
"RE: Err.."
Posted by kingfish on 06-18-16 at 09:19 PM
It should be sung to the music of "I left my lover in a bottle of gin, then I up and drank it down, all over again".

Never did make the top 40. Never actually made any sense, either, but that's C&W.

"RE: Err.."
Posted by foonermints on 06-19-16 at 11:24 AM
That puts a Tear in my Beer.
"RE: Err.."
Posted by kingfish on 06-20-16 at 08:53 AM
Another great title. Now, all we need are words and music to go with them. And a blue grass banjo.
"I Know!"
Posted by foonermints on 06-20-16 at 10:46 PM
Banjo Babes!

Tribemints© by Tribey

"RE: I Know!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-21-16 at 04:04 PM
Oh yeah. The Banjo Babes of Moonshine Holler.

"With Moonshine in the Proper Amount"
Posted by foonermints on 06-21-16 at 10:30 PM
The Babes Holler even louder.


Better get on The Stick.

"RE: With Moonshine in the Proper Amount"
Posted by kingfish on 06-22-16 at 01:52 PM
The babes from the Holler are voting for Earthquake McGoon, I hear.

He plays bongos.

"Hollering Babes?"
Posted by foonermints on 06-22-16 at 09:23 PM
McGoon can definitely play those Bongos.
"And now, your weather report..."
Posted by kingfish on 06-24-16 at 10:50 AM
...from the First Baptist Church of Bluegrass!




"RE: And now, your weather report..."
Posted by foonermints on 07-22-16 at 10:28 PM
God Damn! I Love that sign!
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by cahaya on 07-22-16 at 00:23 AM
So, Trump it is as the official Pub nominee!

The Dump Trump movement gets squelched in convention, Melanie Trump gets flunked out for plagiarism, Cruz gets the boos (he's wishin' it was booze), and it's the A-Pence-tice for Veep.

And nobody saw it coming less than a year ago. This guy will blindside you.


Pepe's summer 2013 sig blast

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 07-22-16 at 12:56 PM
So, it's either the bigoted bully, or the would be criminal except that she has friends in high places.

It's time to take a deep breath, and hold it for four years.


"Criminal?"
Posted by foonermints on 07-22-16 at 10:34 PM
With the Nation's classified material. That information gets people killed.

I'll take the Bigot.

Then again, I have a friend in Canada. Should I threaten to move there in my Golden Years? The girlfriend wants to visit France, too.

"RE: Criminal?"
Posted by kingfish on 07-23-16 at 10:39 AM
The president also handles classified material. And based on his rhetoric and with his ego, I'm doubtful that he would recognize anything that would limit him doing as he pleases, National secrets be dammed.

But I feel you.

We have two choices, and if we want to vote we have no options.

Unless, we write in Bebo. Or, or or or, how about Fooner for President. If you're willing to run, I'll manage your campaign and collect your PAC funds.

Bebo, if you're reading this, same offer.


"RE: Criminal?"
Posted by cahaya on 07-24-16 at 06:47 PM
LAST EDITED ON 07-24-16 AT 07:22 PM (EST)

I swore I'd never vote Clinton for President, but dear old Donald is far less palatable according to my tastes. Even the Libertarian Gary Johnson (who doesn't stand a chance of winning) looks like a good choice right now.

"ah, WTF.."
Posted by foonermints on 07-25-16 at 00:47 AM
I know someone who has a few acres of organic wheat in Sasketchawan.


I Am KukulGod!

*sigh*

"Clump?"
Posted by kidflash212 on 08-02-16 at 10:40 AM


Tribe!

"RE: Clump?"
Posted by kingfish on 08-02-16 at 12:44 PM
Gives lie to the adage that you can't put lipstick on a pig.
"RE: Clump?"
Posted by cahaya on 08-02-16 at 03:41 PM
That would be this photo...

"RE: Clump?"
Posted by kingfish on 08-02-16 at 04:19 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-02-16 AT 04:21 PM (EST)

Eh, it's accurate both ways.

And equally horrifying.

"Jeebuz!"
Posted by foonermints on 08-02-16 at 05:35 PM
My eyes! My beautiful eyes!
"RE: Jeebuz!"
Posted by kingfish on 08-02-16 at 05:54 PM
Watch out for the teeth.
"Hiding?"
Posted by cahaya on 08-02-16 at 03:48 PM
Are the old time Pubs in this forum in hiding? Are there no Trump backers? AyaK has to be genuinely disgusted with his voting choices this fall, not to mention where the Pub party has gone to end up with a reality TV star nominee. I'd like to hear it from the elephant's mouth, "Trump is a moron."
"Not Me!"
Posted by foonermints on 08-02-16 at 05:33 PM
I'm voting Trump! There IS no other choice!

Besides, is there enough room in the East Wing for Monica anyway? Desk knee-hole space?

"RE: Not Me!"
Posted by cahaya on 08-04-16 at 11:50 AM
There IS another choice!

Have you looked at all at Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, the Libertarians?

I wonder if Ayak likes either of them, with them being former Republicans and Weld being former US Attorney and Governor of Massachusetts.

But will they have any chance of winning the election? Fivethirtyeight.com currently predicts they'll get 7.4% of the popular vote, but no electoral college votes (with only a 3.7% chance of getting a single electoral college vote)

And they also have Hillary at 91.6% chance of winning the election with good old Donald continuing to shoot himself in the foot (which often ends up in his mouth).

"RE: Hiding?"
Posted by kingfish on 08-02-16 at 05:59 PM
Trump is a moron.

Hillary is a lying conniving bitch.

Either way, I'm not sure we will survive the next four years. But the only silver lining is that whoever wins, Bush will cease being blamed for every thing Dems think is evil.

"I couldn't agree more."
Posted by foonermints on 08-02-16 at 06:38 PM
"Clump" would be good.

I'd have the Moron as president (what else would be new?) and the lying, conniving bitch as VP.

Then I would wait for the meltdown when they collided once to often, and look for the hole that would lead to The Center of The Earth.

I've always wanted to see dinosaurs!

"RE: I couldn't agree more."
Posted by kingfish on 08-02-16 at 10:44 PM
I just wish the moonshine tree hadn't died.
"*sobbing*"
Posted by foonermints on 08-02-16 at 11:29 PM
I just don't have any words..
"RIP"
Posted by kingfish on 08-03-16 at 05:26 PM
The moonshine tree.


.

"RE: RIP"
Posted by foonermints on 08-03-16 at 10:27 PM
Can't we save the wood for barrels, after we start our Moonshine plant?

Or, being the lazy, but clever and intelligent people we are, simply use the fruits of other people's labor: White Dog

Then again, nothing wrong with Pappy!

That is, if you are freaking MIDAS.

"RE: RIP"
Posted by kingfish on 08-04-16 at 04:13 PM
Great tip. Looks pretty good. Didn't see prices, but I bet they can't beat Cousin' Caleb's $1.00 per mason jar, aged 45 minutes, or less if the revenuers show up.

Slogan: "If it burns going down, and it burns coming up, it's Cousin Caleb's Genuine Moonshine Corn Cob Whiskey".

Ever the Green am I, the wood was reused to smoke many a brisket and rib.

Am relocating to Louisiana soon. Will consider planting another orchard. This time it will include a lime tree for my afternoon Gin and Tonics (one is always in a constant battle with malaria you see, old chap).

"RE: RIP"
Posted by foonermints on 08-04-16 at 09:10 PM
Wasn't that Scurvy?

Louisiana, eh? Peaceful people? or do you need one of these?
Laser sight Taser, plus you can still excite them if you want to get up close and personal as a stun gun.


It is used to zap "bugs"

"RE: RIP"
Posted by kingfish on 08-05-16 at 08:48 AM
I'll need one for Marti Gras. Dates keep trying to get away.
"You missed it"
Posted by cahaya on 08-05-16 at 10:30 AM
Tsk, tsk, tsk, you missed a 69 swoop, you ol' codger!
"RE: You missed it"
Posted by kingfish on 08-05-16 at 12:31 PM
My first swoop + 2!

(Easily handled).

"Which Liar To Vote For?"
Posted by foonermints on 08-11-16 at 02:58 PM
←Click the clownie! He's harmless!
"RE: Which Liar To Vote For?"
Posted by cahaya on 08-12-16 at 00:47 AM
<-- A not so harmless clown.

Cross him? Off to Guantánamo Bay you go!

Quiz time!

Who founded ISIS?

A) Barack Obama
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Osama bin Laden
D) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

According to Trump, it's A and B.

"so.."
Posted by foonermints on 08-12-16 at 09:55 PM
One BIG BOOB "Trumps" two?
*listens for moaning*


Your KuKulGod for President! I am KuKuGod!
KuKu L God!!
dammit, there goes the election..

"PLUS"
Posted by foonermints on 08-12-16 at 11:52 PM
Where is the foonermint foundation?
"RE: PLUS"
Posted by cahaya on 08-13-16 at 00:02 AM
Where? Off-planet, I would guess!

Be a friend, share the wealth!


Surfkitten Summer sigshop 2008

"RE: PLUS"
Posted by kingfish on 08-13-16 at 11:50 AM
Thank god for the distraction of the Olympics. If only they could last till November. We can only hope that Zika becomes a plague and gives them both big boils on their faces.

And their ears fall off.

"AND"
Posted by foonermints on 08-13-16 at 01:48 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-13-16 AT 01:56 PM (EST)

BOTH their Whackers..


Indecency by See to Pee

"Time to get that bump on your head checked out..."
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 08-16-16 at 00:46 AM
Really, Rudy?

Giuliani forgets 9-11 happened... in his own city that he was mayor of.

“Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States... They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office."

"I Am Moving to Haiti!"
Posted by foonermints on 08-17-16 at 10:21 PM
I believe the food is better than poutine..

"RE: I Am Moving to Haiti!"
Posted by cahaya on 08-18-16 at 09:54 AM
Fooner's Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of diet, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of eating, or of the drinking, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble at the table, and to petitition the Government for a redress of gastronomic grievances.


Ragtop Ride by foonermints

"RE: I Am Moving to Haiti!"
Posted by kingfish on 08-18-16 at 12:36 PM
Forget it. I've been trying to get Fooner (or Bebo) to run, and all he talks about is food.

That Haitian meal looks ad-picture perfect, though.

"RE: Time to get that bump on your head checked out..."
Posted by Dakota on 08-21-16 at 11:54 AM
"his work on the Judiciary Committee in helping fashion the Patriot Act, by the way, under those eight years, before Obama came along..."

After the Patriot Act

The Patriot Act was a response to 9/11


Agman's Spring Fling '12

"Overall"
Posted by foonermints on 08-20-16 at 03:46 PM
It makes one weep for the good old days.



Handcrafted by RollDdice

"RE: Overall"
Posted by kingfish on 08-22-16 at 08:49 AM
Is Spiro still around? If not, can we vote for him anyway?
"I'd Sooner Vote For This Guy "
Posted by foonermints on 08-22-16 at 01:11 PM

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by Dakota on 09-16-16 at 03:08 AM
"Hillary Clinton felt overheated and within minutes a rescue team of 16+ people extracted her to a safe location."

Agman's Spring Fling '12

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 09-16-16 at 01:31 PM
She's gained a little weight?
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 09-18-16 at 05:55 PM
Twanky exhausted?



"RE: California Primary"
Posted by kingfish on 09-19-16 at 10:59 AM
I don't know what that means, but I know what you mean.
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 09-20-16 at 04:46 PM
Frightening, isn't it?


PurseSnatch!

"This is Trump Reality TV"
Posted by cahaya on 06-13-17 at 01:03 AM
Our dear beloved President, the tweet twit he is, is living up to Reality TV World standards of presidency.

He ran his last public Cabinet meeting like an Apprentice boardroom with everyone kissing his azz.

The whole thing reminded me of a scene directly from the boardroom of "The Apprentice." A group of supplicants all desperately trying to hold on to their spots on the show by effusively praising Trump -- each one trying to take it a step further than the last. And Trump in the middle of it all, totally and completely pleased with himself. (Reminder: Around that Cabinet table are hugely accomplished generals, billionaires and political people with long track records of success.)

Look who's smiling!


Pepe's summer 2013 sig blast

"RE: This is Trump Reality TV"
Posted by kingfish on 06-13-17 at 02:15 PM
Tillerson's cowering facial expression is telling.
"RE: This is Trump Reality TV"
Posted by cahaya on 06-13-17 at 03:59 PM
It's funny how he wears the same tie Trump does.

Can't tell if the shoes are the same.

"Caesar!"
Posted by foonermints on 06-13-17 at 07:02 PM
He is currently being murdered in a New York theatre.

..Did they ever do this to Obama?

"Brutus!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-14-17 at 05:22 PM
This wingnut went after Congressmen in an insane shooting act, a self-proclaimed Bernie lover and Trump hater.

A leftist!

"RE: Brutus!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-14-17 at 05:50 PM
So, how does he feel about Obama? GWB? Fooner? zrHelp?

(Do not respond, I can read the Foonerville than Laterville Daily Picayune.)

"RE: Brutus!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-14-17 at 06:39 PM
Mr. James T. Hodgkinson's true intentions, motives and emotional character remain to be seen behind bars in a Silence of the Lambs type of investigation and interview.


Surfkitten Summer sigshop 2008

This wingnut never made it off the ground and is due for a psychiatric evaluation.

"99 swoop!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-14-17 at 10:01 PM
Setting up the steal at 100...


Piracy on the high seas and flying of the Jolly Roger by agman

"RE: 99 swoop!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-15-17 at 12:38 PM
I think, as Mayor of our sleepy little community, that Fooner deserves this ...SWOOP!!!.

What? Oh. Sorry. Well, Free drinks on me tonite at Me Olde Kingfish Taverloon.

"RE: 99 swoop!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-15-17 at 01:45 PM
Technically (you should know all the rules, bylaws and current conventions here), a swoop goes to a new poster in the thresd, a swoop block to an active thresd poster.

Give Fooner the SWOOP BLOCK!!!


Pepe's summer 2013 sig blast

"Humph!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-15-17 at 02:45 PM
You forget, that this here village makes it's own rules. A mini-democracy. Standard outsider rules no longer apply, and implied application of said outsider rules is actually a hanging tree infraction.

Have a jar.


"RE: Humph!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-15-17 at 02:48 PM
By "outsider rules", you mean Bebo.

Beware the Bebo!

"RE: Humph!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-16-17 at 03:24 PM
This has suddenly taken a much darker turn.

And no. We Foonervillites pass our own rules. At least that's what Fooner makes us do. He da boss.

Pass the jar.

"99"
Posted by foonermints on 06-17-17 at 11:52 AM
Was a "Boink".

So sad that Kingfish doesn't know how anymore. Even if he is interred underground in Foonerville© I believe he will find many old tunnels under my empire by small gnomes left over from The Amazing Race.

"RE: 99"
Posted by kingfish on 06-17-17 at 12:11 PM
It is very dark down here.
"I will send you a candle"
Posted by foonermints on 06-17-17 at 02:31 PM
There are many passageways underneath Foonerville© Like "ZORK", but with real life monsters (like my Ex-Wife) *shudder*
"RE: I will send you a candle"
Posted by kingfish on 06-17-17 at 04:17 PM
OK.

Very funny.

A rat just ran across my feet, and a spider just dropped down my shirt.

I'm ready to come out now.

And I'm kinda grumpy.

"I will drop this down the hole"
Posted by foonermints on 06-17-17 at 07:48 PM
LAST EDITED ON 06-17-17 AT 07:55 PM (EST)

BUT Igor is leaning against the access door. Find a small sliver of metal to slide under the wood, and poke him in the foot.

"RE: I will drop this down the hole"
Posted by kingfish on 06-18-17 at 09:39 AM
LAST EDITED ON 06-18-17 AT 10:34 PM (EST)

(Tying a note to a bat's foot.)

"Igor, next time, I'll be rolling Belfry's head under the door. You remember your pet Bat, Belfry? The bat that saved your life when you were in that well?

So, instead of leaning against the door, why don't you go get some of that corn likker and let's get all polluted, like in old times?

"RE: Humph!"
Posted by jbug on 06-18-17 at 08:50 PM
I can conjure her up if y'all don't behave yourselves.

"RE: Humph!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-18-17 at 09:22 PM
And that's the Deputy Sheriff talkin'!


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Hey there, jbug!

"Yeah!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-18-17 at 10:35 PM
You tell them, bug!


"If you're lookin' for an official Foonerville bird..."
Posted by cahaya on 06-23-17 at 09:48 PM
... look no further than here.

Tweet, tweet!

"RE: If you're lookin' for an official Foonerville bird..."
Posted by cahaya on 06-29-17 at 08:33 PM
Tweetstorm!


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"Fiddle-De-De"
Posted by foonermints on 06-29-17 at 11:08 PM
So Richard Nixon wasn't the best either. Peace Out!

[font size=1 color="a Mess"} What choice between LunkHeads did we truly have?

"RE: Fiddle-De-De"
Posted by cahaya on 06-30-17 at 10:18 PM
Sayin' whut, this guy's nuts, a vindictive pathological liar at heart, and the whole world knows it.


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Worst Prez evah!

"Trump is..."
Posted by cahaya on 07-21-17 at 10:59 PM
... a Commie!

McCarthy would have his azz.

"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-22-17 at 03:30 PM
Of all the things that you could justifiably accuse Trump of, the most inaccurate, and something which is 180 degrees from his actual philosophy, is to call him a Communist.

Contrary to the Communist philosophy, he loves money. He loves having more money than anyone else. His whole life is centered on the private accumulation of power, which translates to owning the means of production, which translates in his world to the private ownership of wealth.

McCarthy (assume you are referring to Senator Joe from the '50s?) was an avowed capitalist as is Trump. Also, he was a Republican as is Trump. He was also an exploiter of prejudice and ignorance amongst the populace, as is Trump and good many other past and present politicians. I doubt very much that Trump would even be on his radar.

Obama, on the other hand, would conceivably be in his crosshairs for his Socialist health care plan. And Bernie, whoo boy, he would be an anathema to Joe Mc.

Actually though, McCarthy was just going after people, especially government appointees, that he accused of being Russian sympathizers, just calling them Communist spies without regard to what political or economical leanings they might have. He was an idiot who just flung around prejudicial terms without regard to their actual meanings. Like Communism.

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"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by cahaya on 07-23-17 at 04:27 PM
Of course, ol' Don's a capitalist at his core, to the point of hiring foreign labor on his Mar-a-Lago resort with H2-B visas. After all, this is the boardroom guy who says "you're fired!" for failing to meet his capitalistic goals on the Apprentice.

Ol' Don is also trying to foil the special prosecutor who is looking into his and his namesake boy's and his family's dealings with the Russkies, undisclosed by them until the media got wind of it (as well as the intel agencies).

Caughtcha!


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I withdraw my silly notion of Trump being a Ccmmie, posted just to evoke a comment, but I still stand by my position that he's the worst prez evah!

Tweet, tweet!

"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-23-17 at 04:30 PM
Firing Mueller, if he does so, will be the final nail in his coffin.
"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by newsomewayne on 07-25-17 at 02:58 PM
No. It would be bad and stupid, but not a death knell for Trump.
"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-26-17 at 10:39 AM
As an immediate death knell, you're probably right. I overspoke. Maybe more of a tipping point.

We'll see. Admittedly, while it's not hard to imagine a 51% vote in the house to impeach, it's hard to imagine a 2/3 majority in the Senate voting to convict. As it stands. The deck is loaded in his favor with Republican control of both houses.

But removal of Sessions, then having his replacement remove Mueller just might be the thing that disgusts enough Republican Senators to get that 2/3 majority.

Add to that the Tweet storm of indignation and the shit storm of boasts/threats and bloviation that would ensue just from the the impeachment, and there just might be enough disgusted Senators to get his conviction. As far as grounds to impeach/convict go, if he impedes the investigation by engineering the removal of Sessions and Mueller, well that might be enough.

Or, supposing the investigation is allowed to proceed, if irrefutable evidence is found of Russian collusion, that would make conviction a certainty.

"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by cahaya on 07-27-17 at 04:41 PM
It's not Mueller, but AG Sessions who's getting the heat.

Trump doesn't like gov'ment lawyers who are looking into his biz.

"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 08-01-17 at 09:14 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-02-17 AT 09:29 AM (EST)

The ultimate target is Mueller.

Sessions, if he is fired or is pressured into quitting, is just a stepping stone to Muellar's departure by whomever replaces Sessions.

You see, I get CNN too.

"Fake news!"
Posted by cahaya on 08-02-17 at 04:09 PM
@realDonaldTrump:

Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!

I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!

I am thinking about changing the name #FakeNews CNN to #FraudNewsCNN!

@unrealDonaldTrump aka @fakePrez


"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by newsomewayne on 07-25-17 at 02:56 PM
Also, he was a Republican as is Trump.

I thought I'd fix that for you, but on second thought, your wording is probably correct. He may be Republican, but he's no conservative.

Also, I think the history of McCarthy and whether his actions and accusations were warranted or not are a little more complicated than Hollywood history would have us believe.

http://www.wnd.com/2000/02/4020/

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/212053/setting-record-joe-mccarthy-straight-harvey-klehr

But if McCarthy was right about some of the large issues, he was wildly wrong on virtually all of the details. There is no indication that he had even a hint of the Venona decryptions, so he did not base his accusations on the information in them. Indeed, virtually none of the people that McCarthy claimed or alleged were Soviet agents turn up in Venona. He did identify a few small fry who we now know were spies but only a few. And there is little evidence that those he fingered were among the unidentified spies of Venona. Many of his claims were wildly inaccurate; his charges filled with errors of fact, misjudgments of organizations and innuendoes disguised as evidence. He failed to recognize or understand the differences among genuine liberals, fellow-traveling liberals, Communist dupes, Communists and spies — distinctions that were important to make. The new information from Russian and American archives does not vindicate McCarthy. He remains a demagogue, whose wild charges actually made the fight against Communist subversion more difficult. Like Gresham’s Law, McCarthy’s allegations marginalized the accurate claims. Because his facts were so often wrong, real spies were able to hide behind the cover of being one of his victims and even persuade well-meaning but naïve people that the whole anti-communist cause was based on inaccuracies and hysteria.

But if McCarthy was wrong on the details — and what is history but details — many historians today are both wrong on the details about McCarthyism and morally obtuse about the nature of communism. Far too many American historians believe that anti-communism or the search for Soviet spies was baseless paranoia. They recoil so strongly from McCarthy that they are unable to recognize that just because an objectionable politician cynically employed anti-communism does not mean that anti-communism was objectionable. The CPUSA was a haven for spies and Soviet subversion presented a genuine security threat to the United States. But, for Ellen Schrecker, former editor of Academe, journal of the American Association of University Professors, all varieties of anti-communism are species of McCarthyism. Opposition to communism, she has written,” tapped into something dark and nasty ion the human soul.” Blanche Wiesen Cook of CUNY lamented that “everything fine and creative in American thought has been splattered and smeared” by hostility to communism.



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"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-25-17 at 06:18 PM
LAST EDITED ON 07-25-17 AT 06:28 PM (EST)

The wording was vague, I meant that McCarthy was Republican, as is Trump. So I appreciate your clearing that up.

Indeed, it was much more complicated than I stated, although I didn't rely on any Hollywood presented information. One also has to understand the history of and influence on McCarthy of Roy Cohn.

Cohn was part of the prosecution team that manufactured evidence against the Rosenberg's to convict them of a crime that they didn't commit. The evidence (Intercepts that were finally opened years later, probably due to FOI suits) is that they were probably guilty of minor crimes, but due to the fact that evidence of their real crimes was obtained due to those intelligence intercepts, they couldn't present it in court. Top secret info that they didn't want the Soviets to know they could decode. So Cohn persuaded Greenglass to lie on the stand, and based on those lies, the Rosenburgs were convicted of treason and executed. A penalty which, BTW, Cohn later bragged that he was responsible for convincing the judge to impose.

This is the same Cohn who was, BTW, an attorney for Donald Trump, top Mafia figures (including the boss of bosses, Genovese, and John Gotti), and Rupert Murdoch. Oh yes, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

He often received judicial repremands, and was finally disbarred. The tactics that Cohn used to get his way strongly resembles the tactics Trump uses today.

He died at 59, reportedly due to HIV complications. He was, like J. Edgar Hoover who actually recommended him to Joe McCarthy to be chief council, in the closet.

I for one do not miss him. Or McCarthy. And it seems that we maybe entering another Government crisis brought on by a few leaders more interested in their careers than the people they represent.

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"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by newsomewayne on 07-25-17 at 11:37 PM
I should have put a winky face after my "correction". It wasn't meant to be a critique of your wording or your point, but rather a jab at any Branch Trumpidians who think he's conservative.

From what I've read, whether convicted on false evidence or not, the Rosenburgs were most definitely spies. And major Russian influence and infiltration into our government was very real. Saying they weren't guilty is part of the Hollywood history meant to condemn McCarthy.

I can honestly say I've never heard of Roy Cohn. When I googled Cohn, I saw a lot of articles from the past couple years talking about his connection to Trump. I wonder why I didn't see anything about it from major news outlets or Democrat campaign operatives. But I repeat myself. That's a real question, by the way, not a doubt of the validity of the connection you showed me. That was interesting.

we maybe entering another Government crisis brought on by a few leaders more interested in their careers than the people they represent In other words, nothing's changed.

"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-26-17 at 00:24 AM
LAST EDITED ON 07-26-17 AT 00:37 AM (EST)

According to Kremlin records revealed after the breakup of the Soviet Union, as well as information gleaned from interviews with the Russian spy handlers, Ethel did not participate in the spying (she didn't even have a Russian code name assigned to her) not even to the extent of typing up Greenglass or her husband's notes as was alleged by Greenglass. Julius on the other hand was active (as proven by the FBI investigations, the Russian intercepts, and Russian records reviewed after the USSR breakup) in setting up spy rings and recruiting spies.

What neither he nor his wife were guilty of was passing the vital secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians. That turned out to be a semi-separate Soviet penetration by spies, among them Klaus Fuchs, a physicist working on the Manhattan project. Greenglass was actually guilty of trying his damnest to obtain secrets to pass on to Julius, but as a low level machinist, he just didn't have that kind of access. But becasue they caught him and his wife trying to spy, they had leverage over him which Cohn used to get him to lie on the stand and testify against the Rosenbergs. So, Julius kinda got what he deserved, but Ethel was collateral damage caused mainly by Cohn. One has to suspect that she at least knew what was going on, though.

Greenglass escaped with a 15 year sentence.

So you are very right about Julius, he got what he deserved, albeit in a very crooked way by one of the most unethical lawyers in history, Roy Cohn, Donald Trump's lawyer.

I didn't get what I've learned from this article, but here is a Smithsonian site with a lot of the information.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spies-who-spilled-atomic-bomb-secrets-127922660/

BTW, the major criticism I would have with McCarthy is not that rooting out spies is wrong, but what is wrong is a politiciam making assertions without facts that ruin a large number of people's lives, for no other apparent reason than to boost one's own political career. He may have actually exposed a spy or two, but the massive immoral, unethical, and probably illegal if it were to be pursued, collateral damage he and cohn caused could have hardly been worth it.

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"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by kingfish on 07-26-17 at 02:02 PM
I also want to say that it's very pleasant to see you showing up occasionally. You were right that this site (especially BB) has become a lot less busy, so when old friends reappear, well, it's nice.



"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by cahaya on 07-26-17 at 07:27 PM
I'll second that, NSW and I have had a few fireside chats in the past. Yup, it's nice.

Looks like you two went deep into the topic of McCarthy.

Meanwhile, Congressional sanctions go in place against the Russkies for their meddling.


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"RE: Trump is anything but a Communist"
Posted by newsomewayne on 08-01-17 at 12:34 PM
Thank you, both.



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"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 08-04-17 at 01:55 PM
*Hilary Bump*
"*Trump Bump*"
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"RE: *Trump Bump*"
Posted by cahaya on 08-19-17 at 09:27 PM
The only bump Trump is getting is a downward approval rating, even amongst Congressional Pub lawmakers.

He's such a Tweetie bird.


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We've got a bird brain for a Prez.

"I Wonder"
Posted by foonermints on 08-22-17 at 01:06 PM
How the b!tch would be doing?

Would she hire back Monica?

"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 08-29-17 at 11:39 AM
bump
"RE: California Primary"
Posted by foonermints on 09-03-17 at 02:58 PM
*boot*