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As ominous as Mr. Trump Monkey's administration promises to be, one cannot help but delight in the exploding heads of thousands upon thousands of politically correct spank wankers splattered across the New York Times comment sections like the yellow pus from rotten zits.This joyful music from the very same people who drove the Midwestern working class into the wilderness and the arms of Mr. Trump Monkey on election day may last for days!
MomToKippy wrote: "Ha! I can't figure out if you are a democrat, independent or a libertarian but I enjoyed this post!"LOL! Maybe some sort of hybrid Independent/ Libertarian/ Socialist/Anarchist/ Christian?
It depends largely on whether I am drinking beer or wine and whether or not I won yesterday at the poker table.
Thanks, MTK. No matter how good you think you are, you need to have an opponent willing make the expensive mistake of following you to the river card...without catching lucky!
MTK, the game is "hold 'em." There can be as many as nine players at a Bellagio table.Each player is dealt two cards. They try to make the best five card hand with their two cards and any of the five cards dealt from the deck that will constitute the "board" if the betting goes that far.
The players call, bet or fold after seeing their two cards.
Then there is the "flop" which consists of three cards turned over and a subsequent bet.
Then the "turn" card and another bet if there are at least two players remaining.
Then the "river" card and the final betting round. The"flop," "turn" and "river" constitute the "board."
"Catching lucky" is coming from behind to win the hand on the river.
Sir Thomas More wrote a book titled "Utopia." What seems to be lost on many readers is that he was writing a satire, not a plan for an ideal society. The tip-off should be that "Utopia" is a Greek word meaning "no place." “Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies
Michael wrote: "Sir Thomas More wrote a book titled "Utopia." What seems to be lost on many readers is that he was writing a satire, not a plan for an ideal society. The tip-off should be that "Utopia" is a Greek ..."I have not read "Utopia" since I was a teenager. Moore's satire, if you will, was entirely lost on me even though I was a "wise guy" for my age.
I am not familiar with Karl Popper. I think I should be. I will check him out. Thanks, Michael.
Plebeians Staged an Uprising indeed!Well said.
David, if you haven't seen it there is an ancient French movie called "Ridicule"- you can get it with subtitles.
You would enjoy it. As I enjoyed your post.
OMG, I just saw that you are from Chicago. Why does that not surprise me. Me too. I'm old. Before the oldest Mayor Daley old. Spent major time at the U.of I. Circle during the second half of the 1960's. Your verbiage and my memories would be something.
The comparisons here to those "interesting times" - I have laughed until tears flowed. Just once I would like for them to take the bus and el commutes I did for years. Just for one day.
Snowflakes melt.
Jeanette wrote: "Plebeians Staged an Uprising indeed!Well said.
David, if you haven't seen it there is an ancient French movie called "Ridicule"- you can get it with subtitles.
You would enjoy it. As I enjoye..."
Thanks for your comments, Jeanette. I was a foreign movie freak back when they made movies for adults, but I missed "Ridicule." I will check it out.
We moved from Chicago to Michigan when I was six. The old Mayor Daley signed my birth certificate back when he was Cook County Clerk!
Yes, snowflakes...what an appropriate pejorative.




We will wait and see if this industrial grade baloney turns into filet mignon or dog barf.
We are wagering heavily on dog barf. We live in Vegas. We will take your action.
Pssssst...Just for the record. We are also wagering that Snoop Dogg Barry Obama and his Royal Wookie Princess will be handing out awards at next year's Oscars to the hysterical adulation of Hollywood's PC aristocracy.