@jon-nyc said in Dont mess with a Professional Fighter: Based on the guy’s actions my going in position is ‘bat shit crazy’. What’s the etymology of that phrase? Does bat guano contain rabies? Or some type of other virus/parasite that affects rationality?

@LuFins-Dad said in The beginning of the end for Joe: So Bernie would do better? Elizabeth Warren? Schumer? I reckon I could probably do better. And not, I hasten to add, because I'd be any good at it.

@George-K said in I am so ready for tomorrow to be over.: I realize you can't do this because of your need to have your phone available for work contacts, but the iPhone has a neat feature whereby if the number's not in your contact list, it goes to voicemail. You never even know about the phone call, other than the notification that you have voicemail. You know what else would be a neat feature? Maybe creating a way that people that don’t want unsolicited calls and texts could sign up to “opt out” of receiving these messages. And if such a thing could be created, it would be really nice if politicians didn’t exempt themselves so they could break the spirit of the program, if not the actual program itself. The fact that they care so little about the spirit of the law tells me everything I need to know. If they break this for their convenience, what else will they break? I am struggling over whether I am going to vote tomorrow, I am that pissed.

@Axtremus said in There is no part of the market Biden won't muck around in.: The US government mucking around in real estate and homeownership is not new. Long before Biden, FHA loans allow for down payment as low as 3% -- far below usual market expectations. This is not a "new" part of the market that the federal government inserts itself into. Arnold Kling, an Economist formerly at George Mason, puts it best. The US doesn’t subsidize homeownership, it subsidizes ‘home borrowership’.

Of course, he woke me at 6 on Nonday

Get off my lawn kid.

Lol

@LuFins-Dad said in Now And Then: Sorry. I still don’t get The Beetle’s fandom. It was a great car for it's time. Affordable, reliable and designed by Adolf Hitler with some assistance from Ferdinand Porsche. What's not to like? Anyway, getting back to the song, I didn't think it was that great.

@Copper said in Tesla: @xenon said in Tesla: I got a BMW X7. Nice Watch out for democrats. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/climate-activists-deflate-tires-of-43-suvs-on-beacon-hill/ Winning hearts and minds.

And even better Link to video

Oh, I thought the thread was going to be about Trump being told to speak respectfully to the judge and prosecutors in the NY case.

Rare indeed.

And sometimes you get unlucky...Got a call from LOPA late yesterday. https://www.lopa.org/ Body's living. Brain, not so much. Time to call the ball. Sequestered my pre-treatment blood samples, in case they're needed for forensic toxicology...

(might as well do it before someone else does. LOL)

@Horace That’s what I thought too.

@George-K said in Maher - New Rules - "Civ Vicious": Electricity Printing press Internal combustion (yeah, I know) The list goes on and on. These are non-cultural advances. They have transformed humanity. I think that climate was factor in this. Cold weather people are forced to innovate more than hot weather people. (Yes, yes, I know that is a "generalization")

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/05/1210771417/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-tried-to-remain-neutral-on-monday-shell-endorse-ron-desant Don't know if it will matter, but it will be interesting to see how President Trump responds. "She would not be there except for me and my support. She is a RINO and a LOSER!!" Iowa's popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, will endorse her fellow governor, Florida's Ron DeSantis, in the Iowa Caucus, according to a source familiar with the matter. She will appear at an event alongside DeSantis in Des Moines on Monday evening.

Link to video

Love it.