It’s fairly simple. When governments spend less and consumers spend more, times are good. When Government spends more and consumers spend less, times are less good. When everyone is spending like drunken sailors? Who the Fock knows?

@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey brenda!: @brenda said in Hey brenda!: @Aqua-Letifer said in Hey brenda!: @brenda said in Hey brenda!: Who's at the wheel of this rig? My wife is. She's currently spinning merino from, I think, Baaba. (Yeah they tell you the name of the freaking sheep.) Very cool! Does she knit or crochet with the yarn, or use it in another way? She does nalbinding. Has been for a few years now. Yes, if you're getting that intimate with a sheep, it's proper etiquette to know their name. Just ask Phibes. Indeed! Had to look up nalbinding. Very cool!!!!

Have another slice of pie.

Amiable mediocrities who are exactly as replaceable as their managers hope they are, are the rule at any large company, regardless of the letters after their names that may be prerequisite for applying for their jobs. There is no such thing as a huge company that only hires the best of the best, by definition. There aren’t enough bests of the bests to go around. And actually for jobs that require advanced formal educations, the pool of candidates is generally limited to those who have already failed in their aspiration to become academics.

The new Chuck Norris. Well, maybe the old one. Something like that anyway.

Horsefeathers.

@George-K said in Hay Blondie!: @Mik said in Hay Blondie!: Ahem. "And others. and a little chopped liver..."

Packers generally start slow. Y'all have a good chance

I suspect every President has stuff

Yep, from the same guy, who admired a 12 year-old when he was 30.

@Jolly if the allegations are true, it will be interesting if these lawyers sue.

@Mik said in Tomboys Are Transgendered: @Horace said in Tomboys Are Transgendered: With age has come, for me, a more practical appreciation of Christianity and how it keeps the masses in line to a much greater degree than newer ideologies. But those newer ideologies are all about taking a huge dump on Christianity. As they say, humans are born with God shaped holes in their hearts and they’ll be filled with something, one way or another. For me it is an appreciation of the enrichment faith brings to the lives of a lot of my friends and acquaintances. I often wish I had a strong faith. I just don't. I think as you get older your stop thinking of it so much in terms of true or false, and more in benefits vs. drawbacks. The redneck apostle, Thomas. I think I find more inspiration in him, than in any other.