The New Coffee Room

I am already starting to practice The song for me come April. I dont want to stink it up for the world when I youtube the performance. I just need a clarinet player to accompany me.

NobodySock said:

@Andrea-B said:

@NobodySock said:

I recently filled my car with the same amount of gallons in my bill was $122

Did you blame Trump?

This one doesn’t bother me near as much as the fact that the dollar was $.96 to the euro when he took office and he started playing his tariff game and it’s $.85 today I definitely blame Trump for that. It was Putin‘s first direct order to Trump.There’s a long list do you care to hear it all it goes over 100 words beware.

@Andrea-B said:

@NobodySock said:

I recently filled my car with the same amount of gallons in my bill was $122

Did you blame Trump?

This one doesn’t bother me near as much as the fact that the dollar was $.96 to the euro when he took office and he started playing his tariff game and it’s $.85 today I definitely blame Trump for that. There’s a long list do you care to hear it all it goes over 100 words beware.

Now there’s a word that doesnt float around the current administration very often - Integrity

@Horace said:

I’ll need to know who he voted for in order to portion out my sympathy appropriately. I don’t mean to be overly judgmental though. Please give me his complete voting record since 1990 and I will open my heart to the degree indicated by the sympathy actuarial tables.

I realize this post may come from a place you might not normally use due to your own unsympathized FTD. I am sorry, as i simply didnt know. But you have my deepest sympathies regardless of your voting record.

There should never be a building built next to the White House on the taxpayers dollars for a building they will never get to enter.

@Andrea-B said:

@NobodySock said:

What do you think America does after he’s gone but has already built a $1 billion ballroom?

First thing is they cancel the contracts for the Port-A-Potties and Rent-a-Tent they needed for large diplomatic affairs.

Second, they thank Congress for not spending the additional $600 million for "security updates" and keeping it totally donor-funded.

What’s done is done and the thought never crossed my mind to raze it to the ground, but to simply renovate it to something more useful

What do you think America does after he’s gone but has already built a $1 billion ballroom?

@jon-nyc said:

It seems weird in that it’s not really enforceable because if I do share your confidential information with AI and there’s leakage you’d never know the source.

Just don’t rebut any of these NDA’s with more than 100 words. You’ve just shown your cards then.

@Andrea-B said:

I recently filled my car with the same amount of gallons in my bill was $122

@Doctor-Phibes said:

@NobodySock said:

I’m beginning to wonder if there is a vibe in here where people of a more liberal mindset are forced to keep the peace in their mind by soft playing their rebuttals to things

I don't really have an interest in constantly fighting with people. What's the point? It's not like anybody's going to say 'Shit, Phibes, you've been right all along, I am an asshole!'

Believe me if I knew that was the truth of things I’d be the first to say you’re an asshole ha ha ha ha ha ha

@Andrea-B said:

Saw a couple of videos which recommended the best/easiest translations of the Iliad and The Odyssey.

Gonna dive into that.

The podcast I recommended is great for background for explaining all the gods and their motivations.

Let me save you the trouble take it down to the lowest common denominator. Those gods have the same motivations of most humans, pride and greed.

My favorite author after the creator of Middle Earth but having a hard time getting into it with all my spare time filled with denouncing Trump. I had an interesting discussion with copilot about Kings earliest works, which I thought were his masterpieces but it ran well over 100 words so I will pass on sharing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha suffice to say the batting order goes like this for me, the shining the stand Salems lot and It

@Renauda said:

@NobodySock

I don’t want any friends that continue to give Trump credence to this day. I’m more flabbergasted with TG‘s response. It’s not the first time you’ve downplay all of his actions so it’s not terribly surprising but hers made my jaw drop and I’m beginning to wonder if there is a vibe in here where people of a more liberal mindset are forced to keep the peace in their mind by soft playing their rebuttals to things….

I read both TG’s and Mik’s posts in the spirit of being trenchant sarcasm over the issue.

Your rant is not compelling me to think otherwise.

And i am usually the first guy to defend the misinterprentations of texted words in this era of electronic communication. Lord knows how many gals passed on the chance with a real man of intellect humor and sarcasm , misreading me for a miscreant. C’est la vie.. the loss was theirs. And yes, i do owe TG the grace of allowing for her own 555 sarcasms. I stepped out of line with a closed mind in that moment

You are actually one of the first people I would love to meet in person talk about life with. I am jealous of your ability to cook some of the most fabulous food as well as your appreciation for the things to chase it down with. and I went through different stages in my Facebook life of unfriending people who I just couldn’t understand where they saw the goodness in this guy , and I don’t remember specifically unfriending you, Mik. , but I would count you a true Facebook friend if you could find me or if I could find you back I left my link here or in some other thread when people wanted to see pictures and I’m just finding it so goddamn difficult to upload anything from an iPhone I can’t wait till my household goods get here and I can sit down at a computer again, but please let’s reconnect

NobodySock said:

@bachophile said:

Personally I don’t know why they picked $250. $360 would have been wiser. Divisible 24 times. Also Interchangeable with navigation charts.

It may very well have to do with the 250th anniversary but I think it’s more simple than that and that someone suggested to him a new $200 bill and of course Trump is never satisfied immediately said no 250.
And of course the sycophants got on their knees and told him how fucking smart he is.

@bachophile said:

Personally I don’t know why they picked $250. $360 would have been wiser. Divisible 24 times. Also Interchangeable with navigation charts.

It may very well have to do with the 250th anniversary but I think it’s more simple than that and that someone suggested to him a new $200 bill and of course Trump is never satisfied immediately said no 250.

@Mik said:

Maybe. In any event I'm not getting the impression that living in Italy lets the pressure release.

You know and you see how much pressure release is occurring to me every day here my wall is public on Facebook and I know you’ve seen some of my posts and even though many of them are peppered with anti-Trump anti-bullshit. I am showing plenty of my new life that brings me to a new level of peace. I have no desire to go back to California. I think I’m gonna stay a while.

Sorry, Klaus I went over 100 again.

I don’t want any friends that continue to give Trump credence to this day. I’m more flabbergasted with TG‘s response. It’s not the first time you’ve downplay all of his actions so it’s not terribly surprising but hers made my jaw drop and I’m beginning to wonder if there is a vibe in here where people of a more liberal mindset are forced to keep the peace in their mind by soft playing their rebuttals to things, for instance, Jon himself the master of tact and keeping the peace, responded to a post. I made a couple weeks ago responding to a post that Robert Reich had made., that to me was simple honest to God‘s truth and Jon simply shot the messenger and I’m wondering where that came from did he truly mean that he thinks Robert Reich is over the top? He never addressed one sentence in Robert Reichs remarks to support that, he simply shot the messenger while you others called me a drunk, drinking Canonnau for relating my honest feelings. You see why it’s so hard to stay in this forum for more than a few days at a time the dishonesty around here is overwhelming. Y’all called me crazy too when I told you all Butler was staged long ago. It’s not looking so crazy anymore. Is it? And then I got a German friend who can’t help but it show his jealousy for my piano selection and my journey feeling I made everybody forget about his. Y’all got issues folks my advice is y’all need to take a vacation to Sardinia and let all that pressure out of your systems.