My wife and I spent some time in Hong Kong on our way back from one of our trips to the Philippines about 9 or 10 years ago and I have to say it's really hard to believe this is even happening. My wife was an OFW (overseas foreign worker), working there as a maid from the Philippines shortly before ...

Or, maybe Trump has a thing for dictators and strongmen. There are things I like about the Trump administrations’ actions and by tech’s own definition of TDS, that disqualifies me. Putin, Kim, Duterte, Bolsonaro, and Erdogan. He loves the despots. Most Filipinos I know, and I'm married to one of th...

Or, maybe Trump has a thing for dictators and strongmen. There are things I like about the Trump administrations’ actions and by tech’s own definition of TDS, that disqualifies me. Putin, Kim, Duterte, Bolsonaro, and Erdogan. He loves the despots. Most Filipinos I know, and I'm married to one of th...

My Dad had it. Shingles sounds absolutely horrible, and somehow your last line made me smile. My parents both had it. It is awful, and sometimes causes serious issues like hearing loss if it affects the ear, long-standing pain etc. Hope yours completely recovered? Anyway it's a blessing that people...

A person I know very well had shingles (after having both the original and Shringrix vaccinations several years apart) but supposedly the case was much milder than it would have been w/o vaccination according to the physician. The breakout sites were in the mouth, which took quite a while to diagno...

Should probably ask Chuck Schumer. He warned Trump that if you piss off the intelligence agencies they have "six ways to Sunday" to come after you. Maybe he should be put under oath and asked to reveal what he knows that led him to make that statement? (Note: I generally pay very little at...

Almost one-tenth of boomers were entirely in equities during the quarter, running the risk of serious losses in a market meltdown. I'm guessing those are the ones who need to make risky investments because they hadn't saved enough and are now trying to catch up. If that's only 10% of boomers it doe...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:00 am Jacksonm2, I am so sorry that your daughter, and you, are suffering on this side of the Last Day.

Thanks. I'll let her know that it's the Last Day and Jesus is coming soon. Sure that will help.

But it is extremely accurate! https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1194414956726407168/photo/1 Maybe because he IS??!!! I think he should plead guilty to trying to get the Ukrainians to look into the Hunter Biden/Burisma affair. Let the facts come out about that and then the American people can decide...

That article said something about Trump saying we need to re-finance the debt. What the heck does that mean? Does that mean that current 30-year bonds will automatically be changed to 50 years?

Almost one-tenth of boomers were entirely in equities during the quarter, running the risk of serious losses in a market meltdown. I'm guessing those are the ones who need to make risky investments because they hadn't saved enough and are now trying to catch up. If that's only 10% of boomers it doe...

My 42-year-old daughter is the last remaining believer of my three kids and as I'm watching what she's going through in a horrific situation I can only think to myself how much better she would be able to function if she would abandon her illusions of supernatural intervention. She prays to Jesus on...

Speaking of Charley Manson I really enjoyed the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - the last one I saw in a movie theater as far as I can remember. Like "Inglorious Bastards" (which I thought was a great movie), it's a strange, completely fictional re-telling of history by Qu...

Economic Club of NY today: "Trump rails on Fed, notes other countries have negative rates: ‘Give me some of that money’ What a d*ck. Negative interest rates are a tax on savers, a direct wealth transfer from regular people with money in the bank, elderly people relying on fixed incomes, pensio...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:44 pm Then there is the extra dose of suffering for being a Christian....you are expected in church.

Amen to that.

I'm putting this in the category of "okay, even if what you say is true, so what?" It's hard to believe that the process of natural selection favoring a reproductive benefit wouldn't have resulted in some difference between male and female brains. But even if both males and females ended ...

I'm putting this in the category of "okay, even if what you say is true, so what?" It's hard to believe that the process of natural selection favoring a reproductive benefit wouldn't have resulted in some difference between male and female brains. But even if both males and females ended u...

No. I was a volunteer, that led volunteers, who mostly did a good job, who mostly loved this country. I would guess close to 0% of modern fighting men (I'm early 30s) would carry that Zippo; they would feel disgraced by it. Vietnam 1969-70. I was going to comment on this but I've learned to keep my...

I observed that the book had 2 reviews on Amazon, one glowingly positive and the other negative. But there were 3 positive reviews to be found online in Slate, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. I've never thought of any of those entities as being go to sources for accurate science but the...

My 3 kids were born 1974-1977 and I can assure you they have seen plenty of hardship in their lives. So much so that my 23-year old adopted granddaughter just told me she has no intention of ever having kids. Had to tell her I didn't blame her at all, notwithstanding the fact that if I had felt the...

I just finished listening to this woman's presentation on her book: Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds She concluded by saying you are either in her camp or the "Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus" camp. When the latter book ca...

I believe this is an example of Trump quietly doing exactly what he was elected to do.....

https://vdare.com/articles/national-dat ... hing-right

Exactly, and likewise. These Millennials have no idea what having it rough is. Way too coddled. No Americans who were born Stateside after 1945 and who have never been in combat have any idea about hardship. I heard it second-hand from my immigrant parents. My 3 kids were born 1974-1977 and I can a...

I know she's saying "don't worry this will only affect the ultra-rich" now, but isn't that what they said about the AMT? Not just the AMT, but the income tax itself initially only affected a tiny portion of the population. Now look where we are. Same thing with taxes on SS benefits. Origi...