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There is waste and inefficiency in every single large organization that has ever existed.  Pretending that you can eliminate the deficit by rooting out waste is utter nonsense.  

It's just a semantic way to avoid the gorilla in the room - the explosion in national debt that WILL come when you cut taxes without any change to entitlements. 

2 hours ago, stevemcqueen1 said:

 

Can you give me an honest opinion and and scouting report on DJ?  The Wizards are rumored to be in talks for trading for him and I want to know if this is a good idea for us.  Right now I'm all for it but I don't know if this is a devil you don't know situation.  Do you think it'd be a good move for us to trade for him?  We have major defensive issues at the C position.

He is a very effective player, if you use him right.  He is super athletic, a very good shot blocker, a strong rebounder, and an ok overall defender.  He can be effective offensively on a team that runs a lot, because he runs the floor well and has great hands.  Bad ballhandler, bad passer.  If he gets the ball down low in a half court situation he doesn't know what to do with it.  Horrible free throw shooter.  

To his credit, he doesn't try very often to do offensive things that he can't do - which is everything other than finish on the break, catch and dunk lobs, and the occasional putback.   He would be a big upgrade from Gortat.   

2 hours ago, Llevron said:

 

I can get more than that if I get caught with enough weed in my backpack lol

Of course -  you're a dusky thug

That is correct.  You never, ever, front DeAndre Jordan anyway.  90% of his offense is Oops and fastbreak dunks.  The good teams just stay between him and the basket because he has no moves, and can't reliably score from more than 4 feet away even if there has been a switch and the defender is a foot shorter than he is.  

20 minutes ago, twa said:

 

Well last I heard lawyers with degrees from Harvard and Dartmouth were supposedly smarter than us peasants.

 

Ann Coulter is a lawyer with a degree from a top law school.  Doesn't mean she uses her powers for truth, justice, fairness and objectivity.   

....  powerlineblog lol  ....  next up, WorldNetDaily 

Fine.  didn’t want to get any work done today anyway

36 minutes ago, DogofWar1 said:

We all lose:

 

 

I thought we were only counting actual celebrities   

4 minutes ago, Burgold said:

Sigh, remember the days when people wanted to vote for Trump because they feared that Hillary was in the pocket of the billionaires and corporations?

Yes, I also remember the Bernie Bros saying the same thing

Thanos looks like a thumb.  

that is all

2 hours ago, Destino said:

 

What I struggle to understand is immediate compliance without so much as a threat or the least amount of resistance.  That's the part that makes no sense to me.  Does this inability to resit extend to areas other then sex?  Would they all have, for example, smoked crack if the powerful person simply requested it of them?  And again, my struggling to wrap my head around this does not mean I don't believe every word of it is true.  I believe it and fail to understand how the hell it's possible, all at the same time.  This feels like a privilege problem.  While I can choose to believe, the stories contradict my own experiences. 

 

It's not just power, but also surprise.  A common theme in these stories is how the predator does something aggressive out of the blue, and the victim is stunned and has no time to react or reflect.  They are just thinking "this can't be happening" as it happens.  

Afterwards, they think about what they could have done, what they should have said, but it's far too late.  And that makes them feel guilty about their own actions or lack of actions, and makes them feel like maybe somehow some of it was their own fault, and makes them even less likely to report what happened to anyone.  

Predators understand this reaction.  They rely on it.  

17 hours ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

Now here's an intelligent response.

 

On a related note, I was thinking about starting an "Ask a Perve Thread". Good idea? Bad? How about a "****, Marry, or Kill?" thread. Sounds like a fun game old Matt came up with.

 

That is an old 4chan/reddit game.   Been around for years.

46 minutes ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

X-rays came back negative for KP. 

Always better when it is the ankle rather than the knee.  

Sure would be nice if we could go back and redo the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings today.

She got smeared and shunted aside like she was garbage.

Holy crap - is Flynn a Kim Philby?

Garrison Keillor? 

I thought the only awful thing he ever did was the insipid content of his shows 

No that can't be.  Both sides are the same, remember?  

1 hour ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

Sure. I would rather trade Green and Keep bell and Klay

How can you be a Warriors fan and not understand how important Draymond is for this team?  Klay is awesome and i love the guy, but we can get other 3 and D guys.  They aren't as good bu they will serve well enough.  The overall quality of the team wouldn't change.  But there isn't another Draymond out there.  The Dubs switching defense hinges on the quality of his perfect anticipation and decision making, and all of the other players benefit from his help defense, which is the best I have ever seen, from any player, ever.  And he leads the best passing team ni NBA history in assists, every single year.   

Seriously, put down the pipe.  Draymond is the heart of the team.

11 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

The Rolling Stones actually got their name from a Muddy Waters song.

Sounds right.  Most of the early 60s British rock bands idolized American bluesmen.  

9 minutes ago, Kosher Ham said:

 

Papa was a Rolling stone...

Not mine... but 

You are correct that my timeline is off.  The "Rolling Stone" imagery goes back further than Dylan.  I think the Rolling Stones band  name was inspired by an old blues song, while the magazine name was inspired by the Dylan song.  Papa was a Rolling Stone was a Temptations song that was later than either of those events.       

1 hour ago, Dan T. said:

 

By way of saying the magazine is Rolling Stone.  The rock group is the Rolling Stones. 

 

Pet peeve.

And they both were named after a Bob Dylan lyric.  The magazine was not named after the rock group.  

4 hours ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

Because scumbags have a lot of money, like the President.

 

still cannot get over how stupid people were to let him get over on the ACORN stuff. That was so effing disgusting.

ACORN got hosed over so bad, and the amazing thing is that perfectly normal people still believe that the bullcrap allegations against it were real.   It stands out a one of the most effective smear jobs in the history of politics. 

On 11/27/2017 at 10:37 AM, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

The point about this not being Trump's America is accurate and it's important to remember Donald Trump is not the cause of this. He's just one symptom.

 

This.  The GOP and the conservative media had been actively creating this America for a quarter century now.  Trump is just the Frankenstein's monster come to life, finally broken free, and rampaging around.  But they created him, and they did it on purpose.  

Opposition to the estate tax is deep and emotional, and it cuts across party lines.

The fact that teh estate tax is, in reality, the single most socially and economically wise tax of all only matters to those few people who study tax and social mobility issues in depth.  Like perhaps 5% of the population.   Politicians don't care about those people.  Politically, dumping the DEATH TAX is a winner every time.  

Bring on the new aristocracy!  It's 1787 all over again!