We could all vow to boycott Viagra or something, but who cares how all these companies spend their marketing money?

Connie had a bad exit from the tunnel in Monaco a few years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySymBtNAkA&app=desktop

That was quick. When I heard that John McCain decided to forgo cancer treatments, I expected him to hang around for at least a few more days.

R.I.P., John McCain.

McCain's was pretty smart.

He antagonized Trump, and because of that the obituaries from the news organizations are bound to be full of flowery eulogies towards him instead of the usual celebratory Ding Dong! The Republican witch is dead! grave dancing.

PeTA vs a seafood restaurant

https://twitter.com/weeabob/status/1033472141851672576

Many of his actions, his decision to uphold Obamacare rather than repeal it, caused a lot of my conservative friends to dismiss him as a RINO.

I viewed that as a very principled act. Donald Trump didn't campaign on the promise to repeal Obamacare; he promised that he would replace it with something better. There was nothing to replace Obamacare with.

Sorry for the duplication

(Smartphone)

Bridezilla on steroids.

This woman, despite having been raised in a very simple, wholesome background, suddenly wanted to be Kardashian on her wedding day. And despite her and her fiancé having saved 15,000 dollars, decided to purchase a 60,000 dollar wedding, demanding -- literally demanding -- 1500 dollars from each guest. If you didn't pay, you weren't going to the wedding.

When most of the guests didn't cough up, she cancelled the wedding, broke off her relationship with her fiancé and decided to remove all the "toxic" people (those who didn't pay) out of her life.

And despite the cancelled wedding, she refused to return the deposits of those who did pay.

Guytthh.... YOO GUYTTTHHHHH.... Don't STOO-pit.

(It's a good article.)

"Bridezilla on steroids."

Sounds like a bunch of people dodged a bullet, and not just the groom. I'll bet there will be some squabbles over unreturned deposits, though.

Sounds like a bunch of people dodged a bullet, and not just the groom. I'll bet there will be some squabbles over unreturned deposits, though. ~ Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at August 26, 2018 5:53 AM

If I have to pay to attend your wedding, don't even bother with the invitation.

Guytthh.... YOO GUYTTTHHHHH.... Don't STOO-pit. ~ Crid at August 26, 2018 5:41 AM

I shared the article with a Vietnam Vet of my acquaintance who is in Mensa and he called it "very interesting." I didn't ask if he served with any of McNamara's Morons.

While IQ is, by itself, not a determinant of success in life, it does, apparently, have some bearing on how well one navigates life's ups and downs; and on the kinds and quality of decisions one makes.

Most of us fall into the ‘Average’ band, constituted by the 90-109 range. Those achieving scores of 130 or higher are considered ‘Very Superior.’ Conversely, scores of 69 and under are classified as ‘Extremely Low,’ and automatically qualify the scorer for a diagnosis of ‘mild retardation’ according to the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

According to the article, a standard deviation on this scale is roughly 13 points.

It was worse than merely demanding 1500 dollars to attend the wedding. It was the bridesmaids whose deposits she refused to return.

So, even members of the wedding party weren't exempt from the admission fee.

So, not only do the bridesmaids have to pay for expensive gowns that they can never wear again, they're being gouged 1500.

I could attend a formal dinner for a political candidate for less money.

A recent study finds that people that spot typos and grammar mistakes are more likely to be introverts or jerks (but we knew the latter) -

https://www.today.com/health/do-you-point-out-grammar-errors-science-has-name-you-t84206

Remember what I said earlier about the late John McCain?

https://twitter.com/repairerofkayak/status/1033537206516772864

Many of his actions, his decision to uphold Obamacare rather than repeal it, caused a lot of my conservative friends to dismiss him as a RINO.

Of course he was a RINO. Compare his rhetoric on the campaign trail vs after the election when he was safely ensconced back into his Senate office.

His 2008 presidential bid's message to conservatives was "sti in the back of the bus, keep your mouths shut and your wallets open". Thanks, but no thanks.

And despite the cancelled wedding, she refused to return the deposits of those who did pay.

Enjoy your small claims court dates, sweetie. If she don't show, you win by default. Then attach a lien on her car or other real property that she owns. I would be inclined to do that just out sheer orneriness.

On the other hand, my calculation WRT to a $1,500 entry fee would be:

How much is a trip to $FABULOUS_DESTINATION?
How much booze can I buy?
How many hookers and how much blow can that purchase?

The blow is for the hookers, mind you.

Senate seats aren't supposed to be sinecures, nor hereditary.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/403639-whats-next-for-john-mccains-senate-seat

Huge, if true.

The former apostolic nuncio has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/25/ex-nuncio-says-pope-francis-knew-of-mccarricks-abuse-reports-failed-to-act/

Matthew 18:5-6

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

I hope they're not terribly surprised when white people start voting like a minority block.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/305781/

> A recent study finds....

That's very Amy of you!

You should compose your worldview around recent studies.

> the kinds and quality of
> decisions one makes.

Peterson says having nothing but an IQ of 140 at age twenty will leave you better at age forty that will $20 million dollars.

I wish he'd post the cite.

There is some stoo-pit candy in here, my favorite being the friendless catholic.

A recent study finds that people that spot typos and grammar mistakes are more likely to be introverts or jerks (but we knew the latter) ~ Snoopy at August 26, 2018 9:08 AM

Well ... wait ... I resemble that remark. Grammar mistakes and typos just jump up and say "hi" to me; and I am a bit of an introvert.

I wish he'd post the cite. ~ Crid at August 26, 2018 11:08 AM

Me too.

I think Patterson will find that it takes more than just brains but, in general, he's probably got a point.

When you're an entomologist but you're also a thot:

https://twitter.com/nicnaastyy/status/1033137167902466050

Everything's fine.

https://twitter.com/gabehabash/status/1033426288885854220

Per Boyd, victorious agility can be described in the rapidity with which a fighter can take on and cast off energy in dogfight maneuvering.

He had a whole thing about it.

A *whole* thing.

Hell of one indeed.

Anecdote.

Floating.

Floating.

Comments to this one affirm the theory that the Democratic party is going to be too fractured by its own 3rd-grader loyalty battle to nominate an electable challenger to Trump in 2020. Or to anyone in 24 or maybe even 28... There are a lot of grievances to parse. If you're into that kind of thing.

Comments to this one affirm the theory that the Democratic party is going to be too fractured by its own 3rd-grader loyalty battle to nominate an electable challenger to Trump in 2020. Or to anyone in 24 or maybe even 28... There are a lot of grievances to parse. If you're into that kind of thing.

Crid at August 26, 2018 1:41 PM

Not only that, but Bill and Hill hoovered up all the Democratic party money and are disinclined to send any of it back...

Identifying with National Socialism is going to scare away the Corporate uni party donors.

Coney see also.



> Bill and Hill hoovered up all
> the Democratic party money

I dunno. In a properly operating machine, they'd just find more. I don't think Bill & Hillary actually broke the automobile... They put a lot of mileage on it but it was going to stop running sometime anyway. Times are different, the globe is turning, and our -digm is para'd in some as-yet uncharted ways.

All (ALL) those federal employees and academics (all) and lawyers (Dear God, all the lawyers) are going to get really cranky at the 2020 convention when their juiceboxing younger delegates —bearing no enthusiasm for free expression or even representative government— clog the agenda with candlelight ceremonies honoring transsex victims of hashtag chicanery or middle chidren with braces or God knows what, unconstrained by the the usual means of discipline.

Yep Crid.

Crazy times...Craazzzeee times.

All 57 genders will be there.

Fifty-EIGHT, you fucking CIS-privileged fascist! How dare you... How dare you.

You probably believe in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. And stuff.

Or is CIS not capitalized? Oh shit!

I offer my humblest apologies to the woke community.

But relax... I know the contemporary Hail Mary for the post/postmodern age.

@Patrick - I just posted the bridezilla story today. My bad for starting with the most recent posts. But holy cow! I read that story this morning and I thought, "This is what we get when we don't give our children limits, and overly indulge them!"

@Patrick - I just posted the bridezilla story today. My bad for starting with the most recent posts. But holy cow! I read that story this morning and I thought, "This is what we get when we don't give our children limits, and overly indulge them!"