Vox Populi, our live weekly chat, begins tonight at 7:00pm PST! Don’t be caught waiting in the wings like Ben Carson, join us then!
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey PPO!
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey Ad!. Just adding to the limerick article. Brilliant concept!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Cool! Thanks so much!
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey KT!
AdLib 7 days ago
Just to start off this Friday’s people’s discussion, I think this would be a wonderful theme song for Bernie Sanders’ campaign!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Playing it now!
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey Ad, and my friend from down under. Hope you guys are doing well.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Kt! Great song to start the day. Carson will be doing this soon:
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Doing very well tonight, KT. You?
AdLib 7 days ago
Pretty much always. Give or take a break down or two.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I think Carson will be licking his wounds and asking himself…why don’t they like me?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
AdLib 7 days ago
If Carson is in the single digits in SC, I think he calls it quits. Jeb too.
AdLib 7 days ago
I still think Tracy nailed it. Bernie talks about a revolution. But, the word revolution, is as scary as the word socialist. In the minds of those that know no better.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Agreed KT, Tracy’s song hits that nail square on the head.
AdLib 7 days ago
Thus,..prior to this campaign, a revolution must be spoken of…in a WHISPER.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
It sure does Ad, and that’s why I love her. She has never been a Rock and Roll asshole.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT – I’m going to write an article on the fascinating revolution brewing inside the Dem party, different than the open revolution in the GOP. It’s very much a revolution though, a yearning for even greater change. Not to say that Obama hasn’t made huge Progressive change, he has and I do disagree with Bernie on hammering that as hard as he has. But It’s younger Dems wanting more and older Dems wanting incremental improvements.
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad, ANY increment right now in either Party would be revolutionary. such inertia is unacceptable
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Still, I saw a focus group on MSNBC that watched the debate and very interesting results. 24 – 9 said Bernie won but 24 – 9 thought Hillary would be the stronger President.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey glenn!
AdLib 7 days ago
hey glenn.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
BRB
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
another, and the first? Lennon changed a bit of the lyrics after it was first released. He was talking about being counted out of a violent revolution, then, coyly and almost imperceptibly saying yes I’m in. Very sly, like Dr. Winston O Boogie could be.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Good evening, all. How is everyone?
glenn

7 days ago
The Dem Establishment is coming down strongly on Bernie, I think that’s going to backfire. The more Bernie looks like he’s being attacked by the Establishment and they are trying to press Hillary into the nom, the stronger the youth vote will rally behind him as well as the more Progressive Dems.
AdLib 7 days ago
Doing well glenn! And you?
AdLib 7 days ago
KT – Hence the ambivilent version of Revolution where he says “You can count me out…in.”
AdLib 7 days ago
I wouldn’t say, huge, Ad. I would say, incremental. Huge would be single payer and peace in the middle east.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO – It’s all relative. Many dems would see incremental change as a big deal but it seems that younger Progressives want bigger changes sooner. Not odd for youth.
AdLib 7 days ago
exactly Ad. Those were the days, though. Lennon, for a time, was influenced by the Yippies, like Abby Hoffman, and Elderdge Cleaver…
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Well, the reality of our system only allows for incremental change. No great social or political (same thing these days) has ever achieved, leaps and bounds.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
KT – There are times when it seems that only physical revolution can change things, as during the Arab Spring but it need not be violent.
AdLib 7 days ago
KT – Generally, that’s true. But when Bush had a Repub Congress, he did make radical changes.
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad–Doing well, too. You know, you were talking above about incremental change vs. a revolution. Still haven’t made up my mind on that, but I was thinking about what a principal told us once when we, as a faculty, were meeting to determine what our goals for the school would be that year. When we had put up a few, one of the teachers said, “But we’ll never make those goals.” And the principal answered, “We may not make them, but we need to set our goals much higher than what we think we can attain. That way, we won’t become complacent.” Once again, that can be parsed many ways; but I think it definitely defines what is going on in the Dem party nowadays. There is nothing wrong with setting the bar high, but there is also a difference between challenge and frustration. That seems to me to be where we are now.
glenn

7 days ago
hey guys!
Harleigh

7 days ago
What else is meant by “phyiscal revolution? I do not advocate violence to bring about social change. It never works. It only brings about a new dictator, same as the old.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
If Bernie had a Progressive Congress, there could be huge change. Look at Obama with a Dem Congress, he passed the ACA which is huge change for the better.
AdLib 7 days ago
Harleigh! How have you been, you reprobate? I thought you got swallowed by a Florida sink hole!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Hey Harleigh.
glenn

7 days ago
been working 6 – 7 days. LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
Ad I caution against hypotheticals.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ah, so you haven’t been swallowed by a sink hole! That’s good to know!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
KT – The Arab Spring was a physical revolution but it wasn’t violent on their part. They went into the streets and acted physically on insisting on change. The goovernment was vioolent but they used their physical protest as a revolution and won…temporarily unfortunately. My point is, we can’t necessarily get substantial change as urgently as it’s needed if we don’t physically protest and pressure government in that way.
AdLib 7 days ago
Semantics Ad.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Hey, fellow Planeteers! Just here for a minute. I seem to have the same cold that Bernie was battling in the debate last night. If he felt the way I do, I have to hand it to him for coming up with the “Henry Kissinger is no friend of mine” line!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Harleigh! Great to see ya!
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey Kes. Sorry to hear you’re under the weather.
glenn

7 days ago
Hey Homie. Always glad to “see,” you.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Hey Kes! No fair, you’re not allowed too get sick, it’s part of your PlanetPOV contract!
AdLib 7 days ago
to
AdLib 7 days ago
Uh-oh… so no rides on the corporate jet until I’m no longer contagious??
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kes, I hope you feel better soon. Nothing really serious, I hope.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
God, we’re all falling to bits, aren’t we!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Kes – You have to wear a space helmet if you do.
AdLib 7 days ago
No, Homie! Just one of those coughs that won’t leave you alone.
kesmarn

7 days ago
NO jetting for YOU young lady!! LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
Well, I guess that’s fairly good news. At our age, you never know!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Mr. Trump might let me ride on his. As long as I’m not Muslim or Hispanic…
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kes – Yep, holding up a coompliment from Kisinger really made me feel uncomfortable. He’s a war criminal.
AdLib 7 days ago
BRB!
AdLib 7 days ago
Well, I don’t know, Kes. I don’t think liberals are allowed on trump’s jet.
glenn

7 days ago
Why would anyone admit to ever having known old Dr. Strangelove Kissinger?
kesmarn

7 days ago
True, Ad. Why, oh why did she have to bring that uip?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Only as cleaning personnel, glenn…
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kes I hope you got your flu shot. I’m old and I did.
Harleigh

7 days ago
I did, Harleigh. And my pneumonia and boogie-woogie flu one too.
kesmarn

7 days ago
PPO–Hillary was trying establish her “national security creds”, I think. But I do think it’s strange that she brought up Kissinger, especially when she does have some more recent experience. Of course, that brings up BENGHAZI!
glenn

7 days ago
That’s what I don’t understand about Hillary. For such a smart, experienced, and strong person, how can she have never heard of Kissinger being a really bad player on the world stage? It really astounds me.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Kes–perhaps. Just think of all the incriminating evidence you could find as a cleaning lady!
glenn

7 days ago
I suppose that, like Hitler, he must have had the odd good point
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Me too but down here people are dying from that shit that didn’t get vaxed. Darwins I think.
Harleigh

7 days ago
Has she never heard of Christopher Hitchens? He wrote a book about what a war criminal Kissinger was. And he backed it up with facts.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
glenn, maybe I could even adjust the landing gear or something…
kesmarn

7 days ago
BRB
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Kes, engine mounts!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Kes–ooohh–you’re getting devious now.
glenn

7 days ago
PPO, just tell me where they are and I’ll “repair” those engine mounts…
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kissinger sucks.
Harleigh

7 days ago
Kes,
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Kes–silly, the engine mounts are under the engines!
glenn

7 days ago
glenn, er, above on a 757
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
You can tell what a mechanical genius I am, glenn.
kesmarn

7 days ago
PPO–details, details!
glenn

7 days ago
Oh… I feel better now, PPO!
kesmarn

7 days ago
I see that Madeleine Albright apologized for telling all of us women to go to hell.
kesmarn

7 days ago
Hey sabreen, long time no see!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Kes–and if the engines did fall off, trump’s plane would probably still fly just from all of his hot air!
glenn

7 days ago
Hello Planeteers. I hope everyone is well.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
I once drove an old Honda Civic (with a busted motor mount) from Ohio to Massachussetts. Of course I didn’t know it, at the time.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Sabreen!!!!
Harleigh

7 days ago
and so she should, Kes
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Hey Sabreen! How are you?
glenn

7 days ago
Glenn, he is a human zeppelin…
kesmarn

7 days ago
Hey, Sabreen!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kes–LOL!
glenn

7 days ago
Hey Lady! How are ya? I have missed you.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
KT–Don’t much about cars (or airplanes), but didn’t that Honda make a lot of noise?
glenn

7 days ago
KT, we drove a Thunderbird to TN and back and about 1 day after we got home one of the wheels fell off!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kes–Oh my!
glenn

7 days ago
And then, drove it back to Ohio! 900 miles, each way! I guess the angels of my better soul were watching and helping!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
That made me a theist, glenn! ;-D
kesmarn

7 days ago
LOL kes
Harleigh

7 days ago
Don’t know much….
glenn

7 days ago
I’m well. I’ve missed all of you, too. Busy, busy, busy. I’m working tomorrow so I can’t stay long. It’s these damn holidays. I didn’t realize that there are greeting cards for everything
Sabreen60

7 days ago
How do we think SC will go?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Ah, I love it, Homie. We we’re risk takers and heart breakers!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I’m afraid that is all too true, Homie. It’s a miracle I’m still alive.
kesmarn

7 days ago
Howdy, back now!
AdLib 7 days ago
I feel sorry for the millenials. Too much nanny state in their upbringing!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I think probably tRump and HRC
Harleigh

7 days ago
Sabreen, does your work involve greeting cards?
kesmarn

7 days ago
PPO–Trump will win the repubs; with cruz in second (for the evangelicals) and I’m not sure about the Dem side.
glenn

7 days ago
glenn (shudder)!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO, it looks as though Hillary will take SC, from what I’m reading.
kesmarn

7 days ago
I think she has a substantial lead there. But she did in Iowa too.
kesmarn

7 days ago
PPO–the donald makes me shudder every time I read about him!
glenn

7 days ago
kes, if she doesn’t, how will that go down? will she still have enough superdelegates to make it meaningless?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Catching up on earlier comments but I think the reason Hillary mentioned Kissinger’s compliment is because she’s trying to position herself as someone who can negotiate with Repubs. But very bad decision to use him to accomplish that goal.
AdLib 7 days ago
kes – I started this part-time job in Nov working for American Greetings. I thought I’d just go into stores and straigthen up the card displays. Wrong. It’s a lot of work. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to do this.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
Hey Sabreen and Murph!
AdLib 7 days ago
I’m not too sure, PPO. I’m hearing that super-delegates can change their commitment, but I don’t know for sure.
kesmarn

7 days ago
Hillary is gong to take SC and most likely NV. Bernie’s big lovers are in the Yankee states…I love the Yankee states, btw. My home away from home is Cape Cod. I lived in Boston for a decade.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ad, I think she has enough cred in that department without invoking the war criminal. big Mistake IMO
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
i’m a proud Yankee.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Amazingly, I knew someone who worked for American greeting, Sabreen — quite a while ago — doing the same thing. It was hard work!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Sabreen, sorry to hear you’re working so hard!
glenn

7 days ago
Oh, BTW, is Trump saying anything about Carrier sending 2000 jobs to Mexico?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
after 6 Bn Profit?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
I’m hearing a deafening silence on that one, PPO.
kesmarn

7 days ago
I do agree that Hillary will win SC but I think Bernie will be seen as a winner for narrowing her hard-to-maintain huge margin. It’s not really fair, typically all races narrow that have such a huge margin and Bernie is working it hard in SC to beat expectations. I think he will but still loses to Hillary. Then again, it’s after Nevada and if he dooes well there, he could have more momentum in SC. Still, he won’t win there.
AdLib 7 days ago
Well, I’m not focusing too well tonight; very tired. Plus, soccer season is on again, and I need to get up early tomorrow, so I’m calling it a night. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Feel better, Kes, and try not to work too hard, Sabreen. Take care, all.
glenn

7 days ago
I really don’t understand the “war monger,” label that Hillary has been saddled with. What war, has she promoted?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
kes – I wish I had talked to you before I took the job. I like working the hours I want (although AG tells you how many hours you can work at each store) and I like working alone.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
g/night, g. Sleep well
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
G’night, glenn and thanks for the good wishes!
kesmarn

7 days ago
War is one of those words that has no longer a definite description.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
nite glenn
Harleigh

7 days ago
Good night glenn. I hope we can hang longer the next time. Take care.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
Sabreen, I like working independently too, but it seems now they expect three peoples’ work from one employee.
kesmarn

7 days ago
PPO – It’s true, Superdelegates can change their allegience at any time and that happened in 2008 when Obama won the majority of primaries. Hillary was trying to win despite that, using Superdelegates but the defections to obama ended that dangerous conflict.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey glenn, sorry I missed you! Take care and be well.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
So true, kes.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
I’m pretty irked with her for taking the tack of accusing Bernie of working to undermine the President all along.
kesmarn

7 days ago
KT – Hillary has been a war hawk through much of her career, she threatened to bomb Iran even.
AdLib 7 days ago
Night Kes, feel better!
AdLib 7 days ago
OOps… I think that was glenn who left, AdLib… Although I am fading here…
kesmarn

7 days ago
there hasn’t been a legitimate declaration of war since WWII. We must be really careful of what we call “war.”
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Kes – It won’t work, in the focus group, they saw right through that untrue claim.
AdLib 7 days ago
Oh, glad you’re still here Kes!
AdLib 7 days ago
Good to hear that, AdLib!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Some of her ‘tough’ talk has really been kinda weak so she stupidly over did it. LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
Harleih, please explain.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
She was all about going hawkish in Syria, and yet Kerry seems to have negotiated a cease fire without American troops on the ground.
kesmarn

7 days ago
Kudos to the ladies on PBS for s well-moderated debate. Makes the others look so pathetic and biased
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Murikkka has not won a war since 1945.
Harleigh

7 days ago
This obviously orchestrated dogpile on Bernie by the Dem Establishment along with Hillary is actually helping Bernie, on fundraising and support. It’s transparent, they can’t beat Bernie by attacking him as an outsider, that’s his appeal.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hilllary never suggested sending ground troops into Syria.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Well folks I’m all end. Take care until the next time.
Sabreen60

7 days ago
We don’t need to “win,” in the sense that war is some sort of game. It’s not.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
All too short, Sabreen. Pity. but good to see you
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Take care Sabreen. I hope all is well with you and yours.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
It was the no fly zone she was advocating, Homie. You’re right I don’t think she suggested troops.
kesmarn

7 days ago
G’night, Sabreen!
kesmarn

7 days ago
“In” heh gotta go
Sabreen60

7 days ago
Kes – Good point, Hillary wants a no-fly zone and arming more and more groups opposing Assad…but peace and negotiations may win out. She certainly isn’t supportive of Obama’s views on Syria.
AdLib 7 days ago
I don’t even think a no fly zone is necessarily a bad thing. Boundries, at times, must be established.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I like the way Russia is abiding by the Ceasefire, Ad!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
No– they’ve not agreed on Syria. But when Bernie disagrees, he’s a bad man.
kesmarn

7 days ago
KT – But ISIS doesn’t have an airforce. Who would we shoot down except Russia or their ally, Syria? Then what? WWIII?
AdLib 7 days ago
The only thing is, Homie, you have to be prepared to shoot planes down. And then the consequences…
kesmarn

7 days ago
KT after and since Benghazi! she tried to sound tough by sayin stupid shit like bombing some of the countries that repub chickenhawks want to bomb.she of all people should know that we would lose way too much libya, ukraine, iran, N korea. crazy talk.
Harleigh

7 days ago
Anybody who would honestly think Berne is a bad man, is truly delusional.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Prepared, always. No matter where our intersts may lie. That’s
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO – Putin is a liar and he doesn’t want peace, he wants the Assad armies to win the war but by bringing nations together to get behind a cease fire, Russia is putting more pressure on itself to stop…or maybe face more sanctions?
AdLib 7 days ago
I’ve just realized that Bernie can never be POTUS! If he gets elected, what’ll happen to the Christmas trees and Turkeys?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Hannuka ham!
Harleigh

7 days ago
Saying, and doing, are not always the same thing. Just consider, for a moment, how our enemies see us. Weak? or Strong?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
H!!!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO – You’re right! Then The President will be orchestrating The War on Christmas!
AdLib 7 days ago
Is he going to follow through with the infamous Obama war on Christmas?
kesmarn

7 days ago
Jinx!
kesmarn

7 days ago
Santa will have to be careful he avoids those no-fly zones if Hillary’s in…
kesmarn

7 days ago
Well have to wait until August, 2016, for the new war on Christmas. You know it’s coming. Orchestrated by the RW loonies, of course.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
FOX’s annual tradition.
kesmarn

7 days ago
kes, he’ll get an escort of airplpanes that cost $300million each!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT – I don’t buy that line about the US being seen as weak because we didn’t bomb Assad. Russia needs Assad there, it’s their only base in the region, they would have brought their military in anyway.
AdLib 7 days ago
From Boeing and Halliburton.
kesmarn

7 days ago
I am so waiting for the last of her emails prove more nothing. LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
They usually start that bullshit by August.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
The emails are truly a non-issue.
kesmarn

7 days ago
kes…. as is Benghazi and all the other shit they’ve been throwing, but it won’t stop them doing it.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Harleigh – Agreed, I don’t believe there is anything negative in Hillary’s emails but it seems like some in the FBI or Pentagon are trying to damage her.
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad, would anyone be surprised that the Pentagon doing that?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Right, PPO. Now the Clinton Foundation and some of their activities… I’m not so sure that’s all been above reproach.
kesmarn

7 days ago
Ad I didn’t qualify exactly what could be seen as weakness. You could substitute a number of scenariors for such an arument. That fact is, we cannot be seen, by those who are against us, as being weak, soft, complacent, or otherwise.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Kes it’s one of the staples at the Hill and Newsmax, where I go to let off steam by poking the shit out of teabaggers. LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
The email thing, Harl? Wow… they need to give it up! 🙂
kesmarn

7 days ago
Rubio is still playing his recording about Benghazi. That’s why he claims she’s not eligible to be President. How about having an MP3 player where your brain is supposed to be, Marco? Doesn’t that disqualify you?
AdLib 7 days ago
If my neighbor, who is threatening me, sees me as being weak, then he’s liable to do do something that would not turn out good, for either of us.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
RobotRubio is really going to stick with him I’m afraid.
kesmarn

7 days ago
KT, until he tries and finds that there is a mailed fist behind the velvet glove
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
If that neighbor sees me as someone not to be messed with, then it’s very likely that peace will prevail.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO – There should be an investigation into the Pentagon and FBI on this and anyone leaking about the emails should be prosecuted. This is illegal interference with a US election.
AdLib 7 days ago
Let me tell you another funny… now they are back with a committee on the IRS yet some more!! LOL
Harleigh

7 days ago
You lost me on that one, PPO.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Waiting for the investigations on Trump!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT, OK, a fuckiing great sledghammer behind the velvet curtain
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT – The question is, is seeking peaceful resolutions what some will claim is showing the US is weak?
AdLib 7 days ago
Well, dear Planeteers, I think I may have to call it a day — or a Nyquil — or something. Have a great weekend and stay warm!
kesmarn

7 days ago
there will be no serious investigations, at this point in the election process. That will come for the two who are nominated.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Thanks for hanging in Kes! Sleep well and dream of Nyquil angels!
AdLib 7 days ago
OK, KES, Be well and take care of yourself
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
sure Ad. There will always be assholes like that.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
nite kes
Harleigh

7 days ago
kesmarn

7 days ago
Hilary descibed this perfectly, when talking about negotiating from a position of strength. You have to. Otherwise, what is the point?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
The world understnads strength. Is that “enlightened?” Of course not. That is just the way the world is. Always has been.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Harleigh – What a surprise, the Repubs in The House attacking Hillary for Benghazi for years, Planned Parenthood based on bogus videos and now the IRS based on bogus charges of attacking Repub groups. Not one legit investigation over all these years until the Flint hearings began…but have been sabotaged a bit by Repubs whoo wouldn’t call Snyder or the city managers.
AdLib 7 days ago
Denying that is like trying to piss up a rope. It doesn’t work.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
KT – How do you negotiate from a position of strength against Russia in Syria?
AdLib 7 days ago
Good question al
Harleigh

7 days ago
or china in pacific or NK
Harleigh

7 days ago
Ad, reimpose sanctions on Russia until they pull their heads in, leave Crimea and back off the Ukraine.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Don’t forget it was sanctions that brought Iran kicking and screaming to the negotiating table. Sanctions can be an effective weapon. the alternatives are scary.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO these 2 countries are part of the Iran deal… we gotta be real careful, and they know it.
Harleigh

7 days ago
Hey, long time no see Fergie1!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Ad, because we have such destructive military power, and NATO. Is Russia going to go nuclear? Of corse not. They and we have been through that nonsense already.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO – We haven’t removed the sanctions on Russia so they can’t be reimposed.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey Fergie!
AdLib 7 days ago
Oh, I stand corrected, Ad. Well, make ’em more stringent, then!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
well i gotta work tomorrow. later guys.
Harleigh

7 days ago
see ya Harleigh
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Het Florida, good to see ya again. Don’t be such a stranger, next time!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO – As with Iran, we can only make sanctions work if we have other nations alongside us. If they won’t agree to greater sanctions, the US can apply sanctions against Russia but they can get around themby simply going to other countries instead.
AdLib 7 days ago
LOL, PPO!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Wow, only on the net I could type those letters and it would be understood by someone else. Very cool.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Harleigh left before I could say bye! Bye anyway!
AdLib 7 days ago
KT – LOL PPO, RIP GOP.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hey Ad! Just tuned in and think I’ll just ‘observe’ at this point! Just catching up!
Fergie1

7 days ago
Totally cool, Fergie!
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad.
Fergie1

7 days ago
How do you like Trump promising now to be PC and not swear anymoore because it’s hurting him in the polls?
AdLib 7 days ago
America, in combination with a few other nations, has realized that world wars are not any sort of solution to the world’s problems. We will be cursed with little, regional, “conflicts.” As we have been for the last decade or more.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ad, I see that lasting as long as it takes someone to call him a loser!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Or, mention Megyn Kelly!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT – It will be interesting to see what Climate Change brings aboout, as nations start losing potable water and fertile farmlands. Might an era of nations invading other nations come about?
AdLib 7 days ago
fuck Trump. He is in no way, going to rise to the level of a presidential nominee. if he does, he’ll never win a general election. Should we ignore him? Absolutely not, but let’s not give him any more time in the American consciuosness.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Agreed, PPO. Trump is addicted to profanity, he’ll fall off the wagon any minute!
AdLib 7 days ago
Saw Trump on CBS Morning News and he was red faced. Very strange makeup, or Blood pressure!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO – Viagra overdosing?
AdLib 7 days ago
Oh, was that his knob I was looking at? well, that explains everything!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Saw it also PPO and thought he was sunburnt! Must say he was very “toned down” in his rhetoric. Interesting?
Fergie1

7 days ago
Fergie – If he wins the GOP nom, Trump will really get burned.
AdLib 7 days ago
Nobody, who has the mentality of a Jersey mob boss is going to reside in the white house.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Fergie, I reckon he was careful with people like Charlie Rose and Gail and Norah. Way too intelligent to put up with shite.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
KT, Nixon?
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
The last person who had such a mentality was Richard Nixon.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
PPO, WOW! You beat me too it. That’s very, cool.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
In GE, Trump would be slit open and fileted becuase you can’t just debate on Fox then.
AdLib 7 days ago
Here’s hoping Ad. Just heard from some of my friends in SF that they are hearing that if Sanders is the Nominee, they would vote for Trump! In my liberal SF? WTF!
Fergie1

7 days ago
Scary thought, Fergie!
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Oops! Not that my friends would vote for Trump but that they are hearing that other people would!
Fergie1

7 days ago
Fergie – I remember all those types of threats from Hillary PUMAs back in 2008, if Obama won they would vote for McCain. That childish “holding my breath till I turn blue if I don’t get my way” didn’t work out too well.
AdLib 7 days ago
Fegie, I utterly despair sometimes about Democrats not being able to combine in a united fashion.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
I think that Trump is more slippery than many are giving him credit for. Who would have thought that he would get this far?
Fergie1

7 days ago
Fergie – Always remember, Trump has maybe 35% of the GOP, meaning 65% aren’t behind him and the GOP only has about 24% of voters in the nation so he’s only got around 9% of Americans behind him.
AdLib 7 days ago
Sound bites, fear mongering and the current mindset of nongs who nedd a text for anything to penetrate for more than 5 seconds.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Agree Ad. Similar to: ” if Bernie doesn’t get the Nom, I’m not voting for Hillary.” Makes my blood boil.
Fergie1

7 days ago
Here’s hoping, Ad, that the DNc gets its act together soon. time will fly now till NMovember
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO – But that is a small minority of voters. Keep in mind, Trump polls negative with 40% of Repubs! Much higher with indies so in a real open election, the chickens all come home to roost for him.
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad, I’m interested in this figure of 24% GOP voters. I haven’t done my ‘homework’ on those stats. But how in the world does any Repub get elected then?
Fergie1

7 days ago
Fergie, even thoough I support Bernie in the primary, I have no patience for any Bernie supporters who claim they won’t vote for Hillary if she wins. They want Trump instead?
AdLib 7 days ago
Ad, yes, but as the field narrows, the sheep who are agin’ him now will follow the bellwether and meekly trot into the slaughterhouse.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Indeed PPO. But think of all the Progressive groups that will come out big time against Trump too.
AdLib 7 days ago
Oh, let it be so, Ad.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
Fergie, I think Dems only have about 32% of voters, a near-majority are unaffiliated Indies.
AdLib 7 days ago
Well, I have to go do the shopping, so better say cheerio till next time. Nice seeing you again fergie. take care, Ad.
pinkpantheroz

7 days ago
PPO – Some Repubs may but consider why the GOP is so desperate to find a single estab Repub to get behind. They know that Trump and Cruz will spell disaster foor their entire party all up and down the ballot. If they thought Trump being their nom would help their party, they wouldn’t be battling him.
AdLib 7 days ago
Seeya PPO!
AdLib 7 days ago
Thanks Ad. Got it. Interesting. It was all so different ‘back in the day.’ I’ve kep up as much as poss. but there are gaps! How do you type that fast?! 😆
Fergie1

7 days ago
I was hit by lightning while blogging one day and have the super power of fast typing!
AdLib 7 days ago
Bye PPO. What’s for dinner?!
Fergie1

7 days ago
If only I had been running instead!
AdLib 7 days ago
Not for office, really running that is.
AdLib 7 days ago
Good one Ad! My emojis aren’t working! I understood the running bit!
Fergie1

7 days ago
I knew you did, just joking!
AdLib 7 days ago
How are things going politically in your neck of the woods?
AdLib 7 days ago
Got that too Ad! Now I’m getting silly. Must be time for me to say adieu!
Fergie1

7 days ago
Sounds good, have a great weekend, Fergie!
AdLib 7 days ago
Politically in Australia, it’s boring as all get out. Of course we have a conservative PM who wants to privatize Medicare, who continues to detain boat people on Narau, etc.etc. etc. and who is floating the notion of raising the GST ( VAT) to 15 %. Other than that……..?
Fergie1

7 days ago
Ouch! Does he have much support?
AdLib 7 days ago
Not on the raising of the Goods and Services (GST). The 1%ers don’t care of course. There are demonstrations re the boat people but by and large not Yuuuge!
Fergie1

7 days ago
It’s hard to rally huge support for immigrants now thanks to ISIS attacks.
AdLib 7 days ago
Ok I really am going to say ‘night, cheerio and take care. Thanks as always for your lovely welcome. Agreed re the difficulty of garnering support a/c ISIS attacks. Still all very inhumane. Night Ad, take care. P.s. There is a great program on here called Planet America. More later.
Fergie1

7 days ago
I like anything with the word Planet in it! Great seeing you! Take care and see you soon!
AdLib 7 days ago
What is this process? To an outsider it is insane,surely the American people in numbers will see the light….mmm,maybe not
Beatlex

7 days ago
Hey Beatlex! Have no fear, there’s always been a percentage of Americans who are racists and morons but they are a minority.
AdLib 7 days ago
Hi Adlib,good to “see” you! I canna stand no more!
Beatlex

7 days ago
Eat your spinach!
AdLib 7 days ago
Skype call! BBS
Beatlex

7 days ago
Ok!
AdLib 7 days ago
sorry folks. Did everybody say Bye bye?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ad? what up?
Beatlex

7 days ago
Is the the B?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
That was supposed to read…Is that the B?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Dat’s me
Beatlex

7 days ago
I shouldn’t have eaten that tab of acid! Whew!….Just kidding. It was a cannabis brownie!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
How goes it B?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
MMM Kill! I am jealous…
Beatlex

7 days ago
I know the feeling. My daughter lives inOregon, where buying ggod bud, is like buying a 6 pack of Pepsi. I’m in Ohio, and still have to deal, the old fashioned way. But. I do get what I need.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Hill??
Beatlex

7 days ago
Hello? Ground control to major Tom?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Beatlex

7 days ago
Bad request?
Beatlex

7 days ago
Oooo, what does “bad request mean?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
New one on me KT
Beatlex

7 days ago
That was very strange. Never saw that before.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Beatlex

7 days ago
What do they mean by, “bad?” That could imply a whole lot of nasty things.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Too weird KT
Beatlex

7 days ago
Man, it really is. I have never seen this before. I can undertand a glitch in software, but this is just weird.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Do you have some sort of Canadian virus? Just kidding B!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I will try another…

Ha K!

Beatlex

7 days ago
Great tune.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ad, are you about?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Don’t seem to be KT
Beatlex

7 days ago
b, are you doing OK, health wise? I sure hope so.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
A lot better KT,I had a lot of abdominal pain for months,almost a year.++Truth Alert++
Beatlex

7 days ago
I kicked a opiod addiction! True stuff. I am on my way to recovery
Beatlex

7 days ago
Damn, that’s rough. I live with a lot of lower back pain. Sometimes I can barely get out of bed. Thankfully, it only occurs a few times a year, but when it does…….fuuuck!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Fantastic B. I’m an alcoholic, who has been throught 5 treatment programs. Addiction is a real mother fucker. I stayed away from alcohol for 16 years, and only drink on rare occasions. I do use a lot of cannabis though. It is truly a wonder.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Everybody is different, when it comes to addiction. There is no,”one size fits all.”
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
There are so many of us,survivors,so many of my contempories have passed.I should be dead,but I am strong,apparently,I could tell you stories,as you could tell me.An addicts life is tough
Beatlex

7 days ago
Beatlex

7 days ago
That it is B. But, do you know what I have found, in my own life? I have found a way of viewing the world and my place in it, that has really brought me a great contentment. People always say they’re looking for happiness in their lives. As well they should, but they usually look in the wrong places. I don’t believe in a constant state of happiness. (you know what I mean). I am am thrilled, by being able to maintain a constant level of “contentment.” I realize that things change. they always will, abd nothing is permanent.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
b, I think some entity in my cable company is not letting your videos play. An international thing, most likely. Great choices, BTW.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
As I have gotten older I have mellowed,I was a hellion in my youth K, well into adulthood.
Beatlex

7 days ago
I hear ya B. I had a great love affair with LSD (and any othe hallucinegen I could get
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I also experimented with heroin, coke, and free based coke (crack). I only did free base about 3 times. I didn’t really like it.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I can relate. I was also a wild child.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I did my first hit of “Brown Barrel”acid in 1969,at 14. A week later I almost jumped off of a Ferris Wheel!
Beatlex

7 days ago
A week later? Do you know why you felt that way?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I have to say, I did acid about 200 times, probably more. I only had one bad experience. The rest of the trips were unbelievably fun. Sometimes a bit scary,like a rid on a roller coaster, but always fun! Great fun.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Because I doubled the dose,and went with a very beautiful girl to our yearly Fair,and lost it.I even jumped off of a moving motorcycle.
Beatlex

7 days ago
Glad you didn’t hurt yourself. Lady luck was on your side. I once jumped out of a Jeep, going about 35 miles an hour. I was drunk, at the time and only ripped my thumb nearly off. I didn’t eben really feel it…till the morning came.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Ah, crazy youth, huh? I wouldn’t take back a minute of it. It was good schooling.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
We have much in common K,It is comforting to me to know that there is other people who are kindred souls to me
Beatlex

7 days ago
absolutely B. That is what I call, genuine spirituality. Realizing we are all basically the same. The same life struggles. Nobody, no matter how wealthy, is immune to life and the costs it extracts from us all, in the end.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Does this one come thru Bud???
Beatlex

7 days ago
Beatlex

7 days ago
Shit KT!
Beatlex

7 days ago
I think there is some sort of internet provider problem with videos?
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I don’t know why
Beatlex

7 days ago
b, I know your love of the Beatles, and particularly, George Harrison. You have a great appreciation for music, and I really respect that.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I am surprised I am still alive KT,really,I should not be here..!
Beatlex

7 days ago
so many people just don’t know how influential those guys were.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
They were,and are,MAGIC KT! Nothing comes close to them for sheer genious
Beatlex

7 days ago
Same here B. I have been in three horrific car crashes, numerous fisticuffs and bar brawls, and some other experiences that should not wisely be aired.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I’ve has a .45 automatic hangun thrust in my face, in dark parking lot, with the owner of said gun, telling me how much he would like to kill me. That was an eye opener. Fo Sho!
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Car crashes? I have been lucky in that regard. I have never been at fault in an accident in 40 years of driving! Really
Beatlex

7 days ago
I wasn’t always the driver. But. I was at fault, once.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
I have always been cool to drive..even when I was pissed! I don’t take those kind of chances anymore
Beatlex

7 days ago
This?
Beatlex

7 days ago
Beatlex

7 days ago
FUCK IT
Beatlex

7 days ago
I once, with a very good friend, drove 900 miles to a Cape Cod. My friend and I both took a 4 way of window pane, bfore we started our journey. (a real life trip). It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and I’ an old fucker.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Did you ever do needles KT? That was a scary time for me,But I did quit it
Beatlex

7 days ago
Never mind
Beatlex

7 days ago
Yeah. I am sorry to adnit it. I tried heroin, only 4 times. It was so good, that I thought, nothing should make me feel this good, without some sort of big payback. I didn’t do it any longer. I did, however, like to shoot coke. I was never financially secure enough to do it as I would have liked. So, in a way, poverty kept me from a great many bad outcomes. Thank goodness, eh”
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
This is true learning B! bless you for this. Long may you run, as Neil Young once said! (a fellow Canadian).
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
No kidding hey? I like to think that I am as intelligent as your average Rock Star,sans the money to actually burn right out,I surely would not be here
Beatlex

7 days ago
B, I don’t see any damage to you intellect, at all. You are stronger, and wiser, for your experiences, and as you say, we’re lucky to still be here! I can’t explain it. I don’t even want to. I just enjoy the time I have.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
There are some of us that DO survive K, mental toughness is needed to make it through IMO.
Beatlex

7 days ago
I think my dad instilled that in me, and not always intentionally. He told me, before I was shipped off to Marine Corp boot camp, that I’d never make it. He said I was too weak. That pissed me off, to no end. That was the driving force behind my every effort to prove him wrong. And I did. Later, I realized what my dad had done for me. He knew that if he told me I’d fail, I would do everything inmy entire being, to prove him wrond.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
It’s amazing how smart our parents become, as we get older! ‘)
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
My Father died when I was 1,killed in Germany in 1956,leaving my Mother alone with 4 kids…and her youngest born 4 days after He died. She,we,had it rough after that
Beatlex

7 days ago
Damn B. I can’t imagine what that must have been like. Life can be a real mother fucker at times.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
but, I have to say, what’s the alternative? There is, if we allow ourselves to see it, tremendous beauty in the world.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
We just need to not take ourselves so seriously. A great novelist, that I’m very fond of, once said. We’re all just here to fart around and have some fun before we die,.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
My Grandparents saved us.Taking us in here in Canada.They were from humble stock too,but helped my Mother through the tough years that followed,Of course I never knew until lter how much they had helped
Beatlex

7 days ago
Nothing we do or say, lasts forever.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
That’s always the way B. We never true know how much our protectors and care givers give, until we’re older. The Irish have a very unigue way of dealing with that.
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
B, take care of yourself. I look forward to doing this again, sometime. I must close for now. “Golden Slumbers.”
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Cool Man! Love you,and anyone who has survived our lot in life!
Beatlex

7 days ago
Good Night KT…It’s been real
Beatlex

7 days ago
KillgoreTrout

7 days ago
Love you Man! really,one of my Faves!
Beatlex

7 days ago

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