May I ask, have you ever travelled outside the United States?

OP you sound a bit salty...U MAD BRO?

On this point, I couldn't agree more. As for the rest:






Simplistic is more like it.






:facepalm: Awwww, Jeez, Admiral, not that hoary old chestnut, again. No one believes that one anymore. Fuck, even the guys at the Cato Institute say "It’s sort of a silly thing." Although the last clause in your rather unwieldy sentence is telling.






Rights? Forget about rights. Did you ever consider the kind of tax revenue that could be collected from millions hitherto exempt, and that said revenue might offset some of those corporate tax loopholes you're so handsomely paid to exploit? Or were you relying on that Magic Invisible Hand to write a check to cover it?

I'll let J.B. field this one but I'd only add I don't care about "being an american" and think nationalism is one of the worst poisons in the world....How long does someone have to live and work in this country for you to consider them an american?

As far as the comments about "bile" it's pretty rich considering I only really started using it as much in response to the bile that was already being spewed on a daily basis.

J.B. wants to seem to be some kind of peace keeper but it would be extremely hypocritical for anyone to not admit the average poster here emits about ten times as much as I do.

I'm pretty easy on that point: I consider any US citizen to be an American. Immigrate lawfully and take that oath, you're an American. Get born on US soil by accident, you're an American. Race is not an issue to me — citizenship is. And that is a legal construct. This should not be a surprise, as I am a lawyer and presumably lawyers are interested in and supportive of the rule of law.

Ha, a lawyer. Then admit the ferguson prosecution was a complete farce.

Would it really matter? Beyond the anecdotal evidence of whatever like minded right wing twits you happened to be conversing with when you've traveled abroad on your quest for human traffic?

You should also address how illegal immigration is a part of the larger problem of capitalism. You can't claim to support free markets and not understand how they are intrinsically linked to cheap labor supplies.

Would license plate please complete the following sentence.

"I graduated from _________ University with a degree in _______ studies."

How many times have I called you out on your bullshit and made you look like a total and complete fucking buffoon? I believe it's been at least two specific times now. I'd quit while you're ahead. Pleas explain what degree's you have in x studies to make when you spout off with your own ignorant fucking crap.

In other words I nailed it. Have fun in Idealismland. Eventually you will move out and get an apartment in the real world. Even J.B. knows there is a world of difference between reality and theory.

Who exactly among us here, do you believe is the ivory tower egg head who can afford to not live in "the real world"? That would seem to describe the ultra wealthy. This hysterical assertion you right wing pieces of shit love to glibly describe to anyone who doesn't think the way YOU do.

Economics isn't a hard science, and is filled with its share of crackpots....recently universities have been filled with a revolving door of goldmasachs executives who also worked in the government to help destroy the worlds economy filling young minds with free market filth so the study of economics it's self is facing a very dismal future.


Oh yeah, I just remembered you were the stupid piece of shit that posted some dick sucking tripe about how great the koch brothers are....Here's a story that just came out...a grain of sand in the desert of their destructiveness

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/04/3599276/north-pole-koch-lawsuit/

I don't think you really understand how prosecution works either. A prosecutor has an affirmative legal duty not to compel a citizen to endure a trial where the prosecutor, himself, has reason to know, in his professional judgment, that there is no reasonable likelihood of a conviction. Prosecutors cannot put a man on trial simply to satisfy a mob. You are aware that in most cases, the prosecutor will make an indictment decision without referring the matter to a grand jury, aren't you? In this case, however, it was politically impossible to take responsibility for the inevitable decision. A prosecutor with more balls would have simply declined to indict and told the public why.

But in that case "the community" would have rioted...

As for your demand for credentials, I have an B.S. degree from Nowhereville State University in Economics, followed by an M.S. in Economics from a top-ranked state research university where I was a teaching assistant, and then I went to a top law school for the J.D. I was enlisted in the Navy for four years, and held a commission in the Naval Reserve for 16 years. Top Secret security clearance. Travelled to 38 of the United States and four US territories, plus 52 countries. And, here's the kicker: I've been a prosecutor too. Three years. THAT's where I get my ignorant crap from.

Sounds like you are well qualified to explain this.

So you were a prosecutor then you'll admit a prosecutor will rarely side against the cops. You'll admit that the courts and cops don't rally give a shit sbout the vast majority of people they are suppose to" serve and protect" you should concede the main purpose of the legal system is to protect the all mighty private property rights if the rich.


As an economics expect you should concede the incestuious relationship between big business and today's current economic climate. You would admit that Marxian theory for all it's taboo us still considered more valid than praxeology.

All your credentials prove us that your a manipulative sociopath who uses his status in society for your own personal gain. You could use your intelligence and experience to make the world a better place but like. %95 of all lawyers you take the path if the ultra yuppie. But then again selfishness is the greatest virtue in your randian view if the world right?

Jesus, you're so wrong here you deflate most of your arguments. Do a quick search of the percentages of law school grads who passed the bar and their employment rates. If you need help doing the research, there are a shitload of lawyers looking for temp work.

To be clear I was referring to people who have had the level of success that rear claims to have had

The militarization of police isn't just a war against negros in the ghetto it's also a war against you and anyone who isn't an owner of massive amounts of private property.

I do feel reasonably successful (I earn a mid-six figures annual salary and have assets over a million after a divorce), although like anyone else, knowing that there are others who are doing better than me rankles just a bit. I simply acknowledge that jealousy is a stupid motive; jealousy seems to be your animating principle. Coming from a shack in Western Kentucky I feel things have worked out really well for me. But I'm smart, and smart people will naturally do better over time. Top 1% cognitive ability has lifted the Admiral from po' folks to the top 5% of wealth in America; the difference that's held me back, in my estimation, is ethics. I'm too ethical to grab every dollar that's been in front of me to be grabbed. But there are a lot of people who are not smart who got lured into going to law school twenty years later than I did, and I feel sorry for those kids.

So, one sergeant says Darren Wilson didn't know about the strong-arm robbery and you think that means the whole case for his innocence falls apart? Look, any fair-minded person who has looked at all of the evidence would never vote to indict him in this case. And if he had been indicted, he would never have been convicted.

Towards the end of the video you posted, the self-hating honky mentions that the US Supreme Court ruled that you cannot shoot a fleeing felon. The only problem is, yes you can. To quote one of the justices from the ruling in that case: "A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead...however...Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force."

So basically, you're an idiot who cannot look at this with a rational mind and see the facts for what they are: A punk, thug teenager robbed a convenience store, marched angrily down the middle of the road because he was an angry black youth, cursed at a cop, punched the cop repeatedly in the face, tried to seize the cop's gun to murder him, ran off and then double-backed to try to bull rush the cop to kill him, but he got shot in the head and died.

Yeah and I guess he stopped mid punch.... Or one handed punched because of his ape like strength.... To hand stolen shit to his pal


How many people exactly would have to be lying for you to be convinced? You are such a glib little fuckng turd.

So now your in the top %1 of cognative thinkers on earth? Holy shit is there anything you can't do? Why do you even bless us with your're presence? But your actually so ethical and hold your self back from ultra wealth, you're practically a saint! I don't think you could possibly suck your own dick harder than in that paragraph.

You jelly, bro?

If it's any consolation, I tried sucking my own dick once. It was a failure because my mother caught me. I'm real smart for a bunch of things, but not smart enough to do that with the door locked. By the way, the Admiral's dick is very large.

I can't say top 1% cognitive ability on Earth, because there are a lot of people on Earth, but on IQ tests, SAT, and LSAT, yes — consistently top 1%. Far into it, in fact. I could be a Mensa member if that group weren't so full of nerds.

Is there anything I can't do? Fifty push-ups.

As to why I bless you with my presence, I hadn't previously thought of it as a blessing. The Admiral's just a guy who likes to beat off to porn, take drugs occasionally, and bang whores. That's the Plan of the Day for Christmas this year.

i wish Mensa was full of nerds - to me its full of self-important douchenozzles.

i'd rather take drugs and bang whores in my spare time.

admiral, i took the lsat when i was helping my ex study for it, nailed a 160. too much of a computer nerd for law though. she got a 156 and then accused me of making sure she got a lower score on purpose. sigh.

I'm pretty sure people only join Mensa so they can put the Mensa bumper sticker on their car to let everyone know how smart they are.

It's stupid to tell people how smart one is. Rather, it is better to show them. That goes for doing things like buying a Porsche, wearing expensive suits and, especially, expensive neckties, or flashy accessories like an expensive watch. Putting that money in the bank, to replenish the money the ex-wife took, is even smarter. I don't wear a watch, the shirts are from Brooks Brothers, and rarely wear a necktie. Only when I'm meeting someone else who wears a tie will I strap one on. Every time I think of buying an expensive tie I'll dribble some food on the shirt, which can be washed, and be reminded that it could've been a US$500 silk tie. If I'm going to blow US$500 there better be some bitch's slob on my knob. Like tonight. I found a whore who wants the Kink.com treatment and I'm giving it to her but good. Wish she'd hurry up and get here.

To each his own. I like nice cars and interesting watches. I can't recall who it was, but some billionaire or maybe some financial advisor on a radio show suggested that the one thing you should splurge on is a nice car because it's something you'll get to enjoy every single day.

If I were a billionaire instead of just barely a millionaire I might think differently about that. Realistically, though, I don't live in a place where driving is a pleasure at all. In the near future, I think self-driving cars are going to kill the market for private car ownership. With an app in your pocket you'll be able to summon a car to come pick you up, drop you off, and drive away. And when you need another ride, same deal. No sunk cost in that, no fees for parking (which is a real bitch out here in Asia).

Alaska isn't exactly the most pleasurable place to drive either. I don't have it anymore, but a few years back I had a 911 4S cabriolet with the sports exhaust option and nothing beats putting the top down and blasting down the road under the 11pm June sunshine after a long day.

Sweet.

You guys should join

https://netropolitanclub.com

Neapolitan? fuck that, I hate strawberries.

and I don't have time. I'm still having fun working.

Needing welfare does not make you a POS.

Not me. I fucking hate rich people. Especially the kids of rich doctors, lawyers, etc. They have an unearned sense of entitlement. I remember being out for drinks with all the "rich kids" when everyone came back for Christmas after first semester at college. When the bill for drinks/apps came, they all threw up their hands because they're so used to their parents picking up the tab that they just didn't bring any money out with them. They dined and dashed and I paid my bill separately and left a large tip and then never hung out with those guys again.

Peacemaker? Son, you don't exceed 12,000 posts in this place playing at peacemaking.*

Nah. I'm critiquing your effectiveness, and it sucks. You're allowing the Admiral to carry this... well, debate's certainly not the word, and I'll tell you why:

You're making it all about you, Junior, and it ain't, and that's what lets 'em skip substantive points. (Like the fact that even the Cato institute says the Admiral's full of shit.)












* I'm sure that PipsqueakD will emerge from his hibernation and disagree in six months after painstakingly digesting them all.

Hmmmmmm...






"The for-profit hospital chain Tenet Healthcare announced on Christmas Eve that Jeb Bush would be stepping down from its board of directors by the end of the year. Bush, who has served on the board of Tenet since 2007, is starting to cut his business ties as he explores a run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. And there's one obvious reason why keeping Tenet on his resume might not look so good politically: Tenet has benefited greatly from the Affordable Care Act, which much of the GOP base is still committed to repealing."



CLICKY

I get that Leftists and the media lap dogs have anointed JB as the GOP nominee, but the cart's just a little in front of the horse.

Actually they keep trying to say how Romney would be such a great candidate to run again, which is ridiculous. It's important for the GOP to not let the media pick the candidate or let democrats cross over and vote in Republican primaries to pick another unelectable candidate. Democrats always say the Republicans should pick someone moderate like a John McCain who they say they could maybe vote for and then they never vote for them in the general election.

I've known John McCain since I was in 8th grade. I worked on his first Senate campaign. He has no desire to run for Prez again. Quite frankly, he's getting a bit curmudgeonly. But even 8 years later, he still admits that caving to the tea party faggots and bringing on Lisa Ann..err...Sara Palin was a horrible mistake. Otherwise, I think he might have done ok. But shit, if he has another heart attack and dies, that fucking cunt has her hand on the red phone? No thanks.

To answer the shitbag OP, I was on welfare for 3 years. They were my mother's SSDI benefits after she died and I was still a minor. But she paid in for many years. It probably paid for two years of private high school. Does that count?

I'm mixed on Palin. Totally bangable cunt. I'm down with her being a huge mistake, but the fact remains that she had more experience period than the good senator from Illinois. Hell, given the choice, I'd rather have neither of their fingers on the button...didn't we get rid of that and get a "restart" button?

But on the other hand, I think her and her family have really gotten shitty treatment since popping up on the national stage. Sure, her Palinisms are definitely fair game, but when a totally unsubstantiated story about her retard kid not actually being hers is bandied about in the mainstream media, it's crossing the line. Not even so much line crossing, but promoting this and ignoring the O sucking off his blow dealer rumor is just not cricket.

Her church was also burned down in an unsolved case of arson a few weeks after the election and you'd be hard-pressed to find any mainstream coverage of the event whatsoever.

Personally, I think she was unqualified to be Vice President. I think McCain saw she had a 60%+ approval rating as a female governor in a Republican state and just rolled the dice without properly vetting her. I don't know who the 60% of the population were who supported her because everyone I know hates her, especially women.

Ewe betcha!

This from the guy who calls the First Daughters "Sausage and Bulimia". Not that it's neither funny nor apt (it is) but geese and ganders, Barry, it's the same shit.

Anyway, you could take Sausage, Bulimia, Roger Clinton, and Billy Carter, toss in a couple of Quayles for their congenital stupidity, inter-breed the lot of 'em for a couple of generations until you've removed every last redeeming feature from the offspring and you'd still have a family more qualified to live in the White House (or the Naval Observatory, where the Veep lives) than the Palins. I'm working on an National Science Foundation grant to prove this.

McCain was a very common sense republican - good on compromises and got things done. But he caved to their wing's extreme end and he got fucked.

i'm even missing Nixon these days.

When you think about it, so many GOP Veeps just had no gravitas. GHWB was very good--but the GOP turned on him because he was too commmon-sense.Jack Kemp was the Veep nominee in 1996--solid. But shit, they had Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle (don't get me started on his douchebag son--he was too much, even for Arizona), Cheney, potentially Palin. I don't even remember who Romney's VP nominee was. And remember Admiral Stockdale, who got tapped to run with Ross Perot? A great Navy man, but totally wrong for the #2 job.

I'm not a journalist, for starters. I'm just a crabby malcontent with no real voice. I was talking apples vs. oranges media coverage. Plus "Sausage and Bulimia" has a backstory.

I also agree(d) that she was a train wreck as a candidate...with more experience as an executive that the top man on the Dem ticket that go 'round. The fact is that Palin and Obama...throw in Biden, because he's a knucklehead...were/ are unqualified for the tall chair.

Paul Ryan IIRC

It was Ryan. He's my dream date for '16.

I havnt logged in about two weeks and this is what I have to put up with? I'm very offended some one swapped my child murderer avatar with cartman. I don't get it I thought cartman hates liberals

QOTD