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I operated on 5 1/2 hours of sleep when I was working the Navy job and the two jobs before that. In fact, even into my college days I was a short session sleeper. Since I have retired, however, my average has crept up to over six 1/2 hours. When I haven't had enough sleep even by my...

No, I didn't. Jen, people don't mind helping others. Even illogical thinkers and non-thinkers understand charity. With Communism, nobody owns anything anyway so in theory everything is shared. With Socialism, it is about sharing some part of what you own and there, the disagreement is more...

Bee, I have stated this elsewhere but can't recall if I have expressed the idea in this forum. Nor does it matter if I did because it is worth repeating. In New Orleans, we have had our share of nastiness. Hurricane Katrina dealt us a horrific blow, but it wasn't the first. Hurricanes Betsy...

I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump attempt to take the Chinese-held portion of that debt in lieu of tarrif payments. That would take a big chunk out right there.

Socialism, unlike communism, actually has a chance of working with real people. It just doesn't have a chance of working with real-world economics. The practical definition of the failure of socialism is that it ends when you run out someone else's money to spend. Case in point: Greece from a...

Unfortunately, too many people use a bit of mental gymnastics to contort their view of reality and from that twisted viewpoint, they can justify almost ANY bad act - verbal or otherwise. In the case of some of the shooters (USA and otherwise), they have twisted perception of one group into a...

I reserve the intentionally bad manners for those overly insistent PC types.

Ah, Bee... you missed the point. How can the Democrats POSSIBLY object to that phrase since it originated with one of their own? Further proof of the duplicity of the Democrats.

The PC crowd hates me because I call it like it is - including pointing out that their attempt to hide behind political correctness is so they can avoid actually thinking about what they propose.

Absolutely not true, Jen. Communism works perfectly - if you have a bunch of mindless robots. It is when you add free-thinking people that it becomes a bit touchy.

They are all proponents of that old mantra we used to get in school when we exposed a teacher's shortcomings: Do as I say, not as I do. The old double standard rears its ugly head again.

The only thing I really want to hear either of the Clintons say is "Guilty, your honor."

Well, said, Jen. And sadly true.

Not sure how you mean the question. Ignoring the urge to reproduce completely, living a sterile ascetic life? Or merely using birth control methods? Or is your thrust in a different direction oriented towards being selective in a highly specific way?

Lesser people? No. in the context of lesser-sized groups is how that was intended. Sounds like the Yale Law of Communication has taken effect. I know you believe you understand what you think you just read, but I'm nor sure whether you realize that what I wrote wasn't what I meant. Other...

Obviously, Bee, I left out one that you think should have been mentioned. But after Jews, gypsies, gays, handicapped, what did I leave out? Or were you perhaps reacting to "lesser" as opposed to "smaller" ?? That's the only two reasons I can guess for your admonishment.

An exemplar of a variant on the old aphorism - you can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time. Adolph was the strong, charismatic leader that a poverty-stricken nation needed but...

All the players are dead now so all I can do is dredge up ghosts of the past, but... My dad would have been taken away from my grandmother by Child Protective Services if the two of them had been alive in this century. She was generally neglectful, unemployed, and too damned stuck with her...

Have to laugh about "the Irish thing" of deciding who you know in common. We have the "degrees of separation" game here in the USA as well. I drive folks nuts with my "degrees of separation" stories. 1. When I got married, my wife and I discovered that the daughter of a woman with whom I...

At my workplace they didn't do that sort of thing, besides which they already knew I was nuts. Didn't need a psychologist to tell 'em that.