The Liquor Talking

That psycho in Costco, I know exactly who you’re talking about. You’re lucky she didn’t go ballistic on you. I was in there last week and this ditzy bitch (gottah be the same one you ran into) went from sample table to sample table. Every time, she would park her cart so in a way that made it impossible for anyone else to get near.

She’d then hover over the offering, taking her time to select only the very best one. She would then take tiny bites of whatever it was, all the while making a great showing of her savoring every bite. She’d then ask the person doing the demo some stupid question: “So, these bagels are mostly bread, right?” Finally, some old dude had had enough and told her to get a sample and move on.

She completely freaked out! She started yelling that she had as much right to be there as anyone and we had all just better wait our turn. Some manager showed up and at least talked her into moving out of the way. I was hoping the cops would be called and we could see some crazy bitch get tazered.

I know if I had a tazer (hell, even a sharp stick) I would have gotten her to move along.

Chad

Yes, a good tazering or even a jab with a cattle prod is indicated. Yes, she had as much a right as anyone, I just don’t see why people like this can’t exercise their rights so as to not be a pain in the ass to everyone else.

Two Hand Salutes!

Elim

My neighbor’s cat keeps pooping in my flowerbeds. Other than that, he’s a decent cat and it’s been forever since anyone in the neighborhood has seen a mouse. If it was only his pooping in the flowerbeds, I could deal with it, but he simply has to dig up at least one plant in his excavation.

So, I lured him close with a piece of salmon, then caught him and slathered him with catfish bait from nose to tail. He was unhappy and clawed me in his escape.
His owners gave him several baths to get rid of the stench, but I figure it’s worth it in that he’s not dug up a flower of mine for weeks.

I call this a win!

Jason

I’m not a huge cat fan, but being mean to animals isn’t cool. No, it’s not a win. My neighbor across the street had the same problem with our cat, but instead of smearing him with some vile substance, he mixed up some kind of spray that humans can’t smell, but cats loathe. I’d recommend doing something like that.

Two swift kicks to you.

Elim

I agree that we need to fix this illegal immigration fiasco. Sealing the border sounds like a good idea, but can we build a wall that a really determined person can’t get over? In order to be effective, somebody has to watch the thing. What to do with people caught climbing it? Do we shoot them?

I think the answer is simply to make it easier to enter and stay in the US. It shouldn’t take years and the aid of a lawyer to get a stinking green card. I say if you’re willing to work AND pay taxes AND learn our language, that should be all it takes.

Sarah

You’re right that it should be easier. A willingness to work and pay taxes is certainly a plus, but right now, there’s 9.7% of our legal citizens that are unemployed. Yes, yes, immigrants typically take jobs that most people eschew, but if I think if you got hungry enough, you’d take a job picking fruit.

But to answer your question, yes I think it’s possible to build a fence/wall that’s nearly impossible to climb. Even if we can’t make a perfect barrier, it’d be more effective than what we got now. As to people caught climbing the fence, we’d only have to put the zap on a dozen or so before word got out that we don’t want people climbing the fence.

Elim

As long as the liberal media is running the show we’ll never be a “results-driven” electorate. We elected a clown with zero accomplishments, all on image. We’ll do it again, because we’re just stupid that way.

Chris

What I’m not understanding is how outfits like MSNBC can still be in business. I’d think that after a year plus change, we’d be pretty angry at this load of poles they sold us, but as long as the line between journalism and entertainment gets more and more blurred, we’ll just keep electing doofusi.

Elim

I believe in human-caused, global climate change. I also believe it’s a problem that will have to be addressed in our lifetime. I cringe whenever some celebrity opens his/her mouth about it, because 9 times out of 10, they’ll say something idiotic (like Sir Paul), making it 10 times harder to convince doubters like you.

The problem is that nobody wants to listen to some fuddy-duddy scientists talking a bunch of numbers. Five minutes into one of these presentations and I too am looking for the door.

The evidence is here, we just need to find a way to make it interesting and easy to understand without a bunch of hype.

Sol

You’re right that being equated with a Holocaust denier doesn’t make me particularly interested in listening further. For me, it’s not really a matter of the issue being interesting. It’s a matter of plausibility.

From my reading on the subject, there’s tons of things that have a much bigger impact on climate than man. Plus, the data available represents a minute fraction of the time that man has been part of the equation. It’s like saying “See, it’s 72 degrees right now. Yesterday at this time, it was 65 degrees. There’s just not enough data.

Elim