The Liquor Talking

So, you’re not waiting until January 1st to wade into the presidential election circus!

That being said, it’s not simply enough to claim you had no involvement with Cain. You have to PROVE that you had no involvement!

We demand copies of all your emails and phone records and tax returns since the beginning of time!

Bruce

Well, kinda. Given all these women popping up with claims against Cain and the mush-head media’s complete lack of journalism on the subject, I couldn’t resist.

As proof that I have had no contact with Herman Cain, I offer this unretouched photo of myself looking at a flashlight:

As you can see, the flashlight is blue, so I believe we can put this matter to rest.

Elim

Okay. Some of what the occupy are saying I can get behind. I saw a sign that said “We need more bacon!” I’m always behind more bacon. However, what I’m not behind is expecting others go GIVE me more bacon.

Look, I know times are rough. I have trouble making my bills every month. I don’t get to buy what I want and as a college student and single mother, I see a whole lot of people who have an awful lot more everything than I do. I would LOVE to be able to go out to eat several times a week instead of trying to stretch a grocery budget. I want to drive a fancy Lexus instead of a 15 year old car. I want to be able to buy my kid everything she wants. I want a freaking dishwasher and my own washer and dryer.

However, I don’t expect anyone to GIVE me these things. Maybe it was my childhood, but I know that if I want nice things, I have to WORK for them. That’s why I bust my tail to work to make money, take 24 credits a semester and raise my child to understand that things don’t come easy or free. I wish I could have whatever I wanted without effort, but guess what? The world doesn’t work that way. I wish the occupiers would realize that change can be effected, but not by creating a mass of mess in front of where other people are trying to work.

People are always going to have more than me. Yet, somehow, I will be able to get what I want by working for it.

Jenni

Who doesn’t need more bacon?

However, when I desire more bacon, I have but three choices: 1. Go to the store and buy more bacon. 2. Ask my wife to go to the store and buy more bacon, or 3. do without more bacon.

A hippie holding up a sign that demands someone else’s bacon only make me want to give someone a boot ride.

You have however hit upon one of my main beefs with these people. Their antics are actually HURTING the people they’re claiming a desire to help. Driving and keeping customers away from small businesses, keeping dock workers away from their work and diverting police away from their principle functions.

So, with friends like this…

Elim

So let me see if I got this straight. You or I do some “insider trading” and we go to prison. A congressman/senator does it and they get rich.

I’m running for Congress!

Pete

That’s my read on it. There’s legislation pending to do away with the loophole, but to me, that only begs the question: How did that loophole get there in the first place?

I mean that someone had to deliberately put the exemption in the bill. Congress voted it in. Who, other than people who want to be exempt from criminal acts does this exemption serve?

I too would love to run for Congress. The only problem is that if I actually won, I would have to associate with other congress critters.

Given the choice, I think I’d rather have to associate with meth addicts. At least meth addicts have a higher approval rating.

Elim

Man, the failure of that “Super Committee” sure died down fast. Last week, it was all the rage. This week, there’s nary a word.

What’s up with that?

Butch

Curious, huh? After the initial finger-pointing, the media has seemed to back off on the story.

It could be that neither side can make any hay out of it, or that the failure of the US Congress just isn’t news.

Elim

I’m tired of these people. I was hoping to see some busted heads as LA evicted its Occupy crybabies. Other groups have to apply and pay for permits to hold their demonstrations. By letting them hold their whiner fest for free, cities are doing the same thing as feeding a stray dog, while hoping it goes away.

Chad

When the Occupy Sidewalks group had their thing in Billings, they coordinated with the city officials, held a really peaceful protest, made their points (such as they were) and went away. I have word that they even set aside the last few minutes of their gathering to pick up around the place and left it cleaner than when they got there.

I don’t think the Billings group is any less passionate than any other group, maybe a little more level-headed on the whole, but even when royally pissed off, you won’t see Montanans trashing their own towns.

Sure, nobody got pepper sprayed or got clobbered by the cops, which meant that only the local media even mentioned the event. Still, they did their thing, said their piece and got on with things.

We have reports coming in this morning that LA has finally moved to evict their freeloaders and it looks like some heads are getting busted.

Which returns us to an earlier question: What purpose is being served by these people getting themselves beat up and arrested?

Elim

Call me a “foil hat” if you must, but I think the big pharmaceutical companies really hate these home/natural remedies. There’s big money in people getting (and staying) sick. Given the choice between finding a CURE for aids and developing TREATMENTS for aids, there seems to be a lot more money in making sure aids doesn’t go away.

What’s the best kind of foil to use for a proper hat anyway?

Jill

Doesn’t sound all that foil hatty to me. Seems that when there are billions of dollars in play, there’s really no depth to which people will not sink.

I’ve heard rumors that a real-deal cure for the flu has been developed, but the drug companies are quashing it so they can keep coming up with new flu shots every year. Dunno if it’s true or not, but given the amount of money to be had, it’s not outside the realm of the possible.

In all fairness though, the pharmaceutical companies do spend a lot of dough developing treatments (and cures) for all kinds of maladies. There’s a lot of people alive today that would not be without the gazillions of dollars spent in research and development of new drugs.

I am however wondering if their focus is more on treating symptoms than curing diseases. I don’t have a problem with either pursuit and they may not be entirely mutually-exclusive. Developing a treatment for say Alzheimer’s, may yield hints about its actual cure.

I’ll admit that I don’t know enough about it to say one way or the other.

Four Hand Salutes for your foil hattery though.

In answer to your question, I’ve heard that it’s the aluminum content of the foil that determines the hat’s effectiveness. The higher the aluminum content, the better it is as deflecting the control frequencies transmitted by the Star Chamber.

Elim

I figured you’d be all over Barny Frank’s announced retirement. What gives?

Mike

Dunno. As glad as I am to finally see him go, I would personally rather see him dragged out in handcuffs or at the very least, voted off the island.

My only hope is that the people that kept reelecting the man won’t send up someone just as douchey.

Elim