I'm easy! Gimme dino what you can find.

Which did/do you like best, the long monday ITMtyme, the MAGAzean or the Sunday Paper like editions ? . .

Love to pester, but guessed you were more a 40-something. Guess that means we have to meet next time I’m down there.

So many people associate Trump with the Empire, but it is just not so, at least most policies

Small world!

Thankfully, doge found a few million creatures or invisible non creatures mooching and they had them removed from the SS roles; so now, hopefully , the program can survive under it's own weight.

If Trump is not controlled, then why haven't the doors to the Gold vault in Fort Knox been opened as he and Musk promised they would be after his inauguration? Was he convinced not to open them? Or ordered not to?

If any country has been considered "rebel scum" (reference to Star Wars), it is America. I wear the moniker of "rebel scum" proudly.

No, if Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged today, the basis for the character would have been a close friend of mine named Albin Czernichowski. Dr. Czernichowski built the plasma arc reactor in Cold War Communist Poland but would not give it to the Commies. He didn't make money off of it until 2006-2009 when we both joined the same company. The plasma arc reactor is the proper name for Mr. Fusion from The Back to the Future movies. When Obama decided to fund our solar energy competition, we read Atlas Shrugged as a company and shrugged (i.e. sold the company). It was very sad, but the proper thing to do. Only this year have I come out of shrugging in a completely different industry.

You saw how nice it is here in Melbourne, Abaco. That being said, the person accused of arson in January in California got arrested here, where he had returned to his hometown at his sister's and brother-in-law's place. The accused's brother was one of my better students, and has not gone to the dark side.

Perhaps age 58 is a young-in in this community. I shrugged for quite a while, particularly with regard to my UV sterilization device, until I got my shadow banning by Google/YouTube reversed recently. At that point, I un-shrugged in September. In the meantime, I worked on a few other inventions that are getting close to ready to also debut. This quite possibly is my best year ever.

Man, you said it well! Pretty good for a young-in, with just a PhD!

I have to agree. After reading both articles you did a very good summary. Of note both articles are well written and worth reading as they made me think and consider possibilities hereinto not considered.

Of course, you are correct, but (said with sarcasm), I don't think such a person's attention span (to ask for reparations) is long enough to listen to such a complex explanation.

J.D. Vance - a controlled figurehead - maybe?
Trump - absolutely not a controlled figurehead. That is why he is so universally opposed. Most of the time, Trump is right. Certainly he has his times when he is clearly wrong (COVID policy, particularly not firing Fauci), sometimes he makes decisions that may or may not eventually prove right (such as tariffs, on which I think he has eventually been proven right even though I wasn't so sure), and most of the time, he is clearly right and opposed because he is right.

"The great creators—the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors—stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish." - Ayn Rand

Though Trump is philosophically inconsistent with Rand's Objectivism, he does admire Howard Roark. By the way, I would add builders/makers to the list of great creators. Some makers like me are inventors, but all inventors are makers. Trump is more of a builder. Go to one of his golf courses or his hotels. You will see what I mean far more concretely.

Rarely do I disagree with straightlinelogic, but I do in this case. I know the assemblage of brainpower that I am assembling is nothing comparable to Silicon Valley, Israel, or China, but we are making huge strides this year in my little paradise.

It has always been the U.S. against the rest of the world. On occasion, the U.S. discovered countries who had some goals in common with the U.S. (opposing Hitler, Communism (but no longer)), but the reason that America has been uniquely better than the rest of the world is because of its founding principles. As America retreats from its founding principles and gets diluted by the rest of the world, inventors like us disappear ... just like in Atlas Shrugged.

Here's a copy/paste of my response to your other post. SS Ponzi never should have been started in the first place, but since we were forced into it...

"I can agree with you sort of and only part way. It's a mix of a Ponzi scheme and a welfare program. The problem is people like my wife and I (and our respective employers on our behalf) were forced to pay into the scheme (taxed) all of our working lives and we are expecting a ROI (Return On Investment) as if it were an actual investment or savings account. The Ponzi part comes into play when it requires new "investors" to pay into the system to pay off old "investors" who are now collecting because the so-called investment or savings fund has been raided or misspent by politicians since LBJ in the '60s. The welfare (wealth redistribution) part comes into play when people who paid in virtually nothing are receiving full benefits out. The most recent class of these recipients are retired government employees, who are collecting government retirement checks, are now also collecting SS due to a stroke of Biden's pen - a married couple close to me and my wife are now BOTH recipients who never paid in. Politician pen strokes have been raiding the fund for decades. Those of us who were forced to pay in all of our working lives are receiving only a fraction of what we could be getting if the same money were invested in any number of private funds over the decades."

I can agree with you sort of and only part way. It's a mix of a Ponzi scheme and a welfare program. The problem is people like my wife and I (and our respective employers on our behalf) were forced to pay into the scheme (taxed) all of our working lives and we are expecting a ROI (Return On Investment) as if it were an actual investment or savings account. The Ponzi part comes into play when it requires new "investors" to pay into the system to pay off old "investors" who are now collecting because the so-called investment or savings fund has been raided or misspent by politicians since LBJ in the '60s. The welfare (wealth redistribution) part comes into play when people who paid in virtually nothing are receiving full benefits out. The most recent class of these recipients are retired government employees, who are collecting government retirement checks, are now also collecting SS due to a stroke of Biden's pen - a married couple close to me and my wife are now BOTH recipients who never paid in. Politician pen strokes have been raiding the fund for decades. Those of us who were forced to pay in all of our working lives are receiving only a fraction of what we could be getting if the same money were invested in any number of private funds over the decades.

RFK and John Galt are definitely cut from the same cloth. If Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged today, the basis for the character would be RFK.

We all know how much those liberals love their guns. We should not allow liberals to have guns. We should only give guns to people who won't use them.

Socialist Security is alive and well and will likely be the thing that causes the financial downfall of this country. It is the biggest welfare program in the history of the world.

Get rid of Socialist Security too. It is the biggest welfare program in the history of the world, and Republicans are too afraid to go near that one.

I was working at an Alabama state prison (even back then me dino almost never called that place a correctional facility like I was PR supposed to).
My guess is that freshly arrested (as clothed) tranny was being transported from one county to another county where some law or laws were being enforced.
Make no mistake that I DO agree he was a walking violation of the laws of nature.

That would be awesome! We could drive to without crossing that political shit show! I would buy property there, after they lifted the insane gun control rules.

Now THAT is very LOGICAL !