Leaderboard

No. You can't handle the truth.

Jesus. This is so wrong. I’ll try to put this in terms you can understand, as it was put to a large national meeting of banking and financial services executives by Gen. Michael Hayden a few months ago. I happened to be in the room. There is a “big kids table” of powerful, prosperous, stable nations. The United States is at the table. The big European powers of Germany and France sit at that table. So does the UK, Japan, China, Canada and others. Russia does not have a seat. Her economic power and political influence are shrinking, and her politics are becoming less stable and certain. Russia sits at the little kids table. Russia can’t join the big kids table as long as it is ruled by a kleptocratic oligarchy and has such a limited economic base. So each night, Putin goes around to the big kids table and saws just a little bit off the legs of the chairs. Not to elevate Russia, but to bring powerful, stable countries down to its level. Thus, Russia’s reputation is enhanced by bending the direction of great nations towards itself. It’s not only an advantage for people to think they did it; its essential to the strategy.

“I’m not a Trumpkin. I mean, I love licking his balls and defending him at every turn with a whatabout someone else, and I love the way he makes people with common decency upset...that makes me feel good about myself. And I mean, I will continue to vote for and support all the Republicans who enable him and his treason, but .... I don’t use the N word in public, and I don’t drive my car into liberal protesters. So, not a Trumpkin, no sir”

FIFY

Everybody Hurts, sometimes.

The grand bargain was killed by the Freedom Caucus and the Tea Party or as Anastasis calls them, “both sides”.

Sigh. Was the best piece of ass I ever had.

I am in the camp of letting Sam have a true sophomore campaign before I label him as average or worse. He saw only a fraction of the field last season, and while he made some VERY poor decisions and isn't going to amaze anyone with pinpoint accuracy, he also had some moments where he looked like a gamer and nearly beat both USC (in his second game ever) and he almost beat OU. We don't know the full story on Sam at this time. Unlike Shane, where we have seen plenty of empirical evidence as to his ceiling and floor.

At first, I thought the asterisk was part of the name

not a big deal to miss 6 to 8.5, but he didn't make a mistake in that direction, did he. He's a lying motherfucker and he needs to be called out 9 times a day for the 9 outright lies that he tells in public EVERY FUCKING DAY. Demand the fucking truth from the fucking POTUS whoever he or she is.

First thought...

You don't know who I am? I'm Dallas sports royalty.

I have released a statement in response to this:

*There's a huge difference between a 27% corp rate and a 21% rate, because math. I'm against a 21% cut and for a 27% cut because math. I'm pro math. You're pro-Republican. ** Lulz ***Even the dumb ones, tee hee! ****And yet you support tax cuts when they increase spending, see ** ***** Which is something, again, that you have demonstrated no political support for, ever. ****** And one of those sides is the side you carry water for here, because it's YOUR side. And I don't support a balanced budget amendment, you're Goddamn right. I support surpluses during expansion and stimulus during collapse, and balanced budgets the rest of the time. And for that reason I don't support a balanced budget amendment, because situations in real life don't conform to ideological fantasy.

Has anyone suggested making Cloak Room subscription-only? Those lunatics will pay big money to piss all over each other.

*We were and still are in a sustained expansion with the worst starting point in 80 years, one that was fueled by and took advantage of prior capital investments in technology (particularly ERP and CRM systems) that automated many categories of routine work. **Oh, I guess in that case it doesn't matter to you personally because #bothsides, so you might as well carry the water for debt financing fiscal stimulus forever because you're like a libertarian or some other category of Really Serious Thinker.

I was a Republican and am doing rather well, too. Are you going to make these people pull up the billion graphics showing Trump just continued what Obama had started on the economic recovery? Please don’t make them do that. Wtf is wrong with you? You think the twitter account is what everyone is upset about? Start wearing a mask so you don’t huff all that noxious bullshit at your work sites. JFC Not to mention this mango colored turd is literally the opposite of a fiscal conservative. Fuck up trade for his hillbilly backers in Iowa? No problem, he’ll just gift them a few billion. GTFO

Bob Mueller needs to start investigating how marcstanco has 342 positive rep.

I would argue that the professional soccer leagues all squander insane talent even more. They have them playing soccer.

This didn’t age well.

If it requires a screw, does that mean he'll send over the wife?

No, his usage makes sense. Yours was an obvious mistake from a troll with multiple socks. But it's so telling that you are desperate to seize on something like this 6 weeks after outing yourself.

I did. I had just graduated from Yale and was on the run from my bookie. I managed to get to La Guardia and take my roommate’s place on the Peace Corps plane to Thailand. Had a good time with a chick named Beth. Met a dork named Tom Tuttle. Fought some drug traffickers and some commies. Not bad, overall.

Even though every democrat opposed the deficit exploding tax cut, both sides passed the deficit exploding tax cut. Even though the Germans invaded Poland and France, both sides started WW2. Even though the germans bombed Pearl Harbor, both sides bombed Pearl Harbor. In fact, I’m pretty sure American B-52 bombers bombed Pearl Harbor. Both sides are always to blame. So both sides. Both sides.

Uh, do what? I will take the other side of “he has no chance to start a game this year.”

So because we spend too much in areas not called Medicare and Social Security, you support a tax cut that will be financed by cuts to Medicare and Social Security? That's some A+ fucking thinking right there, hoss.

it makes a little too much sense.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Baylor’s football program deserved the death penalty, Ohio State just needs to fire the corch.

Baylor reluctantly got rid of Briles. If Ohio State keeps Urban, then Baylor will have ethical scoreboard on them. How shitty does your school have to be for that to be the case?

We had a long thread about this on Shaggy. Myself and a couple of other posters saw this as Putin's next large push to reclaim former Soviet satellites. Personally, I view the Ukraine situation as a complete foreign policy failure by the United States and NATO, as they were essentially turning their back on the Budapest Memorandum and emboldened Putin even further. We felt that we would be insulated from the type of political interference that Putin deployed in Ukraine and here we are today. Ukraine was a training ground and proof of concept for what happened in 2016. We should have backed Putin down militarily under the Budapest Memorandum and used that as an excuse to fast track Ukrainian membership to NATO, which would have been the beginning of the end of Russian influence and may have led to the ouster of Putin. Putin would have probably calculated, accurately, that NATO was still strong enough to openly defy him militarily and was still all-in on the defense of Europe. Instead, we punted, emboldened Putin, and now Russian influence is coursing through our political veins like poison. Sanctions don't work when the populace is already used to living in 3rd world conditions. The oligarchs are smart enough to dodge sanctions, the Russian people don't really care, the EU is still buying from Gazprom, which directly enriches Putin, so why should sanctions bother Putin? The above video is Putin's goal for the US. We have to make sure it doesn't get to that point. Others, specifically a poster called DSA, formerly Derek S. Atkinson who was an obvious Russian troll, consistently stated that the annexation of Crimea was Russia's legal right, along with rights to ethnic Russian portions of Ukraine. Then the thread went down the WW2 rabbit hole, ethnic Germans, so on and so forth. The reality is that if we pull out of this Russian induced political nosedive, I don't see how war with Russia will be avoidable. Even if we try to sanction Russia to death, Putin will mobilize the moment his seat gets even the slightest bit warm because losing power in Russia is practically a death sentence. It will take a Cuban Missile Crisis style set of balls and political savvy to back Russia off without military intervention, at this point.

Is your name Denny?

Thanks bud. Some days are just a little bit better than the rest. Today was that day. And I was glad for that since Captain Stabby was rolling through for some grub. This is what I served him. It did not suck.

Lola doing one of her favorite things.

I remember when W rebated $1200 to my wife and I in 2008. That was cool. Then the market tanked 50% and unemployment peaked at almost 10%, but hey, $1200 is $1200.

.

So he's having a typical game then

Here is some Russian car/ lip sync tunes to distract us from the problems of Ohio State:

I thought he made a shell corporation out of it.

I dunno. We've tried the whole "quarterback who turns over the ball and loses you games" thing, and I'm willing to give the other side a shot just to see how it works out.

Tree fidy per month. That is $42/year. Sticks with the theme and the answer is always 42.

Thank you for your service.

No, it’s a squirrel cumming.

Carter gets a bit of a shaft as President. He took the mantle with a country broken by Vietnam and Watergate. If the Commando raid to free the hostages had worked he'd have been a hero. That failure led Carter to establish our modern special forces and overhaul our military post Vietnam. The end product of those actions happened under Reagan.