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[A Friend of Charlie]

I am having  Hillary Clinton Lunch, preparing for what is ahead so I will not get left out.

Chipolte Vegie Bowl

Oh yeah, I did not leave a tip either.

That statement makes no sense, so yeah, proper name for your lunch, ya commie.

Spending 3 days trying to save $2 and failed at it makes no sense either.

Damn.  No one got laid this weekend?

Uh...yeah.  But I'm not going to post pictures.

Why not?  No one is on here.

Because then you might feel compelled to post pictures in return.

That's never gonna happen.

[razgueado]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government? 

[A Friend of Charlie]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

What did they go through the joke of a vote for when the government went ahead and conceded everything they were asked for in the first place....

At the risk of talking politics on here, I saw the following and wonder how much of it is true...

• People seem to forget that the Greek debt crisis—which is becoming a European and even possibly a world economic crisis—grew out of a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein.
  
  Several years ago, Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt—and in the process almost doubled it. When the first debt deal was struck in 2001, Greece owed about 600 million euros ($793 million) more than the 2.8 billion euros it had borrowed. Goldman then cooked up an off-the-books derivative for Greece that disguised the shortfall but increased the government's losses to 5.1 billion euros.
  
  In 2005, the deal was restructured and the 5.1 billion euro debt was locked in. After that, Goldman and the rest of Wall Street pulled the global economy to its knees—whacking Greece even harder.
  
  Undoubtedly, Greece suffers from years of corruption and tax avoidance by its wealthy. But Goldman Sachs isn't exactly innocent. It padded its profits by catastrophically leveraging up the global economy with secret, off-balance-sheet debt deals.
  
  Did any of its executives ever go to jail? Of course not. They all got fat bonuses and promotions. Blankfein, now CEO, raked in $24 million in 2014 alone. Meanwhile, the people of Greece struggle to buy medicine and food.
  
  Economists Thomas Piketty and Jeffrey Sachs also have weighed in, writing in The Nation that the results of European austerity in Greece have hit the vulnerable the worst—"40 percent of children now live in poverty, infant mortality is sky-rocketing and youth unemployment is close to 50 percent."
  Debt restructuring must be part of any solution for economic reforms in Greece. But instead of doing that, the European powers have made eleventh-hour, draconian demands: slash pensions, privatize even more core state functions, and attack unions and workers' collective bargaining rights.2
  
  The U.S. can help make things better (instead of worse, like Goldman Sachs did). In addition to diplomatic power, the U.S. has voting power in the International Monetary Fund—one of Greece's creditors.
  
  President Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew can use their pulpits and their votes to yield a positive and just outcome. The Greek parliament on Friday approved a new plan that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proposed, but so far the European parties aren't offering up the debt restructuring that's needed for a real solution and instead are demanding even more draconian austerity measures from Greece to even keep talking.

-Robert Reich

[ss2]

I am going to the house!  Later Folks.

Cya TR

[SLY]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Yeah ... amazing, really one man ... the swing vote ... also key word "sentiment" ... the agenda was masterful in evoking feelings ... going with emotions over reason & the sound thinking that allowed Western civilization and the U.S. to flourish and prosper over the last couple millenia in the first case and couple hundred  years in the latter. 
Cigar talk: Had a Diesel UHC belicoso yesterday evening ... really enjoyed the first 3 inches ... after that, started to get a little bitter ... so I tossed it.

[Travellin Dave]

I am having  Hillary Clinton Lunch, preparing for what is ahead so I will not get left out.

Chipolte Vegie Bowl

Oh yeah, I did not leave a tip either.

That statement makes no sense, so yeah, proper name for your lunch, ya commie.

Spending 3 days trying to save $2 and failed at it makes no sense either.

Damn.  No one got laid this weekend?

Uh...yeah.  But I'm not going to post pictures.

Why not?  No one is on here.

Because then you might feel compelled to post pictures in return.

No, I am not so cruel.

[razgueado]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Cigar talk: Had a Diesel UHC belicoso yesterday evening ... really enjoyed the first 3 inches ... after that, started to get a little bitter ... so I tossed it.

TWSS.

[Travellin Dave]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Sure, every day the 1%ers manage to do that.

[SLY]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

What did they go through the joke of a vote for when the government went ahead and conceded everything they were asked for in the first place....

At the risk of talking politics on here, I saw the following and wonder how much of it is true...

• People seem to forget that the Greek debt crisis—which is becoming a European and even possibly a world economic crisis—grew out of a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein.
  
  Several years ago, Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt—and in the process almost doubled it. When the first debt deal was struck in 2001, Greece owed about 600 million euros ($793 million) more than the 2.8 billion euros it had borrowed. Goldman then cooked up an off-the-books derivative for Greece that disguised the shortfall but increased the government's losses to 5.1 billion euros.
  
  In 2005, the deal was restructured and the 5.1 billion euro debt was locked in. After that, Goldman and the rest of Wall Street pulled the global economy to its knees—whacking Greece even harder.
  
  Undoubtedly, Greece suffers from years of corruption and tax avoidance by its wealthy. But Goldman Sachs isn't exactly innocent. It padded its profits by catastrophically leveraging up the global economy with secret, off-balance-sheet debt deals.
  
  Did any of its executives ever go to jail? Of course not. They all got fat bonuses and promotions. Blankfein, now CEO, raked in $24 million in 2014 alone. Meanwhile, the people of Greece struggle to buy medicine and food.
  
  Economists Thomas Piketty and Jeffrey Sachs also have weighed in, writing in The Nation that the results of European austerity in Greece have hit the vulnerable the worst—"40 percent of children now live in poverty, infant mortality is sky-rocketing and youth unemployment is close to 50 percent."
  Debt restructuring must be part of any solution for economic reforms in Greece. But instead of doing that, the European powers have made eleventh-hour, draconian demands: slash pensions, privatize even more core state functions, and attack unions and workers' collective bargaining rights.2
  
  The U.S. can help make things better (instead of worse, like Goldman Sachs did). In addition to diplomatic power, the U.S. has voting power in the International Monetary Fund—one of Greece's creditors.
  
  President Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew can use their pulpits and their votes to yield a positive and just outcome. The Greek parliament on Friday approved a new plan that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proposed, but so far the European parties aren't offering up the debt restructuring that's needed for a real solution and instead are demanding even more draconian austerity measures from Greece to even keep talking.

-Robert Reich

Thanks Tony for the insights ... where was this published? 

[SLY]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Cigar talk: Had a Diesel UHC belicoso yesterday evening ... really enjoyed the first 3 inches ... after that, started to get a little bitter ... so I tossed it.

TWSS.

I got the feeling when I finished writing, that I had just tee'd it up for someone to knock it over the fence.

[razgueado]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Cigar talk: Had a Diesel UHC belicoso yesterday evening ... really enjoyed the first 3 inches ... after that, started to get a little bitter ... so I tossed it.

TWSS.

I got the feeling when I finished writing, that I had just tee'd it up for someone to knock it over the fence.

It was a short fence, and not far away.  I won't brag about it.

[razgueado]

Probably good that the Greeks have many years of anal entry experience because with the debt deal they just go it will make it easier on the everyday citizen's anus.

Hey TR, good news!  Can't even blame that on the Greeks.  I heard an excellent talk (Part 1, Part 2 is later this week) by the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexuality Is Changing Everything", who did a serious job in researching the subject and quoted from the Greek philosophers showing that it was looked down upon in the Greek culture.  We've had the wool pulled over our eyes in the efforts to make us look old fashioned, out of date and bigoted.  He never quotes Scripture in the book, he relies on the right use of reason, honestly applied. About the Author
Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the US Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of America (2001-2002) and served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985). A graduate of Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, his books include The Closing of the Muslim Mind and Making Gay Okay.

Regardless what reason, or logic, or our particular respective convictions might say, the public sentiment is now in favor of Making Gay Okay, and the Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage, at least, is legal under the law of the land. 

I do find it fascinating though.  Has there ever been so slim a minority that has so thoroughly swayed the public sentiment and the machinery of government?

Sure, every day the 1%ers manage to do that.

The 1%ers sway the government, but public sentiment?  I'm not so sure.

[SLY]

Five years ago: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in Tampa, Florida, nine days after turning 80. The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating the American League 3-1 in Anaheim, California, to capture its first Midsummer Classic since 1996. Vernon Baker, a black U.S. soldier who belatedly received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor in 1997 after historians concluded he'd been wrongly denied the award because of his race, died at his home near St. Maries, Idaho; he was 90.

George Steinbrenner died?  I just saw him recently on Seinfeld.
Next thing you're going to tell me is that Casey Stengel is no longer with us.

[SLY]

Five years ago: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in Tampa, Florida, nine days after turning 80. The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating the American League 3-1 in Anaheim, California, to capture its first Midsummer Classic since 1996. Vernon Baker, a black U.S. soldier who belatedly received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor in 1997 after historians concluded he'd been wrongly denied the award because of his race, died at his home near St. Maries, Idaho; he was 90.

George Steinbrenner died?  I just saw him recently on Seinfeld.
Next thing you're going to tell me is that Casey Stengel is no longer with us.

Sheesh.

[SLY]

Five years ago: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in Tampa, Florida, nine days after turning 80. The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating the American League 3-1 in Anaheim, California, to capture its first Midsummer Classic since 1996. Vernon Baker, a black U.S. soldier who belatedly received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor in 1997 after historians concluded he'd been wrongly denied the award because of his race, died at his home near St. Maries, Idaho; he was 90.

George Steinbrenner died?  I just saw him recently on Seinfeld.
Next thing you're going to tell me is that Casey Stengel is no longer with us.

Sheesh.

Indeed.