Entertainment yes, but handing over the codes to him?

It's like gonzo, we just looking for the edge.

"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
- Hunter S. Thompson

Been given some Komodo dragon chillies. There's going to be pain, so much yummy pain ....

All over, people changing their votes,
along with their overcoats.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today,
they'd send a limousine anyway.

Well before he was globally hated he was Time's man of the year 1938 (although back then the meaning likely didn't care for any political correctness but associated the term with just a very important figure in world affairs regardless of positive or negative implications. Is it the same today or have they changed ?)

http://content.time.com/time/magazin...0539-1,00.html

Looks like big villains are generally missing in recent decades (maybe Putin? but not that terrible vs Ayatollah Khomeini 1979 really terrible - of course it's an open argument who is worse but i doubt Putin undermined Russia in opportunity cost terms if at all - certainly undermined neighbors and some human rights in Russia- vs what Khomeini did for Iran given where a true revolution ought to have taken that country and the impact it had on extremist Islam worldwide as the beginning of a paradigm war against the great "satan" emerging as main theme rather than self improvement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

****ing hell. Thank God they didn't vote in Wendell Willkie.

He was on the cover of Time magazine, July 31, 1939

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendel...y_31,_1939.jpg

They had started to wake up by then?

"Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican candidate for president. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election with about 55% of the popular vote and took the electoral college vote by a wide margin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie

That wiki article appears to paint a slightly different picture to this:

Just ordered this book as a Christmas gift for a friend:

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu


And paraphrasing Cato, I plan to end all my speeches with:

“Furthermore, I am of the opinion that Islam should be destroyed”

Let theses images of a child, days after she started school, now unable to know what happened to her parents under the ruins of their home that was bombed in Syria, haunt us forever when we go to war, because we cowardly cant find better solutions like the idiots we are as species.




A similar age curious mind girl today asked me why does the moon follow us (as if traveling with us) when we drive in a car at night.

We will get it right one day...

Merican Chez:

To be fair, that is pretty badass.

Bud lite??? I deeply offended by the suggestion

Yeah, I only watched the vid bec of your comment. That guy is hilarious, too.

Harry Hopkins...was Roosevelt's most trusted advisor, despised equally by those who hated Roosevelt and those who loved the president but, according to Hopkin's biographer Robert E. Sherwood, considered to be "an Iowan combination of Machiavelli, Svengali, and Rasputin."*

Praise can hardly exceed the above. In fact if I have a tombstone**, it would be grand to have it inscribed with -

He was a combination of Machiavelli, Svengali, and Rasputin.
And he was loved by all.


* From the book: The Last Lion, by William Manchester and Paul Reid.
** Not likely


“Furthermore, I am of the opinion that Islam should be destroyed”

world whiskies awards benriach-16-years-old

From above link:

An olde fashioned sweet shop, boiled sweets such as pear drops on the nose. With time toffee apples appear. A slight mintiness appears on the palate and we are back to the sweet shop – humbugs? A short finish with a spiciness. Overall a fun enjoyable dram that reminds you of your youth, heading out to buy a quarter of sweeties.

Polished mahogany furniture, sweet ginger bread, Japanese incense, butter candy, delicate fruity smoke. Very sweet and well balanced.
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I have never tasted "Polished mahogany furniture", or "Japanese incense" so these references leave me a bit baffled. I assume this is supposed to impress but I'm skeptical of this whole tasting business.

It is Friday. Start drinking now but leave the furniture polished in the bottle and go for something else.

Trump isn't talking about the wall much these days. You might say, Trump is off the wall.

PairTheBoard

Maybe now he's on the fence on the wall.

He should fall off of the wall and be forever known as 'Humpty-Trumpty.'

There's going to be a big, beautiful door in the wall.

Zeno, weather update please.

Very nasty in the morning but by sunset I was able to walk on the beach. Storm blew through with little damage in my area. Others didn't fair too well.

Looks like the Cubs have the stuff. Perhaps they will actually make it to the World Series.

Political war against Saturday Night Live is meta-parody to a yet unseen extreme. This can only get better in a comedic sense if all newspaper editorial review boards are declared lizard people who need drug tests.

I thought that I only had three more weeks of hilarity left but now it looks like The Donald is going to continue the show for the rest of his life. I'm all for it, ofc.