dwy000 Posted June 9, 2025 Posted June 9, 2025 9 minutes ago, Parsad said: Swear to God...the coffee and tea taste better. I'm not sure if it's because of the thinness of the cup lip or design of the lip. The coffee and tea hit the right spots of your taste buds with each sip. Only problem is if you like a big cup of tea or coffee, you might have to pour yourself two cups instead of one, since they don't hold as much. Cheers! It also gets cold really quickly because of the shape and size of the cup.
Xerxes Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 23 minutes ago, Parsad said: I think you also misunderstood what I meant. I was simply saying that Iran is one of the primary state-funders of Hamas and Hezbollah...if Israel chooses a nuclear strike if they feel their existence is threatened, the most likely target is Iran. Ending Hamas at the cost of 2M in lives versus Israel choosing a nuclear strike and 20M in Iran dying. Cheers! I still don’t get it. But I am usually slow on Mondays. So Israel chooses to turn entire cities to ashes in a nuclear strike … because it cannot deal with its own colonial problems that are decades in the making and are a direct product of its own policy. Are they that spoiled ? not saying that Israeli don’t have a tough hand and are not in a rough neighborhood, but seriously are they that spoiled
Blake Hampton Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 See, RFK jr. is already swimming up shit creek: NYT: Kennedy Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria I imagine our country will join him if we have another pandemic.
Blake Hampton Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 I'm young, and I'll admit that I haven't seen a lot before, but is this not absolute batshit lunacy? What is this administration doing to our country? These are some of the most unqualified, radical idiots I've ever seen.
ourkid8 Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, Parsad said: That's garbage! Why aren't the hostages returned if Hamas wants peace? You can blame Israel's government for the humanitarian issues, but Hamas is full of the same stupidity and a level of cowardice that Israel does not display. Cheers! I agree with you, they are both cowards however that’s the situation we are in. I want peace as too many innocent lives have been lost on both sides. Edited June 10, 2025 by ourkid8
Parsad Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 38 minutes ago, Xerxes said: I still don’t get it. But I am usually slow on Mondays. So Israel chooses to turn entire cities to ashes in a nuclear strike … because it cannot deal with its own colonial problems that are decades in the making and are a direct product of its own policy. Are they that spoiled ? not saying that Israeli don’t have a tough hand and are not in a rough neighborhood, but seriously are they that spoiled No, if Iran is funding groups that are seeking the extinction of Israel, at some point they are going to have to go after the head of the snake, instead of cutting off the tail over and over. Cheers!
John Hjorth Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 1 minute ago, Blake Hampton said: I'm young, and I'll admit that I haven't seen a lot before, but is this not absolute batshit lunacy? What is this administration doing to our country? These are some of the most unqualified, radical idiots I've ever seen. What will bring you forward and into the future the best way for you, is that you start minding your own mind and business, in stead of caring of all others mind and business, ref. i.e. several posts by @gfp in this topic adressed towards you. I can assure you, that when you've found your own way to do it and make it working - for you, your way is ... <let it go, i'll get a ban for posting it here> rewarding. Get on to it, and get it going! - Not half a**ed!
Parsad Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 18 minutes ago, Blake Hampton said: I'm young, and I'll admit that I haven't seen a lot before, but is this not absolute batshit lunacy? What is this administration doing to our country? These are some of the most unqualified, radical idiots I've ever seen. You may be young, but you are not wrong about a lot of this stuff! This guy is a fucking lunatic who is going to get a lot of people killed by his disbelief in science and medicine. He's going to start cupping everyone when they get infected by Covid or measles. Cheers!
Parsad Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 1 minute ago, John Hjorth said: What will bring you forward and into the future the best way for you, is that you start minding your own mind and business, in stead of caring of all others mind and business, ref. i.e. several posts by @gfp in this topic adressed towards you. I wouldn't go that far! As I said before, young people have a lot to offer and teach older people...and vice versa. I don't want the younger generations to become apathetic, rich, lazy Boomers who changed the world, and then simply sat on their fat asses so they could tell everyone they were wrong when they were younger and fought for their ideals...what we need is lower taxes, less immigration and no estate taxes! Cheers!
Xerxes Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Parsad said: No, if Iran is funding groups that are seeking the extinction of Israel, at some point they are going to have to go after the head of the snake, instead of cutting off the tail over and over. Cheers! Yeap. Just like Hamas went after Israel in a rampage of raping, pillaging and burning … instead of just their usual run of the mill kidnapping + few rockets ‘Nuff said Edited June 10, 2025 by Xerxes
John Hjorth Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 19 minutes ago, John Hjorth said: What will bring you forward and into the future the best way for you, is that you start minding your own mind and business, in stead of caring of all others mind and business, ref. i.e. several posts by @gfp in this topic adressed towards you. I can assure you, that when you've found your own way to do it and make it working - for you, your way is ... <let it go, i'll get a ban for posting it here> rewarding. Get on to it, and get it going! - Not half a**ed! 14 minutes ago, Parsad said: I wouldn't go that far! As I said before, young people have a lot to offer and teach older people...and vice versa. I don't want the younger generations to become apathetic, rich, lazy Boomers who changed the world, and then simply sat on their fat asses so they could tell everyone they were wrong when they were younger and fought for their ideals...what we need is lower taxes, less immigration and no estate taxes! Cheers! Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], With all due respect to Sanjeev [ @Parsad ], what I was really trying to express above, is that getting involved in the discussions in the Investments Ideas forum here on CofB&B will likely do you more good than hanging around up in the General Discussion forum, the 'Political posts' topic!
DooDiligence Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 Not to change the subject , but how is this guy not in a cabinet level position? https://www.courthousenews.com/mypillow-ceo-doubles-down-on-criminal-election-fraud-claims-in-defamation-trial/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/video/mike-lindell-mypillow-dominion-donie-osullivan-digvid
Parsad Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 15 minutes ago, DooDiligence said: Not to change the subject , but how is this guy not in a cabinet level position? https://www.courthousenews.com/mypillow-ceo-doubles-down-on-criminal-election-fraud-claims-in-defamation-trial/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/video/mike-lindell-mypillow-dominion-donie-osullivan-digvid Because he's broke like Giuliani. If they both had money and something to offer, they would be in cabinet positions. This is the Trump hiring protocol...be a nutjob, hardcore loyal, help me make more money, do my bidding, and respect my authority! Cheers!
thepupil Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 On 2/28/2025 at 6:39 AM, thepupil said: I’ve avoided commenting but I’ll just say that I think what’s happening and the pace at which it is happening appears counterproductive and chaotic and without regards to any kind of logic. i harbored no antipathy to the civil service and most government workers I know (in my DC burb bubble) are highly educated hard working people who work for the feds because they want to a) serve the country b) not work nights/weekends so they can raise families and c) because they often have family money and can afford to make the low salaries of federal workers. Obviously that’s a type specific to my neighborhood. my other exposure to this is my wife is in the medical field and trained at federal government hospital where they are perpetually understaffed in her field. She works in private practice. 2 of her former colleagues are looking to join her which will gut the VA hospital’s ability to perform care…why work for the feds under this admin? that’s just anecdata. For actual data regarding the cost of the civil service,where the growth and bloat is I would point to this paper from Brookings The federal government employees has been flat for decades while the economy and population grew significantly. Most of the growth in spending is with contractors, 60% of which are defense related. gutting the national park service or (pick your agency) to save dollars seems wholly ineffective. Back to anecdata and biased opinions. as a trump hating conservatively inclined person, I think this will swing the country HARD to the left. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/ he got fired, but for whatever it's worth... https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit Quote On the lack of fraud and spending abuse he saw I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent.
DooDiligence Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Parsad said: Because he's broke like Giuliani. If they both had money and something to offer, they would be in cabinet positions. This is the Trump hiring protocol...be a nutjob, hardcore loyal, help me make more money, do my bidding, and respect my authority! Cheers! Dude's so broke, I bet his pillow looks like a teabag. Edited June 10, 2025 by DooDiligence
DooDiligence Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 (edited) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/ceo-of-healthcare-software-company-convicted-for-role-in-1b-fraud-scheme/ annnnnnd https://ground.news/article/trump-commutes-sentence-of-miami-healthcare-exec-convicted-of-medicare-fraud edit: The recent fraudster pardon is for a different guy (my hot take mistake) but you get the idea. The latest conviction of Gary Cox for medicare fraud will also be commuted. Trump has a history of waving a magic wand over medicare fraudsters. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trumps-pardons-included-health-care-execs-behind-massive-frauds Next stop, the senate. Edited June 10, 2025 by DooDiligence
Parsad Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 We're drifting away from the primary subject matter we heard about this week: According to Elon, Trump is in the Epstein files. We didn't get the tax returns...the pee-pee tape disappeared...when do we get the Epstein files? How about it Kash Patel? Do you guys dare release them? Cheers!
adesigar Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 Everyone complaining about Hamas being in power should also look into how and why that happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
lnofeisone Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 8 hours ago, Xerxes said: Yeap. Just like Hamas went after Israel in a rampage of raping, pillaging and burning … instead of just their usual run of the mill kidnapping + few rockets ‘Nuff said I'm with Xerxes here. The most Israel should do is continue to undermine the Iranian regime slowly. People of Iran will take care of the rest. An all-out war is between those two won't be good for anyone.
lnofeisone Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 3 hours ago, adesigar said: Everyone complaining about Hamas being in power should also look into how and why that happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas You can't just look at this in a vacuum. Israel didn't just raise Hamas because they wanted a pet dragon. Israel had to deal with PLO who was causing havoc in the entire region and had a policy of non-negotiation. I can argue that Oslo accords happened because Hamas came to life. The money transfers that everyone is so obsessed with was a calculated risk. Even Bibi acknowledged that. This is why it is ridiculous when some argue that Israel wanted to starve Gazans or whatever other conspiracy theory pro-Palestinians cook up. Yes, Israel was illegally blockading the strip but Israel was allowing money to flow in to pay for gov't services, provided electricity, food, water, and were allowing more work permits into Gaza. All of this was done to keep Gaza stable. In exchange Israel got nothing but rockets and then Oct 7th. So now that we have a little bit of historical context, you can appreciate why everyone is complaining about Hamas being in power.
73 Reds Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 13 hours ago, Parsad said: Not necessarily true. There have been a number of unwarranted recorded killings of civilians by IDF...a number humanitarian blockades where they weren't really necessary as the food/water/etc would have been given to actual refugees/survivors primarily women and children...if not food, then what about medical care...bombardments and attacks in the middle of ceasefires. So, while some of the blood is certainly warranted...some of it is not and Bibi should be held accountable. Cheers! Sanjeev, no killings are "warranted" but shit happens in war. Any attempt to morally equate Hamas with the IDF demonstrates extreme ignorance and prejudice. You'd be armed and ready to shoot if your neighbors were intent on murdering you and your family.
73 Reds Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 13 hours ago, changegonnacome said: These two posts are as extreme as the lunatics running around Manhattan with Hamas flags - the two extreme sides of the same extremist coin. I'm afraid to say that you both seem to have been radicalized yourselfs........just on the opposite side of the spectrum. What you've both described above is exactly the mental trickery used by regimes engaged in genocidal acts....it completely abstracts away any responsibility for military costs inflicted on non-combatants...."they brought this on themselves" "they are not ordinary civilians".... Israel had the right and the responsibility to defend itself post-Oct 7th.....it also had the right and duty to rescue its hostages...I cheered on every military success they had defeating hamas......but that right is not unlimited....maybe we can agree that one hostage freed in exchange for a million dead women and children breaks some ethical or moral code? As Israel has scaled into this conflict, as the body count of children has risen, as human suffering has risen, as the cities have been levelled and then levelled again and the military objectives/wins/upside have been less clear and less frequent as time as gone on (relative to the deaths/casualties)......this Israeli government has crossed some hard to define line between a just war with balanced offensive and defensive objectives....into something else......when you fight monsters you need to be careful not to become a monster yourself. The US should do everything in its power to force Nentahyou to go to his people for an election....its time for the Israeli people to decide what happens next in Gaza and not Bibi and a cobbled together ragtag political coalition put together pre-Oct 7th to keep Bibi out of prison. The US is doing what it should be doing - helping Israel put and end to Hamas and this conflict. Moral indignation doesn't help.
texual Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 May I also recommend the Le Creuset coffee mug. Elegant, well built, great colors and long lasting. Get them whenever there is a seasonal sale, or visit their outlet. I cant say enough good about this mug!
DooDiligence Posted June 10, 2025 Posted June 10, 2025 https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/trump-suppressing-epstein-files-task-force-ranking-member-garcia-and-acting Why the redactions? https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein Round 1 implies more? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files Never gonna give you up. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312936/epstein-files-release-rickroll-backlash Release the pedo files (so we can watch the Orange Jesus pardon himself)... ...along with a bunch more Medicare fraudsters who aren't necessarily pedo's but still fucked a lot of people regardless of age. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trumps-pardons-included-health-care-execs-behind-massive-frauds
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