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You are not being helpful.

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Met a guy on the beach in Mexico many years ago (Zipolite, near Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca). 60-something, retired, American, lived in a cheap room in the beachfront hostel and traveled into town once a month to pick up his pension/ss check. Seemed happy enough, but insisted on walking around naked all day long. I mean, it was a clothing-optional beach, but we could have done with a break from his shriveled cock after about an hour or two.

Maybe you bought his book? He had it all figured out.

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Translation: I don't care that you are fed up, or that anyone else is fed up.

Alternative translation: I secretly crave the disgust and loathing of the board denizens.

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A short game would also help.

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1. I thought you didn't read my posts anymore?

2. Its a politics board. Its for the discussion of contentious political and socio-political issues. There are relevant questions about issues related to a current disaster. I was posting related to those questions and issues. If you don't like the facts or the conclusions, then respond contradicting them. Which is what I have been asking Ty to do. His responses skirt the issue and question. The point of the board is not to socialise, which is sort of the point of this board, it's to discuss politics. The facts asserted or topics discussed and the contentiousness of the same is no different than what is going on on every news station with talking heads or radio talk show in the country. What you really saying is you disagree with the facts and conclusions I am presenting. I disagree with most of your political philosophy. I don't try to silence people in political discussions because I don't agree with them. So go fuck yourself. As I have said, I now subscribe to Wonk's long held opinion of you and am only sorry I tried to convince him you had redeeming qualities.

eta: 3. I should note, if you remember the full debate on the issue., Spanky agreed with me, so I am in good company.

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I don't think this reads the way you'd like it to read.

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I know you are a closeted Hank fan. Like most Hank fans, you like him from PB. You and several others ignore PB from this point forward, and Hank leaves in 2006. I was glad at the time, because no one called bullshit better on me.

To be honest, now I admit I wish he was still around.

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And finally, congratulations go out to Lance Armstrong, 33, and Sheryl Crow, 43, who have announced their intention to make things legal. The seven-time Tour de France champ popped the question to the "All I Wanna Do" singer last Wednesday during a mountain-biking vacation in Sun Valley, Idaho, according to the cyclist's Web site. The couple, who met two years ago, will likely tie the knot in the spring. This will be the first trip to the altar for Crow and the second for Armstrong, who has three children with his ex-wife, Kristen.

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I had a response to your prior post to me composed, but an internet snaffu prevented me from posting it. it was damn good, so I'll piece together what I can remember of it...

your posts on politics do not have anything to do with any contested issue. that is the problem. they are scroll-through fluff. everyone on the board that has posted on the subject has agreed that the buses should have been moved to higher ground before the hurricane and/or used to evacuate anyone who otherwise couldn't get out and that it was a failure of local government that they were not. your posts on the subject are crap that you are forcing us all to wade through in order to find any content. much like the fecal matter lining the streets of New Orleans. the other choice is not to read the PB because the white noise has overpowered the debate of contested issues.

that is my dilemma. and my point, if I must have one.

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The hearings proved me right, no?

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Please refrain from bringing your dilemma to my part of the city.

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No evacuees allowed in your gated community?

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I have it all figured out without his book.

I have to sell my loft for enough profit, which, when combined with a big enough bonus and my current investments, can realistically be expected to return 50K a year pre-tax. Then, I do 500 hours a year of contract work at $100 per hour. For a total income of $100K pre-tax per year.

This, however, is about $60K less than I made last year (investments aside). This deficit is overcome by: (1) I rent for much less per month than my mortgage (even tax-adjusted), property taxes, and HOA dues combined; (2) I stop contributing to my 401 (K) because I don't plan to live much past 70/75 anyway (and I will eventually get my inheritance); (3) spending at least 3-4 months a year travelling places that are much cheaper than San Francisco; (4) a lower tax burden (that will, however, be probably more than offset by higher CLE, dues, FICA, and insurance costs); and (5) a slightly reduced lifestyle while here (fewer $80 dinners alone).

And, even if I burn the principal, I'm pretty sure I can last until I get my inheritance. And, even if I can't, I can always return to law or increase the amount of contract hours I do. But what I cannot do is get back these years to be able to not work, play, travel, whatever I feel like doing. And, I could keel over tomorrow with all that money unspent.

Less (this plan would not work if I wanted kids, but I do not) inSF

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No.

And no goddamned busses here either. I only wander around on a few boards here. I am trying to keep my sanity. If the insanity follows me around - what will happen?

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It goes beyond agreeing the buses should have been moved (that's a no-brainer) and simplifying the issue as you have is either being wilfully ignorant or disengenous. the broader issue is what is the role of the various governmental entities in ensuring disaster preparedness and response. My point has been that the responsibility primarily, up through post-levee breaking was the local authorities and their failure was paramount to the resultant death and human suffering. Ty says he expects the local government to be incompetent and the Fed must take primary responsibility for everything. Over the last three days a lot of interesting information that raises additional questions about the local response and responsibility have come out. I posted them and the response from a certain wing, is generally, so what where was FEMA. Ty continues to respond and say that might be troubling, I would like to know more. But on the Federal side, everyone knows enough know to indict.

The blame Bush message first and frequently on every issue is far more white noise than anything I posted related to nagin's faiulures. That white noise has been going on for 5 years.

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If we do marry, are you still wanting a pre-nup. I never heard of the inheritance. Dish?

Lance
 

Interesting article defending L'Equipe's article, indicting American Cycling for conflicts of interest in defending Lance's innocence, and wondering why the charge was dismissed so easily here. Of note is that the French newspaper and the lab did not know it was testing Lance's blood when it found evidence of EPO doping. The tests were blinded. - http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-...ews/smith.html

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Your plan lacks a female companion. A sugar mama could make things easier, no? Or what happens if you become enamored with a waitess in a strip club and she bleeds you dry before you reach 60?

And 70-75 is pretty ambitious of you.

And never count on an inheritance - unless it's an irrevocable trust, counting on money from the dead will bite you in the ass.

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The water in New Orleans will be pumped away, leaving an unpleasant goo. I hope the same doesn't happen to the PB.

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I don't respond to socks.

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You are a moron and do not realize the unlikelihood of either of your premises occuring.

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the local government responsibility part was in my first post (and before you posted this response I had edited it back in to my attempted repost). I'm not going to debate you here on the points you raised about local government response. That belongs on PB if at all. And I don't think anyone, Ty included, is seriously debating whether there is responsibility to go around here. I am saying that the manner in which you post things directly detracts from people's willingness to read your content. I am not the first person to point this out to you. or even the first person today to point this out to you.

as to your blame Bush crap, need I remind you of your 10 to 15 thousand anti-Clinton posts? You are such a fucking hypocrite. It almost makes the effort of asking an admin to put you on ignore for me seem worthwhile.

Hopefully at some point you will start being amusing to me again. But that point will definitely not be today.

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I can think of a way to save even more money--move in with Spanky. I'm sure he would welcome the company and the potential for two wild and crazy guys hitting the town, strippers in tow. I expect to be invited to the poker games.

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I don't want to debate the merits of the issues here either, and I tried not to do that but rather talk in general terms. In general terms I have said there is blame to go around but I think the discussion from certain parts of the spectrum tends to be conclusory and one sided in its criticism of one level of government. I stand by that. if the longer posts with facts, cites to School Board minute meetings on the issue, cites to state evacuation plans bother you, I don't know what to say. Its factual evidence of what went on. It should be looked at and discussed before reaching a conclusion to the contrary.

As for the Clinton charge, you can believe this or not, I was never really that anti-Clinton (in Spanky's analysis I voted for him, twice) until certain parts of the spectrum lost all ability to be objective. I have never seen someone from the opposite side of me, including lawyers, be able to say perjury in front of a federal judge is wrong without qualifying it with an exception that doesn't exist in any statute-and you want to say I am a hypocrite? If one side refuses to be objective why should the other?

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Why can't someone dislike both? I do.

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care to count how many posts I have made about Bush on PB or otherwise? I am actually anti- most politicians, either side of the fence. Go ahead and find and point to a bunch of my rhetoric-filled politics posts.

Hell, I probably have about 100 posts there total. I like to read what people post there when they are posting actual content, but have little to no desire to enter into pissing matches over politics with anyone there. I even stood up for you and Hank as recently as yesterday, if you recall.

Anyway, I am not at work and engaging in this discussion with you any longer would be counter to my Thursday evening enjoyment, so instead I'm going to head off into the sunshine and maybe run across the street to shop and/or drink.

Toodles!

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One of the reasons I quickly tired of engaging youon the FB is that you cannot help yourself but misstate other people views. On the above point, you know I don't think that. We traded PMs about it yesterday.

Whether you're being inattentive or provocative, it doesn't matter anymore. It's like arguing with a second grader.

Lance
 

Welcome to Monday.

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How do they explain his wins the next 6 races?

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I think I might be more critical of Bush but for the blatant prejudice and close mindedness of the anti-Bush crowd, which makes me defensive. I have had educated people who claim to be open minded, diverse and anti-bias come into my home with no actual knowledge of my politics and say to me, as they ate my food and drank my wine, "I could never socialise with someone who voted for Bush, they are just awful people". Literally. As partisan as people may think I am, the supermajority of people I associate with left of Hillary Clinton and some of them are open socialists. As partisan as I am, I would never say something so ignorant or prejudiced and I would never teach my kids blind hatred of another group of people because they voted for the opposite mainstream party. Yet I see, in person, liberals do it on a daily basis. Literally. And before someone cites the religious right as exhibiting that same behaviour, I don't consider the religious right generally to be educated open minded people, so I expect close minded parochial ignorance out of them.

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Okay. And I do acknowledge that you stood up for the two of us and responded appropriately at that time. I think.

Enjoy.

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I think I could say the same of you. The problem I have with your acknowledging a point is that you qualify the acknowledgment to the point that you are not really acknowledging it anymore. I presented multiple facts regarding an issue that would lead many an objective person to be able to make an unqualified conclusion, but you still qualify it. Its like me saying, I've heard a lot of things about this Hitler chap and his gas chambers. Sounds bad. I'd like to get more information.

Lance
 

Even better masking agents.

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Well, you lasted longer than I did over there.

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I didn't see your opinions on pubic hair in any of these rants, so I'm assuming it's off topic.

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Gold Five says: Stay on target. (or on topic)

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Comparing buses only reported on Fox to gas chambers? Nuts!

It's not even like asking for more information about the pubic hair on the coke.

Nuts! Buses! Nuts! Buses!

Nuts, nuts, nuts!

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Maybe I'm jaded or high or my experiences over 25 years in federal, state (in 3 states in highly distinct areas of the country) and local politics are far out of the norm, but I find it shocking that educated person would find the politics board to be so contentious or partisan that it would scare them away. That board is nothing compared with the reality of politics. On any given night in any major city you have adults from all walks of life and politic stripes screaming at local officials in city council and assorted city board meetings. In seattle where everyone is left of the center of the democratic party I can't count the number of city council meetings I have been at where people call the city council members facists and nazis. Maybe you all live in nicey-nice land, but I have never seen it, from the Northeast, to DC to the midwest to the west coast. The DU is a more bareknuckle board than our PB and they are all on the same side. Except for Hank's socks. And mine.

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Earlier I said I prefer cat hair merkins to human hair merkins. the cat hair weaves are softer and more supple to the touch. Meeeoooww! Plus each feline hair merkin means one less cat to worry about.

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Its not buses only reported on Fox. Spanky spanked that canard two days ago. Your inattention to detail and lies is what makes the issue necessary to continue to discuss. Why anyone would defend this buffoon is beyond me.

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2 to almost all of this post, but still I think a quieter disapproving glance at the hate as flows from Katrina might be more effective. NTBAOTL