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Re: Crazy things happening - 4 years ago
Greetings and continued good health to all, as, fortunately, we have been blessed. Drifted into the President’s Facebook page to add the commentary and plea below, for what it’s worth: Until now, I have restrained from drawing attention to the similarities between Donald Trump and the ill human wind that sucked up many miserably poor and poorly educated desperate and gullible citizens in myby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: .Why is anyone a Republican anymore? - 4 years ago
Thank you for your agreement Bob. That such a despicable person, so void of decency and empathy, leads the United States extinguishes a dimming beacon that it once was in the eyes of many others. While there is much concern that, given his craven and megalomaniac nature, he would refuse to leave office if impeached or turned out by the voters in November. To these fears, I take great comfort iby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
.Why is anyone a Republican anymore? - 4 years ago
In my country times are troubling as traditional definitions shift and party labels are peel off. Accordingly, I’m popping up in off-topic land to pose a vexing question, germane to American voters, like Paule and I and certainly perplexing to knowledgeable Canadians and Mexican nationals, among others. Why is anyone a Republican anymore? You have no choice for President, it’s only Trump, thby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Now What-USA? - 4 years ago
"but don't underestimate the stupidity and fear of the people of the US" Maybe I read you wrong, Malchik and I like this different tune and I'll vote for whom I think would do best along those lines.by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Now What-USA? - 4 years ago
One way of looking at the elephant but it negates much of the positive that is and was. Maybe slipping off those blue shades of nihilism Malchik, would offer a broader view. Forget Trump, he’s currently dead in the water.by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Now What-USA? - 4 years ago
More and more, Impeachment is a thing, a thing that could very well happen in the Senate regardless of whomever tells you it’s a done deal. I have been listening to the music and I don’t see it that way. In the last few days a flood of editorials from leading newspapers throughout the country called for it, that’s significant. Also significant is the sour reaction I sense to the blatant acknoby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Happy Day For The World - 6 years ago
Pulling pork seems to be an appropriate motif for all this babbling about how stoked one can get from a rescue so far away... All good from there, what could you all do there and then? Go...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Pemex to raise prices 3% on the 1st of the year - 9 years ago
Hi Wayne, Your strident adherence to Ayn Rand’s objectivist claptrap explains why you seem to miss several points. I too read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead at an impressionable age but was not so impressed, likely because I was reading a lot of other books, as well. Let me suggest you wander through Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and William Golding’s Lord of the Files to sample the joyby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Pemex to raise prices 3% on the 1st of the year - 9 years ago
I only wish you’d broadened your fiction reading list and not bought into so much of the selfish swill that atheist, Ayn Rand, was spreading!by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Pemex to raise prices 3% on the 1st of the year - 9 years ago
Debt, Debt, Debt…Wayne, the country was founded, expanded and sustained on the debt. What do you think John Adams and other founding fathers were doing over there in Paris and Amsterdam? Getting the, yet to be, country into debt! Why did Alexander Hamilton push through as part of the Constitutional compromise, absorbing the debts individual States had incurred during the Revolutionary war into thby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Pemex to raise prices 3% on the 1st of the year - 9 years ago
Hi, again, Wayne. This oxymoronic concept of legal theft needs more of your thinking. I suppose one could, in some philosophical netherworld, label all forms of taxation “legal theft”, but where does that leave you? Governments tax, and, then in ours, the elected represntatives decide how to spend that revenue. Extending health care to more citizens is part of that process. Accusing Frank of havby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Pemex to raise prices 3% on the 1st of the year - 9 years ago
Hi Wayne, Frank was describing a decrease in the cost of health care coverage rather than a decrease in that coverage. You may describe that decrease as a form of welfare and bemoan that your taxes are contributing to pay for his and others coverage but doing so indicates a rather selfishly craven view, in my opinion. While the United States is the peculiar exception, most societies, including alby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Happy St. Paddys Day... - 10 years ago
Both and any other spellings are acceptable, top marks to you both!!!by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Happy St. Paddys Day... - 10 years ago
What's Irish and stays out all summer?...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Shingles - 10 years ago
Marty, I fail to comprehend how where I work or have worked or happily pay my taxes is any business of yours or germane to your rambling paranoia concerning health care.by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Shingles - 10 years ago
marty,mezcal, you just noticed!! keep investigating, there is more than meets the eye in words written in front of your eyes like these you are currently reading and again being taken into some kind of a cruel joke of your own making, it's a seemingly preexisting condition...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Shingles - 10 years ago
"I never hear Conservatives bitching about people watching CNN or MSNBC." but we do hear a lot about "liberal media bias"...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Shingles - 10 years ago
Marty, you are drinking pretty shitty mezcal and it's not helping your existing condition, ease off, big boy...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Shingles - 11 years ago
ease off on the mezcal, marty, your insurance company(not Obama) may raise your premiums further based on your current condition...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Bank of America Petition - 11 years ago
Take the time to sign this petition. You may recall that Bank of America quickly reversed a $5 ATM fee last year after public outcry. The new North Carolina based Bank America's motto was said to be. "What would Jesus do". I recall that he threw the money changers out of the temple...Ironic is it not? Please sign the petition.by alan vlautin - Puerto Vallarta
Re: Bank of America Petition - 11 years ago
Take the time to sign this petition. You may recall that Bank of America quickly reversed a $5 ATM fee last year after public outcry. The new North Carolina based Bank America's motto was said to be. "What would Jesus do". I recall that he threw the money changers out of the temple...Ironic is it not? Please sign the petition.by alan vlautin - Zipolite - Mazunte - Agustinillo - Ventanilla
Re: Amate Books-a real treasure - 11 years ago
Sorry to report that Amate Books' sister store in Merida closed about a year ago. I was really looking forward to visiting it but do not let this deter you from visiting the Oaxaca location where open minds will find many great books to delve into. Salutos to Henry and his excellent staff.by alan vlautin - City of Oaxaca
Re: For all Puerto 9/11 Conspiracy Buffs - 11 years ago
Thank you, unpaid, hall monitor, Lamar...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Very Very Sad News - 11 years ago
One begins to sense a feeling of desperation in those who claim the way out of the predicament of increasing horrific gun violence is more guns to more people, as if obesity can be cured by more twinkles. Aside from the ludicrous nature of such a suggestion, the practical matter of training and arming teachers and other school staff would be financially prohibitive. As many teachers now buy scby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Very Very Sad News - 11 years ago
L.T., if I understand you correctly, you are advocating taking certain individuals away from guns rather than taking guns away from all individuals. If this is the case, there is much we agree on. Guns should not be in the hands of those who have the potential to and have demonstrated the desire to inflict harm on others without cause. A problem arrises in considering how society will identifyby alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: Very Very Sad News - 11 years ago
She, his mother, bought the guns L.T. Should she have also brought guns to arm those first graders to protect them from her son who took the guns his mother brought and killed them? No one will shoot themselves out of this and, at some point, you have to wonder why some people cannot see the ugly nose in front of their hard nosed face...by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum
Re: pet peves - 12 years ago
"to have to read", is that too subtile for your limited reading comprehension skills? Keep 'em coming LT, how else would we ever know what the Lubbock lunatic fringe is up to?by alan vlautin - Off-Topic Forum