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You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostThis is a great exchange.
That guy is absolutely right.
"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostWhat else is it about? Since when do political candidates go around suing their critics? Entitled whiny baby behavior.
OK, we don't have a high crime or even a crime that Drumpf did but here's what we got:
Article 1: Drumpf bad.
Article 2: Drumpf hurt our feelings.
Therefore, we want you to do our jobs for us and call some more witnesses and get some emails to find a crime that bad orange man committed. BTW, we are taking away your cell phones... and don't any of you think about leaving. That includes you, Feinstein!
OMG, they were withholding aid from the Ukraine... those basturds!"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostTed, awesome. Elizabeth Warren is such a dolt."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostHow does everyone feel about bankruptcy?"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
- Goatnapper'96
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostHow does everyone feel about bankruptcy?When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostHow does everyone feel about bankruptcy?
I have a real hard time accepting bankruptcy for people who make poor decisions to run up tons of consumer debt and use bankruptcy as a means to avoid obligations they willingly took on. Real-world example: My deadbeat Sister-in-law and her husband have made piss-poor financial decisions their whole life. Taking on mountains of debt to fuel a lifestyle they have no business living. They can't pay a mortgage but they somehow manage to drop thousands on World Series tickets for their favorite team. They don't have any savings but when Gradma (my wife's mom) gives each of her kids a $10K gift they take a trip to Cancun.
What did Mrs. Meanie and I do with the $10k? We put it in our kids' 529 accounts. (EDIT: In Liz Warren's world, I'm a sucker for doing so. I should have taken the 10k and gone to Cancun and let my kids take out massive student loans and try to get "the rich" to pay for it all by "paying their fair share"). Fast forward a couple of years and now deadbeat and her deadbeat husband borrow $30K off grandma, and somehow manage to get a loan of $50K from some other lender, and buy a bakery. Do they have any experience running a bakery or any type of business? Nope. Did they do any due diligence on the bakery, any market analysis, any type of thought beyond "Hey, wanna buy that bakery? Hmm, sure why not? Let's hit up Grandma for some dough" (get it? dough?). Not that I could tell.
Surprise surprise, the bakery that was in business for 15 years before them goes out of business in 8 months under their management. So the $50K creditor comes calling. Do they go and get real jobs and work to pay off their debt? Nope. "Whee! Let's just declare bankruptcy so we don't have to be responsible for our actions!". So they file bankruptcy. Grandma got screwed out her $30K. The judge gave the creditor pennies on the dollar. The only consequence to deadbeat? The judge made them move from their expensive rental to a more downsized rental.
So that's how I feel about bankruptcy. A solution that should be used as sparingly as possible and certainly not to relieve people of the consequences of their poor financial decisions while subsidizing a lifestyle they can't afford.Last edited by BigFatMeanie; 01-24-2020, 02:49 PM.
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostYou don't get the purpose of bankruptcy, do you? Bankruptcy was actually a purely American innovation to encourage entrepreneurship. It's actually one of the reasons America is so successful and this law has been imitated everywhere. A law or policy to blanket forgive student loans has absolutely nothing to do with bankruptcy. It's just Elizabeth Warren trying to get votes by promising free stuff to Millennials. She doesn't even believe in this. She believes in nothing. She's an empty suit."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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