Quote from: tekla on July 09, 2011, 10:31:03 AM
That's OK, I can catch half of England in the Costa del Sol or Rivera every year.

Ah yes, with the fine grasp of culture and subtle mastery of the native tongue:

"Oi! Pablo! Uno beer-o poor favour!"

Yeah, I love hearing that.  As an Ugly American though I never even try.  If they want my money, they can say it in English, god knows every time CNN turns on a camera over there you have piles of people speaking English.  But I'm a huge, HUGE (like 40 years around the service industry) believer in tips.  I tip well, and tip at the start and frequently after that.  Funny, their language skills get much, much better.

Quote from: tekla on July 09, 2011, 10:46:08 AM
But I'm a huge, HUGE (like 40 years around the service industry) believer in tips.  I tip well, and tip at the start and frequently after that.

Reminds me of Vinnie Antonelli (Steve Martin) in My Blue Heaven: "It's not tipping I believe in, it's over tipping."

He's right.  It's easy to party like a rock star, just remember what the Eagles said: They threw outrageous parties, they paid heavenly bills. Cause those two things go together.  Last time the crew people went up to Reno we went to this kinda rock dive bar, got the big table and my friend tells the waitress that we're here to party like rock stars and just keep 'em coming as he gave her a fifty to start off with.  She went to her boss, gave her other tables to the other girls and went off-duty to become our private waitress.  If you want service, it's like anything else, pay for it.

I was scouring on the google site. Michelle Bachman favors limiting government yet her husband used $140 thousand dollars in federal funds for reparative therapy for gay and lesbian folks.                                                                GENNEE

Just a warning to be on the lookout for sneaky lies.
(The Bachmann radio clip above quoted this.)
The "American College of Pediatricians" is often quoted by haters.

Name	Founded	Members	Employees
American Academy of Pediatrics	1930	60,000	390
American College of Pediatricians	2002	~200	?

The ACP is a (very small)  bunch of malcontents who left the AAP over the issue of homosexuality.

Wait!  Are you trying to tell me Michelle Bachmann is siding with haters?  But she's running for president!

It's so much like picking which bull to castrate next with this house full of clowns running (wrecking) the show. Just pick whoever you hate the most and watch as they wither on the vine under the great American magnifying lens.

Watching our "lawmakers" play the game "Who's gonna blink first" compels me to start a campaign to just vote them all out and start all over.  This stalemate attitude the Republicans have adopted is pathetic.  It seems they have only two things that are important to them; 1) do whatever it takes to get rid of Obama, even if the entire country suffers in the process and 2) make sure the rich get richer.  Nothing else seems to matter to them.

Lets hope voters get wise by the time we're casting votes.  I doubt it, but it would really be comforting to see that kind of trend.

See, I keep telling you this whole 1776 Republic thing was a bad move.

Quote from: justmeinoz on July 19, 2011, 07:57:44 AM
See, I keep telling you this whole 1776 Republic thing was a bad move.

Haha, thing is, the party system was never in the plans :/ I believe the founders have already spun out of their graves.

Oh, there's no doubt about that!  The Founding Fathers made many statements that would fly in the face of what our politicians are doing today.  Maybe we can get Bill & Ted's phone booth time machine and bring them back here and watch them read our elected officials the riot act. 

If the  USA ends up broke maybe you can get Canada to buy you! Cheaper meds,  free health care and better beer!

Na, We buy them as Far western Australia.
But do we want them?

Na

Cindy

We'll let Tekla be the gatekeeper!! Those who miss out get to go to Mexico instead.

Karen.

Sounds good. Julia has a new place for boat people as well.

Cindy

Looks like Bachmann may be out of the running according to an article in today's paper.  She apparently suffers sever migraine and can be out of action for days.
  I expect it won't be a long wait for the cartoons along the lines of, "You'll have to deal with Iran, I have a headache."
  Given her attitudes to gays etc, I  am not actually that upset at the misogyny that will no doubt become apparent.

Karen.

Quote from: justmeinoz on July 21, 2011, 06:25:17 AM
Looks like Bachmann may be out of the running according to an article in today's paper.  She apparently suffers sever migraine and can be out of action for days.
  I expect it won't be a long wait for the cartoons along the lines of, "You'll have to deal with Iran, I have a headache."
  Given her attitudes to gays etc, I  am not actually that upset at the misogyny that will no doubt become apparent.

Karen.

They say she is under a lot of stress.  No doubt she's uptight.  If she thinks her present life is stressful, how would she respond to being president?

People who repress their real selves can create a lot of stress for themselves.  Maybe Bachmann is lesbian but can't admit it.  After all, her husband is gay.

My son gets migraines. Can't actually imagine the Leader of the Free World lying in the dark for 24 hrs talking into a bucket!

I'd like to run a book on when anti-gay extremists get caught with a gay lover. Wouldn't be able to offer very good odds though!

Karen.

I'm Reading Howard Zinn's book 'A Young People's History of the United States'. Much of what he writes about I already knew. I recommend the book.                                                                                                               Gennee