I broke my back in the service while stationed in Germany. I’ll have to look into this. My state has a number of national parks that are just an hour or two away, it would be nice to see the mountains again.

Actually, given Virginia, admitting to doing both those things would likely get you MORE votes in an election year, not fewer.

Which then had me hoping that this dude wasn’t a Mexican-American or Latinx dude. “Don’t have a Spanish last name, don’t have a Spanish last name...”

Unless the next serving President removes that protection. It’s an iffy sort of thing, legally speaking. I don’t think anyone has ever sat down and drawn the legal lines of it.

Sinclair Lewis actually wrote a book about it with the utterly obvious and snarky title “It Can’t Happen Here.”

“There’s no gasoline on MY hands, no sir! I just offered an opinion or three. What someone does after hearing my opinion is THEIR fault, not mine.” ~ Every politician on the face of the planet.

Simple solution: hire her a driver. Or become her driver. Or, failing all else, place her in a home and have her get used to staring at four walls for the rest of her life.

Sometimes they’re one and the same. Look up JFK’s life. He’s admired as a President and a war hero, but he had a bad habit of sleeping with politically dangerous women. Inga Arvad, for example, was suspected of close ties to Nazi Germany and to Hitler personally, and JFK was doing her.

I meant that, to some of them, the office and the man is one and the same. That to them, protecting the man IS protecting the office.

But would she get the chance? Odds are, ICE would grab her and “Oops, we didn’t know her lawyer was coming, we’ve already placed her on a flight to Mexico.”

Clear to us? Yes. Clear to them? Have to ask them, I suppose. And hope for an honest answer.

If the dealer has a Better Business rating, talk to BB about getting it pulled. Then have fun talking to the dealer’s bank (“If they can get away with this, thinking they can keep it secret, imagine what they’re doing to YOUR car, Mr. Bank President”) and so on. Plenty of soft spots to hit them in.

Likely they DO. They’re just not allowed to talk about it.

Comes from spending a lot of my adult life stationed in Europe during the Cold War. While the spy novels are crap, there’s a lot of truth to the snark that you couldn’t trust anyone because anyone could be a spy.

Now that’s a way to get Pelosi into the White House. Somehow, get her to agree to the chain of pardons, then kick it off. Trump resigns to avoid prosecution, Pence pardon’s him, Trump leaves the country. Charges are raised (but not pressed) against Pence, who resigns in favor of the Speaker of the House, who then…

Not according to certain adult movie stars. 0.5 inches seems more probable... :D

Watch the AeroMexico commercials, the ones where they are giving away flight discounts to people IF those people take a DNA test to see how much of their ancestry is Mexican. Some of the people selected came off as WASP and arrogant about it, only to be shocked like hell when they discovered they had a LOT of Mexican…

Actually, there have been several articles on the “future” of the English language (going on the assumption that we the people are going to ‘hammer down the nails that stick up’ in English) that predict that what you’ve written IS close to what the future of English will sound like... A language version of “Idiocracy.”

Hell, George Romero even did this as an episode for “Tales From the Dark Side”. Seriously. Hate-filled talk radio host spews his bile over the airwaves, and slowly notices that the call-ins are getting stranger and stranger — until he reaches up and realizes that he’s grown horns and a face that only a gargoyle could…

Because a great many people are trying (without really thinking about it) to level out the number of STUPID spelling rules in the mucked up abomination that is the English language.