January 22nd, 2015
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Today's last look: the paltry returns of Brexit, which may amount to a tax break on draft beer https://t.co/3O6PwbHNNr
Upset has turned to outrage, after French Pres. Macron's gov't forced through a rise in the retirement age.
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What caused this banking crisis?
On today's GPS, I talked with the @FinancialTimes’ US editor at large, author &twitter.com/i/web/status/1…qSl6
What's the future of banking, given the crisis that has unfolded this month? Is the system stable? And will this crtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…Dw
America's new banking crisis: What's different this time? And has it been contained?
From today's GPS: part 1 of mtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…HW
Have you ever seen hindus eat in langars?
Free food attracts them like bees. They squat toes up and eat food up from the floor with their feet onto the hands and into the mouth. They then gargle their mouth with water and spit it out in front of others eating adjacent to them. Hygiene is paramount ... of sorts. You get the gist. Ahem.
So true! Lol. I watched Anthony Boudain do a program on this. It was disgusting.
RIP
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You nailed it @T. These hindus eat with both hands cupped and shove their fingers wayyy into their esophagus as if it was their last meal. Then s uck lick their fingers one by one. Put their pinky in the ear drum to clean wax, s uck the finger again, put the index finger into their nose, lickity lick again, scratch their a zz and then wipe it on their sleeves. So goes the ritual.
Daily for the past 45 years and with increasing frequency, I have observed Americans going into restrooms, pooping, and sinks in bathrooms remain dry. Because most Americans are too lazy to wash their hands after going poop. Is where the fist bump came from. Each knows the other one probably has poop on her fingers.
I am not surprised that you don't know how fist bumps originated, not with the fact you hang around ladies rooms.
That's pretty disturbing to know someone is observing others while they poop.
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Fareed walks like a duck.
Fareed talks like a duck.
Fareed must be a duck.
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FOIE GRAS ANYONE !
So. After this joint closes down, where are you all going to blog? Ashleigh Banfield, the cub reporter on the ground at 9/11 ground zero famous for yelling "I smell cordite! I smell Cordite!" (cordite. the smell of explosives) has a blog on Facebook. UFO chat has 3 scrolling chatrooms on one screen. Which is 3X the fun...and with many features CNN refuses to employ. Anyway. Where are you all going to go? Besides to the grave if you are a decent womanizer.
Gotta love those decent womanizers like Billy Clinton and that short fat guy wearing high heals what's his name.
"A creamy baby." Indeed!
Yes. Prisoners on the penal Isle of Australia used to breed with natives. And either donate the creamy baby to traveling priests or feed them to dingo dogs.
Had baby Barack Obama been born in Australia instead of Kenya, he probably would have been dog food or an altar boy instead of Commander in Chief. He too was a creamy baby.
Australia stopped being a penal colony in 1868. That term should be relegated into the dustbin of history, as well.
I see. Fascinating lecture on genetics, thank you. Seems this kind of philosophy explains who you are, and therefore the conflicts between you and Banasy and Chrissy.
Yedi,
Did he ever give an explanation as to exactly what a "creamy baby" is, or is he still too cowardly to explain why he uses that epithet?
No Banasy, he most certainly did not. His futile attempt to give a black eye to all whom are of mixed race was to no avail. No doubt his ancestral history has mixed races. Philip may be half Irish and half Swede for all we know.
Has anyone seen Joey JIF around lately?
Just fantastic this blog is being closed down although July 4th should have been the date. You see 1st Amendment does not work in an educated society. The people who post cant control their thoughts and CNN cant tolerate it.
And we blame those who attacked Charlie Hebdo.
Great point! Welcome to hypocrisy in western society.
I equate "terrorism" to the hippy movement of the sixties in that people were revolting against the established order that had become non functional in light of Vietnam.
Palestine oh Palestine. What have we done to thou.
Kashmir oh Kashmir thou is occupied in India. When will thou have plebiscite.
Yes. The Se x and Drug doing revolution of the 60's saw horrible things happening. Yes. Terrible things. Parents even began drugging their own children with aspirin which had been illegal to do since 1899. Illegitimate children began popping-up everywhere and prompted the drive to legalize abortion which had always been illegal.
Imagine where America would be today had She staid her course rather than going for dope.
Interesting revision of history, Philip. Thanks for your story.
No you meaningless imbecile. This blog has not closed down. It has merely moved. You are much too worthless and insignificant to close anything down other than your 9 brain cells you orangatan.
I chuckle at El Captain who feels so important as to wrongfully believe himself so mighty as to cause the closure of an international news organization. My God he is brainless and ignorant. Utter nonsense.
Right on @Philip but not everyone in India is a terrorist and raypist. Just ask @banasy aka chrissy and you who would known better being of that origin.
You got The Colorado Guy here, Burnside. Not The India Guy. Sorry.
Many newbies here confuse @banasy and Chrissy as being the same person. Let me assure you they are not. I've been chatting with them here on CNN for, oh, a little over 3 years. Chrissy is and elderly woman who lives in upper state Michigan and drives an old Ford pickup truck. Banasy is a gal named Donna Banas whom I actually talked with on the phone. She and her hubby are suburbanite Chicago city dwellers and she is a part-time librarian's helper. They are both getting old and grouchy though. And enjoy tag-teaming up on me almost daily now.
And in this corner weighing-in at 184 lbs. is the challeger, Phildo the Magnificent!
And now, being helped into the Ring are our champions! Weighing-in at BMI 30 ....Chrussty the Clown and Donna "Rip Your Head Off" Banasy.
Ding ding.
Why are you so ashamed of your heritage in India? You talk like one, write like one, behave like one. Therefore you (under many IDs) surely must be a terrorist raypist from India.
Philip, if you want to know why Chrissy and I dislike conversing with you, it's because you post lies like this for no discernable reason, other than to be an unpleasant prick.
I am a library helper in the same way you are a squeeqee wielder.
I live in in a town, not a city.
Chrissy doesnt have that truck; that was four years ago when you talked about that. Get a clue. You don't read our posts, so you wouldn't remember that she talked about that.
Neither of is are "old and grouchy"; it does get tiring having to defend oneself against a pathological liar, though. I suggest repentance for your obvious problem.
The person you're talking to isn't a newbie. If you think that, you're stupid.
Hello, I.m Chris Kyle here. Did any of you idiots watch the movie American Sniper? I suppose not!
No. I hardly ever go see a movie and have never bothered with owning a TV. I do think snipers are cowards though. If that counts.
Thank you, Phildo. I fully agree. Snipers are truly cowards just as those creeps who operate those cursed drones are!
You're dead, Chris. How is it you're talking with us now?
Some of your more memorable quotes:
“I hate the damn savages”—talking about the Iraqis—“and I’ve been fighting and I always will.”
“I love killing bad guys.”
“Even with the pain, I loved what I was doing.”
“Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.”
The real and true and genuine Cradle of Civilization is a woman's womb. Which has been being robbed.
Stalin and Mussolinis were world leaders too. Modi is the Joseph Mengele of modern times.
He is a pariah. A murderer. A genocidalist. Like Gandhi he enjoys underage boys. In fact his boyfriend is from Myanmar.
He is a woman basher. He married an underage girl and abandoned her on nuptial night.
That description fits a well-known (but called "decent womanizer" by old democrat women anyway) womanizer named Billy J. Clinton. His wife started getting really fat after she found-out everyone else had found-out about Billy messing up the White House with an overly obese younger woman.
Bill Clinton = Joseph Mengele.
Interesting.
The woman bashing part I meant.
I would say that your problem with BC isn't that he bashes them, but quite the opposite.
No. Billy bashed the heck out of that fat chick on the Oval Office desk. I guess you were sleeping that day and so never read the news.
No. BC had oral sex with ML. By her own admission, no intercourse occurred.
But, of course you wouldn't take the word of somebody that was actually there. That's be dumb, right?
Not that it excuses what they did. It does not.
*that'd be dumb.
The dead King of Saudi Arabia has 4 of his own daughters held captive for the past 11 years. And would not allow investigators or news reporters anywhere near Usama Bin Laden's many wives.
The overly obese Tyrant is now worm food. NOT in heaven with 72 headless virgins.
Like you said above this man will get to be with his 72 virgins and I am truly glad, I am, I am!
Yes. The Se x and Drug doing revolution of the 60’s saw horrible things happening. Yes. Terrible things. Parents even began drugging their own children with aspirin which had been illegal to do since 1899. Illegitimate children began popping-up everywhere and prompted the drive to legalize abortion which had always been illegal.
Imagine where America would be today had She staid her course rather than going for dope. And then going broke.
Interesting revision of history, Philip. Thanks for your story.
One big reason (besides population control) that abortion had to be made legal was because if it wasn't, millions of women and their co-conspirators illegally aborting babies would have to be sent to prison. And we didn't have that many prisons back then.
There have been about 70 million legalized abortions performed in America so far, and God only knows how many went to Mexico for illegal abortions or used the trusty old bloody coathanger before that.
As I said, interesting revisionist history. Your take is....interesting, to say the least.
Of course you understand that abortion has been around since man has been around to impregnate women. This isn't new.
Daddy. My high school football linebacker Renfro Jackson made me pregnant again. "Ok, doll. Jump in the truck. We are headed for Mexico. Ain't gonna be no creamy babies in my family."
...no. Get in the back, doll. You smell like rotten vegetables soaked in sweat.
OH! You use creamy baby as a derogatory term for biracial children!
Thanks for confirming you are, indeed, a racist.
No lip service about how the children you call your adopted children are black, please. The use of your term "creamy baby" rather negates that.
And still SOS!
Many confuse sins with crimes. "Pay Caesar's things to Caesar (government) but God's things to God" says The Word. Meaning that you pay your taxes and pay for your crimes. Not deny them or try to weasel your way out of paying the courts what you owe. And where government orders conflict with those of God, you obey God rather than men.
For example, if a person robbed a store, that person would have to turn himself over to the police in order to start the process of repentance. Simply bowing ones head and saying sorry to God for robbing the store simply would not bring God to forgive you. You HAVE to pay Caesar for your crimes. There is no way around it. MLK never did turn himself over. He went to great lengths to conceal his crimes of adultery. He should have openly confessed but he didn't. It wasn't his cheating ways. It was his ways of hiding his sins and his crimes that were his biggest fault. Just as Billy J. did. Tried to weasel his way out.
For example, during the days of Moses 3 men robbed the Tabernacle in front of thousands of eye witnesses. They were eventually caught, and returned what they had stolen and begged forgiveness and were forgiven. But God sent a powerful angel who executed those thousands of eye witnesses who had failed to report the crime to the authorities.
Such is the case with family who know of familial abuses but keep them secret from authorities. Mothers and fathers who know one of their brothers raiped their own son or daughter but never bothered reporting it to the police are in hot soup with God. As are victims who keep it a secret.
@Philip:
Tell this to somebody that is ignorant of all this.
I am not.
Lecture dismissed.
Also, please research the reasons why only 2% of reported rapes ever go to trial, and what the victim has to suffer through when the defense gets his turn to slut shame. I doubt you will, because it is much easier for you to pass judgement on people than it is to empathize with the victim who gets raped repeatedly on the witness stand by flipping morons who think "boys will be boys".
I read an account recently of a virgin who was raped, and what she went through. A virgin!
Your victim-shaming is reprehensible.
Nig gardly. Does that make me "racist" too? Omg you are stupid for a librarian's helper. The one's I know are all very intelligent teenagers.
No, niggardly means stingy. Only a squeeqee wielding idiot would think that a word meaning stingy is racist and use that as an example as racism.
Are you still too cowardly to post the name of the private library where you work?
Has that bs ever worked? I'm not cowardly; I'm smart enough to know that posting that may get me fired, and I like my job, Philip.
You probably need to be a little more educated as to how social media works.
That's funny. Years ago you told me and I even Googled it. No biggie. If I worked at Hewlett-Packard would probably get fired for posting the name of the company I worked for. NO! I would NOT!!! Omg you are so full of crap.
Years ago, social media wasn't what it is today.
Prospective employers look at social media, you know.
People get fired for mentioning their employers on Facebook and other social media in a derogatory manner; it doesn't even have to BE derogatory...some, like my employer, do not want their names mentioned at all by their employees; this is one condition we agree to in order for us to be able to post online while at work. (Which, as I explained before, they're fine with, as long as we don't mention our library.)
Plus, you have stated that your some purpose to wanting to know the name was so you could call and complain about me; piss off. You're an idiot if you think I'm going to fall for that; I'm not the stupid gullible female that you seen to prefer.
You pretend to be so socially wise about the net, how you didn't know this escapes me; I can only surmise it is because you own your squeeqee business and have no reason toknow this.
So if I worked for HP and said so online I might get fired? What a load of crap, Donna. You are too-far gone for me to try and deal with today. See ya round.
If HP has rules against you mentioning then, yes.
You obviously know nothing about the employment climate today; good for you.
Yes. "Because I don't want a creamy baby" is a reason some women use for wanting an abortion. Stop pretending you are ignorant of this.
Philip, that has been said by no woman ever, you moron.
They do not want a baby. Period.
What was your excuse for avorting two of your own? Were they biracial?
1% of all abortions are decided by dad's or family of pregnant women. Not by the pregnant woman or girl. And even Alabama lawmakers refer to families not wanting a biracial child as a reason for abortions. Get a clue. The idea of racists in America is nothing new, and I certainly didn't invent it. MILLIONS of racists do not want biracial children. Get a freaking clue.
You lying old hag. I have NEVER aborted a child. EVER! I once made a woman pregnant who got an abortion because having a baby would interfere with her job. So I dumped her and moved on. And that's it! Accusing me of aborting two babies is the lowest you have sank in my eyes.
You told us yourself that you took 2 different women pregnant with your children to obtain abortions.
You may not have a memory of what you say, but I do, and others do, and you've been caught again and again for your fabrications.
God doesn't like liars.
You told us yourself on these very blogs; I don't lie. I have an extremely good memory of the garbage you spout, and you said you drove 2 women you impregnated to get abortions.
Followed by (at least they said the babies were mine; they slept around, so I can't be sure.)
You said it on these GPS blogs not that very long ago.
How many abortions have you sponsored, Dogna. Now pump-off squaw. Ooopsy. Now you will call me an Indian hater even though my own mother's real dad was a native American who's family originated in China.
I haven't sponsored any.
You did by driving those women to kill your own unborn children while hypocritically condemning others who made the very sane decision as you.
Now pump off yourself, you mysogynistic garbage.
*same decision.
Obviously he is quite determined to go out with a bang eh @ banasy? And @ philip....i have told you at LEAST half a dozen times....i live in a small city outside of Detroit! If you look at a map of Michigan that is about as far south as you can get and still be in Michigan! And ive lived here over 13 years. BEFORE moving here i lived in northern Michigan. Proving once again you do NOT pay attention OR you have a hard time understanding what you read!
Sometimes I take the city bus. And almost each time at the downtown terminal are swf with baby strollers with biracial babies...no dads. Not even their own dad's wanted a biracial baby.
It's lovely that their mothers chose to keep then, isn't it? Kind of renders your abortion argument moot.
There is nothing wrong with biracial children. And I'm sure you would be the first to admit that biracial doesn't mean just black/white.
What do you call Caucasian/Asian babies? I'd be interested in hearing that epithet.
You all have a wonderful saturday afternoon! Ttyl 😉
I was raised by Old Navy racist bigots...the worst kind of dysfunctional family. So I left home when I was 15. My g/f at the time was a cheerleader named Ruby Haley. Guess what color her skin was, and why both my dad and grampa beat the crap out of me for having Ruby for a g/f.
I currently help support a poor Ugandan girl named Nalwanga Efrance. Her FB name is Mukazi Pearl Muganda on FB if you care to ask here how "racist" I am. I also help a youngster named Agboola John in Nigeria. His FB name is Agboola Philip Johnnystickz if you care to ask him about me being a "racist".
Yes; that is nice.
Obviously you feel that gives you full rights to continue to use racist epithets. Grand.
Trying too hard, Philip, old sport. I invite you to walk up to a biracial kid and call them a "creamy baby" to their face. It will likely net you the same result as you calling them a nigger.
Labels are labels, and you're very good at assigning them, and then justifying it as some sort of "lesson."
I can't believe you just used the N word. I hate you more than ever now. Good freaking bye you old haggot.
I can't believe you take umbrage at an analogy I used; you are a hypocritical piece of shit.
I don't call them that because I have more respect for all humans; a trait we don't share.
What I said was calling a biracial kid those two labels to their faces would result in you getting your ugly face punched in.
I called nobody that name.
You're dense. Fuck off.
I remember that conversation @ banasy! And it was here on GPS and was in the past few months. In case you want to search the archives.
What ended the baby boom of the 50-60's? AIDS and legalized abortions. Duh.
After just a few years of marriage filled with constant arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. They had been at each other’s throats for some time and felt that this was their last straw.
When they arrived at the counselor’s office, the counselor jumped right in and opened the floor for discussion. “What seems to be the problem?”
Immediately, the husband held his long face down without anything to say. In contrast, the wife began talking 90 miles an hour, describing all the wrongs within their marriage.
After 15 minutes of listening to the wife, the counselor went over to her, picked her up by her shoulders, kissed her passionately and sat her back down.
Afterwards, the wife sat speechless.
The marriage counselor looked over at the husband, who stared in disbelief. The counselor said to the husband, “Your wife NEEDS that at least twice a week!”
The husband scratched his head and replied, “I can have her here on Tuesdays and Thursdays.”
Two golfers are waiting their turn on the tee when a na ked woman runs across the fairway and into the woods.
Two men in white coats and another guy carrying two buckets of sand are chasing her, and a little old man is bringing up the rear.
One of the golfers grabs the old man and says, “What the hell is going on?”
The old guy says, “She’s a nym pho maniac from an asylum, she keeps trying to escape, and us attendants are trying to catch her.”
The golfer says, “What about the guy with the buckets of sand?”
The old guy says, “That’s his handicap. He caught her last time.”
This thoroughly modern young couple, more than slightly hung over from last night’s party, were having a mid-afternoon breakfast. What a party that had been! A real swinging affair, no holds barred.
“Darling,” said the husband, “this is … er … slightly embarrassing, but I think I should ask. Was it YOU I made love to in the library last night?”
His wife looked thoughtful for a minute and then said, “About what time?”
Dear Son:
Just a few lines to let you know I’m still alive. I will write this letter slowly because I know you can’t read fast.
First the big news…your Dad heard that most accidents happen close to home so we moved. You won’t know the house when you come home as I can’t send you the address because the last redneck family that lived here took the house numbers with them so they wouldn’t have to change their address.
About your father…he has a lovely new job where he is over 500 men. He is cutting grass in the cemetery.
There is a washing machine in the house where we live now, but it ain’t working too good. Last week I put in 14 shirts and pulled the chain and haven’t seen them shirts since.
It only rained twice this week: Three days the first time and four the second time.
The coat that you wanted me to send you. Your Aunt Sue said it would be a little to heavy to send in the mail with them big heavy buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pockets.
Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven’t found out whether its a boy or a girl so I can’t tell you if your an Aunt or an Uncle.
Your Aunt Olga gave up the birth control pill when your Uncle John bought a condominium.
Uncle Philip drowned last week in a vat of whiskey at the Norska Brewery. Some of the fellow workers dived in to save him but he fought them off bravely. We cremated his body and it took three days to put out the fire.
On the other hand, your father hasn’t drank since Christmas…I put a pint of Castor Oil in his beer and it kept him going till New Years.
Three of your friends went off the bridge in a pick up. One was driving, they other two were in the back. The driver got out. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. The other two drowned, they couldn’t get the tailgate down.
Went to Doctor yesterday and your father went with me. Doc put a small tube in my mouth and said not to open it for ten minutes. Your father wanted to buy the tube.
We got a bill from the funeral home, said if we didn’t make the last payment on Grandma’s funeral bill, up she comes.
Love,
Ma
PS I was going to send you $10.00 but had already sealed the envelope.