Every once in a while something stupid becomes part of the conversation and we’re reminded this is truly the best timeline.
This is my review of Flying Basset Real Phek in Por Ta:
Being from Arizona, particularly growing up around Mexicans, seeing people wearing cowboy boots to pretty much any event is not all that unusual. Not just to formal events either, people just wear them everywhere.
Can you blame them? They’re rather stylish, and because they are designed specifically for safer horseback riding they’re easy to get on and off without laces. The prominent heel allows the rider to securely maintain control of the stirrups. The open top allows the foot to slip out in the event the rider falls off and gets stuck with a runaway horse. Several men in my family wear them to formal events, like weddings, funerals, criminal courts, etc. I have considered buying a pair myself (in snakeskin of course) but I have not been to Mexico in a while (a surprisingly good place to find quality footwear) and the people in my family that do wear them have one thing in common relative to me: they’re all shorter.
So, exactly how tall is Ron DeSantis?
While many political figures’ heights are a matter of public record, others are notoriously tight-lipped or deceptive about their true stature. In the former camp, you’ll find President Joe Biden (6’0″), Chris Christie (5’11”), and Jeb Bush (6’3″). In the latter, there’s United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former President Donald Trump, and now DeSantis.
Many politicians’ heights are listed on their Wikipedia page. Not DeSantis. His Wikipedia contains no mention of his height. One site noted that estimates of his height vary from 5’9″ to 6’2″. Others say he’s closer to 5’7″.
Please note, there is nothing wrong with being short and in many respects its more of a hassle to be tall. Can you imagine what a nightmare buying a car is for Shaq?
The trouble is, its an incredibly low bar for the internet to tear down your ego. Pun intended. Particularly when your opponent is effectively the guy in high school that showered after gym class specifically because he wanted everyone to know his penis was bigger, regardless if that was true. I can’t decide if it sadder DeSantis is wearing cowboy boots to try to appear taller than he is, or politics is now on a level where the childish name calling is almost quaint. I will have to see a video of him walking in these to decide, but the photos do look really weird.
Its not that unusual for someone to have issues with image like this. After all, there is a similar debate online over the actual height of Arnold Schwarzenegger. For good reason, because Lou Ferrigno is clearly in a different weight class.
How feck in real is dis por ta? A pro pa English por ta, is dawk but not blak. It is sor ta sweet, but bittah. Mid range in alc hole con tent, an not par ticu lly carb on etted. Throw dow sum cues to make ya lie back, and think of England, an ya dun well hav it. They do dis? Aye, bet da bit Doc teh Snoddlewenkings at the Willoughbyshire Fek accent Inst a toot, mey be a bit mawch. No need to ya sum thin ya not, wen ye chuffed inya muff, mate. Flying Basset Real Phek in Por Ta: 3.8/5 5.6%ABV
Hate the team. Like the cheerleaders.
That Dak Prescott meme in Powerline this week is priceless.
“Dak Prescott cologne, for those nights when you don’t want to score.”
Somehow the quality of their cheerleaders is the one thing every owner has been able to maintain over every season.
Its the one part of the team owner personally tests out to make sure they’re good?
“I will have to see a video of him walking in these to decide”
So these boots are made for walking?
They were made for Walking Tall.
It was so long ago I don’t remember it, except that it was another sticking to the man 70’s movie.
They remade it with The Rock in early aughts.
He’s already tall. To make it a challenge he should have done “Walking Crouched.”
“I’m Buford T. Pusser.”
Or as the wife refers to some women’s shoes as S&M… stand & model ya pervs.
Bloody hell. Take ya all noight ta come upwa dat, you did!
I felt a great disturbance in the Glibertariat, as if tens of Glibs suddenly sat down for lunch and were silent.
How many were you, including spouses/guests?
Last night? 6.
“Several men in my family wear them to formal events, like weddings, funerals, criminal courts, etc.”
Uhhh, Mr. Gambini, will you please approach the bench?
When you are old and short, good cowboy boots really help the ankles.
The Glib’s own “Bro” got a headline in the Bee.
This was in the sidebar.
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-blames-fog-of-war-for-errant-reporting-on-gaza-bombing-russian-collusion-jussie-smollett-covington-catholic-hunters-laptop-the-steele-dossier-kyle-rittenhouse-origins-of-covid-contd
Pretty good summary 👍
Masterful. I needed the laugh.
OMG. That’s perfect.
“How times have changed! Gen-Z now WANT parents to track their location using their phones to make them feel safe from abductions or terror attacks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12656569/Gen-Z-parents-TRACK-location-phones.html
Sad.
Wow, they really fucked those kids up good.
All the ones I know well are scared of their own shadows.
Anyway, what was this about SP was the only one with the keys to this site? That sounds a bit concerning.
Regardless, we should let in new people, since so many have wandered off.
Sounded more like no one has keys to the site. Accidentally shutting out new commenter seems like something that ought to be fixed right away, no matter what it takes.
If anyone wants to get in, send a message to TPTB and it can be arranged, if the person is earnest. As I recall, site can be opened for a short time and person can join. Use the Leads and Submissions link to contact the editors.
Register does not work, if that was being discussed.
You can add people. I got Spaniard and BethAnnica in. They just don’t comment.
Yeah, about that, why not?
I can’t control them. BethAnnica joined to support GlibFlick, and once that started going she went back to her social group.
Spaniard really wanted to join, i managed to get him on here, he never comments.
At this point I don’t think I would try again.
I have seen a few comments from Spaniard. He seemed to be well received. Let him know he’s welcome.
I have.
WRT Spaniard: I haven’t spoken to him because I am exceedingly envious of the fact that he is from a country I have never been to and yet have a MASSIVE crush on. I have so many questions I don’t know how to voice, and I’m like, just sing me the song of your people! Include lisp.
Anyway, he’s said cogent things and I appreciate new voices here. @milo’s been lurking forever and he has recently taken to speakingup, which is awesome.
I also wish JB and Jarflax would come back.
Moj, I’ve been to Spain and Oklahoma. Thanks for another chapter last night.
I’ve only been to Oklahoma in passing, and briefly, at that.
And you are welcome! I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
But IS Dot the one who drugged Marina? The world may never know.
WebDom has the keys. She’s just very, very busy. Alas, while I know some WordPress, I don’t have the know-how to manage such a large site.
My post last night got 18 responses before the morning crew took over, so I don’t know if everybody was out partying, they didn’t comment, or the site was being difficult.
I was out partying with Trashy and others. My fault.
Then there seems to be conflicting information.
“‘Old Man With Candy on October 21, 2023 at 10:24 am
Not intentionally. SP had the approval keys and we can’t access them now.”
Ohhhh yes, I definitely missed that.
I got drunk and went to bed.
Samesies.
WebDom has the keys to the kingdom. I just talked with her. Open enrollment was stopped early on, when it was obvious there were plants trying to get in.
Why would a plant want to get in here? It takes time to learn the jokes, etc. Passive plants may already be here, as I remember a couple got booted for not following the rules.
Spammers and one fed. So now you have to ask.
A fed?!? That’s hilarious. We really are a hive of scum and villainy.
Well that is a pint of pride. Well done my fellow reprobates!
I remember. It is nice not having oppositional-defiant disorders, trolls, and spies about, but there is a price. We could have a lot more people worth hearing from.
I will leave that to TPTB.
Hype is gone?? jk
Not my circus, etc., but I would like to see some new monkeys. And many who have drifted off.
There’s always going to be some attrition. How you let newbies in without causing problems, I dunno. Maybe a notice on t the main page letting them know how to “apply”?
Channeling Marge Schott ?
I am back to lurking after a 2 year hiatus
For UCS, which you’ve probably already seen. Hobby tools
I have seen that video.The downside of the nail polish rack is that it doesn’t actually get me any more space than just having them flat on a table. So I got a chest of drawrs and am 3d printing a series of angled racks to stick in the drawers to hold my paints.
As for the weird fidget thingamabob, there are $1.99 plastic palettes that dred acrylic paint just pops off of too (at worst you might need to wipe it down with isopropyl) that doesn’t have all the extra spaces for the paint to go.
But the storage and water bottles I can agree with him on.
I wore snakeskin boots when I got married. My mother-in-law did not approve, and let my fiance know as much. Fiance was too busy freaking out that the flower bouquet she was going to carry was all wrong. Somehow, we got through the ceremony.
Flash forward twenty-nine years. No one remembers what shoes I wore to the event, or the wife’s flowers. No one listens to my mother-in-law’s picayune gripes. The gold band on my left hand still looks as good as it did the day I put it on, though.
Your fiancé was a she?? :-p
Knew Ted would jump on that.
Would also jump on it
Fail!
Try this
Flying Basset Real Phek in Por Ta: 3.8/5 5.6%ABV
Worth a try.
Cheers M8!
I tried an homage to your droll beer reviews Thursday, but either it was too obvious or too subtle to merit comment. Anyway, don’t think you were around, but know that a hat was tipped.
Ha!
Dat jus chuffs me to bits. A craik in revoo! Man a thanks, M8!
“EXCLUSIVE: Lesbian detransitioner with multiple personality disorder who escaped sex cult sues medics who prescribed her testosterone after deciding she was transgender, causing painful and permanent side effects
Layton Ulery, formerly Hannah, took aim at high-profile medical doctors in a bombshell lawsuit obtained by DailyMail.com, where she claimed that her ‘mind and body’ were inhabited by eight separate identities after almost two decades of abuse at the hands of a cult.
After enduring 18 years of ‘sexual, physical and psychological torment’, which also included conversion therapy to ‘cure’ her from being a lesbian, she left the cult in 2015, while the trauma at the time saw her personality splinter into separate identities.
The lawsuit claims that because Layton would suffer memory loss when she switched identities, her doctors were also providing medical treatment to other identities including Liv, Jesse, Anna, Mason, Lee, AJ, and several ‘fragmented identities.’
Yet despite being ‘practically and legally disabled under Rhode Island law’, she underwent drastic gender reassignment therapy including hormone replacement, because the surgeons ‘prioritized their own agendas, ideologies and professional interests.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12654975/Detransitioner-multiple-personality-gender-reassignment.html
Everyone in this story is nuts.
“When she was told by loved ones to seek help for her dissociative identity disorder (DID), which she had not been diagnosed with at the time, Layton googled her symptoms and found services from therapist Julie Lyons, an expert in transgender and dissociative therapy.
Notably, Ulery said that when she first went to see Lyons she did not consider herself to be transgender, but was quickly pushed towards transgenderism and alleges that Lyons ‘fixated’ on the fact that she had male alter identities.
Lyons allegedly ‘quickly jumped to the conclusion that Layton had gender dysphoria and began convincing Layton she was a transgender man in need of further medicalization.’
Further than pushing her to transition, the lawsuit alleges that she ‘crossed numerous lines’ in their sessions, including inviting her boyfriend into a therapy session where they performed ‘experimental hypnosis techniques’ on her.
It is also alleged that when Layton couldn’t pay for her ongoing treatment, Lyons allowed her to continue so long as she recruited new patients into her practice.
She said the bizarre treatment, which also included taking her to ‘unconventional, new age’ church services, went unchallenged for years as her only frame of reference for medical care came from inside the cult. ”
WTF??
How is someone happen to be an expert in DID and transgenderism? I mean, there’s a very large gap between the two, and both are (supposedly) rare.
Kindergarten teacher or Harvard professor?
Yes, but there is only one victim. That poor woman should have been treated using appropriate standards of care. Instead, she got politicized medicine.
Did all the alternate personalities get billed separately or did they get a group rate?
You’re joking but given the doctor’s lack of ethics, multiple bills would be the least surprising answer.
The only one in that story that does not belong in prison is the dude Layton.
I mean…her…uh, him? Her? It? Fuck, I cant keep up anymore.
UHF worthy headline
Looks way too foamy for an English porter.
Das wha she sed, M8.
Let’s go Brandon
The US budget deficit soared in fiscal year 2023, which will likely complicate Congress’ efforts to come to a federal spending deal before government funding runs out next month.
The deficit was $1.7 trillion for the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30, according to Treasury Department data released Friday. That marks a $320 billion, or 23%, increase from the prior fiscal year.
However, the deficit essentially doubled to about $2 trillion if the impact of President Joe Biden’s federal student debt cancellation plan – which the Supreme Court struck down before it took effect – is not included.
The US Treasury Department listed the fiscal year 2022 deficit as $1.4 trillion because it took into account the cost of the president’s proposal. Without it, the deficit would have been closer to $1 trillion.
The agency then logged the overturning of the cancellation plan as a savings for fiscal year 2023, which reduced the size of the deficit to $1.7 trillion.
“We are a nation addicted to debt,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “With the economy growing and unemployment near record lows, this was the time to instill fiscal responsibility and reduce our deficits.”
Obviously the fault of Republikkkins and their pet billionaire tax cheats.
the weirdest thing about glibs dot com is pointing to failures of Democrats as some sort of proof of Republican virtue……………….
in spite of the fact that the Republicans are equally or congruently broken in almost every way
and then, as JB noted on his way out, the pile-ons when anyone argues that most of the “conservatives” out there are just tv evangelists, transparent demagogues
even the “well, at least with the Republicans we get to hell a few weeks later” is the smallest of beers and not worth the ink
my first principles remain freedom and small government, and Republicans are every bit as guilty in the decay of those as anyone
I invite Glibs everywhere to join me in hating everyone who deserves it, in calling every pitch for the ball or strike that it is
I think most here are with you. How many times have I said if I could go to DC and kick the shit out of persons of my choice I would be worn out before I got around to a democrat? That is usually met with ‘Hear! Hear!”
I dont give a fuck whose face is behind the desk or whose name is on the office door. I dont care what party they belong to. I care a lot about policy, full stop. That leaves slim pickin’s these days.
*Wife is watching Perry Mason re-runs. Just watched a scene where a pol is giving a campaign speech. Same nebulous platitudes and drivel, word for word, that we are hearing today.
Come to think of it, I might actually vote for Slim Pickens.
The Pachyderms currently holding a 3-ring circus in the HoR are the only evidence you need to prove your point of it being a uniparty of dysfunction. Typically gridlock is a good thing, but refusing to vote for a Speaker who seems to have genuine concern about balancing the budget proves that the big P Party doesn’t give a shit about limited government.
I don’t care if it’s symbolic or not. If the GOP being in power means the gas and egg prices come down, then okay, so be it. Doesn’t make me blind to what thye do, but my life is demonstrably worse/more expensive when Dems are in charge.
I took Brooks’ comment as an indictment of the media reflexively blaming Republicans for everything, not a defense of the Republican Party. IMO, some of you so, JB included, get so fucking lathered up about hating The Right People that you just see what you’re looking for wherever you look.
I went to Home Depot yesterday because I needed a new garbage disposal.
The boxes above and below the display models were wrapped in security cables, with additional cables securing them to the shelf and/or each other and secured with little alarm boxes. To buy one, I had to have an employee retrieve a little device that deactivated the alarm so I could get the box in my cart, then the employee had to walk me up to the front and hand me off to a cashier, who then removed the final security cables as I paid.
WTF
Thank a Democrat.
Exactly. At this point I wouldn’t blame Home Depot for setting booby traps.
The annual deficit data will likely factor into Congress’ already-fraught negotiations over funding federal agencies for fiscal year 2024. Lawmakers passed a stopgap spending measure on September 30, just before the federal government was set to shut down. It extended federal funding until November 17.
Just as long as we can continue to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at our foreign clients and proxy wars.
Throw = squander
Above: “With the economy growing and unemployment near record lows”
Government throws around as much bullshit as it does money.
Sir Bobby Charlton, England World Cup winner and Man Utd legend, dies aged 86
Stop threatening him.
Donald’s the talliest! The best! With very Bigly hands! Ron DeShortness is phake news!
Does The Don wear cowboy boots with a lift? He also combs his hair up to make himself taller. Don (and Joe) should be shrinking, an inch every 10 years after age 50.
Part of the normal aging process.
I know who’s getting hired to run his social media.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN
well brace them with something
Haven’t we heard that horseshit before? It didn’t work last time, it won’t this time.
The stink of desperation is choking me.
How much is the DNC paying him?
Cowboy boots. Was talked into buying a pair in Odessa, TX thirty years ago while on an audit. Wore them out of the store. That night, couldn’t get them off. Had to call one of the other guys to come to my room and pull them off. Never wore again: I suppose they are still sitting in the credenza at the Texas office.
He knelt before me on the hotel room’s carpet and began to tug on it, gently at first, then harder and more insistently until it finally came. I moaned with pleasure at the release.
Now for the other boot…
Genuine 😂
You may be shocked to learn that I wear them every day….formal occasions I wear rockports – wingtip oxfords, one pair of black and one pair of brown.
Otherwise I am in boots.
https://www.tecovas.com/blog/our-story?msclkid=40006afe6dd61c0ded8f0fca4f447ef2&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BB+TXT%5D+NB+-+GN+-+Boots+-+Specs+-+Broad&utm_term=%2Bhandmade+%2Bcowboy+%2Bboots&utm_content=GN+%3E+Cowboy+Boots+%3E+Handmade
Mrs. Suthenboy complains “You always dress the same. You always buy the same shoes. You have been doing that for 35 years.”
Me: “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”
Her: “I wouldn’t go that far.”
I once asked for some standard fare white, cotton long sleeve button-up shirts. I should have known. Ugh. I got white linen billowy hippy non-tuck shirts.
If your wife guys a shirt for you then smile, say thank you and wear the damned shirt.
I’m outfitted by Cabela’s sales catalog. If it’s my size and on sale I’m interested. Here the only one wearing a suit is the groom or the deceased.
I’ve got a few rockport wingtips.
I tried getting another pair, but their selection sucks now for my size, and the one I did find that fits… they sent me a damage pair of.
Kind of disappointed in them, their older shoes seem to have been better as well.
Agreed. Shoe styles rarely change for the better. I usually have to wait until things go full circle back to the old classics.
Rockport’s quality isn’t what it used to be. I am guessing, new owner trading off of the name but lowered standards to save money. I have seen that movie so many times.
Yup.
I gave them a try in the hopes that wasn’t the case, but it seems to be the case. I’m sending them back and not ordering a new one.
Eight more minutes before tPSU loses yet again to tOSU.
O-H…..
LET’S GO BLUE!!
We live about an hour from Chicago, but right on the edge of where it gets very rural. Our school is tiny (graduating class of 60) and the girls sometimes where cowboy boots to school dances. I have seen both Gadsden an Confederate flags around (not that I would fly the latter). My wife calls it the “guns and Bible belt”. That’s why we like it here.
My father (who taught conditioning) maintained that Franco Columbu had the best physique of the 3 (Arnold and Lou being the other two) but Franco’s height kept him back.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/bodybuilding-portrait-of-arnold-schwarzenegger-and-franco-columbu-picture-id1165956903
Totally unrelated, I’m sure, is that my dad was Franco’s height.
My father (who taught conditioning) maintained that Franco Columbu had the best physique of the 3 (Arnold and Lou being the other two) but Franco’s height kept him back.
I agree.
height and money are the two things that don’t matter to those who have them
5’9.5 155-160 dad body these days. Those things dont matter to me either.
Since too many are typing out a poor british accent, I give you Cockneys get a cab.
U tak ing a piss?
*breaks bottle*
Dear TPTB: Filler submitted describing the Whiskey Bone Marrow Luge.
Powerline Blog’s This Week in Pictures has inspired me to rewatch Red Dawn for the first time in ages. Free on Amazon!
I especially like the part where one of the invaders
Instructs his men to go to the sporting goods store and find all the Forms 4473 so they’d know which households had guns.
They spared no expense:
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Before starting work on the movie, the cast underwent an intensive eight-week military training course. During that time, production crews designed and built special combat vehicles in Newhall, California. Soldier of Fortune reported that the movie’s T-72 tank was such a precise replica that “while it was being carted around Los Angeles, two CIA intelligence officers followed it to the studio and wanted to know where it had come from”.
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WOLVERINES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGYl7bpjGc
Revisiting the filming locations in the 2013 era.
Obscure, but cool!
the weirdest thing about glibs dot com is pointing to failures of Democrats as some sort of proof of Republican virtue……………….
Yeah, that’s it. If we could just get those fiscally conservative Republicans back at the wheel, our problems would be over.
I’ve heard that if you don’t like those you can vote in your faves.
It’s unreal that the repub voters think Trump was the First Coming and a repeat will solve all the problems.
For 40 years I’ve been saying “The next president will be worse than the previous one” I haven’t been wrong yet. The repubs are trying to reclaim War Party status, it’s a tough battle but they may succeed.
“The next president will be worse than the previous one”
While he was no saint, I do think Trump was better than Obama. The current chaos at the border and in foreign policy is basically Obama’s third term (by design, considering that 80% of Biden’s staff are Obama retreads).
Fiscal policy-wise though, you’re 100% right. They’ve sucked since WWII and only gotten worse.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2012/1218/How-Eisenhower-and-Congressional-Democrats-balanced-the-budget
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Unlike most presidents who followed him, Dwight Eisenhower truly believed that budgets should be balanced. Consequently, he was embarrassed when by early 1959 the budget deficit was heading toward $13 billion.
Today, that seems very small but it was the largest deficit since the aftermath of World War II. Eisenhower was determined to attain balance, and his 1960 budget incorporated severe spending restraint and only minor tax increases.
But budget balancing would not be easy. Democrats had won a landslide victory in the 1958 midterm elections and held large majorities in both the House and the Senate.
The composition of the political parties and the budget were very different in 1959 than today. The Democratic Party contained extreme conservatives from the South like Richard Russell and John Stennis and liberals like Hubert Humphrey and William Proxmire. Republicans ranged from “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater to Jacob Javits, who might now be considered a liberal Democrat.
Defense constituted about half of federal spending, compared with 18 percent in 2012. Social Security amounted to only 11 percent, compared with 22 percent today. Medicare and Medicaid, which have been growing very rapidly for decades, did not exist.
Foreshadowing his farewell warning about the military-industrial complex, Eisenhower had been hard on defense throughout his presidency. He was especially tough on the Army, believing that large armies created a temptation to get into ground wars.
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I like Ike…
Supposedly, the last time the budget was balanced was in 2001, but since the national debt went up that year and every other year of Clinton’s presidency, I’m skeptical.
I was just starting my army business when Ike got re-elected. There was much peeing and moaning about the lack of promotions beyond E-4 and budget constraints that weren’t appreciated. It wasn’t until ’61 that promotions loosened up, then VN got busy and we forgot all about the lean times. By ’71 everything slooooowed way down again.
Blimp pulls water skiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_J2MQmn8Y
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Stephen pointed out the “terrifying” polls that show Trump beating Biden in several swing states, which prompted Maher to renew his call for the incumbent Democrat to step aside.
“I have no doubt he can do the job. I just don’t think he can win the job,” Maher said. “Perception becomes reality. They think he’s too old. I saw him on ‘60 Minutes.’ I thought what he said was great, but he was falling asleep.”
Maher said he believes President Biden can still “do the job” but that he can’t “win the job” in 2024.
The HBO star also sounded the alarm of a recent Emerson poll that showed Trump ahead of Biden among voters under 30, causing his liberal audience to gasp.
“Yeah, that’s what I did,” Maher told the crowd.
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Oh, how I laughed. I needed to find audio of that gasp.
“I have no doubt he can do the job.”
The delivery room nurse dropped him on his head, didn’t she?
I know he can get the job, but can he do that job?
Maybe I’ll try to be less subtle or oblique on the future.
Nope.
I own cowboy boots and wear them often in the winter. Since my grandfather was an actual cowboy, I have the birthright.
My dad was a nuclear physicist by trade, and a champion cutter. He had many horses and was buried in his boots. I have his spurs and championship buckles.
I read that as “he had many nurses” and thought “Way to go Dad!”
He did that as well.
I just had a 1/2 inch lift put in my right winter boot. Not to make me taller but to keep me from walking around in circles. My shoe size is manly, I’m afraid cowboy boots would not be convenient, only add more on the front end.
Kinky (((Friedman))) ?
The Republicans need to sit down with their red pencils and go over Joe’s current 110 billion dollar wish list. If they bear down and apply themselves, I think they can grind out a compromise which will reduce the price tag to 150 billion or so. Just as long as everybody is happy.
I really wonder what will happen when the debt comes due. Though I don’t remember the Depression I do remember WW2 as it applied to a little kid. Fortunately we were on the bottom of the economic ladder (but at least on the ladder) so not having consumer goods wasn’t so much of a big deal. Looting is generally not considered an occupation but apparently it’s a living.
Can you blame them? Tall is a huge advantage in that world.
Only 11 presidents have been 5’9 or shorter. Just 1 (Madison) was my height, 5’4. Oh well. The Constitution he wrote has withstood the test of time.
CEOs tend to be tall as well.
This makes me think height and intelligence have an inverse relationship.
Short men don’t get far unless they’re smart or vicious. Stalin was 5’5 and El Chapo is 5’6.
I was surprised to learn that Yuri Gagarin was 5’2. He was voted unanimously by his fellow cosmonauts to be the first man in space. After his sudden rise to fame, he was caught cheating on his wife.
Simo Hayhaa, the deadliest sniper in history, was 5’3. Some articles say that he was barely over 5 feet tall, so he could have been shorter.
A personal hero of mine, Charles P Steinmetz, had a spinal deformity and grew to only 4 feet tall.
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a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to design better electromagnetic apparatus equipment, especially electric motors for use in industry.[1][2][a]
At the time of his death, Steinmetz held over 200 patents.[3] A genius in both mathematics and electronics, he did work that earned him the nicknames “Forger of Thunderbolts”[4]
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There’s a Simpsons episode where Mr Burns uses “Steinmetz” as an insult.
On the other hand, Robert Reich is a legal midget, and he’s managed to succeed despite his idiotic political views.
Had to post it. Monty Python: Archeology Today:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww06W9N8prc
The fight over height.
I liked it. Meanwhile, in reality:
https://youtu.be/ZbG05ePWRQE?si=R2gx34kw_lRkR7mt&t=275