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A Feud Here At OP
Pubblicato:11 Aprile 2018 4:14 pm
Ultimo aggiornamento:13 Aprile 2018 1:53 pm
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I haven't been coming around much due to a thousand and things I've been doing, but it seems like there's a feud developing between at least 2 members here and possibly more. Because I haven't checked in a lot I'm not up on exactly who is involved and what the disagreement is all about.

Ironically, the other day I was watching a YouTube video by a young gay male who was opining about whether gays have it easier or harder today than in the past. of his most outstanding comments was that gays are being more accepted by the straight world but gay men are still their own worst enemies.

I hope that's not what's happening here. The members of OP have a hard enough time dealing with homophobes; they don't need to battle with fellow gays.

Again, because I haven't been around much recently, I don't know exactly what caused this feud and what it's about, but I hope those involved can settle their differences and allow this forum to become a friendly, welcoming place again.
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YOu Get What You Pay For
Pubblicato:4 Aprile 2018 9:04 am
Ultimo aggiornamento:5 Aprile 2018 8:34 am
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A truck driver's wife went into a pet store. There she saw three parrots priced $100, $50 and $20.

"Why is this parrot so cheap?" she asked.

"Because it used to be the pet in a whore house," the store owner said.

The wife laughed, bought the bird and brought it home.

When she walked in the door, the bird said, "Wow! A new whorehouse."

The woman laughed.

When her two daughters came in, the bird said, "Wow! Two new girls for the house."

The woman laughed.

When her husband walked in, the bird said, "Hi, Joe. So you found the new place."

That's when the fight began.
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Sex at 72
Pubblicato:3 Febbraio 2018 12:10 pm
Ultimo aggiornamento:4 Febbraio 2018 8:21 am
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I just got a flyer in my mailbox that said I can have sex at 72.

I was really happy to get that because I live at 70, so the walk home won't be so long afterwards and it's on the same side of the street, so I won't have to cross the road.
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Last Will and Testament
Pubblicato:29 Gennaio 2018 11:31 am
Ultimo aggiornamento:30 Gennaio 2018 8:36 am
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The family of Jacob Long sat in the attorney's office as the lawyer read Jacob's will.

"To my daughter, Sally, I leave the houses on the north side of the city."

"To my son, Jacob, Jr., I leave the houses on the south side of the city."

"To my wife, Emma, I leave the apartment complex downtown."

The lawyer then turned to the wife. "I didn't realize your husband had such a far-flung empire. You must be proud."

The wife just snorted, "Bah. The asshole had a paper route."
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Lexophilia Part II
Pubblicato:19 Gennaio 2018 1:01 pm
Ultimo aggiornamento:25 Gennaio 2018 12:05 pm
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I know a guy who is addicted to drinking brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.

A thief who was arrested stealing a calendar got 12 months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, California, U C L A.

Yesterday I got some batteries that were free of charge.

A dentist married a manicurist. They fight tooth and nail.

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage, the woman got a new name and a dress.

The police were summd to a daycare center where a 3 year old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.

A bicycle can't stand al. It's tired.

A guy fell into an upholstery machine last week. He's now fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory, but it was never fully developed.

When she saw the first strands of gray hair, she thought she would dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well d. That's the point of it.

Those who get too big for their britches will be totally exposed in the end.
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Lexophilia Part I
Pubblicato:15 Gennaio 2018 4:21 pm
Ultimo aggiornamento:16 Gennaio 2018 8:40 am
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No matter how hard you push the envelope, it will still be statiry.

If you don't your exorcist, you'll be repossessed.

I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. I can't put it down.

I didn't like my beard at first, but then it grew on me.

Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?

When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.

When chemists die, they barium.

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

I changed my IPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.

England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.

A girl once said she recognized me from the Vegetarian's Club, but I swear I never saw herbivore.
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A Breakdown of the New Tax Bill
Pubblicato:30 Dicembre 2017 5:56 am
Ultimo aggiornamento:30 Dicembre 2017 4:04 pm
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Here's a mathematical breakdown of the tax bill that was just signed into law:

1) 91% of the middle class will get a tax break in 2018.

2) Tax breaks for the rich are permanent, but tax breaks for the middle class will be phased out within 10 years.

3) 13 million people will opt out of health insurance, so premiums will increase.

4) In 10 years 80 million people in the middle class will pay more in taxes.

5) 83% of tax cuts will go to the top 1% and 60% will go to the top 0,1$

60 In addition, $1.5 trillion will be added to the deficit.

Also, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "We're going to have to get back next year to entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and deficit," primarily Medicare and Medicaid. So I guess giving the rich enormous tax breaks is more important than helping the middle class and poor with their health coverage.
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Some Inconvenient Truths About the "Middle Class Tax Reform"
Pubblicato:29 Dicembre 2017 9:45 am
Ultimo aggiornamento:5 Gennaio 2018 3:43 am
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Please note the word "Truths" in the title. These are not rumors or opinions.

1) The law limits the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes to $10,000, a section that hits high tax states like New York so hard that Governor Cuomo of NY issued an emergency executive order to allow NY residents to avoid tax liability by pre-ing next year's property taxes before Jan. 1, 2018.

2) The new law encourages outsourcing jobs to offshore corporations by exempting foreign profits from almost all U.S. taxes, including forgiving $400 billion in taxes on profits already owed.

3) Budget cuts of $136 billion in 2018 will include reductions to agriculture subsidies, student loans and military retirements.

4) A repeal of a key section of the Affordable Care Act -- requiring individuals to have health insurance -- will lead to 13 million people not being insured and likely to trigger a 10 per cent hike in health insurance premiums.

These impacts are giving plenty of citizens nightmares, but a greater nightmare looms.

Even before this generally unpopular measure passed in the House and Senate, some congressmen and senators began to murmur about the need for "entitlement reform." That's political shorthand for cutting funding to Medicare and Social Security. The new tax law already mandates cuts to Medicare in 2018 of $25 billion and $400 billion over the next 10 . And cuts to Social Security benefits -- always considered to be the untouchable third rail of American politics -- are no longer unthinkable, particularly as they may be fisy necessary to preserve the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.

The tax cut is also necessary to keep GOP campaign funds rolling in. New York Congressman from a near-by area, in a moment of rare candor, admitted in a November press conference that the tax bill was critical to the continued political fortunes of GOP incumbents. "My donors are basiy saying, 'Get it d or don't ever me again.'" this Congressman said.

So whenever you hear Mr. Trump or of the cowardly members of Congress say this tax reform was for the benefit of the middle class, think again. In area of New York, where the average income is below the state's average, people will save approximately $200 in taxes the first year and then MORE every year after that for the next (This according to the tax charts that have been released so far.)

So keep defending Donald Trump, all you Republican die-hards. But don't come crying later on when you find out what his policies have really d to the average American. You were warned long before the election even took place.
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Use the Ballot Box to Control Trump
Pubblicato:27 Dicembre 2017 12:01 pm
Ultimo aggiornamento:29 Dicembre 2017 9:46 am
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The following is a column written by Eugene Robinson:

Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here's hoping we all --particularly special counsel Robert Mueller -- have a better 2018.

Many of us began 2017 with the consoling thought that the Donald Trump presidency couldn't possibly be as bad as we feared. It turned out to be worse.

Did you ever think you would hear a president use the words "very fine people" to describe participants in a torchlit rally organized by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan? Did you ever think you would hear a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations thuggishly threaten that she would be "taking names" of countries that did not vote on a General Assembly resolution the way she wanted? Did you ever think the government of the world's biggest military and economic power would reject not just science but empiricism itself, preferring to use made-up "alternative facts" as the basis for major decisions?

We knew that Trump was narcissistic and shallow, but on Inauguration Day it was possible to at least hope he was self-aware enough to understand the weight that now rested on his shoulders, and perhaps grow into the job. He did not. If anything, he has gotten worse.

By all accounts, the president spends hours each day watching cable news, buoyed by the shows that blindly support him --"Fox & Friends," "Hannity," a few others on Fox news -- and enraged by those that seek to hold him accountable. His aides have had to shorten and dumb-down his daily briefings on national security in an attempt to get him to pay attention. Members of his Cabinet try to outdo one another in lavishing him with flowery, obsequious praise that would embarrass the Sun King.

Trump and his enablers have waged a relentless war against truth in an attempt to delegitimize any and all critical voices. He wields the epithet "fake news" as a cudgel against inconvenient facts and those who report them. Can a democracy function without a commonly accepted chronicle of events and a commonly acknowledged encyclopedia of knowledge? We are conducting a dangerous experiment to find out.

To understand how deviant the Trump administration is, consider this: Since its founding, the nation has treasured civilian control of the military as a restraint on adventurism. Now we must rely on three generals -- Trump's chief of staff, his national security advisor and his secretary of defense -- to keep this rash and erratic president from careening off the rails.

The president's Republican allies in Congress, who have the power to restrain an out-of-control executive, have rolled over in passive submission. Many see clearly Trump's unfitness but continue to support him because they fear the wrath of his hard-core base and see the chance to enact a conservative agenda. History will remember this craven opportunism and judge it harshly.

I haven't even mentioned Trump's nepotism -- installing his daughter and son-in-law as high-ranking advisors, with portfolios they are in now way qualified to handle -- or his inability to staff the executive branch with the best-and-brightest types who customarily serve. The Trump administration is not only transgressive, it is also mediocre.

The year has been terribly depressing -- but not paralyzing. Let's end on a positive note.

The day of Trump's inauguration, a much larger crowd descended on Washington for the Woman's March, and immense show of resistance. That passion might eventually have faded away, but all evidence suggests it has not. If anything, it seems to have intensified.

In November, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor's race in Virginia, a purple state, by a surprisingly big nine-point margin. His coattails were long enough to elect so many Democrats to the state House of Delegates that control of the chamber is still undecided pending recounts. And then on Dec. 12, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a special election for a U. S. Senate seat -- in Alabama, of all places, one of the most Republican states in the nation.

These races were not about D's versus R's. They were about sanity versus insanity, reason versus chaos. They were about Trump, and he lost.

So Godspeed to the Mueller investigation, but let him worry about that. The rest of us --Democrats, independents, patriotic Republicans -- should work toward the November election. Our duty is to elect a Congress that will bring this runaway train under control.
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7 Words the CDC Can't Say
Pubblicato:26 Dicembre 2017 11:42 am
Ultimo aggiornamento:28 Dicembre 2017 4:41 am
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The following is a column written by Gina Barreca:

"Merry Covfefe to you, my dearest rutabagas, and Happy Bigly to your family and friends. As you know, wordish things have falafelled over this past year, leading many of us to scratch our bugles in wonder as we snog through messages sent to us "directly" from our groinly leaders in Washington.

Maybe it's because my day job is as an English professor, but I don't like when words are shredded, dismembered or mauled. Words matter. Words are our currency; from them we form our concepts of reality. Most of us have to be able to negotiate our lives without examining the meaning and reliability of every single word.

And that's why I was more profoundly disturbed by the story reported by the Washington Post last week than I have ever been by any other single news item coming out of the Trump administration since our current president took office.

Even if you were wrapping presents the whole time, you heard how the Trump administration communicated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that there are seven words to avoid, right? According to the Washington Post, workers within the Department of Health and Human Services (which oversees the CDC) were instructed to avoid "using certain words or phrases in official documents being drafted for next year's budget." The banned words include "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity,"" "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based," and quot;science-based."

The DHHS is the part of the federal government whose mission is to protect the health of all Americans and to provide "essential human services, especially for those least able to help themselves."

You might think that "those least able to help themselves" could be regarded as "vulnerable," but according to Trump's administration, you could be wrong. You would think that a branch of the federal government dealing with disease control would be advocating for science and evidence, but you might be wrong.

You might think that the government's mandate would include protecting the rights of women who want to preserve hard-won reproductive freedoms or transgendered people whose battles in the health care system are only one of the battles they must fight on many fronts, but you might want to reconsider your belief.

You replace "fetus" with "unborn child" and thereby begin to strip away women's rights to make their own health care choices. You replace "transgender" with -- I can't even imagine what -- and all you're doing is mangling our country's language to meet the needs of fundamentalist religious zealots.

I've never liked when anybody tells me what I can say or what I can't.

We teach children to "use their words." We have to use ours -- all of them.

You'll remember that Orwell's Big Brother wants to strip people of words because to do so is to "narrow the range of thought." We learned in "1984" that "every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten."

That sounds like last week's prescription for the CDC.

More unnerving than Orwell's fiction concerning language, however, is philosopher Hannah Arendt's fact about how the slicing, dicing and policing of language was used by Hitler's regime during WW II: "The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth," Arendt wrote in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," is that the "sense by which we take our bearings in the real world -- and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end -- is being destroyed."

Banning words, phrases and books are all forms of linguistic and cultural eugenics, rendering us all more sterile, ignorant, unimaginative and unquestioning by forcing us into silence or, worse, into using deliberately butchered speech. If we outlaw words, then only outlaws will have words. Let us use our words to celebrate, to retain our integrity, our dignity and our power as American citizens."
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