Republican Jeff Flake, theotherjackass senator from Arizona, loves to Make A Point about how much ofyourtax dollars the government is wasting on dumb stuff that he, Jeff Flake, does not understand and therefore sees no reason to fund. Here's the most recent installment
I'm not sure why the 18 billion dollar chocolate industry needs our 130,000 dollars. Let them use their profits to safeguard their supply line of their product. Did liberals suddenly become pro corporate subsidies? Are the people who are so worried about me buying a soda that is too big, because I might get fat now worried about me and my fellow Americans not being able to pour a bag of M&Ms down our throats whenever we want?
"Baby Boomers have picked up the pace, averaging about 11 partners."Wow, I better get to work then, because I've fallen way behind. (That's an understatement.) Wonder how my wife is going to feel about this.
"But isn't it typical of the Baby Boomers? 'We had fun now you can't!' "
You might have a point if that number was accurate. I have my doubts. I don't remember anyone hooking up at anything close to that rate. (The wish, yes ... the reality, not so much. Don't believe everything you see on the History Channel.) We liked the idea of it, and took it for granted that it was actually happening (because we were always being told so), but it was an ideal that few ever actually reached. Everyone talked about it, but that was all it was, just talk. I think that in reality the average among heteros was more like 2 to 4 partners total. We enjoyed having that image ascribed to us though (it really pissed off our parents), so we pretended that it was true. But hey, if we are expected to up that number to 11 then there's still time...
Our generation adopted the practice of cohabitation without marriage on a wide scale basis, which was in striking contrast to the practices of the preceding generations. And as young adults often do we often lived together with friends in informal group living arrangements for economic and social reasons. This along with many other dramatic social changes that were occurring fed right into the runaway moral panic that burned through the country like an out-of-control fire in those years. Part of that moral panic was the idea that our generation had abandoned all forms of morality and were engaging in primitive, self-indulgent, lustful and irresponsible lifestyles. We did nothing to disabuse the older generation of those notions (Millennials didn't invent irony), but the images that were widespread were almost cartoonish exaggerations of the real situation. We heard the claims and stories so often that we even believed some of them ourselves. All too often these caricatures of our generation's younger and wilder days have become the accepted narrative now even though they are in many cases wildly embellished. There's a kernel of truth to most of them, but only a kernel.
We are madly in love with the roguish "fuck convention" image of ourselves (it's in our bones; it's encoded in the Boomer genome) so we will happily confirm any outlandish story ascribed to us, even if it is at best apocryphal.
tl;dr: My generation had All The Sex and didn't leave any of it for you Millennials. SorryNotSorry. You are going to have to pull yourselves up by your jockstraps/bra-straps and make more of it yourselves. My god You People expect us to do Everything for you. Whatever happened to Good Old American Values like having some guy do lines of coke off your boobs in the back of the bar and then taking him into one of the restrooms for a quickie? What is this world coming to?
Try leading it a bit more next time.The whole F-35 debacle is making waves up Here as well. The Cons seem determined not to learn anything from the CF-188 affair (the tails used to fall off, see) or the even more embarrassing CF-104 purchase ('Catch a Falling Starfighter') while simultaneously slashing defense spending and annoying foreign governments with waffling and a screwed-up procurement process. Hard to justify spending hundreds of millions on unflyable planes when we can't even supply the poor soldiers in the field, or pay them decently when they're back home.
I knew he was heading down RWNJ Road. I didn't realise until I heard that that he's already built his new house there and widening the street.
Well, you know that with a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
One of the greatest lines in TV comedy!
Not the expensive ones.
I'm not sure why the 18 billion dollar chocolate industry needs our 130,000 dollars. Let them use their profits to safeguard their supply line of their product. Did liberals suddenly become pro corporate subsidies? Are the people who are so worried about me buying a soda that is too big, because I might get fat now worried about me and my fellow Americans not being able to pour a bag of M&Ms down our throats whenever we want?
Jeff Flake is a Mormon.
Are Mormons even allowed to eat chocolate???
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More likely it's a subsidy for an American company doing business in Africa or Central America...
"Baby Boomers have picked up the pace, averaging about 11 partners."Wow, I better get to work then, because I've fallen way behind. (That's an understatement.) Wonder how my wife is going to feel about this.
"But isn't it typical of the Baby Boomers? 'We had fun now you can't!' "
You might have a point if that number was accurate. I have my doubts. I don't remember anyone hooking up at anything close to that rate. (The wish, yes ... the reality, not so much. Don't believe everything you see on the History Channel.) We liked the idea of it, and took it for granted that it was actually happening (because we were always being told so), but it was an ideal that few ever actually reached. Everyone talked about it, but that was all it was, just talk. I think that in reality the average among heteros was more like 2 to 4 partners total. We enjoyed having that image ascribed to us though (it really pissed off our parents), so we pretended that it was true. But hey, if we are expected to up that number to 11 then there's still time...
Our generation adopted the practice of cohabitation without marriage on a wide scale basis, which was in striking contrast to the practices of the preceding generations. And as young adults often do we often lived together with friends in informal group living arrangements for economic and social reasons. This along with many other dramatic social changes that were occurring fed right into the runaway moral panic that burned through the country like an out-of-control fire in those years. Part of that moral panic was the idea that our generation had abandoned all forms of morality and were engaging in primitive, self-indulgent, lustful and irresponsible lifestyles. We did nothing to disabuse the older generation of those notions (Millennials didn't invent irony), but the images that were widespread were almost cartoonish exaggerations of the real situation. We heard the claims and stories so often that we even believed some of them ourselves. All too often these caricatures of our generation's younger and wilder days have become the accepted narrative now even though they are in many cases wildly embellished. There's a kernel of truth to most of them, but only a kernel.
We are madly in love with the roguish "fuck convention" image of ourselves (it's in our bones; it's encoded in the Boomer genome) so we will happily confirm any outlandish story ascribed to us, even if it is at best apocryphal.
tl;dr: My generation had All The Sex and didn't leave any of it for you Millennials. SorryNotSorry. You are going to have to pull yourselves up by your jockstraps/bra-straps and make more of it yourselves. My god You People expect us to do Everything for you. Whatever happened to Good Old American Values like having some guy do lines of coke off your boobs in the back of the bar and then taking him into one of the restrooms for a quickie? What is this world coming to?
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Try leading it a bit more next time.The whole F-35 debacle is making waves up Here as well. The Cons seem determined not to learn anything from the CF-188 affair (the tails used to fall off, see) or the even more embarrassing CF-104 purchase ('Catch a Falling Starfighter') while simultaneously slashing defense spending and annoying foreign governments with waffling and a screwed-up procurement process. Hard to justify spending hundreds of millions on unflyable planes when we can't even supply the poor soldiers in the field, or pay them decently when they're back home.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is the most apropos senatorial name ever, with the lone exception of Sen. James RavingLoonyTotalAsshole (R-OK).
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
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Lizzie, dear, you have made my morning.
Dammit, Barry, you're making it so bloody hard to hate you over the TPP.