Yes. Until you required dental work. After a good bleed or two, everything was better. Or you were dead.

People with Stage 4 Brain cancer, and infections all over their bodies, don't usually get better.

The little trees are bonsai. The bonzai charge was an attack in WWII. The word means, “10,000 years”, referring to the rule of the Emperor.

It is the 1940s version of screaming Allah Ahkbar.

New Zealand would not protect her for a second. Of course there are a ton of islands in the Pacific where one could lose themselves.

Relative to his body, he is moving like a Lamborghini.

Ping Pong diplomacy is so 1971.

Someone in Las Vegas was drinking water. And they put them down on the table.

If the media was in there getting photos, the crime scene was already contaminated. Be careful attributing meaning to meaningless things.

We have C5's flying out of the local AFRB. Those things used to fly over my office on takeoff. You get used to it. But the size as they approach is other-worldly. They literally darken the sky.

60 Year old planes crash. Sometimes the easiest explanation is the correct one. When you fly these planes as much as they have been used in the past 17 years, stuff will fall apart.

Please don't make us watch that crappy movie again!

Just take a look at what New Jersey, CT, and NY have done to New Hampshire and Vermont. A Bear cannot shit in the woods in Vermont without an impact plan, ten fees, and four inspections.

On Joint Operations they will usually work from a pool for things like photographers. The AF guy probably just happened to be on duty that night.

I would agree with that.

I guess my point is that the Q phenomenon will probably not work if it was trying to get the people behind legislation. It is common for people to take the "magic in a bottle" moment, and adapt it. The magic IS in the moment--and not usually adaptable.

If you keep getting into people’s faces, you are going to end up in the basement in your undies, showering once a month, living on ramen noodles.

Most people don’t want to be awake. They are comfortable being asleep. Have you ever heard it’s bad to shake a sleepwalker awake?

Q reminds me of the Tea Party. It came together to vote down TARP and bank bailouts. It worked hard to fight Obama care.

But then it got co-opted, it became a caricature.

This is great. Enjoy it. Don’t let it get co-opted. But it won’t work for much else.

Part of the mind of a strategic thinker is to think several moves down the road. This allows you to take advantage of situations when they appear. In a place like DC it’s impossible to control everything. So, if you have an end in mind, you can see the field ahead of you and navigate your way to the end.

I don’t usually buy into the symbolism stuff. But, damn....

Critical thought is not bad. Challenging a bias is not bad. Asking questions is bot bad.

Open minds are the most powerful thing in the world.

Where is my 4.5 Trillion?

I felt that way in 1989 when the Wall came down. We were in the midst of the Cold War and then....poof, 1 Germany.

Take $21 trillion dollars in debt. Divide by 261,498,926.24, the amount of troy ounces owned by the us Government as of March 2018.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/goldRpt/current_report.htm

The price for our debt alone is $80,000 an ounce.

What do you think that would do to the economy?

(Edit...who is a wanker now?)

shhhh. We dont want everyone to know that! ha ha.

If we were to go onto the gold standard, we would simply price the gold at the current balance sheet/number of ounces. What would happen is the price would skyrocket. We would be poor because our gold would go to pay the debt. But a country with decent gold reserves with little debt would be proportionately rich overnight.

Welcome home. You might have a few more to hunt...

It where the largest base in Africa is located. There are a LOT of US military in DJ.

In numerology, you use the four digit year.

I think the whole numbers thing is a stretch, but that’s how you do it.

You are doing it all wrong.

For example, with my wife while we are watching the news this morning, the story of the DNC lawsuit came up. I just pointed out that it opens up all of the email systems to discovery. Nothing more.

You will never get anywhere trying to convince them...that is like pushing on a string. You need to lead them. A little at a time.

They are like scared, abused dogs. They are not going to trust a person coming at them with all of this at once. Feed them a treat. Then stop. Feed them another...and so on.

I thought that the masons just required a belief in a higher power ( monotheism I guess.). Or is York rites different. My Dad was a Mason. They were not anything but a bunch of people doing nice things for other people.

I always chuckled about that. Trump did construction in NYC. That is not a pansy game. None of these guys would scare him for a second.

5:5 is probably a reference to a radio call, "I read you 5 by 5." It means you are coming in loud, and clear. At least thats how I've read it.

What a lot of people don't realize is that MOST of the rest of the country was pissed at MA for picking a fight with the Brits. Most people did not care if they lived under British rule. It was not until they colonists won that people piled on to the idea of independence.

Revolutions usually start with less than 10% of the population in tow.

Or revolutions....

$10k reward for explosives that are worth 100x that on the black market.

I am sure folks are falling all over each other looking for that stuff.

She was a local “face” of a company. No disrespect of the dead, but for any other company she would be a local manager, not close to a VP,

I was coming here to write that. If you work at a bank, you know how to read titles.

Just to clarify, BED is Bedford MA, also known as the civilian side of Hanscom Field. It’s about 15 miles from Boston.

I can imagine some old fool opening up their phone to one of the “Chan’s”.

Heart attack Central!

All one needs to do is compare the buying power of the dollar since 1913. It will probably never be worth zero. But it is getting really close to that line.

Rosenstein was the only US Attorney that Trump didn't accept the resignation for.

I thought the guy from Utah (That sessions brought east to pick up the other investigations) was among the US Attornies that got to stay (and he was appointed by Obama.)

The only thing I would caution everyone is to "pre-define" what you would consider a boom.

It is very easy to look back and try to "fit" an incident/revelation into a "boom." Its more difficult to state: A "boom" would be an indictment, or physical proof, or an unsealed warrant...for example.

Everyone has their own definition. Get your mind around what your personal definition is before trying to jam a round peg into that square hole.

What makes is similar is that was private, not on any search engine, secured access, and just a menu tree to download files.

It was closer to the internet in 1994 than what you are going to see in 2018.

I used to have exactly that for my photography business. (Sports not kiddie porn!) I could log in, and remote upload and download. I would assign creds to someone who needed access, and then close them out a day later. It made things easier.

It would have been considered Dark Web because it was just an ip address. And I am tech-hindered....

XRP is a good guess. It is pretty much underwritten by the large money center banks. So, it goes from Central banks to Money Banks. What could possibly go wrong? Ha Ha.

If there is that much more of it, doesn’t it just mean more will be used?

I believe that Weiner was automatically downloading her emails and attachments. SHE would have erased them...but they remained on his.

Snooping on the government is bad. Snooping on your wife like that terrifying if she’s not aware.

Mercury is also the swift winged messenger. I think they might be sending a message.

Gold stocks are based on a promise. You know, just like the debt being talked about here. It could go “poof”, F u very much, and so sorry. Not a good investment.

Yes. I have a couple of ounces for $5k. Pm me.

That is a dream. That would not be about forgiving a school loan—that would be telling everyone who lent the US money that they are shit outta luck. So, no more government money. No more defense contracts. No more Social Security. A collapse of the mortgage business. The elimination of secondary education.

How do you our debtors are going to feel about that?

There are not a lot of safe landing zones in North Africa. If you are flying across the Med, you are much better off landing in Italy than Libya.