OT: 17 Day Vacation!!!!

JohnInCarolina

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

"Pre dawn raid" - words no politician wants to hear.

HeavyG

Past Donny predicted future Donny

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

"Pre dawn raid" - words no politician wants to hear.

the bastards want 99 cents for me to read that....the world will never know will have to wait for aol to post it

fishlessman

HeavyG said:

Past Donny predicted future Donny

i really question how far nokos allies are willing to go, bet there sick of this regime as much as any one

YukonRon

JohnInCarolina said:

DoubleEgger said:

HeavyG said:

DoubleEgger said:

nolaegghead said:

Obummer should have been prescient enough to predict Russia's annexation of Crimea and the Russian meddling of the 2016 election.  Although in all fairness, they did tell the current administration Flynn was compromised when they found out about it. 

Well Romney was prescient enough to recognize the threat...

What threat?

I thought all this Russia stuff was just FAKE NEWS.

Russia has always been a threat to the USA. That likely will never change. 

Please tell President Trump.  He seems very confused.

John, he is much worse than confused.

His paranoid use of social media is a very revealing, and extremely unsettling image of anything but the most powerful leader in the free world. He is just a few steps away from a bunker mentality, he is unstable, at best.

I think he knows how "over his head" he is. I am sure the rest of the world realizes it as well.

North Korea launches missiles to send a message, our president tweets. Not hard to determine who the crazy characters are in this game.

Eoin

JethroVA said:

@Eoin, I'm not getting your point. Please elaborate.  Typically those who support capitalism are fine with letting the market establish wages and letting employees and employers engage or disengage freely. 

Being anti immigration.

nolaegghead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/08/god-has-given-trump-authority-to-take-out-kim-jong-un-evangelical-adviser-says/?utm_term=.342b1b3b5d99

Eoin

Kayak said:

@jethrova, @eoin, presumably "endemic unemployment" means "higher than it should be", since every country has a positive unemployment rate, and France's is hardly third-world level? Eoin, which 'Right' are you talking about?

France had very low unemployment previously, with all of the same employment rules. How could that be?

Maybe forced austerity and no control over their money has had some effect?

France has a relatovely high unemployment level and it stays high because the costs of hiring and restrictions on firing mean that French employers are reluctant to take people on. If you are in work in France, you pay a lot of tax but you have a lot of benefits and security. If you are out of work, it's not so easy to get employment or to start your own business.

The UK has been great at creating jobs because of flexible regulations, but a lot of those jobs are low paid and with poor security. It is so very easy to set up and run a business in the UK.

The hard part is achieving good employment rates and good quality jobs.

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/08/god-has-given-trump-authority-to-take-out-kim-jong-un-evangelical-adviser-says/?utm_term=.342b1b3b5d99

Sounds legit!

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/08/god-has-given-trump-authority-to-take-out-kim-jong-un-evangelical-adviser-says/?utm_term=.342b1b3b5d99

making holy wars great again

fishlessman

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

"Pre dawn raid" - words no politician wants to hear.

the bastards want 99 cents for me to read that....the world will never know will have to wait for aol to post it

i dont understand why he did not get the weekend to beach the servers

northGAcock

YukonRon said:

Did I mention my wife has two cats?

I will be bringing cat remidy to you very soon

GATraveller

Christians sure can F-up Christianity.

Kayak

@eoin, again, please explain how France could have an overall unemployment rate of 4.9% in 2008 with the same/stronger employment rules. That doesn't seem so high compared to ours, which was just over 4% at the same time. Also, as of 4Q2016, France had a higher rate of 'prime age' workers employed than the US, where we can fire 'em at will.

nolaegghead

Kayak said:

@eoin, again, please explain how France could have an overall unemployment rate of 4.9% in 2008 with the same/stronger employment rules. That doesn't seem so high compared to ours, which was just over 4% at the same time. Also, as of 4Q2016, France had a higher rate of 'prime age' workers employed than the US, where we can fire 'em at will.

Hi Bob.  Maybe this will help you out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-16/the-french-economy-is-bad-in-a-crisis

Eoin

nolaegghead said:

Kayak said:

@eoin, again, please explain how France could have an overall unemployment rate of 4.9% in 2008 with the same/stronger employment rules. That doesn't seem so high compared to ours, which was just over 4% at the same time. Also, as of 4Q2016, France had a higher rate of 'prime age' workers employed than the US, where we can fire 'em at will.

Hi Bob.  Maybe this will help you out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-16/the-french-economy-is-bad-in-a-crisis

That's a good article.

Kayak

@nolaegghead I can do opinion too. Here's one I share with that author: Germany calls the shots in the EU, and France must enforce austerity policies, ensuring no increased demand in their economy since the crash. Also, they can't devalue their currency, driving up demand for their exports. Both of these have orders of magnitude larger effects than employment rules. Hmmm, where else have we seen that... (hint, here). Not all of those supporting Brexit were plain old racists. Again, they employ more 'prime-age (25-54)' workers than we do. Prime age is important because in France college kids don't have to work, and old folks get much better benefits, causing those unemployment numbers to be very high relative to ours, skewing their overall numbers. Minus the college kids and retirees, it ain't nearly as bad as it's made out to be.

Eoin

Kayak said:

@nolaegghead I can do opinion too. Here's one I share with that author: Germany calls the shots in the EU, and France must enforce austerity policies, ensuring no increased demand in their economy since the crash. Also, they can't devalue their currency, driving up demand for their exports. Both of these have orders of magnitude larger effects than employment rules. Hmmm, where else have we seen that... (hint, here). Not all of those supporting Brexit were plain old racists. Again, they employ more 'prime-age (25-54)' workers than we do. Prime age is important because in France college kids don't have to work, and old folks get much better benefits, causing those unemployment numbers to be very high relative to ours, skewing their overall numbers. Minus the college kids and retirees, it ain't nearly as bad as it's made out to be.

Brexit was like Trump - giving the easy answer and blaming others, mainly immigrants and foreigners. We are suffering for it now in the UK, currency depreciation is not a cure all, it just makes us poorer.

lkapigian

Will somebody please post vacation pictures

nolaegghead

lkapigian said:

Will somebody please post vacation pictures

HeavyG

fishlessman

what i did on my summer vacation

GATraveller

Legume

nolaegghead

Forum members best not post any more turgid members on my thread.  They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.

nolaegghead

I kid.  I don't give a F.

Legume

It wasn't a great vacation.  Dad always did favor sis.

GATraveller

nolaegghead said:

Forum members best not post any more turgid members on my thread.  They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.

LOLZ

fishlessman

GATraveller said:

when i googled turgid i got this

He caressed the curve of her belly, plucked shamelessly at her ..
this pic seems fitting

sctdg

If bullsh!t was music the whole lot of you would be the NY Philharmonic . All you libs will be crying when the Sh!t hits the fan and you all have your heads tucked between your legs .