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FIVE intelligence agencies are already deep into his drawers over pretty certain-looking Russian direct financial involvement in his campaign. A BIG no-no. As I said: Patience, folks. The Framers were far from uncognizant of the possibility, indeed likelihood, that the Executive chair would eventually come to be occupied by a knave & fool. They had just had this run-in with their own George, right? I for one look forward to watching their ingeniously crafted machinery grind forward in its measured but ultimately inexorable operation. "Our Constitution works." Gerald Ford

That's exactly how I cruise too.

Hooboy invented that business model 20 years ago. Things change and times move on. The gentleman is selling buggy whips in the automotive age.

"Good advice costs nothing and it's Worth the price!" Allan Sherman

Main problem for that business model is it was created in and for an era that no longer exists, and to serve needs that are rapidly dwindling out of existence. Here in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill there is a vibrant and flourishing escort economy that advertises solely on backpage (see the explicit escort ads under the 'Dating' section: http://raleigh.backpage.com/ ) and whose escorts and clients alike have never heard of 'review' sites, and who fall out laughing at the needlessness of them when I sketch the concept to them. It is a new era and a new generation that simply do not have the hangups, fear, paranoia or repressed guilt that used to be part & parcel of hiring for many.

Despite my attempts to see some bright spots, in my heart of hearts I'm afraid I'm with you on all this.

Actually The Guardian, as liberal as they come, thinks the personal details are a crock of shit. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-dossier-explainer-details

All right, all right! I was being a big old...

Anyone know what financial resources backpage has to pay for lawyering to keep fighting this, and survive? Their escort ads -- M4M, TS, and women for men -- were the sole source here in RDU. Rentmen and Eros.com are both waste lands by comparison.

I think if somebody came and threw money and food and fucks at my feet in abundance at no cost, my first thought would not be to moan and bitch about it.

V'GER MUST EVOLVE

Everything BVB said. Also, on-the-head lettuce keeps a lot longer than bagged lettuce or mesclun. I live close enough to stores that buying loose mesclun only enough for that day's/night's use works fine for me and is not a nuisance. In fact fits ideally with my habit of drifting into one or another grocery store a few minutes each day to just roam around, and see what raw ingredients in each & any department look particularly good, and I know or can imagine something to do with them, and seem to call out to be that night's dinner.

I was trying to compliment how you meep-morphed Conrad into the style of HPL.

You certainly can! http://raleigh.backpage.com/MaleEscorts/?layout=gallery

Get 1% better at something every day. Over time it adds up. http://www.jamesaltucher.com Same idea from Scott Adams: Don't set goals; they defeat you. Instead make a system, then just keep doing it. https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/1591846919/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&linkCode=sl1&tag=wwwjamesaltuc-20&linkId=2ff4fedb8086970448fa674d13befb71

Actually that sounds more like Lovecraft.

BRAVO!!!

"Come up and Like me sometime."

Having thought about it, Oz's path of permitting him to make tiny eeps and meeps through the Like button, but muzzling him from posting, is the most deliciously cruel punishment one could dream up for a felon with his particular uncontrollable pathological urges as displayed both Here and There.

LMAO

Or else it's a fiendishly clever new-member screening system.

In spirit of the season, I'm looking for a meme I saw somewhere depicting the old English sport of Fruitcake Hurling.

I was thinking...