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sear said:
#1,779
Is that Southern drawl? Or >0.1 BAC ?
Might be fun to review a court transcript of the drunkard explaining that to the judge at traffic court.
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Attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed (a lot). In the day nobody thought anything about having a few beers and driving home. In fact I remember laughing when somebody said that "he was too drunk to walk home so he drove"

For that matter I remember getting a ride home from a department party from one of the secretaries and having to take the keys off of her to unlock the car and then giving her the keys back so she could drive.
 
Puberty converts the body from child to adult.
But the childish joy of flouting authority doesn't vanish as body hair appears. What advances is the scope.
An impetuous child scorns his babysitter. The impetuous adult scorns the police.

Shiftless2 said:
"Attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed ...
from a department party from one of the secretaries and having to take the keys off of her to unlock the car and then giving her the keys back so she could drive." S2 #1,781
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~1975 some drinkin' buddies carried an over-served chum from the NCO club at a Cold War NATO base, to his car so he could drive home.
He didn't make it.
I wasn't there.
But I saw the wreckage. In addition to the blood stains there was body tissue, including scalp with crew-cut hair hanging from jagged metal. Gasoline and ethanol don't mix
well.
 
Shiftless2 said:
For that matter I remember getting a ride home from a department party from one of the secretaries and having to take the keys off of her to unlock the car and then giving her the keys back so she could drive.
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Says something about how much I'd had to drink as well.
 
"... my mis-spent youth ..." Jackie [the great one] Gleason, in the role of Ralph Kramden / The Honeymooners
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Shiftless2 said:
"Says something about how much I'd had to drink as well." S2 #1,783
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Temperance is a merciless affliction S2.
There's no known cure, but regular medication can help renew & sustain the excitement of chemical dependency.

If not for the young & foolish, it would be more difficult for the old & feeble to find anyone to sneer at.
Thank you Al, and all the other coholics.
 
Ooops ...

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Shiftless2 said:
"I'm guessing there will be no books at this one" meme #1,790
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A graphic novels, coloring books, a few old telephone books.
#1,791 suggests we should apply a more expansive definition, otherwise, makes Americans look stoopit. We're not. We elected Donald Trump didn't we?
oh
hmmm
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Rubio" & "Vance" #1,793
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Meaning: each manifested characteristics of sanity before they guzzled the Kool-aid.
Are they a viable safety, so that if Trump attempt's a genocidal blunder, Rubio, Vance, & others will rescue humanity, even if it means hog-tieing Trump & leaving him on the floor of a white house closet for a day or two?

With luck, we'll never know.

Shiftless2 said:
Trudeau #1,795
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(y)
Those puzzling over Trump substituting a bulldozer for a scalpel in trimming government waste may understand more clearly after understanding this: "double-speak".

Trump has been contemptuous of NATO for years, and has drawn more than one line in the sand, starting with member nations meeting funding targets.
Unilateral executive action can't legally terminate U.S. treaty obligations to NATO. So instead Trump has undertaken administrative action corrosive to NATO organization cohesion.

We can more lucidly contextualize Trump's executive caprice:
- there's what is
- there's the way Trump would prefer
- there's the excuse/s Trump offers to justify Trump changes to the system.

Niccolò Machiavelli literally wrote the book on that.
 
sear said:
Trump has been contemptuous of NATO for years, and has drawn more than one line in the sand, starting with member nations meeting funding targets.
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Thing is, that despite Trump's claims, NATO members have all been paying their dues. The so-called funding targets are a separate matter - nations are supposed to spend a fixed percentage of their GDP on defense and not everyone is spending that much.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Thing is, that despite Trump's claims, NATO members have all been paying their dues. The so-called funding targets are a separate matter - nations are supposed to spend a fixed percentage of their GDP on defense and not everyone is spending that much." S2 #1,797
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Indeed, the 2% GDP NATO spending standard is a guideline, not a membership-sustaining prerequisite.

The 2% defence investment guideline
In 2014, NATO Heads of State and Government agreed to commit 2% of their national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defence spending, to help ensure the Alliance's continued military readiness. This decision was taken in response to Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and amid broader instability in the Middle East. The 2014 Defence Investment Pledge built on an earlier commitment to meeting this 2% of GDP guideline, agreed in 2006 by NATO Defence Ministers. The 2% of GDP guideline is an important indicator of the political resolve of individual Allies to contribute to NATO’s common defence efforts.
In 2024, 23 Allies are expected to meet or exceed the target of investing at least 2% of GDP in defence, compared to only three Allies in 2014. Over the past decade, European Allies and Canada have steadily increased their collective investment in defence – from 1.43% of their combined GDP in 2014, to 2.02% in 2024, when they are investing a combined total of more than USD 430 billion in defence.

None the less the U.S. has a track-record of doing the heavy lifting for NATO. Trump's counterattack on Houthis a recent example:

US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis​

Malu Cursino / BBC News
The US has launched a "decisive and powerful" wave of air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, President Donald Trump has said, citing the armed group's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea as the reason.
"Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at US aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies," Trump wrote on his Truth social platform, adding that their "piracy, violence, and terrorism" had cost "billions of dollars" and put lives at risk.
The Houthi-run health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 101 others were injured in the strikes.
www.bbc.com

US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis

The Houthi-run health ministry says 31 people were killed in the strikes on Saturday.
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note:
"decisive and powerful" is not BBC News' characterization. BBC is reporting Trump's characterization.
We can endorse the characterization IF Houthi martial hostilities are substantially affected.
The Iranian backed Houthis know this, and are likely to do what they can to demonstrate Trump's counter-attack against them were ineffective.
Whether that will mean Houthis sinking a vessel in the Red Sea, or ... too soon to know.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Unionization rate: Canada 30% US 10%" #1,799
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Commenting on Boeing's considering moving production facilities South:
“It's an example of what's called entrepreneurial federalism. 22 States lined up (most of them if not all of them “right to work States”) lined up to lure Boeing production facilities down there. I just spent holidays in Charleston, South Carolina ... fly over this enormous Boeing plant where they're building some of these new planes. The fact is [investment] capital is mobile. It goes where it is welcome and stays where well treated. And the unions had to flinch because the indeed entrepreneurial federalism was working. Now, liberals say this is a race to the bottom. Others of us say it's a race toward rationality in economics.” George Will FNS 14/01/05

note:
Some economists suggest organized labor helped make the U.S. strong, for somewhat fundamental economic reasons *.
Trump's crony capitalists now seem to think, now that the U.S. is strong, we don't need labor unionization anymore.
If they / we proceed on that basis, the U.S. is sure to get weaker.

The AFL-CIO is not a panacea. But anyone that doubts the importance of organized labor in the U.S. may benefit from studying the labor history that preceded it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

* A $Billion $Dollars shared within a group of middle-class workers is usually taxed at a higher rate than an equivalent $amount in the hands of a single $Billionaire like Musk, Bezos, Gates, or Buffett.
A thriving middle-class provides the IRS a more generous tax base, which then can more generously fund U.S. defense spending, and other patriotic expenditures. Pseudo-pats like Trump & Musk are skilled at sidestepping this publicly.
 
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