Fair enough. But “politically plausible” wasn’t in your original post, and I did cover for that with my ps of the US not being sufficiently advanced… 
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“I’ve watched the politicians. I’ve dealt with 'em all my life. If you can’t make a good deal with a politician, there’s something wrong with you, you’re certainly not very good.”
— Donald Grump
~30 seconds in:
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Absolutely. Japanese businessmen used to do that all the time in meetings with Americans – the silent older guy in the rumpled suit sitting to the side of the table was always going to outrank the slick hotshots in the perfect suits at the table. He’d almost apologetically ask two or three questions during the meeting, but those were the ones that would make or break the deal. After a while the Chinese were doing it, too, and then the Russians.
My clients often like to slot me into that role when I help represent their interests at meetings. It’s fun to see who gets it and who thinks I’m some kind of deadwood factotum who’s there to help the McKinsey alum.
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It was one of the three best versions of OS X.
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##“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”
~~ Donald ⊥rump in a news conference on Monday 27th February.
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then you also might like “doing your time in the slammer.”
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“nyet”, yep, that is the correct label for liver…
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‘But he’s an outsider billionheir that can and will rudely tell people to fuck off. He’s ritch, independantly wealthy he runs a successful business. He knows what he’s doing.’
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The basic plan from Trump/Bannon was to order the GOP Congress to obey, or else they’d summon Trump’s legion of flying monkeys to primary them.
The Congressional GOP called his bluff, but it isn’t over yet. The next test is whether the Trumpeter base can/will be successfully mobilised against the non-Trumpeters in Congress. We’ll get to see how well an incumbent Republican does when Trump is calling him a commie Muslim cuck on Twitter every day during his primary.
This is why Bannon was pushing for a vote without bothering to organise the numbers in advance. He wants a clearly defined list of “GOP representatives showing disloyalty to Trump” so as to highlight the targets for Trump’s base. A confrontation of this sort was inevitable, Bannon thinks he can win it (time will tell on that) and he’s keen to bring it on.
The fact that the ACHA was a diabolical piece of shit is meaningless if none of the GOP voters involved believe that. Overall public opinion is irrelevant in this. The only polls that matter are those within the GOP.
We’re about to find out if the Klan-GOP can successfully purge the Koch-GOP.
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Her grandma’s favorite word …
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Urban Oswaldian whouldst have that it was stolene by French Parliament as one-up from England’s around the time leopards were first given observation cages under 200 acres and givvenne to that condytionn. Or not at all bc. Pierre Loti and thence Orientalism was publishing hot 1883-1893. Bing has it that fashion can’t find a fit model for ridiculous bloomers and that Cory^WRob just pocketed a racist century’s worth of SEO. Yay.
Proper winter leopard: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3169667/Can-spot-snow-leopard-Amazing-photographs-elusive-predator-stalking-prey-Himalayas.html
Leopard-print sugar cookies are the new enemy: http://www.cookingpanda.com/brands/content/get-recipe-cookie-lyons-leopard-print-cookies
Mmm… Dick Platkin in CityWatch LA from the 14th? http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles/12842-can-the-leopard-change-its-spots-at-least-at-la-s-city-hall
And it’s a paper airpane with pleaty wings. http://paperairplaneshq.com/leopard.html
And a gecko. https://www.thespruce.com/leopard-gecko-substrate-1238760
Hm, the aplysia’s neuron in the golem has to be preserved with yellow dye: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828664/ (Sometimes silence is just n-methyl d-aspartate receptor squelch.)
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He’s basically the Kevin Kline character in A Fish Called Wanda.
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Damn. that’s an insult to Otto; at least he was somewhat passably attractive, if nothing else.
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The joke about Portia/Porsche took me years to get.
But as we all know, Otto, ita means eight.
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Why yes, I’ve driven an old caddie and bellowed, “asshole!”, along with using the line, “oh look, the queen” numerous times in airports.
Some day, when I bump into Stephen fry, I’ll have my most serious face on and deploy that line. I am sure noone has ever done that before. Well, not with my style.
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Holy snap, that was him, huh?
I never paid any attention…
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And yours was a wonderful example of how many chauvinists view conversation as an opportunity to attempt to establish dominance, so how are you different?. You do it by the traditional “If we control the language used, we control the conversation” ploy.
And what he said wasn’t wrong, nor was it excessive, nor discriminatory. So your complaint seems to be that it wasn’t sufficiently anti-male.
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Just remember to hide the EXE extension…
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Use the Pretty Important File or PIF extension.
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