Where Will You Be Next Year, This Time?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Where Do Expect To Be This Time Next Year?

 

[sr71plt]

I'll be fine--maybe on a cruise or something. And I won't benefit directly from the stimulus plan--but will reap significant indirect reward--material as well as emotional--if everyone uses this possibility to work together to raise the whole.

I know that's not the attitude you are after here JBJ, our resident sourpuss--but tough shit.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

No idea where I'll be this time next year. With any luck, dead.

 

[jomar]

same ol same ol here.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

Trust me on this, I wish Obama every success and fame thru the Ages, but I fear we're lassoed, screwed, and tattoed....and he's the last to know.

 

[sr71plt]

SR71PLT

Trust me on this, I wish Obama every success and fame thru the Ages, but I fear we're lassoed, screwed, and tattoed....and he's the last to know.

Naw, you are most dispointed when something--anything--actually works out. And while it's trying to work out, you are doing everything you can to try to prevent that.

Seriously, don't you read your own posts?

(I noticed you didn't vote in this poll.)

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

I like being right, and I like the idea of being off the track when the train comes along, but I dont relish others being wrong or staying in the path of the train. I mean, its a free country, stay in the track if you wanna.

 

[WRJames]

Did folks in 1929 or 1930 have any clue what was coming at them? "Prosperity is just around the corner" -- seems to me that was the phrase I remember reading in the history books. Did they realize they had a decade and a half of horror in front of them? Not likely.

Which is not to say that I think it is going to happen that way again. But there is a chance that economic problems may trigger political and military problems.

The entire former Soviet Union and Pakistan are on the cusp. Most of Africa is on the cusp. US Allies in the Middle East -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia. Mexico right on our border. These are governments hanging on by a thread, where the stress of an economic meltdown could be the last straw.

It took a decade for things to boil over into war in the Thirties, but things move at a faster pace now. It may only be three or four years before we see the economy as a minor problem compared to political and military woes.

 

[sr71plt]

SR71PLT

I like being right,

Ahh, so that's why you seem so unhappy all of the time. You're not getting what you like.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm the happiest guy here. Even when I fuck up, I know that tomorrow I can do better...unlike most people.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm the happiest guy here. Even when I fuck up, I know that tomorrow I can do better...unlike most people.

But . . . but . . . whether you can do better (and there's a whole lot of room up there on the "do better" side), I haven't observed you actually doing better as time goes by.

You are the pin for anyone and everyone's balloon--and frequently admit to it with pride.

 

[Dragonlipz]

I make too much money to qualify for the stimulus

and don't mind paying my taxes. This USofA remains the most intruiging social experiment in the history of the human race and has weathered similar storms before!
These 'radio republicans' and neotards are showing themselves as the inbred racists that they really are. They can't get over the fact that this nation has soundly rejected their 'tired ass bu@@XXXT!' Sorry, I meant to say 'tired ass bullshit.'
The election is over, get over it and help out. Better yet, keep up your 'nattering nabobs of negativity' crap. It shows yer ass to everyone.....

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

Make the balloons thicker.

 

[Handprints]

Economic uncertainty, troubled global trading relationships, China one of the few plausible markets remaining... You can guess how I voted. From a purely selfish perspective (and not the one I actually hold when considering things more sensibly or think is a good thing for the majority of the world): roll on the chaos!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

HANDJOB

Call me Pollyanna, but the simple solution to the whole mess is to put people to work making stuff other people want. I mean, if Obama gives Indian Fart, South Dakota a million bucks for new city vehicles, the city makes out, GM makes out, the autoworkers make out. But giving the money to GM to close a car plant makes no sense at all. Taxpayers are fucked either way, but some good comes from the 1st way and not the 2nd.

We could build a dozen desal plants here in Florida to end the water shortage.

We could toss a 1000 brainiacs in old Alcatraz and make them invent new energy technology so we could drop our pants and moon the ragheads.

 

[sr71plt]

SR71PLT

Make the balloons thicker.

It's easier to discard the pin.

 

[PublicAffection]

Although I doubt that I will actually have to move back in with either of my folks, I do anticipate being dropped down to part-time worker before the end of the year.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Naaah. There's too many around here who think they were hatched on 3rd base.

But I'll let you in on a secret. I'm just the sweetest lil ol thing when people dont TRY and fuck with me. When this ol dog wandered in here, a few folks got the idea they could shine their boots on my ass, then cried like little girls when they got bit.

 

[sr71plt]

Naaah. There's too many around here who think they were hatched on 3rd base.

But I'll let you in on a secret. I'm just the sweetest lil ol thing when people dont TRY and fuck with me. When this ol dog wandered in here, a few folks got the idea they could shine their boots on my ass, then cried like little girls when they got bit.

There certainly is no doubt that self-delusion is a very powerful force.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

Dont bad-mouth self-delusions.

Pretending to be John Wayne has saved my hummingbird ass plenty of times.

One of my ancestors was a general in the Confederate army in Virginia. Around Yorktown, Union sharpshooters filled his tent with holes when he had enough of their bullshit and went after them alone on his horse. And after he chased them off, he went after a Union battery. Jubal Early finally sent a rider to order him back.

A reporter saw what he did and said, "That sure was brave!"

And my ancestor said, "I dont know that it was brave at all, but sometimes you gotta act brave."

 

[sr71plt]

SR71PLT

Dont bad-mouth self-delusions.

Pretending to be John Wayne has saved my hummingbird ass plenty of times.

One of my ancestors was a general in the Confederate army in Virginia. Around Yorktown, Union sharpshooters filled his tent with holes when he had enough of their bullshit and went after them alone on his horse. And after he chased them off, he went after a Union battery. Jubal Early finally sent a rider to order him back.

A reporter saw what he did and said, "That sure was brave!"

And my ancestor said, "I dont know that it was brave at all, but sometimes you gotta act brave."

Yeah, I get it. You fancy yourself some sort of hero.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

No.

I imagine I'm the worse goddamned thing there is, out there roaming around in the dark. And the lions and tigers stay the hell away from me.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

We're doing fine now and I dare say we might be doing better next year, barring any major catastrophes.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My son-in-law in California just lost his job. Been with the company for many years. No work.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

My son-in-law in California just lost his job. Been with the company for many years. No work.

Yeah, I don't really think there's any such thing as job security these days in any industry. A friend's husband just lost his auto industry job and he decided to get into healthcare instead. Probably a smart idea.