Knuckles rapped with either a wooden ruler or a thick pointer administered by the "penguin"in the classroom or the one in charge. I know someone will understand that reference to a teacher. They did set me on a path of questioning all things, for which I thank them.

My favorite such story about "acting smart" in class was in 1st grade. The other smart kid in the class and I had rolled our eyes at the third mistake in two days our "teacher" had made in addition of two numbers each less than 10. I asked him "Should I offer to teach the class?", knowing full well I would get paddled. He said to go ahead, and of course, I said, "Maam. That was the third addition mistake you have made in the last couple of days. Do you mind if I teach the class?" After a spanking with a paddle, I knew that I was on the right path.

I am flying into DCA tonight and leaving from IAD in the morning. It is always a vision of the bureaucrats feeding off the votes of the entitled while at the same time feeding off the taxes on productivity of the those who actually produce something. Kinda makes you feel like you just got slimmed.
Cheers

Don't forget

"I have a pen, and I have a cell phone."

Puts a song in my heart...

Who put the shrug, in the shrug-e-duggy dug?
Who put the guts in a world that's kinda nuts?
Who is John Galt?
He's the one who, by default,
Makes looters fear and libtards run away.

I could give you plus a couple dozen for that one. BTDT (see above); sadly, I'm limited to one. :-) I remember being a tourist there as a kid (*loved* it) and then living there (--shudder--).

Even thinking back to those days makes my skin crawl.

You're assuming 2 things... one, there will be another election, and two, that if there is one, the outcome won't be already decided and fixed way ahead of time by both sides.

Then they get that nice salary, and all the huge perqs, and don't have to do a damned thing to earn them (and "earn", in this context, is a *very* subjective thing anyway).. What do you expect from a looter?

For them, it's like hitting the lotto. Only they get to stuff it in your face every chance they get, which is part of it - See what I get that YOU don't.

Those they elect emulate the values of the voters in the District. They want someone they can "relate" to, who shares a similar belief system to them.

True story - when my enlistment ended in the USAF (I was stationed at Andrews - close enough to DC to call it part of), they gave me the money for the flight home. I checked - it was going to be a minimum of 9 hours before I could catch the first flight home out of National. Dulles was the next day at the soonest, and taxi fare or the bus (ick) to BWI was too far.. I then checked Greyhound - the bus left in 90 minutes, and the station was 10 minutes away.

Of course... it was bumpy, uncomfortable, and the food sucked... but that 3 day bus ride was WELL worth it to get the you-know-where out of that cesspool. :-) Plus I got to stop on the way - fell in love with Memphis, and San Antonio, and well... yeah!

Every time I had to go there afterwards, it was always - ALWAYS - get in, do whatever, and get out. That place gave me the creeps, and gave me this feeling of, I don't know, feeling scummy and dirty. As soon as I landed. Yuck!

Was that a brain fart or is she speaking to Joe Biden while he rests his eyelids? Anything goes.

Hello blarman,
Exactly! What is transparent is their idiotic ideology.
Regards,
O.A.

It's the same type of transparency as:

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

"You didn't build that."

"We need to pass the bill so we can see what's in it."

"Never let a crisis go to waste."

Better baseball team, too, even though Bryce Harper is a great player with a lot of baseball left in him.

When you don't have to actually do any work and still receive a nice salary and all those perks, why bother with separation of powers?

To call her a Dumb Witch is an insult to witches!!

Why anyone would want to move into DC is beyond me. I worked just outside the Beltway for 4 years and you can have it.

Want a 1-bedroom apartment in Herndon or in the highly preferred area called Burke? Ok, that's $1850 a month. Don't like that? Want to move somewhere cheaper? Sorry, we support importing poverty, oops, I mean Section 8. If you 'make too much' based on our opinion, you'll have to cough up the $$...what are you trying to do, save money??

Yep, life in STL is much better.

When I got to the principle's office, I was taken over by the Administrative Assistant (known by his abbreviated signature as Admiral Ass). I was very tempted to let my tongue loll out of my mouth, look at him cross-eyed and say, "But I'm alright now."

Looters come in all colors.

I think you overestimate her accuracy.

She, and the rest of the dems and some pubs, are oxygen thieves.

Herb, I wondered if there were other "acting smart" kids in classrooms when I was in school. I think the teachers were perplexed how to handle those students who didn't go along with the accepted seriousness of the classes material. I posed too many "why?" questions in classes, I guess.

I would make the point that she is giving nothing away as she is a NON VOTING MEMBER of congress, but the Democrats seem hell bent on increasing the power of the president. What are they going to do when a Republican gets in, that will happen at least one more time.

Yes it is but I wonder how many people believed him????? LMAO

lol, yes, which is amazingly more stupid than saying it would sink.