I did almost the exact same thing, jshore.
Before I shove this hand grenade up his Nixon and pull the pin, maybe you’ll tell me?
Wouldn’t it be easier to pull the pin first?
Suppose, if you had a hydraulic grenade implanter that could get it in place really quickly. Really quickly. Otherwise, might not go off and he would survive. But then, I’d likely say, ah, what the heck, we made our point.
Mythbusters tested throwing yourself on a grenade and they tested various items containing a grenade’s blast.
No one thought to combine the two.
TWA had a major hub and, for a while, its HQ in St. Louis. Icahn took control of TWA, stripped its assets, doubled its debt, and made off like a bandit. TWA collapsed, taking with it a chunk of the local economy and the ability of people in St. Louis to fly anywhere without connecting through about four other cities. Icahn is hated in St. Louis.
To be fair, TWA had problems before Icahn took over. But rather than try to turn the company around, he looted it.
Fuck him.
And then St. Louis got porked by the Rams.
It’s been a rough few decades for my beloved home town.
I know many of you don’t think much about Iowa because flyover state, midwest and boring. But our Governor Braindead has stepped down to become Ambassador to China. I feel sorry for China. He only got the post since his son was on the Trumpwagon.
So what does this asshole know about China apart from what he has ordered on a take out menu?
Trump and his cabinet is gonna put The Onion out of business. 
That was their fault. Every city who fall all over itself to suck a Pro sport’s franchise cock will have to clean some other cities shit off first, and then realize they are gonna be next.
The solution is easy- *dont spend a nickle of public funds for any Pro sports. *
Go, Twins! And take the Vikings with you!
Trump finally lands some entertainment for his inauguration, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Two bits says the do a rendition of Ol’ Man River.
This will be priceless. Remember what I’m saying because in no time at all, this will happen.
The talk has already started about a 10% tariff on imported goods.
The US tried this in 2009 with the Chinese tires flooding the market. China responded with tariffs on imported US chicken. The farmers lost big time.
From Forbes
*For the first time ever, total U.S. exports to China have passed $100 billion with 30 states now counting China as one of their top three export markets. As these Chinese get richer, they are importing more goods from America.
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China has lots of response room there. Lots of room. And we haven’t even mentioned that trillion (yes, with a T) dollars in new Boeing aircraft over the next 20 years. Hello Airbus.
*China is currently our largest goods trading partner with $598 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2015. Goods exports totaled $116 billion; goods imports totaled $482 billion.
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Trump will start a Trade war, smile and tell us he’s making America great again, and the end result, more American’s out of work.
This will come to pass. China will play their hand far better than the big Cheeto plays ours.
I’m hoping it’s The Penis Song.
Yes Morgenstern, a fitting song to serenade a guy with little hands.
Lord only knows what initiated “Trump alarms arms-control community with nuke tweet”. Peckerhead hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
It seems that the shallowness of Trump was painfully demostrated on why he refused Bolton, you would think it would be because of his extremism? His hatred of the UN?
Nah, this report mentions that it was that Donald did not like his pornstache.
And now this. Christ. Three chimpanzees with half sharpened pencils could do a better job than this rodeo clown. And we have to put up with this bullshit for the next 4 years? Ugh!
“Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the non-profit Lexington Institute, said that Trump appeared to have decided to start negotiations before he had a thorough understanding of the F-35 program. “This certainly sets some sort of precedent because no Commander in Chief has ever done this before being inaugurated,” he said.”