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[quote=flu] We are so far away from the (lack of ) food safety in China it’s not even close. not by a long mile.
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Totally beside the point. You indicated that eating uninspected food is uncivilized. I pointed out that the political party you seem to support thinks that leaving inspection up to the wolves running the henhouse (and thus probably eating uninspected food) is ok.

Of course, just because you (seem to) support the republican party in general doesn’t mean you support all their policies. If you think eating uninspected food is uncivilized, it seems like you’d be against that particular proposal.

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I think you guys are missing the point. The analogy would be if you caught a bunch of squirrels or wild rabbits in your backyard, killed them, and took them to the local swap meet to sell them as food without any sort of inspection.[/quote]

If the current republican administration has its way, some of the responsibility for slaughterhouse food safety will be transferred to those who could save (make more) money by cutting corners. Which could be as (or more) dangerous than (obviously far more widespread than) selling wild squirrels at the market.

Efficient government is good. Slashing government in mindless pursuit of small government is not.

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[quote=flu] People initially got it from eatting snakes. Come on now, really? Geesh. Talk about uncivilized. [/quote]

Why is it less civilized to eat snakes than to eat, say, cows?

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I have everything to be thankful for.

I’ve said all this before on this forum, but I think this is an appropriate time to bring it up again.

I am thankful that I was born an intelligent, good-looking, white male in the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America to (economically) upper-class parents.

I don’t take credit for any of that. All of that was given to me. All of that is pure luck. And I am thankful for it.

I could have been born in a ghetto with an IQ of 70, no role models, a dirt-poor single mom who was addicted to drugs, a culture that emphasized street glory rather than education, and an ugly face to boot.

Nothing I did or ever will do will change any of the above. And the above has affected virtually everything I’ve ever done.

To not see what I have to be thankful for would be ignorant, foolish and, mostly…

To think that I would be where I am today if I were given what that ghetto kid was given would be a delusion of the highest order.

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Limited data points:

I had a friend who lived there with her husband. They loved it.

They have a classic car show every Thursday in the summer. I’ve been to that a few times and loved the show and the vibe of the downtown area. That was a few years ago, though.

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[quote=temeculaguy]any windfalls or inheritances I will seek out Rich to manage it because I trust him and I trust nobody else with my money.[/quote]

I trust and like Rich’s financial strategies very much.

And even more important to me was having someone who I knew had my best interests at heart and would never in a million years dream of doing anything the slightest bit untoward. Who would never steer me in any direction for any reason other than because it was best for me. I have so much faith in that aspect or Rich that I told my wife that if she wants to invest money after I’m gone, she could totally trust Rich. There’s nobody else I would say that about.

I recommend his services as highly as I possibly can.

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It’s been longer than 14 years. I’ve been on piggington since the white background. Since way before the forum started. Since the paid content. Since 2004. (There was a glitch way back when where you got dropped and had to sign up again.)

In 2004, very few people thought that San Diego housing was in a bubble. In retrospect, it seems completely obvious. But back then only Rich and a very few others (including me) thought it was obvious. I scoured the web for confirmation of what seemed obvious to me, but there was almost none. Virtually everybody was convinced that housing would just keep going up. I kept googling variations of “san diego housing bubble” and piggington was one of the very few, lonely sites that consistently came up. I eagerly read everything Rich wrote. It all made perfect sense to me, and the stuff I found elsewhere really didn’t measure up. Rich’s data and analysis gave me the confidence I needed to make the leap. I sold my house in 2005 and rented. In 2010, I bought the house I own now. I bought it for about the same as I sold my other house for, but the property is much, much better. And worth about 15-20% more (prices in Carmel Valley dropped somewhat less than in most places). I found a financial advisor – Rich himself – through piggington and got through the 2008 crisis in very good shape. I invested the money from the sale of the house in 2005 in some other things as well, and was able to buy the house in 2010 with those earnings and pay it off completely (although I kept a mortgage on it until very recently while I invested that money elsewhere).

I am retired and my $1.7M house is paid off. That would definitely not be the case without piggington.com. Which is to say without Rich.

You are the man, Rich. Thank you.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-cabinet-meetings-have-become-about-everything-but-the-business-of-his-cabinet/2019/10/21/5f6e528c-f428-11e9-829d-87b12c2f85dd_story.html#comments-wrapper

trump is a whiny little bitch. 

I’ve heard homeless guys rant with more coherence and less grievance. Fucking loser.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]What is toughness? Not the ability to do harm.

tough·ness

noun
1.
the state of being strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or rough handling.
“the toughness of steel”
2.
the ability to deal with hardship or to cope in difficult situations.
“they showed great mental toughness to keep going”.

Trump fails.[/quote]

[quote=zk]trump seems less tough than most little girls I’ve known.[/quote]

Yeah, lots of little girls get teased and called names and maybe bullied. They get pressure from their parents and pressure from their peers. They are subject to adverse conditions regularly. And most of them take it much better than trump does. Most of them learn and move on. Not our president, though. Nope. He whines and complains and lashes out and acts out. He attacks and he lies and he makes things up about people and he blames everybody else but himself for everything.

trump is way less tough than most little girls.

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[quote=burghMan][quote=temeculaguy]Normally I write lengthy responses when I disagree but I don’t know where to begin after reading these posts, so disappointed.[/quote]

Understandable, it wasn’t Brando’s best performance. But you have to admit that Dennis Hopper’s character was awesome.[/quote]

That made me laugh!

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I think if you are familiar enough with the Apocalypse Now, you could just watch the documentary.[/quote]

Thanks

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[quote=burghMan]One of my favorite movies. The movie about making the movie is also really interesting

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1%5B/quote%5D

I’m definitely putting this on my list of things to watch. I haven’t seen Apocalypse Now for 10 or 15 years. Do you think it would be better to watch Hearts of Darkness first and then Apocalypse Now again, or the other way around?

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[quote=burghMan]
“Charlie didn’t get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death, or victory.”[/quote]

I love Vietnam war books and movies and documentaries and I’m always looking for another one. That quote sounds familiar, so I might have read it. But if not, I’d like to. What’s it from?

Edit: Never mind. I googled it. I’ve seen Apocalypse Now (a few times). Back when it came out, everybody just raved about it. And it was a fantastic movie. But it was touted as being very much like the actual war and, having seen a few documentaries and read several books about that war since Apocalypse Now came out, I’d have to say it didn’t age well. At least the part about it being perceived as realistic.

And, just so I’m not threadjacking, I’ll add that trump seems less tough than most little girls I’ve known.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]
what is the one true sock, if you are just going to have one sock? It is so hard to predict the Sock Market.[/quote]

I guess, since you’ve given us a thousand completely original, PhD-level bits of humor, we’ll let you have that one.

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I saw that a few years ago. Really very striking the vibe he gives out there vs. Andy Taylor or Matlock.

I think I’ll watch it again for the resonates-today factor.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-fate-is-in-the-hands-of-fox-news/2019/09/27/05587756-e144-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

This article seems to imply that trump will be fine as long as fox sticks with him. While I might not agree with that (I think it could go either way), it does seem obvious that if fox turns against trump, it will be over very, very quickly. Almost immediately.

So disgusting that a propaganda operation holds such power in this country.

So many trump fans would fit so well in 1930s Germany. Brainwashed fools.

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