What about condoms and porn What about condoms and porn scaredy? Seriously just the smell of nonoxynol 9 gives me a hard on when there is a stiff breeze. Isn’t it always about ROI?
scaredyclassic
November 1, 2016 @
11:22 PM
ive always been embarrassed ive always been embarrassed by porn. i likely consume porn in bottom 1% of all americans. not that im not always thinking about sex. just…actual porn makes me feel sheepish …but im happy to discuss it!
NotCranky
November 2, 2016 @
9:25 AM
Well here’s my two cents. Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.
spdrun
November 2, 2016 @
11:10 AM
If Clinton wins: what their If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.
FlyerInHi
November 2, 2016 @
11:34 AM
spdrun wrote:
If Trump wins: [quote=spdrun]
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]
Funny post. Scary thought.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
11:36 AM
spdrun wrote:If Clinton wins: [quote=spdrun]If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]Very astute, spd, but actually, one can now no longer buy “supplemental private insurance” unless they are on Medicare (age 65 or over). The unfortunate slobs who end up on “HillaryCare” (HRC’s wishful-namesake single-payor plan) will quickly realize that they have very few providers to choose from as all the ones with any experience at all and worth their salt will go on a cash basis, only. They’re already starting to in SD County.
FlyerInHi
November 2, 2016 @
12:04 PM
bearishgurl wrote:spdrun [quote=bearishgurl][quote=spdrun]If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]Very astute, spd, but actually, one can now no longer buy “supplemental private insurance” unless they are on Medicare (age 65 or over). The unfortunate slobs who end up on “HillaryCare” (HRC’s wishful-namesake single-payor plan) will quickly realize that they have very few providers to choose from as all the ones with any experience at all and worth their salt will go on a cash basis, only. They’re already starting to in SD County.[/quote]
I think spdrun is talking about an evolution to Canadian/European style health system where you have base coverage from the government, but you can buy extra insurance for premium care.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
12:59 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:I think [quote=FlyerInHi]I think spdrun is talking about an evolution to Canadian/European style health system where you have base coverage from the government, but you can buy extra insurance for premium care.[/quote]Except that’s not what “Hillarycare” actually is. Hillarycare is a “big-brother-run” operation on a humongous scale (akin to obamacare because it will still “vet” everyone’s annual income at least once yearly in a nationwide effort to dump as many people as possible onto the Medicaid system). Under Hillarycare, doctors will surely flee the system en masse and take cash patients only. People will wait months for a non-emergency appt if all they have is “Hillarycare.”
I just had my first (preventative care) appt last week with a new local provider (my longtime provider “retired” in late 2015, citing to patients in a letter their inability to stay in business with the ACA in place). My *new* provider (one of THREE which the ONLY individual PPO in San Diego County had “in-network” whose office was <15 miles from my urban home) charged me a $35 copay for a *FREE* preventative health checkup. I have a Gold plan and paid the $35 (extorted) fee because I had no other choice. The PPO reimbursement under the ACA has gone from ~$111 for this type of annual appt to just over $58. The remaining SD providers still accepting obamacare patients are going to make it up to themselves, somehow. Otherwise, their (obamacare) patients can find other providers willing to take their plan. They don’t care. These providers have a monopoly and they know it. I wouldn’t be surprised if 2 out of these 3 remaining local providers on my plan have opted out of obamacare by the time 2017 draws to a close . . . IF the disaster we call “obamacare” is still around, G@d forbid.
I got 40 minutes with the new doctor last week who was very thorough and their office quickly made a folder for me. Not bad for this type of appt. I’m trying to struggle thru the “system” until such time as obamacare is done away with. I have to go down to the Silver 70 or 73 level come January for nearly the same premium I am now paying for a gold plan ($15 less per month) due to a 22%+ premium hike for my Gold plan. I’m due for another colonoscopy in the first quarter of 2017 and I KNOW I’m going to get hit with a big bill, even though it is also a “preventative health procedure” and thus my copay should be less than $100 (for the facility copay). We’ll see what happens. I have to get one of these exams every three years due to family history.
FlyerInHi
November 2, 2016 @
12:16 PM
Blogstar wrote:Well here’s my [quote=Blogstar]Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.[/quote]
I think some people are more prone to addiction. Some kind of brain chemistry maybe.
Porn doesn’t do much for me. Soft porn such as sexy pictures are cheesy and I would never hang on my wall
I think people who have addiction should train themselves in a Buddhist way to slowly resist. I don’t even consume coffee or a favorite food/beverage everyday. I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.
NotCranky
November 2, 2016 @
4:27 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:Blogstar [quote=FlyerInHi][quote=Blogstar]Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.[/quote]
I think some people are more prone to addiction. Some kind of brain chemistry maybe.
Porn doesn’t do much for me. Soft porn such as sexy pictures are cheesy and I would never hang on my wall
I think people who have addiction should train themselves in a Buddhist way to slowly resist. I don’t even consume coffee or a favorite food/beverage everyday. I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Your blog posting and dedication to democrats seems compulsive, Mine is sometimes and I am not near as bad as you. I know you will deny but there it is anyway.
njtosd
November 3, 2016 @
4:13 PM
FlyerInHi wrote: I trained [quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.
NotCranky
November 3, 2016 @
8:45 PM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote: [quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
Very well done.
poorgradstudent
November 4, 2016 @
10:41 AM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote: [quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
Wanting is better than having.
FlyerInHi
November 4, 2016 @
5:32 PM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote: [quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
That’s how Buddhist philosophy is. You get rid of desire then nobody has a hold over you, because you don’t desire them or anything they can provide.
I still like food and beverage, and I try to eat well, but I’m indifferent to many things now.
Still working on other aspects of my life such as vanity which i have. Pride not so much anymore because I have enough self confidence.
When I reach enlightenment, I will go sit under a banyan tree all alone.
BTW, Im not Buddhist. I don’t believe in god. But finding happiness from within makes sense. Steve Jobs and that like thought the same.
outtamojo
November 5, 2016 @
11:37 AM
Should Trump lose, I predict Should Trump lose, I predict we’ll be talking about some homegrown terrorist attack from the alt-right.
NotCranky
November 8, 2016 @
9:00 AM
I think we will be discussing I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done!
FlyerInHi
November 9, 2016 @
12:43 PM
NotCranky wrote:I think we [quote=NotCranky]I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done![/quote]
Sounds like you’re just saying there should be a slow assimilation process so not to offend people sensibilities.
In the age of jet travel and global instant communications, why go slow when fast is better?
Btw, we are going towards a world culture driven by commerce. Life in Shanghai is not much different than in NYC.
NotCranky
November 9, 2016 @
12:48 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:NotCranky [quote=FlyerInHi][quote=NotCranky]I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done![/quote]
Sounds like you’re just saying there should be a slow assimilation process so not to offend people sensibilities.
In the age of jet travel and global instant communications, why go slow when fast is better?
Btw, we are going towards a world culture driven by commerce. Life in Shanghai is not much different than in NYC.[/quote]
Nope I am not saying it should be slow or fast. But when your particular flavor of mono-culture that you are chomping at the bit for gets resisted don’t be too bent out of shape. You don’t have it all right either. Gods will not mine be done.
FlyerInHi
November 9, 2016 @
1:21 PM
NotCranky wrote:
Nope I am [quote=NotCranky]
Nope I am not saying it should be slow or fast. But when your particular flavor of mono-culture that you are chomping at the bit for gets resisted don’t be too bent out of shape. You don’t have it all right either. Gods will not mine be done.[/quote]
I’m not bent out of shape.
I just don’t understand the resistance by people who are not even affected by my flavor of culture. People who are in rural areas are not affected by immigration, inner city crime, social ills, multiculturalism and the wonderful choice of cuisines we have in the big cities. Nobdy is forcing urban elitism on them.
The beauty of the USofA is that we have states and localities that serve as laboratories for experimentation and innovation.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
11:09 AM
I’m glad to see scaredy and I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.
NotCranky
November 2, 2016 @
11:50 AM
bearishgurl wrote:I’m glad to [quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
1:12 PM
Blogstar wrote:bearishgurl [quote=Blogstar][quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.[/quote]Well, you posted that your married “neighbor” was “banging” a worker on their property. Did you ever consider that it is very possible that her spouse hasn’t paid any attention to her in years? Not if he could watch barely-adult women (usually from overseas so no one really knows their age) drop fifty-cent pieces rhythmically out of their @#$%*& on the internet 24/7. It wouldn’t matter if the “wayward wife” was a former beauty queen in tip-top shape! She doesn’t do it for him anymore. He prefers to sleep with his laptop. Godspeed to him :=0
The other reason is that he or she (or both) “settled” when they decided to get married. That’s a very unwise practice, IMO, but my observation has been that a lot of people do this for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being financial. This problem is especially pronounced in coastal CA (where housing is often cost-prohibitive).
NotCranky
November 2, 2016 @
3:23 PM
bearishgurl wrote:Blogstar [quote=bearishgurl][quote=Blogstar][quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.[/quote]Well, you posted that your married “neighbor” was “banging” a worker on their property. Did you ever consider that it is very possible that her spouse hasn’t paid any attention to her in years? Not if he could watch barely-adult women (usually from overseas so no one really knows their age) drop fifty-cent pieces rhythmically out of their @#$%*& on the internet 24/7. It wouldn’t matter if the “wayward wife” was a former beauty queen in tip-top shape! She doesn’t do it for him anymore. He prefers to sleep with his laptop. Godspeed to him :=0
The other reason is that he or she (or both) “settled” when they decided to get married. That’s a very unwise practice, IMO, but my observation has been that a lot of people do this for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being financial. This problem is especially pronounced in coastal CA (where housing is often cost-prohibitive).[/quote]
Dang you went over the top, did you really have to do that.? He had playboy centerfolds on his garage walls. Let’s don’t jump to a bunch of conclusions from that. No, don’t! On the other hand, sure they had some issues. Hopefully they used the crisis to improve things.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
3:52 PM
Blogstar wrote:Dang you went [quote=Blogstar]Dang you went over the top, did you really have to do that.? He had playboy centerfolds on his garage walls. Let’s don’t jump to a bunch of conclusions from that. No, don’t! On the other hand, sure they had some issues. Hopefully they used the crisis to improve things.[/quote]Glad to hear things are going swimmingly with your neighbors. With this new info, it sounds like he has the posters up just to induce harmless “locker room talk” amongst the (male) visitors to his garage. Thanks for clarifying.
no_such_reality
November 2, 2016 @
1:30 PM
Cheetos.
Weed will be legal Cheetos.
Weed will be legal after all.
bearishgurl
November 2, 2016 @
1:47 PM
no_such_reality [quote=no_such_reality]Cheetos.
Weed will be legal after all.[/quote]I’ve had the opportunity to see what happened in CO up close and personal on several occasions so I voted No on the measure. It’s been shot down before in CA and I think the same will happen again this time. We’ll soon see.
It will cost much more in healthcare costs (usually borne by the taxpayer) as well as a nightmare of (yet-undeveloped) law enforcement traffic patrol costs and court costs. Add in gubment “oversight agencies” on the retail pot industry and these three bloodsuckers will heavily eat into the extra “sales tax” collected by retail pot establishments.
spdrun
November 2, 2016 @
2:23 PM
Horse dung:
(1) Pot users Horse dung:
(1) Pot users will use regardless of whether it’s “legal” or not. I don’t see how it changes a thing WRT healthcare.
(2) Law enforcement will go after intoxicated drivers in the normal fashion. Drugged driving will remain illegal. The cops and courts won’t be able to collect a $100 or whatever fine from people for the mere act of possessing a plant. Poor babies.
(3) Weed is legal in California NOW for all intents and purposes. Getting a medical MJ card is trivial if one even bothers obeying the law. Large parts of San Francisco smell, literally, like burning cannabis.
You have a point about bureaucracy. Which is why I’d support the following measure instead of what is being proposed… “everyone over age 18 is permitted to grow up to x number of marijuana plants. Sales of said product would be regulated like any other small-scale farm product.”
The-Shoveler
November 2, 2016 @
2:56 PM
Whether water prices will Whether water prices will come down enough for Avocado growers to stay in Biz in CA,
What are they going to rename the I-15 to when there are no more Avocado groves.
What are they going to do with the land that was used for the groves.
How to make home made Cheetos.
no_such_reality
November 3, 2016 @
8:49 AM
The-Shoveler wrote:
How to [quote=The-Shoveler]
How to make home made Cheetos.[/quote]
I hear they’re pretty good. Homemade Cheetos
Of course, once you’re making baking homemade Cheetos, you have the option to make them baked.
poorgradstudent
November 3, 2016 @
9:32 AM
It will go back to mostly “Is It will go back to mostly “Is or is not this a bubble”?
La Jolla Renter
November 3, 2016 @
9:47 AM
We need multi select and We need multi select and other with a write-in field Rich.
La Jolla Renter
November 3, 2016 @
9:57 AM
I don’t see Politics on this I don’t see Politics on this blog easing after the election.
Maybe Rich can install a politics filter that we can all toggle on and off.
Coronita
November 3, 2016 @
10:18 AM
I’d like to revisit whether I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.
And also figure out how many walls it takes for a home in a far flung, lizard infested area might appreciate faster than North County tract homes.
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.
And my favorite topic, to round things up…. Let’s talk about how public pensioners are leeches and property owners that take advantage of Prop 13 are leeches too.
scaredyclassic
November 3, 2016 @
10:21 AM
i forgot.
we never really get i forgot.
we never really get anywhere.
this election is probably just a distraction to something important happening over there.
no_such_reality
November 3, 2016 @
10:56 AM
You know Scaredy, with a You know Scaredy, with a script for that anxiety you can legally get weed now…
The Cheetos are good.
And you won’t care about feeling Sheepish.
scaredyclassic
November 3, 2016 @
11:11 AM
no_such_reality wrote:You [quote=no_such_reality]You know Scaredy, with a script for that anxiety you can legally get weed now…
The Cheetos are good.
And you won’t care about feeling Sheepish.[/quote]
i dont actually like pot. still, i like change…
moneymaker
November 3, 2016 @
5:34 PM
flu wrote:
As a bonus [quote=flu]
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.[/quote]
I was just thinking how this decade is like the 70’s except we don’t have expensive oil, then I think I remember at sometime hearing that oil will run out around 2050, so maybe peak oil is just around the corner as we all know fracking won’t solve all our oil problems.
NotCranky
November 3, 2016 @
8:47 PM
flu wrote:I’d like to revisit [quote=flu]I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.
And also figure out how many walls it takes for a home in a far flung, lizard infested area might appreciate faster than North County tract homes.
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.
And my favorite topic, to round things up…. Let’s talk about how public pensioners are leeches and property owners that take advantage of Prop 13 are leeches too.[/quote]
Santee’s mayor is running for a state position, I think it’s so they can vote to make it a law that Santee in in fact 15 minutes from la Jolla shores.
poorgradstudent
November 4, 2016 @
10:40 AM
flu wrote:I’d like to revisit [quote=flu]I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.[/quote]
Sure. At 2 AM, and if you count UTC as “La Jolla”.
Rich Toscano
November 3, 2016 @
11:06 AM
Mostly synthetic ovipositors, Mostly synthetic ovipositors, I should think
November 1, 2016 @ 11:10 PM
What about condoms and porn
What about condoms and porn scaredy? Seriously just the smell of nonoxynol 9 gives me a hard on when there is a stiff breeze. Isn’t it always about ROI?
November 1, 2016 @ 11:22 PM
ive always been embarrassed
ive always been embarrassed by porn. i likely consume porn in bottom 1% of all americans. not that im not always thinking about sex. just…actual porn makes me feel sheepish …but im happy to discuss it!
November 2, 2016 @ 9:25 AM
Well here’s my two cents.
Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.
November 2, 2016 @ 11:10 AM
If Clinton wins: what their
If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.
November 2, 2016 @ 11:34 AM
spdrun wrote:
If Trump wins:
[quote=spdrun]
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]
Funny post. Scary thought.
November 2, 2016 @ 11:36 AM
spdrun wrote:If Clinton wins:
[quote=spdrun]If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]Very astute, spd, but actually, one can now no longer buy “supplemental private insurance” unless they are on Medicare (age 65 or over). The unfortunate slobs who end up on “HillaryCare” (HRC’s wishful-namesake single-payor plan) will quickly realize that they have very few providers to choose from as all the ones with any experience at all and worth their salt will go on a cash basis, only. They’re already starting to in SD County.
November 2, 2016 @ 12:04 PM
bearishgurl wrote:spdrun
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=spdrun]If Clinton wins: what their national health plan won’t cover and how expensive supplemental private insurance is.
If Trump wins: which one of their neighbors disappeared during the night.[/quote]Very astute, spd, but actually, one can now no longer buy “supplemental private insurance” unless they are on Medicare (age 65 or over). The unfortunate slobs who end up on “HillaryCare” (HRC’s wishful-namesake single-payor plan) will quickly realize that they have very few providers to choose from as all the ones with any experience at all and worth their salt will go on a cash basis, only. They’re already starting to in SD County.[/quote]
I think spdrun is talking about an evolution to Canadian/European style health system where you have base coverage from the government, but you can buy extra insurance for premium care.
November 2, 2016 @ 12:59 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:I think
[quote=FlyerInHi]I think spdrun is talking about an evolution to Canadian/European style health system where you have base coverage from the government, but you can buy extra insurance for premium care.[/quote]Except that’s not what “Hillarycare” actually is. Hillarycare is a “big-brother-run” operation on a humongous scale (akin to obamacare because it will still “vet” everyone’s annual income at least once yearly in a nationwide effort to dump as many people as possible onto the Medicaid system). Under Hillarycare, doctors will surely flee the system en masse and take cash patients only. People will wait months for a non-emergency appt if all they have is “Hillarycare.”
I just had my first (preventative care) appt last week with a new local provider (my longtime provider “retired” in late 2015, citing to patients in a letter their inability to stay in business with the ACA in place). My *new* provider (one of THREE which the ONLY individual PPO in San Diego County had “in-network” whose office was <15 miles from my urban home) charged me a $35 copay for a *FREE* preventative health checkup. I have a Gold plan and paid the $35 (extorted) fee because I had no other choice. The PPO reimbursement under the ACA has gone from ~$111 for this type of annual appt to just over $58. The remaining SD providers still accepting obamacare patients are going to make it up to themselves, somehow. Otherwise, their (obamacare) patients can find other providers willing to take their plan. They don’t care. These providers have a monopoly and they know it. I wouldn’t be surprised if 2 out of these 3 remaining local providers on my plan have opted out of obamacare by the time 2017 draws to a close . . . IF the disaster we call “obamacare” is still around, G@d forbid.
I got 40 minutes with the new doctor last week who was very thorough and their office quickly made a folder for me. Not bad for this type of appt. I’m trying to struggle thru the “system” until such time as obamacare is done away with. I have to go down to the Silver 70 or 73 level come January for nearly the same premium I am now paying for a gold plan ($15 less per month) due to a 22%+ premium hike for my Gold plan. I’m due for another colonoscopy in the first quarter of 2017 and I KNOW I’m going to get hit with a big bill, even though it is also a “preventative health procedure” and thus my copay should be less than $100 (for the facility copay). We’ll see what happens. I have to get one of these exams every three years due to family history.
November 2, 2016 @ 12:16 PM
Blogstar wrote:Well here’s my
[quote=Blogstar]Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.[/quote]
I think some people are more prone to addiction. Some kind of brain chemistry maybe.
Porn doesn’t do much for me. Soft porn such as sexy pictures are cheesy and I would never hang on my wall
I think people who have addiction should train themselves in a Buddhist way to slowly resist. I don’t even consume coffee or a favorite food/beverage everyday. I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.
November 2, 2016 @ 4:27 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:Blogstar
[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=Blogstar]Well here’s my two cents. Porn bothers me too. I either see silk screened spoiled rotten genetic winner who would laugh at my poor ass if I tried to talk to her( probably soft porn), or the sadness of the case of the likely down and out or stupid , gradually groomed to do more nasty stuff girls. I don’t see where getting fixated on porn helps boys/men with their relationships with women either.( sorry I didn’t mention lgbtwyxz porn angle, I know I should learn to be more inclusive) It’s a drug of a kind for which sobriety or near total abstinence is probably better, anyway , it’s never been hard for me to turn away. I hope my kids will turn away from it.for the most part. I could see it being useful to some people in some circumstances, but just to get hooked on it seems unfortunate.
One of my neighbors had soft porn all over his garage walls and some of the men including myself asked what his wife thought about it. He said she had a you can look but don’t touch attitude about it. But I think maybe it really pissed her off because she got caught banging some guy who was working on their house. Gotta be a moral of the story in there some place.[/quote]
I think some people are more prone to addiction. Some kind of brain chemistry maybe.
Porn doesn’t do much for me. Soft porn such as sexy pictures are cheesy and I would never hang on my wall
I think people who have addiction should train themselves in a Buddhist way to slowly resist. I don’t even consume coffee or a favorite food/beverage everyday. I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Your blog posting and dedication to democrats seems compulsive, Mine is sometimes and I am not near as bad as you. I know you will deny but there it is anyway.
November 3, 2016 @ 4:13 PM
FlyerInHi wrote: I trained
[quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.
November 3, 2016 @ 8:45 PM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote:
[quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
Very well done.
November 4, 2016 @ 10:41 AM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote:
[quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
Wanting is better than having.
November 4, 2016 @ 5:32 PM
njtosd wrote:FlyerInHi wrote:
[quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi] I trained myself to not need or desire. It’s actually very liberating.[/quote]
Egads. You have turned yourself into a houseplant – although even plants need sun and water. Maybe a fake houseplant.[/quote]
That’s how Buddhist philosophy is. You get rid of desire then nobody has a hold over you, because you don’t desire them or anything they can provide.
I still like food and beverage, and I try to eat well, but I’m indifferent to many things now.
Still working on other aspects of my life such as vanity which i have. Pride not so much anymore because I have enough self confidence.
When I reach enlightenment, I will go sit under a banyan tree all alone.
BTW, Im not Buddhist. I don’t believe in god. But finding happiness from within makes sense. Steve Jobs and that like thought the same.
November 5, 2016 @ 11:37 AM
Should Trump lose, I predict
Should Trump lose, I predict we’ll be talking about some homegrown terrorist attack from the alt-right.
November 8, 2016 @ 9:00 AM
I think we will be discussing
I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done!
November 9, 2016 @ 12:43 PM
NotCranky wrote:I think we
[quote=NotCranky]I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done![/quote]
Sounds like you’re just saying there should be a slow assimilation process so not to offend people sensibilities.
In the age of jet travel and global instant communications, why go slow when fast is better?
Btw, we are going towards a world culture driven by commerce. Life in Shanghai is not much different than in NYC.
November 9, 2016 @ 12:48 PM
FlyerInHi wrote:NotCranky
[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=NotCranky]I think we will be discussing how Human beings are mono-culturalists deep in their DNA. It’s what we kill and die for. Culture changes but always in the context of holding on to the old or of building the new mono-culture. Race doesn’t really exist. Even if it does, it doesn’t change the fact that we will be struggling towards and multi-racial mono-culture, actually a genetically blended mono-culture where people start to look more and more alike.
God’s will not mine be done![/quote]
Sounds like you’re just saying there should be a slow assimilation process so not to offend people sensibilities.
In the age of jet travel and global instant communications, why go slow when fast is better?
Btw, we are going towards a world culture driven by commerce. Life in Shanghai is not much different than in NYC.[/quote]
Nope I am not saying it should be slow or fast. But when your particular flavor of mono-culture that you are chomping at the bit for gets resisted don’t be too bent out of shape. You don’t have it all right either. Gods will not mine be done.
November 9, 2016 @ 1:21 PM
NotCranky wrote:
Nope I am
[quote=NotCranky]
Nope I am not saying it should be slow or fast. But when your particular flavor of mono-culture that you are chomping at the bit for gets resisted don’t be too bent out of shape. You don’t have it all right either. Gods will not mine be done.[/quote]
I’m not bent out of shape.
I just don’t understand the resistance by people who are not even affected by my flavor of culture. People who are in rural areas are not affected by immigration, inner city crime, social ills, multiculturalism and the wonderful choice of cuisines we have in the big cities. Nobdy is forcing urban elitism on them.
The beauty of the USofA is that we have states and localities that serve as laboratories for experimentation and innovation.
November 2, 2016 @ 11:09 AM
I’m glad to see scaredy and
I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.
November 2, 2016 @ 11:50 AM
bearishgurl wrote:I’m glad to
[quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.
November 2, 2016 @ 1:12 PM
Blogstar wrote:bearishgurl
[quote=Blogstar][quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.[/quote]Well, you posted that your married “neighbor” was “banging” a worker on their property. Did you ever consider that it is very possible that her spouse hasn’t paid any attention to her in years? Not if he could watch barely-adult women (usually from overseas so no one really knows their age) drop fifty-cent pieces rhythmically out of their @#$%*& on the internet 24/7. It wouldn’t matter if the “wayward wife” was a former beauty queen in tip-top shape! She doesn’t do it for him anymore. He prefers to sleep with his laptop. Godspeed to him :=0
The other reason is that he or she (or both) “settled” when they decided to get married. That’s a very unwise practice, IMO, but my observation has been that a lot of people do this for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being financial. This problem is especially pronounced in coastal CA (where housing is often cost-prohibitive).
November 2, 2016 @ 3:23 PM
bearishgurl wrote:Blogstar
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Blogstar][quote=bearishgurl]I’m glad to see scaredy and Russ’ comments here on this issue. Porn . . . especially hard-core and even “alternative” porn (lol, but not a laughing matter) is a very insidious addiction which quickly feeds on itself and for which, unfortunately, there is no cure. Lots of people (mostly males) have fallen prey to it (it’s been said that 35% or more of the internet is actually devoted to it) and can’t find their way out. I find that very, very sad.[/quote]
My observations have brought me to conclude that many men are stuck between terrible manipulation by women they can actually be with over sex, and porn. Not good choices.[/quote]Well, you posted that your married “neighbor” was “banging” a worker on their property. Did you ever consider that it is very possible that her spouse hasn’t paid any attention to her in years? Not if he could watch barely-adult women (usually from overseas so no one really knows their age) drop fifty-cent pieces rhythmically out of their @#$%*& on the internet 24/7. It wouldn’t matter if the “wayward wife” was a former beauty queen in tip-top shape! She doesn’t do it for him anymore. He prefers to sleep with his laptop. Godspeed to him :=0
The other reason is that he or she (or both) “settled” when they decided to get married. That’s a very unwise practice, IMO, but my observation has been that a lot of people do this for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being financial. This problem is especially pronounced in coastal CA (where housing is often cost-prohibitive).[/quote]
Dang you went over the top, did you really have to do that.? He had playboy centerfolds on his garage walls. Let’s don’t jump to a bunch of conclusions from that. No, don’t! On the other hand, sure they had some issues. Hopefully they used the crisis to improve things.
November 2, 2016 @ 3:52 PM
Blogstar wrote:Dang you went
[quote=Blogstar]Dang you went over the top, did you really have to do that.? He had playboy centerfolds on his garage walls. Let’s don’t jump to a bunch of conclusions from that. No, don’t! On the other hand, sure they had some issues. Hopefully they used the crisis to improve things.[/quote]Glad to hear things are going swimmingly with your neighbors. With this new info, it sounds like he has the posters up just to induce harmless “locker room talk” amongst the (male) visitors to his garage. Thanks for clarifying.
November 2, 2016 @ 1:30 PM
Cheetos.
Weed will be legal
Cheetos.
Weed will be legal after all.
November 2, 2016 @ 1:47 PM
no_such_reality
[quote=no_such_reality]Cheetos.
Weed will be legal after all.[/quote]I’ve had the opportunity to see what happened in CO up close and personal on several occasions so I voted No on the measure. It’s been shot down before in CA and I think the same will happen again this time. We’ll soon see.
It will cost much more in healthcare costs (usually borne by the taxpayer) as well as a nightmare of (yet-undeveloped) law enforcement traffic patrol costs and court costs. Add in gubment “oversight agencies” on the retail pot industry and these three bloodsuckers will heavily eat into the extra “sales tax” collected by retail pot establishments.
November 2, 2016 @ 2:23 PM
Horse dung:
(1) Pot users
Horse dung:
(1) Pot users will use regardless of whether it’s “legal” or not. I don’t see how it changes a thing WRT healthcare.
(2) Law enforcement will go after intoxicated drivers in the normal fashion. Drugged driving will remain illegal. The cops and courts won’t be able to collect a $100 or whatever fine from people for the mere act of possessing a plant. Poor babies.
(3) Weed is legal in California NOW for all intents and purposes. Getting a medical MJ card is trivial if one even bothers obeying the law. Large parts of San Francisco smell, literally, like burning cannabis.
You have a point about bureaucracy. Which is why I’d support the following measure instead of what is being proposed… “everyone over age 18 is permitted to grow up to x number of marijuana plants. Sales of said product would be regulated like any other small-scale farm product.”
November 2, 2016 @ 2:56 PM
Whether water prices will
Whether water prices will come down enough for Avocado growers to stay in Biz in CA,
What are they going to rename the I-15 to when there are no more Avocado groves.
What are they going to do with the land that was used for the groves.
How to make home made Cheetos.
November 3, 2016 @ 8:49 AM
The-Shoveler wrote:
How to
[quote=The-Shoveler]
How to make home made Cheetos.[/quote]
I hear they’re pretty good. Homemade Cheetos
Of course, once you’re making baking homemade Cheetos, you have the option to make them baked.
November 3, 2016 @ 9:32 AM
It will go back to mostly “Is
It will go back to mostly “Is or is not this a bubble”?
November 3, 2016 @ 9:47 AM
We need multi select and
We need multi select and other with a write-in field Rich.
November 3, 2016 @ 9:57 AM
I don’t see Politics on this
I don’t see Politics on this blog easing after the election.
Maybe Rich can install a politics filter that we can all toggle on and off.
November 3, 2016 @ 10:18 AM
I’d like to revisit whether
I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.
And also figure out how many walls it takes for a home in a far flung, lizard infested area might appreciate faster than North County tract homes.
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.
And my favorite topic, to round things up…. Let’s talk about how public pensioners are leeches and property owners that take advantage of Prop 13 are leeches too.
November 3, 2016 @ 10:21 AM
i forgot.
we never really get
i forgot.
we never really get anywhere.
this election is probably just a distraction to something important happening over there.
November 3, 2016 @ 10:56 AM
You know Scaredy, with a
You know Scaredy, with a script for that anxiety you can legally get weed now…
The Cheetos are good.
And you won’t care about feeling Sheepish.
November 3, 2016 @ 11:11 AM
no_such_reality wrote:You
[quote=no_such_reality]You know Scaredy, with a script for that anxiety you can legally get weed now…
The Cheetos are good.
And you won’t care about feeling Sheepish.[/quote]
i dont actually like pot. still, i like change…
November 3, 2016 @ 5:34 PM
flu wrote:
As a bonus
[quote=flu]
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.[/quote]
I was just thinking how this decade is like the 70’s except we don’t have expensive oil, then I think I remember at sometime hearing that oil will run out around 2050, so maybe peak oil is just around the corner as we all know fracking won’t solve all our oil problems.
November 3, 2016 @ 8:47 PM
flu wrote:I’d like to revisit
[quote=flu]I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.
And also figure out how many walls it takes for a home in a far flung, lizard infested area might appreciate faster than North County tract homes.
As a bonus discussion, I’d like us to do cost benefit analysis of when we think we’ll have another Peak Oil problem.
And my favorite topic, to round things up…. Let’s talk about how public pensioners are leeches and property owners that take advantage of Prop 13 are leeches too.[/quote]
Santee’s mayor is running for a state position, I think it’s so they can vote to make it a law that Santee in in fact 15 minutes from la Jolla shores.
November 4, 2016 @ 10:40 AM
flu wrote:I’d like to revisit
[quote=flu]I’d like to revisit whether Santee is really only 15 minutes from La Jolla.[/quote]
Sure. At 2 AM, and if you count UTC as “La Jolla”.
November 3, 2016 @ 11:06 AM
Mostly synthetic ovipositors,
Mostly synthetic ovipositors, I should think
http://piggington.com/i_am_just_going_leave_here_ewwww