Yeah, well, y'know...

Either the reporter or the editor was uh - taking a break, or something...

Fucking TIRESOME is what I'd say.

I swear, mopinko, sometimes I just wanna grab some of 'em and shake 'em and say "GET YER HEADS OUT OF THE CLOUDS!!!!! AND DOWN HERE WITH YER FEET ON THE GROUND WITH THE REST OF US!!!!!

And GRANTED, the ground IS dirty and so are our feet. And when we stumble, we stub our dirty toes, but we can still slog along and maybe still, actually, have a chance to get somewhere and accomplish SOMETHING. But when you're up there in the idealistic perfection-only clouds and you stumble, you crash thousands of feet down to earth and burn to a crisp and you WON'T be able to "slog along and maybe still, actually, have a chance" to get ANYWHERE 'cause you'll be fucking DEAD.

I appreciate some of the motives of the idealists and those who just have to have it perfect. But sometimes you've just simply gotta be PRACTICAL!!!!

Unbelievable. Disgusting, isn't it?

I thought Obama haters belonged on the freeper/Pox/breitbart sites...

I'm sorry to say this but they remind me of my late mother. God rest her soul in peace with the angels! But NOTHING I DID was ever good enough. NOT EVER. Mainly because I was fat and didn't care that much about my appearance when I was younger. NOTHING I DID was ever good enough for her. I got straight A's. ALWAYS made the honor roll. NEVER got in trouble. NEVER dated some asshole they had reason to hate or distrust. NEVER drank or smoked cigarettes - OR pot. NEVER ditched school. NEVER got arrested or stayed out all night or made them worry or ran around with a bad crowd or ANYTHING. Nevertheless, she would ALWAYS find fault. Of course I was not perfect, so she was able to find a LOT to criticize. And she did, with relish. She insisted on perfect while the best I could come up with was merely good - NEVER enough to get close to satisfying her. And later on when I'd grown up and moved out, graduated college with good grades, started my career, and found a good guy with whom I set up a stable marriage, AND lost weight, too, she STILL was able to find fault. She still criticized me - til the very end. Even literally almost on her deathbed (about a year before she passed), she still made it clear to me that she didn't, couldn't, and WOULDN'T EVER accept me just as I am. She was world-class in that particular "talent."

As I write this, I realize this is probably what leads me to post all the stuff I've posted in the past either defending support for Obama or support for Hillary or SOMEONE/SOMETHING that has an actual chance to win, rather than the pure and perfect that only the connoisseurs and perfectionists among us find worthy and for whom/for which they resolutely hold out, either to "send a message" or prove some "point".

Okay, fine, pal. YOU FIRST, then.

After YOU, pal.

He wanted to "create a university" with the brightest minds and blah-blah-blah?

Um... and we want THAT? How many "universities" do we have now, that were set up by private interests with ulterior motives and agendas? Like Liberty "University"? Or Regent "University"? If it's a big-ass real-estate developer behind this, I would strongly suspect his motives are strictly selfish and profit-based, NOT civic-minded OR altruistic or in ANY way focused on the greater good.

Welcome to DU, NCjack!

Good to have you with us! But I doubt it will directly benefit the people of New Jersey. Any more than sinking a king's ransom into risky speculation (like building the damn thing in the first place) seems to have done.

Welcome to DU, wolfie001!

Glad you're here! That's because he doesn't see that pensioners have the needs that the fat cats do. That's simply a load of "free" money the fat cats can do fancy-ass risky-as-hell deals and stuff with, after all! Just so most of that "free" money winds up padding their own pockets - which he knows they'll pour into his campaigns to say a nice "thank-you."

Good one, MrScorpio!

I'm keeping a copy.

It's kind of a sad reminder that there ARE members of the wealthy elites who actually have consciences and concern for the greater good. Where are THEY, now, when we need 'em?

Man, that ostrich in the last one could be labeled the entire GOP.

And most of their voters. They're looking around, down there, for some of that "commonsense" stuff they all talk about in their campaign ads. It's there, fer sure, in among those grains of sand. I just know it. Right about where the WMDs are!

Yep. And that's EXACTLY the kind of thinking that's gonna lose us the Senate.