1 Insomnia has its rewards. Thanks, Monty.

2 Good Morning Monty; LOL, stealing from bluegrass songs for a title again I see.

http://tinyurl.com/29zx6e8

3 On women and the workforce. During the great depression I most women did not work outside of the home. We are breaking new ground here in great depression II.

4 What can one say about Krugman. He ceased being an economist as soon as he became a communist.

5 Do they get a mulligan on this one or are they penalized a shot? I forsee many lawsuits, yea, even unto the end of the earth.

I have another question for this round of BS. If they don't know who owns the title how did they expect to be able to deliver the title when the loan was paid off?

6 California is the new Michigan.

7 After 3 trillion and the car is still stuck.

How much does it cost for a tow truck? Can't you buy one for 3 trillion?

8 Teens have been hit with the triple whammy. First the minimum wage increase which would favor the illegals because they are paid under the table, second with the high availability of illegals in many parts of the country, and third with the second great depression as well.

Throw in the fact that most of them are lazy as hell and that tends to drive up their unemployment. On that score one wonders how you count teen unemployment? A huge score of them are not even looking for a job.

And yes, as a young teen I did a lot of summer jobs. When I was in the tenth grade I started working permanently after school and during the summer right up until the time I went into the Navy.

And before the collapse there were all kinds of jobs around here available for teens and few takers. Note that SC doesn't have a huge problem with illegals because of a number of factors.

9 With teen unemployment so high, how is our new generation going to gain the experience necessary to enter the adult, full-time work force? Well, they won't. It will be a joyous life of government transfer payments and grinding poverty.

10 The Democrats most assuredly do not have the spine to make those changes; time will tell if the GOP does.

Did you see the top headline at Fox this morning? Some of the "leadership" apparently are already calling for BS "compromise".

11 Women are far more likely to work in industries (like services and healthcare) that are more insulated from the downturn.

Yep, if every student in college in my field were to all go into healthcare tomorrow--- there would still be a huge shortage.  It's nice having job security.

The down side is you have to work with mentally ill, physically sick, behaviorally out of control, in trouble with the law kinda people.

12 FYI, construction, oil change, landscapers still Anglais in Montana...for a California native like me it's like going back in time.

13 On buying foreclosed property - That has always been problematic for the "regular guy". In most States someone who has been foreclosed can have up to a year to get their house back provided they payoff all the missed payments, fees, and costs.

So you could buy a home and then get forced back out again (although it is rare). When I first bought my house I had a bank call me and made an offer to sell a house they were foreclosing on.  They wanted me to assume the load and take over payments. The trouble was they didn't know all the details on the house. The guy who had it previously had bought a bunch of hbuilding materials and encloded the carport into another room for the house. he did that under a "builder's lien" with the lumber yard and skipped town owing them as well as everyone else.

The bank didn't know that.

14 The down side is you have to work with mentally ill, physically sick, behaviorally out of control, in trouble with the law kinda people.

Posted by: EZB at October 19, 2010 08:25 AM (fa9yq)

Sort of like reading AOSHQ.

15 3 On women and the workforce. During the great depression I most women did not work outside of the home. We are breaking new ground here in great depression II. Posted by: Vic at October 19, 2010 08:09 AM (/jbAw) Yes, and what will make things worse is the idiotic fiction that has been sold to women today that traditional "women's work" is demeaning and has no value. Case and point: Mrs. Nighthawk grew up on a farm- on a recent visit she and I were sitting at the kitchen table with her mother when a neighbor walked in carrying a burlap sack over his shoulder. "I got something for ya" he says and dumps the sack full of cucumbers into the sink. Without a word Mrs. Nighthawk and her mom shoved me aside, cleared the table, pulled out pots, salt, spices and canning jars and an hour later there were two dozen jars of freshly canned pickles on the table. I was amazed. That kind of skill is VALUABLE! And it is being LOST right when it will be needed the most.

16 On the "Fair Tax" I have been preaching against it ever since I read the bill and all the research papers at their web site. It should be renamed the "Raw Tax".

17 11 Teens have been hit with the triple whammy. First the minimum wage increase which would favor the illegals because they are paid under the table, second with the high availability of illegals in many parts of the country, and third with the second great depression as well.

Throw in the fact that most of them are lazy as hell and that tends to drive up their unemployment. On that score one wonders how you count teen unemployment? A huge score of them are not even looking for a job.

And yes, as a young teen I did a lot of summer jobs. When I was in the tenth grade I started working permanently after school and during the summer right up until the time I went into the Navy.

I live in a rural county and work in the city.  Yes, new hires at work, even for minimum wage are older, even retirement level folks.  Are teens applying?  No.  Most think they're above washing pots, taking out trash, cutting grass etc.   Same in the rural area--- kids think that getting up at 5 to drive tractors is beneath them.  And again, it's better to hire an old fart who ain't afraid of hard work.  OR an illegal who will work both teens and old farts into the ground.

I grew up working (hell is getting up at 6 to pick beans before school).  I went to college not because of dreams of a career--- it was to keep from driving a hay truck or cutting okra the rest of my life.   Kids today aren't getting that baptism by fire of why you need an education.

18 Production in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in September for the first time in more than a year, evidence of the slowdown in growth that is concerning some Federal Reserve policy makers.

hahahahaha

19 Sort of like reading AOSHQ.

Yep, when you spend your work hours around the mentally ill and criminally insane---including child molesters, rapists and murderers....AOSHQ just flows with the kharma

20 Technology, initially a democratizing force that improved prices, has been weaponized by some firms to create powerful trading advantages.

When I see BS jargon like that it leads me to believe that the writer doesn't know shit.

21 Without a word Mrs. Nighthawk and her mom shoved me aside, cleared the table, pulled out pots, salt, spices and canning jars and an hour later there were two dozen jars of freshly canned pickles on the table. I was amazed.

That kind of skill is VALUABLE! And it is being LOST right when it will be needed the most.

Please make sure you tell them this!  Telling them and anyone who has this kind of gift it's true value makes all the difference when you're tired and there is a mountain of work ahead.

22 To avoid such an outcome, the administration has endorsed sending a $250 bonus check to each of the nearly 58 million Americans on Social Security.

Bambi sends out a tiny handful of chicken feed to the elderly. I am sure though it will be means tested to assure it goes to the "right" people.

23 Lobbyists and congressional aides say Democratic appropriators are mulling a 12-bill omnibus to fund the government in 2011 after the current stopgap measure expires in early December.

This is just the kind of shit Republicans MUST stop. The best course of action here is to stop it in the Senate. Pray that the RINOs don't cross over. If it is blocked in the Senate before this congress ends they can start over with the next congress with a fresh "non-omnibus" spending measure.

Yes the MFM will "blame" Republicans. So what.

24 Please make sure you tell them this! Telling them and anyone who has this kind of gift it's true value makes all the difference when you're tired and there is a mountain of work ahead. Posted by: EZB at October 19, 2010 08:39 AM (fa9yq) Absolutely. I tell her, but she knows because she has lived with it her entire life. Years ago I worked on the A-6 program. We had a saying that the aircraft had a crew of 2- the guy in the left seat made it fly, and the guy in the right seat made it fight. BOTH were needed for the aircraft to complete its mission. The same is true in family life, no matter how much the pop culture says otherwise.

25 On the union problems in CA what they need to do is grow some balls and pass a "right to work law". Break the damn unions before they break you.

But that isn't going to happen until CA goes all the way to the bottom. 

26 Well, at least we know that Lifetime and Oxygen productions will be a viable investment, what with all the new and improved wife-beatings to come !

27 Without a word Mrs. Nighthawk and her mom shoved me aside, cleared the table, pulled out pots, salt, spices and canning jars and an hour later there were two dozen jars of freshly canned pickles on the table. I was amazed.

That kind of skill is VALUABLE! And it is being LOST right when it will be needed the most.

That sort of skill is coming back. For those of us who planted gardens this year just to feed the family, and have time on our hands because we are laid off, canning and freezing is just another day on the "job."

28 I grew up working (hell is getting up at 6 to pick beans before school).

Nickel a pound.  It was my first job at age 12.  Haven't been unemployed since.

29 And finally the original "working in a coalmine" with Lee Dorsey

http://tinyurl.com/389o5au

Another good job Monty, thanks.

30
Without a word Mrs. Nighthawk and her mom shoved me aside, cleared the table, pulled out pots, salt, spices and canning jars and an hour later there were two dozen jars of freshly canned pickles on the table. I was amazed.

That kind of skill is VALUABLE! And it is being LOST right when it will be needed the most.

It's not hard, and it's not even really "hard work".  Just time consuming.  But it's true that 95% of Americans, when faced with a bushel of cucumbers, would have in one week's time a bushel of cucumbers with shit growing on them.  Waste, waste, waste.  It's a freakin' mantra.

31 Which reminds me, I have 40 lbs of apples waiting to become applesauce and pie filling....

32 I grew up working (hell is getting up at 6 to pick beans before school). Nickel a pound. It was my first job at age 12. Haven't been unemployed since. I had an uncle who ran a hobby-farm/horse ranch outside of town, and we kids were jakeleg farmhands from the age of 10 on up. (We did get paid standard farmhand wages, though. My mom saw to that.) Cleaning out the chicken coop, hog pens, horse stalls; refilling the water tanks and feed buckets; and when I got older, we'd take horses out and ride fence to repair any breaks. Shucking corn when the machine broke, and cleaning the manure spreader come springtime. I actually worked as a gen-u-wine cowboy during one summer break during college. (And had enough of that shit to last me a lifetime; the next semester I got a job at a computer store.) I've often thought that one of the reasons so many kids are sickly now is that they're never exposed to the dirt, crud, and animals that we were as kids. I only knew one kid who had asthma when I was growing up; it seems like every third kid has it now.

33 But it's true that 95% of Americans, when faced with a bushel of cucumbers, would have in one week's time a bushel of cucumbers with shit growing on them.

I don't know what it is about cucumbers and zucchini squash but when they get harvested everyone ALWAYS has a ton of these things to give away.

Why is it you never see people giving away a ton of tomatoes, field peas, or butter beans?

34 Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 19, 2010 08:56 AM (I30wK)

Frugality and intelligence (when it comes to food I think it's the same thing) aren't limited to those with farming roots.

I have a few gallons of chicken stock simmering on the stove. And my younger brat took home-made meringues to school in her lunch.

And this is the suburbs!

35 During the great depression I most women did not work outside of the home.

FYI, that's only true for middle-to-upper-class white women in cities.  Other women have been working outside their homes for hundreds of years.  And farm women may not have gotten a paycheck from town (my grandmother did; she was a cook from age 17 until she had my uncle at age 22, but I don't think she was typical), but they were working at income-producing activities.

(One of the more interesting early schisms in the 1970s feminist movement was between the rich white women who denegrated married women who stayed home to raise families, and married black women who said, "Wait a damn minute, we've been wanting to stay home with our children for generations, and now that the men are able to make it happen, you want to take it away?!"  (...and now the government  cuts 'em a check so they don't have to marry, work, or in too many cases, actually raise their kids.  Bah.)

36 As I said, during depression I most women did not work "outside the home" meaning paid jobs not in the family.

I stand by that.

37 As I said, during depression I most women did not work "outside the home" meaning paid jobs not in the family.

Harder and harder to maintain the cherished "middle class lifestyle" like that anymore.  Said lifestyle having turned into bullshit, anyway.

38 I've often thought that one of the reasons so many kids are sickly now is that they're never exposed to the dirt, crud, and animals that we were as kids. I only knew one kid who had asthma when I was growing up; it seems like every third kid has it now.

Actually, studies are supporting that we've become too clean and too germaphobic and yes, that maybe why we have so many allergic kids.  My niece and nephew get filthy when they come to see us....dirt is fun.

39 The Fair Tax, and possibly the VAT, would be a one-off tax penalty on everything you had previously saved when you went to spend it. (If you are one of the feckless who borrowed and consumed, you would be better off.) However, I could see a nice, low VAT, along with a nice low flat tax (progressive) which would be the only taxes allowed. That way, every election would be clear: 5% / 20% is my plan. 7% / 23% is their plan. Pick one. (for example.) None of this "we will tax the wealthy" - because everyone pays the same (though with a large personal deduction.)

40 Harder and harder to maintain the cherished "middle class lifestyle" like that anymore. I dunno -- I've seen a lot of young mothers in my area stay home to raise their kids. I think the calculus just didn't work: many younger women were working mainly to pay for daycare, gas for the car, etc. When all was said and done, their take-home pay wasn't near enough to offset what they were losing by not being around for their kids while they were growing up. Women are finding out the same sad truth that men have known all along: success in business often means neglecting your family life. You can't have it all. And when *both* parents are chasing the mythical brass ring, the kids are raised by strangers. I was raised in a single-parent household, but I was lucky in that my grandmother watched me and my cousins while our moms and dads were at work: so it was still family. I barely saw my mom when I was a kid -- she was trying to get all the hours she could to keep us clothed and fed and with a roof over our heads. She didn't have any real choice in the matter, but still...it would have been nice to have her around more. She missed a lot of my life.

41 I dunno -- I've seen a lot of young mothers in my area stay home to raise their kids. I think the calculus just didn't work: many younger women were working mainly to pay for daycare, gas for the car, etc.

I agree, if the woman is getting a job at some store downtown making minimum wage, or close to it, the wages she earns will not pay the costs of commuting, day care, etc.

In addition, keep in mind, that if her husband works her salary will be taxed as the highest rate added on to his salary. It is a losing proposition unless it is a higher paying job.

However, if she is a "single mom", working a low wage jobs, she will pay negative taxes with the EIC welfare scheme.

42 a beautiful wordsmith with a deep sensitivity and appreciation for women Aw, come ON, woman! You know what's going to happen now? I'm going to get a bunch of emails like, "Hey, Gaylord, you tea-sipping ninnyhammer!" and "Monty and runningrn, sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!". I'm gonna have to go out and get in like fifty bar-fights now to re-establish my dude-cred. (But first I must finish my cucumber-and-watercress sandwich while Hodges lays out my rumble-wear.)

43 Greetings from the idiocracy! I remember the Turlock mess, I live up the road in Modesto. What a difference a few years and a few million dollars makes! Love the Bob Wills shtick too. Carry on.

44

Women also have many more protections -- both regulatory and social/cultural -- than men do. There are many deep ramifications to this change -- the impact of long-term male unemployment on the family; the loss of status, power and prestige that goes with being unemployed; the male self-image and value to society. (Studies of unemployed men during the Great Depression are not happy reading -- many of the chronically unemployed males left their families rather than assume a lower status in the family, and were also far more likely to be dictatorial and violent towards their wives and children.)

This has been a problem in Russia for decades--men basically giving up whatever roles of responsibility they used to assume, as the Communists broke down and destroyed familial bonds and traditional relationships in favor of The State.

Progressives have been doing the same thing here for the last 50+ years, and they've essentially succeeded in making the fundamental philosophy of dependence on the state a de facto and de jure part of the culture, while promoting the idea that men are fundamentally worthless and incapable of taking care of themselves without a proxy "mother" figure.

45

My grandfather left his family during the Great Depression.  He was a respected foreman at the local woolen mill in a small Tennessee town, and then the mill closed, and there wasn't any work.  My mother and her three siblings were sent to live with an aunt for several years.  She still won't talk about him and doesn't even have any pictures of him.  I learned all this stuff from my dad.  It must have been really terrible. 

The only people in my family who are working right now are government workers, health care workerrs, or selling stuff to government agencies.

46

Wonks love the VAT, however, because it's more "efficient" (i.e., harder to dodge). I have a feeling that we're going to get a VAT or something much like it whether we like it or not, so my argument is that a VAT should replace the current income-tax, not augment it.

Gabe brought up this point the other day.  But he was so steamed up about this "efficiency" being such a betrayal of conservative principles.  He litterally said conservatives that supported this efficiency should be "ashamed" of themselves. 

Which makes no sense to me at all.

Our tax code is what, tens of thousand pages long?  That complexity is why we have millions of people working in the tax preparation and accounting business.  These people for the most part aren't really adding value to a company.  Just like an employee whose only task is to deal with the paperwork that comes from implementing Obamacare isn't really adding value.  They are just trying to minimize the losses caused by government rules and regulations.  But they aren't actually helping to make the product or service, whatever it might be.

There are arguements either way for the VAT or Fair tax.  But I never saw their "efficiency" as being "shameful."

47 I went to work when my child was 4.. he was in pre K so I took a part time job.
When he went to school .. I went to work full time.
Made more than the husband...  he couldnt handle it.
Became violent then left us.. completely abandon us. Havent seen my husband of 20 years in 6 years.  He hasnt seen his child in 6 years.

WTF is wrong with men?  He bitched that other wives worked.. so I went to work then couldn't handle me making more than him.

Thank God I did go to work.  I would be screwed right now.

Monty..  I know how your grandma feels.

48 WTF is wrong with men? Sorry to hear it, Kristi. He sounds like a prize asshole. You can take comfort in knowing that you and your kids are probably better off with him gone. For good or ill, much of a man's self-image is bound up in their role as the head of the household and main breadwinner. It's a million years of evolution battling with a sudden change of only fifty years or so. It's not an excuse; just a reason so many men find it hard to deal with unemployment. Women have many support structures both in the workplace and in the socio-cultural sphere; men have relatively few. The loss of power and status in the home can be crippling to a man's self-respect. And I have to say: I think women tend to view a long-term unemployed unemployed husband with barely-concealed disdain, even if they're working themselves. Like I said: humans are battling aeons of evolutionary development to deal with social problems that are only decades old.

49 self___ should have been "self-image". Don't know what happened there.

50 Buh? "Self- image" self image Pixy: why does self plus a dash plus image come out weird?

51

WTF is wrong with men?  He bitched that other wives worked.. so I went to work then couldn't handle me making more than him.

Kristi,

Jeff Goldstein from Protein Wisdom is a stay at home dad while his wife works.  So it can be done.

Having said that, I noticed that Jeff is now also deeply involved with body strengthening and mixed martial arts.  And will threaten to kick a guys ass in a heartbeat should he get his dander up.

And people who don't like him give him shit about this all the time.  Being a stay at home dad is going to get a guy a lot of ridicule.

So I'll play armchair psychologist and say that he is compensating for this.  Which sounds kinda dickish of me...but there it goes.

Right or wrong, if a guy isn't a breadwinner, it hit's 'em hard.  It has the same impact psycologically as if they were sexually impotent.

 

52

There are arguements either way for the VAT or Fair tax.  But I never saw their "efficiency" as being "shameful."

Posted by: ed at October 19, 2010 10:16 AM (Zsqn4)

Because there is no "efficiency". All of the proponents of these are just looking for more ways of taking your money.

They both are huge tax increases for the average person contrary to the lies put forth by their proponents.

53 WTF is wrong with men?

Don't blame all men for the wrongs of a few.

54

Vic:  Because there is no "efficiency". All of the proponents of these are just looking for more ways of taking your money.

Well, yeah, if the Fair Tax is combined with the current income tax, you get none of the benefits of efficiency.

But if it replaced the current income tax, it would be more efficient.

55 Apologies to the men... of course not all men are the douchebag I married.

My father for one.. my brother for 2... and looks like the men on this site.

; )

and yeah.. my son is better off without him..  He doesnt need that as an example of what a man is.

56 California has a lot further to fall before the lefties here will begin to realize their folly.

On the bright side, we'll have Prop 19 to numb some of the pain on the way down.

57

But if it replaced the current income tax, it would be more efficient.

Posted by: ed at October 19, 2010 10:53 AM (Zsqn4)

Not really. All it would do is replace who collected the tax. That at the same time it increased taxes on 99.9% of the population.

58 Without a word Mrs. Nighthawk and her mom shoved me aside, cleared the table, pulled out pots, salt, spices and canning jars and an hour later there were two dozen jars of freshly canned pickles on the table. I was amazed.

That kind of skill is VALUABLE! And it is being LOST right when it will be needed the most.

Posted by: Nighthawk at October 19, 2010 08:30 AM (02uN6)

Let us guy take it over. Then everyone will have his own secret recipe for pickles, there will be books on pickles, obscure pickle spices from Europe and Asia,  TV pickle competitions, Pickle only restaraunts, pickle liquor...

There won't be nearly as many actual pickles, though.

59 Why is it you never see people giving away a ton of tomatoes, field peas, or butter beans?

Posted by: Vic at October 19, 2010 09:01 AM (/jbAw)

Because they taste good.

Cooking squash consists of putting good tasting stuff all over it. By itself its like a potato, but not as good.

60

Vic:  Not really. All it would do is replace who collected the tax. That at the same time it increased taxes on 99.9% of the population.

Well... yes, it would replace who collected the tax, and simultaneously eliminate the byzantine rules surrounding the collection of income taxes.  Instead of IRS agents and tax preparers and accountants collecting the income tax, the clerk operating the cash register is mostly collecting the fair tax.

Currently, we already have sales taxes at point of purchase in my county.  And although I don't really like paying 9.75% sales tax, administrateively, it is very easy for businesses and consumers to deal with. 

Now, as far as it increasing taxes on 99.9% of the population?  Well, that depends.  Again, I wouldn't favor keeping both the income tax and the Fair tax.  That would be horrible.

But if you eliminated the income tax and replaced it with the fair tax?  Well, first of all, everyone who doesn't pay any income tax right now would see the amount of taxes they pay go up in terms of the Fair tax.  As for those who do pay currently pay income taxes...Well they would get a tax cut in terms of no longer paying income taxes.  And they would get a tax increase in terms of now paying a fair tax.  Whether or not their total tax bill would go up (ignoring other taxes like property, Social security, etc) would depend on which is greater, the income tax elimintation, or the imposition of the fair tax.

Now obviously, the rate of the fair tax is going to have a lot to do with this.  A fair tax of 25% is going to hurt more than a fair tax of 10%.

The fair tax is regressive.  No doubt about it.  Meaning that low income people pay a higher portion of their income as opposed to high income people in the tax.  On the other hand, it doesn't penalize you for being successful and earning more money.  Like the income tax does.

61 But if you eliminated the income tax and replaced it with the fair tax?  Well, first of all, everyone who doesn't pay any income tax right now would see the amount of taxes they pay go up in terms of the Fair tax.

Not true. The fair tax, as written up in the House bill gives a rebate to low/no income people to offset the "regressive nature". So the same deadbeats who pay no taxes now will pay no taxes under it.

I studied this bill and its supporting structure closely when it first came out. I also worked out several test scenarios for different income brackets assuming the "standard" deduction for 4 person families.

The "fair tax" doesn't reach break even for the current tax until the income reaches $500,000 per year. The only people who make out under the fair tax are the corporations who will pay no taxes.

Oh and the "fair tax" people say that those savings will be returned to the people. That is one of the many things they credit. It is also bullshit.

The only way to have a new tax sysem that would be actually fair and simple is to have a simple flat tax of 15% on ALL forms of income and profit regardless of source. No deductions and no write-offs.

If you make a dollar above expenses selling lemonade at a stand in from of your house you pay 10 cents in taxes.

62

The fair tax, as written up in the House bill gives a rebate to low/no income people to offset the "regressive nature". [...] I studied this bill and its supporting structure closely when it first came out.

 

Whoa whoa whoa there!!! If yer gonna get all technical and "study" the actual bill and start talking about "facts" and what not, I'm gonna take my ball and go home!

There will be no facts in this disucssion, let me tell you.  Talking points only.

OK, snark off.

First off, I didn't actually study this bill at all.  I'm just basically talking about what effects a generic "sales tax" would have.  If this specific "Fair Tax" is actually doing stuff like rebates and deductions and what not, and istn't just a simple tax on purchases, then yeah, my whole arguement falls apart.

When I went to the article linked above, I read the following:  Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) is just one of several Democratic candidates saying the FairTax — a levy that replaces the federal income tax with a 23 percent sales tax on everything, including the purchase of a new home or car

The bold part above is what I was basing all of my arguements off of.  If the article is inacurate, and that isn't what this fair tax is, well, er...uhhh... never mind.

63 I think overall, women will be damn happy to be earning more than men. Think about it -- no more boring beta providers, instead, Alpha-ahoy! Black women were just the first wave of single motherhood, which seems the default arrangement, and a reliable poverty generator, but very attractive to women because "five minutes of Alpha beats five years of beta."

Hopefully, the boring beta ex-providers can douche it up, ala the Situation, or thug it up, or both! That would make most women happy.

Earn enough, no more "kitchen bitch" house-husband, about as sexy and dominating as a cold bowl of oatmeal. Besides, aren't illegal alien nannies and maids how people raise kids these days? Who really needs a house-husband?

Bottom line: if a guy is not bringing in money, he's worth nothing to women, period, unless he's a douche A-hole. For most guys, that's a bridge too far. But for women, a good deal. They can share a John Edwards to a Situation type, whatever fits their taste and lifestyle. Ala Antonio Cromartie trying to remember the names of his seven kids by six women. A win for Alphas, a win for nearly all women. Sucks for beta males, but since when have either women or Alphas given a damn about them, anyway?

64

God bless Texas, indeed.

65

Bottom line: if a guy is not bringing in money, he's worth nothing to women, period, unless he's a douche A-hole. For most guys, that's a bridge too far. But for women, a good deal. They can share a John Edwards to a Situation type, whatever fits their taste and lifestyle. Ala Antonio Cromartie trying to remember the names of his seven kids by six women. A win for Alphas, a win for nearly all women. Sucks for beta males, but since when have either women or Alphas given a damn about them, anyway?

Posted by: whiskeyat October 19, 2010 12:53 PM (L03mw)

Hey whiskey, off topic, but why don't you fix the link in your name?  It has minx in the web address and doesn't go to your blogspot address.

Try clicking on it yourself and see.