twindad Loc: SW Michigan, frolicking in the snow.

Hmm, how about:
9- Using apostrophes to signal an impending "s" at the end of a word.
10 - Not knowing or caring that "your" and "you're" are two entirely different words with entirely different meanings.
11 - Using "lol" so much, it loses all meaning.

Ah, forget it. Love this list. Very clever.

Oh yeah, that's #1. Forget it. Very funny, though

notnoBuddha

Have we meet?
You seem to know a
whole lot about my life.

Bruce with a Canon Loc: Islip

kindred spirits I imagine!

mgstrawn Loc: Atlanta, GA

For sure!

mgstrawn Loc: Atlanta, GA

Good and meaningful constructive criticism does not attack or degrade!

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

I agree with fining those who hire illegals, but I completely disagree with the rest of this premise for these reasons:

1. A wall will work if done right. If you've ever seen the border between China and Hong Kong/Macau you know what I mean. It's at least a quarter mile wide with three huge sets of razor wire, two mine fields, two roads patrolled with jeeps and machine guns and two chain-link fences with barbed wire on top. No ladder ever made will get across that, and I pity any who get caught digging a tunnel.

It would also mean a great increase in Coast Guard activity to prevent sea entry.

2. If we put high tariffs on Chinese imports it would be the "mother of all" trade wars. We could do our own manufacturing but we then have to deal with our own labor problem, meaning unions and high wages. Prices of most everything would skyrocket. Lots of the Chinese "junk" that we buy simply would not be made here and thus not available at any price.

3. We are so indebted to China that we could never get out without defaulting, thus the dollar would go to the pits. We can't get unchained from China without the surety of becoming a third world nation and the great possibility of a major shooting war when half the world defaults as a result.

4. Greed and politics got us into this mess but politics has neither the will nor probably the ability to get us out.

notnoBuddha

My first impression, my first thought is there are a whole lot of good ideas out there but - and I do hesitate to say it; the devil is in the details. What the end should look like is often easy, but the practical path as to getting there is not so easy. To me a couple of things that could be done is to actually have a very basic test to see if one is qualified to vote. Maybe two or three or questions such as name the current vice president, how many stars are on the US flag, which city is your state capital? To me a problem is not that more do not vote but a good share should not, and many can be bought with a 30 second tv ad, their daddy always voted a straight ticket, or it was the first name on the ballot. The second is the Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited corporate monies {PACs} is nothing but a option to buy an politician, the vote, and the election. Nothing but legalized, bribbery.

Not that I am complaining mind you.
Figure I'll be dead one of these days on the bright side.

photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

Joe Biden, 50, Phoenix .... do I get to vote now ?

notnoBuddha

It was the floating of a idea, that has zero or less chance of being inacted. As to your question - I have no idea of what election is "now", and in regard to the approaching one, many will decide it not to be worth the effort or information gathering as to the choices - which works very well for both parties. And mostly the public is indifferent except for the complaining part where they excell nicely.

Singing Swan

I'm single. You like cats? I have three. Can they come too? I'll be happy to carry the gear but you gotta feed me. Three times a day and two breaks of fifteen minutes each.... and do not criticize the way I carry the equipment, k?

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

maybe we should just all move to china...problem solved.
ah fohget it...i like my delaware river...and rice? not so much.
And well, I doubt I would eat Chow tongue....

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

Once while in Hong Kong I was slowly picking through a plate of food when my Chinese host politely suggested I don't do that. He said that, through thousands of years of poverty and famine, the Chinese have learned to cook and eat anything that flies, crawls, swims or slithers, and westerners picking through their food may not like what they find. I just ate it and never again looked nor asked. :shock:

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

you got man appetite...I would definately have to go vegetarian while there and I could learn to like rice.
Maybe after thousands of years of poverty and famine they deserve a little wealth. I like visiting new places but Im glad to be right here in my own little piece of heaven on the Delaware River...

picturedude Loc: Yosemite natl. park, Ca.

Can we say "Merry Christmas", or do we have to say "Happy holidays"?

picturedude Loc: Yosemite natl. park, Ca.

Vegetarian.... Old Indian word meaning "Lousy hunter."