2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Major Robert Dump]

My McDOnaldsd got rid of the playground because the kiddies were getting burns on the equipment during the summer. Now my location acts like a 2nd, more hip, senior center. Where seniors can order a senior sized coffee and hang around talking to each other for 4 hours, getting free refills.

Of course, liberal sensitivities aside, you are an elitist. There is only one clown per location (if that). By definition you are the 1%.

A little OT,
But the district tried to recruit me to go to the super secretive "Ronald McDonald School." They explained that there were only a a couple of dozen RMs around north and south america, and that I would not be able to tell most people what I did for a living, and that on trips I would have handlers who would feed me, open doors for me and act as McD secret service to keep me out of compromising situations, presumably all this to keep up the illusion that RM is "magical."

As a 19 year with high hopes for myself, I scoffed at the idea

Sometimes, while parked outside a fraudsters home for 3 days, peeing in bottles and crapping in a box in the backseat, I scoff at my 19 year old self.

[a completely inoffensive name]

A little OT,
But the district tried to recruit me to go to the super secretive "Ronald McDonald School." They explained that there were only a a couple of dozen RMs around north and south america, and that I would not be able to tell most people what I did for a living, and that on trips I would have handlers who would feed me, open doors for me and act as McD secret service to keep me out of compromising situations, presumably all this to keep up the illusion that RM is "magical."

As a 19 year with high hopes for myself, I scoffed at the idea

Sometimes, while parked outside a fraudsters home for 3 days, peeing in bottles and crapping in a box in the backseat, I scoff at my 19 year old self.

If you don't mind saying, what was the pay?

[Lemur]

Swing state polling is looking ugly for Team Boston.

Meanwhile, the approval/likeability thing is not going well for Boston. Note that both of these polls are pre-47%.



And not good with so-called "swing" voters. (Unclear on what defines that group.)

[rvg]

And not good with so-called "swing" voters.

The data for swing voters shows Romney with a huge lead on job creation and deficit reduction. Those two things are probably more important than all other issues put together.

[HopAlongBunny]

One question that does not get posed is pretty simple, perhaps even simplistic: Why is the house built by Democrats and Republicans so transparently built on bribes?

[Major Robert Dump]

If you don't mind saying, what was the pay?

It was @90k IIRC. That was 1993, though.

[rvg]

It was @90k IIRC. That was 1993, though.

Whoa. That was goooood money back then.

[Kralizec]

Whoa. That was goooood money back then.

Yeah, it was. Nowadays it's about what I tip the waitresses at restaurants. Darn inflation.

[a completely inoffensive name]

It was @90k IIRC. That was 1993, though.

God damn, that's equivalent to $134,000 in 2010 dollars.

Although, the job sounds like you would have had no personal life or privacy at all.

[Major Robert Dump]

God damn, that's equivalent to $134,000 in 2010 dollars.

Although, the job sounds like you would have had no personal life or privacy at all.

Oh contrare, no one would kow who you are.
Just think, your secretive life you could lead people to believe you were in the CIA.

[Fragony]

LOL at Romney, feels it should be possible to open the windows of a plane in case of fire. This can't be serious, can it?

[Major Robert Dump]

Well you don't have to be smart to be rich, despite what people here may say otherwise. Good thing Mittens can afford to pay someone to do his house maintenace for him, otherwise he may have killed himself long ago by spraying water on a gasoline fire.

[Sigurd]

LOL at Romney, feels it should be possible to open the windows of a plane in case of fire. This can't be serious, can it?

Well they seem to think he made a jest.
But it is not so stupid as you might think. The airplane needs to be airtight at certain altitudes. If you could open the windows inwards, the pressure cabin would make sure the windows were pressed into the fuselage when gaining altitude. The current windows are too small for you to escape from, but newer planes are getting bigger windows. I think it is more a weight issue that windows are not fitted with hinges than security.
Worrying about people opening a window in high altitudes, would be the same as worrying about people opening the doors or emergency exits. It just can't be done.