Posted by: BIAD - 02-14-2020, 11:02 PM - Forum: Europe
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This wasn't one of the late-Epstein's antics, was it?! Oooh-la-la!
As the French President continues to ignore his people, the stereotypical act that the romantic French
are known for blossoms in the form of a video. A video that had an effect that even the BBC can't disguise
with its use of deflecting wording.
Can anyone say 'Anthony Weiner'?!!
Quote:Griveaux Paris race: Sex video prompts Macron ally to step down.
'A sex video has ended French ruling party candidate Benjamin Griveaux's hopes of becoming mayor of Paris.
The ex-spokesman for President Emmanuel Macron's government, who was already trailing in the race, was
apparently targeted by a Russian protest artist accusing him of hypocrisy.
Benjamin Griveaux with clothes on.
"No-one should be subjected to such abuse," said Mr Griveaux, 42.
The video, showing a man in a compromising position, quickly spread on social media late on Thursday.
Petr Pavlensky, who sought asylum from Russia in 2017, said he had posted the video online.
How France reacted
Opponents from across the political spectrum voiced their outrage.
Incumbent Mayor Anne Hidalgo appealed for respect for people's private lives, while far-left leader Jean-Luc
Mélenchon condemned the attack as "odious". Far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested that for the sake
of democracy Mr Griveaux should perhaps not have resigned.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe expressed his support for his former colleague and Interior Minister Christophe
Castaner went further, warning that publishing videos without the author's consent was an offence punishable by
a significant fine and up to two years in jail.
The video appeared on a little known website that featured a profile of Mr Griveaux's political ambitions and his
"fanatical faith in family values". It then alleged that Mr Griveaux had exchanged intimate mobile phone messages
with a young woman and sent her a personal video.
A link to the site was shared by an MP who was forced to resign from Mr Macron's LREM (Republic on the Move)
party in late 2018. Mr Griveaux told the BFMTV news channel that for the past year he and his family had been
subjected to "defamatory remarks, lies, rumours, anonymous attacks... and even death threats".
"This torrent of mud has affected me and above all hurt the people I love."
Mr Griveaux's lawyer said he would press charges over the publication of the video, which he said violated the right
to a private life.
Who is Petr Pavlensky?
Mr Pavlensky, who says he posted the video online, first gained notoriety by nailing his scrotum to Moscow's Red
Square in 2013. He fled Russia and sought asylum in France when he was accused by the authorities of a sexual
assault that he denied.
He told French news channel LCI that Mr Griveaux was only the first politician that he would target: he had only just
begun, he claimed. Politicians had to be honest and he said he would carry on fighting the "propaganda and
puritanism of politicians".
French media have traditionally avoided prying into the private lives of people in public life and a number of figures
referred distastefully to the "Americanisation" of politics. "I don't like people mixing up political life with people's
privacy," said MP Alexis Corbière.
Lawyer Marie-Anne Soubré told a French talk show she was sick to her stomach that France had got to this point.
"To what new low have we fallen in public life that anyone is prepared to publish this kind of thing to bring down
politicians?"
Is this bad news for Macron?
Mr Griveaux was not favourite to win the mayoral race in March, but he has been a very close ally of the president
and his political demise is inevitably an embarrassment for the president, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from
Paris. He was trailing in third place, his campaign hampered by a dissident Macronite candidate called Cédric Villani.
Mr Villani described the "outrageous attack" on Mr Griveaux and his family as a serious threat to French democracy...'
Quote:Here’s the best sentence you’re likely to read today: A movie exists that has dragons and magic and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan fighting each other. How we’re just realising that we’ll never know. But we do realise it, there’s a trailer, and holy crap you have to see it.
Personal Disclosure: I loled hysterically and I wouldn't mind wasting time in watching this movie. Love the concept and mashup of ideas and the actors seal the deal. Bravo and Huzzah!
With Impeachment claims, Russia-Collusion, Australian wild-fires and Brexit out of the way, the mainstream media
have been genuinely struggling to come-up with stories that can attract viewership. The Coronavirus outbreak can
only fill so many columns and also -since it's Friday, maybe a trip down the weirder-side of life could be in order?
Full Disclosure: I made the banner for this lady's YouTube site!
Quote:Bigfoot 'roaming the UK' with cluster of sightings from Kent up to Highlands.
EXCLUSIVE:
It's not just North America where Bigfoot runs free says researcher Deborah Hatswell who has shared a terrifying map
of sightings from rural Cornwall to busy A15.
'Elusive Bigfoots have been reported roaming woodland and roadsides all over the UK. Britain has often been dismissed
as being too small for secretive creatures like the Yeti and Sasquatch in comparison to the Himalayas and North America.
But British Bigfoot Researcher Deborah Hatswell has painstakingly compiled decades of sightings from Cornwall to the
Highlands into one terrifying map. Deborah Hatswell, 52, said:
“Over the years as I have collected and saved the reports made by other people worldwide, I not only saved them, I plotted
them on a map.
The map of strange sightings and investigator Debbie Hatswell.
“In doing so, I began to realise that not only were people having experiences with the UFO and Paranormal phenomena,
now people seem to accept it and there is a core group of people like me who have seen something unexplainable, that
you can not give a name too.”
Debbie from Worsley, Greater Manchester prides herself as creating a safe space for members of the public to report their
unusual sightings to. She added: “Where do you go to report seeing something 7ft tall, completely covered in hair that looks
like the ‘Bigfoot Creature’ reported in North America, Canada and Russia?
“I have collected these reports in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, England and many European Countries including Sweden, France,
Germany, Holland and the Baltic States. “My witnesses range from army personnel, police officers, game wardens, wild campers
and hundreds of people out walking the dog or taking a leisurely hike.
“Reputable people who risk their reputation to make the report, the fear and not understanding can sometimes outweigh the risk
of being known.” It is not just the so-called Bigfoot which Debbie has mapped however, reports have flooded in claiming to have
witnessed the most bizarre creatures imaginable.
Unusual reports and findings all add-up to something going on in the UK.
“I have taken reports of 8ft Hairy Ape like Creatures like the one I witnessed, and I have also taken reports Upright Wolves,
commonly known as ‘Dogmen’ Troglodytes, Reptilians, Pig Faced Creatures and Humanoid Figures with wings.
“If you can name it, I will no doubt have a report of it in my files somewhere.
“There are clusters in areas like Cannock Chase, the Medway, Thetford Forest and Co Durham and the Highlands where the reports
are all together in one area, stretching back decades, and there are lone reports in some areas.”
Debbie tries to allow people to open to her without any interruption to get the most accurate report possible.
She also has her own way of taking doubtful claims with a pinch of salt. Debbie added: “I always ask the person reporting to write
out or record the event before I share anything with them, I want to hear the experience in their words with their descriptions
uninfluenced by me.
“I do have fake reports that come in and I do have tools set in place to weed out the hoaxers, and there are certain things I can ask
which will clue me into how honest the person making the report is and honestly the fear is not there in the false witness, genuine
witnesses have the same questions, the same need for an answer, that shines through in many of them.
“I don't want to give too much away or I would be revealing my ‘tricks of the trade’ when it comes to taking reports.”
Reports as told to Debbie...
St Mawgan, Cornwall.
Spotter: “I waited on the edge of the forest and I could hear rustling in the bushes.
“I looked but I couldn't see anything and then I guess my eyes adjusted and began
to focus because I saw a face.
“This face was looking back at me and there were clicks and whistles everywhere.
I dunno why I still wasn’t sure what it was. “I walked forward to try to have a better view.
"Then it stood up. I don’t know why but I just felt it was not fully grown. It was a male about
6 foot 5 inches tall.
“It was kind of copper colour and it looked right at me. It was gone in a shot as I heard my
old boss’s Land Rover returning to collect me."
Smitham Hill, Somerset.
Spotter: “I was on a walk where the hunters normally were when I heard a snap of a twig.
“I thought nothing of it and continued on. Soon my dogs got agitated and ran off home
and then I became aware of a foul smell.
“I was aware of a soft breathing sound and began to run, but I tripped after about ten feet.
“I decided to turn around and meet my pursuer only to see a large (about seven foot) dark
brown, hairy, ape like man.
“For about 20 seconds it just stood (about 10 feet away) staring at me, laying on the ground,
and occasionally tilting its head as if to find out what I was. Then it moved off into the forest.”
Astbury, Staffordshire.
Spotter: “I was walking on top of a hill near a golf course and I spotted a dark hairy figure move
across the side of the hill, it moved through the long grass on the hill side and disappeared quickly.
“It wasn't a cat or a dog or a badger. It happened during afternoon. It was a warm sunny day.
There was no on else around. “I heard strange grunt sounds coming from trees and bushes
near by. I walked away and haven't been to the area since.
“It was like a ninja moving through long grass.
“It wasn't very big, it seems to be crouching down as it moved, it looked bout size of a human,
its fur was black, it moved very fluently. I thought it was a monkey.”
A15, Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire.
Spotter: “It was between 1.30pm and 2pm myself and my partner were travelling on the A15
heading towards Lincoln.
“There's a lay-by on the road which is roughly a mile or so from the Hibaldstow turn off.
“And as we were driving we saw an upright moving figure as we were moving along the road.
We saw him about 20 foot past the lay-by.
“He was upright on two legs, all black in colour and heading away from the road, he was moving
through the reed grasses and on into the bushes where we lost sight of him.
“I realise it was broad daylight and there was other traffic on the road, so this should not have
happened. “As for a description he was around eight to nine ft feet tall, and a dead black colour
all over.”
Helmsley, Yorkshire.
Spotter: “I went for a walk outside my motorhome and can only describe what was blood curdling
howls exactly as you would imagine from a movie. “I heard them to the side of me so decided to
walk back to my van then the howls were in front of me so yes I started to do a fast walk.
“Then I saw the shape of something shaggy on two legs, it was behind my motorhome stood up.
“It was about six foot tall, shaggy with glowing red eyes and stood on two legs, it was not a dog
- far too big.”
Beckermet, Cumbria.
Spotter: “Looking through the trees I noticed a large creature covered in a sort of ginger brown hair
that seemed to be drinking from a pond about 150 meters into the woods.
“As the lighting was getting bad I was straining to make out what it was, but as I stopped and stared,
it appeared to notice me. “At this point it reared up onto its hind legs and made off slowly further into
the woods walking on two legs.
“I would estimate its height when upright to be around six feet six inches.
“This was not a human man as it was naked except for its covering of hair which was everywhere.
“Also it was not a deer as it made off on its hind legs walking upright like a man.”
Champany, West Lothian.
Spotter: “All in a split second I managed to register a large glowing figure, in a classical running posture,
moving extremely fast, possibly between 50-70mph.
“The figure which presented as a negative would in photography, ran in an arc along a small clearing in
a wood. “It was well over six feet in height and appeared to have a substantial bulk.
“As it ran in the opposite direction from the vehicle it had its head turned back towards us and appeared
to be scowling. “Its demeanour indicated that we had annoyed or disturbed it in some way. Its features
were basically dark patches but appeared to be representative of facial characteristics, how else could
it scowl?”
Kinder, Derbyshire.
Spotter: “We were camping in the valley below Kinder. We had settled in a hollow within the tree-line of
the smaller wood below Kinder Downfall & the Mermaids pool.
“It was first light when my friends girlfriend and I were woken at the same time.
“We both had heard movement above us on the edge of the dell, both of us saw what appeared to be jet
black Figures moving back from the edge and away into the wood.
“There was three or four of them. I was certain I saw three figures, and the girlfriend said she had seen four.
We both woke my friend up, packed camp up and went back down.”
Cannock, Staffordshire.
Spotter: “About 200 yards away from me as I was looking down the hill I saw a white figure on all fours,
it looked like it was sniffing the ground, as a dog would on a lamp post.
“First I thought it's just the warden. He's found the camping stuff and is looking for us with his Dog. “But the
sound it was making sounded more like a pig sniffing. “I watched it for about 30 seconds trying to determine
what it could be? Then it stopped dead, frozen I didn't move and it didn't move.
“I knew it now knew I was there. I froze, took hold of my machete and waited. “Then this thing stood up on it's
back legs, it was massive.
“I’m 6'3 this thing was at least 7ft tall and it ran at me at speed up the hill, like a person would run. “Squalling
like a banshee you would hear on a horror film crossed with a pig, I ran like a b**ch got in my car and drove
off without looking back.”...'
The company policies were their pilots were to not fly in instrument metrological conditions.. In other words no clouds for you fly boy when flying.. So the pilot takes off and ends up requesting special VFR which means under normal VFR rules he can not get to his destination. Special VFR lets you fly lower with less visibility... Well IMO the pilot flew into a cloud bank and just lost control of the aircraft. At impact both engines were running when he did "the lawn dart maneuver" killing everyone onboard.
I am reminded of two pilots who had a girl in South America. One pilot always bid (that is a schedule) that he would fly to be with her on a Monday. He paid for the Apartment and gave the girl money every month and she always claimed undying love for him.. Well this went on for almost two years until scheduling called him and said they needed him to fly down south because the originally scheduled pilot was sick... He jumped at the chance to see his girlfriend so off he went; but this was a Friday and not a Monday.. As he unlocked the apartment door he was greeted by another pilot from the same airline.
To make a long story short they were both paying the same amount for the apartment to their mutual girlfriend plus giving her money each month. The girl was rich in her country and getting richer every month.
Afterwards that the two pilots became friends and one was always called Monday and the other one carried the nickname of Friday. They both suspect there might have been a Wednesday but they were not sure nor did they care. They never checked on what happened to the girl as they both stopped paying and visiting her. She had been out shopping when Monday arrived so when she returned Friday was gone ...so... both the pilots had a real life learning experience when dealing with long distance relationships and gold diggers.
No I do not have a nickname of Monday or Friday...Not even any other day for that matter. hahah
Quote:TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE: Obama Deep State Officials Who Approved Criminal FISA Warrants to Spy on Trump and Plot Against Gen. Flynn Are SAME OFFICIALS Involved in Fixing FISA Process!
'This is just outrageous!
The same officials who signed the criminal FISA warrants to spy on President
Trump are today the SAME OFFICIALS with responsibility of revamping the broken
FISA system.
Dana Boente (left) and Gabriel Sanz-Rexach
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry reported last week on these criminals in the deep
state who should be sitting in a jail cell rather than at a desk in the DOJ.
According to Paul Sperry: Gabriel Sanz-Rexach is Obama official who was the FISA
gatekeeper at DOJ in 2016 when the illegal warrant to spy on Trump campaign was
authorized.
Sanz-Rexach also happens to be the same official who just certified to the FISA court
that DOJ & FBI would reform their ways. Dana Boente was the hi-ranking DOJ official held
over from the Obama admin who signed off on the now-invalid 3rd FISA warrant to spy on
Trump aide Carter Page.
Boente is now the FBI’s GC who just certified to the FISA court the FBI would reform its
FISA abusing #FixIsIn
Quote:Paul Sperry
@paulsperry
BREAKING:Gabriel Sanz-Rexach is Obama official who was
the FISA gatekeeper at DOJ in 2016 when the illegal warrant
to spy on Trump campaign was authorized.
Sanz-Rexach also happens to be the same official who just
certified to the FISA court that DOJ & FBI would reform their
ways
Quote:Paul Sperry
@paulsperry
BREAKING: Dana Boente was the hi-ranking DOJ official held
over from the Obama admin who signed off on the now-invalid
3rd FISA warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page.
Boente is now the FBI's GC who just certified to the FISA court
the FBI would reform its FISA abusing #FixIsIn
And check this out…
Crooked Sally Yates was plotting with Gabriel Sanz-Rexach on FISA warrants two days
after General Flynn was sworn in.
Maybe relevant, maybe not. More importantly, Mike Flynn was sworn in on 1-22-17, then
on the 23rd Yates schedules 2 FISA meetings w/ Gabriel Sanz-Rexach (NSD), Stuart Evans,
NSD, Matthew Axelrod (ODAG), Tashina Gua (ODAG), and 2 redacted people from NSD
More on Sanz-Rexach at The Federalist— "The IG report acknowledged this, noting that Gabriel Sanz-Rexach, the chief of the Office of Intelligence’s Operations Section, explained “that the evidence collected during the first FISA application time period demonstrated that Carter Page had access to individuals in Russia and he was communicating with people in the Trump campaign.”
And FBI Director Wray needs to be fired.
He has proven himself to be part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Quote:Paul Sperry
@paulsperry
BREAKING: FBI Director Wray is initiating FISA-reform training but
only at FBI field offices -- even though the illegal FISA abuses took
place primarily at FBI headquarters
Quote:My wife and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket We went up to him and I said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?" He just ignored us and continued writing the ticket.I called him "a tool of ICE." He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.So my wife called him a "Nazi." He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets.This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. He finally finished, sneered at us and walked away. Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home.We always look for cars with Bernie Sanders stickers. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's so important at our age!!
Quote:Value of Dollar over time (by year)
Period Value
2010 28
2011 28.77
2012 29.63
2013 30.29
2014 31.12
2015 31.65
2016 32.19
2017 32.66
2018 33.29
2019 33.88
2020 34.5
Today 34.51
Or about $35 meaning about $2.50 per day in a 14day period [2weeks]. Or a 25% increase over 10 years.
So I then went to Woolworths online and looked up all the items I wrote about and their prices and did the maths and here is what that that data set revealed ...
Quote:coffee [freeze dried] x 100g $4 or 200g [instant granulated] $3.70* [20 cups of coffee as 1 teaspoon is 5g ... double that to 40 for 200g jar]
sugar x 1kgwhite $1 or 2kg $1.79* [400 teaspoons worth... I need 80 for my 20 cups or 400grams...leaving 1600grams for toffee.]
milk [uht] 2 x 1lt $1each $2 [20 x 100mL for coffee] The reason for uht milk was so can go the time frame and doesnt need a refrigerator.]
stock cubes [vegetable] $1
french onion soup packet $0.45
1x raw brown onion large $0.45
2x5pack noodles[beef&chicken]$1each $2
1x500g cheese block $5.50 500g $3.70 24x cheese slices*
1x185g tin tuna in oil $1.30* 425g $3
1x200g chicken flavored biscuits $1.40
1x500g pasta spaghetti $0.65
1x35g cheese sauce $1* premade $2 165g
1x425g tinned potatoes whole $1.60
1x250g bacon rashes [3 full rashes] $3.50
1x10pk 860ml ice cream chocolate $3
Subtotals $28.85 $27.55**
1x loaf white bread [sandwich] $1.60 [all loafs are same price for wholemeal/multigrain/toast]
1x jar Vegemite 235g [special 20%off] $3.70
1x butterx250g [special 50%off] $1.50* or 500gmargerine $1.40 1kg $1.60 or 250g salted butter $2.60
1x carrot large $0.40
1x Woolworths plastic bag $0.15
Totals $36.20 $34.90**
*: Note that items listed with a * are the prefered cheaper item for same or greater weight.
**: Note this subtotal and total result are from all *items being bought and used.
Note that we break budget in both cases ... it costs 85c more to buy the same stuff as in 2010 and with all the extra wanted stuff we break budget by $1.20c.
However if we stick to the cheapest stuff * then we come under budget for both cases [sub $28 and $35]
Here is my cooking guide ...
Quote:This shopping list was designed to suit my tastes but I am sure it can be modified to suit others needs etc especially if one is inside Australia.
Budget: $28.00 for food ONLY!
TimeFrame: 14 days [a typical 2wk pension/unemployment welfare payment plan in Australia ... ]
2$ a day.
Now I need to show how that all breaks down to cover my food usage over the 2wk period.
Ok here goes...
10 packets of noodles and pack of massel stock cubes = 10 individual meals of noodles ... chicken or your choice of stock cube [fish or veggy etc] I choose beef. ]
That is 1 garanteed fill your belly meal every day after work for the 10 working days in a fortnight period.
10 chocolate coated Ice creams... 1 per working day for desert!
I showed above that there was 20 cups of coffee or about 1.5 cups a day! [miss out only on last coffee on 2nd Sunday night dinner]
Now 4 days of weekends meals [lunch instead of dinner]...
45 grams of tuna with 50 grams of snack biscuits and 125 grams of cheese [6 slices] per each meal.
= 185 grams tin of tuna 200 grams of snack biscuits and 500 grams tasty cheese block or slices.
So whats that leave ... Oh yes...
French onion soup bulked out with 1 whole onion! 1Ltr = 2 medium meals
Pasta with cheese sauce! about 625grams worth! = 2 small meals
Bacon and tinned potato's! [ 3 full rashes [cut in half] and about 4 small tinned spuds per full rasher] = 6 meals
Toffee... 1600grams. [homemade OK] 32 x 50gram chunks
Now this isn't a shtf survival shopping list OK. This is what I would buy if forced onto that small budget!
I spend more than $28/$35 a fortnight on food OK!
I shop OFTEN and I even used to take my gran shopping and I saved her heaps of $$$ and stress [and my parents as well].
But don't tell me there isn't variety or coffee... Thats SCAMMING and TOTALLY WRONG!
Damn You Aussie Journo's and Damn the scam of 1 week test...because at that level u cannot afford jack squat!
If only they had realized that going an extra week longer...would be so beneficial to EVERYTHING!
They were gutless IMO!
Especially when most get paid fortnightly and shop once per fortnight like me and my gran do! [both pensioners]
I am The Australian Urban Grocery Shopping Warrior!
Imagine what could be bought If I had decided to work this out over a month! Even More variety Thats what!
I appreciate the issue being brought to light but thats no reason to go and distort the truth!
P.S. I'm Poor Pensioner ... NOT Stupid! What??? Did they think the two things meant the same thing!
What have my fellow members to say on this issue!
Were those Journalists fibbing or were they just naive???
And with the extra $7 in items bringing total up to $35 ...
Quote:10 x 2 slices of bread + 25g Vegemite sandwiches with butter spread. 10 extra meals.
1x carrot large gets shredded and added to pasta with cheese sauce. [no extra meal but bulks 1 meal out]
So Woolworths has kept prices down consistently over the past ten years with only a 3% increase in prices over that time frame.
Now for comparison a cheap packet of 20 cigs cost about $28 now a days in Australia at Woolworths.
The above does NOT take into consideration things like toilet paper and toothpaste etc, [toiletries and cosmetics, especially feminine hygene products] nor does it take into consideration and extra costs of living such as communications [mobile phone /internet connectivity], mobility [petrol, vehicle maintenance , public transport etc] , clothing, rent/mortgage, energy and water bills etc.
It ONLY covers food and food that I am willing to eat. You Mileage May Vary Ok!
Here is a website that covers these issues better than I can ...
Quote:Eat on $2 a day for two or five days, raise funds and empower young people to help end poverty.
The rules are simple: 1. This May, feed yourself on $2 a day for two or five days 2. Ask your friends, family and co-workers to donate to your profile 3. Be part of a community where thousands of Australians are taking action to help young people within our region have their voices heard.
Not sure you want to take the two or five day challenge? No stress! Host a Dine Below the Line dinner party and feed your guests on $2 a head. Dine Below the Line retains the creative cooking challenge of Live Below the Line, but makes
it more accessible and easier to involve your friends and family!
Why $2?
Imagine what it would be like going about your everyday life with just $2 to spend on everything. That's food, accommodation, transport, medicine - $2 for every single cost. That's the reality for people who live below the extreme poverty line. $AU2 is the Australian equivalent of the extreme poverty line, adjusted to reflect the real cost of items in Australia.
Personal Disclosure: As I have shown above it is not hard to live comfortably on a harsh and tight budget in today's western world.
In future posts to this thread I hope to show what can be done for $2 a day for both 2 days [$4] and 5 days [$10] and what recipes can be made for $2 per head.
And also for $2.50 per day and per head as well [takes into account inflation etc.]
Please share your food lists [according to your tastes and dietary requirements/restrictions], prices [for your local area] and recipe advice as laid out above.
Quote:A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
Quote:The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude. She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Republican!" "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?" "Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me." The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Democrat." "I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?" "Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."
