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I just got to thinking about the boast of Trump supporters that he has caused the stock market to reach new highs, Doing some simple research I downloaded a 10 year history of the Dow Jones. If you draw a straight line through the points since the bottom in 2009 it just about perfectly predicts the current level. So, either where we are is due to a rally started during the Obama administration or the market was extremely prescient that Trump would be elected eight years later.

Since I was not aware of anything that Trump had actually done to affect the national debt I did some research. http://www.snopes.com/media-silence-national-debt-trump/ While this dealt with only his first month, you get the idea that small (in a government sense) variations are not predictive of long range trends.

You are now officially to the right of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. What will it take? What will it take?

Just checking. Any trump supporters feeling the slightest, itty bitty remorseful yet?

I don't understand. Recently I read here that James had rushed to hide the cameras because the landlord was coming. So, when he gives up the apartment he leaves them there????? If the lease has expired, the landlord can treat that valuable equipment as abandoned and take it.

I'm not much for speculating about stuff like this, but at some point today, James was eating something and the blonde came over, took his spoon and tasted his food. I can't imagine even my sister doing that but she is probably someone close to him.

All these discussions about her morality or mental health status amaze me. What do you think VH thought would happen when they put an unattached female in an apartment? Did they think it would be a halfway house in preparation for joining a convent? And the comments as to whether the behavior of any VH occupant is normal. I assume you have friends and relatives who you believe are normal. Would any of them do this?

That's true for fake voyeurism but not necessarily for the real thing. The first time it happened to me, I was in a supermarket checkout line. I turned around and the woman behind me was someone I had seen naked many times. While I wasn't aware of it, I must have had a slight reaction because she had this puzzled look.

As I've said before, I have a high-rise city apartment that I use frequently. It has a view into many windows of another building across the street. And, yes, I often saw sex and nudity. But, in real life, most times people are simply doing boring things. The fun was trying to figure out what they were based on what you could see. I did treat myself to high power image stabilized binoculars. I'll just tell you about one apartment. A young women lived alone in a studio apartment at the same level as mine and directly across. From a tee shirt she wore, I surmised that she had gone to an Ivy League law school. She seemed to have regular hours, so she might have been clerking for a judge. She was careless about window shades so I often saw her changing and doing mundane things. One night in early January (it was the night of the college football championship) something was different. She was watching TV, but she was wearing a black nightgown instead of her usual PJ's. Finally, a guy showed up around 10 pm. Sex did happen and he became a regular late evening visitor but the point of this is my guessing about his life. I decided that he must be a first year associate at a law firm because they require brutal billable hours. There were several other apartments with women living alone. Granted I was there only a few nights a week, but over many years I never saw them have a male visitor. But, still, it was interesting watching them living out their lives.

While not terribly expensive, installing a shower curtain implies that one expects to be there a while. This whole situation is puzzling and unlike most CCers, I enjoy the soap opera.

When I reply to a post by quoting it, I usually leave just enough of the original message to provide context for my comment, particularly if the original post was long. That's easy to do with text ---- you just delete any text you don't want included in your post. But how do you do that with images? I find it really annoying when people reply to a posting that had text and multiple images and add a three word (often useless) comment. And then multiple people do the same thing so that most of the page is filled with repeated text and images.

Do you really have trouble finding pictures of naked women on the internet? I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure you could search for nudes who are missing specific limbs.

Let me get my two cents in here. While I'm retired now, toward the end of my career I ran a company employing 250 people. I made sure that our employees had adequate health insurance ---- not because the law required me to but because it was the right thing to do. In fact, I had the same insurance. I live in a suburb of New York City although I was raised in the city. When I decided to buy a NYC apartment for convenience and entertainment, real estate brokers were given clear instructions to not bother showing me Trump apartments. Why? Because most real New Yorkers like me knew that he was a fraud who grossly overpriced what he was selling. Sure, he sold to some locals, but I guess they felt they could maintain the myth when they sold to the next sucker. I haven't had to disown many friends, (I don't really, I just ignore them.) Most people I know are educated, successful citizens who can recognize a totally incompetent leader when they see one. It's not a close call. I'm just amazed at how Trump supporters have to twist common sense to justify their support.

I know about make-up sex, but is that break-up sex happening there now?

As someone who has sculpted and painted many models, I say they are natural. My test is the way the top of the breast connects to the chest.

You mean couples who have capital gains over $500,000 on their home? BooHoo You mean they will have to pay the tax that they have been able to defer until retirement at rates that are probably lower than they were when they first earned that money?

So, you would have let the American auto industry fail? The banks had gotten "too big to fail" (You've heard of that ?) because of a LACK of regulation. Can you imagine the chaos and cost to the economy if the big banks had failed? The ACA is not failing except on Fox News. It can and should be improved but the Republicans have so poisoned the debate with scare tactics like Death Panels that they can't step back from using it to get elected. The fact is that despite seven years of phony bitching about it, they don't have a single idea of what would be better. I'm quite a bit above middle class and I wasn't affected by the major tax increase which was to let the Bush tax cut expire for couples making over $400,000. And, when I wasn't looking, Obama must have vetoed all those infrastructure bills passed by the Republican congress. NOT.

Haha. Do you really think that six months of ZERO legislative accomplishment has affected the GDP? I urge you (and Trump) to learn about macro-economics. Our economy is on a glide path started by the previous administration. You'll have to wait at least two years to have an idea of the long term affect of the current administration's economic policies. I don't have time to address the other issues you raised.

What the heck does that mean? Are you comparing a proven serial liar to the educated thoughtful press who have attained the highest level of success in a highly competitive field. Trump categorizes any report that calls out and proves his lies as fake news. And his gullible followers buy it. It truly defies understanding.

This is one of the few apartments that I check. Chloe has been back for a while. Right now they are sharing a take-out meal.

It's been a while since I checked whether any Trump supporters have changed their opinion about him. Many of his supporters were willing to overlook is personal behavior because he was going to be effective in making America great. Hows he doing on that score?

Why do you respond to this person? He is clearly unhinged.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. How long was Hillary persecuted and NO charges ever made against her? And do you think that the head of the FBI wouldn't be smart enough to avoid implicating himself in a crime? I don't know whether Trump or his administration colluded with Russia in a way that will lead to prosecution or impeachment. I'm confident that the investigation is in capable hands so I have the patience to wait for it to be finished. You should agree that so many of Trumps people conveniently forgot about meetings with Russian related individuals that it should at least raise a red flag.

I haven't checked in here for a while. I was just wondering whether any Trump supporters are starting to wonder about his capability to be President. Today we learned that his son, presumably without his father's knowledge, was willing to meet with someone who he was told would provide him with anti-Hillary information.. In advance, he was told that the information was obtained illegally by the Russian government and that they wanted to beat Clinton.

At some point this afternoon I saw James on the floor. I could see a guy all in black in the bed. From the free camera I could see another pair of feet which I assume were Lisa's. So, who was the other guy? Did anything amorous happen between him and Lisa?