A perfect example as to how Democrats view politics is their attempts to get “end of life counseling” past a sleeping public. Obama and his cronies have the mentality of third world dictators who prefer the dictating to actually getting their hands dirty with work. If you think that The One is a left-wing, hard driving, ideologue, just wait and see what will happen if he gets a second term.
by Charles Krauthammer
Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law.
Well, it’s back – by administrative fiat. A month ago, Medicare issued a regulation providing for end-of-life counseling during annual “wellness” visits. It was all nicely buried amid the simultaneous release of hundreds of new Medicare rules.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), author of Section 1233, was delighted. “Mr. Blumenauer’s office celebrated ‘a quiet victory,’ but urged supporters not to crow about it,” reports the New York Times. Deathly quiet. In early November, his office sent an e-mail plea to supporters: “We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists . . . e-mails can too easily be forwarded.” They had been lucky that “thus far, it seems that no press or blogs have discovered it. . . . The longer this [regulation] goes unnoticed, the better our chances of keeping it.”
So much for the Democrats’ transparency – and for their repeated claim that the more people learn what is in the health-care law, the more they will like it. Turns out ignorance is the Democrats’ best hope.
And regulation is their perfect vehicle – so much quieter than legislation. Consider two other regulatory usurpations in just the past few days:
On Dec. 23, the Interior Department issued Secretarial Order 3310, reversing a 2003 decision and giving itself the authority to designate public lands as “Wild Lands.” A clever twofer: (1) a bureaucratic power grab – for seven years up through Dec. 22, wilderness designation had been the exclusive province of Congress, and (2) a leftward lurch – more land to be “protected” from such nefarious uses as domestic oil exploration in a country disastrously dependent on foreign sources.
The very same day, the Environmental Protection Agency declared that in 2011 it would begin drawing up anti-carbon regulations on oil refineries and power plants, another power grab effectively enacting what Congress had firmly rejected when presented as cap-and-trade legislation.
For an Obama bureaucrat, however, the will of Congress is a mere speed bump. Hence this regulatory trifecta, each one moving smartly left – and nicely clarifying what the spirit of bipartisan compromise that President Obama heralded in his post-lame-duck Dec. 22 news conference was really about: a shift to the center for public consumption and political appearance only.
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It’s Obama’s only way forward during the next two years. He will never get past the half-Republican 112th Congress what he could not get past the overwhelmingly Democratic 111th. He doesn’t have the votes and he surely doesn’t want the publicity. Hence the quiet resurrection, as it were, of end-of-life counseling.
Obama knows he has only so many years to change the country. In his first two, he achieved much: the first stimulus, Obamacare and financial regulation. For the next two, however, the Republican House will prevent any repetition of that. Obama’s agenda will therefore have to be advanced by the more subterranean means of rule-by-regulation.
But this must simultaneously be mixed with ostentatious displays of legislative bipartisanship (e.g., the lame-duck tax-cut deal) in order to pull off the (apparent) centrist repositioning required for reelection. This, in turn, would grant Obama four more years when, freed from the need for pretense, he can reassert himself ideologically and complete the social-democratic transformation – begun Jan. 20, 2009; derailed Nov. 2, 2010 – that is the mission of his presidency.
Read the rest: Government by regulation. Shhhh.
Tags: Charles Krauthammer
Obama is emulating his former friend now foe, Hugo Chavez.
I don’t mind a fight. Hey I love a fight. It keeps me young. I just hope my party grows a pair so I have a fight to fight
Abbas lays first stone of Palestinian embassy in Brazil
Doves released as PA president attends ceremony in Brasilia to place cornerstone in ground donated by Brazilian gov’t which will become first state-level Palestinian diplomatic mission in South America.
So the ground is donated. It’s probably American Money building it. What a farce. And DOVES, DOVES, better to release vultures.
Obama is transparent. Not honest, not trustworthy, not open.
But transparent.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Thank you! That’s why I don’t like Boehner and McConnell. They are bunch of crybabies and chumps. I want a GOP that fights, not tries to get along.
Rodan wrote:
Well hell I want to help Obama. Help him right out of Office!
This is one thing we should raise as a campaign issue for 2012.
These clowns, as part of the whole hopety change thing promised the most transparent Administration and Congress ever. The truth has been the exact opposite of course. Obama is going to spend the next two years speechifying as a tax reforming hawkish conservative while he governs somewhere to the left of Karl Marx. How will he accomplish this?
The answer is through executive order, which will go completely unreported by the MSM.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Since CAIR clearly has a friend in the White House, can we start calling its spokesman Hopety Hooper?
@ Nevergiveup:
Exactly, fight him without mercy!
Flyovercountry wrote:
Or by regulatory agencies.
It’s up to the State governors, the blogosphere, and the Tea Party to get the word out.
We need to get back onto the streets with our signs and flags ASAP.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Now that’s funny!
Admins: There’s a Caturday post in the queue.
things that make ya’ll go hmmmm…..
Israel Confirms Discovery of Massive Natural Gas Field…
Exploratory drilling off Israel’s northern coast this week has confirmed the existence of a major natural gas field — one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade — leading the country’s infrastructure minister to call it “the most important energy news since the founding of the state.”
Houston-based Noble Energy, which is working with several Israeli partner companies, said that the field, named Leviathan, whose existence was suspected months ago, has at least 16 trillion cubic feet of gas [wow],at a likely market value of tens of billions of dollars and should turn Israel into an energy exporter.
Arabs to file a complaint with the UN in 3…2…1
rain of lead wrote:
They already did months ago.
Obama is a tenacious ideologue.
@ Nevergiveup:
On what grounds dare I ask?
gee, maybe the repubs might actually be playing to win
“Uh-Oh: Think Progress Frets “Proposed House GOP Rules Give Rep. Ryan ‘Stunning And Unprecedented’ Power To Shape Budget”
—Ace
The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has laid out a series of changes it would like to make to the House rules, including replacing the current “pay-go” rules — which require all spending increases to be offset with spending cuts or tax increases — with a rule called “cut-go,” which requires that new spending programs — but not new tax cuts — be offset with spending cuts. The GOP has also proposed a new rule requiring that each piece of new legislation include a statement justifying the legislation’s constitutionality.
That’s not all, however. As National Journal reported today, “a little-noticed detail in the new rules proposed by House GOP leaders would greatly increase the power of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee.” Indeed, under the proposed rules, if the House and Senate do not agree on a budget resolution (a distinct possibility with a divided Congress), Ryan will be able to unilaterally set spending levels that are binding on the House, and any attempt to lessen the impact of these cuts can be ruled out of order
rain of lead wrote:
I fully expect this to be the central issue in the next war. Lebanon is all ready making the claim that Israel is stealing “their” gas.
Speranza wrote:
I don’t remember, but they need a reason?
“On Dec. 23, the Interior Department issued Secretarial Order 3310, reversing a 2003 decision and giving itself the authority to designate public lands as “Wild Lands.” A clever twofer: (1) a bureaucratic power grab – for seven years up through Dec. 22, wilderness designation had been the exclusive province of Congress, and (2) a leftward lurch – more land to be “protected” from such nefarious uses as domestic oil exploration in a country disastrously dependent on foreign sources.”
What assholes!
When gas hits $5 a gallon I’ll laugh in the face of Obama’s whining constituency. Ride fucking bikes, rump-swabs.
Obama was all for promises of transparency on the campaign trail. Remember when he promised to post bills online for five days before he signs them? That sure worked out well.
rain of lead wrote:
heh heh heh, Obama might think he can rule be executive decree, but he cant spend one single dime to enforce his will if the house refuses to fund his shit.
Speranza wrote:
I saw that a little while back myself but didn’t save a link for it. It’s something that is going to keep coming up. Any Israel drilling will be viewed a theft of a natural resource that Allah (pb&j) gave to his only chosen people the Arabs.
doriangrey wrote:
You don’t think he would issue executive orders regardless of whether there were funding or not? He’s already given away billions to favored constituencies with no accountability, the GAO has said the books are too messed up to audit, and the government has not shut down despite having failed to produce a budget for the just-ended year.
How far away is that from ruling by executive decree and entirely disregarding Congress?
Base Facts on how dumb commie crap is, “commie crap in action,,Hugo Chavez and his Venezoolala land.
just google,,,venezuela defalues currency
that way you get info on all 5 of Hugo’s moments in the sun
snowcrash wrote:
Mr. Public Funding for Everything also proclaimed he would abide by public-funding campaign finance limits—before he decided not to so that he could launder foreign donations and otherwise do end runs around campaign financing limitations.
Moveing money from agency to agency goes on now inside the White House at light speed.
Obama is a union thug crook, worse than a plain jane commie, the guy is a piggy bank robber.@ buzzsawmonkey:
I strongly disagree with Dr Ks suggestion we not fight he11care on the premise once people see what its about they’ll be hopping mad. No,people will cling bitterly to the entitlements as they start trickling in.Way too risky. Defund, block,and or let the courts decide,which I have less faith in than some.
@ tanker on the horizon:
They want it more than $5.00,but its a start. Yeah,cannot wait til the lefturds here in the NE see their heating oil bills.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
You are forgetting, his lame ass democrats and RINO’s did that for him, and they no longer control congress. Look to see the shit hitting the fan next year as Darrel Issa becomes the Grand Inquisitor, he’s already got a stack of subpoenas three feet tall sitting on his desk.
Paul Ryan just bought a great big box or specially made pens, they are veto pens for vetoing budget items. Obama’s rule by executive decree is about to come to a screeching halt.
ya’ll knew this already …. but
Rahm Emanuel will be Chicago’s next mayor.
Based on Emanuel’s stellar political rise, I have to ask myself: Why would this man give up one of the most powerful jobs in the world in order to roll the dice that he, one of over a dozen contenders in Chicago’s Mayoral race, would indeed become the elected mayor of Chicago? My answer: He wouldn’t – unless the fix was in.
Stupid, lazy uninformed voters don’t know how many contradictory statements Obama has made. Bush 41 made one…”No new taxes” and that was enough.
As much as some poor schlubs will see in a lifetime of work.
@ snowcrash:
Yeah, well, the MSM still controls the narrative for the mushy (but crucial) center.
That’s one reason why rule by executive degree can be so deadly if the MSM is on your side. They won’t cover what Obama’s doing.
It’s not just that the MSM agrees with what Zero is doing, although that’s the main thing. Bureaucratic rulings don’t make good television the way political drama does.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yup.
wolfie wrote:
And the MSM is sure to misrepresent all efforts by the right to stop Obummer’s abuses. We will always be the bad guys to them.
For some reason, my last comment in the most recent DoD is “awaiting moderation.”
rain of lead wrote:
Given the painfully obvious fact that EVERYBODY in Chicago politics is a crook, without exception, it hardly matters any more who gets elected next time around. All I care about is the fact that, thank God, I’m not there to see it.
rain of lead wrote:
This is Chicago, why are you repeating yourself?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Maybe if you weren’t so over the top all the time.
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Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Exactly!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Must have been a doozy. LOL just kiddin’
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That system goes berserk from time to time.
Beats me why.
1389AD wrote:
I live two states away from Chicago and that’s still too damn close when you consider how far the rot spreads out from that cesspool.
@ rain of lead:
I can’t wait until Chicago runs out of money. The various constituencies of that one-party city are going to be eating one another’s livers.
Given Chicagoans’ propensity to riot over the trivial, e.g. Bulls’ championships, they’re in for hot times when the checks start bouncing.
This is wonderful news, keep fighting Mr. President, the world need you.
And to have the EPA involved in Cap and Tax? priceless.
tanker on the horizon wrote:
An issue I wonder about all the time is just what will the progressive politicians do when their moonbat base starts to seriously riot with no end in sight??? It’s going to get really nasty, fast.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Not only is everybody in Chicago politics a crook, but also the system is set up so that the biggest crook always wins.
This has a deleterious effect on the entire US body politic.
rain of lead wrote:
Curious how eligibility requirements never apply to the Left. Pictures of boxes in a crawlspace constitute proof of residency for Rahm, and a picture of a COLB constitutes proof for Erkel.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Probably arm them and declare a socialist republic.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
have you posted alot today? evey thing in moderation
I want to kill my eyboard!!!!!!
Prebanned wrote:
No doubt. Send them out to rape and pillage the suburbs while you grab your bags and bug out of Dodge.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
let them eat cake
I’d like to see a muslim Cosby show too. It wouldn’t be short on content that’s for sure.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/katie_couric_wants_a_muslim_co.html
mawskrat wrote:
Buy the replacement first, so it knows what will happen if it displeases the Mawskrat.
Got to go. Good Shabbos as appropriate, and happy New Year to all.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Happy New Year Buzz.
Happy New year buzz, and see you later on.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
You too, counselor.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
right back at yah
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I am far far away from Dodge.
Yeah, they probably would declare martial law, collect the guns and distribute them to thier supporters.
Then it would be off to the work camps for the rest of us.
Napolitano Visit Aimed at Beefing Up Afghan Border Security, Customs
Is it bad to wish that she would fall into the hands of the Taliban??
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Happy New Year Buzz!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
A burka tossed over that can only be a good thing.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
She definately brings the beef.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
dude they would pay us to take her back
Best wishes to all for a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
All the beat to ya Buz.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Perhaps, if being patriotic is bad, then yes wishing Napolitano fall into Al Queda/Taliban hands is bad.
Islamic nesting sites on the rise in Spain.
A foreshadow of what’s to happen here?
@ Bagua:
Happy New Year Bagua. Please head over to the DoD. I am sick of campaigning for you for flouncer of the year. I need links. LOL
mawskrat wrote:
I was thinking along the lines that that would be a really nasty thing to do to the Taliban. I’m sure that would violate at least one of the rules of war or something like that.
@ rain of lead:
In the vicinity of $50 billion at current prices. Hard to believe that won’t increase as the NG price recovers.
Of course, the Arabs and Iranians are already trying to claim part of the find and jump start their own exploration. Pity for them, they have destroyed their own infrastructure.
@ snowcrash:
{{snowcrash}}
@ doriangrey:
That is the way I was looking at it.
Bagua wrote:
Thanks. Same to you as well.
Prebanned wrote:
An unusual Chicago story…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
What the hell does Napolitano know about “beefing up” anyone’s border security or customs operations?
Hope everyone here has a great 2011! Best of health and luck to you all.
I give to you a short New Year’s Eve classic they have been showing in Germany since 1963:
Dinner for One
Enjoy!
The past month was Britain’s coldest December for 120 years, meteorologists have said.
aaannnnddd
Freeze to continue for at least another month
Shivering Britain can expect at least another month of bitterly cold temperatures with many parts failing to get much above zero until the middle of January, forecasters have warned.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good thing they made everyone switch over to those “green” boilers that don’t work when it’s cold…
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lobo91 wrote:
perhaps she is testing and gathering info in afghanistan BEFORE she tries any of that here.
not.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I guess they could use her as a mule
ROTFLMAO…
Now where have we seen this kind of ass kissing before… HotAir readers now following Charles Jonhsons Lizard’s over the cliff. They have noticed the disappearance of many many former HotAir commentors as Ed and Allah stealth ban people.
1389AD wrote:
We got it!
@ coldwarrior:
Remember, that’s zero C (32 F).
Not exactly beach weather, but not as bad as it sounds.
It’s currently 6 F here, expected to get down to -7 tonight.
@ coldwarrior:
I suppose they could tell the Afghans before she comes into the room, “Do exactly the opposite of everything she says.”
@ lobo91:
It is friggin beautiful here! Just kidnapped a friend of mine for a bit and we were riding around with the windows down and the music blaring. lol lol
lobo91 wrote:
that’s cold for the UK. i spent a lot of time there.
doriangrey wrote:
really, are they having ‘issues’ over there?
Brick wrote:
The Left is doing this against the will of the people. This will change once the Partido Popular comes into power. They will have a surprise for the Muzzies.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
same to you!
I have no problem with end-of-life counseling for progressives
heh ™
the catholics are stomping the convicts…nd 24 – miami 0
my favorite ncaa teams are whoever is playing miami and whoever beat them last.
NoThreat2U wrote:
i was out running phoebe-dog, what a break from the last 3 weeks!
lobo91 wrote:
They had their eye on the imaginary CO2e “threat”. The boilers themselves are ok, but the guidance didn’t specify routing the drainage inside, where it wouldn’t freeze. Yet another preventable major screw up because of their focus being on saving “carbon” not preparing for cold.
1389AD wrote:
That was a great read.
doriangrey wrote:
I used to have them on my own blogroll. No more.
@ coldwarrior:
I cant handle it. I am gonna be spoiled now!
Rodan wrote:
Maybe, but you can’t un-ring a bell. How do you counter the damage already done?
lobo91 wrote:
The problem being that they are woefully unprepared having spent billions on “climate change” and too few millions on salt, grit, snow plows, aircraft de-icer. Thus, storms that would be laughed at stateside are crippling. As the greenies have also run up the price of fuel, the elderly and poor are unable to keep warm, suffering from an unnecessary fuel poverty, intentionally created by the greenies.
NoThreat2U wrote:
i hear ya!
Why the world economy sucks; Q and A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcEEaniU1OU
Bagua wrote:
i hear if you cut the greenies into squares they can be burned just like peat blocks.
@ coldwarrior:
*snort*
@ Bagua:
Greenies need swift kicks in the nuts.
yenta-fada wrote:
Brief and simple. Just my speed.
@ yenta-fada:
Ringing in the New Year with some good cheerful news?
coldwarrior wrote:
Kinda’ like soylent green for your furnace? Neat.
Calo wrote:
It’s a satire. Besides, this blog has a penchant for seeing the world as it is.
Happy New Year to you and your nearest and dearest. (That goes for the whole blog too, of course.) 
coldwarrior wrote:
Provided anybody could stand the stench!
Greenies are not big on personal hygiene. Just sayin’.
Obam’s car czar Steve Ratner is just another robber baron and one without charm or class to boot.
When are the American people going to wake up?
@ waldensianspirit:
ht Stacey McCain
mawskrat wrote:
Seems like it’s already just about dead.
Time to stop by your local store and spring for a new one.
1389AD wrote:
Some times shaking the salt grains from out from under the keys helps
waldensianspirit wrote:
Why are we reading about a NY scandal in the UK press?
Just askin’.
Is Beed still around? He is in the CET zone and it is getting close to the New Year!
@ yenta-fada:
You have about got me convinced on gold, just as a reserve, except I am not sure how to cash it in if SHTF. OTOH, things are looking so dicey for the next 15 years that I don’t see any real safe harbor. I certainly wouldn’t mind having a pound of Krugerrands in my safe, though
@ yenta-fada:
Back at you Yenta.
Thank you.
I did enjoy the utoobage though!
waldensianspirit wrote:
I don’t believe in eating near a keyboard. Unfortunately, my husband does.
A can of compressed air sometimes helps.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Now?!?
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah only NOW. lol I’ve never been spoiled so I don’t know how to behave. It could be dangerous
@ NoThreat2U:
I could give you some advice, but that would give my secrets away and then how would I get my way?
Iron Fist wrote:
Buy it in fractionals if you can.(i.e. 1/10th oz, 1/2 ounce, but don’t pay big premiums for that convenience. Make friends with your local or regional coin dealer. When the SHTF, my belief is that they will include a fractional amount of gold in whatever currency stays around. There is a unit called the “bancor” being discussed. The truth is, nobody knows what is being planned, but they will have to unravel the mess at some point and find a point of reference for a means of doing business and trade. Perhaps there will be a debt holiday, perhaps not. WTHDIK. Gold has been a STORAGE of WEALTH for 5000 years. For the past decade, it has been doing its job quietly and away from the headlines.
@ Calo:
LOL I could use the help. lol lol lol I think I will go hit the bar and make men buy me drinks. WOuld that be considered being spoiled? At least to a certain degree?? lol
@ 1389AD:
if ya dry em out a little the funk aint so bad
@ Iron Fist:
Low level, or isolated civil unrest, gold and silver should have value. (Assuming a non-confiscatory policy remains in place.)
Anything more intense…general commerce will likely be reduced to a barter level. Skills or goods for an equivalently valued skill or good – determined by both parties to the transaction. Bids and Asks, on a micro-level.
Iron Fist wrote:
BTW, I bought one kruggerand ten years ago and sold it to a Mississipi Riverboat gambler. (If anybody is asking.)
@ coldwarrior:
“Funk” A word that just doesn’t get used often enough anymore. lol
Brick wrote:
i know how to distill grains into alcohol.
Brick wrote:
People will learn to be creative. Yankee traders.
Paper is paper when all is said and done.
@ yenta-fada:
Thanks for the tip! That way I can buy it in small quantities, and accumulate it over the next few years (or however long we have). It won’t hurt anything sitting in the safe…
NoThreat2U wrote:
That would be considered as making you a barfly. lol lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
now that parliament and p*funk arent touring and george clinton is retired, we are in a ‘funk’ deficit.
@ yenta-fada:
No a barfly is when all you do is sit in a bar. I never go to bars. I just don’t have anything better to do right now. lol
@ coldwarrior:
We need the funk. Gotta have that funk. But that is JMO
@ coldwarrior:
No better commercial skill if things get really sideways.
@ Brick:
I can teach martial arts, weld, and program a computer. Only the first has any application if SHTF for real. Lesser breakdowns, though, I might could make my bread.
@ NoThreat2U:
It is the caging drinks that makes you a barfly. Are you good looking? You can probably get laid, too
@ Iron Fist:
Nothing knocks creating whatever wealth you can month to month, year to year. It’s also good to have a stash and some investments as a lottery ticket, but bet on what is real now. Being productive and frugal is best in my view.
@ NoThreat2U:
Can’t get enough of that funky stuff. Funk is very good for New Years Eve.
Iron Fist wrote:
Start now. Adjusted for inflation, gold should already be well over $2,000 an ounce. It is a commodity manipulated by the Big Boys. I buy stocks for income, but that requires time, interest, and study. Meantime, use “clownbucks” for real things.
If you fake the funk your nose will grow.
yenta-fada wrote:
Paper will always be useful in various sanitation/hygiene roles.
snowcrash wrote:
END THE FUNK DEFICIT!!!
@ Iron Fist:
LMAO************* I’m sure I could but no, I don’t pick up men in bars. lol This is a little town, I know everyone and I can’t think of any I would want to sleep with. lol
@ Iron Fist:
The need for a warrior mindset and training to support it will be another highly marketable skill.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I was keeding.
We are home for the night, as usual. I’m always grateful for what we have and the people we have in our lives. I’m sending you lots of good vibes. 
@ Brick:
Toilet paper futures! lol
@ yenta-fada:
I could use the good vibes. Just still h8ting on the holidays. lol I’m…I’ll live.
yenta-fada wrote:
As long as there’s people, there will be…caca.
1389AD wrote:
Because the US press considers Obama and his cronies to be “too big to fail.”
lobo91 wrote:
You got that right!
[...] (h/t: yenta-fada) [...]
@ 152 NoThreat2U: Schnapps….. On New Years Eve I always go out in the cold and drink a couple of shots of schnapps in honor of the old man. He used to let me drink schnapps once a year with him since I was four. lol
It has to be dark. It has to be cold. The schnapps has to be cheap and just plain schnapps.
Brick wrote:
What did they use for toilet paper during the American Revolution?
snowcrash wrote:
New Years eve is the ultimate Amateurs Night.
lobo91 wrote:
“The system worked” /
snowcrash wrote:
Alka Seltzer is good for New Years Day.