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Guys, I am no travel thought leader. And never pretended to be. But I guess this is important: Airbus Will Take Control of Bombardier’s New Passenger-Friendly Jet.
When a travel blogger gets mad at other travel bloggers and goes on a travel blogger like rant. Pfffft. Such mild rant level compared to mine lol.
For the record, I agree! The United TravelBank card is a terrible credit card that nobody should get. Thank the Lord The Points Guy did not get an exclusive selling this shit.
Just in case you go there…What To Do in Liechtenstein.
This is pretty cool stuff, TBB territory! It is 2036. Imagine robots have taken over the supply chain.
So, you fly your drone in northern Ontario enjoying the magnificent natural beauty. And then you see a moose. Woa, pretty cool. And then a wolf attacks it. You won’t believe what happened next!
Many words in the English language have Greek roots. So, that has been fine with me. When I hear the expression “It’s all Greek to me” I feel like high fiving the person who says it and scream yeah! Anyway, my point is I knew right away what the title meant in this headline: American Kakistocracy. It means …government by the worst and most unscrupulous people among us. More broadly, it can mean the most inept and cringeworthy kind of government. Imho, it fits perfectly with the current US administration, sad!
Wildly quirky, so TBBish: Thread of Tennis Players as Works of Art.
Your personal finance fix: Double Trouble. Again, sensible advice and this stat that makes me cringe:
As of 2016, 70.1% of households headed by someone age 65 to 74 were carrying debt, up from 51.4% in 1998.
The best wedding photos of 2017. Must click, so many lol ones! Click to see the other pages too!
Latest Safe Cities Index 2017.
This is where you hide your bitcoins. In a Swiss mountain. Wait, I thought this stuff was in cyberspace…WTF!
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Travel Codex is still at it with An Introduction to Airline Inventory and Fare Construction.
Can someone at the Hyatt PR department please hire Mommy Points who is trying so hard to get hired with all the pump pieces on Hyatt properties, come on!
I am in Orland for a conference…
And I leave you with this…Dude!
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Whoa!
George- based on IP is these THE Scott Castle? Is he back??
Honored to follow SC
I’m going to Liechtenstein in two weeks!
True story: Years ago, I was in Hawaii and read a newspaper article about some politicians who were trying to write a law concerning porn shops. A group of them went on a ‘look see” to judge the impact on neighborhoods. They went inside a couple of the shops, after which one of them, a woman, was quoted as saying “It was all greek to me”. Well, who am I to judge?
I read that piece by Elizabeth over at Voices. She says travel bloggers are “thin white people”. Uhhh….well, she’s been off the beat a while so I’ll give her some time to take another look around. Maybe she meant narrow.
And I see Buzz is still posting those phony “I’m First” blasts from ‘Scott Castle’. Right, Scott Castle: Thin and white, I’ll bet. Just like Santa and the tooth fairy. Is the tooth fairy thin? Maybe she can be a travel blogger too.
How dare you.
I’ll happily meet you at a time/place convenient to me to prove my existence….
Buzz-
I get it. Don’t worry-my lips are sealed.
Has anyone ever seen ScottCastle and George together at the same time? It’s the old Clark Kent thing all over again.
That wasn’t much of a rant. Maybe Buzz needs to open a Real Rant Summer Camp. The Titans push aspiration so what a surprise the people in the photos could be models.
If you’re going to shill for somebody, you can do a lot worse than Hyatt. I like Hyatt.
Your moose video was hardly shocking, now if the moose would have peed on the wolf or something we could have some house of miles material… but alas it didn’t.
Kakistocracy – learned a new word today! But it reminds me of a George Carlin bit on the subject…paraphrasing but he says something like “We complain that politicians are assholes, etc. But where do we think they come from? They don’t just fall out of the sky! They come from “us”! We’re the asshole pool that politicians come from and we elect them there!”
A lot of truth to that. I’m not sure there’s been a truly great leader since…I don’t know…Lincoln maybe? I don’t invest much time and energy into the political process as to me it’s just pointless.
Deadly waves!! ha!
I’m skeptical this is the real ScottCastle…
wait? Are you using something more important than the letter after their name as to tell who is a good leader? I can name all the best leaders recently. Obama Clinton Carter Johnson and JFK. Scary how segmented most have become – pick a side and then the other side is a moron idiot racist or evil nazi/commie
So you only named guys from one party after complaining about people only focusing on one side?
I’m not affiliated with either party and have voted with either or with third parties over the decades before becoming politically apathetic.
I never called anyone a nazi or any such thing. I don’t know why you’re attacking me with such accudations.
Im not attacking you. Just working off your post. Im not a politcally motivated person. Save for not voting for a Clinton or Bush family member ever again. I feel strongly against both. Ive seen righties call lefties commie/socialist/moron/racist. Ive seen lefties call righties facist/moron/nazi/idiot
MU I’ll cut some slack since you’re not “politically motivated”, but your example speaks volumes to me.
When a righty calls a lefty “commie” how often is that really true?
Same question for “socialist/moron/racist”. At least as far as Pres. goes, there’s no basis for referring to any of {JFK, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama} by any of those terms. The number of Dems who actually fit into one of those categories is tiny tiny.
But when a lefty calls a righty “facist (sic)” or “idiot” it seems to me that there’s some obvious truth in it. Bush2 really did seem dumb. And so is the current loser, who also has obvious Fascist tendencies. And the number of Reps that fit into one of these categories is large. Like really large.
Im pretty sure your commentary proves that you can believe what ever you put your mind to.
There are no truly great leaders. We all have flaws.
It’s all relative. Most ex-presidents will be seen as stable and analytical compared to the current chaos we have. Unless Trump is playing multi dimensional chess and I have yet to figure out the moves.
Most would have said FDR before going the memory lane to Lincoln. At least FDR kept experimenting to pull the country out of the great recession. Abandoning the gold standard and WWII helped.
Johnson? Ask the parents of the 52,000 who died in Vietnam, for what purpose did they die. Let us not forgot those who survived but were physically and mentally phucked.
Lady Bird Johnson did beautify the highways. Remember the commercial with the Indian crying when someone littered from their car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Obama? Great? Because he is half white? The Obama phone? Overrated. What was accomplished, a stalled economy and lots of talk. Disappointed, expected more from him. I also put the disaster in Syria on him.
Carter? Great Guy, good heart. Surrounded by political amateurs that were eaten alive in the dirty world of Washington Politics. But, once told my wife she was very beautiful on a flight. +1
Clinton? Coulda been great. But then he looked me in the eye on TV and told me “I did not have sex with that pig.” Guess screwing interns with cigars is ok. His wife knew of all his sexual affairs, wattta gal/hypocrite.
JFK, who knows, no enough sample size…but he DID bang Marilyn Monroe +1
Bush 2…don’t get me started, should be in jail and his paintings suck too.
FDR prolonged the great depression. His leadership in WW II was noteworthy of course though not prefect as no one is.
‘stalled economy’…
WTF!
Bill lied about a blowjob that they both probably enjoyed…while it is okay for the moron to keep lying constantly about shit that actually matters…
Unbelievable, smh.
George you are a bigger hypocrite than Hillary, one day you are calling Trump a pig but Clinton f@ucking an Intern with a cigar while he is on the phone with a world leader is OK. He was a serial cheater and got wealthy with kickbacks from the Clinton Foundation. Dude you need to stay with one theme here. It is like you bashing Bloggers like poor MileValue for 4 years for pimping cards, then you turn around become a street corner beggar on Credit Card Whore Island.
I use to layover at the Peacock Hotel in Little Rock all the time. Employees told me many stories and even gave me the special room he used all the time to cheat on his wife.
WAYF
As someone who has seen and lived in this country for many more Recessions and Recoveries than you have, the recovery under Obama WAS Pathetic. SMH AYSOS
Pathetic Recovery until Nov. 8 2016 WDALYIC
YGBKM
You lost me at “Dildo’s”
There’s a clear correlation between Trump supporters and stupidity.
Are stupid people attracted to Trump?
Or does supporting Trump make one stupid?
https://thefaintofheart.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-story-behind-the-scariest-jobs-chart-ever/
It’s been taking longer and longer to recover from a recession. A financial crisis is always the hardest to recover from as see during the great recession, depression and lost decade in Japan. This is not Obama’s fault. He inherited the crisis. The republicans did not want to participate in the recovery act and were too focused on balancing the budget (unlike now!).
I blame Obama for not punishing the behavior. No one went to jail for fcuking up the economy.
Best thing he did was pulling out of the gold standard in 1933. Great improvement over Herbert Hoover.
outandout at boardingarea
today’s post
“COSTCO MEMBERS: 2 DOZEN KIRKLAND GOLF BALLS FOR ~$35”
just in time for some Winter golfing
he forgot to mention Safeway as large eggs on sale for .88 cents
just in time for Halloween egging of your neighbors house
Pathetic
Was rejected at MMS (he is a staffer there) perhaps? 🙂
The Costco golf ball was actually one of the biggest stories in golf in the past year or so. Much intrigue surrounds them and there’s outstanding litigation against Costco related to them. They’d been sold out forever. I’m shocked to see them around again. Not really the sort of thing I’d look at Boarding Area for but this is a pretty big deal for golfers.
Hello…
Attending a session “Tax Planning with IRAs”…
Commenting will be slow.
Great discussion here today!
ScottCastle: they are jealous, you are legend here in TBBland!
Did Harvey Weinstein actually think that his beard made him look thinner/better?
This is what I fear. AI “thinking” beyond our ability.
I don’t want an AI sexbot that can self improve after each round. I don’t want Betsy to figure out how screwed up I am.
“Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.”
http://www.nature.com/news/self-taught-ai-is-best-yet-at-strategy-game-go-1.22858
TBB may be the only blog with a comment today that begins:
“Your moose video was hardly shocking….”.
Nothing from George about the “mattress” article on Fast Company? It’s right in the wheelhouse…..
In the queue of course. But looks like for next Tuesday as tomorrow Thursday post has been scheduled already.
I am at a conference enjoying myself. I did not want to pay $15 for a cheeseburger (pre conf day) so I crashed a Woman’s reception. Me, two other guys and 50 women. Free wine and food. It was heaven on earth!
I hope the mattress guy does go on to the travel rewards credit cards #dreaming