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Messages - Alexandra Cabot

#76
General Discussion / Re: Sears/Kmart
January 30, 2017, 12:49:14 AM
Quote from: SAGG on January 29, 2017, 06:11:14 PM
Say what you want about Democratically-controlled California, but after Der Arnold left, Gov. Brown raised taxes on the rich, and the state went from huge deficits to huge surpluses. Now, contrast this with, say, Kansas, where taxes were slashed, bare-bones style. Result? Huge deficits.

You fail to mention that there is so much wealth centered in California because the snobby elitist scumbags that live there only care about investing in their psuedo-liberal utopia and wouldn't even dare consider investing in "fly over" states that actually need it like Kansas or even say Michigan.  In other states, we also put a preference on allowing people access to their own earned income instead of using it to increase the dependency of those that don't want to work.

QuoteNow, I think the soda tax might be a wee bit going too far, but hey, sugar can be as addictive as nicotine or alcohol, not to mention it can help to promote diabetes, which I have. For the sake of health, paying a tad more on a tax might just discourage enough people to cut back on taking in something that could affect their health. And I can't swim, nor do I want to...  :D

What you describe is the creation of a nanny state.  It's not the government's place to dictate behavior like diet.  If you need Big Brother to tell you to eat a balanced diet, you have problems, namely you still have the mental state of a child.  If you have diabetes for that reason, blame yourself and stop assuming others don't have self control and need a government baby sitter.  I've never seen anything more demeaning than people that actually support these Bloomberg-esque policies.  It's also a slippery slope that can never be stopped.  You'll go from that to a mayonnaise tax to government mandated exercise regiments, which I've actually seen suggested seriously on Democratic Underground.  It's just pure idiocy.

Quote...To answer just one parrt of your comment - As far as secession goes , do you remember all the people (especially in Texas) who went on and on about seceding during Obama,s terms ?
  If not , I,ll link to Web thiings about it .

Texas was also an independent nation that joined the United States voluntarily.
#77
Quote from: JonInIowaCity on January 29, 2017, 07:41:16 PM
I mentioned in the shoutbox, but the ratings were slightly less than the ratings for the CW show that aired previously "Supernatural."

It was the series premier.  As such, it should be contrasted against other premiers.  It tanked.  It folded like Hillary Clinton with Iowa voters.
#78
General Discussion / Re: Sears/Kmart
January 29, 2017, 05:47:24 PM
Quote from: Archiecomicxfan215 on January 28, 2017, 11:40:30 AM
^ i went to the Target in San Francisco when i was on vacation. I liked it but i was surprised that i had to pay $0.05 for a plastic bag. I figured the reason for not having a Walmart was the same as for NYC where I am from, cause it hurts smaller businessesbor something like that. I could be wrong.


However, I never seen so many Walgreens in my life until I went to San Francisco :o

It's called Commiefornia for a reason.  Don't worry, everyone in San Francisco is either as rich as sin or a homeless bum that is living an above middle class lifestyle.  When you're as rich as sin you can be concerned with things like insuring that every homeless bum has free housing and owns a Chihuahua (yes they actually get free Chihuahuas, I wonder why so many homeless go there, could there be some kind of connection?).

QuoteWhile you were in San Francisco did the new soda tax kick in yet?

Anyone who supports this kind of soda tax should be thrown into the Boston Harbor by people dressed as Native Americans.  Of course, since California is trying to secede from the United States now, they probably no longer consider their sevles Americans.
#79
Okay, after years of hype, it looks like Riverdale is a ratings flop:

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-thursday-jan-26-2017/

It's a big stinking failure.  It won't get renewed for Season 2.  There will be no new episodes ordered.  The show is a bastardization of Archie's characters.  The only time in the future it will be brought up is when one of those niche YouTube reviewers goes, "Wow, remember that Riverdale show?  That really sucked!  What were they thinking?!  Let's play one of those stupid scenes of Archie having sexual relations with Miss Grundy to laugh at it!  Boy, this was one of the worst things to come out of 2017 by far!"

Since Archie has spent so much of its capital and reputation on this so called television program, we must now ask, who is to blame?  Well, one person to blame is Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who will surely go down as one of the biggest hacks in the history of writing.  If Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has an idea, chances are it's something completely idiotic.  He turns Archie characters into his own masturbatory fantasies that have no relation to the characters from the comics.  If Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa had written Catcher in the Rye, it would have been the worst book ever written in the history of the human race.   I hear he is a playwright.  Perhaps his next play should be,  "I'm a Really Bad Writer."  It should of course star himself.

Has he even read any of the comics?  That's a very good question in and of itself, yet he has been awarded the title of Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.  Why was he given this position?  No one knows.  His ideas suck worse than the most powerful Dyson vacuum cleaner.

For that I say Mr. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa should resign from his position Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics and be given the new title of Chief Dunce of Archie Comics.  Here's your dunce cap, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, you've earned it:



Of course Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa isn't the only person to blame.  Who approved this god awful mess?  Who appointed Aguirre-Sacasa as Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics?  Well, that was most likely someone named Jonathan Goldwater.  Not the John L. Goldwater that built the company into a successful publishing giant in the comics world, but the Jonathan Goldwater who recently inherited the company via bloodline succession much like the kingdoms of ancient Europe.  As any good student of history knows, that doesn't always produce the best results for the kingdom.

Much like a drunk driver, Mr. Goldwater has been running his company off of a cliff into a ditch with gimmick after gimmick.  While comic book media outlets may pretend like everything he does is worthy of news, sales I don't think have panned out.  And now Riverdale is a big stinking failure.  Recently, Mr. Goldwater has been firing Archie veterans to replace them with people like the person who "drew" Squirrel Girl, who I heard was later replaced for not knowing how to draw.  I don't know why Mr. Goldwater keeps making ridiculous decisions, but perhaps he has a problem with alcohol abuse.  It's just a theory.  It could be true or not.  But regardless he's been metaphorically drunk with his direction of this company for quite some time.  So I gift unto you Mr. Goldwater, this book on the 12 step program:



Please get off the sauce and right the ship, Mr. Goldwater.  Children ruining their parents' businesses is kind of a tired cliche, don't you think?

Also there is another CEO named Nancy Silberkleit that should perhaps also be discussed.  According to reports by the mainstream news media, she is obsessed with calling people male body parts as opposed to their first and last names:

https://thehairpin.com/penis-penis-penis-the-legend-of-nancy-silberkleit-9c3bd69030b3#.rvpl245et

Now I don't know why a female CEO would be so obsessed with certain male organs to the point of seeing them in the corporate office instead of fellow co-workers wearing business attire, but perhaps this is something to best be addressed by a licensed psychiatrist.  To you Nancy Silberkleit, Co-CEO of Archie Comics, I bestow unto you this chair to sit in as you discuss your problems in a clinical setting:



I hope you make a full recovery and return to the realm of the sane.  The best of wishes to you, Nancy Silberkleit.
#80
All About Archie / Re: Riverdale Reviewed
January 27, 2017, 09:03:18 PM
I don't think this thread has had nearly enough bumping by Tuxedo Kamen, so here's another one.  Great review.  I didn't read it.
#81
All About Archie / Re: Which is the best?
January 27, 2017, 09:01:34 PM
Any of the ones not released by current management.   :(
#82
General Discussion / Re: Mary Tyler Moore is dead.
January 27, 2017, 08:59:02 PM
Rest in Pepperoni
#83
My computer screen.  What do you think?   ::)
#84
General Discussion / Re: Sears/Kmart
January 27, 2017, 08:51:15 PM
This is a very important thread, but where's the thread about Walmart or Target?
#85
All About Archie / Re: THE CANCELLATION REPORT
January 27, 2017, 08:47:42 PM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on January 27, 2017, 07:59:54 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on January 27, 2017, 01:35:25 PM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on January 27, 2017, 01:31:49 PM
Darn, I thought this was about Riverdale being cancelled  :-\


They have a deal with Netflix. I don't think it will be cancelled that quickly.


What does that mean? That even if the CW cancels it because of bad ratings, they'll still be making episodes for Netflix?
:tickedoff: >:(

Netflix, the hallmark of quality.