Kenny

ha!....I was wondering if he meant "charter members" (the original Confederacy!) didn't think Missouri was a true Southern state......

During the Civil War, Missouri was claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy, had two competing state governments, and sent representatives to both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress. Maybe that duality is why JesseR says "M&F clients welcome."

The Rolling Stone profile of Johnny Depp gives the most inside look at where the actor is today, surrounded by financial problems and a failed and probably abusive relationship with Amber Heard and clear signs that he is in fact a vampire.

 

But since the article was supposed to present Depp’s side of his legal case against The Management Group and his former business partner, let’s take a look at the most extravagant expenses the actor was shelling out.

 

First of all, Rolling Stone makes the situation very clear, stating, “It’s estimated that Depp has made $650 million on films that netted $3.6 billion. Almost all of it is gone.”

 

Where did it go?

 

1. Well, it’s suggested that the actor has a “$2-million-a-month compulsory-spending disorder,” including an alleged figure of $30,000 of wine per month, paired with an alleged yet typical quote from Depp saying, “Wine is not an investment if you drink it as soon as you buy it.”His response to that is simply, “It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine, because it was far more.”

 

2. It is also reported that he has spent $75 million on 14 residences.

 

3. $7,000 on a couch from the set of Keeping Up With the Kardashians for his daughter.

 

4. $3 million to shoot the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson’s into the sky from a cannon, to which he says, “By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky. It was $5 million.” While Depp claims the price went up when he wanted the arc to be at least one foot higher than the Statue of Liberty at 151 feet high, the author has doubts about that price tag.

 

5. Over 70 guitars.

 

6. 200 pieces of art, including Basquiats and Warhols.

 

7. 45 luxury vehicles.

 

8. $200,000 per month for private air travel.

 

9. A sound engineer on staff to feed him lines through an earpiece while filming, which he justified by saying of acting, “My feeling is, that if there’s no truth behind the eyes, doesn’t matter what the fucking words are.”

 

10. 12 storage facilities for Hollywood memorabilia (with lots of it dedicated to Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe).

 

11. $1.2 million to keep a doctor on call.

 

12. $1.8 million each year for round-the-clock security, also for his elderly mother.

 

13. The lawsuit is also claiming that under the former business manager’s watch, Depp’s sister Christi received $7 million and his assistant, Nathan Holmes, got $750,000 without Depp’s knowledge. Oh, and that he also had to fork over $5.6 million in late fees to the IRS.

 

And to think, he moved to Los Angeles with the intention of becoming a rockstar when a”drinking buddy named Nicolas Cage told him there was money to make in acting.” It turns out there is money to make, but hanging on to it is the hard part.

He was paying me $4 million annually to watch his movies. Now I’m unemployed.

That probably wouldn’t work in wealthy communities such as Hillsborough, California, or Beverly Hills, unless you wanted to pay the police there some pretty exorbitant salaries...

Yep. That’s why I said it couldn’t necessarily work in a sprawl like LA.

Agreed. If it weren't for its four stars, would this trifle of a show have made it to a third season? (Or, conversely, if it had been cast with lesser known actors, would they have made something more of it than a look-at-me, I'm-still-working showcase?) And yet ... I'll keep watching.

 

He needs to go back to being Jed Bartlett. And take over running the country. (When I have needed some political alt-reality lately, I have re-watched episodes of The West Wing. Now there was a president!)

 

I have never thought all that much of her acting -- probably due to the memory of seeing her (with John Travolta as her love interest) in Moment by Moment, one of the certifiably worst movies ever made -- but she's an engaging personality and almost always fun to watch, and especially so in this show because she's inhabiting a real character and the other actors are not much more than cardboard cutouts.

I tune in to watch the actors work, not for the iffy narrative.

In that, it’s like the new movie “The Book Club” (also with Jane Fonda, but totally stolen by Candace Bergen).

Good question. Not for gawking purposes. I guess simply being "free in nature". It's nothing I ever considered but seeing an ad in my city paper made me think about it.

I’m guessing you’d wear shoes, so freedom (and nature) has its limits.

and Yes, don't we wish Bernie was president

No. But have fun in B’lyn!

What’s the appeal?

Sorry hun, I work at McDonalds.

 

Would you like fries with that?

No thanks. You probably pee in the fryer.

I don’t agree with TBL’s position. That being said, calling someone a troll, stupid, or a dufus doesn’t make your argument look intelligent. It looks like someone in desperation for rational argument who resorts to name calling.

Well, if someone is a troll, stupid or a dufus, it is very hard to resist.

TBL thinks deep thoughts, like “everyone is entitled to his opinion,” which is a.) insipid, and b.) morally obtuse. Sparky, for example, is not entitled to utter racist diatribes and expect applause for it. A big problem for the inane anti-PC crowd is that they want to be able to spew without consequence.

This level of ignorance about suicide and mental illness hurts rather than helps people who are depressed and suicidal. If suicide is so selfish then suicidal people have even less reason to reach out and disclose their true feelings. Sorry suicide prevention has to prioritize the emotional needs of the suicidal person, not their friends and family and telling them they're loved when they don't feel lovable and won't believe you isn't an answer.

I am imagining a potential suicide calling a prevention hotline and reaching @twinkboylover28 , who responds to the crisis by berating the caller for selfishness.

Surely that would help...

http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/13/ultimately-took-kate-spade-anthony-bourdain-wasnt-mental-illness-something-worse/

 

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What Ultimately Took Kate Spade And Anthony Bourdain Wasn’t Mental Illness. It Was Something Worse

 

Let us be intellectually honest about the sorrows of this life. Perhaps then, through a lens of sorrow, we can see the one, eternal hope that renders death not proud.

 

By Caroline D'Agati

June 13, 2018

 

In college, a quote hung on my wall: “Here I am. This is me. Get the h-ll out of the way.” To a nobody from New Jersey who dreamed of bigger things, it was the battle cry of someone who knew his greatest asset was his grit. This kind of person embraced life and was ready to conquer it. That quote was from Anthony Bourdain.

 

Like most fans, I’ve spent the last few days wondering how a man of such fire and tenacity could die so defeated. I loved Bourdain for his zest for life and ability to overcome his demons. His skill at simultaneously getting under someone’s skin and into their hearts showed the world what a New Jersey boy is at his best. He lived life so deeply, yet died so hopeless. That shatters me.

 

These tragedies are an opportunity for us all to take stock of the world around us. Let us be intellectually honest about the sorrows of this life. Perhaps then, through a lens of sorrow, we can see the one, eternal hope that renders death not proud.

 

Yes, Suicide Is About Other People, Too

Since the world’s loss of Bourdain and Kate Spade, the Internet has been ablaze about the cause, effects, and prevention of suicide. Many are quick to object to the observation that suicide is selfish, saying it is instead the result of overwhelming mental illness. Still others have pointed out the surviving children of Spade and Bourdain and how these tragedies will follow them their whole lives.

 

I think it’s cruel to say suicide is selfish, but I also know this: I’m angry at Anthony and Kate. I’m angry for the sake of their children and their loved ones. But I’m also angry for myself. Like millions around the globe, these people brought joy into my life. I’ll always remember how, when I was unemployed, a friend gave me her Kate Spade bag and it lifted my spirits. I’ll remember that my first purchases for my new iPod in college were episodes of “No Reservations.”

 

We loved these people because they helped us see something in the world that brightened the monotony or sadness of our lives. Their curiosity, creativity, and joy gave us a reason to have some, too.

 

To take their own lives was a repudiation of the beauty and joy that they brought to us. They gave us something marvelous then took it back in the most devastating way. Knowing the tragic end of Robin Williams, who can watch “Mrs. Doubtfire” and laugh as she did before? Who can listen to David Foster Wallace

without weeping over his own unheeded advice? And now Tony’s warm humor and Kate’s cheerful creations, too, carry the musty perfume of the grave.

 

Where once we saw the magic and joy of being human, now we can only see the scars. The world’s reaction to these deaths is proof that suicide is never about one person. It stirs humanity because we’re all reminded that the bell, too, tolls for us.

 

Suicide Isn’t Always about Mental Illness

Another coping mechanism we’ve turned to is to blame the deaths on stigmas about mental health. Many believe these deaths were caused by a disease as biologically unstoppable as Parkinson’s or dementia. Still others see them as a deficiency of tangible things like valuable relationships and physical upkeep. Again, I think the truth is somewhere in between.

 

Of course, take medication, go on vacations, quit your horrible job, go to counseling—for heaven’s sake, do whatever you must to preserve your life. But what happens when you are fighting on all of those fronts and death still wins? In a dark night of the soul, there aren’t enough friends, money, or experiences to distract someone from the Big Empty.

 

Every human being must at some time confront the same disease that claimed Anthony, Kate, Robin, and every other person who takes his or her life: meaninglessness. Why are we here and is this life worth living? It’s a sobering thought.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche—another struggler—said that anyone with a “why” to live could endure almost any how. These wealthy, accomplished people had some of the most marvelous “hows” anyone could imagine. Yet none of it could make up for the lack of “why.”

 

There is a reason trauma victims, combat survivors, and celebrities are so vulnerable to suicide. Victims of abuse and witnesses to war are exposed to a depth of humanity that many of us never get to. The lowest lows show us just how depraved and hopeless this world can be.

 

Those with everything are often no different. The highest highs show us that, no matter what we achieve or acquire, the hopelessness doesn’t go away. Both the king and the pauper stare life in the face and see that it’s merely “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

 

The Antidote to Meaninglessness

In one sense, I agree with Kate and Tony: they were right to be broken-hearted. This is a broken world that neither they nor you nor I will ever be able to set right. Gunmen will continue to kill. Terrorists will bomb. Disease and poverty will ravage. And in 150 years, mourners, victims, saviors, and perpetrators alike will be equally forgotten. The abyss of time makes no distinctions between the hero and the villain.

 

As Kate, Anthony, Robin, and so many other entertainers show, even giving joy to others, in the end, is not enough. So in the end, why bother? How can we not be defeated when we set our eyes on the brokenness of this world? The answer: to fix our eyes on another world. The writer C.S. Lewis famously said that, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” If we believe this life is all there is, the darkness will blind us to the majesty and beauty of life.

 

Suicide is the tragic, but reasonable response to being confronted by life’s reality with no salve of deeper meaning to bandage the wound. This is why a life without God, no matter how grand, will always leave our hearts unfulfilled.

 

So please, take medication. Talk to your family. Go get treatment. Your life is precious to God and the people around you. It is worth fighting for. But no matter what help those things bring, our hearts only find true peace when they live for the one who created them. I wish my friends Kate and Anthony had felt that peace.

The Federalist writer seems to be having a crisis of faith in consumerism. She is shocked that buying an expensive handbag or selling one’s attention to a TV show’s advertisers doesn’t bring true happiness.

Her solution to this crisis, which is doubling down on faith in a sky-god, doesn’t seem much more promising.

Priceless! Now not only an I "cruel", I'm also a "troll" and "stupid".

 

You must have been fabulous on your high school debate team? You certainly don't sound like a future Jeopardy contestant with your numerous failed attempts to shame and name-call those with whom you disagree with. So classy!!!

 

According to your philosophy, those who correctly believe suicide is selfish somehow simply don't understand the complex issue of suicide as well as you do, as any person who believes suicide is selfish is dismissed as "stupid."

 

How condescending and patronizing! It doesn't surprise me coming from a self-righteous arrogant fool.

 

Wise up!

Great reply. Really gets to the heart of the selfishness issue. Good trolling!

C'mon, Kenny! Confess that for the first time you felt the impulse to kiss Trump.

It does give new meaning to "giving head." But, no, I'm not going there. I am going to wash out my eyes with acid.

https://alexxxward.weebly.com/

 

does anyone know what the password to AlxWard's website is?

 

feel free to PM me!

It's your ATM pin.

 

 

Speaking of Trump, I knew it had to be a Toupee.

 

How can I unsee that? Please help.

trying to impose Magyarization on the Slavs

That's always been a problem, unless one is a versatile top.

My beloved brother-in-law died last September here in Orange County, California. He was cremated about a week later. My sister didn't want a traditional funeral. Because so many people wanted to attend, from various far flung parts of the country thus she decided on a memorial service to be held about five weeks after his death. The memorial service was held on a Saturday. On the Friday before the immediate family gathered at a local cemetery where his ashes were buried and after a brief grave side service we adjourned to my home for a family dinner. Over five hundred guests attended his memorial service after which my sister invited all attendees to a hosted luncheon at a local restaurant. We were all extremely satisfied with the results.

Funerals as such a personal/individual thing that each family has to work out what works best for them. I really don't think there is any right or wrong on this issue.

An excellent plan. (Except for inviting 500 people to a hosted lunch, which seems beyond generous.)

My beloved brother-in-law died last September here in Orange County, California. He was cremated about a week later. My sister didn't want a traditional funeral. Because so many people wanted to attend, from various far flung parts of the country thus she decided on a memorial service to be held about five weeks after his death. The memorial service was held on a Saturday. On the Friday before the immediate family gathered at a local cemetery where his ashes were buried and after a brief grave side service we adjourned to my home for a family dinner. Over five hundred guests attended his memorial service after which my sister invited all attendees to a hosted luncheon at a local restaurant. We were all extremely satisfied with the results.

Funerals as such a personal/individual thing that each family has to work out what works best for them. I really don't think there is any right or wrong on this issue.

An excellent plan. (Except for inviting 500 people to a hosted lunch, which seems beyond generous.)

Does anyone know anything about APAC?

Is it an advicacy organization you would recommend?

Thank you!

What’s APAC?

Does anyone know anything about APAC?

Is it an advicacy organization you would recommend?

Thank you!

What’s APAC?

True, but I think we got what they meant.

True, but it does strike me as saying something about how skittish Americans are about death. We know what happens to notables (we read about it or watch it on TV), but are less familiar with the realities of our own situation. Celebrity culture.

True, but I think we got what they meant.

True, but it does strike me as saying something about how skittish Americans are about death. We know what happens to notables (we read about it or watch it on TV), but are less familiar with the realities of our own situation. Celebrity culture.

Lying in state is the tradition in which the body of a dead official is placed in a state building, either outside or inside a coffin, to allow the public to pay their respects. It traditionally takes place in the principal government building of a country, state, or city.

At home or in a funeral home, the deceased lies in repose.

Lying in state is the tradition in which the body of a dead official is placed in a state building, either outside or inside a coffin, to allow the public to pay their respects. It traditionally takes place in the principal government building of a country, state, or city.

At home or in a funeral home, the deceased lies in repose.