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- Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:28 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
If there truly is no room for movement anywhere for any reason we all just ought to pack up and go to the beach, or maybe to the rooftops to wait for some cataclysm a la Independence Day, There's nothing wrong in playing for time and waiting for the national fever to break. But if it's rooftops you...
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:47 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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- Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:22 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
The Republicans threw a hissy and voted against a bill their base supports. I believe you'll see them look for a face-saving way to reverse that vote and I'm hoping the Democrats deny it to them. I forgot possibly the best part--the vote was 55-42. It failed because of the filibuster. One more argu...
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:18 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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As usual I am confused. Why would the Senate vote down the bill to aid veterans that they already approved? I know what they're saying, but does that make any sense? It doesn't sound like Mitch McConnell to me and it sounds like a serious error in judgment. Essentially they're refusing to provide b...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:56 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
As usual I am confused. Why would the Senate vote down the bill to aid veterans that they already approved? I know what they're saying, but does that make any sense? It doesn't sound like Mitch McConnell to me and it sounds like a serious error in judgment. Essentially they're refusing to provide b...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
An urgently written appeal: The Filibuster Is a Direct Threat to American Democracy It's not just about helping Democrats or making particular legislation possible. The filibuster actually endangers the whole edifice of civic democracy in America. The context for this is the drive to get Democrats c...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:23 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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If you've got suggestions to improve either thought or, better yet, a better idea, please don't hesitate to share with the class. I wish I did, but I don't. I still don't, really, except that this struck me as the sort of conversation starter you were talking about: What to Do About the Court A Pro...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 7:43 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Denver - Levitt Pavilion - 7/15/22
- Replies: 4
- Views: 982
Re: Denver - Levitt Pavilion - 7/15/22
I think it's got to do with how many outdoor shows they're playing in the hot sun right now.beantownbubba wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:57 pmI've only seen the set lists on 3dd which I know is far less than from all the current/recent shows, but the slightly shorter set lists seem to be a thing by now, is that right?
- Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:51 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Only in Philadelphia
- Replies: 460
- Views: 315464
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:46 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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If you've got suggestions to improve either thought or, better yet, a better idea, please don't hesitate to share with the class. I wish I did, but I don't. The closest thing I have to a big thought lately is "rule of law" as good government and good politics. I've looked at enough judges in my lif...
- Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:10 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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When one party is the "rules for thee, not for me" party, I don't know how you move forward with the "right" rules By defeating the other party, obviously, which is a mostly separate question. Speaking of defeating the other party, here's one way: Michigan’s Already Got Roe on the Ballot For months...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:40 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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When one party is the "rules for thee, not for me" party, I don't know how you move forward with the "right" rules By defeating the other party, obviously, which is a mostly separate question. The value of having consistent principles to rally our side around is the reason I posted a cogent, unders...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:14 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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I always like Doug Muder's stuff, and this one is solid:
Freedom isn’t maximized by having no rules; it’s maximized by having the right rules.
It does beg the question of who decides what the right rules are, but that's okay; we have to settle the metaquestion of "rules or not" first.
Freedom isn’t maximized by having no rules; it’s maximized by having the right rules.
It does beg the question of who decides what the right rules are, but that's okay; we have to settle the metaquestion of "rules or not" first.
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:28 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Food for thought from a favorite democrat and a new-to-me socialist: Altercation: The ‘Dobbs’ Backlash and the Democrats’ Choice Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the will of the majority; do liberals have the leadership to fight back? Since the early ’60s, liberals relied on what Samuel M...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:34 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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A possible speck of good news, if you can bear it: The January 6 hearings are accomplishing more than you think You may not see it, if you don’t understand how conservatives change their minds. MAGAworld refusing to engage is a good sign. This is exactly what you should have expected to see if thing...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:56 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Because there's no such thing as bad publicity?beantownbubba wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:50 pmCan someone please explain to me why some Christians find it necessary, desirable and/or appropriate to pray in locker rooms and on football fields?
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:45 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Lou Reed wrote:The best lack all convictions
And the worst are filled with a passionate intensity
Now you figure out where I am
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:20 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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I've never seen or heard an originalist counter to what seems to me to be a very obvious and compelling argument, but maybe I should just get over it. I wouldn't go that far. I would say that trying to solve a political problem by judicial means has its limits, as we are being cruelly taught right ...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:52 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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...but I can play one on TV. The family values voter has to overlook Trump's 3 marriages at least 2 of which played out mostly in the newspapers as well as his serial admitted adultery. You mean, like Ronald Reagan? The Christians have to overlook Trump's lack of charity, his looting of his own char...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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In the film adaptation of the Cold War epic Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré’s fictional British intelligence officer George Smiley describes his opposite number, the Soviet spymaster Karla. Smiley knows Karla can be beaten, he says, because Karla “is a fanatic. And the fanatic is always co...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:01 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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If one grew up in NY like I did, or lived there in the 70's and 80's like I did for part of that time, you knew of Donald Trump and you understood him to be a clown and not just a mere clown but a sleazy particularly ugly form of clown. He was the butt of all kinds of jokes and nobody took him seri...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:48 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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This once again/still raises the age old (well, at least since 2016) question "what do his supporters see in Trump and why do they follow him?" It remains a complete mystery to me to the extent that it's almost a rhetorical question at this point (though I'd really like to know the answer). "He own...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:15 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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BTW, the arc of history line is MLK's. Obama used to (and probably still does) quote it often. Au contraire, mon frère! One Rev. Theodore Parker said it first, though a bit more wordily: I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cann...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 5:16 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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I think it sums up a number of comments over the past couple of days to say that we have sunk so low, that simply doing the obvious right thing, simply doing one’ s job is now the exceptional “profile in courage” level in politics/public life. As it happens we are actually lucky that people like pe...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:08 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
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I'm not the audience, so I didn't watch. I'm curious what the ratings numbers show.beantownbubba wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:44 pmSo, how widely watched was the Jan 6th hearing around these parts and how widely watched do we think it was nationally?
- Mon May 30, 2022 1:29 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Gone but not forgotten....
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- Views: 91078
Re: Gone but not forgotten....
He told me a lot of stories when I interviewed him. Some of them were even true!chuckrh wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 5:41 pmRIP Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian music icon. He put together The Band to back him up & had a memorable performance in The Last Waltz.
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- Tue May 17, 2022 6:50 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Welcome to Club XIII
- Replies: 338
- Views: 248038
- Tue May 17, 2022 12:29 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Welcome to Club XIII
- Replies: 338
- Views: 248038
Re: Welcome to Club XIII
There's a video:
- Wed May 04, 2022 1:06 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
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Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
You folks are looking for consistency in all the wrong places. You're likelier to find love there than truth. Look instead for consistency in this question:
That is the principle about which you will find consistency.What will increase the power of the far right?
- Wed May 04, 2022 1:01 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Every Single Storied Flameout-New Cooley Song
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7877
Re: Every Single Storied Flameout-New Cooley Song
That part of you that feels alive is wired and can’t be severed from the damage seeking part of you that runs it Just don’t embrace it with a vengeance before you’ve even shaved with a razor that you bought with your own money ... Cooley's vocal in this is also astonishing. Positively Costello-esqu...