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Remember that Dems in the south were against civil rights? And the GOP was the party of Lincoln. That's supposed to matter when MAGA is wantonly destroying democracy.

well, the guy who wants to fight did the same thing the last time he was accused of misconduct. Clinton being the cost of ending Trumpism doesn't worry me at all.

I had the most interesting conversation with my neighbor today while we were chipping away at ice still blocking the corners of our blocks after that storm of a couple weeks ago. He's Indian-American who works in some military medical projects he couldn't discuss. He brought up that China attacked India while the Soviets were distracted by the Cuban Missile crisis. The Soviets had a tenuous alliance with India and were starting to dislike (Khrushchev and Mao were oil and water) the direction of the PRC. He said that he worries that Iran will be the distraction for us that might give Xi (who just got rid of the one person in Zhang Youxia telling him not to attack Taiwan) the chance to attack Taiwan. We were talking about arms control being an impossibility in a situation in which nobody trusts each other and there are no efforts to have confidence-building. To Trump, to Putin its all gangsterism. Xi might be willing to sign up to a rules-based order but nobody can trust the order if more than one of the lynch pins is totally unreliable.

W is doing not enough. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/george-w-bush-torches-trump-204806360.html

No organized religion that supported this man or this party deserves your time.

If it means a few midwesterners visit Sacramento and see the real California... (sarcasm)

I don't know if this is the case but having a CGM might be a problem in some security situations. I know there are waivers but I think it might actually be a problem for some situations.

She does pretty well for someone who lives in the good looking people bubble.

My paddle: the one Joola that came with the $60 package.

Arbeit Macht Frei

Meanwhile

Good message.

A word to my friends: Sometimes we respond to a primal scream with something heartfelt and detailed. Sometimes we respond with a nod. I do it, others do it. We just need to recognize that is what is happening. "I got you" responses or reacts are sometimes just fine. A lot of this forum is just primal screaming. We have to share with someone the awful just to register if for the moment that we see it. There are other times when we have a notion that we aren't sure others are seeing. I ask for patience in those instances as well. Sometimes during special crazy periods. We can be like a Lions game thread. I hope we aren't held to be too accountable for those times.

The JD Vance speech last year was the thud. The Mark Carney speech was the response. MAGA has sown the wind. Rubio's speech was the attempt to sell the same JD Vance crap in a nicer package.

Is this a Magazine-isn't-a-Clip level of self-cancellation?

I'll be interested to see if the Romulus concentration camp gets protested like it should.

Appears Kim Dotcom is spouting off about Palantir. Well just so you know KD is a Russophile (at best).

Also what is pizza, tex-mex, jazz music or anything else brought here or developed by someone who didn't fit Boer Elon Musk's criteria?

I realize you all aren't following the nuance here. It appears that even those who love the US abroad are very worried that the US is no longer reliable. I spend my weekends listening to WWII podcasts in which the British and the American podcasters are weepy about the special relationship. Its a huge shift and its all caused by Trump and his enabling weirdos.

He could hit, but that one "throw" from LF. Oh man.

I remember Delmon.

had a firefighter neighbor who was on the every 3 year colonoscopy plan because he had some very weird chemical inhalations that his doctor was concerned about...had some weird results that compounded the requirement. Once you've done it its not that big a deal. My last one the doc told me to see a urologist for BPH and gave me a good rec for one who has proven to be very good in terms of sorting out weird test results were NPs were giving me alerting panic about high PSA totals.

just started a class with the wife. I agree the social aspect is very good. I'm in a beginner class but today was figuring out how to start spinning the ball like I do with ping pong.

Really? I had not heard that.

Let him be an indie who caucuses with the Dems just to break Mike Johnson's pedo parade.