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33 minutes ago, tmj said:
He spoke Dakota Deutsche.
Cool - was he related to Zach Whiteclouds' ancestors.? A real knight in action!
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3 hours ago, tmj said:
Actually my parents think it’s a cute story , they used to recall it a lot.
On a drive one night they were discussing names and they happen to see some graffiti on a bridge , turns out the knew the person whose initials they were.
Pa not Boston.
Do you mean Pennsylvania? I've read so much. John OHara (so underrated now ), are you more of a Julian English or an Alfred Eaton, or maybe Pal Joey? Can you speak Pennsylvania Dutch like Lawrence Welk?
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44 minutes ago, tmj said:
.."the technology has its most utility in energy placement in soft things"
Yes, indeed. Translation for non- gunsmiths and other pussies:Guns kill people.
"So I guess they are not for pussies either , tell Yukon Vern."
Nah, tell him yourself. I don't do what I'm told much either. Unless it pays really well.
Meow.
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2 hours ago, tmj said:
Guns are for concentrating a relatively large amount of energy in relatively small area.
No, that is a description of the way they operate, which is super-effectively.
What they are for, is to and kill or at least wound living beings, and they serve that purpose magnificently.
The reasons for a civilian to own or use a gun are as various as the individuals who do so, which category seems to include most Americans. But the brilliant marketing of the armaments lobby has eradicated the process of correct identification in this case. And of course, the fear- mongering of the lobby's useful idiots, the politicians.
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1 hour ago, ThatGuy said:
Let's flip this around, and see how it goes over:
...die from totalitarianism, the loss of liberty, the loss of GNP, and the loss of their lives ....
Great example of bathos !
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Enough,I am still trying to figure out hanging Brads from the Bush landslide.
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6 minutes ago, ThatGuy said:
Tennapel issued a retraction issued re the above video's claim of 200K ballots missing: That is not confirmed, based on possibly misleading information. It may still be true, but as of now, not confirmed.
Every single headline they promise a blowout, but when you check out their photos, their hair doesn't look any better than it ever did. Change your stylist guys, or else your headlines. (No more explosive! Or Shocking! either. You don't need to advertise that you were laid off from the National Enquirer.)
Somebody had to say it.
Carol
Discriminating trash tab consumer
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36 minutes ago, william.scherk said:
President Biden is overseas in Europe, meeting with democratic allies and in Geneva, Russia's autocrat Putin.
If you are a fan of intemperate language in aid of cutting the president down to size, a piece at Townhall, titled "The Coma Before the Storm" hits a few marks ...
Lol. I believe the literary term for thetechnique employed by this scribe is called " reaching".
The mixed- metaphor -titled utterance correctly checks all the mandatory spite boxes, and does hit a few well-worn marks, but I can't reach down far enough to grasp them.
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37 minutes ago, william.scherk said:
There seems to be a fair amount of vaccine "hesitancy" in Russia, according to a New York Times article:
Covid News: Moscow Orders Shutdown as Russia Battles New Wave of Cases
Also from the Times, concerning the so-called Delta variant:
In China’s latest outbreak, doctors say the infected get sicker, faster
Meanwhile, a Canadian province is stalled from reaching Green status by falling just short of 75 percent of the population at least once.-vaccinated.
And I think I know most of those refuseniks! (N.B.'s population is not large.) I think I better go out and harangue them. They'll probably take the needle to avoid that.
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6 minutes ago, tmj said:
Human life matters , hell all life matters or why bother.
Exactly.
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10 hours ago, Brant Gaede said:
The Dems pander to BLM and such ilk. For real
--Brant
Equate all you want, but black lives do, in fact, matter, while to the Camp Auschwitz crowd, Jewish lives don't. For starters. A bit of a distinction in philosophies there.
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39 minutes ago, Brant Gaede said:
White people is racist. Try European American. Black is also racist. Try African American.
--Brant
Thanks for for the tip Brant, but I've already tried them.
Sebriously, I was echoing tmj's phrase in his preceding post. And he was using it sarcastically in evocation of me clutching my liberal pearls. As you probably already know, Granite Skin.
Ol' Ecru Carol
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Yes, there are white people everywhere who are willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with White supremacists,antiSemites and assorted loose cannons aimed at anybody they don't like the look of, if that is what it takes to get Trump back into power.
I think they are in the minority of white people in the USA, but I suppose all these recounts will prove me wrong.
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20 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
That's easy. It's the way you sound about Trump.
It goes something like this.
The Brandens are liars liars liars and they lie. Oh, they've done something good once in a while. But their real problem is that they lie. And why do they lie? Well, because lying is all they do. Everything they touch is characterized by their lies. They lie because they can't not lie. Granted, there are those things they did that were good, and I have to give them that. But those lying liars lie all the time. They lied in the past, they lied in the present, and they will lie in the future even though they are dead.
They are lying liars who lie all the time.
That sounds like you talking about Trump and racism. Trump does not have a racist neuron in his brain. (Ask Ben Carson and countless others.) Racism is the standard bullshit charge all current elitist establishmentarians levy against anyone who threatens the power of the elitist establishment.
Wanna contemplate simple proof?
Look at history.
Before Trump was winning in politics, we was held up by the people in your bubble as a person who was particularly NOT racist. He was given many honors by the black community--the very same people who now call him racist.
And when did they start calling him racist? When he started winning. Then they changed, kicked in the fake news propaganda machine and tried to get everyone to start calling him racist. That bullshit trickled down to people like you--people who now believe it sight unseen and sound unheard like an axiom. All you see and hear is what they tell you to see and hear.
They hate Trump and, by extension, you hate Trump.
That's the way Valliant worked about the Brandens. Others hated the Brandens, starting with Ayn Rand after the break, so he hates the Brandens.
It's not just hatred, though. It's second-hand hate.
That's why you get confused when I call you a hater. You don't feel it as intensely as you do something personal. That's because you carry second-hand hate in your soul, a soul that doesn't want to hate anything by default.
But like a good little automaton, off you go hating all the time... It just pops out...
I think you're better than that, but for now, it is what it is. Awareness takes time, especially by the submissive...
Michael
Find where I ever called Trump a racist. I don't think he is, never have. I explicitly refer to HiS BASE,HIS SUPPORTERS, whose votes he needs.
He panders to these "very good people" with swastikas on their skins, and no, I don't ,think he is a neo Nazi either.. He is just a politician who has an excessively low ethical bar, even for a politician.
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1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Carol,
Nah... I don't know better.
You sound like James Valliant talking about the Brandens.
Haters gonna hate...
Michael
.Well, .. if you say so. I never read PARC nor have I heard Valliant speaking about them, but I know the whole story as it played out here. I was and am pro Branden, not that it matters for present purposes. Barbara more than Nate.
Do you really see everybody now , as human beings, only in terms of Donald Trump and what opinion they have of the guy? Is he the moral litmus test not only of America but apparently the whole world?
Sorry, but I have not become part of the hater herd, Trump or no Trump. Little did I know when I joined OL ten years ago, with its multitude of topics and individuals, that I would end up a conscript in the Hundred Years' War.
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36 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Carol,
You really hate Trump, don't you?
Charlie Sheen was a crack addict who had just found out he had AIDS when he did that.
Michael
36 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:Sorry to Charlie. I did not know he was sick at all, except he obviously was on something. His bizarre exhibition and the fixation on winning just came to my mind, and it has nothing to do with hate. It was an association that Trump's lifelong division of humankind into winners and losers naturally brought about.
Trump has done many hateful things , and said them, which made me despise him but I don't think that is the same as hate. I don't imagine him humiliated, grovelling, being hanged etc. As certain posters here have done about his political opponents. He has done and said some things which I admired, or agreed with, also, and I think if he didn't need the bigots and ignoramuses who are found in his base, he could have been a been a better president. Of course bigots and ignoramuses ( ignorami?) are found in the left,s base too, but as of yet they don't determine policy.( insert your own withering riposte here)
But you have your internal narrative of me as hate filled, although I think you should know better. So the answer to your rhetorical question is no, I don!t really hate Trump. I sure do dislike him, though.
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On 6/2/2021 at 5:31 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Jules,
Actually, I think Trump might think that way.
I know I do.
And I am not alone.
Michael
If this is how Trump thinks he reminds me of Charlie Sheen in his swan song. Winning! Winning! Revenge!
Too many people are transfusing their tiger blood these days
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41 minutes ago, tmj said:
Carol
As to the legal definitions and or constitutionally muster bearing jurisprudence and structure of our courts and their structures as they act in concordance through the states to the federal level would require me to review .. a lot. But my gut feelin as an 'merican is the courts are separate but equal.
The loftiness of my second paragraph was meant to hide my short comings( see above paragraph) and denigrate our educational institutions . Just look at the twitterfacebookgoogle universe and apparently we live in a democracy as opposed to a constitutional republic that selects our office holders by popular vote.
I can sympathize with your dilemma. Whe the French people eradicated the ancien regime, they fought their various inherited or declared wars under Impromptu leadership in the name of the Republic, until they chose an Emperor. The American republic chose to follow the British legislative example, with many changes and improvements. But war can only be declared by Congress, is that not the case? So absent that, would a legal argument of an "act of war or something of that nature" be admissible?
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We are only behind some times.
The times of Stalin and Hitler are behind us all , I must hope and pray we will all stay ahead of the times of real, endorsed-by-the- people, practising new Hitlers and Stalins with real Camp Auschwitzes and gulags.
Before you say they are already here If I just took a good look, both here and in your experimental republic, I will assume it said to save you the trouble.
I assume your lofty second paragraph means, there is a. Legal definition but you don't like it.
In neighbourly solidarity,
Carol
Proudly retro
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4 hours ago, tmj said:
Carol
That would depend on whether or not the Court deems itself to be part and parcel of the Government ?
Isn't there a legal definition of a court's role and authority? As the law stands now, can a court act as an independent arbiter or is it deemed as the judicial arm of a state or federal, well, Government? Or has your court system separated more from the British model than than ours in Canada has?
That would make sense as our constitution came not with our nationhood but 75 cautious Canuck years later.
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1 hour ago, ThatGuy said:
Well, that's awfully fair of you, MSK, considering the out-right label of "false" by the "fact-checkers", who rarely reciprocate such objectivity in THEIR "analysis"...
Your analysis was very fair, without sarcasm. I wish we did not need to be reminded that Fact checkers and fake media are not fair in every post, whatever the subject, but I realize that is part of the mission of OL now.
One thing I am curious about, on point 3. Would the court consider itself entitled to categorize an event as an act of war, if it had not been formally called so by the government?
This will be some court case.Or cases, I guess.
Carol
Grisham fan
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8 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Ain't this sweet?
Granted, this is the Daily Mail, but still...
Ten trillion is sounding more and more plausible...
And I still agree with Styx. The world needs to come together and dismantle the CCP on pain of being nuked. A government that would do what it did does cannot coexist with other governments on the same planet.
Michael
O God! Mice with human lungs! This is what replaces "apes with angel glands" in modern thought ??
Never mind Godbeingdead, now poetry too!!!'
turning over in my grave though not even dead.
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14 minutes ago, Brant Gaede said:
Come on Peter, contradict me so we can have an argument.
--Brant
Too bad Brant, the constitution means only what Trump thinks it means, sorry, I mean knows it means.
If Peter is just making mock of that, he will be sorry!
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4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
MisterSwig,
I don't want to rewatch that interview, not even part, but I don't recall the word "rape."
Did I miss it?
Or did the word "rape" never come up?
Didn't he have an engraved invitation?
MAGA-Trump Movement 2021 And Beyond
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All those things you have highlighted do take time...especially court cases which everyone knows can be dragged out till they are threadbare. Are there still any pertinent cases still in the system waiting for judgment..and how many more do they estimate to bring (roughly of course)? And what if all the initiatives take more than three years to complete?
i know I'm asking you to put on your Carnac Royal Ascot turban, but even guerrilla warfare does have schedules.