Is this really "the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember"?
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Originally posted by G:Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
That's probably True.
I don't believe that men, in general, are violent pigs.
I think most are decent.
But sooner or later, you're gonna meet a violent pig.
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I believe that that is an insult to pigs. Pigs is just being pigs. And pigs is tasty.
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I apologize to 4-legged, hoofed pigs everywhere.
... but especially to Wilbur in "Charlotte's Web."
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& btw, I won't let myself say "A$$hole" in here.
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Anyway ... to go sideways a bit to the title
I think the McCarthy era was a low point. The Vietnam War was pretty low, too. Watergate was low, as was the time Nixon was deeply drunk and ready to drop "the bomb" on Vietnam. The petro-dollar arrangement was also low. In retrospect, Clinton's dismantling of the productive American economy was low. The explosive expansion of the surveillance state under "W" Bush was also low. As was Obama's drone-assassination program.
It's be hard to pick what was lowest.
HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?
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Quote:I had conjured the Civil War was a fair low point. What spurred Joss to make Firefly. Brother killing brother. That is pretty low.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Anyway ... to go sideways a bit to the title
I think the McCarthy era was a low point. The Vietnam War was pretty low, too. Watergate was low, as was the time Nixon was deeply drunk and ready to drop "the bomb" on Vietnam. The petro-dollar arrangement was also low. In retrospect, Clinton's dismantling of the productive American economy was low. The explosive expansion of the surveillance state under "W" Bush was also low. As was Obama's drone-assassination program.
It's be hard to pick what was lowest.
Edit: OK, "that I can remember" - I don't remember the McCarthy era.
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JSF, "I don't remember the McCarthy era."
Rampant paranoia about the Communist party &
its increasing membership here in the USA.
Wikipedia:
"McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason
without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph
McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as
the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized
by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of
Communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet
agents."
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Quote:I didn't mean to imply that I didn't know what it was. I wasn't around then to recall it. I also was not around during The Civil War, and assume you were not as well.
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
JSF, "I don't remember the McCarthy era."
Rampant paranoia about the Communist party &
its increasing membership here in the USA.
Wikipedia:
"McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason
without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph
McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as
the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized
by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of
Communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet
agents."
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There seems to be a bit of McCarthyism in the air these days....
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Was chatting with a Librarian for an Elementary School last night. Drives her nuts that kids cannot understand even the most basic Alphabet. They seem to need their Dummy Phone top do everything for them.
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Yeah... I think my niece uses that thing way too much. Maybe I'm just old though. I'm hoping that her teacher gets her excited about learning. I've tried to do things with her in the past, but she just wants to play pretend when Uncle Jack is around. The three biggest games now are she's the princess of the castle that we make out of couch pillows, or we take turns ordering McDonalds, or take turns going to the doctor and being operated on. The last time I went to the doctor, I had 4 babies.
I'm hoping she goes into healthcare when she grows up. I don't think there's real demand for Princesses in 2018 and beyond, and even I'm doing better than a McDonald's employee.
On the plus side, her teacher said that since she's been teaching my niece is the only 3 year old who recognized her own name on the wall the first day of class. So there's that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So far, best year I've seen since Reagan.
More winning, please.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Taliban rule offers safe haven to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/counterterrorism/taliban-rule-offers-safe-
haven-to-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan/
US under permanent threat from ISIS, Pentagon official says
https://en.mercopress.com/2021/10/28/us-under-permanent-threat-from-is
is-pentagon-official-says
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I admit, my sampling of 'women' is limited. I've interacted with perhaps a dozen waitresses at length at my local diner over the last 25 years. Then there's the Hispanic neighbor-lady that lives on one side. (The other side is a rental, and lately the renters have been flowing thru at roughly yearly intervals.) Then there's my mom, grandmother, aunts, all my cousins, and assorted female relatives. And the three or so dozen co-workers. All the students I've trained over the years. Professors. And so on.
Most women I know don't call themselves feminists any more than they call themselves vertebrates, because the name just doesn't matter to them that much, one way or the other.
But if you ask them, what they want is to be treated fairly.
Don't worry while the Media Freaked out about Trump's GRAB 'EM BY THE PUSSY comments
some time later Billions of Dollars of equipment and weaponry, including helicopters, guns, rockets were gifted to a people that stone women to death in Asscrackistan
and Seattle has simply stopped filing Rape reports to focus its limited resources on things like 'Murder'
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
So far, best year I've seen since Reagan.
the Senile old shit and shape shifter Commiefornia Democrat who invited Afghan islamists into the Whitehouse...ok
Democrats might take a page out of that book and start running actors like Matthew McConaughey
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