General Discussion, Wednesday, September 28, 2016

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  1. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    Former Israeli president Shimon Peres dies at 93.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37492153

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    The 2016 40 Days for Life prayer vigils begin Wednesday, 9/28–in 367 cities worldwide. The link gives information and locations:

    https://40daysforlife.com/

    Please consider participating–either in person (if possible) or in private prayer. Lives have been saved–lives have been changed.

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  3. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    Don’t mess with elderly…

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  4. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    Yeah, right…

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  5. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Something for everyone: babies, hot chicks being objectified, some buff dudes…..and that &@*^%# camel’s nowhere to be seen.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StKryHTp8ZY

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  6. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    Results show MSM and Killary lie like rugs…

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  7. texan59's avatar texan59 says:

    Hi-ho! Hi-ho! I guess somebody’s gotta do it. Off to work I go. Coffee up y’all. 😆

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (2008 Château Haut Brion)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids! It’s “National Drink Beer Day!”

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  10. Ziiggii's avatar Ziiggii says:

    Just want to share a video that has been passed around my circles for the past few days. It’s from Northpoint Community Church (Atlanta) which is led by Pastor Andy Stanley.

    “Skin In The Game”

    The first-century church was deeply divided over race and social status. Too often, the modern church is too. But God commands us to love one another as we share with the world the good news that God loves everybody.

    http://northpoint.org/messages/071016-message/

    It was done right after the shootings in MN, LA and Dallas; you can tell that in the discussion they use some misinformation that was thought to have been ‘fact’ at the time. Regardless of that, it is a powerful discussion that I believe needs to happen all over the nation.

    It dovetails into a comment I made next door to Joan Foster, who seems to live in the Charlotte area, regarding taking time over the weekend to repent for being so cold at these times. And Andy is correct when he said “The further I am away from a problem the easier it looks”. I know for me that came to be true with the events that unfolded here a week ago.

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  11. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Here we go again:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3810837/Unarmed-black-man-acting-erratically-shot-police-San-Diego-suburb-amid-claims-cops-confiscated-witnesses-cell-phones.html

    Yet again, the whole public narrative is fueled by lies. It’s seems as if lying is these people’s default position.

    I wish lying was a felony.

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Community organizers are out whipping up the apathetic in public housing, ‘reminding’ them that if Trump wins their free ride will end, no longer will little Rat birds flutter overhead, dropping morsels of sustenance into their open mouthes. Push is on to get as many as possible to vote early, makes having organizers there to guide their little hands to check the correct boxes.
    Hopes to have public housing residents vote for progress, rather than progressivism, are slight as generations of living in the Fed’s stockyards seem to have removed their abilities to think beyond the immediate reach of their outstretched hands. There were families in public housing on their 4th generation there when I worked it, and that was a a public housing generation ago.
    Something we don’tnthink about is that the mentally disabled, right down to those mentally disabled who are too severely disabled to even perform the basic daily tasks required to survive, will be voting. Their attendants will be ‘assisting’ them to mark their ballots according to the disabled person’s ‘wishes’. Appears the attendants know them better than they know themselves.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      I’ve known a few of these state-paid Attendants.

      We have a guy who mops our FOH floor every morning at 0530.

      He’s white, incapable of holding any sort of rational conversation, and I shake his hand and give him a smoke every time I see him, usually sitting with his back against a dumpster for many hours a day. About 6 years ago one of his better Attendants took him on a train ride, just for the experience. He talked about it for two years. Avidly.

      His Attendants have always been either black or obese hillbilly, and none have lasted longer than a year. They get paid by the state, or the Fed, and they (except the aforementioned) never lift a finger to help or educate or enlighten the person they are in charge of. They spend the whole hour each morning on their phones, texting or playing Candy Crush Saga, while this guy mops our floor.

      And yes, he will probably be “voting”, at his Attendant’s insistence.

      I’m a bit cynical.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        I make 14K per year.

        Sub-poverty.

        This guy’s Attendant makes more than double that.

        And this lady leans against the wall every day on her phone, for one hour, and that’s the entirety of her job. Oh, and then drive him to the dumpster where he’s sat all day long for the last 9 years. And then pick him up in the evening and bring him back to the group home. It’s a different Attendant every six months or so.

        I want to take him on an airplane ride. Would that I were receiving gov’t largesse.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Oh yeah, we had ’em too at my Fed office. Contractor got paid a bundle and they got just enough so that they wouldn’t lose Social Security/Medicaid benefits.
        Ones I’m talking about are the ones impolitely referred to as vegetables in pre-PC days, persons who cannot even feed themselves. I’m not talking paralyzed, I’m talking physically and mentally incapable. So unless a court has removed that individual’s right to vote…

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      They’ve been doing that for years and it infuriates me.

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  13. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Uh, Hillary, Your Hubby Caused the 2008 Recession
    By Jack Cashill

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/09/uh_hillary_your_hubby_caused_the_2008_recession.html

    … In fact, tax policies had almost nothing to do with the recession of 2008. What caused the market crash was the collapse of the subprime market. If that collapse had an architect-in-chief, his name was Bill Clinton. This is not a speculation. It is an easily documented fact.

    When Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, the homeownership rate was lower than it had been when Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1969. Despite increasing prosperity, despite the growth in the condominium market, the numbers were declining.

    The Clintons wanted to push those numbers up. If they had been inclined to look, the explanation for the decline was simple enough: the collapse of the two-parent family. From 1970 to 2000, single-parent households, disproportionately black, increased 60 percent. In that same period, married couples with their own children fell from 40 percent of all households to just 24 percent.

    The Clintons and their media allies refused to acknowledge family breakdown as a problem — remember “Murphy Brown” — let alone as an explanation for the disparity in home-ownership rates. Their preferred explanation for just about everything unpleasant, then as now, was the inevitable racism. This they could and would freely impute to less enlightened Americans, “the deplorables” as they would come to be known…

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  14. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:

    School shooting in Townville, SC. 2 students airlifted. 1 teacher transported to hospital. Teenage suspect in custody. Could be another crime scene 3 miles away.
    http://www.wyff4.com/news/possible-shooting-reported-at-elementary-school-police-say/41866672

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  15. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Hey, Kirby!

    (Intelligent rap. That’s been an oxymoron lately. Then I discovered Aesop Rock and the Rhymesayers Entertainment label. Wow, such a thing exists as intelligent rap!)

    Here’s one about a cat.

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  16. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    One of the best bands in the world:

    Whoever did the graphics for their lyric videos are genius.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Every song on this album is a work of genius.

      Turn on the radio and hear Hotel California for the ten millionth time and scream:

      WHY?

      These people who control our media won’t let go of their golden years. So I have to hear that song every day of my life. I have to hear insipid Green Day and Offspring and absolute crap.

      I have people at our restaurants who call me every spring and ask me to make them a good Pandora™ playlist for the customers and for the kitchen. They know people are just as sick as me of listening to the crap we’re spoon-fed for decades. And they know that I know good music.

      Yeah, I wanna hear Rolling on a River every single day, followed inevitably by Dude Looks Like a Lady. For 40 damn years. Radio stations have made this life like a damn Twilight Zone episode.

      I have yet to hear Joe Bonamassa on the raido.

      WHY

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        If you have the opportunity to rent or stream Bonamassa’s An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House, do so.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

          One of the four performers on that stage plays a nyckelharpa.

          Amazing instrument. It’s a violin with keys. Scandi as hell. An engineering masterpiece.

          Expensive as hell, too.

          Everyone on that stage is a musical genius. I think that has something to do with why more people know who Jay-Z and Beyonce are. (And no, I’m not going to go through the easy trouble to find out how to make Beyonce’s “e” correct with ALT-codes. Because screw her. She can call herself “La-a” for all I care.)

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

          When track 4: Dust Bowl begins, you hear the nyckelharpa.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

          I mean, other than this YouTube playlist.

          You have to watch them do this concert. It’s four people.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            Radio station owners are our punishers. Our torturers.

            You wanna hear Boston’s four greatest hits again today, don’t you?

            Of course you do.

            Hands up… who didn’t already hear that song this week?

            No hands? Shocka.

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            • I love Boston and all the metal bands you posted the other day, too Queensryche, Rush, and Def Leppard being some of my faves. Seen them all live. Sorry it’s not your thing, but it was kind of you to post the tunes!

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                Boston had three albums, which were all the same, whose songs were all the same on each album. It was a money-making formula, true. So is whatever the heck Jay-Z does. Profitable doesn’t equal good. It just means the artist and the label fooled enough people into believing that popularity = good. Snoop Dogg is good, right? He must be! He has so much money!

                The guys who made “Whoomp, there it is!” are still making $50k per year in royalties.

                On one song.

                Boston made three albums. Consisting of one song.

                Intelligent? Yup. Musically incredible? I want to pull my own teeth out when I hear it.

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                • For me, Boston represents my older sister, who loved their music and left this earth way too young. I hear them and I remember her. And Long Time was my classes’ senior song. When my daughter was a baby and wouldn’t sleep at night, her dad would hold her and dance to it until she fell asleep. That music is good memories for me, but everyone can have their own opinion.

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

              Uhmmm. I listen to the radio all the time, but I’m listening to classical. So I’ve not heard one pop song from this century all week.

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              • Nothing wrong with that. My tastes are very eclectic. I like many different genres. It’s fun to change it up.

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                Go ahead, Sand. Type “Rush” into Pandora.

                See if you ever hear “Temple of Syrinx” or “The Necromancer”.

                You won’t. You’ll hear the same four top Rush hits you’ve heard for the last 40 years. Tom Sawyer, Spirit of the Radio, Free Will, and, if you’re lucky and they play something really rare by this band that has 300 songs, you might hear The Trees.

                Because Pandora is an alternative to Radio.

                My arse. It’s the same.

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                • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                  I don’t know those songs. I kind uf remember there was Rush and REO Speedwagon, but I know more about the actual REO Speedwagon manufacture than I do the band namesake.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                I listen to an oldies station on the coast. I can close my eyes, listen to the 70s/80s hits and imagine I’m 30 years younger…or at least until I veer off and hit the rumble bars on the shoulder.

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                • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                  I’ll be listening to and finding new music when I’m 80. If I live that long.

                  Even if that new music sounds like it was made before I was born.

                  And, speaking of Leonard Cohen…

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                    We’re sorta stuck with CDs though if I sit still I can listen to the multiple stations on DitrecTV. I use the music mostly to drown out life’s white-noise while I’m concentrating on something else, so I’m less likely to seek out new music that I have to ‘listen’ to rather than some music that’s already laid down tracks in my mind.

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                  Very little music I’ve cared for since the early 80’s. I liked it all pre-80, country, rock, pop, blues, bluegrass, etc., although my heart was always country. This crap being passed off as country today makes my ears bleed.

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    • derk's avatar derk says:

      Like very much, the bird is mesmerizing. Thanks for new stuff, I appreciate the sharing.

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  17. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Breaking news: black cross-dressing male is serial-defecating on doorsteps in a yuppified New Orleans neighborhood. So far NOPD has found squat…
    Also, in a middle-class NOLA neighborhood a man exited his backdoor and saw two men rummaging through his shed . He went inside, retrieved his personal and legally-owned firearm and went outside to confront the thieves. Both thugs exited the shed, one burglar ran and one burglar stopped and reached for his waistband ( according to the homeowner) – the homeowner fired and hit the burglar in the neck. No word from DA’s office of charges for the burglar who was caught but they are strongly looking at charges (aggravated battery to manslaughter if burglar dies) agaonst the homeowner.

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Shooting in El Cajon, CA. Police responded to a black male ‘not acting normally’ walking in traffic. When they approached the man and demanded he remove his hands from his pockets he did, and immediately went into a shooting stance. Police shot, he paid for his actions and BLM clones are saying he was mentally ill and shouldn’t have been shot.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/california-police-shooting-unknown/index.html

    Reports are that POtuS already talking with Hellary about legislation that would mandate better mental health training for police officers and establish a realistic quota for how many times the police officer must be shot by a perp before s/he can return fire.

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  19. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:

    What Patton would be telling us if he were alive today.

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  20. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    One more with fine harmonies, today:

    This song has been covered by Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Aurora, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Kurt Elling, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, George Benson, Casey Abrams, and Frank Sinatra. Among many others.

    This is the best version.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention David Bowie’s version, or Cher’s, or Marvin Gaye’s, or Johnny Mathis’, or James Brown’s, or Jose Feliciano’s versions.

      Not to mention Grace Slick’s version. Or especially Leonard Cohen’s.

      Quite an amazing song, if you think about the number of covers.

      They’re all on YouTube.

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  21. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    See?

    They have nothing new. They’re clinging to their revolutionary youth.

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  22. texan59's avatar texan59 says:

    Angelo Codevilla thinks this Country is done. Regardless of who wins in Nov. While I know that a great number here would disagree, please take a few minutes to read through his article. Thought-provoking, and very sobering. Won’t make you feel very warm and fuzzy.

    FTA – “The character of an eventual Trump Administration is unpredictable because speculating about Trump’s mind is futile. It is equally futile to guess how he might react to the mixture of flattery and threats sure to be leveled against him. The entire ruling class—Democrats and Republicans, the bulk of the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the press—would do everything possible to thwart him;”

    http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/after-the-republic/

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Good article, but I kinda wish I hadn’t read it at bedtime.

      So many people think Trump is a magic pill. I don’t. He can only do what he can do with every idiot in government, from the senate to the cafeteria ladies trying to take him down. Not to mention that we are in deep, deep, doo.

      America is never going to be what we older kids here remember as good, free, right, and invincible again. Can we keep her alive, give our kids something to salvage and build on? That question is worth more than the national debt.

      And if there aren’t a lot of tough cookies out there to step into the breach while the mamas’ babies are whining in their safe spaces it won’t matter. Running a life, running a country, it takes guts and a willingness to get dirty and sacrifice. I’ve stopped seeing that in most people under thirty, and lots even older.

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      • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

        IIRC, there are over 2.4M folks working in the FedGov, let alone those in state and local. Most of the fed folks are part of the leviathan, unanswerable to all but their boss. Since it takes more than an act of Congress to get rid of one, there isn’t much he can do, unless he cuts off their money. And I doubt that will happen.

        As for those following behind us, I don’t have much hope for them as a whole. While there are many outstanding, level-headed young’uns, they are way outnumbered by the snowflakes. I just hope that I don’t live long enough to see the whole thing slide into the abyss.

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