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My go-to religion guy, Fred Clark, posts a snippet every Sunday. This is from last week:
Birmingham 12:7-14
For those that prefer separation of church and state be glad Trump won and not Hillary. Hillary wants to preach.
You're cool, Dean!
How is that evidence that she didn't support the separation of church and state? She had Bill taught Sunday school during Bill's term as POTUS and they didn't have a problem with the separation of church and state.
I’m glad Trump won and not Hillary. I’d rather have a businessman than a wannabe preacher in the White House.
Sharp as a marble.
After tapping a new keg, you need to completely drain the line of the old beer or it tastes like crap. Many bars fail to do so. This message board rocks Bob!
I'm a beer person. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a decent IPA in France?
Such sacrifices......
And Italian beer is just gross. It all tastes like Busch.
Italians brew beer?
Really?
I have to agree Bob. If it's not Stella or Heineken you're stuck with wine.
Yes, and they should stick to grapes.
Being stuck with Italian wine is not the worst fate I can imagine...
I am an IPA girl
. We have several local brewery's here where I live that have very good IPAs. That stinks you have a hard time finding them there.
We've found a couple (expensive) Belgian IPAs. Belgium (only about an hour north of here) is beer heaven.
Remember to stop in Amsterdam for some primo nose candy before coming back!
I bet they are good! Are you able to bring any home across country lines/borders?
When I was young and broke my cheap beer was something called Red Dog. It’s disgusting.
Ha! Us too! Along with Southpaw, Icehouse, Miller Lite etc.... Red Dog though, you could buy a 12 pack for $6.99, tasted like piss water but it did the job LOL
Amsterdam is w-a-a-a-y north.
We buy at the local equivalent of Walmart. Northern France is under Belgian beer domination. Thank God, since most French beers are kinda Buschy.
Come to Long Island! We have some of the best breweries!
LOL!!!! Buschy LOL!
Peroni is pretty good.
I prefer Steinlager myself. New Zealand's equivalent to Fosters, but better tasting! When I lived in Christchurch, New Zealand I used to love going to the Steinlager brewery there for their free tours with samples. Cheap way to get inebriated on a Saturday. Ah to be young and foolish, those were the days!
I don't know about your breweries, but you make an iced tea to die for.
My husband brews his own IPA
Those teas will get you in a shitload of trouble, too
That's cool.
Does he have a lot of material? What about ingredients?
I'll say it right up front...I pay little attention to what Mr Giggles does in his man cave. He has buckets, hoses, funnels, bottles, a capper, and some other stuff. He orders his ingredients from a catalog called Midwest Brewing.
That's all I know.
Mmmmmm .... Trappist monk beer ...... mmmmmm
Women are absolutely hopeless when it comes to the really important things in life!
yer lucky I like you, Bob
Tell me about it. The first time I drank 6 of them (I swear to God I thought it was just regular iced tea), I woke up the next morning in the back of a VW van in a gas station in Malibu.
And I bet you have no idea how you landed there.
Unfortunately for me, I remember clearly the night I drank 5 of those things.
I use to be a bartender before I had my girls. I knew our lines were cleaned out every Monday. Every time we go out anywhere and a beer I want to order is on tap, I always ask when their lines have been cleaned. I know my husband hates it but if I'm paying $5 or more for a 16 oz beer, I want it to taste decent
I think that must be the reason I can't stand draft beer and always get so sick after drinking it. Good advice, lenny!
My go-to guy for economics is of course Paul Krugman :
I wonder if there is any connection to the border fence they now have in Brownsville, Tx.
Obviously. I can't imagine any other explanation...
Interesting factoid from the BBC:
A US Customs and Border Protection report credits any changes to the president's policies to improved border security.
And while cross-border migrants often make headlines, the largest number of illegal migrants settling in the US each year are the people who stay in the country after their visas expire.
According to the most recent reports by the Department of Homeland Security and the Center for Migration Studies, the number who overstayed their visas has outnumbered those who crossed the border illegally every year since 2007. Canadians make up the largest group of these illegal migrants.
In 2016, there were a total of 739,478 overstays, compared to 563,204 illegal border crossings.
Hooda thunkit??
Lots of Canadian snowbirds in Yuma. Maybe some never go home?
Lots of them in Florida, too. I haven't a clue. Just an odd stat that I found.
They have some odd rules, like health care coverage, that kinda sorta require them to go home every six months.
Buzz would know, but I think he's asleep.
Now maybe we can finally ship back Justin Bieber.
Yes!
I think Canada passed the Beiber law called He Is Your Problem Now.
Ohhhh crap! Talk about passing the buck. But in this case, it's passing the Beeb.
I bet Donald Trump doesn’t even know that. Otherwise he would have rounded up a few thousand of them and shipped them back to Canada after his farce at the G7, to get back at Trudeau.
Maybe we could make a trade. They give us Rush (the rock band not the rock head) and we give them Bieber back
Or we give you Rush and you keep Bieber too
If you mean Rush the rock head, then, yeah
I know more than a few down in Fl that never go home
I don't mean to be rude but I cannot help myself.
I’ve been calling my wife “ma waaf” ever since this originally aired. At the end of the show Louis revealed that they broke because his fake Polish accent was so horrible.
From Poland via Atlanta, Ga! The worst accents I've ever heard!
Congratulations on your recent nuptials Hal. How’s married life treating you and how was the trip?
It’s no different really, other than now having to wear a piece of jewelry (I’ve never been a jewelry guy). Although I suppose Jesus is pleased that we are no longer living in sin.
The trip was amazing - thanks for asking.
I guess I missed an episode...
Add my congrats!
Congrats, Hal!!!!!
Congratulations on your marriage, Hal. May the path ahead provide lots of joy and happiness.
Congratulations on your marriage!
I like the idea of people being able to make one off comments on whatever they want. I tried it here once before and there was no success, but there are more people here now and maybe this one will go better.
Donald Trump Jr. has been rewteeting and liking white supremacist and conspiracy material on twitter since at least the time his father started running for office as a banner for white nationalism and conspiracy theories.
Am I the only one upset by the whole, "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking"?
Are we to live in a society where the second vowel is relegated to second class citizenship status?
The wisdom of the vision of our Founding Fathers is that all vowels are created equal (including sometimes Y).
While we are on the subject, I before E, except after C.
What's up with that?
Have any proponents of this bothered to weigh how this affects the self esteem of our neighbor E's?
Enoch, Passing Go and Collecting $200.
Injustice must be defeated!
Forward spelling reform!
It is outrageous! Time to organize a protest.
E before I!!
Whenever we like!!
E before I!!
Whenever we like!!
A chant heard at a rally for procrastinators and unfocused.
"What do we want?
Not sure.
When do we demand it?
Later!"
Enoch, Deciding Not To Choose.
I'm trying to decide how much time and energy I'm willing to put into this protest that will never resolve anything.
It's the silent consonants one has to look out for.
Sneaky bastards!
And those are the ones that really stink.....oh you said consonants... Never mind.
It is the dangling participles that always did me in, damn them.
Me too. But, I got tired of fighting them and just cut them off at the source. There is more than one way to deal with a dangler.
They're always tripping me up!
Got to say I find this talk about cutting things that dangle off somewhat disturbing.
I'm immensely happy that I wasn't the only one who thought of man-bits.
In other news, I can't believe it's been 25 years since Lorena Bobbitt...um...bobbed it.
I know, but as the saying goes "the days may be long but the years are short"
English is a screwy language. "To, too, two"... Their, there, they're... I dated a gal that was born and raised in Berlin. She taught me enough German to carry on an abbreviated conversation....SO much easier than English..
That's where I am with my German and French. But, French is much more complicated than German.
I took French in high school and college and didn't think it was that difficult. It followed logic more so than English.
But don't ask me to speak it today
I can order beer in five languages, but only know how to ask where the bathroom is in two of them. As you never buy beer, you only rent it, there are three countries that I will only order water.
I guess it all has to do with the tongue and how it can manipulate the words. My difficulty was in the pronunciation of the words properly, as, I just could not seem to get my tongue wrapped around some of the words. Maybe it has to do with my Southern drawl.
That is how I am with a couple of languages as well. There is a fairly large Samoan community in San Diego, and when I worked at the Light Rail transit organization, there were several Samoans who worked there, and we would meet on our breaks and they would teach me some words. But, they got transferred to another shift and we could no longer meet. Thus, I was left with just he words I had a chance to learn, which was not really enough to carry on a conversation with.
Portuguese was another language that I learned a bit of from a Portuguese lady who whose husband was a fisherman when the big fishing fleets were in San Diego before they moved to Long Beach. It is a very interesting language, as it is unlike other languages. I was sorry that I could not learn more before they had to move to Long Beach with the fishing fleet.
I understand Portuguese is very difficult to learn. My cousin spent quite a few years in Brazil and now speaks it fluently as does her children.
rolling the r's is the hardest. I never got praise for my pronunciation, but I did pretty well with reading and writing it
Different languages have different sounds, requiring different configurations of tongue, teeth, lips, ... A child learns these sounds along with vocabulary. Meanwhile learning all sorts of other "psycho-motor" configurations in sports, and so on...
The child loses the capacity to learn new configurations with the onset of puberty. Existing configurations can be modified a bit, but genuine novelties are finished.
So... If you learn a new language as an adult, it is highly likely that you will never get its sounds exactly right.
And also, this explains why the person who learned several languages as a child has a much easier time of it later. They "modify existing configurations" rather than create new ones.
It is, as it is not like any other language, it is a language all to itself.
Rolling the r's was not too much of a problem for me as there are a lot of those in Spanish, so I learned how to do that pretty well. But, The hard part is if there is no one around who speaks the language when you are trying to learn it to practice conversing with. Also, most of what I learned is from those who actually speak the language, which can sometimes be different than what they teach in a classroom. I guess it depends on their dialect of the area where they area from. Just like here in America there are various dialects across the country based upon where people live.
Very true, Bob. I am actually fairly good with accents and the percussive sounds that go with some languages. But, others are more difficult words to pronounce. I relate some of it to learning the different dialects here in America. The English language seems to change as you go from one part of the country to another. And of course they have their own slang words and local terms.
However, I do love to learn other languages. I am currently watching both S. Koran and Chinese productions, and while there are Eng subs for them, I like to pay attention to their words and try to learn from them. However, like many other languages, they tend to speak backwards compared to English. It's like in English we say "I'm going to the store", and they say, "To the store I am going", so it makes it a bit hard to master. The speed of their speech also makes it hard to follow at times. But, it is fun try and see how well I can follow what they are saying compared to the subs.
I'm bilingual English-French. My French vocabulary is probably better than 90% of native French - I always want a precise word in either language. But I have a slight accent, and undoubtedly always will. This confuses listeners, since they're hearing a contradiction: excellent grammar and vocabulary, but pronunciation that is just a teeny tiny bit "off".
Sometimes, when asked "where are you from, originally?", I answer "I'm from Alsace". That's a region on the German border where many people speak Alsatian, a dialect of German, as primary language, with French as a universal but second language. The result is that many Alsatians have noticeable accents when speaking French.
The explanation is accepted most of the time...
Oh yeah!!!
My wife "kinda sorta gets along" in English. She's constantly complaining that she learned "English English" way back in her school days, and that Americans just don't speak the same language. Which is true!
Yes, unless you're from Scotland...
In exchange, the French are completely flummoxed by "th". English has two "th" sounds, vibrated ("this") and non-vibrated '("think"). Both require putting the tongue fairly far forward, and up against the upper incisors. That's a configuration that doesn't exist in French, so Francophones make do with the "z" and "s" that characterize a "French accent".
I have 2+ years of French in high school and I have tried to learn German on my own and I've always thought that German was more difficult to learn. I only know enough German to stumble way way through the most basic tourist situations. I would never ever be considered fluent in French but I can get along in most situations if I had to. I was made fun of in Montreal because I learned Parisian French and Quebecois is more informal tongue.
It is sort of like learning German. There is High German and Low German, and it does make a difference which one you speak where in Germany. High German is the more standard German spoken in Germany. So like the difference in the French spoken in the Parisian French and that spoken in Quebec.
True. And a good many Americans don't even really speak English, as they have accents and dialects depending on where they live here in America. I was raised in various Southern states, so I naturally have a Southern accent, but, it is a mixture of the words and accents of the various states where I had lived. So in a way I had an English language all my own.
When I first moved to Calif I was still in school. And it is hard enough getting into a new school, but, in a new state with a different language it was really rough. The people in Calif talked very fast compared to my more drawn out Southern drawl. So when they would talk I lost a lot of the conversation as I could not keep up with them. Plus, they had many different words that I had not heard before. So I would ask them to speak slower for me. On the other hand, when I would talk they would become impatient with my slower talking and tell me to speed up. So it took some adjustment to get used to the difference in the language.
The one language that was fairly easy for me to learn was Italian. And while there are also variations of Italian in the different areas of Italy and Sicily, one can still manage to understand no matter what area you are in.
When I first came to Europe, nearly fifty years ago (
), I spent a few months in Germany, learning the language. Back then, I could listen to the radio and read a newspaper, which are pretty good tests. I've lost most of it, for lack of practice.
I was in Bavaria, where there's an accent, but in some parts of Germany there's worse! Dialects! One day, our teacher spoke a few sentences in Oberbayerisch , from the hinterlands near Austria. We didn't understand anything . Standarddeutsch , the standard, has a particular word-order, wortordnung , notably putting the verb at the end when there's an auxiliary. Wortordnung is absolutely central to the German language.
So... of course... Oberbayerisch has a different wortordnung .......
Whenever I hear Italian, I feel like I should understand. It's so close to French. But no....
Likewise with Dutch. Between my English and what remains of my German, I always feel like I should understand. But no... Not a problem, of course. The Dutch all speak English. And German. And French. They're disgusting!
Like most languages, including American English, there are always different dialects and words that have different meanings. Like the difference between many Southern areas and Northern areas, as well as the difference between the Eastern and Western areas, and then there are the in between areas. My Parents found that out traveling around the country in the Motorhome after my Father retired. It seems like even each state has their own language, as well as differing dialects in each state, so there does not seem to be any real 'standard' language. So understandably this can, and sometimes does, apply to other countries. What seems to be the oddest for me is the different dialects for each region or area across America as well.
Those poor people are surrounded by the English, German, and French.
Pittsburghese is a language all its own. Do you remember Vlad's Dog from Newsvine? He used to write hilarious articles using Pittsbughese. I grew up about 70 miles to the east of Pittsburgh and while our dialect wasn't as bad as that in Pittsburgh, we had our share of made up words. Where I come from, vowels are almost absent from the language and always use an extra consonant when you can.
But even in the South people here put an "r" in their "warsh". Even our governor talks like that.
Indeed. I lived in every Southern state but Florida (no extended family living there) and even from state to state the language was different. But, like, "Isa fer piece up yonder" (as they pointed) always seemed rather standard in them all.
I remember the first time I heard some one say "fixin' to". I was in basic training and somebody from Texas said it. I looked at them and asked "what are you fixing?".
Now I use it all the time. I have a curious way of speaking because I've lived all over Pennsylvania (and the dialects there vary from county to county) and different parts of the country. And being in the military exposes you to a wide variety of people who all talk funny. I remember talking to a plumber who was originally from North Carolina. We were in his shop at Eielson AFB and he said "pap". WTF is he saying? He was saying "pipe"
As we were ordering our meal in a pub in Scotland, the waitress asked, "I'll?"
I asked, "You'll what?"
She looked at me... strangely...
... ... ... Eventually we figured out that she wanted our drink orders and was suggesting "ale".
They must've been from somewhere in northern Texas, around here the term would be "fid'n to".
Yeah.....or the "Ima fixin to", which was a staple in many Southern states. Or "Ima gonna" which didn't seem to mater what they were referring to. My ex was from Little Italy in Cleveland OH, and when we went back to visit his family for the first time, it took me the first 3 days of our week stay to even begin to grasp what they were saying between their Italian accent and broken English and their local OH slang words. But, they were Sicilian, so even their form of Italian was somewhat different than the Italian I had learned, which was from mainland Italy. Even there, there was a difference in the Northern and Southern Italian.
I studied Spanish in the 4th grade, however, what I learned in school and what was spoken here in America was as different as night and say. When I spoke to the Mexican kids I knew they looked at me like, "Huh?" So I learned to speak the Spanish language here in America.
Yeah...accents and different dialects can make it hard at times to follow.
Yeah, I lived in Ft Worth, so that was Northeastern Texas. But, we also live for a while in San Antonio and Brownsville when my Father was with the Texas Rangers. And I remember Victoria had the worst mosquitoes I have ever seen. I am highly allergic to their saliva and the chemical they inject to keep the blood from coagulating while they are feeding. So for me it was a living hell. I have never lived anywhere else that I was so miserable. Even Atlanta and Metairie LA, was not that bad.
That does sound miserable. I can't imagine living anywhere in the deep south was pleasant with an allergy like that.
I'm on board Enoch! Vowel justice NOOOOWWWWW!!
Anything huh?
Two Corinthians walk into a bar..
Great story!!
A Rabbi, Priest and Minister walk into a tavern.
One turns to the other two and asks, "Have you heard the one about us"?
Enoch, About to Wet My Ecumenical Whistle.
Has anyone seen the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri"
I'd be curious to know what people thought if it.
I did.
I liked it. I thought it really think about morality.. even if the ending is a bit ambiguous.
Fantastic acting. The unusual nature of the story was interesting.
It was a lot darker than I thought it was going to be. Very grim picture of human nature. The end is ambiguous. Without giving it away , I thought the end was more not hopeful than hopeful that these people could change.
I'll watch it when it comes on cable TV
Haven't seen many boards about S.H.Sanders expulsion from a restaurant. Sounds like the SCOTUS made a good call in deciding that a deeply held belief can be used to not serve someone. Karma or getting bit with your own teeth?
Gays have no choice about who they are. Sanders doesn't have to serve a creature like Trump.
She chooses her path.
(There's at least one seed up, on the subject of Sanders's expulsion.)
There seems to be another attack posting added from another right winger.
It's like the weather. Unpleasant, but there's nothing to be done...
It won't kill her to miss a meal (or two).
get over yourself
that's rich coming from you considering what you said to me one day
Perhaps she was booted because she looks like she ate an elephant.
Frosty, thats, just mean.... LOL
I do not approve!
But I can't stop laughing....
My work here is done.
Same LOL
As long as you have put in a full days.... LOL
I thought I told you about that before....
Sarah Sanders got booted from a restaurant?
OK, did anyone catch the F&F this morning when they had the debate going on? Their commentators, I mean? This one guy told a black democrat that he had lost his "cotton pickin'" mind...... OMG!!!!! I looked at my husband and said, "did he just say what I thought he said?", Hubs rewound it a few times. We say the phrase "cotton pickin'" for a few things, but WOW...... I don't think this guy will be back, especially when Ed Henry had to apologize for a commentator after a commercial break.... I was dumbfounded....
And only those who are out looking for racist comments will see this as racist. I've heard that phrase used my whole life. Up north and down south. Used by blacks and whites.
Same here. I don't see anything wrong with the comment either. I will admit that on it's surface it could have been worded better, but, I have used that term many times. No big deal.
I have too but my hubs who is from MS. said this isn't ok, I told him it will get peeps in an uproar, but he still said it was said to a black man, so it isn't going to sit well.
It was really about the tone in his voice when he said it - a bit specific and condescending. He may not have meant for it to sound the way it did, but it came across very questionable. He later apologized for it, so even he knew it looked and sounded wrong.
Me, too. It just never occurred to me that it was in any way racist.
I know that feeling...
I resemble that remark!
I had my first green tea the other day. I wasn't impressed. And then Mr G proceeds to tell me that it gives you the shits. I told him thanks for the warning
Well, it's better than visiting the Kellogg farm and getting a high colonics.. and you lose a few lbs....
Yes, it does. I steer clear of the green tea. After I had my iliostomy for a year, I was "re-plumbed" so I crapped like everyone else again, (long long story). A year after I was re-plumbed, I had to have a colonoscopy to make sure my insidey parts had healed properly. Doctor gave me a script for, "go-lytely"... So I get it home, add water and start drinking 8oz glasses, every 10 minutes... It's like drinking sea water, effing gross. After an hour, and nothing happening, I felt a gurgle...then a bubble...and instead of sitting on the shitter that was a mere 15 feet away, I had to jump in the shower, didn't quite make it. Wife thought it was hilarious.....until she had to do the same thing 6 months later... "Not so damn funny now, is it SWEETIE!!!". "Go-lytely"... Not sure who the jackass was that came up with that name, but they have a heck of a sense of humor.
Gee... thanks s-o-o-o-o much for this story. It's going to take a while to get the imagery out of my head...
I started getting colonoscopies when I was only 38 because of a family history of colon cancer. The first time I went in I had to drink some stuff or take pills, can't really remember, but what I do remember is having to do the enema...to myself. I told Mr Giggles to take the kids to school and then come back later to take me to the hospital for my test. That wasn't pleasant but my mother laughed at me when I told her about it.
Then came the golyghtly and horse pills. I don't mind colonoscopies itself because of that wonderful sleepy time vacay I get to take, but the prep is the worst.
Shameless... The show you should be watching, if you aren't already. (First 8 seasons now on Netflix).
Are you recommending the British original, or the American remake? I haven't seen either.
The American remake. William H. Macey makes a GREAT derelict alcoholic father with ZERO morals. Lots of nudity, sex, drinking, drug use and general debauchery? Great show.
I'm going to get back into it when the weather turns cooler or I have a Sunday with nothing better to do
We have never missed Shameless since the first episode. Love it.
Sooooooo, whats everyone eating this Sunday? I have some carne asada that I'm grilling up along with some fajita chicken strips. So fajitas it is in my house! Oh, and a nice IPA
It's by Terrapin brewed in Athens, Ga. 
Leftovers... but nice! Steak cut into strips and stirred with the veggies, and a crab for starter. A decent Côtes du Rhône...
Over in France, y'all eat all day, right? Your actual dinner is about 10pm right? Or is that more of a Spain thing?
The main meal is the noon meal, although that's been kinda upset by modern working hours. A couple decades ago, everyone took two hours off from work at noon, and many went home to eat. Nowadays, too many people have long commutes, so they prefer to stay close to work at midday, eat quick, and use the time for their commutes.
I think the 10 o'clock dinner is a Spanish thing, but I'm not sure.
I think you're right since Mr G's family all love to eat very late
Made a shrimp salad and some jalapeño and cheddar brats.. Nothing fancy.
Love brats!
Corn on the cob and asparagus from fruit stand and tomatoes from my garden and cold shrimp I brought home from shrimp dinner at the Legion
Poulet avec purée de pomme de terre.
Sounds so much more sophisticated in French.
Chicken with pureed potatoes.
I can read French better than I can speak it
or is it mashed potatoes?
mashed
I'm just recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning so my intake is consisting of liquids and mostly eggs.
Ewwww.....so sorry to hear that. I had one of those several years ago and it was total misery from one end to the other.
I hope you get to feeling better soon. But, take it easy, that stuff is mean .
hope you feel better soon
Goodness! Hope you feel better soon!
Food poisoning is the worse! Hope you feel better soon.
I will never eat a dodger dog again. Thank you to E1 who wished me recovery.
Bed-time.
G'night all...
For some reason this website thinks that I can take a vacation and afford to stay at the Biltmore Hotel.
Space Science Image of the Week: Nearby asteroids thread through a stunning portrait of galaxy clusters
From ESA
It looks like they need to clean the cat hair off the lens.
Bringing up to date a famous Chinese saying:
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years unless you give them your email address.
I like yours very much but here's one I saw on the internet (or was it a T-shirt?), anyway:
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day...teach a man to fish and he'll sit in his boat drinking beer all day
LOL
Do you have the story behind that picture? It looks like an interesting story line.
Looks like southern Democrats harassing people in a restaurant.
Awe the good ole days returning for the Democrats.
If you don't know the answer, fine. Just don't make it all about politics when none may be involved in this instance.
It isn't difficult to make the connection. But here you go...
Oh the good ole days for Democrats are rearing their ugly heads again.
The "I don't really care--do you" event simply faded into a black hole. I wonder why?
Beer? Corona Extra.
I had a little nit pick thing about our so called news. Probably shouldn't post this....
I decided to watch both MSNBC all night, then I watched fox news after. Their whole line up.
MSNBC basically talked about the children of the border all night.
That I could understand, what they seem to be passionate about. Though it does get monotonous and it seems to be their agenda.
fox news talked all night about how evil the Democrats are. How they want to cause harm. How they will do anything they can to hurt people and they just don't care. How they are going to cause violence to erupt. Etc. hannity called CNN fake news several times.
That I don't understand and it is their agenda. To demonize the so called other side.
Lets just say after watching both, I can see the side the hate emanates from. Right now they are still talking about how the poor president is being wronged by the evil left.
My take on watching two sides of a coin on one night.
Absolutely should post it... It's exactly the kind of short-short that has it's place here. The topic is... whatever.
It is such a pity... Nowadays everything must be between two sides.
"Bothsidesism" is intellectual nonsense, an abandon of intellectual honesty in favor of simplicity. "Both sides do it" is either stupidity or dishonesty.
"Both sides do it" is obviously an intellectual joke, because it begs the essential question, "to what degree?".
"Both sides do it" reduces everything, all topics, to a binary "yes or no"... and that is obviously not how the world actually operates.
Anyone who says "Both sides lie!" is being either stupid or dishonest... or both... How often does each side lie? If one side lies 10% of the time and the other lies 90% of the time, then "Both sides lie" is a very misleading "truth". The person who practices "bothsidesism" is dishonest, foolish, or a coward, not daring to face the consequences of actually working to learn whose lies are the more consequent.
Your TV sessions were interesting. On one "side" we discuss the plight of children. On the other "side" we discuss the evil of the other side. These two cases are not at all symmetrical. But hey! "Both sides do it!"
Yes I gave up on televised news about thirty years ago and never bought into bothism.
I know only one side is willing to:
Lower my taxes
Protect me from the gun grabbers
Reduce immigration and fight against amnesty for illegals
Rollback regulations
Balance the budget without raising taxes by fixing the broken entitlement system
Look up to the financially successful and admire their accomplishments
Fight against socialism
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Should be :: " Protect me from the gun grabbers that then will allow Criminals, Druglords, Pimps, and ALL sort of " Low life " to LORD it over Law Abiding Citizens as they " will be the Power that Wields the GUN "
A Brexit snippet from The Guardian:
... in response to which, Business Insider’s Adam Payne tweeted
Ouch!
A coward, a bully, a moron, a liar, and an asshole walk into a bar. Bartender looks up, says: "What'll it be Mr. President?"
Hey, TiG??
What is this:
A functional test. Please disregard for now.
OK. That's what I figured, but I thought visitors here should know...
From Gizmodo:
Feds Bust Over 35 Suspected Dark Web Vendors, Seizing Everything From Drugs to a Grenade Launcher
The Dark Web, the Dark Web, the Dark Web.....
It's everywhere! It's today's deus ex machina for every lazy screenwriter.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has posted America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2018 , including:
Named after the first Native American licensed to practice medicine in the United States, and believed to be the first hospital constructed for any Indian reservation without federal funding, the Memorial Hospital is currently unoccupied and facing an uncertain future.
From Autoblog :
From The Truth About Cars :
Does anyone here watch the night sky? I've been getting up at 2 AM because I can't sleep and I go outside to enjoy my lilly trees and a smoke. There's a bright orange star in the Southeastern sky and I wonder if it's Mars? Does anyone know?
The weather gueser on TV this morning said Saturn was visible. He also said the moon was going to be a strawberry red. Then he said it didn't really matter because this is the Pacific Northwest and it was going to be overcast tonight .
There are "sky map" apps for smartphones. You point the camera at a part of the sky, and you get the biggest stars' names on the screen.
I got to get that app