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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: DJT Stock
- Replies: 67
- Views: 1014
Re: DJT Stock
I'd be funnier if I hadn't gone over my tolerance level for right wing media brainwashing. It's a full time job keeping that poison out of my head.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Racist/Corrupt/Immoral Police Thread.
- Replies: 738
- Views: 138509
Re: Racist/Corrupt/Immoral Police Thread.
Trump won't physically threaten people, he has the whole US right wing for that.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 613
- Views: 982194
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
All this is happening when Netanyahu is in office. The US government plays a peripheral role at best. The US government didn't wall off Gaza and let it turn into a terrorist base. "Battle lines being drawn, nobody's right if everybody's wrong" -- Some forgotten 60s band that actually playe...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 613
- Views: 982194
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
There's a causal texture to all this going back to WWII, at a minimum, and the dawn of civilization at the earliest roots. Gross oversimplifications do nothing except cause false hopes that make the problem worse. At a minimum, we need better leadership in Israel and a general rejection of extremism...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1166
- Views: 932428
Re: Labor/Economics
The Senate is dysfunctional enough without the Senators being picked in those proverbial smoke filled rooms by party hacks who got where they are by being rich enough to make megabuck donations. It's obvious that the filibuster broke the Senate. They should have imposed strict cloture but instead th...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1166
- Views: 932428
Re: Labor/Economics
Both parties make the problem worse, but the Republicans seem to do more damage more quickly, and it takes longer to clean up their messes. The current economic problems are deep-rooted, and caused mostly by bad policy and artificial shortages due partly to class struggle and partly by failure to ag...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
- Replies: 171
- Views: 3213
Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Too many people, too little transportation, no profit in lower-middle class housing, very deficient social services, weak leadership, vastly underrepresented neighborhoods, high taxes for low results, and far far too little insight.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Presidential ranking
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1189
Re: Presidential ranking
Nobody won the Cold War. Both sides made disastrous mistakes. Russia dropped out first, due to its weaker economic fundamentals and essentially personality based political system, despite all its propaganda to the contrary. At some point propaganda has to be backed up with real governance beyond jus...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: 2024 General Elections Thread
- Replies: 187
- Views: 54460
Re: 2024 General Elections Thread
Good start, now someone needs to take on the news business.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1166
- Views: 932428
Re: Labor/Economics
With gas prices spiking it looks like we might be in for another round of inflation Some of the "experts" who yak on TV would agree with you. I would tend to agree myself. You can't have wars going all over the Middle East without disruptions to the shipping lanes. That causes these short...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 613
- Views: 982194
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
Many of the settlers are paramilitaries organized into de facto militias. Not all, but many. Some of the "settlements" are essentially forward bases. Not all, but some. Some of these disputed areas are mazes of checkpoints and roadblocks, making a routine commute to work take hours if you'...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
- Replies: 171
- Views: 3213
Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"
The laws are unenforceable when there are 45,000 homeless. The problem is not the law but the system. First the mental health system was dismantled, then the lower-middle class got priced out of decent housing. If you have any problems at all, such as mental illness or long term job loss, it's the s...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
- Replies: 30
- Views: 585
Re: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
Actually history teaches us a lot of things, but unfortunately they tend to be interpreted by charlatans and served up to us in little bites of slanted information. The Middle East, having the world's worst case of too much history and not enough geography, has the potential to teach us everything w...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: South Carolina finishes perfect season with NCAA championship, beating Clark and Iowa 87-75
- Replies: 3
- Views: 243
Re: South Carolina finishes perfect season with NCAA championship, beating Clark and Iowa 87-75
This year it seemed to me that the women hoopsters were more popular than the men. We watched the last 15 minutes or so in a nice Irish pub on the way back to LA, though since they had a live band in the next room over the sound was inaudible. Lots of confetti. Then the TV went right into Newt Gingr...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Entertainment
- Topic: Paramount appears close to merger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 155
Paramount appears close to merger
Still dotting i's and crossing t's, but the winds of change can no longer be ignored. Paramount seems to be committed to merging with somebody. Probably it'll create another one of those lumpy conglomerates that does everything, a la MGM and Warner's.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
- Replies: 188
- Views: 45402
Re: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
The Senate was a way of avoiding a titled aristocracy in a House of Lords, which nobody wanted after their war with King George, while still creating an upper house for what was then an educated elite. The House was of course the new version of the House of Commons. The Federalist Papers, and other ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: The issue that will define the 2024 election
- Replies: 376
- Views: 219626
Re: The issue that will define the 2024 election
It remains a stain on a supposedly free nation that we basically drove a learned and committed public health leader into hiding for life. I don't really blame any group of people. As a media type, I tend to blame the Internet. It needs some serious cleaning up. We tried free speech on the net, it wa...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: The issue that will define the 2024 election
- Replies: 376
- Views: 219626
Re: The issue that will define the 2024 election
It's high enough. A real politico vs an overprivileged loony who isn't a real president but he plays one on TV. --- Coronado was a pretty quick in and out, and it was punctuated by an odd wet stuff falling from the sky in a manner somewhat alien to that part of our country. Next time there'll be mor...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
- Replies: 188
- Views: 45402
Re: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
It was set up that way so the wealthy plantation owners down south wouldn't be perpetually in an endless squabble with the factory owners in the north. There was no concept of universal suffrage in a time when education was mostly for the wealthy. Read the Federalist Papers. They frame the debate qu...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: The issue that will define the 2024 election
- Replies: 376
- Views: 219626
Re: The issue that will define the 2024 election
Harris would be a better president than drumpf ever was. We just got back from Coronado. It's a nice little town and I like it, but they really should make the owners of that house right by the bridge exit take down that "KILL FAUCI" sign. It's the first thing you see when you come into to...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Persons of Note Who Have Passed Away
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 783360
Re: Persons of Note Who Have Passed Away
It's a tragedy when anyone dies of cancer, but in OJ's case the violin is a very small one indeed.
There are certain cases that our legal system is simply not equipped to handle.
There are certain cases that our legal system is simply not equipped to handle.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
- Replies: 30
- Views: 585
Re: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
Right now deterrent is all we have, but it doesn't work very well. It might dissuade some governments from doing something really stupid, but it doesn't work as well on asymmetric threats and terrorism. It might have prevented this species from gleefully immolating itself on the way to some version ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Boeing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 487
Re: Boeing
Change "salary" to "compensation package" and you'll have a whole bunch of CEO's on that list.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 25
- Views: 527
Re: April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
LA doesn't have solar eclipses. Never has been one in historical times, never will be. The predictions go centuries into the future, and none are scheduled, ever, AT ALL. Obviously the sun and moon understand that LA is not a nice place to visit. My mother talked about a total eclipse in the Midwest...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Boeing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 487
Re: Boeing
Boeing is a dead company walking if nothing changes.