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Can the progressives get Norway to interfere with our elections to spread universal healthcare?

we should be clear. Ornato and Engel have NOT said they dispute what Hutchinson said. Anonymous sources familiar with the situation told journalists that Ornato and Engel dispute what Hutchinson said.

Lol here's my guitar room

I love the Strawberry and Coconut. Maybe I'll try Peach or Watermelon one day, but when I can find them, it's always Strawberry first. And around here these have been very difficult to find lately. Finally found some at ALDI, and there is no markdown on this.

Nothing shows respect for the flag than over commercializing it

If Biden had any balls, and he doesn't, he would flat out tell states that if you don't want to follow any EPA guidelines then you will not get any federal money if that ignorance leads to a disaster. You are on your own. But again, he doesn't have the balls to do that.

or you could blame Republicans for what Republicans did.

5 minutes from the Finals with a home grown team...nah, let me go join the team that beat us for an easy championship instead. Now he wants to go the #1 seeded Suns. Classic Durant. How many more bridges will he burn before he's done? Between him, Harden, and Kyrie, it was nice having almost all of the players I hate on the Nets for a while. Spreading them out is going to make it harder to root for a team in the playoffs next year.

woah! Go go NATO!

If the Big Ten were smart (they’re probably not), they would move to poach the PAC12 of all their schools with AAU academic prowess (Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado). If they all accept it puts you at 23 and even if they don’t all I think most would, and it puts you very close to a true super conference. You can send invites to Kansas, Duke, UNC, Vanderbilt, and/or Pitt to fill you out to where you want to be.

The Nets did everything Durant wanted and he still asks to be traded. It's getting tiring these stars demanding to be traded every couple years because things don't go their way.

bwaaaa haaa haaa haaa, nets! all for one season of fat ass out of shape james harden!

all of a sudden, sham amateurism doesnt seem so bad...

because Warnock/Walker is a choice. I don't think comparing JA polling of a public in a sour mood to an actual voting choice is necessarily informative. The 'other guy' is always a better concept than the real person it turns out to be. OTOH, Walker is .....just Walker so that's not much of a measure either. Abrams/Kemp is probably the real marker in GA.

Republicans and lack of turnout in Detroit are to blame. Both can be true.

The country is in the current state that it's in because too many people want exactly where we are now. They're called Republicans.

You know you're getting old when you start talking about how weak the next generation is!

That's amateur hour man. I'll have to post up some pics of my casualties. You'll be glad you only have that. Also quit buying knockoffs. https://reverb.com/item/320741-eight-rubber-guitar-strap-locks-multi-color-grolsch-style-classic-reliable

This is the real reason the GOP donors wanted a right wing reactionary court. They don't care about abortion at all. It's all about giving more power to big business to do whatever they want without regard for the health and safety of employees or the country.

Cheap labor for business is one of the main drivers of illegal immigration. If they punished the businesses for hiring illegal immigrants, I believe that illegal immigration would decline significantly.

Republicans must have told the Court they need cheaper labor than even Americans of color will provide.

It is not really an official designation and shouldn't be a big deal They just need to choose a team cap for the plaque and this is selected by Hall of Fame researchers. If you go to the Hall of Fame and read the plaque of your favorite player, you will likely not notice the cap because the face and words are way more prominent. This is probably by design as the HoF is intended to be an individual honor. As you go to visit the other rooms (which are more interesting than the plaque room) you would surely see him represented as both an Astro and a Tiger

Do children that were helicopter parented grow up expecting to be helicopter governed?

Bridges arrested on felony domestic abuse charges. smart move on the verge of free agency.

I want to pull this out because it I think it bears on an important point. I believe one of the reasons that some on the left have invested to much in the mindset of wokeness and micro-aggression is because it's a neat explanation for why the legal successes of the 60's, which at the time were thought to be the solutions, turned out not to be - at least not a complete enough solution. So the whole micro-aggression/lingusitic/semitoic paradigm arises as an explanation of why we are where we are despite the civil-rights legal reforms. But I think there is a much more straightforward reason that the explicit legal reforms of the 60's failed to effect a complete social solution, and yes it was because they failed to address institutional racism, but not because that institutional racism resides in the language of micro-aggression or unsurfaced personal racial hostility in most of white middle class America. but because it resides in the basic fiber of democracy in a geographically segregated society. You don't need lack of wokenes to explain that resource decisions in a democracy go to the majority, and when the majority (whites) live in districts geographically segregated from where the minority lives, then the places where minorities live get starved for public resources needed to help build social capital in minority society, and thus they can never catch up economically. That is the core of America's problem, not lack of wokeness. But that is a much more terrible and subtle problem to face because it explodes the myth of our democratic perfection. We have to face that to solve that problem the nature and structure of the Union is going to need some corrective surgery, and that will be a very big lift for our society. The only other alternative is for Whites and Blacks and rich and poor to stop trying to live apart from one another so the benefits of a geographically based representative politics get shared more fairly. Either way, not easy stuff. Much easier to explain away the failures of liberalism's great hour of triumph in the 60's by holding that we are just being too mean to each other. That said, there is a fight over basic wokeness that is still needed for America to begin to see the real problem but that fight needs to be redirected. Whites do need to understand that even if they don't really hold Blacks back because of conscious social micro hostility, they do hold them back simply by the way they vote ("innocently" enough I might add) in their own interests. The American system of government is a stacked deck.

That's because it's a great cap.

No - she has no brains either, at least not any strategic brains. She doesn't think past tactics, and that's exactly what gets the Dems and GOP to the relative level of long term success on their goals that they are at now.

The National Review has been straight up on Trump for a quite some time. They have been very straight forward in reporting on him from the beginning. Where has ZP been? Their writers have lost no love for the ex president, none. Great piece today on the testimony from yesterday.

She has brains, I'm just not sure she has developed political street smarts yet...

This topic is of interest to me. I grew up religious (Catholic schools, Catholic sacraments/family milesones), drifted away like many do in their 20s, verged on hostile in my 30s (one priest-child sex abuse scandal hit pretty close to home, although not directly on me or immediate family), started finding myself drawn back in my 40s after my father died and our daughter hit school age and then... two years ago started grad school on a p/t basis. I'm currently halfway through a Master's degree in Theology, on pace to graduate June 2024. Whether you love religion, hate it, or are somewhere in between, hard to argue that religion hasn't been "important" throughout human history. I find it very interesting. In fact, have a term paper due tomorrow in which I pick apart the Vatican's deal with the Communist Party of China. Take one course at a time. Last term was a course focused only on the letters of St. Paul and my exigesis paper was a 10-pager on one sentence in 2 Corinthians.

I prefer the term Militant Agnostic: I Don’t Know, and Neither Do You

GAAAAH I need someone to relate to! Last night one of my strap locks broke, picture knock-off schaller. However, it broke LOCKED ONTO MY GUITAR. The only way I was able to get the strap lock off the strap peg was to pry it with a screwdriver and of course b/c I'm me, I put some scratches in my 95 LP Standard finish. Mother f'ers