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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[LarryBnDC]

Yeah, well

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/american-democracy.html

[facilitatorn]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/mark-meadows-lawsuit/index.html



Yep.

He wrote a fucking book... fuck that guy.

He scraped the bottom and found more lawyers ready to be disbarred for misconduct. Mark knows he is going down. He is just trying to put it off for a bit.

[FlyingVProd]

For our new immigrants, from our Southern Border and from Afghanistan, etc, we have Paradise Valley, Nevada.

http://www.cowboycountry.org/ParadiseValley/

Some of my fondest memories from my childhood were times of walking to the post office with my Mother in Paradise Valley, Nevada. Those are priceless memories. The immigrants would love Paradise Valley, Nevada.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2021/12/08/young-democrats-are-right-there-is-no-reason-to-date-or-befriend/

Hear that, Red and Kid?

Suck less.

[kidcarter8]

Next case -

Daunte Wright is dead today because of an accidental shooting and because

a)  he was scared

B)  he was a poorly behaving lawbreaker

c)  both

[LarryBnDC]

Next case -

Daunte Wright is dead today because of an accidental shooting and because

a)  he was scared

B)  he was a poorly behaving lawbreaker

c)  both

d). Potter fucked up

[REDSTATEWARD]

News Update


No deaths have been recorded as of Wednesday in connection with the COVID-19 variant omicron, buoying health officials.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that only one person in the U.S. has been hospitalized with omicron infection and there have been no deaths linked to the mutation.

[josh]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-republicans-purge-black-democrats-from-county-election-boards/ar-AARDU0Q

Nope, nothing racist happening here. /sarcasm

[Holly Martins]

Yeah, well

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/american-democracy.html

LoL and thumb up for the foreign correspondent approach to domestic news.  The sample headlines are darkly funny, and cautionary. 

Democracies are overthrown because people inside that system, most of them, do not see the unraveling. 

[Holly Martins]

So Yankguy and Bodid are really most sincerely not posting here?  And Lime?  Or just ducking an iota of shit?  Luee?  Still recovering in a VA unit?  Needs reappeared a couple months ago, but just in response to an obituary.  I will admit to some fatigue meself.  Seems like a pattern on the web, where eventually only trolls and intellectual dishonests remain omnipresent. 

[Hairy Lime]

So Yankguy and Bodid are really most sincerely not posting here?  And Lime?  Or just ducking an iota of shit?  Luee?  Still recovering in a VA unit?  Needs reappeared a couple months ago, but just in response to an obituary.  I will admit to some fatigue meself.  Seems like a pattern on the web, where eventually only trolls and intellectual dishonests remain omnipresent.

I think Lime was just enjoying some pre-Christmas time out of town with his wife, or something.

[josh]

So Yankguy and Bodid are really most sincerely not posting here?  And Lime?  Or just ducking an iota of shit?  Luee?  Still recovering in a VA unit?  Needs reappeared a couple months ago, but just in response to an obituary.  I will admit to some fatigue meself.  Seems like a pattern on the web, where eventually only trolls and intellectual dishonests remain omnipresent.

Yank indicated he would be back. Don't know about Bo.

[Holly Martins]

Yank seemed to have the knack of gliding past burning dumpster posts.  Bo maybe did what he had to do. 

Anyway, good to see The Third Man speaking in The Third Person. 

[Holly Martins]

From David Brooks in the Atlantic.  Not on board with everything he says here, but it does say something about what traditional conservatism was about.  Worth the click, IMO, and God/Cosmos/TreeSpirit bless Brooks for his apparent aversion to apostrophes!

But, as the sociologist Richard Sennett, who lived in part of the Cabrini-Green complex as a child, noted, the planners never really consulted the residents themselves. They disrespected the residents by turning them into unseen, passive spectators of their own lives. By the time I encountered the projects they were national symbols of urban decay.

Back then I thought of myself as a socialist. But seeing the fallout from this situation prompted a shocking realization: This is exactly what that guy I read in college had predicted. Human society is unalterably complex, Edmund Burke argued. If you try to reengineer it based on the simplistic schema of your own reason, you will unintentionally cause significant harm. Though Burke was writing as a conservative statesman in Britain some 200 years earlier, the wisdom of his insight was apparent in what I was seeing in the Chicago of the 1980s.

I started reading any writer on conservatism whose book I could get my hands on... I can only describe what happened next as a love affair. I was enchanted by their way of looking at the world. In conservatism I found not a mere alternative policy agenda, but a deeper and more resonant account of human nature, a more comprehensive understanding of wisdom, an inspiring description of the highest ethical life and the nurturing community.

What passes for (conservatism) now, however, is nearly the opposite of the Burkean conservatism I encountered then...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/brooks-true-conservatism-dead-fox-news-voter-suppression/620853/

[kidcarter8]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-republicans-purge-black-democrats-from-county-election-boards/ar-AARDU0Q

Nope, nothing racist happening here. /sarcasm

No Georgia shenanigans in '22