Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Very

6 (50%)

Some

4 (33.3%)

Not sure

0 (0%)

Not really

1 (8.3%)

Not in the slightest

1 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 11

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

[Oilcan]

Pantera played Moscow. Great. Did it bring anything akin to peace?

I played in Kiev and Moscow in 1973. It was great. Nobody noticed or cared.

Tell more!  This is interesting, Josh, even if a digress.

[Oilcan]

James Hamblin tweet is excellent.  Captures the absurdity of "do your own science."

[LarryBnDC]

A competent reader would understand that is not the same as labeling you are a "lying shut-in".

A competent poster (a) would not make such a specious argument and (b) would have stopped this banal and pointless back and forth ages ago.

The second comment applies to both parties. The first only applies to Ham.

First of these to appear post-midnight EDT 1/28-29/2022 earns a 5 day time out. Then a 30. We'll see what happens at that point.

Any lawyering about what I mean by "these" counts as well, but need not wait until after midnight. That starts the moment this is posted, by my figuring.

Bruh...

[kidcarter8]

Exactly

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vox.com/22904444/tucker-carlson-hungary-soros-fox-nation-documentary-special

Tucker should go join Rush at his new gig. Maybe they can even move in together. That would be nice.

[REDSTATEWARD]

James Hamblin tweet is excellent.  Captures the absurdity of "do your own science."

Who does yours.?

[facilitatorn]

James Hamblin tweet is excellent.  Captures the absurdity of "do your own science."

Who does yours.?

Red posted this between long pulls on his daily cup of urine.

[Holly Martins]

James Hamblin tweet is excellent.  Captures the absurdity of "do your own science."

Who does yours.?

I'll bet he doesn't do his own science.  Quite likely he lets engineers with PhDs design the jets he travels on, and biochemists design his medicine.  But, hey, if you prefer Random Man on The Web Who Saw Something on FB to do your science, have at it. 

[josh]

https://archive.fo/jWJAF

WaPo

A 12-year-old wrote his governor to oppose a gun law. A stray bullet killed him on Christmas.

[Holly Martins]

Exactly

Second that.  (Unless the book is "How to Make Bioweapons and Nerve Gas in Your Kitchen" - in which case I would more likely put blame on the author)

[FlyingVProd]

Pantera played Moscow. Great. Did it bring anything akin to peace?

I played in Kiev and Moscow in 1973. It was great. Nobody noticed or cared.

The only way Bon Jovi gets to play in Russia is with Putin's permission. If Bon Jovi's there to try to rile up the Russian people, why on Earth would Putin agree to it?

Condi Rice was National Security Advisor and then Sec'y of State over an 8 year period, with the then president's ear. If she couldn't change our relationship with Russia then, what makes you think she is better equipped to do the job now? Might as well bring back Kerry or HRC. No, I don't think their advice would fis the problem, either.

The problem is that Putin is getting old and is seeing his chance to make his stamp on history fading. We (the U.S.) don't have a way for him to make a mark he thinks is worthy of making without sacrificing far more than we are willing to - and I think that's right.

You want folks to stop thinking about the Soviet era?! The person you need to start with is Putin and good luck with that!

It is not the good people of Russia that might have a ghost of a chance of stopping Putin. It's the bad people - the ones who covet his position and who think his time has passed. A coup is likelier to end this threat than diplomacy is - and I would not rate that highly.

Tell us more about when you played in Moscow and in Kiev.

And it all matters, and God knows our hearts, when we mean well then we are blessed.

And Pantera helped to bring Texas and Moscow closer together, they rocked out together. I am sure Pantera was a messenger of peace, even though the music was hard core.

On the issue of what makes a great leader, I am reminded on the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, who was loved for having led Rome during a great time of peace and prosperity. It would be great if Putin was wise enough to want to be judged by creating peace and prosperity for his people.

And the world needs to include Putin in world activities, we need to get Putin to be a world citizen.

Right now people are sitting around trying to imagine what the other guy is thinking, or they are going by sound bytes, instead of spending time talking with the other guy. Our nations should not be guessing what Putin is thinking, we need to be engaged, we need to have diplomats, and we need to know exactly what putin is thinking. Guys sitting back leaving threatening sound bytes is not diplomacy, and it is not a healthy relationship. We need to have an on-going relationship with Russia and we need to have diplomats.

Putin needs to see the greatness of Antoninus Pius who will be forever remembered for being a leader during a time of great peace and prosperity for his people.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.rawstory.com/greg-abbott-2656508652/

This shows why republicans do not bother with policy much anymore. It just makes them look more evil and less competent any time they try.

[kidcarter8]

ok, crap pickerrrr...

[josh]

[FlyingVProd]

When I was a kid we used to soak in the natural hot springs in Nevada on the Filippini Ranch.

My parents owned a lot of land sixty miles outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada, and they tried to do a cattle ranch like in the television show Bonanza, but it did not work out. But for a while we had our own commune going on in Nevada, we had a whole bunch of people all living together in Nevada.

Nevada is a great place for the hippies, and for the flower children, and for the immigrants, and for the homeless people, they can have communes at the hot springs.

They can bring in architects from Greece, and from Rome, and from Spain, and they can build apartment complexes like in Santorini, Greece, complete with swimming pools and tennis courts, and they can also be close to the natural hot springs.

Instead of waiting for 5 years for HUD housing, or for the refugees living on military bases, it would be better to build housing in Nevada.

And they can do trade with San Francisco, and they can raise beef for McDonald's, etc. And they can raise pigs, and chickens, etc, and they can help to feed San Francisco.

Salute,

Tony V.