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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 17:52:56 GMT -5
Funny. But you see, this is what galls me about the GOP. They want to waste time and money fighting battles that have already been decided: the ACA, same-sex marriage, voting rights, abortion, etc. I wish they'd expend half as much energy addressing our crumbling infra-structure, the wage gap, our broken prison and education systems, and most terrifying of all, our antiquated and decaying nuclear defense systems.  This is something my wife and I were talking about earlier this week. The Republicans need to accept that they've lost the battle (and rightfully so) on abortion and same-sex marriage, and that their continued revisiting of those topics, each time attacking from a slightly-different angle, is pointless. If they actually focused on things that were going to improve the future of the nation instead of playing the Republican Greatest Hits album every election cycle, they might not seem so out of touch with the mainstream. It's like conversations I used to have with my uncle and cousins in Tennessee when we would visit, where they would be pissed off about desegregation and going on about "The War of Northern Aggression" (yes, even in the 1980's, they were still calling it this). T hey couldn't accept that they were on the wrong side of history, but rather than evolve, they stubbornly clung to their old ways of thinking, no matter how reprehensible those might be. You just summed up about, I regret to say, probably 20 percent of my Facebook feed during & after the uproar over the South Carolina shooting, the resulting controversy over the Confederate flag, etc. The vast majority of those people I have, of course, unfollowed, partially out of consideration for my own mental health (such as it is). I've alluded to my bordering-on-love/hate relationship with the South before; the sort of thing you're describing accounts in considerable part for the "hate" part. *sigh* Or maybe, as Linus (I think) said about humanity vs. people, I love the South; it's Southerners I can't stand ... |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 15, 2015 18:28:48 GMT -5
If you don't like milk and honey
And the skies are always sunny
If you don't like folks that say "Howdy-do!"
Stay out of the South.
Van and Schenk. It's surreal.
(I can't embed the video. Here's a link to the YouTube page. Prepare to have your mind blown by the musical stylings of Van and Schenk!)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 18:51:30 GMT -5
For once, memory did serve ...  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 18:56:14 GMT -5
If you don't like milk and honey
And the skies are always sunny
If you don't like folks that say "Howdy-do!"
Stay out of the South.
Van and Schenk. It's surreal.
(I can't embed the video. Here's a link to the YouTube page. Prepare to have your mind blown by the musical stylings of Van and Schenk!)
Well, damn. If I'd know about this one (I have heard of the song before this, but never looked it up) during the aforementioned FB unpleasantness, I'd have posted it. Except of course the xenophobes & apologists for racism wouldn't have gotten the intended irony. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 15, 2015 19:15:59 GMT -5
If you don't like milk and honey
And the skies are always sunny
If you don't like folks that say "Howdy-do!"
Stay out of the South.
Van and Schenk. It's surreal.
(I can't embed the video. Here's a link to the YouTube page. Prepare to have your mind blown by the musical stylings of Van and Schenk!)
Well, damn. If I'd know about this one (I have heard of the song before this, but never looked it up) during the aforementioned FB unpleasantness, I'd have posted it. Except of course the xenophobes & apologists for racism wouldn't have gotten the intended irony. It's not their most offensive song. Not even close. Check out the one about the fireworks. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 20, 2015 11:56:43 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 20, 2015 13:08:34 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 20, 2015 14:59:58 GMT -5
Homeless Hispanic man savagely beaten by Trump supporters; Trump respondsI think he should have put a little more work into his response. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2015 15:25:27 GMT -5
With Republican would-be standard-bearers running rampant, it occurred to me a few minutes ago when I was posting "Nyarlathotep" in the Lovecraft birthday thread that HPL summed up the season's underlying mood way back in 1921 --
The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2015 15:57:33 GMT -5
With Republican would-be standard-bearers running rampant, it occurred to me a few minutes ago when I was posting "Nyarlathotep" in the Lovecraft birthday thread that HPL summed up the season's underlying mood way back in 1921 -- The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. -M |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 20, 2015 16:14:27 GMT -5
"Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos."
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 22, 2015 1:22:45 GMT -5
Jeb Bush requests another term for "anchor babies"Hillary Clinton suggests "babies," "children" or "American citizens." She's just rubbing it in. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 22, 2015 1:48:24 GMT -5
With Republican would-be standard-bearers running rampant, it occurred to me a few minutes ago when I was posting "Nyarlathotep" in the Lovecraft birthday thread that HPL summed up the season's underlying mood way back in 1921 -- The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places.Chilling, indeed. The fictional image that's flashed before my mind's eye both with Trump and with ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford (who apparently is making noises about running for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party if Harper ever resigns) was the character in Stephen King's Dead Zone - the seemingly clownish American presidential candidate whose election was foreseen by the clairvoyant protagonist as part of a future in which the US became a fascist state. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 22, 2015 13:01:13 GMT -5
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 25, 2015 1:15:54 GMT -5
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