AdamSmith

One spent BTW most of 2010-11 turning this [straight] dive bar in the shadow of Port Authority gay. Picked up and dragged home to bed just about every variety of H. sapiens (and some who were not verifiably that) from that place. 'Blue ruin' was a Prohibition-era term for gin. Which, given quality standards of the time, would often make you go blind. Permanently, not just for the night.

Thank you! All my foreign languages (even those I supposedly 'studied') were actually just picked up pidgin from facing-page literature translations.

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NEIN! (That might actually should be kein. Do you [or anybody] know the right grammar here?)

You eat whot you got!

Your solution is eagerly awaited.

Last Lines... 'Got any ideas?' Sully 'Actually, not.' Skiles

Jeff Flake expected to deliver floor speech comparing Trump's attacks on media to Stalin's http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/14/politics/jeff-flake-stalin-donald-trump/index.html (CNN)Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is expected to deliver a floor speech on Wednesday in which he will compare President Donald Trump's attacks on the news media to the rhetoric of late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. According to an excerpt of the speech, Flake will criticize the President for calling the news media the "enemy of the people," calling it "an assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted." "Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own President uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies," reads the excerpt. "It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of 'annihilating such individuals' who disagreed with the supreme leader." Flake's prepared speech goes on to say the President's actions should be "a great source of shame" for the Senate and the members of the Republican Party. "The free press is the despot's enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy," Flake's remarks say. "When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn't suit him 'fake news,' it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press." Flake, who announced he will not be seeking re-election in 2018, has said he will use his remaining time in the Senate to speak out against the President when he believes it is warranted. A frequent critic of Trump, Flake announced his decision to retire in a Senate speech in October that bemoaned the "coarsening" tenor of politics in the United States and criticized his own party's "complicity" with Trump's behavior.

Look, he was a Democrat. He was being asked to fly with 20,000-lb-weights on his wings. He did pass Workfare through his own vastly hostile caucus, which turned out to work. And no less than Greenspan said in his autobiography that he was somewhat astounded at the way Clinton could work his own party's Congresscritters on the phone -- every night, from 7pm to way past midnight -- to bring them round to positions that would at least bring the minimum # of Repubs around to get SOMETHING done on this or that thing. I think WJC was our most pragmatic pres since FDR. In FDR's first 2 terms. Other than Eisenhower. I suspect what you will reply to that, so I will summarily disagree.

Those Other Problems include that Clinton gladly presided over the criminal dismantling of Glass-Steagall, the other root, together with the housing bubble, of the 2008 Great Collapse.

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So vhat about one's ass being Mountbatten?

The fault in the response lies with Cheney and Rummie. i am one of those rabid-righties who grow more and more affectionate for GWB, for navigating truly impossible circumstances (9/11, economic implosion, automotive industry meltdown, Medicare reform...) The best that was possible in the times. Heresy!

Clinton handed G W Bush a shitload of evidence & warnings about bin Laden that Bush ignored.

PS One must alvays mistrust de Germans. Ze vone exzeption is Angela, possibly (with Macron) ze only sane alive leader on ze planet. und vit any cojones. und it looks now like even she may get dumped. Ach!!!

Pork makes you free!

My.grampa raised hogs and salt-cured the most mouthwatering country ham. We were of course of English-Scots-Irish extraction. None of this Saxe-Coburg-Gotha nonsense. (The name Mountbatten though has always seemed to me vaguely tittilatingly homoerotic. )

And that we have like four thousand more warheads (maybe after SALT II and Reagan/Gorbachev that is not true) and delivery vehicles, than anybody else. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan