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  1. i watched episode 1 yesterday and was not that impressed.  it seems wandering and aimless.  i do like the music and the era and the revolution he caused.  I will probably watch episode 2, but i'm not learning anything i didn't already know.

  2. On 4/13/2018 at 4:14 PM, stc said:

    well, they have electricity now. you can still get a good meal at falcon's restaurant, and the bar is still there but no more pool tables. as you can imagine the border being closed for a decade didn't do them any favors.

    what i loved about those pool tables is the balls seemed to be made out of agate or onyx.  really cool.  oh, and i loved that there were no doors on the bar.  you just walked in from the dusty desert, and the restroom in the back had no ceiling.  it was just like peeing outdoors.

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  3. 52 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    republicans were totally in control of their emotions during Obama's time in office, right?

    we cannot remind the rightwing of this enough.  for 8 yrs they cried the sky is falling, completely unhinged.  and now they don't understand why are the democrats so unhinged?  the view is different from the top.  it sucks to be on the bottom.  the gop acted like crybabies during all of the obama years, and now we are doing the same thing. 

    oh, and i agree 100% about onboard.  he is the poster child for letting a person drive him crazy.  no one was more obsessed with hillary than onboard.  

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  4. has there been one scene yet this season where both phillip and stan are in it? it's been pretty common to see them every couple of episodes passing each other on the street, at a bar, coming over for a beer, etc.   

    i always thought this show shared a theme with breaking bad, walter being a meth dealer and his brother in law being dea. the suspense of how you get away with your archenemy in such close proximity and seeing them so often.

  5. On 4/6/2018 at 8:24 AM, JimmyHoffa said:

     

    I like how Elizabeth walked back her "spies never sleep with targets" to basically admitting that it could happen. Paige isn't that big of an idiot to not read between the line there. 

    yes she is.  but she is getting hotter by the day.

  6. the may sound nitpicky but there does appear to be a common theme amongst this administrations' cabinet members.  pruitt overspending and making extravagant purchases, carson doing the same, now mulvaney.   you might be making a joke of the frosted glass, but we have spent so far $124 million of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars for this new building that still is not completed yet so the pricetag goes up every day.  construction costs are more per sq ft than trump tower and the bellagio.  that's a lot of frosted glass.

  7. 23 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    Where do they differ ideologically? Yeah, he is a bully, unethical and an idiot like you say, but where do he and Ryan diverge politically? Trump served as Ryan's useful idiot to distract people from what Ryan and his cohorts were doing in Congress.

    the fact that they shared ideology is not the point.  that might make them evil to some, but we should be able to coexist peacefully with those we disagree with.  there is an old saying, "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game"  for trump, clearly a win is a win.  he doesn't care how the game is played.  he has made america immature again.  in case you missed it, here is jeff flake's resignation speech. lots of great stuff in here, insights and observations.  in my opinion he was too restrained.  this fell on deaf ears in the whole of congress:

    Mr. President, I rise today to address a matter that has been much on my mind, at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles. Let me begin by noting a somewhat obvious point that these offices that we hold are not ours to hold indefinitely. We are not here simply to mark time. Sustained incumbency is certainly not the point of seeking office. And there are times when we must risk our careers in favor of our principles.

    Now is such a time.
    It must also be said that I rise today with no small measure of regret. Regret, because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse, regret because of the coarseness of our leadership, regret for the compromise of our moral authority, and by our -- all of our -- complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs. It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.
    In this century, a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and undesirable order -- that phrase being "the new normal." But we must never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue -- with the tone set at the top.
     
     
    We must never regard as "normal" the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country - the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.

     

  8. it's not a half bad idea to make 4wd mandatory for the state park.  you have a flat tire out there and there aint no way you're making it to presidio on a donut.  it's a really strange place out there that our tax dollars are paying for but i like it.  you can supposedly see the solitario from space.  i havent checked the satellite images.  el patio was a lifesaver after 3 days in the park.  

     

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