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  1. 2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Even "All Shook Down" has it's moments.

    Tommy seems to think it's Paul's zenith.  I don't entirely disagree, because it's the most realized album they did in terms of performance, but of course it's hard to ignore the songwriting from "Let It Be" on, even if earlier recordings and performances tend to be . . . well, they're "rough".

    I dare a 'mats fan to look at this track list and call it anything but some of the best songwriting of its era:

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    1. "Merry Go Round" – 3:29
    2. "One Wink at a Time" – 3:02
    3. "Nobody" – 3:06
    4. "Bent Out of Shape" – 3:42
    5. "Sadly Beautiful" – 3:09
    6. "Someone Take the Wheel" – 3:37
    7. "When It Began" – 3:07
    8. "All Shook Down" – 3:16
    9. "Attitude" – 2:43
    10. "Happy Town" – 2:54
    11. "Torture" – 1:52
    12. "My Little Problem" – 4:09
    13. "The Last" – 2:54

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

    I’m not going let the gross actions of a few dictate how I feel about my Alma Mater.

     

    The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests . . . we did.  But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals!

    Image result for animal house quote of a few bad apples"

     

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  3. 11 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Bullshit, two words--Bill Clinton.  Two more words Paula Jones.  Two more words Juanita Broderick.  Two more words Monica Lewisky. Two more words Jennifer Flowers.  Do you think ABC News is run by conservatives?  The fact that they killed the story disproves your assertion point blank.

    Please tell us which of those cases survived prosecution and resulted in convictions or judgments against Bill Clinton.

    Also, I encourage your dumb ass to look into Robert Iger of Disney and tell us whether or not he supports Donald Trump.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Oh gee the subject has been changed. That's weird. 

    No shit.

    No quid pro quo!

    Sure, there was quid pro quo, but everyone does it!

    The quid was so meaningless that the pro quo doesn't matter!

     

    Every one of you fuckers is complicit by virtue of the fact that you continue to deflect and muddy the waters.  Traitors by proxy.  Imagine how that might end . . . and imagine me laughing my ass off.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:
    So I see we've moved to the Trump administration is too stupid to do a quid pro quo defense. I'm sorry your honor, my client was too stupid to know  that going into a bank with a gun, pointing it at the teller, and saying give me the money, was really robbing a bank. Oh, ok then, case dismissed.

    Lindsey Graham is a lawyer.  He knows, at a base level, that ignorance is no defense.  Intent of action trumps ignorance except in special instances.

    "Are you aware that robbing a bank is a crime?"

    "No, your honor."

    "But you intended to rob the bank, and followed through?"

    "Yes, your honor."

    "OK, you're guilty."

  6. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    In stock price growth, not usually done.  But, an inflation- and/or tax-adjusted rate of return is not unheard of, for an "investment," which may be a single stock or a group of them or fund or whatever.  Because the inflation adjustment typically is going to be the same regardless of the type of investment, we don't usually bother.

    I don't really pay much attention to portfolio theory, but a common metric I see is "risk-adjusted return", where returns are compared to the "risk free" rate (I guess T-bills).  The theory, I suppose, in ultra-simplified terms, is that if one's portfolio is compounding at 8% annual but the risk-free rate is 1%, then your risk-adjusted return is more like 7% annual.  Nobody crucify me if I'm misrepresenting here, it's not something I pay much attention to.

  7. Regarding Christine Ford's claims and the media's alleged rush to run with them, let's get GRHorn and his buddies to comment on the EXACT timeline of those allegations.  I fucking dare you, every one of you bootlicking sycophants, I dare you to comment on how the media is to blame when this is how it played out.  Key takeaway:  "As Kavanaugh's nomination proceeded, Ford said she decided she did not want to go public with her accusations given the expectation that he would be confirmed. She told the Post that her thinking was, 'Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?'"

     
     
     
     
     
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    Spoiler
    Here's everything we know about how the nomination arrived at this point:
    • The early 1980s: Christine Ford said that while she and Kavanaugh were high school students at their respective schools in Maryland, they both went to a party. Ford alleged that at this party, she was pushed into a bedroom and an inebriated Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed while his friend Mark Judge was watching and laughing. She said Kavanaugh groped her, tried to take off her clothes and placed his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. Ford said she managed to escape when Judge jumped on top of them. Kavanaugh and Judge have denied the allegations, and Ford said she did not speak about the incident for years. Ford told The Washington Post that she thought it happened in the summer of 1982, when she would have been 15 and the newspaper said Kavanaugh would have been 17.
    • 2012: While at couples therapy with her husband, Ford told the Post she described the alleged incident in detail for the first time. Her husband, Russell Ford, recalled to the Post that she talked during their 2012 sessions about the incident, mentioning Kavanaugh's last name and that he was a federal judge who might be on the Supreme Court eventually. Ford provided portions of the therapist's notes to the paper, which described an incident without mentioning Kavanaugh by name. The Post said the notes referred to four boys involved, which Ford said was an error made by her therapist. Ford told the Post four boys at the party, but only two were in the room.
    • 2013: Notes from an individual therapy session said Ford talked about a "rape attempt" from when she was a teenager, according to the Post.
    • July 2018: Ford reached out to the Post's tip line as Kavanaugh's name appeared on the shortlist to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. "Around the same time," the Post said, Ford contacted her member of Congress, California Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo.
    • July 9, 2018: President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
    • Late July: Ford opted to contact California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein via a letter through Eshoo's office. In the letter, Ford requests Feinstein keep the matter confidential.
    • Early August: On the advice of her attorney Debra Katz, Ford took a polygraph test. The Post said Katz provided the paper with the results of the test, which was administered by a former FBI agent. The results concluded Ford was truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate, according to the newspaper.
    • Late August: As Kavanaugh's nomination proceeded, Ford said she decided she did not want to go public with her accusations given the expectation that he would be confirmed. She told the Post that her thinking was, "Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?"
    • September 4-7: The Senate Judiciary Committee holds contentious hearings on Kavanaugh in which the nominee was lauded by Republicans and faced with regular interruptions from protesters. No mention is made of the allegations that would surface days later in the media.
    • September 12: The Intercept reported that Feinstein is in possession of a letter detailing an accusation against Kavanaugh and that she would not provide the letter to other members of the committee.
    • September 13: Feinstein said she received information on Kavanaugh and had "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities." CNN reported that Feinstein had forwarded a letter to the FBI relating to alleged misconduct by Kavanaugh while he was in high school and that the letter Feinstein sent had all the names redacted except for Kavanaugh's.
    • September 14: The New Yorker reported on the substance of the allegations without naming Ford. CNN reported on details of the allegations. Mark Judge, who was reported that day to have been Kavanaugh's friend in the room, denied the allegations in an interview with the conservative Weekly Standard. The White House issued a statement from Kavanaugh denying the allegations.
    • September 16: The Washington Post published an article in which Ford comes forward and details her allegations. The White House reiterated Kavanaugh's statement denying the incident occurred.
    • September 17: Katz said Ford would be willing to speak publicly with lawmakers as key senators voiced interest in delaying a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination. The White House stood by Kavanaugh, who was seen entering the building and who issued a new statement again denying the allegations and saying he would be willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort to clear his name. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins became one of the key undecided senators to say she welcomed testimony from both Kavanaugh and Ford. Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee chairman, said, "Anyone who comes forward as Dr. Ford has deserves to be heard, so I will continue working on a way to hear her out in an appropriate, precedented and respectful manner."

     

    Come on, boys.  Let's hear it.  Let's hear how the mainstream media rushed to smear Kavanaugh with no discretion.  Come on.  Do it.

  8. 8 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

    I missed where I said anything of the sort. Try again. 
     

    Did mainstream media outlets sit on stories about Weinstein and Epstein because they failed to meet their “editorial standards”? Yes.

    Did the same outlets run with uncorroborated, salacious allegations by Julie Swetnick and her media darling attorney, Avenatti? Yes

    That’s what the original tweet I posted was addressing.  
     

    Why the double standard?

    Perhaps you should address the manner in which those stories were reported and the timeliness thereof.  You know, because there was a fucking SCOTUS hearing going on and it was a central theme.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Today maybe, but not back in the day (not that long ago) when women actually said if bill tells you to suck it you do.  Don't even try to make the democrats out to be anything other than the other team engaging in the same shit republicans do.

    What in the blue hell are you babbling about?

    No.  

  10. I find all of this back and forth very fascinating.  Up until a few years ago, I identified as "slightly left of center", sprinkled with copouts about leaning towards fiscal conservatism, which was not really true in the sense of modern fiscal conservatism (because it probably doesn't exist).  I took heat from both sides because "if you're not anything you're nothing" and whatever.

    Many of our forum conservatives have now abandoned their party because their sense of patriotism rightly trumps (heh) their ideology.  I don't really think any of y'all are abandoning your perspective, at least not wholesale, but have rather determined (with great accuracy) that there is no party for a true conservative these days.  At the very least it's obvious that the Republicans AREN'T the answer any more.

    Just some thoughts.  I doubt many are actually becoming more liberal, but it's more like they had certain progressive views (abhorrence of racism and other bigotry, reproductive rights, etc.) hard-wired in their psyche but were entrenched in a group identity that discouraged expressing those views, so those discussions were more or less off limits.  Times are . . . interesting.

  11. 21 minutes ago, tbone_ said:


    That green strat needs a mots pickguard in the worst way.

    Yes, but this is true of all painted/monochrome Strats.  I don't know why Fender insists on white pickguards.

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  12. LMAO.  Bag O'Hammers shows up just when some rando network gal goes into an in-depth Q&A on a "hot mic" (nudge nudge wink wink) to further his "the media is the enemy of the people" talking point, but he couldn't be bothered to raise his pointy little fivehead when (oh God where do I start) Trump's foot soldier does an about face "oh wow did you mean THAT quid pro quo"?

    End yourself, metaphorically.

  13. I've always had the impression of Rand Paul being the son of the dude who built the company from the ground up and wants his son to continue in his footsteps, but the son could not be less interested.  Surely we've all sat in meetings with that son . . . the overarching theme of which seems to be "WTF?  aren't you like VP of Marketing or something like that?"

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