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Asithappens

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  1. The song "Pressure Drop" was written by Toots Hibbert (of Toots and the Maytals), who also coined the term "reggae" (reggay).
  2. I've been led to believe that the version "nigga" is entirely acceptable. I disagree, but that seems to be the prevailing sentiment. And yeah, this teacher needs a time out.
  3. Mr. Hulot's Holiday and The Lady Vanishes. Lots of good Hitchcock stuff.
  4. Like Lou Reed said: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
  5. Yeah. It most definitely was not "truly horrible".
  6. These two remind me of Starkweather and Fugate. Evil idiots.
  7. Except impeachment won't solve what ails us. The Senate won't convict.
  8. Maybe you can help me with this: how would moving forward with impeachment help solve this constitutional crisis?
  9. Are you new to Texas?
  10. Maybe you'll get measles before then and, who knows?
  11. Sorcery. Yeah, like evolution, right?
  12. Like maple syrup, Canada's evil oozes over the United States.
  13. Yeah, um no, I'm not starting a new thread. Thanks anyways.
  14. Good article in The New Yorker by Dexter Filkins. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/john-bolton-on-the-warpath
  15. No, it's not a serious theological question, imo. Asking for prayers, when done in a positive way, brings together a group of like-minded people, sharing concern, pain, and offering support to get people through this thing called life. How the hell can one then ask "how is that supposed to help"?
  16. By choosing to frame the issue, even if partially, with the use of the word "honest". Imo, it's not an issue of honesty. It's diplomacy.
  17. Rather than calling Cora "less than honest", or basically dishonest, I would say he's being diplomatic.
  18. Oh, the term "evangelical" still has a lot of meaning. Unfortunately, the meaning is bad.
  19. You seem to be implying that making this a political thing is Cora's fault.
  20. That's why I'd rather not see her described as being "evangelical".
  21. Sorry to hear this. Christianity needs more like her.
  22. Not only that, but does anyone seriously/rationally think that even if the US somehow helped secure Palestinian sovereignty, that the Palestinians wouldn't turn on the US, probably with a vengeance? The Palestinians have killed their own and then blamed Israel. That is fucked up. There is value in protecting human life (something both sides of this conflict seem to miss at times).
  23. In a quest to cut costs (and, it seems, to see how far idiocy can become a strategic objective) Boeing cut off the input from their own test pilots. Boeing Co. BA 0.18% limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing from a longstanding practice of seeking their detailed input, people familiar with the matter said. As a result, Boeing test pilots and senior pilots involved in the MAX’s development didn’t receive detailed briefings about how fast or steeply the automated system known as MCAS could push down a plane’s nose, these people said. Nor were they informed that the system relied on a single sensor—rather than two—to verify the accuracy of incoming data about the angle of a plane’s nose, they added. Investigators have linked faulty sensor data to the flight-control system’s misfire, which led to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that took 346 lives. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-own-test-pilots-lacked-key-details-of-737-max-flight-control-system-11556877600?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4
  24. Well, if Laura says it then it must be true.
  25. Probably right, but I can see the "loyalty" being to the party and not to the person (or so the argument would go). I can see some (countless???) members of Congress supporting Trump b/c they would be supporting the party.
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