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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Of all the things that it appears we are never going back to, it is to be a country that empathizes with immigrants who determine they can't afford to wait and go through whatever formallzed and hostile immigration protocols we put in place to keep them out. The only reason this country will ever have to accept immigrants is a pure economic need. And one side of the political isle is going to lie about that need to keep brown, non-Christian people out. The idea of this country as a haven is over. For every person who is horrified by ICE and the needless pain they are inflicting, there is at least one other celebrating. Yeah, and I realize I'm finally catching up.
  2. MAGA looks at this as WORSE than warning people who are about to bomb federal buildings that their hideout is about to be raided. Just so we can keep our perspectives.
  3. I had no idea Brisket looked Jewish. Not that there is anything wrong with looking Jewish.
  4. Interesting - I have a much easier time following non-fiction than fiction on audiobooks. I think when I lose the train of which character is which it's a bit more unwieldy to go back and figure it out. I'm doing audio mostly because I have some age-related vision problems. I'm generally curious about the "cognitive" differences in digesting audio vs. visual reading.
  5. America is willing to let a mendacious rapist to be President. Keep America's focus on this issue while you do other horrible shit. Profit.
  6. I eat a bowl of bun whenever I'm up in Richardson so thank you Mister President!
  7. Your avatar photo was taken in West Marin, correct? With someone brought in from outside of West Marin?
  8. I give a fuck when Stanford is good every couple of decades for a spell.
  9. There is a lot there to think about. My initial response is that it's kind of the opposite. The problem with Dems has been to support folks like HRC and Biden and Colin Allred - people who the elite in Dem circles who don't need anyone to acheive any results. Mandani looks to me like the kind of disruptive force that has literally transformed the Republican Party to achieve the rather hateful results that those folks want. My gut reaction is that Mandani, and other progressives with impossible ideas, can pinball their way to needed results, if not now, in the next few cycles.
  10. Because the title of this thread is "The Democratic Party" and not "The Housing Policy" thread. In the context of allowing for the largest tent possible to defeat the authoritarianism that is threatening this country, I'm in favor of people electing people who represent an attempt to protect democracy and are looking out for those who are the losers in a market economy, because I think they have a better chance of reaching the correct results than those who start from either an opposite proposition or simply those who feel fascism leads to better economic results.
  11. Our Mexicans are better than their Mexicans.
  12. And if someone else runs against him who can better achieve reasonable goals I would not begrudge the NYC voters for voting for that person.
  13. Oh, the novel has a perfect beginning: "The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933]) There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that had jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me [Death] standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
  14. Explain all you want, but I'm focused on his "approach" and not "likelihood of policy success". His likelihood of policy success is very dependent on changes in Albany. You might think that the policies are ridiculous, but the approach is what is critical to me in deciding whether I, a Dallasite, is comfortable with the national press coverage of NYC race.
  15. Appointment in Samara - John O'Hara (1934) Not trying to come at you with the high hat but taking another shot at completing the Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels in English of the 20th Century. This one is fine, but Lord & Taylor! Everyone gets very tight and ends up sore but the women are mostly swell and that makes up for it. Like an extended angry party scene from Mad Men but set in the Jazz Age. I'd tell you more but my wife just yelled at me to get her another benedictine.
  16. The first is a shitty fucking goal and the second -- affordable housing --is a good goal. The first reflects a warped mind and the second a lofty goal.
  17. Okay. So sounds like a fine option if Landers isn't running against him. Not sure why the controversy.
  18. Haven't seen anything that would warrant that characterization. He's swinging for the fences in terms of NYC affordability. Sounds pretty smart to me. So, he's more antagonistic towards Israel than I am? So are most people. He comes across as the guy who was slightly more liberal than one when one was in undergrad.
  19. It seems to me that the primary bias that most American have, if they have one, is that they think of all Muslims as fundamentalist. Whereas they are willing to parse the hardshell and softshell Christians and make allowances to Christians who aren't fundamentalists, they don't give Muslims the same leeway, ant throw them all into one big batch. That's the problem. The other problem is conflating thoughts about religious beliefs with global politics.
  20. Judaism, at least in America, tends not to constantly point out that if you aren't part of their club you are totally fucked in this life and the next. If that was the case there would be lots more antisemitism here than there is. Israel profoundly fucked up their response in Gaza. Repercussions.
  21. I'm sure he will, Nancy.
  22. No subs until everyone is obviously exhausted! How we gonna beat Mexico unless we are in shape!
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