ivylander.bsky.social
Aspiring scourge. Former bass guitarist for Jolly World and the Power Users.
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Sometimes Chuck Grassley is coherent by comparison.
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There is no God.
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It's unseemly to beg to be blocked. Nonetheless, I will accommodate you.
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He and I have mutual friends. I have a number of points of disagreement with him, but he's an honest, honorable man who cares about governing well. Which is precisely why there's no longer room for him in the Republican party.
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I mean, didn't we know this already? Now, if he were talking about Krasnov, *that* would be attention-getting...
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Thank. You. For. Your. Attention. To. This. Matter.
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Also, in some cases - like mine, in the late 70s - you might be hired on a one-year contract, which would not be renewed. Because of union rules, anyone who taught for four semesters at this school was automatically tenure-tracked. They simply hired someone new each year at the same lousy salary.
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You can come party over at our place.
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However, they do tend to encourage paranoid tendencies and Messiah complexes, which is fertile soil for totalitarian beliefs if you have the right (wrong) personality.
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Life imitates Maury Povich.
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The loudest whisper ever.
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"Handler"? Ew...
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Thiel said the same thing.
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"Working directly" carrying a lot of weight here...
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Several decades ago I wrote a book and went out on tour. Before I did, the PR person at the publishing house asked for a list of 20 questions I would like to be asked. I complied, thinking no self-respecting journalist would ever use them. About 80% of the questions I got were right off the sheet.
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Exactly what is happening in our family at the moment.
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"Trump advisers tracking the investigation have privately suggested they no longer have any idea about who or what to believe." What's sauce for the goose...
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"No one has been harder on Russia than me."
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King Sunny Ade and his African Beats at the Beacon Theater in NYC in 1987. They levitated.
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Given the source and the absence of context, I am imagining Mike thinks it has gone woke.
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The kid served his purpose.
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Well, Dr. Oz, the way I see it, prolonged life for my family and me is definitely in my best interests.
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"I'm your dealer. You just don't know it yet."
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Darn - had just managed to put McLaughlin completely out of mind...
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The team runners-in-scoring-position average speaks, all too loudly, for itself. Honestly, there have been very few competitive at-bats since the beginning of the season. It's as if the rest of the league has figured out our collective approach and is pitching us smarter.
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"If you were honest, you would acknowledge that I am correct." Most mendacious use of a hypothetical so far today. But it's early.
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What's most surprising here is that they didn't immediately scuttle an action just because Biden had taken it.
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So it's a "show"? I guess when all you do is theater, everything is a show.
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Class will out.
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He has a way of trumpeting his independence until the moment when it actually counts.
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1) A "diaspora" (no caps) is not a person.
2) Your second sentence is a question and requires a question mark.
3) For these and 10 other far more consequential reasons, you qualify as living proof of your conclusion.
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He gets points for spunk.
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You're undercutting his business model.
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Indeed, your ideas *are* a waste of time and you are not to be taken seriously. I am not blocking you for those reasons - I'm blocking you because I already deal with enough would-be-edgy contrarian stupidity in the rest of my life.
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I think we know.
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I continue to believe that the real problem is not *that* Congressfolk stay in their jobs too long, but *why they can*. The structural advantages of incumbency are prohibitive. We could legislate a fairer set of rules, but that would be like trying to get Congress to, I dunno, ban stock trading...
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Agree with everything here. The real question here. I think, is whether the argument is incoherent or deceitful.
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I guess he's saying it can't be a quid pro quo if we don't know what Trump's getting in return? As I say, just a guess, because otherwise this seems like a pretty incoherent argument.
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Have developed the habit of adding "-ai" at the end of every search. Try googling "how long do Tesla batteries last?" both ways. You'll get two quite different answers.
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He also needs to do everything without anyone else's help. Having to share credit is a bitch.
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Second place: Spot in Orioles' rotation.
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Much like Maxine Waters's "assault" of Michael Tracey...
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"It's a matter between you, your doctor, and local officials.'
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"I'm thinking about a Tesla...."
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"We have footage and we're going to be releasing it shortly" is as meaningless as "we'll unveil a new healthcare plan in a couple of weeks."
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"It's OK if I propose this if a proportion of my constituents have a narrow self-interest in it, but not if it supports a principle our nation has lived by for decades and has brought the world a high degree of economic stability."
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Despite not spending a whole lot of time on FB, I have recently seen 5 different sponsored attacks on Pritzker on various issues. So not only are Republicans scared enough of him to try and AOC him - it also means Zuck is back in the business of using the algorithms to advance his political ends.
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You are attributing symmetry to an extremely asymmetrical phenomenon. Yes, both left and right do it, but I see it on the right a whole lot more.
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In other words, the kinds of jobs immigrants have been doing because "real Americans" won't touch them with a barge pole.
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We now live within driving distance of Easton and have vowed that our grandchildren will not suffer the deprivations we did.