johnstarkbhm.bsky.social
Retired newspaperman. Birder. Walker.
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I forgot to name the film! It's "The Big Combo."
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Trump simply declares victory and runs the "Mission Accomplished" banner up the flag pole. To him, governance is performance.
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In a 1955 "film noir," Holliman and Lee Van Cleef play a pair of hit men who work for "Mr. Brown," a sadistic gangster played by Richard Conte. In one scene, the two of them are shown in bed together. A strange thing for 1955. The whole film deserves to be better-known.
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You can't make a case AGAINST better education. But I am troubled by the fact that all my classmates got the same education I did--but we didn't all vote alike. Education may not change our political climate as much as people think.
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I'm not sure Mexico and Canada can risk the economic damage of a serious trade war with their powerful neighbor. China? That might be a different story. But if the Chinese like Trump, they might make a few insignificant concessions to enable him to declare victory.
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You and many other terrific people often share information on what some of the worst people are saying.
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It might be instructive to look at the history of the Democratic Party in the 20th Century. Rabid southern segregationists were a part of the New Deal coalition, for economic reasons.
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When we try to hold somebody accountable for failure, we're just "playing the blame game."
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I don't want to shock you, but there are people alive today who can remember a time before there were video games.
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Does anyone think the Trump team overlooked all this? Aren't they, in fact, endorsing it?
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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I didn't realize Elon was in charge of who gets arrested.
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Canada and Mexico are important exporters of petroleum to the US. www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/f...
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Will this include petroleum? Canada and Mexico are this country's two largest sources of imported oil.
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Which one?
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So we don't want Mexicans to cross the border in search of work, and we also don't want them to make stuff in Mexico and sell it to us? Got it.
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Les Miserables is good too. I didn't get through the novel, but the musical was awesome. I do plan to take another crack at the book.
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War and Peace is worth a mention. A lesser-known but fascinating one is "The Betrothed," by Alessandro Manzoni, written in 1827 (in Italian) set in the 17th Century.
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Merrick Garland became famous when Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court in the naive hope that he would be acceptable to GOP Senators--not because he was a champion of progressive causes.
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Since Trump isn't running for re-election, I'm betting that he does set them free, to keep his base happy at little or no cost to himself.
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Who's got a squacco heron? I have a few, but they are too far away.
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Big Deal. Nancy Sinatra followed me on Twitter. (I have no idea why.)
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They were afraid that if they came after Trump--REALLY came after him--he would still regain power and come after them.
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The first message might need to be damage control. Most people, especially younger people, have been brainwashed into thinking that Social Security will go broke soon and they will never see a dime--which is only true if our leaders keep refusing to fund it.
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Moving cars are even worse.
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How about a green heron, from western Washington state?
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It often seems as though the national TV news talking heads have no clue about what state and local governments do. How many of them have ever been to a school board meeting, county council meeting, state legislative committee hearing etc.?
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Should we "trust" any source of information? Depends on how you define "trust." If trust means uncritical acceptance of information from some source, that might be a mistake. At this point I don't trust anyone or anything--but some sources are worth listening to, critically.