finnbow.bsky.social
Retired Civil Engineer; Hokie; Traveled the world for work and play; John Prine when I'm up, Dylan when I'm down; Dedicated consumer of good food, wine and single malt; Ich spreche auch Deutsch.
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There is nothing more insufferable than whiny, self- appointed headline editors.
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Wasn't the bigger reason that the colonies were dead broke and couldn't afford an army? Same goes for a navy. There was considerable opposition to the US having a Navy, even if were to be comprised of only 6 frigates and no battleships (while the English had ~600 vessels and over 100 battleships).
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Both Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground were great and highly influential. I understand ambivalence about Cohen (though I like him), but not Lou Reed. The Velvets were at least a decade ahead of anyone else.
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I think it’s more of the administration doing something that they’re actually allowed to do (protect federal assets) so the can argue that can make that argument in court (and in public) to divert attention from their illegal (and otherwise wasteful and pointless) actions.
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No worries. There will be a long trail of broken down Cybertrucks marking the route.
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Sorry to say, but Democrats have a lot to learn from Republican messaging.
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Yet, obnoxious dipshits that have very strong opinions about things they know absolutely nothing about vote too. Dems need to figure out a message that appeals to them too.
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Good luck getting Trump’s Inspectors General to undertake anything potentially critical of Dear Leader.
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Trump must come clean? As if he’s even capable of doing so.
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It seems the American public confuses motion with progress.
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“Information” is doing even more work. He “absorbs” and spews misinformation/disinformation. He has no use for factual information.
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Did Cadet Bonespurs get a promotion?
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True enough. A look at Fox News website shows that politics is but a fraction of what they cover. It’s mostly cultural fluff covered in tabloid/People Magazine style.
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… and Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea, among others.
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Viel Glück, mein guter Mann.
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As if every member of Congress and the President himself reads the entirety of a bill before voting for or signing it. I'd bet that the overwhelming majority of Congress (Democrats included) did not read the entire ~1,000 page "big beautiful bill" before casting their vote.
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I liked both genres at the time, but no longer have any use for them (other than Zappa’s foray into the genres with Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka and the Grand Wazoo).
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He’s just pissed that the Hall of Presidents includes portraits of presidents other than himself or that his portrait is not an AI generated muscleman.
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Or the fact that Werner von Braun and other German rocket scientists formed the core of our space program for 20 years after WW2.
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Want some (Kraft American) cheese with that whine?
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Flag football in the next Olympics has even less appeal than breakdancing in the last one. Other than maybe Canada, no other country even understands or plays the game.
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After the stellar pilot, I expected the remaining episodes to be equally great. They simply were not. I like the vibe, production values and cameos, but the show went from great to good after the pilot.
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Who cares? All this exit velocity, launch angle and spin rate (for pitchers) detract from the actual game. Such analytical bean-counting has contributed to baseball now being the third most popular sport as opposed to the erstwhile national pastime.
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His constant shit-eating grin makes me think he’s daydreaming about porn 24/7.
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It’s the best designed and curated of any of the Smithsonian museums. If only the museums of American History and the American Indian were as well curated (unfortunately they’re not even close).
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Great play, but he looked safe to me.
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Wear your half million hat proudly while self-identifying as a gullible MAGAMoron. You could have given that money to charity and instead you chose to give it to the world’s most well-known conman and now you whine about it. What the hell were you expecting?
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Our dear "Cheeto Benito"
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And they smell like cabbage.
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For sure. It’s not like the Constitution nor subsequent case law are even remotely ambiguous in this regard.
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Maybe it’s not a bad thing to anger the public over unpopular things Trumps says he wants to do but cannot achieve, while frustrating MAGA over so many promises that cannot be fulfilled.
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Shouldn’t these gutless firms now just renege on these agreements? They’re now unenforceable, it seems to me.
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So, the polar opposite of a Declaration of War, something Congress hasn’t done since WW2. This would effectively demand a Declaration of No War, something they’d be even less capable of.
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I watched that play 3-4 times and still don’t understand it.
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"Firing" is probably the wrong word her. Defense Policy Board positions are unpaid.
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Chris Plante gives insufferable pricks a bad name.
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The business model between MAGA media and the MSM are different. One is a propaganda arm of the Trump administration and the other is news. The backers of MAGA media (e.g., the Mercers) are happy to spend untold millions to sway the masses, whereas the folks behind the MSM are running a business.
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It seems to me that if one is incapable of getting past the headlines, they have no standing to complain about the journalistic quality of content thereunder and they certainly have no complaint if the content is provided free. As the saying goes, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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That's a different issue than folks bemoaning the fact that many newspapers/periodicals aren't free. As for NYT headlines, people whining about their word choices gets pretty tiresome. It often seems they go to the NYT site just to complain about headline semantics rather than to read the articles.
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The expectation of free news is what's killing newspapers. It's hard to pay journalists if readers don't pay for subscriptions and classified ads. I too like free, but am forced to acknowledge that this desire has contributed to the demise of the newspaper industry. IOW, you get what you pay for.
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It's not out of immediate reach. It's the fact that the Web has conditioned you to believe that all info should be free. Prior to the Web, people willingly paid for magazines and newspapers. If anything, we're overwhelmed with information to the extent that we can no longer recognize what's "vital.'
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You left out his horrific Munich speech.
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Does this not define these acts as unofficial?
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I think Elon has gotten her message. He’ll be DM’ing her soon.
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Thomas Paine would like a word.
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The sheer number of impact craters in that area is something to behold.
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Any chance of SCOTUS revisiting the validity of using the AEA in this instance, particularly that we now know that the intelligence community studied it and contradicted Trump's basis for using it.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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That was really beautifully written, much nicer than Trump deserves.
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Aiding and abetting a criminal is a crime says the henchman for a convicted felon.
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Besides, they have a CVT and no vehicle with a CVT is worthy of love.