ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social
Curmudgeon. Retired pedagogue. Lapsed philologist. Maneiac.
Likes: Sparrows. bridges, cardboard boxes, curtain rods
Dislikes: Most everything else.
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From all over, not just Latin American. A Catholic Vietnamese priest buried my Irish Catholic parents. My chaplain when I was in the hospital for a month in '17 was Great Lakes African....
Those guys will eventually rise through the ranks. And that's ok. After all, it's a universal church...
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There's a "Big brick cities built by ex 48-er Germans who loved beer and hated slavery" belt...
(St. Louis was a Union stronghold.)
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"But her (((donors)))!" was all over the place in 2016. Primary and general.
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Have they no maps? Or will it all be oroxies and standoff weapons?
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C64 line- numbered BASIC to calculate BRAPI (an ancestor of WHIP) for a Strat-o-matic league draft.
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L/A and Bangor have working farms witin city limits.
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The theater of a concept of a plan.
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Wilson and Harding and Coolidge never sent the Army to liberate Milwaukee from the socialists somehow
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_s...
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Golden's chasing those voters. We've had in my time independent governors 2x, and an independent senator, the Green VP candidate, and a bunch of Indy legislators.
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There's a non-trivial constituency in Maine for:
"Get the parties out of politics.
Get the politicians out of politics.
Get the politics out of politics"
People who hate politics and still vote out of a sense of duty or inertia are partially responsible for Collins
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Jared's going to be President some day. When the fever breaks. And people come to their senses. All right thinking people will turn to him, tribune of the forgotten middle, to get the politics out of politics
Just ask him. (I've never seen so much baseless ambition in anyone and I taught teenagers)
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Jared's going to be President some day. When the fever breaks. And people come to their senses. The ordinary people will turn to him, the tribune of the forgotten middle, to get the politics out of politics
Just ask him. (I've never seen so much baseless ambition in anyone and I taught teenagers.)
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What if, in a /narrative/ kind of way, the best way, he failed to identify himself?
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F=m×a. A small number (small m) convinced they're fighting for their people and securing future for white children (big a) are going to roll a diffuse, often mutually antagonistic and frequently apathetic majority all day long.
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Hard to blame the founders for not envisioning a Refrigerator Poetry Magnets™ for the republic's Chief Magistrate
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Head of state. Head of government.
Good going, America.
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Do tankies lick tanks? Now I'm just confused.
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The last person he talked to changed. So he changed.
The eternal present..
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It's a downwards ratchet. The '80% of good is god enough' becomes the new 'good' which then has its kwn '80% is good enough'...
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(Complicated because NY has fusion voting and the American Labor Party had him on their line.)
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LaGuardia ran as a Republican because anti-machine, anti-Tammany
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www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2025/06/will...
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An additional charge of "Wilfully and persistently being a foreigner"
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Can't have this happening again.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...
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"Commanders" is good. So's "Guardians".
We know how to do a rebranding.
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That's how you get things like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kit...
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Surely he looks more lile this?
(From the Economist, 1 April 2025)
www.economist.com/internationa...
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They didn't want an August Landmesser.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...
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An opportunity to put yourself on the CO's shit list?
Who could say no?
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The rational mind looks at the scale of the catastrophe and automatically starts looking for a cause of similar magnitude.
Which might not be there.
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That's what a senior US military official says.
What does the law.say?
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We're doing Dred Scott 2.0 now: "They are foreigners -.so, beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with blood-and soil Americans, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they have no rights which the state, or its citizens, are bound to respect"
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We had a referendum last fall on just this - and Barabbas won.
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They saw Brady in Tampa and think they're getting that.
They're not. Brady was unique.
"Go out and get me AN X" never works unless you come back with THE X."
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Lobstermen pretty universally call lobsters 'bugs' up heah in Maine.
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And Chicago isn't at the top of the target list -- though it was earlier at a smaller scale.
immigrationimpact.com/2025/01/31/i...
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They're not sliding surreptitiously from critiques of capitalism to critiques of (((capitalism))) either... it's not like that ever happens.
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People who see it -- and soldiers have smartphones -- will have an excuse, or a reason, or both, to think 'Everyone thinks like that."
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In the high school I run in my head, the Pledge in homeroom is replaced with the first section of the 14th Amendment and "The New Colossus", on alternating days.
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So you could volunteer to go on your CO's shit list?
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It's always 1988-1992 between his ears.
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www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-random-p...
Batch generator for testing database apps, etc.
Used to use it for language classes all the time to make up realistic exercises.
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It's hard to sell social provision, or the need for public goods, when whole swathes of the political nation, and the pervasive culture, are grounded in the notion that words like 'society' and 'public' don't point to any actually-existing thing.
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My father said to us countless times: "Always watch someone who knows what they're doing, do what they know. You'll learn something. The world is full of experts. For most things you probably aren't one of them."
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And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
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When Debby Wasserman Shultz wasn't even a pre-schooler?
Amazing powers of prescience.
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Once every couple of weeks or so I'd wind up at the same intersection with another car - it happens a bunch when you have a regular commute, seeing the same cars sometimes for years - whose driver would pop in one contact at a red light, then drive one-eyed till the next red, then pop in the other.
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The present Court has already decided that the Free Exercise Clause makes the Establishment Clause unconstitutional - I wouldn't seek them short on assembly.