A couple of years ago I drove across the South in the middle of the states driving back roads on my way to TX... and then to the Great Lakes and back down the Eastern seaboard.

There were lots of really nice old town squares and historic sites, beautiful woodlands and hills across GA, AL, Mississippi, and then there was Louisiana.

Besides being flat and plain, old and worn out, the people there were like slave labor zombies; all hope lost. It was very sad to see.

- the marine layer

I remember not being able to see the point of the hood on my '76 Alpha Romeo Spyder driving in the fog south of San Fran.

We loved going over to Half Moon Bay back in the day.

- loaded up the kids and moved

"to Beverly... Hills that is; swimming pools, movie stars!"

(sorry, but you made me picture Jed Clampett moving in that old car!)

When I lived in the Silicon Valley in the early 80's I fell in love with CA's climate... I remember once complaining that it never really rained; it was such beautiful weather!

Unfortunately, CA was already becoming crowded, and there was a rash of serial killers. Austin wasn't a bad alternative back then, but it's hotter there now.

Here in Horse Country it's beautiful about half the year... not this half right now though; it sucks.

You have the right spot, Donner.

#5

That's hilarious!

DJT's tiny hands are bloody from these and literally 100's of thousands of other deaths here and around the world.

You own this, Trumpers.

We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late
When they pass away

We were talking about the love we all could share
When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew

Try to realise it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you

We were talking about the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know
They can't see
Are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you

Songwriters: George Harrison

#98

Yet another post sans any argument... of course, argument isn't your forte; that would be whining, bitching, and moaning about what other people post.

It's really all you do here.

Actually, he sounds like he's been reading BJ's posts....

#96

Same stupid False Dichotomy that was demolished in #54.

"Most experts agree that the ideal approach requires a mix of both. Broad categories (lumping) are used to establish general principles, while detailed distinctions (splitting) are used to uncover specific mechanisms."

Which is what most normal people who aren't attention trolls, who's posts are predominately Logical Fallacies like Whataboutisms and False Dichotomies, do.

Your Engrish comprehension sucks.

Have another drink, Bev... cheers!

Just have the Doc check your liver, m'K?

#62

All that word salad and not a bit of argument anywhere in it.

Are you and 1Nut having an affair? Does Mrs. Bev know?

Think of the children!!

The Trump Crime Family is what Trumpers voted for, and they are damn proud of it!

Well, Cult is, but the swing voters they hornswoggled are just waiting to get their chance at revenge votes.

1Nut obviously can't distinguish taxonomy from taxicabs... nor admit that his false dichotomy of posters here is all in his tiny little head.

There's no real division here on the Left between those of us who want all or nothing and those who are willing to address political policies individually.

You just made that crappola up for your attention trolling... a way to separate yourself from the rest of us, because you just KNOW you are better than everyone else here.

But you not recognizing your own false dichotomies is... well, it's hilarious, really.

The very old concept of lumping and splitting is, btw, often useful in data collection.

While a useful shorthand, the concept can feel ridiculous because it presents a false dichotomy.

Most experts agree that the ideal approach requires a mix of both. Broad categories (lumping) are used to establish general principles, while detailed distinctions (splitting) are used to uncover specific mechanisms.

Perhaps you should just keep focusing on your trolling skills, eh?

- view the American system as needing a comprehensive overhaul.

Most obviously it does.

- They argue that progress on any single issue is impossible without dismantling the underlying power structures, and thus demand that all allies adopt this synoptic worldview.

Again obviously, they, and or we, don't argue that at all.

Your reading comprehension is hideous... you know that, don't you.

- Splitters

More of those here than the others of this arbitrary division you've spent so much time misunderstanding. Likely a record amount of time.

But hey, it gives you an excuse for your attention trolling, so there's that.

So, it turns out ICE shoots the guy in the head, then drags his body out of the car... and then handcuffs him.

- what about the hispanics, blacks, gays, and the women who vote for them?

Swing voters who are abandoning DJT's Repube Party in droves, leaving him with a vast minority of popular support.

#12

is posting while unconscious yet again.

AL, GA, TN, LA, TX... all on the list.

"Our journalists report the facts and advance the American public's right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used," Times attorney David McCraw said in a statement.

"This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs."

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"It's very rich for Hegseth to cite the need to protect sensitive national defense information' after he himself shared sensitive national defense information' last year with his wife over Signal and faced zero consequences.

In 2012, CIA Director David Petraeus resigned his position and was later sentenced in federal court to two years' probation and fined $100,000 for doing the same with his girlfriend," said John Ullyot, the former chief Pentagon spokesperson."

non-paywall link

oops, thread already up

"Initial statements indicate an Enforcement Removal Operations Officer was conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal when the subject attempted to flee in a vehicle in the direction of the officer and was fatally shot," the office said in a statement.

The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition identified the victim as a 26-year-old man from Colombia. Mufalo Chitam, the group's executive director, told CNN that the man was on his way to work.

The group said the man was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number."

;;

Wonder how much blood Trumpers can stand on their hands... apparently there's no limit.