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  • Big Surge

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  • Entry level vinyl setup.

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Just hire them a string quarter for the weekend. @klaus said in Entry level vinyl setup.: How about skipping the vinyl and going straight to a vintage gramophone instead? It's even less convenient, the sound is even worse, and the selection of music is even smaller - which means that it is better in every way! I think you can get a "made in China" fake vintage gramophone for 100 bucks or so. Alternatively, you could hire them a string quartet for the weekend.
  • Walter Mondale, 1928-2021

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    George KG
    From the RWEC: Robert Bartley, the legendary editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page who knew Mondale personally from serving with him on the board of the Mayo Clinic, wrote: “The great mystery of the man is how and why he contrived to keep his personal wit and humor, readily apparent in even short conversation as vice president, from showing itself on the campaign trail.” One of the more interesting stories of Mondale is how he invited a number of the prominent “neoconservative” Democrats to meet with Carter at the White House in January 1980 after Carter had indicated he wanted to be tougher on the Soviet Union, and when many Dem neocons were still longing to be loyal to their old party. The meeting was a total disaster, because Carter was clueless. And Mondale knew it. Jeane Kirkpatrick was in the group, along with Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Ben Wattenberg, Elliott Abrams, Max Kampelman, retired admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Austin Ranney, and Penn Kemble. Perhaps, the group told Carter, he would now include some of this group in his administration, having spurned them before. Austin Ranney, speaking for the group, told Carter that they were encouraged by the change in Carter’s view of the Soviet Union, and hoped he would now appoint officials who were in harmony with a tougher policy. Carter cut off Ranney: “Your analysis is not true. There has been no change in my policy. I have always held a consistent view of the Soviet Union. For the record, I did not say that I have learned more about the Soviet Union since the invasion of Afghanistan, as is alleged in the press. My policy is my policy. It has not changed, and will not change.” Admiral Zumwalt told Carter that existing U.S. navy forces were incapable of defending the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean oil routes. Carter responded with what was described as “a stare that in a less democratic society would’ve meant he was destined for a firing squad.” Maybe, Carter went on to suggest when the topic moved on to human rights, this group could help with human rights in Uruguay. The meeting was the last straw for these “neoconservative” Democrats, despite Mondale’s efforts to repair the damage. Mondale knew the meeting had been a disaster, and asked the group to stay after Carter left. It was to no avail. Carter, Jeane Kirkpatrick told Morton Kondrake after the meeting, “threw cold water on whatever hopes we had that Iran and Afghanistan would have a broad effect on the president’s foreign policy orientation.” Kirkpatrick announced on the White House lawn after the meeting that she now intended to vote for Reagan.
  • Klaus and the piano

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    Then each of them went home, 1 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, 4they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."
  • Dude, you ain't black enough...

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    CopperC
    I wear the mask in public. On a scale of 1 to 10?
  • Interesting

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    CopperC
    I wear the mask in public. I wish we could agree on criteria to drop the use of masks entirely. The lack of this measurable criteria allows emotion to rule. That makes me think that the experts-in-charge want emotion to rule. It certainly does here.
  • Finally

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    @copper said in Finally: There is not a single Chief Diversity Officer anywhere in the world that can define diversity. I mean define it exactly by precise skin tone and ancestry. Define which countries of origin for how many generations for each of the ancestors or you aren't a real Chief Diversity Officer. Kinda like sexual harrassment? It's all in the eyes of the aggreived?
  • America First

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    "All Republicans roads seem to lead to Mar-a-Lago, [...] It's really the center of the Republican universe right now."
  • Are your Spidey-senses tingling?

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  • The new iMac.

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  • Mistress -Me- Not

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    JollyJ
    @lufins-dad said in Mistress -Me- Not: Moderator! Jolly shared a NY Post Link! Worry if I grab a NYT....
  • Hey Jolly

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    @doctor-phibes said in Hey Jolly: @mik said in Hey Jolly: Interestingly enough, my home town is now debating allowing chickens in the city limits. Hope they do it. Are you allowed to carry farm animals across State lines in your neck of the woods? Happens all the time....
  • Don't Feel Guilty

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    @doctor-phibes said in Don't Feel Guilty: @rainman said in Don't Feel Guilty: Mik: We give a fair amount of money... I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail. If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money? Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal. Thanks, Friends!! Aqua would send them something unspeakable in the little envelope they so kindly provide for donations. I'm not recommending, just saying. Hah. Never thought of that. And, it wouldn't need to be anything disgusting, necessarily. Just questionable, to get people to gather around and ask, "what IS that?"
  • Vaccine Predictions

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    MikM
    NO PLAN! NO PLAN! Jesus.
  • Trampoline

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    brendaB
    Enjoyed both of those videos. Thank you!
  • Chopper Flight

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    L
    A little over 100 years from the first 12 second flight to unmanned flight on Mars! In the meantime Congress and he media has regressed to middle school lying and name calling.
  • West Point cadets expelled over worst cheating scandal in 40 years

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    MikM
    Transvestite! Er...I mean...troglodyte!
  • "Now that the Americans are gone...."

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    Back in the day the Chinese provided the stinger missiles to the mujahadeen via the CIA as the US did not want the USSR know that we were intent on shooting down their helicopters.
  • Largest Armies in the World

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    A couple of interesting things... In the 1880s, the US had a smaller military than places like Portugal. Even in the Spanish American War, we had less than 40,000 soldiers. In 1949 (yes, 1949), Japan had the largest army in the world as in 3x the size of the US Army.
  • From one Bee to another.

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    JollyJ
    @mik said in From one Bee to another.: The article, I mean.... Must have read the mistress thread...