Jury duty? Last Friday I received a summons for Nov 28 downtown. Yesterday I called the Jury Office to get it changed, but I got lost in phone-robot hell. So I hung up and made my changes online - it is now scheduled for March 26 in Vista - closer, free parking (or a bus stop right in front of the building), cheap restaurants in walking distance for lunch - much more civilized.
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I'm using this neighborhood for this important subject, better than clogging the professional and dignified discourse the other off topic threads engender.
Note: I've got a rat problem in my car engine space. Those bastards love the warm safe space at night from owls, hawks, coyotes, cougars, and wherever other carnivores traverse our neighborhood.
Victor traps work, but I'm left having to fish out the dead carcass and snared trap that inevitably drops down into the tight spaces below the engine block.
I recently bought an electrocution box. Fantastic! Three rats in 4 nights. The kids ask if I'm a murderer for the countless number of rat kills by Victor and now this electrocution box. No, I say, I'm a mass murderer.*
*Unfortunately, my "quack" lawyers are now insisting I use asterisks where patently obvious humor is involved, lest anyone that is so dense to think a pejorative insult for a lawyer is the word "quack".
Now I'm off to my shyster doctor for a flu shot.
Note: I've got a rat problem in my car engine space. Those bastards love the warm safe space at night from owls, hawks, coyotes, cougars, and wherever other carnivores traverse our neighborhood.
Victor traps work, but I'm left having to fish out the dead carcass and snared trap that inevitably drops down into the tight spaces below the engine block.
I recently bought an electrocution box. Fantastic! Three rats in 4 nights. The kids ask if I'm a murderer for the countless number of rat kills by Victor and now this electrocution box. No, I say, I'm a mass murderer.*
*Unfortunately, my "quack" lawyers are now insisting I use asterisks where patently obvious humor is involved, lest anyone that is so dense to think a pejorative insult for a lawyer is the word "quack".
Now I'm off to my shyster doctor for a flu shot.
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Sure. Don't know who started the party. Jefferson? But if so, those were very different times, and a review of that would make my long boring posts even longer and more boring.
Mostly know tidbits of particular eras. So I'll do my best. Cuz you're special ...
Democrats dominated the south for decades following the Civil War. Hating Lincoln and his Republican Party for spearheading the demise of slavery and an entire economic system of the Southern plantation model that generated a pretty profit margin in large measure to the legal status that Blacks were not human but property, thus no need to pay for their services in plantation and other Southern States' industries.
White Southerners remained loyal Democrats for decades later, racist, separatists. KKK organizations sprung up as society in general started progress toward integration throughout the rest of the country, at a pace far too slow everywhere, but of course completely stagnant in the South.
FDR masterfully forged a coalition with the Great Depression's ironic help, in building a majority coalition of Northern and Western State Democrats, mainly not racist, or to be a bit more blunt, far less racist than the immovable South on the issue, with the entire lot of white Southern racist Democrats for several common causes, chief among them, FDR's goals of modernizing the country and GETTING PEOPLE JOBS.
So Southern Democrats were quite pleased with FDR jobs programs that developed the TVA (google it if you need to) that brought thousands of jobs to white jobless Southern Democrats. And with it, end to flooding of regions throughout the South, mostly the Tennessee Valley. (TV...) that produced electricity to many southern communities that lacked such then-modern conveniences.
Amazingly, and inexplicatedly, this coalition continued into the 50s and 60s, thus Senate and Congress remained in Democratic control for 40 years (Senate briefly switched around 1950ish) but Dems took back power, and their odd coalition of then/liberal version of liberal Northerners like JFK, and Western liberal Wayne Morse, caucused with avowed racists like Richard Russell of Georgia, among others, as civil rights was always a back burner issue until ...
The 1960s! Civil rights, voting rights, the end of segregated schools, lunch counters, churches, buses, bus station lounges, water fountains got a lot of news. Nuff said on that gigantic subject
But a wise Republican politician craftily realized he could garner Southern support and break apart that FDR,Great Depression era coalition.
Nixon. And a subject I believe you have a great deal of struggle admitting took place. The SOUTHERN STRATEGY. Thought I'd give it an "Idiocracy" based "big ass fries" treatment.
In the ensuing 15 years from 1970 through the mid 1980s, the old guard of staunch conservative self-identified from decades earlier "racist" Southern Democrat politicians died off, retired then died off, and the Southern no longer cared about Old Abe's party label, became Republicans as they turned 18 to register, or switched parties.
A few stalwarts remained democrat to the end. Was it Strom Thurmond? I'd look it up but I prefer to use my memory of history.
Happy now? Now two long winded boring recitation commentaries on our two great political parties. God help us if either became indomitable and we are reduced to a single party system.
Shouldn't have mentioned kids.....
I really am disappointed with the way you present your self on this forum...
I assumed you were just a lout, now you are the Filthy Forum Pig....
Squeal Ned Squeal....
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I'm disappointed in you, dear boy. You've still not directly answered to the inculpating evidence against Roy Moore. The longer you wait, the less GOP stalwarts will be left. Did Rush really drop off today? Or simply try to slime Democrats by saying Moore was a Southern Democrat back before the SOUTHERN STRATEGY began the movement of white Southern segregationists to switch parties in the early 1970s? An historical fact you seems incapable of acknowledging even when it's in all Caps, Bolded and size 7 Font is deployed. Isn't using those features supposed to make whatever is said TRUE?
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Absolutely. Fredo was shmart! Sarah Palin eventually graduated colleges. Studied the nation of Africa. Reads whatever newspapers put in front of her. Trump has a graduate degree as a MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Dick Cheney did time. What, scratch that.
You've left no doubt...congrats!
What do college professors and so-called scientists know about anything? Turtleneck sweaters, that's what!
Hüsker Dü
DA
When a strongman wants to turn a democracy into a dictatorship some of the first things they do is attempt to shut down the media and intellectuals. They first try to plant seeds of mistrust against those entities amongst the people which eventually makes it easier to persecute them.
Please show the evidence Bob - Phil - Bob !
And the forgery in the " Yearbook " done in Dec with two
different fonts/ink/writing styles does not count.
There is no evidence.....
All five women should take sworn depositions..
That :
A. They are telling the Truth. ( Would fall apart right here ! )
B. No Money was taken to elicit the slanderous allegations they made.
And while the depositions are being taken, the WaPo reporters
should also be made to take them ...stating that THEY did not
prompt comments in any way with the lure of cash.
And Gloria Allred the same....She wouldn't we know that !
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/31331/Duxbury/Washington+County+1873/Vermont/
1873 map - The B. Corliss on the southernmost road was my great-grandfather, deafened as a side-effect of injuries suffered in the Civil War. One of the Hoffman girls from up the road was one of his three wives. Just over the ridge to the south is North Fayston, where my father grew up.
1873 map - The B. Corliss on the southernmost road was my great-grandfather, deafened as a side-effect of injuries suffered in the Civil War. One of the Hoffman girls from up the road was one of his three wives. Just over the ridge to the south is North Fayston, where my father grew up.
And the Fayston map --
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map...ld++Irasville/Washington+County+1873/Vermont/
District 4 includes Henry, Marble, Porter, Boyce and Nelson farms, all ancestors and/or cousins. It is interesting to use these maps in reading through the 1870 and later census sheets published on ancestry.com. The farm my father grew up on is next to the District 4 school and Cemetery, marked R Richardson.
What a morning - first to the library to turn in a DVD (Mermaids with Cher playing a trampy mom to Winona Ryder, and no one can play a trampy mom better than Cher) and pick up Open Season by Archer Mayor, the first Joe Gunther book. Then I went over to Home Depot to buy a small switch and finally found it at the lower right cubby in the rack, the third time I went down that aisle ("You always find it in the last place you look" I said to the HD employee helping me, in my best imitation of a dopey old man) but got charged twice for it in the self-checkout lane (corrected after I convinced 3 employees what had happened). Off to Salvation Army, who wouldn't accept the rusty old spiral clothes-display (and drying) rack (but they did say they would accept the old propane grill I am bringing them tomorrow). So - I took it down to Quality Recycling, who will take all steel items - they just won't pay for them. Then I got home to find out that my wife had changed our travel plans next week from train to plane (because she has Delta Miles to burn).
I think I need another beer.
I think I need another beer.
Ever see the scene in "Unforgiven" when Little Bill was building his porch?Latest project - redwood light box, with 2 18" LED light bars inside --
Not a straight angle in the whole thing.
I'll see you in Hell, William Money.
Yeah.
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Seems the best existing thread for a foreboding theory.
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You dudes ain't buying your share of crap to keep this meth den open, or the fuzz is about to close the whole damn operation down with no warning. Cuz I ain't paying a premium account then having no recourse if Domingo set his shell game up as a Cypriot partnership with a Russian oligarch, and won't release tax returns for me to figure out how I sue to get my $15 dollars back.
My personalized ad banners for defibrillators, walk in baths, chair elevators, NRA camouflage bags, and Depends extra duty (or is it dooty) pant liners are fading out, replaced by calls to become a forum premium member.
You dudes ain't buying your share of crap to keep this meth den open, or the fuzz is about to close the whole damn operation down with no warning. Cuz I ain't paying a premium account then having no recourse if Domingo set his shell game up as a Cypriot partnership with a Russian oligarch, and won't release tax returns for me to figure out how I sue to get my $15 dollars back.