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- Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:57 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Stranger Things
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25817
Re: Stranger Things
I like a lot of pieces of Stranger Things, but I don't think they always go together into a cohesive whole. I call this the "X Files" effect, and a lot of shows with long arcs suffer from it to one extent or another. And I wish Winona Ryder was allowed more of an emotional range, which ev...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 10:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
A little off topic, but funny.
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:12 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
One thing that saddens me the most about the whole DNC kerfluffle is how low WikiLeaks has fallen--from getting the important word out about an otherwise silenced whistle-blower's work to someplace a Russian hacker, possibly in Putin's hire, can drop off stuff Assange wants to use to settle scores.
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:03 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
"I'm not a member of an organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
--Will Rogers, the Jon Stewart of the 1930s.
--Will Rogers, the Jon Stewart of the 1930s.
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 3:46 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
Andrea Mitchell turned the tables on GOP chair Priebus--when he tried to make hay of the emails, and said he thought more might be coming, she asked him if he knew anything and why no one hacked the RNC. Which is an excellent question.
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:16 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Gun Control Debate
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 355096
Re: Gun Control Debate
Fear sells.
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Gun Control Debate
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 355096
Re: Gun Control Debate
Interesting bit about the bloodlines too.
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
On the lighter side again, an old high school pal of mine hit the nail on the head when he compared Ivanka Trump to Marilyn Munster...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:38 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: One way or another, this darkness got to give
- Replies: 39
- Views: 23007
Re: One way or another, this darkness got to give
Let's not forget--in a lot of places, the chief duty of the police is generating revenue. They have to not only pay for themselves but underfunded municipal governments with constituents who either can't afford to pay more taxes (see: north St. Louis County, including Ferguson) or just don't want t...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:46 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: One way or another, this darkness got to give
- Replies: 39
- Views: 23007
Re: One way or another, this darkness got to give
A news story now indicates the officer meant to shoot the autistic kid and missed. Which is about the only thing I can think of that could make this worse.
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
Or just use one of the free plagiarism checkers online. But that would imply Mrs. Trump and the pal she got to redo the speech with her (after she decided the one the pros wrote for her wasn't "right") understood that plagiarism is a problem. It doesn't surprise me that at that level of e...
- Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:28 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Brexit Carried - Endgame
- Replies: 450
- Views: 203471
Re: Brexit Carried - Cameron Resigns
And then it turns out everyone loves "Springtime for Hitler."There is a story going round that between them they will make such a botch of the negotiations that May will be able to sack them both and not have to enact article 51
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:05 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
Anything that helps destroy the fantasy that SCOTUS is apolitical is ultimately a good thing.
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:52 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
And evidently there's no case that can realistically be made that those laws were broken. Comey wasn't exactly a fan of the Clintons. It's clear from his tone he wishes there was a case. But there isn't. Anything else is moot.
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:46 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
DoD regs concerning classified material et al are not the same as DoS regs.
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
Oh, I think it has, and will continue to have, a significant negative effect on her campaign, because it feeds this narrative that she is corrupt and untrustworthy. I think, like Benghazi, anything short of prosecution of one of the Clintons is lost in the scandal-tinged haze that being a Clinton c...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
I would call it some ado about little. It was sloppy and it looks bad, but it probably didn't have any substantive effect, either on national security or her campaign.
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:46 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
Please remember I was raised in a fundie, right-wing household, so I hear pretty much all the dog whistles there are. On a side note, one of the things I'm proudest of when it comes to my family is that they got demonstrably better over the years, as their innate decency slowly overcame the cultura...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:30 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
My assumption concerning the tweet would be that it was a dog-whistle suggestion that Clinton is "owned" by "Jewish money" or some such, given some of the things Trump's people have said. There's clearly an anti-Semitic tinge to many of his supporters, almost unavoidable given t...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:19 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 600691
Re: 2016 United States Election
How likely does it seem that at some point the political system of the US could be reformed? I would put it at near zero. At least any time remotely soon. Especially because it wouldn't be reform so much as wholesale replacement. The point of the U.S. Constitution was explicitly to create an NON-pa...