President Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is doing business with Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, a bombshell new report revealed Tuesday.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Just acknowledging that I caught this. Well played.
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
I think that corridor of branches is some pretty amazing set decoration, and really imaginative. It's just that the brooding, lit-from-below, sinister feeling is not (and I do feel fortunate to be able to say this) what I associate with Christmas, exactly.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Faramond wrote:I love it when liberals explain the news to me like I'm an ignorant man-cave dweller. It should have a name -- progsplaining, maybe?
Then what was the non-sequitur comment about? I was surprised that the poster who complained about an echo chamber seemed unaware of a widely reported news item and didn't want you to feel left out.
Also, I don't think "liberal" means what you think it means.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
This is great -- a classic Lasto kerfuffle where everything is taken way too seriously. I'm talking about me. I'm taking it way too seriously.
I guess I was amused at yov's post, which was just one word, kind of out-of-nowhere, though I do understand how it connects to the thread. And then Frelga's post, which I think was meant to come right after yov's, but after mine it is sort of out of place, if you're not paying super-close attention. I thought it was funny. No one did anything wrong, obviously. Except me, for taking things too seriously, but wait, that's what you're supposed to do here, so kudos to me, I guess?
In what way do I not know what *liberal* means? I'll grant these can be slippery terms, hard to pin down sometimes but -- I don't think I used it incorrectly given what I know of your posting history.
I think this Pocahontas story is interesting for how -- well -- mundane it is. I mean mundane in context. The context of the Trump presidency. He's called Warren "Pocahontas" more than twenty times, right? He regularly calls people by insulting nicknames. He regularly says things that are either borderline or outright racist depending on how you want to draw the line. To me this story was kind of a non-story, because of how commonplace it really is with Trump. Which is really sad.
Maria wrote:The non sequitur comment was after yours, Frelga. The one about a portrait.
I didn't follow that jump, either.
It was a reference to this, from the linked article:
The Oval Office event also took place in front of a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson — who ordered the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from the Southeast to the West, known as the "Trail of Tears." More than 4,000 Cherokee people died during the migration.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
So apparently I cross-posted with Faramond twice. FWIW, my first response was honestly because I was not sure if you saw the news, and because I didn't see your post, which is the whole other level of oddness.
Good thing we are such mature, sensible individuals.
Also, I'm not sure "liberal" or "conservative" means anything at all when applied to the US politics.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Frelga wrote:So apparently I cross-posted with Faramond twice. FWIW, my first response was honestly because I was not sure if you saw the news, and because I didn't see your post, which is the whole other level of oddness.
Good thing we are such mature, sensible individuals. .
Uzziden?
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is suing the President of the United States.
The suit is an attempt to block cuts to Grand Staircase-Escalante & Bears Ears National Monuments. They claim that the President lacks the legal authority to order the cuts.
FWIW, my first response was honestly because I was not sure if you saw the news, and because I didn't see your post, which is the whole other level of oddness.
