Dumb.

Billy_T wrote:

Interesting, ZN.

My first degree’s minor was Art History. We touched very lightly on the colors of those statues, but it was there for us. Amazing how first impressions take hold, because from my aesthetic point of view, I’m moved more by the statues with the color faded away. My guess is that if I had grown up with the color, I would have preferred that, but who knows?

Then again, there is always that “acquired taste” thing. Prior to visiting Ireland, I wasn’t always so thrilled with seeing brightly colored homes or businesses in a row. After seeing them close up, and often, I grew to love them. Haven’t been to the Scandinavian countries, but they have a lot of that as well.

Colors done well. When it’s right, it fits in so much better with the environment . . . so it would be interesting to see those statues with their original colors in context. Again, when it comes to buildings, I really liked the way — rooftops, especially — they blended in so well with hills, mountainsides, the coasts in France. Mostly slate and a kind of amber color, and it was pretty universal in most towns in the South. Studying Cezanne more than prepared me for that, for that special kind of adaptation to the environment which is all too rare in America.

Too often our cities and towns seem to be an expression of conquering and exploiting surrounding nature, instead of harmonizing with it. Much of Europe was built with a different view of things.

The US sw is an area where this can still be seen especially those buildings built with local resources taking the local climate into account before A/C became common. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West is a high end example of that.

Billy_T wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Have you ever had difficulty opening a jar?

If so, you know it has nothing to do with physical fitness.

Opening a jar, or being unable to open a jar, is without question the poorest test for the presidency I have ever heard of.

This is what our country has come to. The alt-right, with their legion of white supremacist lunatics leading the charge, is lost in a sea of paranoia and delusion . . . . perhaps, like WV suggests, due to mental illness. To me, it’s one more sign of how far things have broken down that they have any media/societal power at all, or that HRC thinks it’s necessary to respond to their idiocy.

IMO, it’s not too much of a stretch to worry about fascism arising from all of this. I see the alt-right as fascist to begin with . . . but, and this may sound counterintuitive, a response to their brand of fascism might be yet another kind. A strengthening of inverted totalitarianism (Sheldon Wolin).

Sheesh. I’m depressing myself!

Hildabeast STOLE the nomination from Bernie and you bitch about Trump supporters? Never a truer spotlight shone!

zn, Please change my first sentence in my latest post to “That is ridiculously naive.” I am unable to use the edit function since there is a pic over the options. Thanks. (This message was in chat too.)

Dak wrote:

Wow. It was a joke on a late night TV show. Nobody cares anything about it except right-wing conspiracy theorists.

Is it still a joke when people are fired and Google was caught scrubbing results for searches on Hildabeast’s health? This is just the latest scrubbing of results from Google for Hildabeast. The search results were scrubbed for queries on “media coverage of the Clinton Foundation” and “Clinton Foundation” and “Clinton AP story” and “Clinton Crimes” too. More limey BS with Google’s auto-fill function too. Yes a conspiracy that is fact.

Is Google Censoring Negative Clinton Foundation Coverage?

$42 million decoy. Oh brother.

And yet when you open a never before opened jar of pickles it makes a very audible “pop” sound due to the vacuum in the jar. Hildabeast used the pickle jar stunt to demonstrate her ‘strength’ and by extension her being physically ‘fit’. Like everything else about Hildabeast the stunt was rigged in her favor. Useful idiots fall for that stuff but not Trump supporters.

I hope their shower has lots of hot water.

Dak wrote:

The Bush years are a reminder that a small cabal of nut jobs can gain support for all kinds of fucked-up stuff if people are scared. And, these same nut jobs are scared of what Trump might do?

I really think now it’s just right-wing elites are afraid that they can’t trust Trump to do their bidding for the richest 0.1%. It’s a philosophical disagreement on just how to control the world. And, they just can’t predict how Trump will act. If Trump met with these elites and gained their trust, they wouldn’t care what kind of hellfire his presidency would rain down on the rest of the world, just as long as he can convince the overlords that they’ll be shielded from the fallout.

He has met with them and told them no thanks. They are called the Establishment. The Establishment wants Hildabeast to win because she is one of their own. Trump is not beholden to them and will probably go after them when in office which is why they unite behind Hildabeast.

Dak wrote:

The Bush years are a reminder that a small cabal of nut jobs can gain support for all kinds of fucked-up stuff if people are scared. And, these same nut jobs are scared of what Trump might do?

I really think now it’s just right-wing elites are afraid that they can’t trust Trump to do their bidding for the richest 0.1%. It’s a philosophical disagreement on just how to control the world. And, they just can’t predict how Trump will act. If Trump met with these elites and gained their trust, they wouldn’t care what kind of hellfire his presidency would rain down on the rest of the world, just as long as he can convince the overlords that they’ll be shielded from the fallout.

It is called the Establishment. The Establishment wants Hildabeast to win because she is one of their own. Trump is not beholden to them and will probably go after them when in office which is why they unite behind Hildabeast.

wv wrote:

Yup, thats Nafta and the TPP.

The corporate-media aint into little ‘details’ like that though.

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Then vote for Trump.

NewMexicoRam wrote:

“Why would modern humans mate with Neanderthals?”

Well, gee, 49’er fans come from SOMEWHERE, you know!

Same for StanK.

I sense Saffold Syndrome.

No that is the cart before the Przewalski horse. Higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere with abundant rainfall and warm weather kept the world green.

Was listening to the news and learnt that the medicine in the pen costs $1. The only thing unique about the pen is the technology to deliver the dose. Yet that technology was developed by the US government in 1977 and given to the company.

Now the drastic increase in price of the pen in recent years coincides with the changing of the law which now requires schools to stock the pen and the increase in the company’s CEO’s salary from $2.7 million per year to $19 million per year.

BTW the price of two of those epi-pens is $85 in France. It seems the US citizen was chosen to be severely gouged.

About that change of law benefiting this company and coinciding with the massive price increase to US citizens AND the nearly 700% increase in the CEO’s salary-

CEO behind EpiPen hike is senator’s daughter

By ROBERT KING • 8/24/16 11:54 AM

The top executive of the company that raised the price of its EpiPen 400 percent may come to Capitol Hill to face questions from lawmakers about the sudden increase.

The twist is the CEO is very familiar to one lawmaker. Mylan CEO Heather Bresch is the daughter of West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, Bloomberg News reported.

The EpiPen’s recent spike to about $500 a dose for the life-saving allergy shot is the latest increase by the industry to spark outrage from lawmakers. Manchin’s colleague, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote to Mylan asking for answers behind the price boost.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Mylan violated antitrust laws, Bloomberg said.

Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., called for a House hearing on Tuesday on the issue as well.

So far Manchin has been mum about the issue, according to Bloomberg.

Manchin has been a major advocate for fighting opioid abuse, which has ravaged West Virginia. He has criticized the Food and Drug Administration for continuing to approve new opioid products, and objected to the confirmation of the agency’s new commissioner Robert Califf due to concerns about the agency’s response to the opioid crisis.

The price increase for EpiPens also is prompting outrage because a 2013 bipartisan law requires schools to stock the drug to prepare for any health emergencies.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-health-problem-clinton-actually-has/article/2600012