zn wrote:

Are you sure you agree? Cause…when have you ever called this a recrudescence?

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Well, I always tend to be more analytical and discursive. Plus its all about Alliances to me. Not to mention Dialectical. Benighted, even.

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Did You Know?
Recrudescence derives from the Latin verb recrudescere, meaning “to become raw again” (used, for example, of wounds). Ultimately, it can be traced back to the Latin word for raw,” which is “crudus.” (If you suspect that “crude” is also derived from “crudus,” you are correct; another well-known descendant is “cruel.”) In its literal sense, “recrudescence” is a medical word denoting a renewed outbreak of a disease. In extended use, it most often describes the return of an undesirable condition, such as a war or a plague, or the return of an undesirable idea.

nittany ram wrote:

Trump just froze all EPA grants and their contract budget. Scientists there and at the Dept of Agriculture are also prohibited from communicating with the public (whose tax dollars fund their research) and the media. Trump thinks there’s an inherent bias in the results of the research. He views science as a leftist conspiracy.

This is an obvious attempt to bully the researchers and ultimately weaken those agencies. I think the EPA is going to be gutted and perhaps eliminated and the environmental regulations it overseas will be rolled back. He can’t eliminate it with an executive order due to the 1977 Reorganization Act. However, he can do it with cooperation from congress which he could get it due to the Republican majority.

Enjoy the clean air and water while you can, folks.

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Well that kind of thing might very well limit him to four
years. I dunno though.

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zn wrote:

But you did not indicate to me a real difference. Which probably just means you have to say more. All I got so far is that you use more provocative, street-slogan language and I always tend to be more analytical and discursive. I am not sure that that isn’t just 2 different ways of talking about the same thing. Either way it’s not an open discussion of similarities and differences, it’s just both of us talking about how I use words, and not about the issues themselves.

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Well, i dont know how you can say there isn’t a ‘real difference.’

I said, “Obama is a mass-murderer”

And you replied:
“I think Obama continued some benighted pre-Obama policies both in the economy and in foreign policy. Of that there is no question.’

I mean, to me, you dont see him as a ‘mass murderer’ and i do. I mean there must be a reason why you dont see his drone strikes as ‘murder’. Or else you’d call them ‘murder’. So, i assume you see it differently.

BUT, the major point to me, is Big Deal. I may come across as ‘testy’ but honestly this group is my favorite group on the internet. Always will be. I know we agree on all kinds of core, fundamental stuff. I never question that. I think sometimes you think that is being questioned or threatened. Not from me. I dont give a shit if you see Obama differently than me or if as you say its just a different language we use, etc. It doesnt change how i feel about you or this group of goofballs.

I always, always trust the bonds we have built up on this board. It never enters my mind to worry about that or question it. We’ve been together since 98. Thats longer than any relationship Ive ever had.

So, have some toast. Lightly toasted. With tea.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Yeah, see we disagree. So i wasn’t wrong. I said you would ‘resist’ saying Obama was a mass-murderer. And you just did that.

I’ve never said that about anyone. Certainly it would apply to Nixon and Reagan. I just don’t use the term.

And see I talk about alliances, and you play gotcha.

No I mean alliances here. Cause…fighting all the time would end up making me lose interest.

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Ok, but i dont think of it as “gotcha”. I think of it as pointing out real differences. But i also dont think its a big deal. I never question our ‘alliances’ here. Its never an issue for me. Its a ‘given’ we have those fundamental alliances.

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zn wrote:

And none of the following is accurate btw:

Where we are different is in things like … ‘Deep state’ stuff. Or if i were to say “Obama is a mass murderer” (which i believe) you’d probably resist that kind of language. So, ya know, blah blah blah…

And, it sure has gotten testy around here. I have been doing it too. What gives?

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So you think Obama is a mass-murderer?

Its testy because the Trump vs Clinton thing exposed differences
among the leftists. No big thing. Just testiness.

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• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by wv.

“… I was amazed how even the most liberal students took for granted certain dubious narratives in which they (and much of the rest of the country) were marinated all year long, like the notion that Hillary Clinton was extravagantly corrupt…”

Billy_T wrote:

A list of favorite signs, from the WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/01/21/my-favorite-signs-at-the-womens-march-on-washington/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0ea02e2690b0

#FreeMelania
No Country for Dirty Old Men
Sad!
Resistance is Fertile
Too Worried to be Funny
If Mom’s Not Happy, Nobody’s Happy
I Have a Vagenda
Manchurine Candidate
Orange Is the New Fascism
There Is So Much Wrong It Cannot Fit on This Sign
Super Callous Fragile Ego, Trump You Are Atrocious
Super Callous Fascist Racist Extra Braggadocious
Actuaries Against Repeal and Delay
Leave it to the Beavers
Viva la Vulva
(Older woman’s sign:) I Can’t Believe I’m Still Protesting This S—
J Edgar Comey
(On image of President Trump as a scarecrow:) If He Only Had a Brain
(On a drawing of ovaries:) Grow a Pair
This P—- Grabs Back
Donald You Ignorant Slut
Melania, Blink Twice if You Need Help
Impeach Trump, Convert Pence
#emoluments
Sorry World, We’ll Fix This
(On needlepoint:) I Made This So I Could Stab Something 35,000 Times
Patriarchy is for D—-
There Will Be Hell Toupée

Update, 5:30 p.m.: A few more from your responses on social media:

I know signs. I make the best signs. They’re great. Everyone agrees.
I (heart) Journalists.
Vaginas Brought You Into the World. Vaginas Will Vote You Out.
I Wish My Uterus Shot Bullets So the Government Wouldn’t Regulate It

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some of those signs are pretty funny

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

i am disheartened that the same folks didnt protest mass-murderers like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc

Some of the same people DID protest that stuff.

Now they have been joined by a large percentage of mainstreamers.

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True SOME did.

Most didnt though. As you know.

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Mackeyser wrote:

Actually, the 3 tech on the right side is typical.

Houston plays the X tech ( varies, typically 5,7,9) on the LEFT side.

I’ll likely make that one of my Dead Horse Post of the Week posts.

By the way, we’re going to the playoffs this year. Almost certainly as a 5 or 6th seed, but we’re going. Book it.

And that’s with a ridiculous schedule that the Pats will never get.

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Um, no way.

More seven and nine bullshit coming up.

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Well, yeah, there’s no one way to build a great team and there’s
always lots of the usual factors involved: good coaching, good personnel decisions, good cap management, critical-mass-of-playmakers, good-assortment-of-cheap-role-players, good-leaders, blind-luck….

The patriots are amazing. I think everyone is waiting to see if they can continue their run without Brady. It will be interesting.

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waterfield wrote:

She had absolutely no knowledge and or understanding of what Franken was talking about regarding the difference between proficiency vs growth. That is a huge part of testing today and one might expect the secretary of education would at least have an idea that it is an issue.

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Haven’t heard about your dog(s) in a while W. You still got dogs?

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