Post #424,955
8/1/18 3:56:18 AM
8/1/18 3:56:18 AM
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Ron Dellums ... dies.
He helped Mandela get out of jail. His encounter with Mandela (after that release) recounted on tape, shown on last Democray Now broadcast. Was at his party after winning first of n-terms in U.S. House-Rep in '70; helped him get there. He didn't disappoint and never resorted to bafflegab (that I'm aware of.) He had more integrity in his pinkie finger than a squad of Congresscritters/2018 Per Wiki-P: During his career in Congress, he fought the MX Missile project and opposed expansion of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber program. When President Ronald Reagan vetoed Dellums' Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan's veto, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.
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Post #424,958
8/1/18 8:35:03 AM
8/1/18 8:35:03 AM
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Sad.
Makes you really miss the days when there were adults in Washington, doesn't it? 31 Republican Senators joined 47 Democratic Senators to overrule the vaunted Saint Ronald of Rayguns. Of course, Jim Broyhill, the cunt who was a member at the club where I was an assistant pro and was the reason I had to talk to George H.W. Bush on the phone once, voted against the override, but hey, he was a Southerner after all. In the House, 81 Republicans joined 232 Democrats to override the decision of His Holiest of Holies Saint Ronnie. Having Republicans willing to contradict their President when he is plainly, flatly wrong about something is from a bygone era.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #424,965
8/1/18 3:15:33 PM
8/1/18 3:15:33 PM
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Yep, and those days are gone.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #424,972
8/1/18 4:44:50 PM
8/1/18 4:44:50 PM
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Indeed, America by then still retained a vestige of A Soul, despite the rising tide of Troglodytes.
Apparently Language-murder© only starts with the assassination of words; souls seem to be its favorite dessert. Can National Hemlock be far behind?
We're near-to finding out as FireMueller joins the premeditated-cacophony [in C# Minor] ... as we speak
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Post #424,973
8/1/18 5:08:54 PM
8/1/18 5:08:54 PM
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Today's example: It's "Art" + Language on the Barricades now:
Rembrandt van Drumpf See the entire bestiary.. But set down the coffee cup first. 'Art': as in, Thomas-Kincaid-for-Repos, ~~ like Sarah-Palin-teaches-logic?
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Post #424,991
8/2/18 9:00:24 AM
8/2/18 9:00:24 AM
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Wow. That such people exist is truly depressing.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #425,030
8/4/18 8:34:03 AM
8/4/18 8:34:03 AM
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“Gag me with a spoon!”
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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