Probably can't overstate just how much it mattered ...
... when Captain Bone Spurs said, "I like people who weren't captured." I hate that major legislative victories turn on personal vendettas, but I'll take this one. -- Drew |
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I think it would be surprising how many times that's true.
My late dad and I used have this argument about Lenin's motivation. He always said I was "overestimating the personal" with respect to the Bolshevik Revolution and horrific murders of the last of the Romanovs. But I've always held that had Illych not seen the royal family execute his brother at the tender age of 16 he might not have been the revolutionary he became. His family, after all, was not of the peasant class. I've never read this but the brief intro makes it sound as though it is along the lines of what I have always believed. Not many people know that Lenin was baptized as a child. One of the more telling things, imo, about his motivation was his answer to the question, "When did you stop believing in God?" He said, "At age 16." Not coincidentally, his age when he witnessed his brother's execution. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. |
Erik Loomis at LGM on John McCain.
- (Another Scott)
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- Aug. 26, 2018, 08:37:06 PM EDT
7
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- (boxley)
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- Aug. 26, 2018, 09:13:11 PM EDT
More words, please.
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- (Another Scott)
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- Aug. 26, 2018, 09:46:44 PM EDT
7 houses, not 10
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- (boxley)
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- Aug. 26, 2018, 09:54:05 PM EDT
10
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Aug. 26, 2018, 09:57:33 PM EDT
6 acres of vacant land on opposite bank of Oak Creek is not a house
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Aug. 26, 2018, 11:10:47 PM EDT
11 - 1 (land) = 10. The fact that they rented 2 doesn't change the fact that they owned them.
- (Another Scott)
- Aug. 27, 2018, 12:42:25 AM EDT
Should be a cautionary tale for the media ... but won't be
- (drook)
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- Aug. 27, 2018, 07:51:26 AM EDT
As I explained to M
- (crazy)
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- Aug. 27, 2018, 11:14:16 AM EDT
And that vote was a flip-flop.
- (mmoffitt)
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- Aug. 27, 2018, 11:42:33 AM EDT
Probably can't overstate just how much it mattered ...
- (drook)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2018, 12:50:05 PM EDT
I think it would be surprising how many times that's true.
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 27, 2018, 02:05:00 PM EDT
Thanks. Saw this after I replied to your post in News. ;0)
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- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2018, 09:01:03 AM EDT
And I saw *this* after I replied to your reply
-NT
- (drook)
- Aug. 27, 2018, 10:29:05 AM EDT
alicublog weighs in
- (rcareaga)
- Aug. 28, 2018, 12:03:19 PM EDT
