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BigOleDummy's JournalThe Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
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?si=524-2Zwr4c4b00en|Exceptional band.
Republicans return to Antebellum era theories to justify Trump's civil war push
Back in 2019, when then-candidate Joe Biden was campaigning on the promise of restoring “normalcy” to American politics after three years of almost daily scandal and chaos in the White House, he made a prediction that would regularly come back to haunt him after becoming president. “The thing that will fundamentally change things,” said the former vice president at a campaign event in New Hampshire, “is with Donald Trump out of the White House. You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends.”
This was a remarkable statement coming from the man who had served eight years as vice president under President Barack Obama, whose administration faced unprecedented levels of Republican obstructionism throughout most of his two terms. But it was also consistent with the former veep’s lifelong faith in bipartisan cooperation. Biden’s view of politics had been shaped by the nearly four decades he spent in the Senate, where he frequently worked with his Republican colleagues on bipartisan legislation (for better or worse). As a creature of the world's “greatest deliberative body,” Biden had always seen politics as an art of the possible, with compromise — not conflict — extolled as the highest principle. As journalist Franklin Foer elaborates in his acclaimed book on Biden’s presidency, The Last Politician, politics for Biden is the “means by which a society mediates its difference of opinion, allowing for peaceful coexistence.” By this definition, it is an “ethos that requires tolerance of competing truth” and a “set of rules whereby the side that fails to prevail in democratic decision-making accepts its defeat.”
Read more : [link:https://www.salon.com/2024/02/18/return-to-antebellum-era-theories-to-justify-trumps-civil-push/|
Nice quick read full of truths
Alvin Lee - The Bluest Blues (featuring George Harrison)
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?si=RcRYm3gMN5n-K3il|Mojo Nixon - Redneck Rampage
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?si=RC1dB8j6ZtuQAD6M|lol Sounds like the gqp these days........ NO, not the music but the lyrics hehe
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
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?si=gnoB8zRj_xb4sD8-|Quite a catchy tune
Putin, in rambling interview, barely lets Tucker Carlson get a word in
"Russian President Vladimir Putin spent the first 30 minutes of his two-hour interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving a revisionist historical tirade on the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine, the breakup of the Soviet Union and NATO expansionism.
From there, admonishing Carlson when he interrupted, Putin pontificated on everything from the war in Ukraine and relations with the United States, the case of imprisoned American reporter Evan Gershkovich, and even on artificial intelligence.
By the end of the conversation, it was clear that Putin had no intention of ending his brutal war against Ukraine. But Carlson, who was sacked from Fox last year, seemed ready to surrender. Putin offered to keep talking. Carlson, evidently exhausted by the Russian leader’s long-winded conspiracy theories and grievances against the West, thanked him and called it quits — far short of the media coup that he had been touting."
Read more at : [link:https://wapo.st/495kuPp|
Guess Putin doesn't have a "base" that tucker can suck up to......
Oil Money Is Spilling Everywhere (a polite rant)
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Some of you may know of a British science fiction comedy called Red Dwarf. It's been around for awhile and is my favorite TV show. This is a blog written by Robert Llewellyn (Kryten in the show). It's free to read/get emailed to you. He's quite progressive and has a wonderful way with words. I urge you to give it a shot.
Generation X - Dancing with Myself
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?si=CNwOQtgBQJyyffCo|Yeah Billy stole this song from his old band. .... Decent album by the way.
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