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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

mrincredible said:

you may think that’s funny but it’s not

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Discussion: Trump shot at rally?

Jaytee said:

Man who voted for trump in 2016 attempts to assassinate trump on gulf course in Florida….

He obviously works for the CIA or one of those NGO fronts for the CIA, and was under orders to assassinate Trump for Zelensky.

At least, that's what I gather from reading Max Blumenthal on the Twitter.

routh from:maxblumenthal - Search / X

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Discussion: Roger McGuinn at SOPAC

The video above was posted in a Politics thread, and it called to mind Roger McGuinn’s autobiographical acoustic performance at SOPAC on Saturday, when he mentioned how much it meant to him for Dylan and the other all-stars to choose his arrangement of My Back Pages for this concert and to grant him the honor of singing the opening verse.

It’s still hard for me to believe it was my honor to sit just a couple of dozen of feet away from a giant like Roger McGuinn, who at 82 remained nimble-fingered on guitar and banjo. (His voice was even reedier with age, but hell if I cared.) 

My favorite anecdote he shared was about his friend Peter Fonda’s asking him for a new song for Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle movie. McGuinn suggests that Fonda ask Dylan instead. Fonda flies to New York and finds Dylan in a bar. Dylan scribbles something on a cocktail napkin, hands it to Fonda and says: “Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it.” Fonda flies back go L.A. and shows up at McGuinn’s door with the napkin. On it is written: “The river flows. It flows to the sea. Wherever that river goes, that’s where I want to be.”

McGuinn takes the Ballad of Easy Rider from there.

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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

Since we are lacking data, we have to fall back on the general condition that, in the aggregate, unions are good for both workers and communities

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

got the QB. My last word was a very common word. Can't believe it took me that long to see it.

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Discussion: Pope Francis, Catholics, and Christians in the news worldwide

mtierney said:

Couldn’t find NJ data, but nationally this is a significant national trend…

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259317/families-are-moving-out-of-blue-states-and-heading-for-red-and-purple-researchers-find

Let me rewrite that link for to, to make sure you grasp the implications:

families-are-moving-out-of-blue-states-and-turning-red-states-purple-researchers-find

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Discussion: Word Association: Music Edition

Born on the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival 

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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

Hmm that’s a new one on me.  Just wouldn’t feel right crossing it though but will think it over…

Already had my heart broken when I had to quit Trader Joe’s in response to their Union busting 

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Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

nan said:

I don't think he wants to launch a nuclear war, but he did not want to invade Ukraine either. You can't try to logically figure out those things.  You just do what you can to avoid situations where justifications need to be made. The West keeps provoking him and eventually he runs out of patience.  Then bad stuff happens.  Have you never been worn down by a friend or relative that kept harping on you?  That's how I ended up taking ballet and tap dance lessons as a child and it was a miserable experience for all involved.

We've all been there -- your friend just keeps going on and on and, next thing you know, you find yourself in a bloody field with no memory of the past few days, surrounded by an army hailing you as Caesar of the Third Rome and restorer of the historical unity of the Russian and Ukrainian people. Who among us hasn't been forced to launch a massive war from time to time?

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Discussion: Bees/Wasps

Carpenter bees are little cordless drills with half inch drill bits in their Chuck… they will  drill holes and set up a colony in your walls. Get them out now.

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