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Re: Various complete shows on sale at iTunes - 13 days ago

For the trivial record, they're... "Masters of Sex", not "Master of Sex" Just "Community", not "The Community" "The Andy Griffith Show", not "The Andy Griffith"

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Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 13 days ago

QuoteTiangou QuoteDeusxMac QuoteTiangou On the rationale that Jews hate white people and want to replace white people... If "white people" are people "of European origin", isn't a Polish Jew therefore a white person? Or Jews from any of the other 49 states and territories of Europe? Are you assuming/suggesting that any of this appears rational with any degree of object

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Re: Allan Holdsworth Memorial Video Compilation - I can't stop watching this - 13 days ago

Interesting. I was a John McLaughlin fan back in the early Mahavishnu Orchestra days, so then got pointed towards Jean-Luc Ponty (and Billy Cobham*, and Jan Hammer, and Jerry Goodman**). Bought Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean when it came out (still listen to it often), but sadly didn't pay much attention to the other musicians on this album. *Total Eclipse **Country and Eastern Music

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Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 13 days ago

QuoteTiangou On the rationale that Jews hate white people and want to replace white people... If "white people" are people "of European origin", isn't a Polish Jew therefore a white person? Or Jews from any of the other 49 states and territories of Europe?

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Re: cynical Amazon pricing question - 13 days ago

Don’t the vendors on Amazon set their own prices there, not Amazon (except of course Amazon’s own products)? If the vendor wants to climb on the Black Friday (or Cyber Monday) discount wagon, isn’t that entirely up to them?

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Re: Death count from Re’im music festival massacre reportedly updated to 364 — a third of Oct. 7 fatalities - 13 days ago

Quotegabester How many of those 40 hostages are now part of the death toll from Israeli military action in Gaza? Do those count against Hamas or Israel, or is it circumstantial? Where would you assign the death of a human shield?

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 13 days ago

Quotepdq From his link, some of the stuff Smote left out: QuoteOn the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. In other words, they are simply recounting what others have claimed, not concluding the

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 14 days ago

"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal" "Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense" "Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime" "Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one i

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Re: Las Vegas yoinks another pro sports team - 14 days ago

Quotefreeradical I can't imagine playing football when it's 117 in the shade. Not a problem... Allegiant Stadium "The Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas is an air-conditioned arena, as it is a fully enclosed, climate-controlled dome." "Allegiant Stadium is a domed multi-purpose stadium in the western United States, located in Paradise, Nevada, southwest of adjacent Las Vegas

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Re: Quiet, fast and no wake: Swedish Electric hydrofoil ferry - 14 days ago

A 12 passenger "ferry" is not very capacious; only equivalent to a stretch van. Are there very many 12-passenger diesel "ferries" in operation now?

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Re: US House: “Same clown car with a different driver” - 14 days ago

QuoteTed King ["Yeah but how big is the intersection of the nutjob conspiracy circle and the law enforcement circle?" - I ask in a conspiratorial tone. Venn diagram

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Re: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - 14 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac QuoteMr645 How come no one is calling for a Hamas cease fire? “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" cease fire "A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice]), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 14 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" Yet again, you OBVIOUSLY have NOT actually read your own link! QuoteMr645But clearly the high suicide rate indicates a mental health issue in this country. However the USA is far from being in the top ten per capita. South Korea, Japan, Belgium and many others ar

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 14 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" Yet again, you OBVIOUSLY have NOT actually read your own link! QuoteMr645But clearly the high suicide rate indicates a mental health issue in this country. However the USA is far from being in the top ten per capita. South Korea, Japan, Belgium and many others are far worse, so the menta

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 14 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteAcer "How does taking away the rights of every other peaceful, law abiding citizen help?" There's a few young students, Orlando night club patrons, music festival goers and Tree of Life worshippers who might like to offer an opinion on this topic, but they can't. What answer do you have for their families? Or are they just collateral damage in the fight for this right

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 14 days ago

“We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" Yet again, you OBVIOUSLY have NOT actually read your own link! QuoteMr645 about 1/2 the nations around the world have lower gun violence than the USA, about 1/2 are higher. If we eliminate several inner city hot spots reveled with high levels of gang and drug related gun violence, the USA is in the top 5 safest

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Re: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - 14 days ago

QuoteMr645 How come no one is calling for a Hamas cease fire? “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" cease fire "A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice]), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be betwe

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Re: Peaky Blinders (Netflix) - 14 days ago

Watched it all; but definitely not for the kiddies (or those of delicate sensibilities).

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Re: Las Vegas yoinks another pro sports team - 14 days ago

So Vegas is the new (sports) Oakland I guess.

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Re: If You're Still on Twitter, 'You Know You Shouldn't Be' - 15 days ago

I have extra oxygen shipped in so my room never runs out.

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 15 days ago

Tom Grieve - “… served as speaker at the University of Wisconsin Law School on behalf of the Federalist Society concerning the 2nd Amendment…” ” The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.”

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Re: US House: “Same clown car with a different driver” - 15 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteAt a Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) claimed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation put operatives into “ghost buses” to incite the Jan. 6 attack. Higgins was interrogating FBI Director Christopher Wray, who denied that FBI agents organized an operation to incite the riot and said he did not know what “ghost buses” were. The cong

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Re: MR Forum Confessions - 15 days ago

I have chocolate in some form every day. I confessed as much to pRICEcUBE's "confession" query three years ago. Some things never change.

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Re: Trump’s Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch. - 15 days ago

"In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Tr

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 15 days ago

QuoteMr645 you seem to align college with education. More and more we see college kids with little education. For example 60 college kids that were carrying "From the river to the Sea" posters, 49 could not tell someone which river and which sea they were referring to. Could not point out Israel, the sea or the River on a map of the middle east Pick 60 random folks at a trump rally a

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Re: John Oliver yesterday - 15 days ago

QuoteWags QuoteDeusxMac QuoteWags QuoteJanit QuoteWags Out of the mouth of a comedian, an attempt to show both sides of the current Hamas/Israeli conflict. I wonder how our polarized forum will feel about this. Is it justifiable to respond to an atrocity with even greater atrocity? How can it end? By this definition of atrocity, ALL war is atrocity. It WOULD be good to end all war.

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Re: More fight club! Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing - 15 days ago

QuoteBlankity Blank QuoteDeusxMac QuoteBlankity Blank My point is, lazy cheap shots don’t smell particularly good whatever side they come from. I’ll stop with the heresy now. When elected officials (or anyone)... - “support making abortion illegal in all circumstances, including cases of rape, incest, or if the mother's life is at risk” - "contesting the results of the 2020 pre

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 16 days ago

The trends... --------------- “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!"

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Re: Trump’s Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch. - 16 days ago

Quotesteve... Is Devin Nunes still CEO? Yep... "Devin Gerald Nunes is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG)." Trump Media & Technology Group "The Guardian reported in March 2023 that in 2022 the SDNY expanded its criminal investigation to include whether TMTG engaged in money launderin

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Re: a non-rhetorical question for Mr645 - 16 days ago

QuoteMr645 Since this section is for "friendly political chatter, I feel it is a reasonable place for discussion of issues affecting the nation. Crime, violence, spending, elections etc. "Friendly" and "chatter"; I especially like "chatter". XX chatter verb - talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters “We won with poorly educated…"

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