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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Fuck the usual suspects for making my daughter have extra stress about the birth of my new grandson expected within the next month. The Texas idiocy is bad enough (caregivers not able to be honest with their patients).
  2. May as well go here. I just finished a stint on a jury in criminal court. Very short case, judge was great, attorneys were great (very young prosecutors, wizened old "voy d-yer" defense attorney. Jury very young (except me) but we all had the same first instinct. I left feeling pretty good about "local government" and the lower court system. Everyone trying to do well, a case that could have had racial components but didn't, everyone just doing their part to make the system work well. At least for a moment, it got the bad taste out of my mouth. And for a moment felt that this vulgarian fuckwit and his henchmen might not break everything.
  3. I find him a malignant and a turbaned Turk.
  4. When my wife were still newlyweds we went to a wedding in DC. We didn't have time to see the monuments so the day we flew out I woke up early and did the early morning nighttime tour by myself. Was great. When I got back I told her no one was at the Lincoln so I had crawled up on Lincoln's lap when no one was around. She was furious and lectured me for climbing up the monument. Not me ^^^
  5. Agora is fun - casual. Le diplomate is great too, but really loud - try to get somewhere in the back if you want to talk. Pastis DC over in Union Market - went there for lunch (after National Arboretum) and it was very good. Same kind of vibe as Le Dip. Union Market vibe just not as cool as the one over at Logan Circle. Daughter lives in Mount Pleasant if you want to get into the urban feel. Not tons up there but Elle is a coffee shop during the day but a nice little intimate place to grab dinner. A few blocks down above a dentist office is a great speakeasy: OKPB. OKPB Family likes annabelle over by the Phillips Collection but I wasn't that blown away. Maybe my main dish. But nice place to stroll over to if you are in Du Pont. I'm totally happy having a beer and eating lunch at Kramer's and just walking until my legs give out when I'm over there. Heading over in a couple of weeks.
  6. And I hope anyone who supports this has to deal with SS for eternity on behalf of a parent with dementia. With an SS that won't take your call or allow you to start on online account of behalf of said parent.
  7. Just keep hitting those freefrows, big fella.
  8. I'm torn. I'm feeling that the Maga sympathizers are feeling nervous about what Trump is doing. (Not MAGA, they are all in no matter). So 10 Dems decide voting for it is, to them, doing the right thing. I do think it's a close call. I'd want my rep to vote against it.
  9. My initial thought, but kids aren't wearing speedos/thongs.
  10. But Jeffries talks funny so I kinda like him.
  11. "The lynchpin of [Trump's] foreign policy is dishonor." - Jonah Goldberg (on Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast.
  12. Don't kid us MIA. You wear track suits because you're a serious runner.
  13. "And they'll know, we are Christians by our love, by our love. And they'll know -oh we are Cristians by our love." There are so many reasons why passivity is cowardice (and I'm as guilty as anyone) but for the last decades one could at least accept an argument that the business of government wasn't charity or love or care, no matter how silly that argument was. People will try to fill in the gap if their neighbors are wanting, sure, I get the argument, even though human nature kind of proves otherwise. But when the laws are clearly only about engendering and acting on hate -- most of the US wasn't enacting those laws since LBJ and the Civil Rights Era. (Okay, I'm a bit hair-trigger these days. Just because this probably won't pass doesn't mean that I should be mad at myself for remaining so passive.)
  14. I'm probably the last one to realize this, but listening to a Jonah Goldberg interview, and his point is that the idea that tariffs is just stupid is well known, put the purposes of this is to increase the traffic to Mara Lago and thus the multimillions in graft. No better way to get bribes and post term rewards than individual industry reps coming in to beg for exemptions.
  15. No, unless RT can make those crazy ari sacs open up.
  16. Terry being interviewed. I wish he'd pull out a trumpet and start sachmo-ing.
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