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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 35 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

    You’re telescoping a couple of centuries of development there, though. The only colony advocating separation of church and state early on was Rhode Island-established as a refuge because Roger Williams was expelled from Massachusetts as a heretic, precisely because the Puritans did NOT believe in it.

    Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just finished some Marxian
    historian, Pete Garrison probably, and so naturally that's what you believe until next month when you 
    get to James Lemon and get convinced that Virginia and Pennsylvania were strongly entrepreneurial and 
    capitalist back in 1740. That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here
    regurgitating Gordon Wood about the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military
    mobilization.
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  2. 4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    About to be indicted by the Dept. of Justice/U.S. Marshal Service, State of Georgia/whatever GA stateys are called, and possibly State of New York/Albany AG. 

    Not that I'm not all for it, but based on my sitting the fuck around waiting for them to act...

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  3. 39 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I don't think it would be, and I get your point.  But the Legion of Dumb is going to bitch no matter what.  Now if the judge were related to Stormy (like say her "step-brother"), had produced one of her fine films, or had left a review of one of said films on Rotten Tomatoes or the like, it might be a little closer of a question. 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Anyone else old enough to remember Gary Hart getting caught in an affair? He was launched into the sun and never heard from again. Trump actually fucking a porn star isn't/wasn't even a scandal. He could have talked openly about it in October of 2016 and still won the election. 

    Monkey business >>>> fucking a porn star

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  5. All this focus on Trump just such basic Republican playbook stuff.  Get outraged about this while the Repubs focus on school board and local stuff and putting God back in the classrooms. 

    Hypnotize Dems with Trump.  Focus on school boards and local elections.  Profit.

    If Dems put their efforts into only the most local politics, the Repubs would never have been able to show their true colors.

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  6. I think it is not very likely.  However, I'm glad they are going to let the justice system play out on this one. 

    I really want the other indictments to follow asap, and feel the same way.  I am doubtful of convictions, but there is enough out there to put indicate him on many of his actions. 

  7. Educated by Tara Westover (2018)

    Okay, I admired the woman but at some point relatively early in the book I just got to the point where I couldn't tolerate her asshole family or her attempts to stick it out.  I empathize with it and I completely understand it, but it made the book a bit frustrating.   

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  8. On 2/27/2023 at 9:36 PM, texasdago said:

    Slogging through "big wonderful thing" by Stephen Harrington.  Really well done and I appreciate that he doesn't shrink from controversial subjects. And I only say slogging because it's over 800 pages

    It's a really terrible title and cover.  I mean, I don't think a cowboy has to be on the cover or Texas in the title, but you look down at the thing and there is no impetus to pick it up. I bought it for my son in law, and am going to start reading it when I go over to visit. 

  9. My report back:

    Stayed in Malahide (North of Dublin and just a tad north of the airport) at the Grand Hotel Malahide for start and end of trip.  Great location.  Can take a DART train right into city center and the suburb is pretty and has some nice pubs and close to Howth.  The hotel was basic but had a fun health club and so I took a sauna with the local lads each night we were there.  Good place to stay because good warmup drive from airport.

    Drove to Kikenny (wife drove - my job was to tell her every 10 minutes that she was going to hit a curb) but mostly big moterway.Stayed at the Mount Juliet Estate - a golf resort and it may be the best all around hotel I have ever stayed.  A bit of a way from  Kilkenny but an easy drive.  The hotel grounds had great walking paths as well and a good steam room to steam out the Guiness.  The town was crawling with Purdue folks who were there for a pre-St. Pats parade which ultimately got cancelled. 

    Thence to Killarney  and a stay at the Cahernane House.  Fantastic all around.  Could walk to town and National Park just a couple of kilomters away.  Really liked the town and the accessiblity to all around Killarney and Ring of Kerry.  We actually didn't drive down into the smaller roads that led down to the water in the area but that would have just taken some patience and a few deep breaths. 

    I'm glad we didn't do a tour.  The hotels we stayed at apart from Grand Hotel Malahide (which was still very very nice) were pretty damn high end -- if it were me I probably would have economized on that and just ate pub food.  But the people were so helpful that we enjoyed our own pace and just going to sites based on local recommendations. 

    If I did it again I might do something like try to get to Galway by train or bus and then rent a car there rather than drive the whole country, but if the car price doesn't bother you, I thought the car made sense.  The bus and train schedules and routes to me weren't very convenient when I looked closely at them.

    The weather looked scary on paper when we were planning for mid March but once there it was perfect -- a bit of rain every day, wet, but sun peaking in now and then.  Waterproof light hiking shoes, travel pants, fleece top, beenie and raincoat did the trick.  

    Lovely.  Grand.

     

     

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