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Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 olyve #296391 11/17/16 06:19 PM
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 47,433 Likes: 373 Puget Sound, WA pdx rick Member CHB-OG
pdx rick Member CHB-OG Joined: May 2005 Posts: 47,433 Likes: 373 Puget Sound, WA	Originally Posted by olyve Yeah well, it may be over there but it is splashed all over the rest of us. What an unproud nation. Clearly you didn't see my posts from election night. Nice to see you again Olyve. Seen Mellowicious around? Contrarian, extraordinaire

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296395 11/17/16 06:34 PM
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 12,129 Likes: 257 North San Diego County pondering_it_all Pooh-Bah
pondering_it_all Pooh-Bah Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 12,129 Likes: 257 North San Diego County	Meanwhile, in China they have thrown the leader of North Korea a sop to improve relations: Their internet search engines have blocked the popular nickname "Kim Fatty the Third". Apparently it was getting so popular their auto-correct continuation feature would suggest it if you typed "Kim "! They still encourage people calling him "third-generation pig" because they unblocked that search term back in March to express official unhappiness with North Korea's nuclear program.

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 pdx rick #296559 11/22/16 02:45 PM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 7,630 Likes: 28 Athens, Ga. olyve veteran
olyve veteran Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 7,630 Likes: 28 Athens, Ga.	Originally Posted by pdx rick Nice to see you again Olyve. Seen Mellowicious around? Thanks, Rick! You too. Yes indeed. Mell and I stay in touch. We took a long train trip this summer and one of our stops was to see her. Omaha is a cool very underrated town. We also stopped for a couple of days to see Ken. First time in Eugene. Next time we'll stay longer. Loved that town! "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296578 11/23/16 12:26 PM
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York Ezekiel old hand
Ezekiel old hand Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York	Life is Worthless Quote Life is worthless If not to die So that others may have What one enjoys and loves. Life is worthless If I stay seated After having seen and dreamt Of being called from everywhere Life is worthless When others kill each other And I keep on singing As if nothing was happening. Life is worthless If I hear a deadly scream And it doesn’t reach my heart, which is fading Life is worthless If I ignore that the assassin Has taken another route And sets up a new ambush. Life is worthless If another brother is taken by surprise When I knew beforehand The trap that was being set. Life is worthless If four are murdered every minute And the guilty get to decide What the final verdict will be Life is worthless If I must postpone another second of being and die in a bed. Life is worthless if in the end, I can't change all that surrounds me and that which is mine and supports me. So, that is why, for me Life is worthless by Pablo Milanes (Cuban singer/songwriter) Translation from Spanish: Zeke "The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296612 11/24/16 02:59 PM
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York Ezekiel old hand
Ezekiel old hand Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York	Thanksgiving to all at Standing Rock! "The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296616 11/24/16 07:35 PM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 17,178 Likes: 255 Whittier, California Jeffery J. Haas OP It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
OP Jeffery J. Haas It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 17,178 Likes: 255 Whittier, California	OMG I was a TV-radio-journalism student at Brown. Yeah, you can just GUESS what OUR favorite TV show was. The whole damn CLASS had every line of EVERY EPISODE memorized. Every week, the day after, we'd be running up and down the halls running the punch lines past each other. Oh and of course the main greeting was "BOOGER!!!!!" WKRP in Cincinnati - "Turkeys Away" (FULL EPISODE) "The Best of the Leon Russell Festivals" DVD deepfreezefilms.com

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296656 11/25/16 04:43 PM
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York Ezekiel old hand
Ezekiel old hand Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,388 New York	Albert Camus was truly prescient: "The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Ezekiel #296682 11/26/16 06:02 PM
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 21,134 West Hollywood, CA Phil Hoskins Administrator Bionic Scribe
Phil Hoskins Administrator Bionic Scribe Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 21,134 West Hollywood, CA	Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Phil Hoskins #296687 11/26/16 06:31 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 19,831 Likes: 180 Florida Greger Carpal Tunnel
Greger Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 19,831 Likes: 180 Florida	Excellent! Thanks for that, Phil. Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...

Re: Reader Rant Roundtable for November 2016 Jeffery J. Haas #296688 11/26/16 06:41 PM
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 18,003 Likes: 191 NW Ponderer Moderator Carpal Tunnel
NW Ponderer Moderator Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 18,003 Likes: 191	I particularly loved the line, "it's a snuggle for survival." I found this discussion profoundly engrossing. It actually helps explain (epigenetically) my elder son's sexual orientation, since his mother went through an incredibly difficult pregnancy. He is off-the-chart (literally) intelligent, a snuggle hound, and as quirky and boundary-shattering an individual as I have ever met, yet so completely at home in his skin that he is a magnet for like individuals. His husband shares all of those traits as well, which makes them remarkably compatible. It was wonderful to have expressed so cogently what I have felt for decades: that for humanity, homosexuality is a feature, not a bug. Thanks so much, Phil, for this gem of a post. A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer. Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich

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