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Don't thank me. Just don't forget that there are lots of us "straight brothers" who would also jump in if anything like that ever happened in our sight or earshot.
Leon Russell and Marc Benno - STRAIGHT BROTHER
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Pappa your love is gone but you don't worry. They're killing you but you don't even care. They play you just like a game of checkers. A king's role Houston live that way for them. Now these nine long years have come between us. Hollywood's not far from San Antone. Why don't you handle a parade for General Hershey. Deal out artificial cannon bombs.
Daddy dropped a ball in the bowling hall, Cause he bet on a loser and he took a fall poor mother. (oooh my poor darlin' mother) In the they was going to Texaco, and they met em a hot one and you should know my brother. (oooh straight brother)
Why don't ya take another road to uncle Harry You got the goin out of business sign below. But the lonely money changes to a billfold. Cosmic conscience, Katy bar the door! Let you skin your knees while playing cowboy. Sister in law prayed some Texas head. You might be an order if you want to. You gotta follow bouncing ball to Texas bed.
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Elected Officials, both past and present, are referred to by name, not by nickname or by verbal/visual insulting reference. Feel free to criticize an elected official's actions, but don't attack the person. Address what the person did, not what the person "is".
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
TRUMP WARNS THAT COMPANIES SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS WILL BE SLAPPED WITH ENORMOUS BRIBES
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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—President-elect Donald J. Trump drew a line in the sand on Friday as he warned that U.S. companies planning to ship jobs overseas will be slapped with enormous bribes.
“If you think you’re going to get away with sending jobs out of the U.S., think again,” Trump said. “You are about to be bribed, big league.”
Phil, a question: Trump IS a fascist, a bigot, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, a liar... and much more that I omit. These are facts that can be verified by his words and actions. Are we not allowed to state these facts?
"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
Elected Officials, both past and present, are referred to by name, not by nickname or by verbal/visual insulting reference. Feel free to criticize an elected official's actions, but don't attack the person. Address what the person did, not what the person "is".
I second the motion. I would also like to extend the suggestion to non-elected people too. Mocking-up people's names to express displeasure and/or disapproval is a very juvenile approach, which may be appropriate up to about the second-grade level, but totally inappropriate afterwards.
"When all think as one, only one is thinking." --"Big Jim" Byrne
I agree, Joe, and I support the rule, but I am going to have a difficult time once this election becomes official. It is especially hard when the elected official uses playground verbiage and tactics.
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
I second the motion. I would also like to extend the suggestion to non-elected people too. Mocking-up people's names to express displeasure and/or disapproval is a very juvenile approach, which may be appropriate up to about the second-grade level, but totally inappropriate afterwards.
I have a slight problem with that one because satire is a cornerstone of the Fourth Estate, and your "bigger tent" suddenly includes some incredibly evil people. Grover Norquist, Lewis Powell, Frank Luntz, James O'Keefe, and a whole roster of UNELECTED but APPPOINTED officials who show open and naked contempt for almost everything that American democracy is supposed to be about.
Shall we hold Jerry Falwell Jr. and Betsy DeVos harmless from satire too? I believe that elected officials should be given at least some modicum of respect regarding their names, but this too might be open to some interpretation if you go back and look over some of Doug Thompson's more pointed editorials and rants. He uses the proper names but does not hesitate to hang whatever jacket on them that is appropriate to the evils they commit.
Thus, if Donald Trump wishes to exercise the power to send each and every American "emergency text messages" that we cannot block, and they wind up consisting of admonishments and warnings not to criticize him in public or on social media, I suspect more than a few honorable journalists are going to assign him the title of "Dear Leader."
If the shoe fits...
Or I could be wrong
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I have a slight problem with that one because satire is a cornerstone of the Fourth Estate...
My thought as well. I'm fine with stopping the use of nicknames like "il Douche de L'Orange", but if a word fits, like fascist, then it should not be prohibited. And good satire is high literature.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
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