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Actually Rhett ... the protesters on the left are protesting for things like universal health care and affordable college. It was the right wing protesters at Charlottesville that were chanting blood and soil, blood and soil and actually did perpetrate a violent attack with a car, if memory serves. What has those in the center and the left so upset is the misunderstanding that Trump does not have a clue. He, along with the oligarchs, are fully aware of the cascade of issues, many centering on climate change, that has the wealthy saying, give me more while the getting is good because w

That is the first genuine feeling bit I've seen you post in some time. I would suggest the difference between Obama and Trump is the attitude of those in the power structure. We know they sat on literally billions if not trillions in capital both overseas and here as cash accounts for a good part of the Obama administration presumably too gutless to invest. As far as us peons, what I'd offer as an analogy would be that we were all on the GWB, a fancy ocean liner with the reputation that it was unsinkable ... and of course it went on to sink (crash). We all got picked up by the not

Actually, I've been pretty much on topic for the past three years ... i.e. that Donald Trump is the wrong guy and a danger to America's representative democracy. I really wish you guys could see that I don't hate him and I don't fear him ... well, anymore than I fear your everyday TRUCK up who would swerve into my lane at 70 mph for whatever reason (drunk, high on oxy, just mean or just stupid). What most of you don't know is that when it comes to seeing things that need to be changed, I'm not at all averse to change that recognizes, as its core principle, the idea that good government i

actually, I was initially supportive of folks like Manning, Snowden, etc. The thing about obama is that he did go after the leakers but was pretty much hands off to the journalists. I'm sure some of the blackops and other intelligence entities (not LEO - there is a big difference in both purpose and tactics) would love to find a way into the journalists but you forget that going back to the beginning of the nation and especially among foreign correspondents, the was sometimes confusion of who exactly some of them were working for. Then you asked specifically: "In politics where voi

Where were we ... saying that kind of crap doesn't need to be happening ... Obama got a great deal of criticism for his attacks on whistle blowers and journalists not to mention the criticism that he got for his use of drones to kill individuals. The right wing's portrayal of liberals as being unabashedly in love and uncritical of Obama is, well a lie. That we didn't rush the ramparts or burn him effigy is not to be confused with blind devotion. After all, you guys were doing a great job of burning him in effigy and you would have called us copycats had we started doing so. I think our

I thought he was the lawyer brother ... There are what, four or five of the brothers? Which business does Martin have? The DUI school or??? pubby PS: I guess I assumed Martin was the lawyer ... I knew these guys when they were in high school and I was proud for the one that went on to college and law school and passed the bar. .

What is the November race about? Well, it is about several things but mostly it is about who we are locally, statewide and who we want to represent us in Washington. Nationally: In Paulding, we live in the 14th Georgia Congressional District and since Georgia doesn't have a senate seat up this year, this is the only federal elective office we will be able to actually vote on. That race pits three or four term incumbent Rep. Tom Graves against some old style, freewheeling, life-long southern liberal named Foster from somewhere around Rome. From what I've read this guy got naile

Now that is a whopper on several levels. You've really outdone yourself. First the ABA would find hundreds of folks highly qualified ... probably at least half of the law professors who said he was not. The letter in which the professors said he should be disqualified was based on his testimony last week. That was when he blurted out in a rage conspiracy theories and suggested he was a vengeful fellow. In the eyes of millions, that single outburst of injudicious behavior disqualified justice kavanaugh from the supreme court. One will note that there were no similar outbursts ag

This is sad news. Pauline was a great lady whom I met in the early 1990s when she had her antique shop on Main Street. I remember the day that the folks from Channel 5 came to interview her on her ebay selling. In those days the Internet was new and I helped her get on and showed her 'ebay' ... She took it from there, learning not just how to get online and email and all that stuff, but digital photography as she photographed things from salt shakers to hand made quilts, which was more than remarkable for a woman in her sixties at the time (1995). She showed her youthful attitude that m

Strangely, the statement that Brett Kavanaugh made to the Senate judiciary committee last Thursday - you know the one that has well over 2000 Law School Professors and a retired SCOTUS Justice say those statements alone disqualifies him - had as its primary target the entire embodiment of Populist Nationalism: Donald J. Trump. That a presumably pragmatic political party would contort itself to the whims of a spoiled brat still begs credulity. pubby is not qualified -

I'm not going to comment on COWA's question but I will note you've ducked the question "Is the president is above the law?" for weeks. I mean it is a simple question and you can answer "Yes" or "No" ... So, GD, "Is the president above the law?" pubby

You apparently haven't been awake for the last 30 years and missed when the GOP house and Senate started slashing budgets of the federal government. One of the favorite places to cut was the IRS and that agency took hit after hit after hit as the GOP figured the best way to defeat the tax man was to eliminate the IRS ... I remember when republicans used to chant about eliminating the IRS with the same glee of sheep bleeping "lock her up" or baa, baa, black sheep. The point is that enormous budget cuts at the IRS hit those who do audits and evasion investigations. Trump is also famous fo

I can't prove you a liar ... I know. I don't even know your name nor do I care to find it out. Remember, I can't prove you're not gay either but I what little I know about you tells me you suck. pubby

The flim flam man speaks. I actually think your mendacity rivals that of your leader and his puppet of a justice wannabe. pubby

Hardly the harsh words ... it is the arrogant entitlement that will make rile them but that same arrogant entitlement is the raw attitude that incriminates him. Remember the scene from "A few good men" ... where Col. Jessup suggests he deserves more respect that he's getting but after the judge orders he reply and Jessup objects, the military judge sets him straight and says he is certain he deserves respect. And as is possible but not likely in the case of Bart-o Kavanaugh, Col. Jessup ended up in the brig if not Leavenworth. The point is there are certain people that if you try to s

That was 20 years ago. However, I can say that the defeat of Hillary in 2016 was the final payoff against Bill for that personal failing. Those divisions were used adeptly by the Russians and other fellow travelers on places like Facebook to suppress the vote of Democratically inclined women. It is this realization that has supercharged the "me too" movement which bulldozed its way through society. The only thing the Dr. Christine Ford incident impacted was that it unmasked Brett Kavanaugh (AKA: Eddie Haskell Boy Ranger and Coach-Dad) for who he really was ... an entitled, vindictive,

Try repurposedmaterials They've got 55 gal metal drums for $20 with no top. Want at metal top for it, add $10.00 They sell things like used soccer field turf, roller garbage cans, large outdoor tarps (repurposed from outdoor signs) and a lot more. Just off fulton industrial so not that far away. pubby.

Here is a little wisdom for those who fail to understand they are mixed up with a flavor of fascism that engages assassination - Medgar Evers, MLK, JFK, RFK - including character assassination - Don Seigelman, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, etc. The illustration of the kids in cages was just that, an illustration. What one can say about the pictured instance involving kids during the Obama era - almost all aged 10+ - is that first, tens of thousands of unaccompanied youths showed up at the border and were processed into the US under a federal court

And the above photo of caged kids is 100 percent the responsibility of the folks you endorse. pubby

Yep, that group of concerned citizens had a name and reputation. The name was KKK and the reputation was that of a domestic terrorist organization. BTW: GD, truth \has been a defense in libel since 1733 ... in this country. pubby

I coined t his saying in a leadership development program back in 1987: "The genius of democracy is it makes us responsible for each other; whether we like it or not." It is obvious that some folks in this thread shirk that responsibility and in so doing, show their contempt, if not outright hatred, for democracy. pubby PS: To those who say "move along, go get a job," ... know that most people are hungry now. Most jobs would take a week or two before you get your first paycheck. While a job is certainly a good long-term solution, those who are homeless, penniless and propert

It is not that the democrats hate him or that they're upset the economy is good. It is that we aren't blinded by the economy like those on the right are and see that he is just unfit for the office of president in a democratic society. Why? Because he's so consumed by his lust for money he doesn't think in any other terms. It is kind of like you are all like: See what I mean ... Pubby

Just like trump; you blame others. pubby

There you go projecting again. pubby

GD: Wrong reading. I'm curious if you are ever going to get woke to challenge of this time ...See, you seem content to wallow in your easy chair, your favorite piece of steel nestled in your hand as you take a few sips and relish the revenge you and others expect to exact on infidels and other heathens. So keep throwing out disparaging remarks at everyone who is concerned with the direction of the country. You'll say, as you always do, that you're right, they're wrong and, after all, they're not special like you so they really don't even count. Heap on some more of your BS; flip