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You mean like the truly massive public works program that created highways for the expansion and use of the automobile not to mention public policies that expanded cities to include suburban areas by eliminating or substantially curtailing, in the period immediately after WWII, public transportation. In this day one might almost say that you are a second class citizen if you don't have an automobile .. and if you do, you know you're paying big bucks to the oil industry just for the ability to use the state subsidized roads and highways. The government, which was lobbied to spend these va

Actually, you're wrong largely because you have no idea from whence you come. See, the Brits had a king and he had a court of special people who had special privileges and that 'playing field' essentially was rigged in favor of the nobility. The American revolution was a rejection of the social structure that said that Kings ruled by divine right ... and the society that acknowledged nobility as a 'cut above' and the rest of the people as commoners. Similar social structures that had enthroned Kings in France and Princes in places like the German principalities; kings in the Netherl

And some of those in the southwest, dogs, were living there and speaking their language before 1848 when we 'took' the land and moved them into the US ... in essence we emigrated around them and frankly, some resented it. pubby

I think it was Ben Franklin whom, upon the presentation of that document after the constitutional convention remarked, Gentlemen, here is a republic if you can keep it. Things like the Senate not acting on a vacancy on the supreme court; things like the senate filibustering to shut down the government; things like obstruction to the point of inaction for strictly political purposes is no way to keep the Republic. One might even call such obstruction and unwillingness to seek to address the issues facing the nation as the "t" word. pubby

I'll tell you what's common... Yep, that is about as common as one can get. Aren't you just proud, GD pubby

You mean there is not a greatest hits on Biden hitting on women; you know saying he can grope women because he's the vp ... on youtube. I'd like to see it before I common because I've not noticed him behaving that way. pubby

Definitely, he is worse. pubby

The right wing is perpetrating a coup. This is their last chance because of the changing demographics. They feel if they can get control of the federal government at this point, they can enact laws that will restrict voting and even the franchise to make, as Trump's most ardent supporters want, a white nationalist nation. This means that when Trump telegraphs that if Hillary is elected, there will be no more elections he's actually telegraphing the plans of the right to suspend the constitution. Yes, he is really saying if he is elected we will not have another election ... at least one

It is called jury nullification ... however, one wonders if one alt-right guy on the jury could convince the balance of the jury that these guys were not the only crazy patriots and if they judged them guilty, the jurors were signing their death warrants if they didn't vote to acquit ... or even if they blew the whistle and alerted the authorities to the jury tampering. pubby

There is a must read editorial in the AJC by Jay Bookman. It leads with an answer SCOTUS member and Georgia native Clarence Thomas made when asked about the decision of the Senate to delay the appointment of a new justice to replace Antonin Scalia. He said, "This city is broken in some ways,” Thomas said, choosing to address the issue obliquely rather than directly. “At some point, we have got to recognize that we’re destroying our institutions.” The editorial goes on to bring up comments by folks like Ted Cruz and John McCain, as well as writers for conservative publications and i

And calling everyone in Washington mafioso is not demeaning? Point your finger at Low. pubby

We know that Trump - who does have ties to the 'real' illegal mafia (no one who poured any concrete in NYC in the past 50 years didn't have ties to the mob) and who had as his attorney and mentor mafia attorney Roy Cohn as did Trump - is mafia. So, I guess you justify your support for the corrupt Donald Trump by claiming everyone is 'mafia'. Truly sad. pubby

That's the congress. It used to be when the Republic was young, there were a certain number of representatives for every "x" number of people (about 100,000) and as more people were born or moved to an area, the number of representatives grew to accommodate the expanded population. At the turn of the last century, as space started to become a problem, the Congress fixed the number at 435 house members - there were always two senators per state so when Alaska and Hawaii were added to the original 48; they expanded the Senate to 100. If we add another state, then two more senators will be add

hardly, I'm just concerned that if you called what I did before in the company of two women a circle jerk, things may really get out of hand. pubby

'tis the season It is simply not physically feasible at this time, not to mention that I am not terribly impressed with the decorum you expressed in your pitch. pubby

Really, no defense. You do know that being gay is not a crime while being a sexual predator who commits battery on women is. Oh well I wasn't criticizing him. I was assessing his behavior in a new and possibly more understanding light but like with champsbbcoach ... if testosterone monster fits you image of the guy, don't let me dissuade you. Hey, this is entertaining ... kind of like a reality tv show. After all, it was your guy who turned this into this. pubby

Okay, you convinced me ... if it is important to you that Donald J. Trump is so overflowing with testosterone that he is a sexual predator ... I'm down with you on that pubby

It is a news story. If it was a story about his DNA and it was proven by DNA evidence that he was kin to Beethoven, Karl Marx or Joseph Goebbels, that would be news as well. You can call it junk science but then take that up with the author. You can also say that Trumps' words are what count and, I'd be right with you saying they weren't feminine in the least. But in a world where non-verbal cues and general style say so much and say it on a level that most of us are not conscious of, I find the topic fascinating. As far as the rest, it is speculation that helped me get around the

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In the interest of fairness, I'll add this bit of news from the Washington Blade: That said, the obvious takeaway is that the Log Cabin Republicans - i.e. organized gay Republicans, despite what appears to be the most generous support from Trump, have declined to support him because they don't trust him; largely because of the people from the alt-right that he has surrounded himself with. I think pointing out that the Log Cabin Republicans reject endorsing him shows that I'm not pushing it. As far as the quality of Politico ... from what I gather from the right in gen

I didn't say that. The article appeared in Politico. If you read it, you'd see that enormous pink elephant was in the room. pubby

Hardly. I was just fascinated by the story. As an aside, I have to say this is the first thing I've seen that might add credence to Trump being innocent of being a sexual predator. You know, like all the 'locker room talk' as he calls it; all his misogynist rants as well as his 'elegant' style and list of 'trophy wives' could just be a show to cover his hiding in the closet. I wouldn't go so far as to say anything like that is a fact but just know that language is a 'wired' aspect of the brain and it would be quite ironical if the first woman elected president were a man pubby

This is not from the Onion, but from Politico and cites a linguist and political scientist who says This brings up the notion that there may also be more to the 'bromance' he has with Putin. pubby

Our whole notions of liberal and conservative have been diluted and confused by what one author writing in the Atlantic magazine calls the Watergate Babies ... essentially those in the baby boom generation. The author makes a good case that where we as a society diverged was on the subject of economic theory. He recalls the rather awnry old Chairman of the House Banking committee, Wright Patman, who was strongly in favor of keeping business and industry diluted and actively fought efforts to build or amass national and multinational corporations because he believed that centralized corporat

My wife just drove Cole Lake and called to warn me that they may be catching speeders. She said they were all along there (top to bottom) ... but she had no idea they were looking for an escapee. pubby