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Iain's avatar

I am of a different tribe, Canadian for a start, and a believer in the place of government in the affairs of people, but applaud your eloquence and your objective. There are many mansions, as you say, but one overall aim.

Benjy Compson's avatar

“Yet ‘another’ rape allegation against Brett Kavanaugh today”…I can still hear, speaking of tribalism, a National Public Radio announcer comment, not report and let you decide, on that days latest bad…fake news. I am not thinking anyone at any left of the dial network ever apologized to Justice Kavanaugh for anointing Christine Blasey Ford..who, like Don King Trump, there is no low some predators will stoop to for winning for ones cause…but I have to lament Jay, one need only use my middle finger to show you the grand total of people that have actually taken a shot at our psycho killer Presidente Duterte, I mean Trump. The wannabe at the Hanoi, I mean cosmically ironic Hinckley Hilton where security is still lacking after all these years. But, like the Hebrew Bible keeps proving its wisdom, there is nothing new under the sun…So, here’s hoping and praying for a President to…and for my formerly beloved tribe to find an extraterrestrial God and savior that does not hawk unholy Bibles with his own name embroidered in fools gold and a fair and balanced media that would condemn the very soul of such a pitchman…instead of doing the madman’s bidding. Nordlinger for President 2028. Thanks for taking my rant to the Next Level Jaywalker. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower

Guy Herman's avatar

Sunstein's law describes what groups do to their members. The more interesting question is what the attention economy does to the law itself, specifically, whether it changes the equilibrium point at which polarization stabilizes, or whether it removes the stabilizing mechanism entirely. The evidence from the last decade suggests the latter.

Eric B Lange's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rr6oA5F02U

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The Last Viking | Official Trailer HD ~ ( Samuel Goldwyn Films ). In theaters and on digital on May 29.

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Seriously this looks really GOOD ^^^

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I really "Liked" Men and Chicken <--- not for everybody.

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Also has Mads Mikkelson

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Not just the Promised Land <--- which is GOOD also.

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My fundi Christian neighbors did not like my recommendation of POOR THINGS,

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One of the best movies I have seen - def. my top five of all time.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Some us DID in fact understand the significance of the "Little Green Men" at the time...

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~ Sidenote China has similar play with the "Little Blue Men and boats.".

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Anyway (not that we can actually turn back time.).

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Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - who said that ?

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------------------- [ Jamesten Tarot-Camersberg ] ---- -------------------

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~ "Imagine a cinematic universe where we not only jumped the shark,

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AND,

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nuked the fridge,

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that we splattered the midget,

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inside-out ALL over the children in the circus tent...

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They'll be saying not only did INDY get raped yet again,

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are you with me so far ...".

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~~ "Uhh huh ...".

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~ "AND... ".

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(some forty seven minutes later )...

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"After having hooked up with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus - Indy was able to travel back in time using the spaghetti strainer of destiny left by the Cherokee elders to stop the NAZI time travelling U-boats from sinking the Mayflower to change the course of the war...".

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~~ "Hmmmm yes... ?".

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"Our scouts have narrowed it down to maybe lake Bazaltove, it has the perfect look we are going for even though the studio facilities will be seventy five miles away but we figure if Peter Jackson can go into the middle of nowhere in New Zealand with fifty gigantic busses then we can at least convert two of those old hangars into studio facilities... Mildred our production secretary has just been checking out the Medusa Beauty Salon in Rivne... Rivfnehh is that how you say it ? ".

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~~" Mmmmm ".

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" Most Americans wouldn't get that she was really beautiful before she got all those snakes and all that and started turning people to stone. ".

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(thirty three minutes and forty seconds later ) - STILL with the table cloth stuffed into his shirt...

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discarded plates of whitebait, finger bowls and other uncleared crockery, cutlery and lunch time fruit wine in an earthenware jug...

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" In THIS MOVIE - the FLYING spaghetti monster IS REAL... and fully actualized agent and entity of the known universe acting as a steward of and to the affairs of man BENEVOLENTLY ."

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Eric B Lange's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUxK1mNups&t=2s

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Rollerball Official Trailer #1 - James Caan Movie (1975) HD

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^^^ Isn't that where we are going once we fix poverty and starvation ?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1NTpPIyEs&t=1s

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ROLLERBALL (1975) | The Corporation Wants Jonathan to Retire | MGM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1sYOdMEe7s

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ROLLERBALL (1975) | Houston Vs. Tokyo Match | MGM

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EPIC ...

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Not even Betsy DeVos and Eric Prince... / Blackwater.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

https://www.tandoorinightsfeltham.co.uk/

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^^^ This one ?

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https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186419-d1210395-Reviews-Viceroy_of_Windsor-Windsor_Windsor_and_Maidenhead_Berkshire_England.html

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OR the Viceroy of Windsor ... ^^^

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Or.

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There's at least twenty places to choose from that span Nepalese cuisine to Bangladeshi...

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For some reason the Indian restaurants in the USA just make a huge whiff / massive miss trying to "Cater" to American tastes.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha

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^^^ I used to be a big fan of the Gurkhas and now I'm not so sure...

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Maybe in the future we have a resurgence of Armies raised by gigantic corporations like the British East India Company.

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Which ever way you look at it - if you don't devise some sort of means to get Money out of US politics it's all going to end up like ROLLERBALL....

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Eric B Lange's avatar

تو یہ ہے - اور مکمل ہونے کے لیے...

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"چارلس" , - ہاؤس آف ہینگ اوور - سلٹ وِگ فرینکن · ہول · اسٹین - سیکس وان کوڈ (گروپر) -

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- بیٹرڈ برگر - ونڈشیلڈ · وائپر · ونڈسر - فلیب · ٹینجیننٹ <--- تلفظ فلیب · ٹینجنٹ۔

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^^^ The Urdu engine struggles a bit...

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Doesn't directly translate per / se maybe Google needs to work on that especially given the back and forth to Islamabad to save the world...

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Allegedly.

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(Doesn't format right to left on margin properly here in substack either.).

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I remember years ago if one was at the DMV one could take one's written driving exam with an Urdu translator - even in Virgina and that was over thirty years ago.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

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तो यह है - और पूरी जानकारी के लिए...

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"चार्ल्स", - हाउस ऑफ़ हैंगओवर - स्लट विग फ्रेंकेन · होल · स्टीन - सेक्स वॉन कोएड (ग्रोपिंग) -

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- बैटरड बर्गर - विंडशील्ड वाइपर · विंडसर - फ्लैब · टैंजेंट <---

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to yah hai - aur pooree jaanakaaree ke lie... . "chaarls", - haus of haingovar - slat vig phrenken · hol · steen - seks von koed (groping) - . - baitarad bargar - vindasheeld vaipar · vindasar - phlaib · tainjent <---

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^^^ Phonetically like for important speeches...

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Eric B Lange's avatar

No Eric - what they wanted was,

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Charles and the Tandoori Knights of Windsor...

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You have to remember the KING or Queen or Monarch (not to be too "Binary") -

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Is also the head of the Church of England... <--- Historically that was something that Queen Elizebeth (Charles' "Mom" ) took very seriously.

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Charles OTOH recognizes and very much tries to plug into a nation of more diverse religions including and especially Hinduism.

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He do Hindu ?

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No,

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He does not speak Hindi,

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What about Urdu ?

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He no do Urdu,

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Whattabout ...

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<<STOP already>>

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You do Urdu ?

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No HE do Hindu but not Hindi...

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[Today's writing exercise- complete the following ^^^ comedy mash-up derived from the 'Who do voodoo" sequence and Who's on first ?].

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In a democracy it is the chief objective to give the stupidest people the full force of ALL decision making (Socrates spotted this inherent fault in "Democracy" thousands of years ago.).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6nPu-1auE&t=1s

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^^^ England's football (Soccer) anthem Vindaloo... Fat Les - Vindaloo (Official HD Video) <--- Color grading is super bad but they didn't have Orange and Teal back then - not yet.

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Lots of famous faces from "British Comedy" - I think it's also Rolland Riveron on drums from Raw Sex / French and Saunders fame - the guy who used to put a Roman Candle up his ass on stage and light it. As far as I know he never set fire to his dick.

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You can only do that so many times.

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When I first came to the states I would often get ... "I don't get your British comedy but I sure like your Benny Hill ...". Even from FBI chemists with Ph.D. 's I'd get that.

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Well remember it's these gigantic fat headed (Pleb ball loving) lager louts that voted for Brexit and to leave Europe.

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and now the Prime Minister has to speak in terms of "Managed decline" ...

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More like Mangled decline.

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If you are going to "Renew Democracy" you are going to have to give power to the plebs.

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As Winston Smith from George Orwell's BOOK 1984 <--- READ the book - don't watch the movies as they are almost ALL completely wrong.

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As Winston Smith in 1984 hoped and said many times - the "Prols" (proletariat) will be able to ultimately save and reconstruct society...

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After these near seven years and what I have been through - Not a cat's chance in hell.

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The prols will NOT be saving anything let alone democracy nor "Society".

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- The over-compensation of the likes of Nigel Farage have irreparably destroyed UK and especially England's core capabilities other than being a Royal "Theme park".

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Trillions wiped off the books in the long run and YET we have Ursula von der Leyen or Ursula vandal Lion (as prefer to call her) calling ALL the shots - chief architect of policies that do not make broad sense for all of "Euroland".

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Unelected.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen

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Unfortunately Ursula IS the future of world decision and policy making <--- literally NOTHING democratic about that... But at least she's a woman ... that understands the stochastic minutiae of ALL the pointillist froth of European policy and beyond - their near Brownian motion and molecular cumulative effects on the largest moving pieces even if to the untrained eye such pieces do not appear to be moving at all until some apparently "Hither too" unforeseen threshold is reached.

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^^^ Something that any given US president and 99% of the members of congress are singularly incapable of - cognitively...

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Running on the platform of being "I was a cocktail waitress" and now I cut and paste Green New Deal policy from Diem 25 (Pla... for Europe) and I was a waitress in Brooklyn, and did you know I used to be a waitress and ... and I used to be a waitress ...

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^^^ These are not "capabilities to run on.

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Other than basic congressional training I fear these people stay in a state of arrested development with a firm eye on the highest office in the land.

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Anyone can be President - including a waitress from Brooklyn.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I'm sure Princess Anne has enough of their footling flummery already / total and utter and complete useless bullshit for all this time.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Eric you forgot Schleswig Holstein...

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YES I KNOW ... I was just watching an old Newsreel of Monty (General Montgomery) conducting official and signed surrender of the German Army... via the remaining northern occupation Generals.

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So it is - and for completeness...

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"Charles" , - House of Hangover - Slutwig Franken · HOLE · stein - Sex Von Coed (Groper) -

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- Battered Burger - Windshield · Wiper · Windsor - Flab · Tangenant <--- Pronounced Flab·tangent.

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It IS easy to forget the Slutwig Franken-HOLE stein... (bit)... [A more recent addition ].

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Baskin and Robbins in Windsor is so much easier ... But it's probably a Starbucks now.

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Charles - STARBUCKS - WINDSOR ...

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^^^ There you go.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Depth of field is an issue.

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House of Hangover- Sex von Coed (groper) - Battered Burger - Windshield Wiper Windsor* - Flab-tangent.

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Vs. his dad...

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Philip of grease.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Philip the Gaffer (unmatched).

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