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Barry

If you want phenomenal meatloaf, try it at a restaurant called Jones at 6th and Chestnut Streets.I moved to the suburbs. No longer next door to Vietnam Palace. But I still work right next to Chinatown. Barry thanks-I make a pretty darn good meatloaf so I'll pass on the one you talk about. Whjat sub...

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right before going into partisan rants against the President. Partisan to be sure are these Dems, partisanship can be a healthy thing for the body politic. What is not so healthy for our country is the revelation that POTUS's own Secy of State, fourth in line to the office he holds, once called him...

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right before going into partisan rants against the President. Partisan to be sure are these Dems, partisanship can be a healthy thing for the body politic. What is not so healthy for our country is the revelation that POTUS's own Secy of State, fourth in line to the office he holds, once called him...

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How many people do you think watched those hearings?

I watched part of them and enjoyed seeing Democrats praise the bi-partisanship of the committee right before going into partisan rants against the President.

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I suppose it's fair to point out that the Dow skyrocketed nearly 2,000 today, most of it right after Trump's speech.

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I had tickets for all of the Beethoven symphony programs in Philadelphia.

Oh well.

At this point, I'm pessimistic about Luisi/Tchaikovsky 5th and Sokhiev/Shostakovich 5th in late April and early May.

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For the first time in about a decade and a half, the Congressional Republicans now poll higher nation-wide than Congressional Democrats. https://news.gallup.com/poll/287633/approval-congressional-republicans-tops-democrats.aspx It appears that the polling was done before the virus was a big story an...

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I've heard the meatloaf story. Extremely funny!

If you want phenomenal meatloaf, try it at a restaurant called Jones at 6th and Chestnut Streets.

I moved to the suburbs. No longer next door to Vietnam Palace. But I still work right next to Chinatown.

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I'm afraid those ribs are another thing we disagree on. I'm not saying they can't be enjoyed for what they are. But it's not real barbecue in terms of the lack of smoke. I've become much more serious about barbecue in the years since I left this board. I've eaten at a few of the top barbecue places ...

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The governor of my beloved state, Ohio, and the POTUS are both Republicans, the difference between them on this COVID-19 matter being simply a matter of basic competence —the one has it, the other, I reckon, not so much. And one is honest, not mentally ill, not a narcissist, not corrupt. He also is...

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I've still never gone to the flower show.

I'm very sorry to have to miss the Philadelphia Orchestra's planned Beethoven cycle though.

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Pence is making the rounds today-even CNN! Keeps praising trump but he's failing the TEST. Regards, Len :( What test would that be? I can sense your excitement over the political possibilities of this virus from here. Were you happy when he restricted travel from China or did you join some of your ...

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Pence is making the rounds today-even CNN! Keeps praising trump but he's failing the TEST. Regards, Len :( What test would that be? I can sense your excitement over the political possibilities of this virus from here. Were you happy when he restricted travel from China or did you join some of your ...

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Forget that. Americans are right where Australians are, based on this exchange. The two sides are so far apart in terms of the culture they want for their country, that it's hard to see the cultural civil war that's going on dying down any time soon. We essentially want two different countries. That...

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Sorry. It's not always easy to pick up irony on here.

I've been away from this board for many years. I check in on what's happening on here maybe a few times a year but have never been tempted to post until I read those statements.

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17 year old kids. Some. Some too are in their 20s and 30s. They have licenses and are capable of backing a vehicle into a crowd and crushing a young woman to death. Is that incident your basis for stating that as often as not, random gunslingers in this country are white nationalists and not young ...

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I'm not rejoining the board, but I saw on Facebook that Ralph has passed away and I wanted to share my feelings here. I knew he was in the hospital a lot in recent months, but didn't realize he was at death's door. This is such horrible news. He was such a great guy. I had gotten together with him f...

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The point is that you and others are clearly trying to find some way to justify using this massacre by an obviously unbalanced person as a way to discredit, delegitimize, attack, marginalize and/or shut up the "right". It stinks. It doesn't just stink. It's flat out dishonorable. I've been off of h...

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jbuck919 wrote:
Agnes Selby wrote:Had it been
anyone else but Sarah Palin, Americans would have been celebrating the
addition of a new word to the English language.
That's ludiculous.

Wouldn't a reasoned, on-point response have been more appropriate than that, John?

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No, I think that if the right can disclaim that their politically motivated noise is part of the problem then so can the left, and in both cases for the same reason, namely freedom of speech. How outrageous either side is being is from that point of view beside the point. Shoe on other foot, no? No...

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Cosima___J wrote: Â· Jane Fonda Blames Giffords Shooting on Sarah Palin

Talk about someone having NERVE.

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Please read this and consider whether there are some people out there in our great country who need to retract their irresponsible statements blaming the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, etc. There seems to me like there are way too many people out there with a political ax to grind who are trying to score ...

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JANUARY 10, 2011 The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel Those who purport to care about the tenor of political discourse don't help civil debate when they seize on any pretext to call their political opponents accomplices to murder. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS Shortly after November's elec...

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Sometimes A Tragedy Is Just A Tragedy The media try--and fail--to make sense of the Tucson massacre. 12:00 AM, Jan 10, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES Even before anything at all was known about Jared Lee Loughner, who went on a deadly shooting spree outside a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday, a n...

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At the time of the attemted assassination of Ronald Reagan, I was not of an age to be following the newspapers very closely. At that time, were there all sorts of people playing the blame game like they are now? Or did people just accept that the perpetrator was a weirdo? It was known almost immedi...

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>What degree of specifics do you expect from me?< Just an answer to the question about what the mother should do with her young child while she's working the menial job at MacDonald's. If you've answered that already I'm afraid I've missed it? Regards, Len From a couple posts ago (by me): "And when...

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>At that time, were there all sorts of people playing the blame game like they are now? Or did people just accept that the perpetrator was a weirdo?< My memory could be gone but I don't remember any alluding to political blame gaming--he was just a weirdo. What did come up if my memory is correct i...

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Should We Blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting? by Howard Kurtz Info Howard Kurtz Already, people are pointing fingers at Sarah Palin and her "target map" for fostering the tragedy in Arizona—but Howard Kurtz says military terminology has been part of politics for ages. I hate to say t...

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Let's get this straight. 1) Cosima said the gunman was someone who hates the government. 2) The Tea Party constantly talks about the evil of government. Right here on this board we have someone who can't tell the difference between the government of the United States and the Soviet Union and is con...

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jbuck919 wrote:Of course, the Right shows considerably more constraint. I've never heard anyone dissing the Left by comparing them all to Leon Czolgosz.

Point taken.

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I also used it when a member spouted off about Jews controlling the media, and I don't regret that either. I remember John Bleau, the poster who, in addition to misunderstanding the usage of the suffix "eau" in French, started posting mainly to espouse an AIDS conspiracy theory, you know, the one w...

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I'm just not moved. I accept that I should have called him a bigot instead of an idiot, but the charge of racist and bigot is thrown around so loosely by so many on the left in this country (including on this board at times), that those of us on the other side of the aisle have a right to point it o...

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You're an idiot. Barry, I don't think that Tea Partiers are "just like" this shooter, but we've gone to considerable lengths to bring the site to the point where "idiot" doesn't have to be censored. Let's not backtrack. Hmm, pretty please? His statement was rank bigotry, and I think he needed to be...

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You're an idiot. Barry, I don't think that Tea Partiers are "just like" this shooter, but we've gone to considerable lengths to bring the site to the point where "idiot" doesn't have to be censored. Let's not backtrack. Hmm, pretty please? His statement was rank bigotry, and I think he needed to be...

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If you check out this website (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jared-lee-loughner-gabriel-giffords-suspected-shooter-identified/story?id=12572164) and other news stories, the shooter was known to be a disturbed young man --- a real weirdo who hated the government just like the Tea Partiers. You're an...

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>they have to settle for any kind of job they can get. < Well we may not be that far apart then. We had included in the discussion menial jobs. Let's take a mother with one young child, a 1 year old--let's say she could get a job at a McDonalds--what if she has no one to take care of the one year o...

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We seem to be going around in circles Yes. We are. I'll just add that in your example of someone spending the three years returning to school or getting job training, and can't find anything in the field they trained for, I'd be okay with an extension (maybe another year), but at some point, they h...

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>I think you're being unreasonable in demanding an answer for a question for which there isn't one that will both work and satisfy you.< Forget me, my satisfaction and my sensibilities :) --what's wrong with asking for a sensible fair practical plan? Regards, Len It's often the case in matters of i...

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Barry maybe it's you who are shifting responsibility--you seem to now say nothing can be done? I don't accept that answer. Some policy has to be in place. Cutting people off at some point IS a policy because it motivates where nothing else will in many cases. Forcing people to get job training or f...

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Again I am open to a discussion of workfare but can someone suggest a sensible practical fair plan to deal with this. Regards, Len I think you're being unreasonable in demanding an answer for a question for which there isn't one that will both work and satisfy you. While I never even considered pro...

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"The TANF program does not offer benefits sufficient to lift recipients out of poverty, and despite a strong economy, the majority of families who have moved off the TANF rolls have remained in poverty. Considerations of another traditional economic goal, reduction of inequality, only makes matters...

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lennygoran wrote:... any idea what kind of menial jobs we're discussing here?
...

What categories of menial jobs would you consider to be unacceptable as a replacement for collecting welfare year after year?

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>but at some point, you just have to say, "too bad."< Why--let's set a standard for monitoring their efforts--as long as they're trying I don't think you should cut off their benefits. And to the slackers what should we do for their children if anything? Regards, Len Jack and I have answered the "w...

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>I'm sorry if it's cruel to your sensibilities to tell someone you're going to get to live off of tax dollars for the next three years, then you need to get a job or you're on your own, but if you don't do that, too many people will have a sense of entitlement to life-long government support; and t...

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>the only way to really change the situation in many of the worst urban areas is to emphasize the importance of marriage, parental responsibility, and family and the value of work < But how specifically do you do it--in the meantime these high cost solutions are needed--welfare, food stamps, medica...

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>NYPD crime statistics don't map precisely onto the graph, as they are not calculated per capita of the city's population, but they essentially confirm it. From 1991 to 1995, crimes declined by ca. 215,000 (40%); from 1995 to 2001, by ca. 150,000 (another 48%); and since 2001, by ca. 56,000 (anothe...

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"perhaps" our involvement in Vietnam did, in fact, stop the spread of Communism to a number of countries in that part of the world I don't get it. Why should our failure to stop a communist takeover in Vietnam, despite long and heroic effort and immense losses, have prevented communist takeovers el...

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While I view Hitchens' zeal for going after religion and the religious as misguided, I have a lot of respect for both his intellect and the way he re-examined his philosophy on many issues, especially in the area of foreign/defense policy, as he grew older. He'll be missed if the reports I've read a...

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We should start keeping a running list of posted opinion pieces whose title bears no relationship to their content. Funny. I thought the title was very appropriate (I took it from the title of the piece). That's been true in every case where this happens. I am not saying that our posters should be ...

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We should start keeping a running list of posted opinion pieces whose title bears no relationship to their content. Funny. I thought the title was very appropriate (I took it from the title of the piece). Perhaps you are just so allergic to the traditional values that made us a great civilization i...

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