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Thanks Reg.

That lake is so beautiful. I bet those books have really cool pics. And that science center is pretty cool. Been there half a dozen times or so. I would take 7 to 2 they have a copy of Spring on Squam. Sad thing is that squam Lake had the cleanest water in NH from memory. I remember drinking it from faucet. I don’t know how long it…[Read more]

Enco, the oft-cited extraordinary claims requirement is a logical one. Not sure this is an extraordinary claim however. Has anyone defined it satisfactorily? On the other hand your skepticism is sensible. Memories are fallible. Sometimes the speaker intends to deceive.

Nothing too extraordinary about misattribution of quotes. There is info…[Read more]

@Jakelafort…I know it is not these but you might be interested….

Book One

Book Two

I wonder if any members here would be able to help?

Huh, I didn’t catch that, so I must have misunderstood what he misspoke, double negative causing me to get his intention correctly. (The promo video’s just an outtake from the main video, and I watched both, so it would be two double negatives that still worked out, even as a dual set of misunderstandings of misspeakings, correctly, albeit in the…[Read more]

Short on judge getting vaccination recommendations back. Hope it sticks.
1 min + 10 sec self-promo:

I affirm the truth of the matter asserted. My ass read that shit in an old obscure book. It stuck with me because it came as surprise. There were so many old books at my grandparents house yeah on the Jewish side of course. Unless i am reading some well known author or classical author i don’t pay any attention to the author or title. Book i am…[Read more]

Enco: – I can’t find a reference to any similar rhetorical phrasing from the 18th century.

Even if “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.” Issac D’Israeli....who also wrote that:

“The literary treasures of antiquity have suffered from the malice of Men as well as that of Time. It is remarkable that con…[Read more]

“what the country has done for each of us, and… what we can do for the country”….source

And….citizens should be “less concerned about what the government can do… and more… what it can do for the nation”…..Warren G. Harding.

What happened to the Forums space? I wanted to post in Small Talk and I get “Page Not Found.”

WTH?!!!

Good walk spoiled? Thought it was Harvey Penick. Wa’nt. Wa’nt Twain either. Mark that and fathom that. John Feinstein wrote a book of that title but wa’nt his quote not by a mile. Hittin a ball. Hittin it foul. Hittin it long and straight wipes off that scowl. Why do we care? I can’t say. All of that effort won’t allay the final jar comin our…[Read more]

Authoritarianists say and do the damndest things. I want to hear a lot more from Rand Paul. I there’s growing opportunity to bump Trump, and pull some GOP over.

I saw a suspicious title of a youtube video, with commentors expressing themselves enthusiastically. So this time I searched for “hegseth fired”, and found two more productions like it. All three were uploaded to different channels, and all three had some commentator doing his “expert” commentating after the same footage of a news show. Neither…[Read more]

Thank you, Reg!!

Have a great week!!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another case in point against Trump heading up this War. You know he’s bad off when his own State Media points out how much he sucks: Trump says it’s an ‘honor’ to keep Strait of Hormuz open for China and other countries

In light of him losing support in USA, I wonder if he’s thought about inviting Xi, Vlad, and other a…[Read more]

*Just read what i wrote.

This is my brain on sleep deprivation. Phooey.

Enco,

Under ordinary circumstances i agree conscription is a prescription for loss of freedom. Really it is fucking risky and no fun if your heart is not in it.

Israel, however, requires it and it is existential. It doesn’t end. Not yet. Constantly under siege. And being under siege has a benefit that might not be apparent. It creates…[Read more]

Pope,

Your query bout lefty ideologue is very merry and though provoking. The effect of the lefty lady ideologue pontificating in tired tropes and hackneyed narratives is identical irrespective of your location or hers. Sound waves, amplitude, vacuous and vapid…

Whether the regime will be toppled is beyond anyone’s ken or so i suspect. It is…[Read more]