JoeWeber

Who'da seen it coming? Our first named storm, Ana.

Just a heads up, so is every Christmas tree.

I'm thinking it isn't called Brent Crude for no reason.

Apparently those forecasters aren't complete yo's.

Hadn't considered that. Several years back I put on a couple of Australian TM's. On a windy day I asked one if he'd like to come shag a few tandems. Talk about big eyeballs.

Nope. We just need laws that require doggers to keep their drooling, crotch licking, cat turd eating machines at home and away from airlines, restaurants and Home Depot.

You got the Canuck treatment, yo. You should have asked for the Pfizer dose.

Are you at least open to the idea the Max's fall rate will change over the course of those ten seconds?

The V-Dem report is a readable aggregation of viewpoints. I wouldn't carry it to the cross but I do think it is useful and generally accurate. Given that Democracy isn't an economic system I'm happy to look at the rise of autocracy worldwide on a numbers of people equation without economic issues. In that sense alone I'm not sure I see a paradox. But your main point is the big, giant point that to my way of thinking is the only important point: what are each of us willing to give on in the face of such a risk? I simply don't see Trumpism as a one off, a passed thing or an aberration. I see it as part of a worldwide trend towards electoral autocracies. It isn't even certain that, given the current conditions in America, it is possible to reverse the trend even locally. Believing that we are out of margin makes me willing to toss a few additional closely held views into the pot just to get the deal done. Right here, right now, what we all need to do is stop tearing down, and nit-picking at, what has become a very fragile democracy in this country and work to strengthen it whether we are getting what we most want or not.

Are you at least open to the idea that all areas of the planet aren't warming at the same rate?

Then let me be first to apologize for mocking your inability to speak factually.

Step back and away from all of that for just a minute and consider the play. The truth is, the Republicans in Congress had an interest and that interest wasn't truth. Truly, I don't think the most of them, or the overwhelming majority of the Republican base, have a clue as to what they are fighting for. I've pointed it out many times on these pages that autocracy is on the rise world wide and we ignore that fact at our peril. It happened in India, the worlds former largest democracy, and it can happen here. The 2nd Amendment, the end of abortion, Jesus in school again, white supremacy, and on and on and on. Are any of those things worth the creation of a functional electoral autocracy in America? DR 2021.pdf

You didn't sleep through every class at MIT, obviously.

Some people see the Virgin Mary on wet windows while others see the face of Jesus in grilled cheese sandwiches. I wonder what they were hoping to see when those things appeared?

O.K everyone, and you won't need Richard Simmons, it's called Brentercize! Ready? Now then, left, right, up, down, shake that booty, shake that booty! And again, left, right, up, down, shake that booty, shake that booty!

Honestly, I doubt for you that it is a tough one. For you, anti global warming and pro shale oil extraction policies are vastly more important than the plain fact that Trump and his complicit Republican henchmen would have turned America into an electoral autocracy, much like what happened in India. What I find maddening is how those like you preen your patriotic feathers as if you really were on the right side of democracy.

Would you rather Trump was still President?

By golly, you have a near preternatural ability to miss the point entirely. So, WTF? I should have written in Henny Youngman instead?

Why not when you have important supporters in congress? We are far from done with Donald J. Trump. If you believe that you believe it at the nations peril.

I was in the Catholic system until the 4th grade when even my parents recognized that my knuckles didn't look right. Then the deal was that as soon as I was confirmed I could go my own way. I learned a lot about religion, I'll give the sisters that much.

It was already tried. Too many connections.

That's all fine and good but when are we going to start sending our special op's folks over to cut the finger tips off of theses assholes?

I thought you were younger. My apologies. An 8 Ball of what?

I hope you're spinning your prayer wheel.

It might work out that way but we aren't there today. Today he is still the Republican leader with enough power to have the number 3 R in the house removed.