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Oh I can appreciate the concept. It's just the contradictory nature of those words appearing together that strikes me as funny - like if I saw someone say "we endured a more warlike peace".

"More peaceful wars"..... The funny thing is that Yanni is among the music most likely to incite me to violence. I can't stand that $%#@.

If my wife is a Spaniard, am I still allowed to play the guitar?

So there were no llamas involved after all?

I can't see Stewart reprising Picard for an entire series, and I have a hard time imagining that any actual reboot of the TNG would be any good, no matter who is cast. I loved that show (the first couple seasons not so much) but I have no faith in anyone's ability to reboot it. I would vastly prefer to see what the next chapter might be for characters like Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, etc, provided it was new material set some time after the events of TNG. I've been curious about the murmur over Stewart returning to the role in a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. I don't know if that's still a thing, or even if I like that idea (but it might make for an uncharacteristically brutal Trek movie), but I haven't head anything on that front for a few months. Whatever they do, as long as they stop redesigning Klingons, Romulans, and everyone else, and stop with the $#%@ing Kelvin time line, something with Picard might actually be good.

That just amazes me that Moore made that. He'd probably like to about 5' of that reel and hang himself with it.

I'm an advocate for raising the minimum wage for servers - it's currently at around $2.08/hour, and they usually are saddled with at least two hours of side work & cleaning every shift where they earn the same rate. Most places require servers to tip the bussers, the bartenders, and hosts. Paying servers and bartenders a flat $15.00/hour minimum wage is a bad idea. Tips provide the incentive for servers to provide superior service; promptness, anticipation of the customers' needs, table maintenance, suggestive selling and more will become rare to the point where it could go away altogether. I believe an hourly boost from $2.08 to approximately 50% of whatever the national minimum wage is at the time would be fair. It would help balance the inequity in pay for non-service work (side work, etc) and still be low enough to provide incentive for the servers to be attentive. Restaurant owners should also be made to stop forcing servers to pay tips to their bussers and hosts, but they should still be made to tip out their bartenders, who are tipped employees as well.

There goes the last of my coffee.....

Border control? Who does Australia share a border with?

Just before the post I quoted you said this: "This is why I'm so anti-"free press." They're benefiting from a system that allows them to lie, to bribe, to cheat and to hide those they deem important sources while working to undermine that system. It's kind of a joke that anyone defends them." Between that and the post I quoted, it sounded an awful lot like you were advocating silencing elements in the media that you disagreed with. Was I mistaken?

I don't believe that you should support anyone who stands against everything you believe in. Open dissent in the public arena is a hallmark of a free society, as it's at the core of our constitutionally protected freedom of speech and expression. I'll spare you the "howevers" since TYTT has already stated them, more effectively than I could have. Being a proponent of limiting speech, which is what Joe has advocated, makes you for America? Against America?

Ted Cruz has a bill in the senate to allow detained families to stay together providing that there aren't any major criminal charges against the parents, but I haven't heard of anything coming from the house yet. Once there's something he can sign, Trump says he'll do it. We'll see. In the meantime, if Trump ends the separation of children from their detained, illegal immigrant parents via executive order, any bets on who will be the first news outlet to show a photograph of Trump's cruel policy of throwing children behind bars just because their parents committed a crime?

I remember back in the 80's that Juneteenth was celebrated at the North Carolina beaches in much the same fashion as spring break is at the Texas coast. I was unaware however that the holiday has it's roots here in Texas - thanks for posting that.

I believe it would be cangilon de mierda.

Keep me posted - I'll make up some signs, gin up a little manufactured outrage, and will protest on your behalf at the border.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44531777 "As you know there are a long list of organisations that want Tesla to die," he added, citing Wall Street short-sellers, oil and gas companies and rival car makers as being among them."

That is delightfully evil.

Yes, and she was a very kind-hearted person. I have a very difficult time believing that she would approve of anyone using race as a reason to prevent anyone from performing her music. The idea is laughable. She was just beginning to break into mainstream pop - she wanted to reach everyone, not just Latinos & Tejanos.

Yeah, he did.

Yellow Submarine edges out any of the others as my favorite for only three songs: It's All Too Much, Hey Bulldog, and It's Only A Northern Song. What's their best effort? Impossible to say, really since they offered up so many fantastic songs & albums in what was a relatively short career together.

No, that's chopped white/yellow onions. There's a difference. Make light of it as you will, I believe my point still stands.

Absolutely, there are indeed an awful lot of people who are rabid partisans, on both the left and the right, who are either too stubborn or too stupid to see anything from a different point of view, especially one from an opposing philosophy. I don't think there's any question that's what Gator's deal is. But there's more to it than that. Years ago when I was a cook, the restaurant where I worked at the time featured a number of items that were topped or garnished with finely sliced scallions. One prep cook insisted on calling them chives all the time. I would correct him every time he did, until it occurred to me that the only reason he called them chives was because he knew I'd react to it. Once I started asking him for chives, he laughed, acknowledged that he had been messing with me, and went on and found a new victim. He was only doing it to entertain himself, and once I figured that out, he stopped. It's the same thing here. He may be an unsalvageable idiot (in which case why does anyone bother?) but he's mostly just calling scallions chives. Yes. I should have phrased it that way.

It seems to me that those that ignore him are the ones saying "%#$@ off, retard" and the ones replying are being played by someone with "no skill at all".