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And as such is a general "pagan" festival. There were plenty of tribes that were able to look at the sky and identify the autumnal equinox. Yeah, the specific "Samhain" is a Celtic (Gaelic) term, but it ain't like other northern barbarians had the equivalent.

Let's start here. The attack on Mr. Pelosi was reprehensible, and we hope DePape spends a long time in the hoosegow or the state mental hospital. Whatever differences we have this is the. . . absolute. . . dumbest. . . way to handle them.

Yeah, I hauled a STICS (Self-Contained Transportable Intelligence and Security System) from Riyadh to fuck-knows in the Rub al Khali in Saudi. Idiot 18-wheeler driver didn't know how to handle drifting sand. Having lived in Arizona, I did. Still wish I'd had Ron there. Like I said, multiple...

It is the way. . . (dwamatic pause). . . of my people! (Yeah, well, your people were a bunch of backward stone-age fuckwits. Sitting on top of the richest iron ore deposits on the planet chipping flint axes. Wake the fuck up!)

Actually, they "borrowed" (stole) it from the pre-Christian religions. Samhain or whatever the local "barbarians" chose to call their post-equinox festival. The Christians, in the early days, were happy to co-opt the local gods and make them "saints," if it got the pagans on-side. FFS, Easter...

Hell, that's 60% of why it's fun!

Yeah, well, y'know, you're an imperialist colonialist racist fascist Klan Nazi right-wing sexist rapist asshole, but I like the cut of your jib. Speaking of which, if you had a load to be hauled, or an improvement on your land to be made, is there anybody you'd rely on more than Ron or petros...

Actually, we should ban Halloween because it ain't all Jesus-y. Or maybe just let young folk have some fun. Pretty sure the Empire won't fall from it.

So can we move forward? You, me, Serryah, Ron in Regina, maybe a few others? We'll still have plenty of differences, but can we just admit that we're searching for a "just" society, and quit ascribing Trumpism to you and Ron, and BLM-ism to Serryah and me? Maybe look for some level of...

I beg to differ. I agree about the Dems. . . they discovered that fighting for equality for non-Whites and women was a political winner for them. And the Republicans, as I said earlier, found that scooping up the racists and misogynists disillusioned by the Democratic moves was good for them...

Kthx. Just clarifying in my (excuse for a) mind.

Are you talking about the Texas freeze-out last winter? That wasn't generation, that was distribution. The rest of what you say is obvious. Which is why you have to state it.

"Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right." --H. L. Mencken

--H. L. Mencken

The problem is that the measures needed to tame inflation often lead to recessions. The problem with recessions is that people seem to think they're disasters. They aren't. The U.S. has had seven in the last 50 years. If anything, a recession is an indication that you've overcorrected and...

Illustrative of the real impact of the problems we're facing. Now, if only we could get past blamethrowing and work the damn problem. . .

The nanny state worries me. Not that I have much use or liking for threatening and harassing behavior on-line, but they always push laws to insane extremes. Who among us has not said, upon learning of something stupid a spouse, or a boss, or a kid has done, "I'll kill her/him?" Obviously...

Arkansas did that. Capped credit card interest at 14% (yeah, that's crazy high, but it's the only cap I know of in the country). Gloom and doom were predicted. None actually happened. That no other state (that I know of) has followed suit indicates the power of the banks in state legislatures.

It started in 1964 with Barry Goldwater's run for the Presidency, and was made much more strategic by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" in 1968 and subsequently. As the Democrats, under the influence of their more powerful Northern faction, moved away from overt racism as policy, Nixon recognized an...

Yeah, like "the Democrats USED TO BE the racist party, and seeing as how nothing ever changes, they must STILL be!" is a true developmentally-disabled community tradition.