Return to Oz?
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We need… “Snake” Plisskin
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Xanadu?
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It seems like we get this story every year, and every election, it doesn’t even come particularly close to happening.
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I guess it’s their way of making sure the rank and file turn out to vote.
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Animates as it loads, but some good ideas:
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That’s not exactly what he said.
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The only successful “population control” is the principle of educating women and girls, educating them in family planning (abortion and birth control), and giving women and girls access to family planning services. It’s worked everywhere it’s been tried.
You know what doesn’t work? Telling women to have more kids or fewer kids and manipulating the entire society to enforce the edict.
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Took him long enough. He had about as much chance of winning the nomination as I did, and I’m Canadian.
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I’d have likely voted for you.
The “Blue No Matter Who” crowd is getting hard to tolerate.
Yes, I’ll likely vote for the Dem candidate. Even if it is Biden. But, damn it, I’d like to vote FOR someone, not against the current Demented Tangerine.
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What about educating boys and men on the same things? Are they not educable on those topics?
And what’s that “only” doing there? There are absolutely no other principles that would be “successful”? And isn’t a principle only successful when it is carried out in fact?
Yeah, I’ve not figured out just why this hasn’t happened; the only thing I can dope out is that the citizenry hasn’t been informed as to what far-left really is. I think they’ve got it confused with “Far-out!”.
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alas, that luxury went out the window the moment he was put in the office.
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There was a term used, I think in the 1930s but it could be the '40s or '50s - the “hold-your-nose-and-vote” election. But I may’ve read it in the context of a Congressional election; or …wait, maybe it was the 1952 campaign for POTUS?
Can someone saaaaaaaaaave me here? I want to say I read it in “Truman” by David McCulloch, but it could also’ve been out of something by Barbara Tuchman. And I’ve tried Google - no help on the origin, unless asking, “Who first said hold your nose and vote?” is poorly-constructed.
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Yeah, I was thinking William Jennings Bryan as being one of the candidates.
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I AM CURIOUS - BUT NOT YELLOW (is not even on chart, lulz):
Where would…say…FDR be on that scale? I mean, so many programs he and his Administration put into existence that are still with us - and still bones of contention, it just makes me wonder.
Plus elected to, even if he didn’t live for, four bloody fucking terms. And the GOP cut it so a POTUS could only serve two, and they’ve been sorry 'bout it ever since.
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I have a theory that I don’t know if I’ve put forth here before, but it has to do with the surname of a POTUS. Have you noticed that most of them have been fairly-common surnames to be found in the USA? I think I can say I’ve met at least one person with the same last name of each of the past POTUSes (POTUSi?), or at least read of one who was not related to any of them. One big exception, of course, is Obama. And the other is…well, yeah, the current POTUS; surname changed by his dad or not, it’s still not common (vulger, though definitely).
Now, think of all the people who’ve made it to the debates of each party, and their surnames, recently or not-so-recently. Yes, many of them have fairly common surnames. But it seems like the ones with the uncommon surnames drop out early.
Boy, do I come up with some weird theories, lol.
This isn’t something I’m going to write a treatise on, just something that caught my interest.
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