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Got to thinking... (always dangerous...)

I expect Ruth Buzzard Ginsberg to be the next to go.

If we hold out 'til then, just let it be.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 15
Subjects: Supreme Court of the United States

Reading through the comments, I read aloud to Milady:

365 F**K a light bulb just exploded over my head.
Posted by: The Political Hat

Christopher Taylor: Schlafly was the voice of conservatism for women in the 70s... loud and strong against... the Equal Rights Amendment...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 7
Subjects: Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlaffley, Progressives Playbook

...Constitutional THREAT of the day...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 3
Subjects: Impeach Obama, threat, US Constitution

While you were looking elsewhere, Lindsey girl gives us the Constitutional thread of the day...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 3
Subjects: Impeach Obama, threat, US Constitution

I was all set to tell this funny story about the time my wife met Joan Baez in a bar in Chicago.

Then I remembered it was Buffy StMarie (I think).

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 2
Subjects: celebrity, Chicago

Notsothoreau #48: This is an excellent speech by Greg Walden. His district is where the Oregon standoff is.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 1
Subjects: United States of America

We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal, that...

all men regardless of race...

all men and women...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 31
Subjects: Declaration of Independence

Feelthe Bern on Face the Nation: Gun control is a job for federal office-holders rather than state governments

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 25
Subjects: Election 2016, Second Amendment

Brown Line: ...at one point describing "acres of parking" around Wrigley Field: oy veh!

Perhaps he was thinking of Cominsky [sic]?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, science fiction

mindful - Thank you for the review "The Time Traveller's Wife". I'll be sure to put it on my queue.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, science fiction

Oh, forgot to mention a very personal aspect of re-reading Time Traveler's Wife - the main "present time" and place for the story is North side of Chicago, in the early 1990s.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, personal history, science fiction

USS John C. Stennis - now propelled by... wind power!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 16
Subjects: Progressives Playbook, US military

BB Wolf: Hell.... New York... couldn't even be original enough to come up with different names for City and State...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 16
Subjects: United States of America, urban

BB Wolf: So today they said the Boats Iran snagged, did NOT have engine problems...

It was a horrible Internet video that we had nothing to do with.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 15
Subjects: Hillary Clinton, Impeach Obama, US military

Regressives continue plugging away on gun grabbing...

Remember how they kept failing on socialized health care? (Like, Hillary?) Then, suddenly, here we are.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 11
Subjects: Obamacare, Second Amendment

Trimegistus: ...can I request a ban on the term "The Big Easy"? ... It was invented out of whole cloth in the 1970s, and needs to be retired like most other bad ideas from that decade.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 10
Subjects: Chicago, comics

Carol: ...Heat is coming up & making a lot of noise.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 5
Subjects: Chicago, weather, Winter

All this talk of lamb and no mention of Gyros? It can be good or mediocre, but pressed beef and lamb gyros became one of my favorite foods the first time Milady took me to a Greek restaurant.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 3
Subjects: Chicago, food

New Madrid... First read about the possible effects of "if it happened today" some forty years ago. I think the article said they thought it likely to happen in the next 50 years...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 2
Subjects: Chicago, earthquake

Was saving these for the morning thread, but... (refreshes main page one last time)... nope, still not up.

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Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 29
Subjects: blogs, thankfulness, US military, Adam & Eve

Vic: New year coming up with new laws going into effect.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 26
Subjects: Islam, Jeb Bush, US Congress

First they passed PP funding in the Omniverous bill. Then, they plan to pass bills to de-fund it. Which Obama can veto, and they can say they tried.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 25
Subjects: US Congress, Christmas

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday warned Republican voters to steer clear of nominating Tea Party candidates who can't win in next year's general election.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 20
Subjects: Tea Party, US Congress

VIA: Paul Ryan seems to have pissed off a rather large number of people.

Not just Ryan.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 20
Subjects: Oklahoma, Paul Ryan, US Congress, Jim Bridenstine

Um... hello, again.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 18
Subjects: Impeach Obama, Star Wars, US Congress, Jim Bridenstine

Alas, I also expect our two "Republican" Senators, the old venerable Inhofe and the new RINOish Lankford, to be voting Yay [sic] on the bill, as well.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 18
Subjects: RINOs, US Congress

So, neither house of Congress has voted yet on the gazillion dollar budget bill, izzat right? The way it's been talked about, seemed like it had already been passed.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 18
Subjects: budget battles, Jim Bridenstine, US Congress

Happy holidays!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 14
Subjects: Missouri, terrorism

I get caught up on book comments, and I check and, yeah, elbows thread is up, of course.

Not supposed to mean the book thread expired, of course, but, called the Horde for a reason.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 13
Subjects: Chicago, Jack Clark, Life

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