Davis X. Machina

He hath encompassed evil of the King!

How can you develop an enduring parasocial relationship with someone like that, I ask you?

Thunder at twilight : Vienna, 1913/1914 : Morton, Frederic : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive x, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm

Frederic Morton's "Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914" is a great read.

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Concorde Sets Record In Boston‐Miami Trip (Published 1974)

My great-aunt was a commercial traveller in the Dakotas for a big Boston milliner's, and took stagecoaches to outlying farm villages from the railroad towns she used as hubs. And the Concorde occasionally flew over her house.

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Local Man Defiant

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Souperism - Wikipedia

Some people just don't grasp that when you get called 'a trimmer' it's not intended as a complement.

In the Irish Boston of my childhood, it was just about the worst thing you could get called, after 'Souper'

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Most of them don't aspire to high office, though.

This is why I'm working on a "No Ship Money" poster for October 18 if the shutdown is still going on,

That that was discoverable means the next ICE budget goes black as a result.

I used to tell my kids "Monsters aren't real".

What we now know is that Garland had complete control of the exact date on which John Roberts would decide that we do in fact have a king.

The problems are technological - cable doesn't use over-the-air broadcast spectrum - and legal - concentration of media ownership.

The Fairness Doctrine addressed/addresses neither of those .

But no conflict. Or unpleasantness. Or any of that kind of thing.

Not 'stupider'. Don't say that. Say 'more authentic' or 'more in tune with the people' or 'unfiltered'.

So, yeah - 'stupider'.

"Get the parties out of politics.
Get the politicians out of politics.
Get the politics out of politics.

Politica are broken and that's how you fix them."

The Fairness Doctrine has approximately nothing to do with our present predicament and you could reinstate it tomorrow with no detectable effect.

It's "Audit the Fed" for the left.

Throne and altar conservatism in a secular republic - and that's what a lot of constitutional monarchies are in practice - is drawing dead.

People who volunteer to go into the military aren't generally skeptical of the powers that be.

But nothing will make you more skeptical of the powers that be than actual service.

She's an authentic representative of and spokesperson for the Authentic American Volk.

It must be we who are out of touch in our deracinated, bien-pensant PMC bubble.

Totino's/neé Geno's Pizza Rolls

We have them. What we have two of is labels. But we form governing coalitions before, not after, elections, so it doesn't look that way.

Essentially the Andrew Johnson/Tenure of Office Act battle in another form

It had to be killed.

It was *embarrassing* and it turns out that that is worse than death.

We sold our patrimony not for Esau's mess of pottage but for a mess of ironic detachment.

Hay prices soar whenever there's a drought, too.

Third Battle of Mount Hermon - Wikipedia

So the IDF called Beans and bought a bunch of early Baxter State Parkas and similar accoutrements, Beans filled a bunch of airfreight containers, and had them flown out of PWM a couple of days later.

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This is Maine, and most LL Bean old-timer stories are apocryphal, but my fav is when the Israeli Army took the Syrian part of Mt Hermon in October '73, they were faced with having to occupy the summit (9,000) in the winter in battalion strength, for which they didn't have enough appropriate gear.

"Trump give me stimmy" was widespread among our more...unreflective... fellow voters last fall.

Let's help him deliver on this, while he's failing every other expectation held by the chucklehead vote.

What's several hundred feet below 'stupid'?

The Nonsense Point is a tense, early '70's political thriller and you can't tell me different.

Am I the only person who's immediate response is "Theo Von What?"

I mean, it's usually a prefix... von Bismarck, von Mises, von Trapp....

I don't know how Rupar stands it. It's positively superhuman.

This is from today's "He sits there and says the first thing that pops into his empty head" session?