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BarkellWH
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RE: labor day (in reply to estebanana)
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Oi, Moore is such an embarrassment....I call him Chomsky Populism Michael Moore is a shallow gadfly and a blowhard. His early stuff was vaguely clever, but long ago he descended into irrelevance. I like your comparison to Chomsky, who should have stuck with linguistics theory. As soon as Chomsky ventured into the realm of political-economy and U.S. foreign policy, he demonstrated he was out of his depth. Another thing I find irritating are Hollywood "celebrities" who wear their liberalism on their sleeves while closely guarding their own fortunes. Alec Baldwin, while a good actor and a wonderful impersonator of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, is an obnoxious blowhard when it comes to American politics. Remember in the 2000 election when Baldwin said he would leave the country if George W. Bush won the election? Well George Bush did and Alec Baldwin didn't. One more "celebrity" blowhard who would have been better off keeping his mouth shut. Bill
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Date May 5 2017 11:42:17
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estebanana
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RE: labor day (in reply to Piwin)
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I read Putin gave Mr. D. a tax amnesty from nasty old France expecting him to pay taxes. I could be wrong, but I believe Putin conferred Russian citizenship on Big Dep. Baldwin's send up's of Trump are still interesting, I don't howl with laughter,but seeing Trump gut punched in his thoughtless paunch makes me feel less hopeless. It would be wise if someone on his team of numbskulls alerts him to the fact that the Underground Railroad is not a long, long Amtrack tunnel in New Jersey. The Harriet Tubman paper currency will begin to circulate during his reign of stupidity, so I hope he gets it right. Amtrack might cease to exist by the time Trump finishes, the Republican Congress wants to kill the US Postal Service and Amtrack. Nothing could be dumber, except perhaps when Trump said Fredrick Douglass was "doing a fabulous job" - he'd been dead for a century... If only he would have consulted the Pullmans Union for the actual story. The latest gaff "Andrew Jackson would have prevented the Civil War" makes me angry, not because Trump does not know history, which is a heinous oversight for a US president, but because he presumes to speak for a dead president. Did he and Lord Vader-Bannon have a Jackson calling seance' the previous night? It's as if Tony Blair or the May, whatever her name is, lady were to say: "Churchill did a poor job protecting England during WWII, Lord Chamberlain was very, very angry and could have prevented WWII." It would cause a furor, but Trump says the equivalent and his followers nod in agreement. Or if TeeMay were to say: "Those Indians were a dreadful of pack of trouble. Lord Mountbatten should have handled himself better and put down the small rebellion." And I won't even start on Afghanistan, the grave yard of empires. Trump's empire has bought its burial plot ahead of time I hear. Near the golf course. Historians do not presume to understand what a historical figure would have done. Well, not real historians. They may after protracted study of a figure propose alternate scenarios to make a point of contrast that helps one understand a piece of history. Trump is not at that level by any stretch of the imagination. And his conflation of Jackson's legacy is meant to underscore his administrations subtext of white supremacy. What other reason to offer an alternate version of history wherein a white conservative anti- emancipation slave owning president saves the country from a war about slavery? The only reason is to put forward a false narrative that could be plausible, but is really in service of a white supremacist fantasy of revised history. It's white empowerment after the fact, which indulges in a deluded racist intention. For now Alec Baldwin making fun of him is still fun, or lightly cathartic. I expect the Trump gaffs to incite more scholars to speak out about how history really happens and not the White House -white -wash -alt version. We have a virulent pack of white nationalist revisionists advising a mentally crippled sock puppet president. What really I wonder, to amuse myself, is what Gore Vidal in his prime, or Hunter Thomson in his 1972 days would have written about Herr Trump? Vidal I expect would be scathing and erudite in his intellectually bitchy way. He might school him on Abe Lincoln and the Civil War. And Thompson I imagine would come up with colorful language about a clutch of poisonous frogs sitting at the presidents feet. I'm no Donald Trump, and I certainly don't possess his visionary gift of being able to read Andrew Jackson's mind after he has been dead for a century and a half, so I'll refrain from total speculation.
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Date May 6 2017 1:35:49
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: labor day (in reply to estebanana)
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I used to like to take long car trips, as we did when I was a kid. In 1949 we drove from Oklahoma City to Anchorage, Alaska; 12 days of adventure and magnificent scenery. Even Bubba the Boston Terrier loved it. But I lived for 18 1/2 years where there were no private cars, and very few Army vehicles. Everyone went everywhere on bicycles. Heavy traffic was a car coming when you wanted to cross the road. During that period I came back to Texas at Christmas every year. Once every five years or so I would succumb to nostalgia and stupidity, to drive from Austin to Galveston where my brother and parents lived. When I was a few miles west oF Katy, 25 miles west of downtown Houston, the traffic was bumper to bumper, four lanes in each direction, traveling 75--85 miles per hour. As the density increased, people sped up. I would look around, say to myself, "At the moment i can see 25 people who could kill me in 3 seconds, and I don't know any of them." Last summer, heading north on U.S. 281 from downtown San Antonio, traffic was not too dense, and moving at about 75 miles per hour. My little BMW handled nimbly and rode smoothly on the good pavement. I thought, "If a committee of engineers had been tasked in 1920 to transport this many people, this fast, but with safety as a prime consideration, they certainly would not have come up with, 'Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.' " I, too, enjoy train travel--in Europe or Japan. RNJ
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Date May 9 2017 22:03:18
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BarkellWH
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RE: labor day (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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I, too, enjoy train travel--in Europe or Japan. Train travel is my favorite mode of transportation. Comfortable, relaxing, watching the countryside go by, reading a good book, dinner or drinks in the dining or club car. In my opinion it is the only civilized way to travel, particularly in Europe. But the Amtrack Acela Express from Washington, DC to New York and Boston is pretty good, too. Bill
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Date May 9 2017 22:53:06
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