darkblue
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Sinatra month and still no 'Johnny Concho' (1956)?
Guess we're never gonna see that one again.
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a skirt - woman
a pro skirt - prostitute
a mini-skirt - midget woman?
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Does anyone remember "Fair Exchange," Carne's first American television series from the early 1960s? I believe it was about an American family and a British family that exchange teen-age daughters. Carne played the British girl who went to live in New York with the family of Eddie Foy, Jr. Lynn Loring, who later played Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.'s daughter on the FBI, was the American girl who went to London.
I watched it every Friday evening - enjoyed the British scenes the most. Remember vividly that Dennis Waterman was profiled in TV-Guide and as I was eagerly reading it that very Friday before the show came on, was crushed to read a section that said Dennis was enjoying the opportunity for exposure to American audiences and then in an asterisked add-on by TV-Guide's editor that "unfortunately for Mr. Waterman, the show has recently been announced as not returning next season".
Watching that Friday was a very down experience after reading that. Seemed so ironic to find out the show had been cancelled at the very same moment it was highlighted for a TV-Guide article.
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I also didn't think the Kardashian clan would last more than a few years and they have prospered for more than a decade!
The kids love their skanks!
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He now calls himself a democratic socialist. He can call himself whatever he wants to, but I don't consider him a socialist.
Maybe you should take out some ad space......tell the people, "he's not a socialist" as a public service.
Oh, that's right - you don't even care enough to vote. Never mind.
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I'm taking hep seriously here anyway, dark.
Sure ya are, dargs.......sure ya are.
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I'm not sure what's worse - that ridiculous looking fire-kindling he calls his hair, or that can-of-worms face of his.
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if I answer that I am a man, then someone would wonder the mental state of my manhood, but if I answer that I am a woman, then no one would take me seriously
I doubt anybody takes you seriously either way, Pumpkin.
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Right because it's all about men. It's always about men. Men and their peanut sized genitalia.
There are not many men secure in their own gender to not be bothered by assertive women. Maybe you and a couple other men as individuals have spoken, but men as a whole, need to stop getting their panties in a wad over issues like this.
Goodness, gracious, that's a lotta hate.
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Whether one's vote 'counts' in a Presidential election is very state dependent. Here in CA since the winner gets all the electoral votes and the GOP candidate doesn't have any chance of winning, one's vote, especially if you're voting for the GOP candidate, is meaningless. i.e. it doesn't count. While I vote in each election, for President, since CA is such a lock for the Dem candidate, I typically vote for the Libertarian candidate. This way, regardless of who wins the Presidency, I can say 'I didn't vote for them'!
Also, I change my party affiliation often to the GOP, so I can vote in the GOP primary (independents have very limited voting rights in the primaries here in CA). While this hasn't helped a more moderate GOP candidate to win, that was my strategy.
The U.S. has the most convoluted political system ever devised.
And the trillions of dollars wasted over the years on what is essentially unproductive political theater makes the eventual fall all the more deserved.
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I'll just repeat my reply to that--we know that everyone doesn't feel this way. In presidential elections, it's only about 45% who do, or who don't vote. Some don't vote for the my vote won't make a difference reason, others because they just aren't that interested in politics, and others because they don't see any difference between the two candidates. There are a number of reasons that people don't vote. I'm with the one vote won't matter crowd.
Exactly why there are so many Republicans in government. Republicans always vote.
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It would really be both, using the basic definitions of each. I would call communism a specific kind of socialism, defined by the writings of Marx. Both include government ownership of the means of production. Now there are other varieties of socialism, like democratic socialism, which take a somewhat different tack, but I am defining socialism in its best known and most fundamental form.
More by its most mis-known form. I'm beginning to wonder if American schools are teaching you people anything any more.
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Well, Doors' songs are easier to sing than Led Zeppelin songs.
Yeah, you kind of have to have the voice of a high-pitch weasel to match Robert Plant's Led Zep songs.
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To me a socialist is someone who wants government ownership of companies.
That would be a communist, not a socialist.
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All you can do are personal insults, huh? Socialism is about as funny as a disease.
They say all good humor has truth to it, so no wonder you are laughing. lol back at you.
Oh, so now you decide to get serious.
Well, thank heavens. I can only take so much comedy relief in that short a time span.
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Everyone, if you are interested in learning socialism come one, come all. Capitalism is evil, it's pure evil. We plan to give you all you need, we know better. Just give us your money and we will spend it better than you can, lol. Trust us.
Stop! You're making my side ache!
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You sound like the perfect candidate for a socialist brainwashing, stick around. I am sure someone will accomodate you, lol.
Uh, you are right, they don't try to take everything. They do take everything instead, lol.
Does anyone else find this guy as hilarious as I do? He's like having our very own Curly Joe.
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Oh, and both socialist and capitalist steal the wealth of others. Greed isn't limited to only one group.
Bit at least socialism doesn't try to take everything without consideration for the needs of everybody.
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I take exception to that.
Yeah, Morrison was an okay singer, DGF.
Probably every bit as good as Bing Crosby.
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I hope everyone reading this realizes that Reich is a socialist, this is typical socialist propaganda that someone in here seems to have to post ad naseum as though it were fact.
BTW it is pretty funny how these people who pretend to be liberals always run away from paying their fair share in taxes. Step up to the plate or give it a rest.
And some of these people are in the top 1% too. Reich and Bernie can only wish, but you can bet they would accumulate that much themselves if they could. The socialists steal the wealth of others, that is what they do. Vote for them and find out.
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Ah, in my book I'll take Bogie & Bacall over Scott & Dewhurst any day! Heck I'd even give ya' odds....
fuggitaboutit
You'd lose.
Would you ever!
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I gotta agree with TheCid here....the greatest fear of self-serving-self-interest, and the greatest chance of success for representative government, is a Large Voter Turn-Out !
Certainly helped the Democrats in 2008 and 2012.
But both Parties have reason to fear it. The Democrats have to fear it the most, because Republican voters are always more motivated to vote than non-Republicans. They are motivated by the greatest motivation there is - hate. Republicans always turn out.
Much more difficult to corral the more multi-faceted personalities of easier-going people, convincing them that it's important to get to the voting booth.
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What I'm getting from these last few posts is that the moral center of capitalism has to be put in place - regulation being the method.
Fair enough. Certainly greed and selfishness without a societal conscience is an absolutely natural state for some people.
So, after centuries of terrible practices by "capitalists", mankind, in its most civilized nations, began to create moral regulations designed to correct and prevent such heinous abuse.
As Reich points out, around 1980 these regulations began to fall - by design. What Reich refers to as the "moral center of capitalism", created by regulation though it may have been - but not to forget, having humanism as the very reason those regulations were created - has changed. Something happened to it, and Reich is asking in the title of his column what that is. Also, he's answering, at least in the methodology of that change, his own question.
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I hope the donald puts in her in charge of the dept. of fish and game
She'd just quit the job like she did before.
What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?
in MOD REVIEW
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They remind me a great deal of certain clerks who try to deny certain people their right to have the spouse they wish to be married to.