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  • #76
    Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
    The more I watch The Vietnam War, the angrier I get.
    Vietnam broke my Dad's heart about the USG like the pedo stuff broke his heart about the Church. About Nixon he was entirely blase: "Of course he's a crook. Look at the guy's beady eyes." )
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    • #77
      Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Vietnam broke my Dad's heart about the USG like the pedo stuff broke his heart about the Church. About Nixon he was entirely blase: "Of course he's a crook. Look at the guy's beady eyes." )
      I don't think my dad has voted for a single republican since Vietnam. Maybe Arne Carlson. I don't know that he's ever forgiven them for killing nearly 60,000 people over nothing.
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      • #78
        Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

        There's a quirky show on Netflix that some might like, called Life.

        Sarah Shahi in pre-Person of Interest role as LA police detective whose partner was wrongly accused of a crime, spent 12 years in jail, was exonerated and came back to the police force with a Zen attitude and a craving for fresh fruit.

        Yeah, everyone is a bit quirky, but the crimes they solve are fairly interesting and the quirkiness is more mildly charming than outright annoying.
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        • #79
          Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

          I learned where the term "slapstick" came from.

          A "slap stick" originally was a stage prop, two pieces of wood on a hinge that were snapped together off-stage for a sound effect whenever someone on stage was supposed to be slapped.
          "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

          "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

          "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

          "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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          • #80
            Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

            Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
            There's a quirky show on Netflix that some might like, called Life.

            Sarah Shahi in pre-Person of Interest role as LA police detective whose partner was wrongly accused of a crime, spent 12 years in jail, was exonerated and came back to the police force with a Zen attitude and a craving for fresh fruit.

            Yeah, everyone is a bit quirky, but the crimes they solve are fairly interesting and the quirkiness is more mildly charming than outright annoying.
            Watched that when it was first on network, based solely on post Band of Brothers Damian Lewis.
            What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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            • #81
              Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
              I don't think my dad has voted for a single republican since Vietnam. Maybe Arne Carlson. I don't know that he's ever forgiven them for killing nearly 60,000 people over nothing.
              While I can understand why anyone from the Nixon era would never vote Republican , I don't quite get this statement. Is it because he felt Nixon surrendered? I'm hard pressed to think that he would feel the Repubs forced us into the war. Sure Ike sent advisors and equipment but it was only something like 1K men. JFK bumped that considerably but it was LBJ who threw the gas on the fire. Not trying to troll or start a feces throwing contest but just trying to understand his rationale.
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              • #82
                Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                Originally posted by busterman62 View Post
                While I can understand why anyone from the Nixon era would never vote Republican , I don't quite get this statement. Is it because he felt Nixon surrendered? I'm hard pressed to think that he would feel the Repubs forced us into the war. Sure Ike sent advisors and equipment but it was only something like 1K men. JFK bumped that considerably but it was LBJ who threw the gas on the fire. Not trying to troll or start a feces throwing contest but just trying to understand his rationale.
                Speaking as an inveterate hater of Republicans, Vietnam was a bipartisan disaster. JFK was a cold war liberal who hated the dirty rotten commies. LBJ had to worry about Dixiecrats and also the 60s version of our Deplorables -- Archie Bunker Dems left over from the New Deal coalition. And of course Nixon didn't even believe in the war, he just used it like he used everything to advance himself in the Richard III act that was his whole misbegotten life.

                Vietnam was when most Americans discovered that the US is just another imperial power on the road throwing its weight around, and just another class stratified machine at home pouring the Poors into the meat grinder to prop up share price. It marked the moment when political partisanship started to divide along lines of education and intelligence. The people on the left abandoned the mainstream Dems and the Republicans and created the liberal social movements that have ascended ever since, but the price we paid was the fragmentation on economic policy has given the Plutes a 50-year crime spree.

                We're only just coming out of it -- the right still lives in it every resentful day -- but we'll never really be rid of it until the Boomers just die off.
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                • #83
                  Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                  Originally posted by rufus View Post
                  Watched that when it was first on network, based solely on post Band of Brothers Damian Lewis.
                  I did too. I liked it, for the most part. Lewis carried the show, and Shahi disappeared for a period, due to personal issues in her real life - marriage, IIRC. It was decent enough, mixing episodic TV with an over-arching serial story of trying to solve who it was that framed Lewis's character for the murder of his best friend, and the friend's wife and son. I would like to have seen it get a third season to close out the story arc.
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                  • #84
                    Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Speaking as an inveterate hater of Republicans
                    Renault: Everybody is to leave here immediately! This cafe is closed until further notice. Clear the room, at once!
                    Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
                    Renault: I am shocked- shocked- to find that gambling is going on in here!
                    Croupier: [hands Renault money] Your winnings, sir.
                    Renault: Oh, thank you very much. Everybody out at once!
                    As to the rest of your answer, I don't have any real arguments. None of the POTUSs were without blame. However, if this was a torts case and I could find comparative fault (UNOfan can correct me if I'm using the wrong term), LBJ would be responsible for the vast majority of it.
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                    • #85
                      Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                      Originally posted by busterman62 View Post
                      As to the rest of your answer, I don't have any real arguments. None of the POTUSs were without blame. However, if this was a torts case and I could find comparative fault (UNOfan can correct me if I'm using the wrong term), LBJ would be responsible for the vast majority of it.
                      Sounds about right to me. I'd say the blame goes .4 Archie Bunkers, .3 Dixiecrats, .3 Plutes. Of course, add them together by today's coalition and it's a perfect 1.0 GOP.
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                      • #86
                        Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                        Knuckledragger snowflake poutrage freakout in 5, 4, 3...
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                        • #87
                          Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Knuckledragger snowflake poutrage freakout in 5, 4, 3...
                          Methinks you overreact. I merely wonder how a female would both bear a child and also become a monk? In most traditions, the latter practice includes celibacy, no? Maybe after the first she then took up the second. I guess we'll see.
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                          • #88
                            Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Knuckledragger snowflake poutrage freakout in 5, 4, 3...
                            Interesting premise. I'd probably give it a shot.
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                            • #89
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                              Saw the new Jeff Dunham special on Netflix streaming. The hits are awesome, but the misses are bad. It evens out in the end. Worth watching, but it ain't gold.
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                              • #90
                                Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                                Is he the puppet guy?
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                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
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                                Originally posted by Kepler
                                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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