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I neglected to record the date, but Shields broadcast this on the PBS NewsHour:
“... Reince Priebus, the Republican National Chairman today said that 300K jobs ... aught to be expected every month ... and just a historical perspective:
- during the 8 years of President Bush (younger) there were 2.1 million net jobs created in the United States. Of the 2.1 million, 1.8 million of them were in the public sector ... that means there were 300,000 jobs in the private sector in 8 months, in 8 years rather, net ...
more jobs have been created in the United States in the last 4 years than in Europe, Japan, all the industrialized modern world combined. ...
70 years since WWII. 36 years of Republican presidents, 34 years of Democratic presidents. In those 70 years, there were 36.7 million jobs created under Republican presidents ... a little over half the time. In 34 years there were 63.7 million created by Democrats. That's 29 million more. You know, perhaps it's an accident once, or twice or what. But I mean at some point the Democrats ought to be comfort in the fact that they have been better the economy and job creation than have been the opposition.
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It's 15 years since we've had 10 consecutive months of over 200,000 [job growth]. Just 15 years ago there was a fella from Arkansas ... there were more jobs created in Bill Clinton's 8 years than there were in Ronald Reagan's 8 years, and the 12 years of both Bush's combined. I mean 6 million more jobs created in those 8 years, ... policy does kick in, & is reflected in the results.” Mark Shields
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That's worth repeating ....
He's a good'n alright.
"We [The United States of America] spend more on [military] defense than the next 48 countries in the world, combined. Combined. We are not starving the Pentagon." Mark Shields / PBS News Hour 09/04/10
"... big money buys access in Washington [DC], and access purchases influence." Mark Shields 14/04/04
"You can delegate authority. But you cannot delegate responsibility. And the president [Trump] has to confront that reality." Mark Shields @PBS/NH 20/04/17 commenting amid COVID-19
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AHD never heard of it. https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=qanoner
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She's a lunatic. - dandy -
Not clear to me the connection to Biden's election. Because instead of her voting at the polling place, she voted at McD's?
I suspect the mental health profile today is pretty much what it was in each of the U.S.' previous centuries since the 18th.
What has changed is, Mark Twain named the 3 forms of mass communication: 1) telegraph, 2) telephone, 3) tell a woman
It's a new millennium. We've got tweets. And MAGA rages on. Perhaps what these loonies lacked in previous centuries was cohesion, coordination. They may have voted insanely then too, but with less coordinated focus on a single candidate.
Now that they're all rowing the same boat ...
No worries. Trump says he'll only be a dictator for one day.
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I did consider including this in the thread re Trump's criminal charges - regardless, this couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Mark Meadows, trump's chief of staff, is being sued by the publisher of his memoir 'A Cheat's Chief' (actually 'A Chief's Chief') for lying. "ASP, which is asking for a combined $2.95 million in its prayer for relief, citing the $350,000 it paid Meadows, along with $600,000 in out of pocket damages and another $1 million in expected damages from lost profits and another $1 million in damages to the publisher's reputation."
Mark Meadows, trump's chief of staff, is being sued by the publisher of his memoir 'A Cheat's Chief' (actually 'A Chief's Chief') for lying. "ASP, which is asking for a combined $2.95 million in its prayer for relief, citing the $350,000 it paid Meadows, along with $600,000 in out of pocket damages and another $1 million in expected damages from lost profits and another $1 million in damages to the publisher's reputation."
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Obama torched the hell out of Donald Trump at the White House correspondence dinner in 2011. Rumor is he was fuming the entire night after that and it was that very evening he decided to run for president as revenge. He has been obsessed with Obama ever since and frequently forgets Obama is no longer president.
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Not clear on the Harambe connection. But Trump did seem intent on destroying Obamacare.
"You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost." candidate Trump 16/10/25 from campaign podium
"We're not gunna have like a 2 day period. And we're not gunna have a 2 year period, where there's nothing. It will be repealed and replaced." President Elect Trump CBS News 16/11/13
"It'll be repeal and replace. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments you understand but it will most likely be on the same day or the same week but probably the same day. Could be the same hour." President Elect Trump 17/01/11 @NYC News Conference: source - FNS 17/07/02
The Obama administration has lapsed. Trump's anger has not.
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McD's is hiring.
OK Margie, repeat after me: "Would you like fries with that?"
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise."
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rah rah
Great big Cleese fan here. Enjoyed A Fish Called Wanda and Cleese's title role in the Britcom Fawlty Towers.
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Regarding "the war of Northern aggression"
Did the South actually have a grievance they were willing to put in writing? Or was it mainly they wanted to continue to $profit from the slave labor of their "property"?
Possible irony here, whether deserved or not the Southern U.S. has a reputation for hospitality. Yet it's the North that has welcomed them back into the fold, despite Southern bitterness that persists decade after decade, generation after generation, century after century.
One might have hoped agricultural innovations following Eli Whitney's cotton gin might have helped dispel the South's antebellum gloom.
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There are dozens of paragraphs to the Declaration of Independence.
Did the South actually have a grievance they were willing to put in writing? Or was it mainly they wanted to continue to $profit from the slave labor of their "property"?
Possible irony here, whether deserved or not the Southern U.S. has a reputation for hospitality. Yet it's the North that has welcomed them back into the fold, despite Southern bitterness that persists decade after decade, generation after generation, century after century.
One might have hoped agricultural innovations following Eli Whitney's cotton gin might have helped dispel the South's antebellum gloom.
- nope -
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Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
As Eli Whitney left New England and headed South in 1792, he had no idea that he would patent a machine that would profoundly alter the course of American history. While in the South, Whitney quickly learned that Southern plantation owners were eager for a way to make cotton growing profitable...
www.archives.gov
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It looks like Old Surfer Dude has found the truth .... after all, is a Jesus who surfs any less believable than a Jesus who walks on water?
