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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 5:51:11 AM
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In #1 vxbush said: Close Zelensky Associate Linked to $100 Million Embezzlement Scheme Hunter Biden could no longer get "The Big Guy" to protect him
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vxbush
11/17/2025 7:32:30 AM
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Public School Slaps ‘Does Not Endorse’ Stickers on US Constitution, Declaration of Independence This is at an Alaskan public school.
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JCM
11/17/2025 7:34:12 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1: Not surprised at all. My question who profited on this side?
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JCM
11/17/2025 7:34:53 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2: Old Cold War tactics back in play. And have been for awhile.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 7:41:00 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:
25 years ago, Ukraine was known as the most corrupt part of the former Soviet Union. About the same time, Putin was interviewed at length by the Editor of US News & World Report. Likewise, the general sense of a the public and press seemed to be that Russia had been Communistic for millions of years, and that if Ukraine was merely brought into NATO, it would rapidly turn into the New Jerusalem. 2014/Crimea and the present war were essentially caused by the West. So much for those who don't give a damn about history. Two days ago, an unrelated news item in a major British paper described George Santayana's phrase as being 'over-quoted'.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 7:43:19 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:
What does the corrupt Biden family (primarily James, rather than Hunter) have to do with it?
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JCM
11/17/2025 7:45:27 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5: That I'm willing to have a price increase for. It was dangerous to drain the reserves. Not having a reserves means our war fighting capability would be time limited.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 7:46:26 AM
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Reply to JCM in 8:
Late 50s, Dad was stationed in Hawaii. A Russian (cough) "trawler" made an officially-approved visit to Honolulu harbor. I have photos of her, tied up below the port's "Aloha Tower".
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JCM
11/17/2025 7:46:36 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 6: "Accidentally?" My ass.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 7:56:28 AM
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Reply to JCM in 7:
Very possibly, no one in America. Outside of sub-Sahara Africa, Ukraine is arguably the most corrupt nation on the planet. The Bidens were merely trying to tap into that wealth-flow. The idea of Beltway Demon-crats as the source of ALL evil on the planet is shallow as a film of dried mouse pee. It comes from those who haven't a clue as to the significance of words like Bangladesh and Hasina.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 7:59:00 AM
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Websites like PJMedia are also, themselves, as deep as mouse piss.
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vxbush
11/17/2025 8:26:04 AM
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In #15 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Websites like PJMedia are also, themselves, as deep as mouse piss. It seemed like they did a better job on the depth of their articles years ago and have gotten much more shallow over the last year. I am not satisfied and can't find a place to read news that has the depth I want without forcing me to read at treatise for each article.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 8:36:16 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 16:
Anymore, I don't even go to those websites, except to skim to see what they're obsessing over today. I began watching the journalism profession back in the mid-Eighties. Twenty years ago (before social media) the Web was a decent antidote. Now, most of it's collapsed into emotion-driven hype. Our entire culture is what's doing it. Take a hard look at the UK over the past 200 years if you want to see how and where we're headed.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 8:46:29 AM
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In #18 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Take a hard look at the UK over the past 200 years Make that ... over the past 70 years ... the "Mod" era. Today's Britain is utterly incapable of producing another Winston Churchill, Maggie Thatcher or John Profumo. (If you google Profumo, look at Toynbee Hall, rather than JUST Keeler. He died in March 2006, and it became a day of national mourning. Some of you may say, it was all because of Keeler. SHOVE IT.)
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 9:08:28 AM
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In #18 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Take a hard look at the UK over the past 200 years if you want to see how and where we're headed If you look at it over the last 20 years, you'll see it is turning into the UC - United Caliphate
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 9:34:21 AM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 18: As for "journalism", around 8 years ago we had a puppy and needed newspapers. The cheapest way was to subscribe - both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. This was when the Space Force was formed, and the Globe had mostly articles making fun of it as if Trump wanted to put Imperial Storm Troopers on the Moon. But the Globe had a retired journalist (no quotes for this one) come back and write a good article on how the Air Force was not adequately protecting our space assets, and that's why the Space Force was needed.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 10:10:07 AM
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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: As for "journalism", 35 years ago, I was sent to work on an electronic system in the offices of the University of Arizona's College of Journalism. Over three days, I got a good glimpse of what was being taught, and how. The core of it was adequately characterized as 'stick it to the Establishment' with a Sixties bent. Research Advocacy Journalism, but be DAMN careful because the Wikipedia material is going to be biased. It began to be taught in the universities some 45 years ago, and basically says, if one's motives are pure, it is proper to grossly slant one's reporting of factual news in order to get the 'proper' outcome. 'News' means factual events, not op-eds, and today many of the so-called 'conservative' websites are doing it too. Today's "conservatism" is nothing like we were 40-50 years ago. Today's "conservatism" is shit.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 10:18:14 AM
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In #20 Kosh's Shadow said: United Caliphate The operative questions are ... why... and what is the tool for doing it? What does "Council House culture" mean, and when did it begin? Who began it? Was Neville Chamberlain a member of the Labour Party? Does it have any resemblance to Minneapolis and Dearborn?
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 10:22:05 AM
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In #22 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Today's "conservatism" is shit. In the red state where I live, marijuana legalization is widespread across all party lines, but the local Republicans say, today's Party is the same as Reagan's, 40-50 years ago. Today's Republicans are as illiterate as The Donald.
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11/17/2025 1:51:53 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 24: I don't understand the virulent hostility to Trump you express above. I agree that he is not in any way "eloquent," in the soaring-rhetoric tradition of prior presidents, and I find him often coarse and vulgar. That said, however, I can only applaud his efforts to take a meat axe to the federal government as it has grown and metastasized, and cut it down as much as the various legal and procedural restraints will allow. I also think that, fundamentally, he means well, which is something I can't say about some of his recent predecessors. I didn't like him first time around, but with all his flaws---and they are, admittedly, many---I think, grudgingly, that he might actually be the right man at the right time. If you can convince me otherwise, I'd be happy to hear why and how.
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11/17/2025 2:41:24 PM
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Many years ago, I was trying to do a "Rebuild New York!" calendar, and was doing images for each different month. It included such things as "Pothole Rock Gardens," which suggested that the road potholes be turned into "community rock gardens" with plantings and elves; "Wino Country Safari," which would enable people to drive through the safari area and not only get their windshield cleaned, but be able to buy quaint crafts in the form of glasses which the winos would make out of their discarded wine bottles; and "Subway Casino Gambling," which I still think would work even though the trains no longer accept tokens and the configuration of the hanging straps in the cars has changed. One of the proposals which still needs to gain currency is "Hi-rise Trailer Parks for the South Bronx." Back then, the Bronx had been devastated by arson, and I was suggesting that the city throw up girder-skeletons with staircases, and install in each skeleton a mobile home which could be used to house someone poor/"homeless". If the unit became infested with something, no problem; pull it out, scrap it, and install a fresh one. It would be a quick and cheap and easy solution to "the homeless crisis." I still think it has merit, especially since the vogue for housing built from tractor-trailer truck containers has become popular.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 3:10:02 PM
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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: "Hi-rise Trailer Parks for the South Bronx." There are or have been garages that use something like that to move cars to compartments. And since some people have converted shipping containers into small houses, the structure could be designed around the standard size shipping containers.
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11/17/2025 3:18:43 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27: Yes. Converting old freight containers from trucks into homes has been a thing for some time---and apparently there are now businesses which create container-like spaces into quickly-assemblable homes. In other words, "housing for the poor" could be quickly and easily and very-cheaply built. It is not necessary to create huge concrete complexes. Watch while this simple solution to "housing for the poor" is ignored.
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11/17/2025 3:39:58 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29: The "caring professions" and "social workers" have been futzing with "the homeless crisis" for 40 years, and only made it worse. Think of these "professions" as merely full-employment for the holders of otherwise-useless degrees, and of their ministrations as the creation of not one, but two, captive Democrat voter constituencies---the providers of such "services," and those to whom they allegedly minister.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 3:43:35 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:
I don't go on his post-2016 behavior. By 2015, I already knew Donald's history, and that of his father and Donald's older brother. "The Donald" had spread himself all over the map for 40 years. There was hard data from back in the Nineties about the lying he'd repeatedly done to inflate the image of his wealth and business success. Andrew Breitbart had said, the Donald's "not conservative in any manner, he's a celebrity putting on an act." By 2016 it was starkly obvious that his political popularity rested in the hands of several Evangelical mega-pastors like Paula White who'd gone over to the prosperity gospel of Norman Vincent Peale. Fred Trump had loved it, because it labeled him as blessed by God, because he was wealthy. (Peale preached at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan.) You label Donald as politically "conservative" when his behavior was rooted back in the libertine Sixties. You think his Presidential policies have been rational, when his entire life he's gone this way, then moments later, off on a tangent or opposite. Two decades ago, members of the original Family said, what drives him is a terrified little boy that's deep inside. The boy saw what Fred Sr. did to Fred Jr. and is constantly trying to "prove" himself. They said, he's so desperate, the little boy blurts out one thing, then an hour later something else comes to mind and the little boy grabs it. (You probably haven't a clue regarding the history of the Trump Organization. Fine. You probably think that Donald actually built it and ran it. Apart from the Atlantic City casino debacle, he had no part in running the company until the late-80s, when Fred's dementia got so bad that he had to retire. Over the next few years, Donald bankrupted the company, saved only by the 1995 IPO.)
40/50 years ago, in the Reagan era, Conservatism had something to do with behavioral standards. it doesn't anymore, which is why The Donald can be said to have been sent by G*d to Make America Great Again. (The pastors are now saying ... remember that David and Solomon sinned and G*d used them, so that's why he's using Donald.) Contrary to what you appear to think, I voted for him three times - 1916, 20 and 24. If a referendum's held today, I'd vote for him again. If you think he's actually chopping down the size of the government, that it'll be substantially smaller when he leaves office, I have a thousand acres of Louisiana swampland that I'd love to talk about selling to you. Donald is historically driven by his own ego, not by policies. It's long-known in business (and now international) circles, kiss his ass and he's yours. Erdogan, Xi, Putin, MbS and quite a few others have proven it. Anyone who criticizes him gets sued in a heartbeat. You say, all that's Demon-cratic fake news. How come I knew it fifteen years ago, back when he was still a New York City Democrat? Back when he'd had a late-Nineties flirtation with the Perot crowd, advocating a single-payer healthcare system and touting Oprah Winfrey as his running mate?
I am a historian (not perfect, not hardly) but I study history. I have a political science book on order based upon a quotation from it: "Most voters feel more than they think."
Given the history of the post-McGovern Democratic Party, the disappearance of the "Blue Dogs", why do you think this lifelong Republican is not about to merely sit out the Presidential races? To advance the possibility of a Democratic win?
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 3:49:50 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 30: Exactly what the article says
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 3:51:23 PM
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In #31 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: I voted for him three times - 1916, 20 and 24. If a referendum's held today, I'd vote for him again. Given the choices we have, you are making the right one.
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11/17/2025 3:53:45 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 30:
At least not in the USA. Research the person named Abdul Sattar Edhi and the Edhi Foundation. or the names of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank. Those were/are Muslim. If you don't want to go that route, research why and what John Profumo did at London's Toynbee Hall. (DO NOT use Wikipedia. Go to the Telegraph's March 2006 obituary.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 3:57:10 PM
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Since there was a comment about what it would take to be banned from this blog, I have been giving it some thought. No calls to assassinate US figures. Even an Islamic socialist devil like Mamdani. (Stripping him of citizenship and deporting him to Uganda, OK.) Calls to assassinate US enemies, like Maduro and the Iranian Mullaks, OK. (Their citizens would support that, too) Keep the debate civil. Calling public figures names, generally acceptable. (Probably someone could find an exception) Calling other RB bloggers names, not so much. Keep it civil here I might come up with more later.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 3:57:59 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 33:
Late October 2016, I made up my mind that I simply HAD to vote for Trump, rather than leaving those boxes blank. In my library, as a reference text, I have a copy of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". I haven't any interest in trying to find a copy of Hillary's term paper which she wrote upon "her hero".
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 3:58:37 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 34: Don't forget all the fake Somali "charities" in Minnesomalia (Formerly Minnestoa)
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11/17/2025 4:08:55 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:
"as illiterate as the Donald" ---- that refers to a quip which a senior executive at Deutsche Bank made about him a few decades ago. The exec had worked with Trump extensively. The Bank had helped fund construction of the Chicago Trump Tower ($650 million.) Family members have said, they doubt that he's ever read a book cover-to-cover. They say, he doesn't have the stick-to-ative-ness. He's had no part in writing "his" books. They were completely ghost-written. Do you want more? I can cite bibliography.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 4:17:11 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 37:
Do you want history of all that, going back into the late Eighties? How about the "madrassa" (theoretically, an elementary-thru-high school) which was really just a recruiting and training ground for jihadis. It was located in one side of an old (largely empty and decrepit) industrial building, but was publicized as a massive establishment of astounding educational benefit. Do you remember the police officer who was approached by the woman who'd made a 911 call about possible violence in her neighborhood? What about Minneapolis City's panicked response to what he did?
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 4:17:55 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 35:
Forgive me. What does "RB" mean"
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 4:21:59 PM
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In #38 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: "as illiterate as the Donald" Donald thought that Helsinki was a Russian city. He didn't know that Britain was a nuclear power. He knew nothing of al Qaida's "religious" foundation, saying all he'd have to do is "cut a deal" with bin Laden.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 4:39:46 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 39: I was just adding to it.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 4:42:38 PM
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I grew up in Boston and always looked down at small towns, but I live in one that actually wants to retain its rural character. This was in a town report a while ago. It seems to have come from someplace years ago.
CITIZEN'S CHECKLIST To be considered on each vote: 1. Is it necessary? Or is it something that is not really needed or perhaps is already being provided by a private or public group? 2. Can we afford it? Remember, there is no limit to what we would like, but there is a limit to what we can afford. 3. What will it cost ultimately? Many proposals are like icebergs... only a small fraction of the total cost is apparent on the surface. 4. How will it affect basic liberties? If it imposes unreasonable or illegal restraints on your life or that of others, it should be vigorously opposed. 5. Is it in the balanced best interest of all? If it is designed to benefit a small group or special interest, while taking unfair advantage of others, work for its defeat. 6. Is it a "foot in the door" proposition? Comprising a little now may be an oppressive burden later, either in more regulation or more taxes, or a combination of both. 7. Does it place too much power in the hands of one individual or group? Once decisive power is granted to a non-elected public official, a commission or municipal authority, the private citizens lose effective control. 8. Does it recognize the importance of the individual and the minority? This is a cornerstone of our Republic. 9. Is its appeal based on emotional propaganda or facts? The farther a proposition gets away from facts, the more critical one should be. l0. Does it square with your moral convictions? If so, fight for it. If not, oppose it.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 4:51:33 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 43:
Good one!!! Does sound like it comes from an old-school New England town meeting.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/17/2025 5:03:43 PM
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In #41 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: He knew nothing of al Qaida's "religious" foundation, saying all he'd have to do is "cut a deal" with bin Laden. Now he's selling F-35s to the nation which is rooted in radical Wahhabism, from which sprang al Qaida, Islamic State, Hamas, the Taliban and others.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/17/2025 5:26:42 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 44: I looked it up and it was originally from a Midwest town. And yes, we have the true democracy of a New England town meeting. And managed to meet the letter of the Mass. law requiring high-density housing zoning near public transit while still retaining the rural character. Overlay district is land right near the train station - but those are all small lots, hard to build high density housing. Us hicks outsmarted the smarty-pants Boston politicians.
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preBoomer-Marinebrat
11/18/2025 3:38:24 AM
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In #46 Kosh's Shadow said: Us hicks outsmarted the smarty-pants Boston politicians. (grin) You've undoubtedly heard of the song named "M.T.A.", usually called "Charlie on the MTA". I heard of it while in junior high in Worcester, late-Fifties. A year or so later, the Kingston Trio got a smash hit out of it. I've wondered why Marxists Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman of the Weavers didn't snatch it before the Trio did.
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