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9 pages on Tennessee St?
What the hell are you going to do when Duke effortlessly wins by 29?
Dust fans, watch Hoosiers, eat fine food and read poems by Wirogers about his love for Summer Erb, that is what I’ll be doing.
McCallum
Fruit cake myth: there are only 17 in the entire world and people regift them each year.
Fruit cake fact: butter was once banned in the making of fruit cakes. A papal decree allowed the use of butter.
McCallum
Finished dusting the fans then headed up to Highlands to eat at Wolfgangs.
What a bunch of losers.
Ha, snort!
McCallum
I’ve got fan blades to dust.
You are a damn fool if you waste your time on that bunch of space cadets.
McCallum
He served to inspire my thoughts, antithetically, of how to best describe all things NC State: space cadets.
McCallum
Easy to break down, anything Obama does is/was fine for two reasons:
1) he is partly black thus exempting him from any criticism
2) he is a DemocratIt gets a bit more complicated after that. Russia, in one of the great turns in history, has gone from a revolutionary state back to a traditional/moral state committed to its native population. Solzhenitsyn’s address to Harvard in 1978 gives you a glimpse of the historic Russian mind, Christian-Orthodox-nativist. Those underpinnings are clearly contrary to the globalist push and when you couple Putin’s crack down on homosexual non-sense as well as the expulsion of US based NGOs then you have a pariah state.
Much like the elites pushed North Carolina around after the law limiting movement of transvestites, Russia found itself in a similar state. Iran likewise is a moral traditional state, they also are not bound up in international debt. They are a bulwark against Sunni Islam just as Russia is through her Orthodox Church.
Obama is considered anti-Israel in some quarters simply for not dropping to his knees like every president and performing fellatio on any Israeli leader. Obama greatest supporters are American Jews, the reasons are complex and lengthy much of it dealing with radicalism.
I support talking to Iran and Russia. I support the expulsion of neo-conservatives from any and all political discourse, their ideas are simply bad and the greatest testament to their ideas is the current state of affairs in the Middle East.
McCallum
Because Hillary’s foreign policy is based on Scoupe Jackson principles. Her position is the neo-conservative position which declares that the US is the indispensable nation whose goals are noble and without question.
Trump claims to be America 1st in nature which is the inherent position of the vast majority of the republic as well as the desire of the Founders.
Trump broke with and attacked the Republican establishment which is pro-war, pro-intervention. Putin knows that Trump is not ideological thus he knows he can cut a deal.
McCallum
The US pumped $5 billion into the Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the pro-Russian government. The list of nations in which the US has meddled to distort or influence elections is astounding from the colored “revolutions” of the 90s to the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953. It has gone on a very long time.
There is no greater destabilizing force in the world than the US federal government yet some here cry foul when just desserts are served.
McCallum
Ryebread,
The states are not arbitrary. They all found purpose and standing based on the people that settled those states. The people in the states desired protection, as they still do, from the perils of democracy whereby if 50.1% decide in favor of something then it must be so. This is more easily adddressed the more local one becomes, it worsens as the distance from the governed grows. No state would have joined the union had not there been CLEAR AND PRECISE PROTECTIONS TO THEIR SOVEREIGNTY. The power of Virginia and New York was feared among the other colonies and they sought protection from the powers of those two states. The states, because no individual has a political standing outside of an organized concept of state, must remain sovereign and their soveignty is protected through republican provisions such as the electoral college.
Further, many senators were picked by the respective state legislatures NOT through direct vote. This enhanced the idea that loyalty remained to one’s state not to the federal government. Observations on the gutting of treasuries from the writings of Cincinnatus are examples of basis for denying democracy through republican principles. The founders understood well enough that power centralized was a controlling power, republican blocks on the centralizing of power are key underpinnings to the republic. Lincoln dismantled all, if not most, of those underpinnings.
If the electoral college is undone then states should put forth their inherent right to find standing on their own or among other like minded states who understand the dangers of democracy. As we have seen, the power of the state can undo direct democracy easily through the edicts of judges who are powered by the central state.
Lord, where is John Jay when you need him?
McCallum
Statered: Multi-culturalism is and always has been the union.
The term you are searching for is regionalism. The ideology of multiculturalism is recent vintage and only grew legs following the demographic shift which resulted from the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
The immigration pattern (excluding Chinese and Japanese to the west coast) was a tri-melting pot: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Though there were differences in culture,(example: German Jews, here very early, had a distinct dislike for the Pale Settlement Jews when they started immigrating in the 1880s) their racial component was similar and their religious basis had very strong underpinnings. Groups also tended to cluster in enclaves, regional distinctions worth noting would be the highly ethnic cities of the northeast(still tri-melting pot) compared to the monolithic South, largely Protestant, Celtic but another racial group included that was non white but Protestant. Upper Midwest Swedes, Norwegians, etc or the Germans in Oklahoma and east Texas, Belgians and Frenchies in southern Louisiana, etc it went on and on.
What you had were not Hindus living beside Muslims living beside homosexuals (an ideological position if there ever was, currently speaking) living beside nominal Christians living beside, etc. all reveling in the glorious nature of their “diversity” but self reliant communities with recognizable cores of identity. When you have communities of that nature-a sense of identity, purpose and place-the central government is not required as the arbiter of all things. No multicultural “state” has ever lasted in the modern sense with multiculturalism being part of state policy, the Soviet Union would be the classic case of an ideological construct which blew apart when reality finally settled in. The US is an even more ideological state than the Soviet Union (notice the desire to crush different opinions especially those that contradict state ideology) whereby it uses equality to smash all differences in people thus making the state the ultimate arbiter. What you are seeing now, and it will accelerate, it the eventual breakup of the US.
As an aside, let California go. We can do without their tax dollars, it will be a fair swap in negating their influence.
McCallum
I stomped/kicked his hand at home plate (accident) in a fraternity softball game.
I thought I broke the damn thing, he squealed like Adventuroo at a Justin Bieber concert.
McCallum
Gott is not a good coach.
Defense is poor as usual. Plenty of talent, poor thought process and bad coaching.
McCallum
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You’ve picked the wrong week to start sniffing glue.Ahhhhh…..the wafting of “what ifs”. It is almost as if someone needs to strike a match.
McCallum
