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Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - Today at 11:45:19 AM

I hate the windows 11 taskbar, it's fucking ghastly.
Maybe I'll get used to it eventually.

#2

Obituaries / Re: David Lynch

Last post by billy rubin - January 21, 2025, 11:22:26 PM

hmmm . . . ?

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Obituaries / Re: David Lynch

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - January 21, 2025, 01:37:16 PM

I liked his Dune at least as much as the recent mega mega isn't wonderful interpretation.

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Politics / Re: Political picture dump

Last post by Icarus - January 21, 2025, 04:16:28 AM

Political commentary from a Kiwi..........
https://imgur.com/gallery/dear-americans-sPcCbkX

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Obituaries / Re: Jimmy .

Last post by Firebird - January 21, 2025, 02:37:18 AM

That was absolutely on GWB. He was talking about Iraq even before 9/11 happened. Hell, on 9/11 they were wondering if they could bomb Iraq because it had "more interesting targets." Apparently he was still pissed that Saddam tried to murder his father, and a bunch of neo-cons were still salty that we didn't take Baghdad the first time around.
And let's be honest, a lot of the idiot Americans who voted for Bush after Iraq also voted for Trump now, partly due to the ripple effects of that war. And while they call Iraq a mistake now, they will be all rah rah for war if Cheese-Doodle Mussolini tried to invade Greenland or Panama.

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Media / Re: Re: Post YouTube videos th...

Last post by Tom62 - January 20, 2025, 07:53:52 PM

#7

Media / Re: What Are You Reading?

Last post by Asmodean - January 20, 2025, 03:31:54 PM

In my Christmas haul of mostly-useless-crap-some-socks-and-gift-cards, I've hauled in an absolutely magnificent brick of a collection of Edgar Allan Poe. Reading that. Shall be at it a huwhile, I think. It's nearly a thousand pages.

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Music / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by Asmodean - January 20, 2025, 03:23:26 PM

Architects with Carl Sagan on the mic.

#9

Obituaries / Re: Jimmy .

Last post by Asmodean - January 20, 2025, 08:28:23 AM

Iraq war was a disaster as such things go. I don't know how much of it is on GWB, but probably "enough."

That said, I can't fully blame the White House for taking a "bomb something flat" approach to the World trade Center attacks. Can, however, blame them for bombing the wrong thing for possibly the wrong reasons.

I remember thinking that Bush was a huge downgrade from Clinton... Hmm... I wonder how he'd measure against, say, Biden. (As in, if early-millennium Bush took office today)

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Obituaries / Re: Jimmy .

Last post by Tom62 - January 19, 2025, 08:22:34 AM

On the worst president scale, Carter was a long way from the second worst.  He was well into the double digit category.

I am curious Tom. If carter was second worst, who was, or is, the first worst?  Calvin Coolidge maybe?

In my mind the worst was George W. Bush, the international war criminal. He was responsible for an estimated 300,000 to over a million deaths. U.S. forces committed many other war crimes in Iraq, including extrajudicial killings, torture and the targeting of civilians, which are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions; the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.