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I don't understand? Again, I won't give an inch regarding compassion, but policy addresses education, choice, before, and after, with accountability throughout ... On just about any issue.

Oops, to Mr Drunkard Language in policy debate ... without surrendering any compassion ground to anyone, by the way ... "find themselves pregnant." You'll not out compassion me, but I'll never adopt your language when looking to policy for problem causes and problem solutions. I am enjoying the (unintended, I'm sure) immaculate conception language coming from you!

Media and the race ... anybody see the NBC interview of Bill Clinton and it's "edit to save time"? Cracked me up ... Bill says Hillary "frequently" has spells, corrects himself (with the funniest face) and says "er, rarely" ... and NBC edits out the "frequently". They saved 1.9 seconds. To: Claude Re: Eleven's friend. ... A caring, just, Priest is accountable to a moral authority and its sanctity. Equally caring, just, young men ask why.

His Faith commands, I'd venture ...

... who used "colorful" language with respect to Blacks and Mexicans until the day he died. Another complicated man. The segregationist Southern Democrats had to be convinced to support Johnson in his efforts to become Senate Majority leader. It was Richard Russel's "time", but he was a Georgian, and the nation was ready to move forward. A Texan wasn't quite as Southern as a Georgian. Johnson was a threat to traditional Southern Democrats. Richard Russel stepped aside, explaining that he, himself, was unelectable. A giant in his own right. Johnson was no liberal as we understand the word today. To him, civil rights was a path to his personal power and the Democratic Party's survival. The country was sailing forward and the Republicans were on the bow of the ship, if not exactly commanding. He was a savant, perhaps the last we've seen in the office. My take on Johnson, his colorful language notwithstanding, was that somewhere inside that HOF tough, nasty, power mad, mean politician was a man who remembered his youth. Just out of college, he was a public school teacher in the poorest of Mexican migrant neighborhoods. Johnson grew up middle class, then poor, after a family economic collapse. The goofy, alienating, bullying colleague wasn't popular among his peers. He fought, scrambled, and cajoled everyone he could to get resources for his students. Books, pencils, shoes. Civil Rights was more than simply a path to his own ends. I can't resist ... He's HRC, but in another league, more accomplished, and not as liberal. He fascinates me like few others. I repeat myself - Robert Caro's four volume biography is must read for anyone interested in the genre, in the Presidency, or in great American literature. Further, the Robert Schenkkan play All the Way is awesome. It's a film, now, on HBO. A quickie ... breathtaking ... http://www.lbjlibrary.org/lyndon-baines-johnson/perspectives-and-essays/seeing-is-believing-the-enduring-legacy-of-lyndon-johnson Side note ... I see that after this morning's interesting conversation around branding, labels, and "ists", the practice resumes. We are who we are.

Snowden, Assange, Russia, HRC, DNC, now Colin Powell .... I may never send another email.

Everyone is. We just realize it at different times in our lives.

You complete me.

I share your overall view completely. If Trump makes a heinous accusation about an individual or a group, the same applies. I'll go further in what I think is your direction. Trump does creep up to accusation frequently. He uses innuendo frequently. Both tactics are cowardly and wrong. Whether he trespasses, accusation by accusation, innuendo by innuendo, is fair game for analysis and criticism. The clearest example of his rhetorical assassination is his commentary on John McCain and subsequent back peddling. No "ist" was involved. No "ist" being involved matters not, to me.

Agree wholeheartedly.

Most sincerely ... what broad swath branding disparagement of HRC supporters have you seen or felt? What heinous "ist"? I believe sincerely you feel it. I'm not asking the question to make a point. I miss things. I've seen HER branded disparagingly, issue by issue, post by post. True.

I'll write wholly outside of the PA/ban framework and respond to your post's 'branding' observation. I'm so happy to see you write this. It's been my feeling for sometime. A paragraph like yours never came together in my head. Ad hominem swims in my head. You articulated clearly. I've learned many things, here. I'm joyful. One disturbing thing I've discovered is a willingness to affix heinous labels on those with whom we disagree while not addressing the disagreement. "If you offer another point of view, then you are homophobic, racist, bigoted, a supremacist, a denier, a s*** shamer, ignorant, and so, and so." The sentence, above, is: 1). Wrong 2). Intellectually lazy 3). Mean spirited and small 4). A weapon, a tactic, of orthodoxy. Last thought ... For a message board, this place is in the very top ranks of NOT behaving this way. It's web-remarkable. I think we see one another as people more than most boards. That's much of the special sauce I find here.

Moderating is thankless work. I don't have facts (history, side conversations, standards, etc.) to weigh in with a view on warnings or bans. SS does a great job, all in all. I'm grateful for mods and provocative posts. I'm glad you're back.

Dearest Laetitia ... The journey's underway and off to an auspicious start. Victory was yours. Locked in tight battle, we pulled away from the Calf-elry in the final minutes. I am grateful. This week brings a spirited battle. We will endeavor to struggle progressively forward. I will not be conservative. Instead, it's all in and all out. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité over Vita Dulcedo Spes. Your honor is no Holy Cross to Bear, but, instead, a gift of privilege.

Oh, I have, I have. I didn't recognize Dwayne's last name. I had a Dunder Mifflin mug on my desk, for years. Which state - and can I use staff testimony under immunity? If not, I may have to wait for the Russians or Chinese to release the transcripts.

What's a Schrute buck? Awesome!

You are a good man!

I share your outrage! Rule of law and cyber hacking! Qualifications! Medical records should be Confidential, with a "C". My HEAVENS, unsecure servers let the SIMONE BILES ADHD out of the bag. What more damaging information could possibly be learned from hacked servers!? They should've kept it in a basement. That darned Trump! #resetbutton

In the interest of Fair and Balanced: Today's WSJ (conservative) features an Op Ed piece by Bret Stephens (conservative and libertarian) outlining his rationale to vote HRC over Trump. It's locked to subscriber's but may open up later. He writes, today, with partisan restraint while pulling no punches.

Barn burner! Ink and I. 1.6 pts with 5 minutes left ... I have two players, Ink 1. Doctson got into the game.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/hillary-i-voted-for-border-fence-to-keep-out-illegal-immigrants/article/1061753 Must've been addressing token deplorables at Barbara Streisand's house during a fund raiser for The Little People. "Let them eat cake". "I was for the wall, before I was against the wall", borrowed and modified from her successor at State.

You did. Youza.

Thank you! I was scrambling to post!

And he's cute ... in his mohair suit ... and he keeps his pockets full of spendin' loot. OooOo whee, say you ought to come and see His dueling scar .... and his brand new car Ooh wah, ooh wah, cool, cool kitty Tell us about the boy from Ra Cha City

You had me at "hello".