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To the audiophiles. I get the appeal of vinyl. Hell, I get the appeal of most things old school, truth be told. Moving pictures is cool. Question - what are your listening experience comments? Think CD vs digital file on a computer vs Vinyl. Music moves me such that I'm unaware of crisp, smooth, etc., if that makes sense. I have a Nutcracker CD with the canon shot in digital. THAT is different!

Was a trip to the Senaca Mall a thing for any of you? Meat from the butcher. Bread and rolls from the baker. Donuts from MANGANO'S.

Quaint is calling it an email mistake.

I forgot my crowd!

Um, no. How are thirteen devices, home server installations, hiring separate persons, BitBleach erasures, document destruction ... convenient? There was no treason intention. There was no convenience intention. She created an entire "outside of the sunshine" communication organization, maintained it, and lied about it to prevent you and I from viewing what is ours. Sunshine is an accountability concept. Impass alert. I post too much. If you see this as convenience, we're standing back to back. I have no qualm with inadvertently hitting the send button. Email is the methodology. Corruption is the accusation.

She wasn't trying to make her job easier. Bonnie and Clyde weren't trying to avoid teller lines.

Um, Hillary's challenge didn't arise because of the digital age. Email is a method. Hillary's problem is unethical activity designed to advance a personal agenda at the expense of the country and subsequent candor and evidence destruction. It could've been carrier pigeons. I'll watch the debate, but hope this defines the issue. She made no digital mistake. She orchestrated personal advancement and a subsequent cover up at our expense.

From me ... Yeap, yeap, yeap ...

Spirit: I'm not dumping on HRC with this link. I dump on her regularly, sadly, and gleefully. Instead, I'm thinking about human nature, "we are who we are", and lessons taught over and over again but unlearned. In this case, unlearned by both HRC and by us. I recalled something I read in a William Safire column years ago. Safire was a favorite of mine. He was a colorful and powerful conservative writing in the New York Times. Imagine that! His "On Language" columns were, well .... I'm getting misty. In any event, Safire wrote the following twenty years ago. If he could visit for a day (he died in 2009), I imagine he'd ask "what did you expect?". http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html Safire wrote, in part, this: "Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar. Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit. … she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends."

Carrying the Flagg ... Props to those who can name #40 without google.

Missed this, earlier. Points for insight and conciseness.

Lost meaning stay home?

Perhaps his race, status and gender helped him avoid consequences and justice. I'd have to know the particulars of the case, just as in the other example.

I'd vote Biden over either.

Had Romney won in 2012, this would be a Romney second term vs. HRC sans her Sec State tenure. THAT would be a heavyweight fight. Well, we'd be in such great shape that a Romney re-election might be a done deal, but I digress ... Incoming! For the historians - greatest bouts we never saw: Ali/Louis and Nixon/Johnson. Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend data dump. The song remains the same ... for both sides, in fairness.

Did anyone not love .... https://youtu.be/G9uCtaSngEA

I immediately thought of you after I posted 7!

I spent the afternoon listening to and reading excerpts from the FBI 302. My recommendation to Bernice Fife - Dean Smith and the Four Corners ... and avoid claims of competancy in your ads. Not a good day for the FBI, either.

Anybody else think the Republicans could've nominated anyone else and enjoyed a 7 point lead going into Labor Day? Self inflicted wounds ...

To be clear, I recognized the crack and know you were having fun. I chuckle, too. In the ping pong back and forth that is thread posting, I wasn't challenging you at all. Your observation, though, made me think. You've seen, no doubt, my frequent observation of "strange bedfellows". Hence, my two population exercise (Haidt's world), designed for your enjoyment.

I, too, prefer jurists without agendas. Acknowledgment - no one's addressed resources and the advantages that accrue thereto.

None based on his race, gender or status. I'd have to know the particulars of the case. At that point, I'd have an opinion, and race, gender and status wouldn't change my mind.

I'm reflecting on compromise. I think Bill Clinton has a flat slope. He's a compromiser. I think those who rail against an obstructionist congress, or judiciary ... have more pronounced slopes. Those two examples chosen solely in the context of political compromise, which is my interest in this particular post. **** "I understand your point of view. It has merit. I'm not swayed." "I don't understand your point of view. It cannot have merit. You are a bad person". Not good, not bad .... I see things in this construct. **** An urn, with 100 balls, comprised of five sets of 20 twenty balls where within each set, each ball is the same color and where no two sets are the same color, and where each of the five colors represented are equidistant from any other along the visible color spectrum, where one end of the spectrum is "left" and the other is "right". Ask questions and select balls with replacement and determine "left thinking, right thinking, or flip floppingness" depending on the leftness, or rightness, of the ball's color. I see a conclusion of "flip flopping is prevalent". An urn, with 100 balls, comprised of two sets of 35 balls each and three sets of 10 balls each, where within each set, each ball is the same color and where no two sets are the same color, and where each of the five colors represented are equidistant from any other along the visible color spectrum, where one end of the spectrum is "left" and the other is "right". Ask questions and select balls with replacement and determine "left thinking, right thinking, or flip floppingness" depending on the leftness, or rightness, of the ball's color. I see a conclusion of "consistent response is prevalent". Synthesis .... Haidt and TBPHD, left and right, urns and different weightings. *** PPS ... I had a "hurricane" day, today. The gift of time ... forgive the word count.

Dear Claude and TBPHD: Most interesting. I've read and watched Haidt. I've even used one of his flags (principles of liberty, fraternity, equality) in posts. Claude's superior knowledge lets him find "predictive". I am a step behind with "explanatory"! Or am I even that far along? That said, and the reason for this post .... Would my "right" mind, it's flat slope, and my commitment to 1 and 2 (harm/care and fairness/reciprocity) as equal to my commitment to 4 and 5 (authority/respect and purity/sanctity) account for TBPHD's "flip flop" observation? I left the middle "3" out to emphasize the slope. (Note: I've taken his test). In other words, and ideologies aside, would Haidt be NOT surprised that a flat sloped person finds himself across the slope depending on the issue at hand? Is that TBPHD's "flip floppin'"? My vanity: As I categorize beautiful posters as left, I believe I am not surprised by their take. The same 2 fundamentals apply. I am less able to predict the right. All 5 fundamentals are equal and the situation determines which prevails. Ego (as Freud meant it, not as its used in the vernacular): Haidt's right mind is more open to compromise. Haidt's left mind is less so. I'll listen. My life experience with the people and their slopes is so consistent with Haidt's research and his suggestions. His articulation has soothed me. It's not stopped the good fight, but it's given me understanding where I previously only found frustration.

I'm 55. You may want to change 50 to 60.