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"Shinzo Abe was assassinated on Japanese soil with a homemade gun..."

We need common-sense plumbing control, for sure.

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"Are you going to tell this black man that he shouldn’t be able to defend himself against the Klan in the United States of America?"

Intersectionality isn't working out as they'd hoped.

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KJP:

- Still dresses nicely

- Still cute

- Still a vapid airhead

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James Caan was a pro. That's it, that's all I got to say. He was a pro, and he approached his job like we all should approach our jobs: with absolute and focused professionalism.

Not whining and crying about micro-aggressions, privilege, and "justice." Not enough pros in the world, may you be a plumber or a roofer or a cashier at Starbucks.

Know who else is a total pro? Tadej Pogačar. He will not give you a stage victory, you better damn well earn it from him.

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Shinzo Abe's assassination just goes to prove if you outlaw all guns, people will just make guns at home in their bathtub.

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A lot of people are remembering James Caan in The Godfather, but he was also very good in comedic roles; my three favorite Caan performances in that space included being the dad in Elf (having to straight man to Will Ferrell's Buddy), the "bad guy" in Honeymoon in Vegas (he added a layer of vulnerability that made you feel somewhat bad for him); and a guest spot on Newsradio where he played himself and got to witness the craziness of Phil Hartman and Andy Dick. RIP, "Jimmy"

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Abe was an "Ultranationalist?" I'm (almost) gobstopped.

I started pay a bit of attention to Asian politics back in the early 1970s, when the U.S. Army decided that I needed to spend a year there. I found it interesting that as much as the US was the object of mixed feelings EVERYBODY was grateful for the US removing Japan as the dominant regional power.

Japan's new constitution practically enforced the role of second banana to the US act. Then came Nixon and suddenly China was the focus of US energies. A new generation of Japanese thought arose, "The Japan That Can Say 'No'." Japanese thought leaders put forth the radical Idea that Japan should evaluate policies based on their impact to Japan. Weird, huh?

These (NPR writers) are the people that called Trump an "ultranationalist" because he evaluated international policies based on whether the US benefited from them, rather than from a godlike, dispassionate, disinterested globalist viewpoint.

Apparently, there's enough hate to go around. Makes you think about how much more incitement to violence can be resisted in the US.

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KJP is absolutely right: we are stronger economically than we have been in history.

Like, for instance, we're stronger economically than we were in1866. Or 1930.

Anything can be a victory, if you set the comparison bar low enough.

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First Lincoln, now Abe. RIP.

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