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Love that Longbaugh quote.

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Time to make the chimichangas.

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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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"too many dames"

This is the perfect analogy. There's no loyalty or feeling for anyone and no ideology other than getting and staying in power.

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KJP:

- Still dresses nicely

- Still cute

- Still a vapid airhead

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Look, all your friends agree, but they don't want to say it to you...

She's not into you, man. Time to move on. I heard that Duck has a cousin with a great personality that wants to meet you.

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Yo, Pato - what's it gonna set me back to get your cousin's digits?

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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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Prohibitions just lead to black markets.

Someone will always know how (or be willing) to make their own. They'll get better at it, employ a few friends, build a bunch of them in, idk, Mexico and they'll get here on their own.

They'll be overpriced, dangerous, and as difficult to come by as marijuana. Which isn't.

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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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It might not have been high art but my first memory of James Caan was in "Brian's Song" with Lando Calrissian.

At the time, we were emerging as a nation from significant racial unrest and seeing a black guy cry when his best friend, a white guy, dies was part of we as a nation leaving that awful era behind us.

Then we elected Barrack "Trayvon could have been my son" Obama. I personally think that single statement was the turning point in race relations. I was confident we were in a post-racial world where I was part of the first generation of boys/men - perhaps in the entire world history - who were taught and were convinced that racism was wrong, that we shouldn't see color. Judging others by the "content of their character" wasn't just a pile meadow muffins. It was part of our very fabric.

Almost 50 years later and now I'm the racist.

Sorry. </rant>

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Rant on, Brother.

I saw "Brian's Song" when it first aired, and the room got awfully dusty when Billie Dee says, "I loved Brian Piccolo."

I was forced to watch a terrible 5th-generation copy while in an US Army class. It really poisoned the memory.

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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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Well, this is the home country of Ultra Man. So it makes sense.

+1 Beta Capsule

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I'll never get over Astro Boy.

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Astro Boy is more human than Joe Biden.

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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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