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01-23-2018 , 05:31 PM

#76426

maulaga58

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The generic congressional ballot with dems holding a 7 to 8 point edge due to gerrymandering they need + 10 to + 12 to safely take the house. They are 1 flip away from not obtaining the senate either. In this evironment I see the AZ and NV seats flipping to dems. But they could lose Indiana. So republicans could easily control all of congress for Trump's entire term.

01-23-2018 , 05:41 PM

#76427

Jiggymike

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Quote:

Originally Posted by maulaga58

Right on queue! Sadly this is probably true, people are fickle and have short memories, if Trump appears competent for 5 minutes they are ready to hop back on the wagon.

01-23-2018 , 05:42 PM

#76428

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

Lolita is a phenomenal book...possibly the greatest English-language book of the 20th Century. It does not, in any way, titillate. It horrifies.

And the opening, by a Russian who had just started writing in the English language, is masterful:

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

01-23-2018 , 05:48 PM

#76429

Paul D

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

Lolita is a phenomenal book...possibly the greatest English-language book of the 20th Century. It does not, in any way, titillate. It horrifies.

You just described a whole lot of Hunter S Thompson or William S Burroughs books.

01-23-2018 , 06:38 PM

#76430

AllTheCheese

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

Big ups to Pale Fire, too. Also excellent. One of these days I'll get around to reading the entire catalogue. Nabokov's command of English puts 99% of native speaking writers to shame.

01-23-2018 , 07:08 PM

#76431

DeuceKicker

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Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 5,359

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

...possibly the greatest English-language book of the 20th Century.[/I]

Tho

01-23-2018 , 07:14 PM

#76432

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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01-23-2018 , 07:16 PM

#76433

Jeffrey Lord

newbie

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 20

Uhh you guys remember in season 5 of the wire when the villain got away on a technicality? Can't we just do that? A lot of people like this villain, we should just let him get away with it. Maybe that's what should happen. Maybe that happening would ultimately be for the best. I really really want Trump to get away with whatever he did, it doesn't matter what he did in the past he's a Christian today, and, look... Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton.

01-23-2018 , 07:27 PM

#76434

d10

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bigt2k4

Even though Wray was appointed by Trump; is he good, mildly good, or just not evil?

I don't think anyone knows yet. He keeps a low profile. Not a lot of info out there about him.

01-23-2018 , 07:45 PM

#76435

ChrisV

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I think the writing in Lolita is overwrought garbage. I tried to read it once and couldn't get past like the first two pages. Come at me.

01-23-2018 , 07:46 PM

#76436

Paul D

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You wouldn't say that if it was written in jackaroo prose.

01-23-2018 , 07:49 PM

#76437

ChrisV

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For example:

Quote:

You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate—the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

Give me a break.

01-23-2018 , 07:58 PM

#76438

Nicholasp27

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Yeah, you have to be into that type of prose to enjoy it.

I personally prefer to focus on the story and characters and not the words when reading, so I don’t read those dense texts

01-23-2018 , 08:24 PM

#76439

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

Reporter: "Did Christopher Wray threaten to resign?"
Trump: "He did not even a little bit"

01-23-2018 , 08:29 PM

#76440

sadyoshi

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 278

Quote:

In April of 2017, 73% of Trump voters said "Dreamers" should be allowed to stay in the United States and become legal residents, with 48% saying they should be able to become citizens, according to a Morning Consult poll.

https://www.axios.com/majority-of-tr...d3995c539.html

01-23-2018 , 08:33 PM

#76441

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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Similar FoxNews poll that replaced "Dreamers" with "Future MS-13" got a somewhat different result.

01-23-2018 , 08:42 PM

#76442

uDevil

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I think the writing in Lolita is overwrought garbage. I tried to read it once and couldn't get past like the first two pages. Come at me.

I don't know about garbage. Otherwise same. English professor friend suggested I try but no go even though I managed all her other recommendations.

01-23-2018 , 09:23 PM

#76443

Matty Lice

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It's Mueller Time.

Dude wants to talk to Daddy about firing Comey and Flynn.

01-23-2018 , 09:28 PM

#76444

patron

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Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 3,803

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klingbard

I saw somewhere on MSNBC that 84% of Americans think Dreamers should be protected. that number seems high to me, but if right, should make a daca compromise doable over the objections of the freedom caucus and Tom Cottons and John Kellys and Stephen Millers and Steve Kings and ...

The same MSNBC graphics then showed that something like 56% of people disapprove of shutting down the government for DACA/Dreamers, while only 38% or so approve.

Outside of the liberal base, support for DACA/Dreamers is broad but not deep. It's low priority. The middle and the left don't care about it, even if they pay lip service to the idea.

01-23-2018 , 09:28 PM

#76445

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,260

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I think the writing in Lolita is overwrought garbage. I tried to read it once and couldn't get past like the first two pages. Come at me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

For example:

Give me a break.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

Yeah, you have to be into that type of prose to enjoy it.

I personally prefer to focus on the story and characters and not the words when reading, so I don’t read those dense texts

lol the prose is beautiful but also pretentious because Humbert is pretentious. He's the narrator and whose point of view the story is. He even tells you his prose is "fancy" right there on the first page.

jesus, how do you not get that.

01-23-2018 , 09:40 PM

#76446

Clovis8

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Tony Perkins is sooooooooo Christian.

Aka a total fraud, hypocrite and cancer to society.

01-23-2018 , 09:41 PM

#76447

True North

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Nothing to see here, just the best people, not like the CFPB will be around much longer anyway

01-23-2018 , 09:42 PM

#76448

fatkid

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Yea that sucks reminds me of a Carlin joke about sucky writing

“The clouds hung low and gray over the horizon, like huge, loosely-formed gorilla turds.”

01-23-2018 , 09:48 PM

#76449

OmgGlutten!

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Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 5,273

The expert play is for CHUCK to say

"We are not spending 1 penny on the wall because THE DONALD told us 90,000 times that MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT"

01-23-2018 , 09:55 PM

#76450

Huehuecoyotl

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This tin pot dictator stuff is so infuriating

Quote:

Shortly after President Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau’s acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting.

The two men exchanged pleasantries, but before long, Trump, according to several current and former U.S. officials, asked Andrew McCabe a pointed question: Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.27637cd4c79b

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