Hillary just describes the definition of 'Power Hungry'.
I really do wonder how hellbent she is on becoming President of the USA. Will she run for the next election? :afr:
I'm willing to bet anyone here a full months salary she won't run. My money is on Elizabeth Warren. I'm sure there are other candidates that will come out of the woodwork between now and 2020. I wonder if we're going to make the election into a circus again.
That's what I don't get of the Black Americans…
If they got any rights and benefits after struggling for many years, it was because they had white allies! But now they just like to put all white people lumped together and call them evil.
The problem is that you're implying all black people when it's a minority who feel this way. If there are black people who hate white people, there are white people who hate black people.
No way! Popcorn gets stuck in your teeth. Better is popped amaranth and/or popped sorghum. ;D
You should buy some Xmas Cactus.
Context is everything so if we're talking clothes, take 'em off. >:D
Learning about history or science?
Yup, yup, yup. But who uses email these days? You're getting old, bro. 
TPBM's home is clean, clean, clean.
Actually, I just got out of the bath. ;D
TPBM has their smartphone in their pocket atm.
If the company and topic are good, digress. When either is lacking, conclude.
To present your opinion or discuss it?
I shouldn't. I'm naturally high all the time. 
You should try Japanese whisky.
I use OS X. I have a lot of files in the 7GB range that I'd like to convert to 1 - 3 gb files without a big loss in quality. I've tried using Hand Break but the quality always sucks.
You are all pretty smart. Can someone suggest some software to convert large files to smaller files without a huge loss in quality?
Thanks,
It seems to me we're all under a great tree focusing on the individual twigs and leaves but if we trace a line back to branch, bough, and truck we can eventually get to the root: How much government do we actually need and why?
We need the government to….
We don't need the government to....
I'm going to go out on a limb and say we don't need the government to police language. I'm pretty comfortable with the government holding all the power to defend us from foreign aggression. I'm less comfortable with government being involved in education -- we got on fine without government interference for hundreds of years.
So to focus on broader topics lets find out how we'd each prune the great tree of civilization.
Making English an official language and banning other languages is not going to pull the country together. If anything it's going to worsen conflicts between English and non-English speakers.
As to Common Culture, what common culture? They still can't come together on the cause of their Civil War more than 150 years ago. There's a big split between rural and urban cultures - I know people who are still bitter about the Rural Purge of 1970 when the tv networks cancelled a slew of popular programs with rural settings to cater to an emerging urban audience. Bipartisanship and 'common courtesy' have functionally vanished in American politics.
I think common culture goes back to the founding principles of the US: No government intervention preventing people from pursuing their best selves (to paraphrase broadly). Part of that includes rejecting thinking that prevents a group from succeeding – here are where the problems start.
My beef with Islam in the US is when practicing Muslims chose to wear the hijab by way of setting the tradition for their children. Tied to that is the sex segregation within their mosques. People can believe whichever version of the Spaghetti Monster they chose but the beliefs that teach young girls that they are less than men has to change in order to be in sync with a common western culture.
I think the fundamental differences in the two Americas -- or the two Wests -- is the degree the government is expected to help all peoples achieve their maximum. The current two extreme examples in the news are whether the government has the right to police language (hate speech/pronouns) and/or social norms (objectifying women, unconscious bigotry, etc. being crimes or not).
There are things we all believe but we've been steadily losing the ability to think critically to discuss them.
The language question is interesting because I live in a place that desperately wants to be bilingual. The US could easily be but chooses not to. One part of absorbing another language is that the thinking within does affects the culture. More English in Japan has meant a loss of the social roles here. Spanish seems the obvious choice in the states but I have no idea how that would affect the mental landscape. Perhaps be more passionate?
Nope. Not sure what I dreamed about but I woke up with an erection. 
TPBM just got in and is tired and winding down for the night.
Review. If the person's doing their job you can often get more out of it than a summary.
Lunch or dinner at a really nice and expensive restaurant?
I shouldn't because it would melt. ;D
You should turn on the heater tonight because it's getting cold.
TPBM has eaten a buzzy.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=buzzy ????
I'm going to take a guess and say, no.
TPBM would accept 10,000USD to have nude photos taken of him for a magazine.
Blue.
Would you rather (A) always be extremely rich but never meet the person of your dreams, or (B) never make more than minimum wage your whole life but find true love?
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_et_Jean
No idea. I like the name Jean more than Pierre, so I'll go with that.
Aromatherapy oils in a diffuser, or just plain 'ol air?
Yup. And 80's. And house, trance, techo. I tried to dance to Beethoven once but it didn't go so well.
TPBM needs to shave.
God, no! They're dead and I have a lot of living to do.
You should buy condoms for the weekend.
I love political cartoons.
What's interesting to me here is the glue used to bind the US in the illustration: Common culture, English language, the Constitution. Do you agree? Has US common culture fractured so much that we've come apart? Do we need to recognize an official language so we can all speak to each other?
Europe is trying to come together as a single unit. If any of this holds true for the US, would it help Europe to identify and foster a common culture and a universal tongue?
