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McCain DID stand up to Trump. Just for one example, By voting NOT to undo Obamacare, after years of saying – and running for re-election saying – that it needed to be undone.
The lousy so-and-so.
The column I posted a while back by Marianne Jennings is excellent.
I’m pretty sure the surge was in the George W Bush administration, not the McCain administration.
Biden has never been right about anything, except possibly the time of day, if he was lucky.
That’s HIGHlarious. My husband and I took our then 18-year old, 5’9 daughter to an event where we met John McCain.
I took an elbow to the face from the good Mr McCain as he reached past me to our daughter.
My husband said had it been Bill Clinton he would have kicked his ass.
McCain was the point man for the surge in the Senate. He saved Iraq only to have Obama throw it away.
That’s why Biden actually was right, but not in the way he wanted. Trump is trying to break the corrupt ways, make America great again after Obama’s fundamental transformation. If he can’t restore some of the pre-Bushes/Clinton/Obama America he will be a blip and we will continue the decline. Trump needs a second term to build on his good work.
UFO came first. By the way, the story – or one story, at least – goes that they were working on a second season (or “series” as they say in England) of UFO, years later as is fairly common in England, with a more advanced moonbase etc, and it was said that by then Earth’s population knew about the aliens, etc. But for various reasons, perhaps including that Ed Bishop was no longer available, it couldn’t be done. So they used the sets to make Space: 1999 instead.
Straker pretty much had to be All Business, as it was even shown in a couple episodes. In a way, very literally, the fate of the entire Earth was in his hands.
Now The Powers That Be at Ricochet know what is required to get LOTS of comments: have Norman Podhoretz on, or talk about Space (Force).
Just imagine the comments if they had Norman Podhoretz on TO TALK ABOUT SPACE (Force)!!!
Or maybe those two things at once would cancel out…
I dug up your other recommendation, “Salvation” and have binged the first season… Started the second.
Mixed feelings about the series so far.
Normans, perhaps — but the music from Monty Python and the Holy Grail keeps playing in my head …
Did I “recommend” it? Not really my intent, considering the way it ended. Or rather, just stopped. I enjoyed it in some ways but it wound up feeling like a waste of time. Fortunately I stopped watching Lost early on.
Petty, here is the rest of my comment, that you edited out without marks of elision:
A more plausible psychological theory would be that Trump is a masochist who enjoys the torrent of abuse conservative Republicans get.
If he actually wanted flattery, he would present himself as pro-abortion and anti-gun. And just imagine the love fest if he had nominated Merrick Garland!
Also you inserted the picture, not I. I think it’s Trump campaigning, but it’s very small.
By the way, I take it that you think Trump suffers from “late-onset narcissism”, as he didn’t run for President until he was nearly 70.
And even better, I never wasted a single minute on Game Of Thrones.
On what? Wiping out the ACA?
Don’t forget Medicare Part D.
Iraq.Wars.
We are very bad at this and their are consequences. #MAGA
It is so hard to get an explanation as to why John McCain moved the ball forward for conservatives.
Be sure to donate to the GOP, too.
I never got into Lost – it seemed bad that they’re on a deserted island but managed to find a new group of bad guys to have a shoot out with each week.
“Salvation” seems like a waste of time even in season 1.
Well I thought it started out okay. Some things I think happened faster than they would – or could – “in real life” but that’s TV for you. Even movies, really. And it could have done fine if they had stuck with the original premise. Or at least what seemed to be the original premise. If their idea the whole time was that it’s not REALLY an asteroid, then I’d say it was wrong from the start. But I suspect what happened is that someone later came up with “Hey, what if it’s not REALLY an asteroid. That’s be COOL, right? RIGHT??” Well, actually not so much.
It seems like there was some kind of series of books in the past, about how Earth is taken over by aliens and what’s left of mankind fled to Mars. If that’s what they wanted, Fail.
Lost required too much “suspension of disbelief” right from the start, beginning with a non-magnetic airplane being torn apart by a giant MAGNET. They couldn’t even be bothered to find out what planes are actually made of, before writing that? And they kept piling on. “Smoke monsters” that were never explained, etc etc.
Start at 15:00. 3 1/2 whole minutes. Matt Lewis hates Trump and he writes for the Daily Beast.
https://www.mattklewis.com/matt-lewis-and-the-news/michael-malice-on-the-new-right/
One would be wise to listen to every current interview of Michael Malice on his new book.
Gary:
Another one that I don’t get your tolerance of is Nichole Wallace. She’s keeps getting worse.
John Wever “Republicans.”
Wiki
Trump may be a problem, but he’s only there because Conservatism Inc. is so bogus.
Look how many visitors Gilligan and company had on their island.
The same thought crossed my mind!
I don’t look favorably on mystification shows like Lost. They tease solutions to their mysteries, but that would end the show, so they just spin their wheels endlessly. Nothing is ever accomplished; there is no sense of forward motion.
It can be done right. Buffy the Vampire Slayer would bring the current story arc to a satisfying conclusion at the end of each season.
In Stargate SG-1, currently being re-run on Robert Rodriguez’s El-Ray Network, the US Air Force makes steady progress in a war with aliens and, after about nine seasons, the war ends in victory.
Yes, but Gilligan’s Island was located within a 3 hour voyage of Honolulu (100-180 miles?) So the boat should’ve been quickly found once it was noticed missing.
The original tour was scheduled for 3 hours, but during those three hours the weather started getting rough, and the tiny ship was tossed.
We don’t know how long the rough weather lasted.
We do know that the ship ran aground on the shore of an uncharted desert isle, though.
Uncharted.
Cincinnatus left and went back to his farm.
Kasich hasn’t done that.
President Trump (PBUH) is still in his first term.
So, once again, you fail to uphold West Point’s Honor code.
I read it in the original Klingon.
Sorry, that would be my Army bretheren, helpfully supported by my Air Force and Navy brothers and sisters.