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I think the Dems need to have a movie night ...
Sean Connery in The Untouchables: "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife; you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital; you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way."
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When it comes down to it, with enough money, the only color some people see is green. Of course, they'd have to pass background checks...
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Suspend my disbelief that there's a riverboat with a rock cruise in Washington state?
No problem.
I can believe a man can fly.
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María Corina Machado didn't waste time showing where her loyalties lie.
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We should name more nice things after Paul Robeson.
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I consider it an invitation to join the conversation.
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Despite the libertarian window dressing, they've been waiting to overturn Brown v. Board of Education (1954) since it was established.
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Does it count as an end to the war when there's no one left to bomb?
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"Lying Viper From Hell" is the name of my White Snake cover band.
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"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
From the game BioShock Infinite (2003), Daisy Fitzroy, the leader of the Vox Populi, a rebel group fighting for the rights of the underclass in the sky-city of Columbia.
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Dialin’ Time. Or “Time to dial”
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I'm calling it now: "Six months and I walk; more than that, I talk."
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I think many of the singles were good, but were just overplayed so much that they became annoying.
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Didn't they probably hunt in packs? I think they could disembowel a human with a good jump.
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This situation might explain at least one of them.
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I hope those Sherpas are paid hourly and receive overtime.
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I did the same with a bread pudding last week. Chocolate chips made it a little runny. I should have just stuck to raisins (or other dried fruit). I didn't trust the custard.
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When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)
Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
p. 60
Bhoota Vahana Yanta
Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used
for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine-
men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between
1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning
events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE.
According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the
early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture,
as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these
spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs
out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after
him and kill him.
At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now
Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the
Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets
of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he
arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated
as a Roman.
This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the
Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master
Robot-Maker, and had a son by her.
Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved
to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well
aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as
soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh,
and sewed the wound back up.