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“nor could I even fathom why anybody would think negatively about the Irish. Until I met the elderly mother of a English woman”
I’ll be PC and say that there was violence on both sides of the English / Irish question for a long time, hence older people are often not fans of e/o.
(obvs I am English, I had an Irish catholic great-grandmother but she died a long time before I was born)
Never had any issues with DCB. DCB was only going at it with DIBS and that was on stocks, finance stuff.
“No, dibs, never rode it. He had 3 other Ducatis & a few Guzzis.”
I had a few Hussies back in the day.
” Benson really doesn’t bait- he says what he thinks and he blows up easily…”
Thinks? Or jerks.
Remember when DCB arrived and he was almost unanimously hated here. Since then he’s become one of the funniest, most beloved posters. Maybe he should have a talk with Brooklyn Couch.
“Lefties are the baitees. That’s the point.”
I would put it a different way.
What I find most irritating about modern-day liberalism is that it has become an orthodoxy unto itself.
Yesterday Wasder was yucking it up at the fact that the Republicans might have lost a few Senate seats because of Tea-Party activism. While I certainly would have loved for the Republicans to have gained those seats, I’ll pay that price for the far more important cause of a continuing battle about where conservatism should head next.
There is no such discussion in modern-day liberalism, and nowhere is that more true than in New York. It is simply amazing to me that we have a state that is on the verge of bankruptcy, that is losing businesses and population, that has an ever-narrowing economic base and yet the oh-so-sophisticated voters of NY return the same hacks and crooks to Albany. All they have to do is recite the platitudes that liberals want to hear – I’m for diversty! -I’m pro-choice! – I stand for the working man! and they get a pass to Albany to continue their corrupt ways.
The day of reckoning is coming, however. Unlike the federal government, New York State and California cannot print money, nor can they easily turn to the Federal government for a bailout. I don’t envy Andrew Cuomo’s task. He is faced with the same group of union-backed hacks who will not yield one inch in backing away from the public trough.
At one time in our history, liberalism was a great force in our nation. To its credit goes the civil-rights movement and other social innovations. No longer.
No, dibs, never rode it. He had 3 other Ducatis & a few Guzzis.
“So he never rode it, Arkady???? I know a big lesbo in Brooklyn with a Ducati.”
I know a big lesbo in Brooklyn with two cats.
“Never in my life did I see or experience an anti-Irish sentiment nor could I even fathom why anybody would think negatively about the Irish. Until I…”
– met DIBS
– attended the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
– began watching college football