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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
Ian Tyson, Canadian folk and country singer, whose best known song, "Four Strong Winds", recorded as a duet with then wife Sylvia Fricker-Tyson, left us on December 29, 2022 at the age of 89. Mr. Tyso... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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01-04-2023, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: Perhaps We Should Rethink State Run Lotteries
Post: Perhaps We Should Rethink State Run Lotteries
Perhaps it's time to rethink the concept of state run lotteries and what purpose they serve. Most were originally conceived during the inflationary malaise that existed in the 1970s, around the time f... |
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beechnut79 |
General Discussion |
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11-16-2022, 11:23 AM |
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Thread: Philip Bobbitt's Theories of Changes in the Constitutional Order
Post: RE: Philip Bobbitt's Theories of Changes in the Co...
(08-23-2022, 01:27 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: In this brilliant takedown of neoliberalism and its effects of inequality by Nick Hanauer, he mentions how Republicans and Trump carried out the neolibera... |
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beechnut79 |
Theories Of History |
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11-16-2022, 11:03 AM |
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Thread: Philip Bobbitt's Theories of Changes in the Constitutional Order
Post: RE: Philip Bobbitt's Theories of Changes in the Co...
(08-29-2022, 02:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: (08-29-2022, 01:14 PM)David Horn Wrote: (08-27-2022, 02:58 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Just because Trump was right on trade does not make him right on everyt... |
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beechnut79 |
Theories Of History |
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11-16-2022, 10:36 AM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
Jeff Cook, a founding member of country-rock supergroup Alabama, left us on November 7 at the age of 73. For many years this group was unstoppable. Nearly everything they recorded turned to gold. Amon... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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11-09-2022, 11:12 AM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
In addition to losing a true country music superstar in Loretta Lynn, the early part of this month also saw the passing of two female music acts whose music ran the gamut. First was Mary McCaslin who... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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10-22-2022, 09:59 AM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
Two Chicago based musicians. The former gained fame with an instrumental that was even a bigger hit than was its vocal predecessor. The latter ran the gamut from Friend and Lover to Mark Twain.
Ramse... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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09-29-2022, 12:00 PM |
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Thread: Aaaaand I was 100% WRONG About China
Post: RE: Aaaaand I was 100% WRONG About China
(09-04-2022, 10:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: (08-30-2022, 10:06 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The reason Germany is using more coal, is because of Putin. This is a temporary condition, at least if Germany an... |
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beechnut79 |
Beyond America |
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09-08-2022, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: What Are Your Thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness?
Post: RE: What Are Your Thoughts on Student Loan Forgive...
(09-06-2022, 02:42 PM)sbarrera Wrote: We were recently driving through central PA, which is mountainous and rural. Lost of signs supporting Doug Mastriano, the MAGA candidate for governor. Then we s... |
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beechnut79 |
General Political Discussion |
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09-06-2022, 04:08 PM |
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Thread: What Are Your Thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness?
Post: RE: What Are Your Thoughts on Student Loan Forgive...
(09-02-2022, 05:44 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: (09-02-2022, 03:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I support it, but I wonder why some of those loans, or some portion of them, or at least interest charges, canno... |
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beechnut79 |
General Political Discussion |
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09-06-2022, 04:06 PM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
(09-06-2022, 03:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: (09-06-2022, 10:33 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: Do any of you want to guess what Gorbachev had in common with George Burns?
My guess is that it has something to do ... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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09-06-2022, 04:02 PM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
Do any of you want to guess what Gorbachev had in common with George Burns? |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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09-06-2022, 10:33 AM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
(08-30-2022, 07:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that brought down the superpower, has d... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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09-06-2022, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries
(08-30-2022, 07:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that brought down the superpower, has d... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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09-06-2022, 10:29 AM |
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Thread: Strauss-Howe generational theory on Wikipedia
Post: RE: Strauss-Howe generational theory on Wikipedia
There are also numerous videos on YouTube about this. Just key in Fourth Turning and you shall see. |
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beechnut79 |
General Discussion |
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08-19-2022, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Long Lost (Would Be?) Sould Mates: The Ones Who Got Away
Post: RE: Long Lost (Would Be?) Sould Mates: The Ones Wh...
(07-07-2016, 04:13 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Although not specfic to being Middle Aged, certainly these sorts of thoughts come up more now than they did when I was in my 20s and 30s.
Please share your ow... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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08-19-2022, 02:25 PM |
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Thread: Sound reproduction and playback
Post: RE: Sound reproduction and playback
Sounds as if you are indicating a possible reduction in the number of single family homes. Sadly (for many at least) this will have to happen for both environmental reasons as well as addressing the n... |
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beechnut79 |
Technology |
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08-19-2022, 02:19 PM |
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Thread: Millennial Women Empowered
Post: RE: Millennial Women Empowered
Around 1985 I was browsing a college library and found in a sociological magazine an article which started out something like this: How are you gonna get 'em back into the kitchen? You ain't! |
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beechnut79 |
The Millennial Generation |
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08-19-2022, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: Is joy and celebration going away in the USA today?
Post: RE: Is joy and celebration going away in the USA t...
(08-04-2022, 09:25 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: (08-03-2022, 11:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Agree with all, except for letting Reagan off the hook. He did the same thing to AIDS as Trump did with covid. He... |
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beechnut79 |
Society and Culture |
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08-09-2022, 09:49 AM |
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Thread: Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Presidency to Date
Post: RE: Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Preside...
(07-31-2022, 01:52 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: (07-31-2022, 02:58 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: We talk a lot of smack about boomers around these parts (including me sometimes), but my boomer mentors taught me one... |
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beechnut79 |
Baby Boomers |
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08-01-2022, 11:52 AM |
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Thread: Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Presidency to Date
Post: RE: Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Preside...
(07-27-2022, 03:24 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: (07-27-2022, 01:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: We have conventionally understood that enough prosperity solves all problems. I'm not sold on conspicuous consumptio... |
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beechnut79 |
Baby Boomers |
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07-27-2022, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Things Out of the Past You Would Like to See Revived
Post: RE: Things Out of the Past You Would Like to See R...
The one thing that may be a little controversial might be a return to the dress up society featuring suite and ties for men, skirts and heels for women. Anyone here think it will happen. While much of... |
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beechnut79 |
Special Topics/G-T Lounge |
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07-20-2022, 07:15 PM |
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Thread: Singles and Dating
Post: RE: Singles and Dating
The hedonism I am thinking of was actually more in the 2T, that halcyon period after The Pill and before AIDS. Actually the culture I describe had its balloon popped once the AIDS scare came onto the ... |
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beechnut79 |
General Discussion |
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07-20-2022, 07:07 PM |
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Thread: Singles and Dating
Post: RE: Singles and Dating
(09-11-2021, 02:21 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: (09-11-2021, 01:06 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: I do not follow horoscopes religiously the way some do, but there is a local magazine that comes out in my area that ... |
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beechnut79 |
General Discussion |
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07-19-2022, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: Global warming
Post: RE: Global warming
Just a few days ago I saw a post concerning gas prices, and despite record highs it was predicted that it will be like all the other times, where folks gripe for a while, then get used to it and willi... |
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beechnut79 |
Environmental issues |
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06-30-2022, 06:30 PM |