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I'm sure that the Baltimore Board of Tourism and Chamber of Commerce isn't too wild about this video

 

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What Democrats Hate

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[janice6]

3 hours ago, pipedreams said:

I'm sure that the Baltimore Board of Tourism and Chamber of Commerce isn't too wild about this video

 

Diversity brings change.  Be sure it's the change you want.

The song and accompanying publicity is prettier than the reality of the city.

Edited August 15, 2019 by janice6

[Dric902]

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

 

 

 

 

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[janice6]

33 minutes ago, Dric902 said:

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

 

 

 

 

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Keeps everybody on their toes.

[Dric902]

While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.

Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.

Botti says lawns are part of the “colonizing of America,” which transformed the landscape from “pristine wilderness” to “identical rows of manicured nature.”

“These lawns come on the backs of slaves,” he continues, zooming in on a painting of George Washington in a field to highlight men cutting the grass with scythes. “It’s grueling, endless work.”

“By the 1870s we also see American culture slowly start to embrace lawns for the privileged masses,” he states.

The video explains that the perfect lawn is associated with being a model citizen, how the first sprinkler was invented in 1871, and about the advent of “so-called trade cards” that “advertised the hell out of lawn and garden products.”

The Times also refers to the work of historian Ted Steinberg, who calls lawns the “outdoor expression of ’50s conformism.”

 

[janice6]

57 minutes ago, Dric902 said:

While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.

Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.

Botti says lawns are part of the “colonizing of America,” which transformed the landscape from “pristine wilderness” to “identical rows of manicured nature.”

“These lawns come on the backs of slaves,” he continues, zooming in on a painting of George Washington in a field to highlight men cutting the grass with scythes. “It’s grueling, endless work.”

“By the 1870s we also see American culture slowly start to embrace lawns for the privileged masses,” he states.

The video explains that the perfect lawn is associated with being a model citizen, how the first sprinkler was invented in 1871, and about the advent of “so-called trade cards” that “advertised the hell out of lawn and garden products.”

The Times also refers to the work of historian Ted Steinberg, who calls lawns the “outdoor expression of ’50s conformism.”

 

I consider my lawn care, along with the chemicals and gasoline engines I use to maintain it, as a commentary to those pushing global warming.

As one astute individual on this forum once posted, now to go out and burn some car tires.

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[janice6]

2 hours ago, pipedreams said:

Lies will hurt eventually, the truth may hurt right now.

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2 hours ago, pipedreams said:

When you insult those you are supposed to represent, you are serving the wrong country.

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[railfancwb]

I'm sure that the Baltimore Board of Tourism and Chamber of Commerce isn't too wild about this video

 

Did the team win? Lose? Would it have mattered?


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Those who need to be primaried out or defeated wear both party labels, but their real allegiance is to themselves.


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[Bish1309]

6 minutes ago, pipedreams said:

So how do we go about replacing the ones we don't like when there's no one to replace them with?