Votes, not protests, matter within the USA.

Really?

Mexico 1968 Summer Olympics

Rump out of step with America ...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants/

The Trump administration has vowed to make America great again in spaceflight, and the centerpiece of its space policy to date has been a re-prioritization of human spaceflight as central to NASA's activities. As part of this initiative, the White House has sought to reduce funding for satellites to observe environmental changes on Earth and eliminate NASA's office of education.

However, a new survey of 2,541 Americans by Pew Research Center, which aims to represent the views of US adults, finds that these views appear to be out of step with public priorities.

The survey asked respondents about their top priorities for NASA, and the highest support came for "monitor key parts of the Earth's climate system" (63 percent) and "monitor asteroids/objects that could hit the Earth" (62 percent). Sending astronauts to Mars (18 percent), and the Moon (13 percent), lagged far behind as top priorities for respondents.

Atlanta Fed upgrades U.S. second quarter GDP view to 4.7 percent

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-atlantafed/atlanta-fed-upgrades-u-s-second-quarter-gdp-view-to-4-7-percent-idINKCN1IW2EH
We, The People, are getting sick and tired of these repeated failures of the policies of the Trump Administration.....and some voiced that 'displeasure' last night in Primary elections(where for the 1st time in a very LONG time a GOP candidate won a statewide election in !GASP! California).

That displeasure will be repeatedly voiced over the next 6 months as that 'Blue Wave' turns into a 'Rising Red Tide'............

as they say in 'Bama........Roll tide Roll.........

Welcome back Clyde, hope the vacation was enjoyable.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Rump out of step with America ...

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dA ORANGUTAN HUSTLE!!!

Get In Step, GOOSE-STEPPERs and DANCE DANCE DANCE!!!

ALL APE, ALL dA TIME!!!

CHEERs and ROTFLMAO!!!

As CLYDENotCLYDE would NOT SAy: F**King A!!! or F**KING APE!!! ROTFLMAO CHEERs!!!

ORANGEBack Yap

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

I heard that the 3 stooges were making a comeback. ;-)

Oh, Dull who was once a worm you may need new meds.

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I thought they already had seeing the amount of slapstick comedy on here :-)

Another of those 'Silly Pictures' that say oh so much........



.....and now we have heard from all three of them.......

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Votes, not protests, matter within the USA.

Really?

Mexico 1968 Summer Olympics

moomin... 'The Reaction' was to that and other Left Wing protests in 1968 was...
Nixon Won!

See.
Protests do matters:)

Votes, not protests, matter within the USA.

Really?

Mexico 1968 Summer Olympics

moomin... 'The Reaction' was to that and other Left Wing protests in 1968 was...
Nixon Won!

See.
Protests do matters:)

Add when the Democratic Party moved more to The Left in 1972. AKA McGovern.

Nixon won again and Watergate did not add to the American Voter Anti Left 'Reaction'.

Watergate was not the reason for McGovern's massive defeat. But... Nixon was still (fill-in the negatives).

BTW: After Nixon left office I had coffee with him one morning. We only discussed local New York City sports and local politics. Since I consider a persons eyes to be the gateway to their soul. I was very troubled by what I saw in his eyes.

LOL
You're the Forrest Gump of the SETI forums.
No one else claims such access to people and events as you.

What was the Woody Allen movie where his character obliviously turned up at every news event of social and political importance?
Both movies depict the life claimed by our Jack of all Trades and friend to world leaders, Importantman Clyde.
We've got a real contender here, folks.
Hey, Fried Clyde, could you please post your resume before you hit the red X over this post?

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was very troubled by what I saw in his eyes.

Your own reflection?

Nope.
Not buying a word.

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

(insert raspberry noise here)

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ouch this is going to hurt :-(

Sorry Robert I'm not believing or disbelieving what Clyde has stated. However, given the time period, most were more open than many today. Working in the public sector as Clyde has done, the possibilities are there.

For example, on the Kings Road after a home game. several Chelsea players often popped into one of the local pubs (bars) & chatted to fans over a good pint. Often had a good chat with Peter Osgood, & Ron "Chopper" Harris who on finding that I lived in Hackney, asked if it had changed much as he was born there.

That same decade, had an "awkward" conversation with Martin Shaw - On one of my rare Sundays off went to Clissold Park with my mates for a game of football. Bouncing the football up & down on the road when a voice shouted out asking me to stop as he was trying to get some sleep - it was approx. 9am. Called him a lazy B******. Didn't go down well but the conversation ended pleasantly.

Martin Landau & Barbara Bain got on my train at Notting Hill Gate & got off at Oxford Circus. Had a great chat with them both & got their autographs.

The following decade while working at WCDO which covered London's theatreland, met & chatted to many of which one of the most pleasant & down to earth was Cilla Black. Also had a pleasant early morning chat with Peter Byrne & got his autograph as well.

2 colleagues of mine on the trains met & had the Queen chat to them when they travelled on the first train into Heathrow's new station at the new terminal.

Would any of that be possible today?

I very much doubt it.

I know that with it being the Internet where much is said, but the one thing the Internet cannot do is take away one's experiences :-)

Edit. In between working on L.T.E & the Royal Mail, I worked for a well known Assurance company at that time. In 79 dealt with Cat Stevens pension plan & met him when he produced documentation for his name change to Yusef Islam. Just over 20 years later met him again here :-)

Wow, amazing!

Robert DOESN'T know everything.

The sun has just risen in the west.........

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Even better was that Assurance company was one of the first companies to build a private TV/Video conferencing Studio. While employed with them I met Bill Oddie, Little & Large. It was a large building & the main London office of the company. Our office (London Broker Branch) was situated at the side of the building but had access internally to the main building. At the end of the street but on the other side was a small newsagents where the staff that smoked often bought their cigarettes from. On the same side of that shop but approx. halfway between it & our office Beverley Goodway had a photographic studios where most of a well known newspaper had its Page 3 girls photographed.

During our lunch breaks coming back from that shop we often met many of those girls. I personally met Jilly Johnson, Gillian Duxberry, Linda Lusardi, Samantha Fox, Jackie Sewell & Jane Warner.

One particular day met one of those girls on her own & she gave a wonderful smile but as she walked past, gave me a puzzled look.
Several months later, a couple of colleagues & I were outside the office smoking when she walked past, stopped & waved me over. Had a lovely chat & when she asked me a question, I just nodded my head & smiled. My colleagues were envious.

They bugged me all afternoon to tell them what we chatted about.

I knew her 5 years earlier when I worked the Metropolitan Line & she travelled on it to college/work, she was a stunner even then :-)

Edit an addendum to previous post. Martin Shaw at the time lived in Lordship Road with his girlfriend (at the time) I lived in the next street - Yoakley Road. Also living in Lordship Road was Pauline Quirke & often saw & said hello to in our local pub. Shortly before starting work on the trains & living in that area, met Marc Bolan in our local.

In those times people were more friendly & approachable unlike today's celebrities. Sad reflection of our times I'm afraid :-(

Edited for spelling error :-)

The times were different.

That they were :-) Hard maybe, especially pay wise. One of the worst "famous" people I ever met was a Peer of the Realm - Lord Arran while working as a messenger boy for the London Evening News. Seeing him drunk as a skunk entering the lift at Northcliffe House on a Wednesday morning on his way to his office to produce his Weds column was often hilarious.

Unfortunately, he was an ignorant & arrogant PoS :-(

I read that Trump has blamed the war of 1812 as the national security reason for sanctions on Canadian metals.

So much for Trump's claim to be highly educated. He has failed at History.

Would any of that be possible today?
I very much doubt it.

In the US not.
However in our Nordic countries it happens all the time.
It's part of our view how democracy should work that we can meet and even sometimes have a small chat with our elected politicians.
My list.
Beatrice Ask former foreign minister. She, "Bettan" lived next door to me and quite often had a coffe on a street coffe place just around the block.
Tomas Boström also former foreign minister. Same neighborhood where he sometimes came in for a pint at the local bar after work.
Sten Andersson also former foreign minister. An other neighborhood meeting him, "Stene" at the postoffice, in the subway and in the liquor store. He even had some chats with the local alcoholics who was hanging outside the store.
Bosse Ringholm former financial minister and vice Prime minister. At the grocery store where he was chating with a customer, standing in my way so I had to push him in order to get through:)
Gösta Bohman former financial minister. Met him in a departement store together with his daughter who later married Carl Bildt former Prime minister and also foreign minister. Gösta had a summerplace where I also had a summerplace.
My mother was a friend of the Mayor of Stockholm's mother. Met her many times.
My grandfather. He was in the City Council of Örebro a couple of years. His father was Axel Robert Lundblad, https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Robert_Lundblad
Lundblad was a parliamentary member in the second chamber of 1906-1908 and from 1912, until 1908 for the constituency of the southern domsaga of Västmanland County, and from 1912 for the western constituency of Västmanland County.