You don't bring me flowers...you don't sing me love songs... Sunday greetings, all you Wonkers who are inexplicably not off doing three-day weekend things! That includes Yr Dok Zoom, so here we are with another of our Senate Sunday Spectaculars, where we look at one of the 2016 U.S. Senate races, including even the likely blowouts, which are still fun because there's always interesting stuff to find out about the candidates. Since we're all star-spangled and Independencey this weekend, let's look at a state where the Revolutionary War got rolling! Massachussetts, home to Lexington and Concord and the Tea Party and Paul Revere's Ride, when he was firin' those guns and
THIS is the real "feel good" story! I'm all for that nice refugee who found love and acceptance in Boise, but we all saw that coming. Now, a candidate with $122 in the bank and another who's pursuing a degree even more useless than mine (what the fuck is Applied Theater? !?!11!)...this makes me feel good! Thanks wonkette!
(oh hush. We know where Yankee Stadium is, but there was no Battle of the Bronx).
I say AHEM, good sir!! :
"The Battle of Pell's Point (October 18, 1776), also known as the Battle of Pelham, was a skirmish fought between British and American troops during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The conflict took place in what is now part of Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, New York City."
I know this because I grew up right by the park; there's a monument of piled boulders with a plaque that we climbed on as kids. And for the 1976 Bicentennial there was a re-enactment of the battle, which was exciting for a 7 year old. :)
(Really, we're proud that the Bronx was a part of the American Revolution, it matters. There really was a Battle in the Bronx, my old neighborhood 200 years before. 1776 was a badass year! And personally, I love my childhood right by Pelham Bay Park. Read something tonight that it's one of the best places to raise kids in NYC. I agree. Hey you lazy Brooklyn hipsters, get your asses up to explore amazing Pelham Bay Park. It's three times the size of Central Park, it's still NYC, it has beaches (Orchard) and forests and 18th century mansions you can tour, set in teeming meadows, you won't believe you're still in the city. But you shall be. Totally worth a day trip, you should check it out, if you're adventurous.)
Out here in BFE, we are so blessed with votes as to have a very votey chapter of the Oaf Keepers. The blessed voters meet every month and seeing the notice in the paper makes me feel very Constutional, indeed.
Also useful (before about 1830) in setting fire to the villages of Native Americans and taking their land. Again, mostly in the south; up north (in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana) the professional army got sent in behind the settlers (who didn't pretend to form a militia before murdering "savages" wholesale).
I was a 'Contract Specialist.'
Do Greens win anywhere?
Applied theater is something that will stick to you for life.
THIS is the real "feel good" story! I'm all for that nice refugee who found love and acceptance in Boise, but we all saw that coming. Now, a candidate with $122 in the bank and another who's pursuing a degree even more useless than mine (what the fuck is Applied Theater? !?!11!)...this makes me feel good! Thanks wonkette!
...For the blind...
I feel your pain as a fellow Lakamunni sufferer. Thoughts and prayer (can't afford multiple prayers in this economy).
AOT,K
(oh hush. We know where Yankee Stadium is, but there was no Battle of the Bronx).
I say AHEM, good sir!! :
"The Battle of Pell's Point (October 18, 1776), also known as the Battle of Pelham, was a skirmish fought between British and American troops during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The conflict took place in what is now part of Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, New York City."
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I know this because I grew up right by the park; there's a monument of piled boulders with a plaque that we climbed on as kids. And for the 1976 Bicentennial there was a re-enactment of the battle, which was exciting for a 7 year old. :)
(Really, we're proud that the Bronx was a part of the American Revolution, it matters. There really was a Battle in the Bronx, my old neighborhood 200 years before. 1776 was a badass year! And personally, I love my childhood right by Pelham Bay Park. Read something tonight that it's one of the best places to raise kids in NYC. I agree. Hey you lazy Brooklyn hipsters, get your asses up to explore amazing Pelham Bay Park. It's three times the size of Central Park, it's still NYC, it has beaches (Orchard) and forests and 18th century mansions you can tour, set in teeming meadows, you won't believe you're still in the city. But you shall be. Totally worth a day trip, you should check it out, if you're adventurous.)
Out here in BFE, we are so blessed with votes as to have a very votey chapter of the Oaf Keepers. The blessed voters meet every month and seeing the notice in the paper makes me feel very Constutional, indeed.
Yes, I worked retail many years. I feel ya, man.Amazon Prime is my BFF. (be careful what you wish for)
Also useful (before about 1830) in setting fire to the villages of Native Americans and taking their land. Again, mostly in the south; up north (in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana) the professional army got sent in behind the settlers (who didn't pretend to form a militia before murdering "savages" wholesale).
Not all that thrilled with Chuck Schumer (D, Wall Street), but Gillibrand is great. And we finally get to wave good-bye to Charlie Rangel.
Testify, sibling! I just got home from work myself.
Yes.It's either that or drive 300 miles.
I found parts of Oregon kinda shooty. Very disturbing...then later moved to Texas...now I know what shooty really can be.
Puppet theater?