Watch this onThe Scene. Gosh, remember what a terrific president Saint Ronald Reagan was, what with taking credit for ending the USSR and taking credit for a mild economic expansion (but not for either recession during his terms), and Making America Proud Again? Oh, and how it took until 1985, after more than 5000 people had died of AIDS, for Reagan to say the name of the disease? It was his second term, so he could say it without electoral backlash, and besides,
I always resolve the use of that old term by reminding myself that there are some, gay and straight *, who deny their sexuality or refuse to act upon it, that's the way they choose to live their life. Equally there are people of all sexualities who choose to be hyperactive.
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* Rare but it does happen, a director/choreographer of Northern Dance Theatre had to take the role of being gay because of his profession - this was back in the 70s
Well foo. I thought I threw the whole phrase in the search, in addition to translate, but I guess not. (I should have been able to guess anyway: Choleryeh -> Cholera -> plague, and how many phrases include the word plague?)
This past September marked the 450th anniversary of the founding of our little city. It was already 211 years old when the 13 English colonies, to the north, decided to band together and rebel against their king...
That might have been a good strategy a few decades ago, but by now we've pissed off so many people, for so many reasons, that they'll be hating and attacking us for generations. See also: quagmire.
I'm with you on that. I lost all my close friends during that time. I used to wonder why I was the last one standing. Then I got my diagnosis. Two doctors told me I would be dead in six to eight months. Than I met the guy who said not so fast, a physicians assistant, and got into clinical trials. Like you say, sheer luck. It took years of therapy before I let people get close to me. I was scared of losing everyone, again.
4 Americans die in an attack= endless millions of tax payer money spent on endless hearings to find who is to blame and how we can keep it from happening!!!! (tm)
Thousands of Americans dying of an epidemic= time for a larf.I get it now. o.O
RR and Maggie were, in my opinion, cut from the self same cloth only they hid it behind false smiles and sound bites.
Hate is a strong word for anyone, but I do not think there are worser people to hate than those responsible for the deaths of millions and the displacement of millions more. Pol, Hitler, Stalin, Maggie, and Reagan, the only difference is three of them were more in the open about who they killed without mercy.
Were you a 12-yr old boy when it came out originally? If so, that feeling you have is NOSTALGIA. Get used to it. It happens more and more often as you age.
For a palette cleanser: the GLBT museum in San Francisco has audio archives of Randy Alfred's "The Gay Life" radio series, in covers among other things: the Briggs Initiative, Gay Pride parades, the Moscone-Milk assassinations, and the early years of the AIDS epidemic, including interviews with activists Cleve Jones, Bobbi Campbell and Bill Krause among others. http://www.glbthistory.org/...
Also, the phenomenal documentary "The Age of AIDS" from Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pag... If you haven't seen it, I would highly recommend it. It will make you feel sad, and ragey and devastated and moved and then even more sad again, but it's an incredible documentary.
299 Americans died in an attack in Beirut, the Dems. in Congress had hearings to sort out security without grandstanding and finger-pointing, but Reagan, unsatisfied, invaded Grenada.
I always resolve the use of that old term by reminding myself that there are some, gay and straight *, who deny their sexuality or refuse to act upon it, that's the way they choose to live their life. Equally there are people of all sexualities who choose to be hyperactive.
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* Rare but it does happen, a director/choreographer of Northern Dance Theatre had to take the role of being gay because of his profession - this was back in the 70s
As I put it "Mourning for America"
I have no doubt that they deserve it, but what language is it in? Google Translate drew a blank.
Ah, try searching the whole phrase instead of using a translator (why should I make it easy for anyone?)
Yep, that's what's known as "irony."
Well foo. I thought I threw the whole phrase in the search, in addition to translate, but I guess not. (I should have been able to guess anyway: Choleryeh -> Cholera -> plague, and how many phrases include the word plague?)
This past September marked the 450th anniversary of the founding of our little city. It was already 211 years old when the 13 English colonies, to the north, decided to band together and rebel against their king...
That might have been a good strategy a few decades ago, but by now we've pissed off so many people, for so many reasons, that they'll be hating and attacking us for generations. See also: quagmire.
I'm with you on that. I lost all my close friends during that time. I used to wonder why I was the last one standing. Then I got my diagnosis. Two doctors told me I would be dead in six to eight months. Than I met the guy who said not so fast, a physicians assistant, and got into clinical trials. Like you say, sheer luck. It took years of therapy before I let people get close to me. I was scared of losing everyone, again.
Bravo!!!!!
4 Americans die in an attack= endless millions of tax payer money spent on endless hearings to find who is to blame and how we can keep it from happening!!!! (tm)
Thousands of Americans dying of an epidemic= time for a larf.I get it now. o.O
RR and Maggie were, in my opinion, cut from the self same cloth only they hid it behind false smiles and sound bites.
Hate is a strong word for anyone, but I do not think there are worser people to hate than those responsible for the deaths of millions and the displacement of millions more. Pol, Hitler, Stalin, Maggie, and Reagan, the only difference is three of them were more in the open about who they killed without mercy.
Sorry about the repeated typo, will fix. I was obviously thinking of novelist Barbara Kingsolver, whose family solved larger problems than just kin.
Were you a 12-yr old boy when it came out originally? If so, that feeling you have is NOSTALGIA. Get used to it. It happens more and more often as you age.
For a palette cleanser: the GLBT museum in San Francisco has audio archives of Randy Alfred's "The Gay Life" radio series, in covers among other things: the Briggs Initiative, Gay Pride parades, the Moscone-Milk assassinations, and the early years of the AIDS epidemic, including interviews with activists Cleve Jones, Bobbi Campbell and Bill Krause among others. http://www.glbthistory.org/...
Also, the phenomenal documentary "The Age of AIDS" from Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pag... If you haven't seen it, I would highly recommend it. It will make you feel sad, and ragey and devastated and moved and then even more sad again, but it's an incredible documentary.
299 Americans died in an attack in Beirut, the Dems. in Congress had hearings to sort out security without grandstanding and finger-pointing, but Reagan, unsatisfied, invaded Grenada.