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Get ready USA.

Aug 1, 2017 1:55PM PDT

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People really get excited about eclipses
Aug 1, 2017 2:29PM PDT

Yet, unless you are in the darkest zone, the outlying regions might think a thick cloud passed over the sun, unless they bothered to look up. Probably be like that here in Maryland.

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True James.
Aug 1, 2017 2:57PM PDT

I remember the last one in the UK, 1999 I believe. It did look a bit eerie but not darkness.
Dafydd.

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The gods are angry!!!
Aug 1, 2017 3:08PM PDT

We're all gonna die!!!

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About to go dark
Aug 1, 2017 7:03PM PDT

No...things already are dark, take a look at the crew that's running the government.

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(NT) NT - Obama's gone
Aug 1, 2017 7:23PM PDT
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He might be back
Aug 1, 2017 10:20PM PDT

With the crew that's in there now.

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The President is a golfer.
Aug 1, 2017 11:00PM PDT

Can he take a mulligan on his first hundred days or whatever?

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Being left in the dark is what one gets
Aug 2, 2017 5:08AM PDT

from getting all of the information used to formulate their opinions from the loudest of major media/social media outlets and the entertainment industry. I could argue that, until recently, these folks had more influence on who was running the government than they do right now...and they're not one bit happy about it. Perhaps one reason we have this current "crew" in place is not because of who they are but because of who they are not.

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correct
Aug 2, 2017 7:07AM PDT

When given a choice between a pack of wolves and a barrel of monkeys, the choice for some is obvious.

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Yup
Aug 2, 2017 8:41AM PDT

Bad and worse.....that's what I thought about the last election.
Which way do you go?

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I'm sitting back and enjoying the fun
Aug 2, 2017 9:16AM PDT
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(NT) Hey! Don't just cite them, quote them!
Aug 21, 2017 6:08AM PDT
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We did this to ourselves.
Aug 2, 2017 12:24PM PDT

We deserve this but we can make it a "teachable moment" if we're only 1/2 smart and stop blaming the wrong people. Trump didn't attach the White House an take it by force so don't fault him for being there.

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I'm not blaming trump
Aug 2, 2017 12:56PM PDT

I thought he was ill suited for the job when he was running for prez.
So far he has not done anything to change my opinion.

I did not much care for Clinton either.

Bad and worse.

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Yes..His credentials were poor, IMO
Aug 2, 2017 1:34PM PDT

and so were Obama's. He was a narrowly focused activist trained in the art of giving little people bigger voices. That's not necessarily a bad quality but it's not a quality I consider appropriate for leadership of a large nation of diverse thoughts and objectives. I also don't know why the Democrats put all of their eggs into one basket. I have an idea about this but I'd not want to state it as fact. We do, IMO, have two very dysfunctional political parties who have been trading places and doing little more than fighting with one another using the public media as their weapon of choice. The public media has not, however, been fair in how they distribute the ordnance they are given. This leaves too many citizens in virtual darkness. They become frustrated, angry and unable to reason. We're like a bunch of bobbleheads in front of our TVs tuned to the station of our choice and with no idea that the picture is much larger than it appears. I say it's time to end the monopoly these two parties use as a stranglehold on our form of democracy. Drain the swamp, as it were.

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Agree
Aug 2, 2017 8:29PM PDT

If voters would start sending more centrist people to Washington perhaps the two sides could sit down and get something done, make sausage.

Now were sending far left and far right people and it's close to treason to agree with the other side.

The result is either nothing gets done or we lurch left and then right, it's a heck of a way to run a country.

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(NT) And yet, some seem habituated to it ...
Aug 21, 2017 6:01AM PDT
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Rare phenomenon
Aug 1, 2017 11:19PM PDT

This is once in a lifetime. Wow, I wish i was in the States.

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A bit of light entertainment.
Aug 20, 2017 4:23PM PDT

Post was last edited on August 20, 2017 4:24 PM PDT

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A well-intentioned Welshman posts an informative
Aug 21, 2017 5:51AM PDT

link about celestial mechanics, and Yanks turn it into a political controversy.
Dafydd, you Mods don't get paid enough!

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We're all volunteers DR.
Aug 21, 2017 3:35PM PDT

But I note your comment on the hijacking of threads.
Dafydd. Wink

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My wife heard about a woman who called
Aug 21, 2017 5:59AM PDT

in to a chat show to say, 'It's at a very bad time for our family. Can we get it rescheduled?'
Here in NM, one of the sunniest states, we're socked in this AM. I thought Jehovah was on our side!!!

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(NT) There is a God! The sun is shining!
Aug 21, 2017 8:50AM PDT
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Not much here.
Aug 21, 2017 11:27AM PDT

I got a neighbor, a Dutchman, some kinda painter. Anyway, he says he'll make me a camera to watch the eclipse. Camera? Just a hole punched in a piece of tin!
Got a cute little assistant, though.