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In an interview Vince spoke of being asked to join Dire Straits. He had already signed on for his country music contract. .... just imagine if he had been available lol. He would have enjoyed a different sound of success. It's a thrill to see him at every Crossroads Festival and his interviews of being part of that. God bless him.
I’ve heard it said that if you have Vince Gill or Emmylou Harris on your projects you have added in the absolute best vocals to your blend. I would add Alison Krauss to that list.
There is only one way to avoid the same demise of all prior civilizations and empires: get a clue*. *as defined by a certain philosophy that deals with Broader Survival
American Exceptionalism is a horrible stain and is just prideful nonsense from a hegemonic power that seeks to make excuses for the crimes commited to achieve that power, in contrast to these supposed lofty ideals we strive for. Well if you don't hold to those values in real life and only on paper, then they're not really values.
You are drawing a somewhat long bow in arguing for precedents in classical antiquity. I look rather to two more recent and virtually modern examples, both religious: Judaism and Calvinism. The former because it posits the permanent uniqueness - 'choseness by God' - of just one particular (presumably) ethnocentic group from among the human 'race' as a single entirety within itself; and the latter because it too similarly teaches the arbitrary election, both to damnation and hence to salvation in the act of double predestinarianism, again by the Deity - only this time, a new Deity. The latter case, salvation, comprises a particular, read 'exceptional', sectarian division within the Christian community. It is arguable that Calvinism is an even more pernicious manifestation of the same psychological pathology, since it proposes that one can act with utmost impunity, for example, even murder, and nonetheless, still be saved, since works have no bearing on the ultimate destiny of the individual. My actions, whether for good or for evil, do not matter. This emphasises to the point of the absurd, the arbitrary and capricious nature of God,. (Who not infrequently chooses one individual over and against another; for example Abraham over his brother (nephew?, the biblical text is inconsistent) Lot; Moses over Aaron; Jacob over Esau; Joseph over his brothers.) In the first, the process is skewed by dint of birthright, that is, by ethnicity, by blood; and in the second, by the intentional process, the will to believe a particular creed. Both have been formative and damaging influences on the American psyche. They militate against humanist universalism. My response - if there is such a being, a benevolent God, then humankind in its fullness must bear that God's 'image and likeness'.
Seems to me that if you can use that increase in wealth as an asset it should be taxable. Using the home’s increase in value example if you use the homes increased value to borrow money against that increased value it becomes income.
Absolutely nothing is special about the word “republic”: Iran is a republic; the former USSR was a group of republics; North Korea is a republic. At this country’s founding, direct elections of representatives to Congress was standard-and that is democracy. Sometime later, Senators were directly elected by the people. No, America is not a pure democracy; it’s not a pure republic either, and it never has been. The founders never included the word slavery in the Constitution, but they supported it in the Constitution. They played with words and concepts. This video is pure propaganda! Strange that these video makers enshrine themselves in the desires of the Founders, while nary a word is mentioned about the Founders considering political parties an evil to the very Republic they claim to venerate- they have hidden motivations…that’s why. Republic has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Party. A republic simply means “a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.” Democracy simply means “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” The Founders advocated a representative democracy in the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy. That’s why Supreme Court justices-folk who understand the Constitution and its history far better than these frauds-refer to American democracy. Get Woke!
