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Originally posted by Flynnie View PostWhere’s rejoining the Iran nuclear deal?
Biden wants to rejoin the deal that was negotiated by President Barack Obama's administration, in which Biden was the vice president. For many in Israel, this would be a strategic mistake and present an existential threat to Israeli national security.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-n...ad-war-1545468
But for obvious reasons it may be done a bit further down the line, rather than immediately and with fanfare.Last edited by Lurgee; 08-11-2020, 06:54.
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'Live music'? What, like a house band?
I don't think I could... erm, well let's just say I think I'd find it pretty distracting to have Jools Holland and his band boogie-woogieing in the corner of the bedroom while I was trying to do anything.
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Ross has always stolen everything from Letterman, though.
A band to provide musical accompaniment to a guest doing a turn is fair enough. I meant in the case of providing "banter" and weird musical stings under the host monologues.
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I think that house bands on chat shows are actually a carry over from the days of variety shows on radio in the 30s and 40s, when the format featured more full numbers and a greater proportion of music in general.
The still current incarnation became dogma with Doc Severinsen on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show
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Doesn't even have to be bands, either. The Price is Right has featured the voiceover guy (current incarnation: George Gray) almost as much as the host over the years, and the extent to which it's been about the bantz has increased as time has passed.
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I learned today that Biden had his honeymoon (the second one, with Jlll) at Lake Balaton in Hungary. In 1977. A US senator having his honeymoon behind the iron curtain must have raised a few eyebrows, no?
(closely linked to his very close friendship with Tom Lantos, a congressman and Hungarian holocaust survivor)
(Anyway this is all good news because it strongly suggests he's not going to overlook Orban's shit)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/u...gressives.htmlIs there a universe in which they’re hostile enough that we’re talking about a Senate run in a couple years?
I genuinely don’t know. I don’t even know if I want to be in politics. You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn’t even know if I was going to run for re-election this year.
Really? Why?
It’s the incoming. It’s the stress. It’s the violence. It’s the lack of support from your own party. It’s your own party thinking you’re the enemy. When your own colleagues talk anonymously in the press and then turn around and say you’re bad because you actually append your name to your opinion.
I chose to run for re-election because I felt like I had to prove that this is real. That this movement was real. That I wasn’t a fluke. That people really want guaranteed health care and that people really want the Democratic Party to fight for them.
But I’m serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere — they’re probably the same.
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