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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

    in Morning Joe

    13 hours ago, teddysmom said:

    Did I catch Mika saying that she too was the child of immigrants, during the convo on Lt Col Vindman? Can't not make it about yourself, can you Meeks?  

    We're all descendants of immigrants.  And while we're tossing around ancestry,  I'm a Daughter of the American Revolution, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.  My 3rd great grandfather served in the Revolutionary War.  

    I notice we're jumping on the "don't look up old tweets  or comments trying to bring people down" trope this morning. I can't imagine where this is coming from. 

    BTW Joe, your Poindexter glasses don't make you look smarter, you just look douchier than you did yesterday wearing shorts with a sports coat. 

    Why do I feel like I'm watching Jaws 3D when it comes to Mika's boobs?  I keep thinking they're going to come thru the screen & bite me. 

    13 hours ago, teddysmom said:

    Did I catch Mika saying that she too was the child of immigrants, during the convo on Lt Col Vindman? Can't not make it about yourself, can you Meeks?  

    We're all descendants of immigrants.  And while we're tossing around ancestry,  I'm a Daughter of the American Revolution, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.  My 3rd great grandfather served in the Revolutionary War.  

    I notice we're jumping on the "don't look up old tweets  or comments trying to bring people down" trope this morning. I can't imagine where this is coming from. 

    BTW Joe, your Poindexter glasses don't make you look smarter, you just look douchier than you did yesterday wearing shorts with a sports coat. 

    Why do I feel like I'm watching Jaws 3D when it comes to Mika's boobs?  I keep thinking they're going to come thru the screen & bite me. 

    Two of my 5th great grandfathers fought in the Revolution....another one fought for the “other” side. 

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    Small Talk: Cup O' Joe

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    3 hours ago, izabella said:

    I wonder if Joe, Heileman, and all the others opining about their stellar VIP private insurance plans have ever read a single word of Warren's or anyone's Medicare for All plans.  Or perused the NIH plan which has home visits for new mothers and elderly and disabled care.  Or seen that people pay nothing for surgeries and cancer care instead of paying the 10% or 20% or 30% that insurance doesn't cover even after premiums, deductibles and copays.  Or looked at how little the Brits pay for drugs, a few dollars.  Or that it's not tied to your job.

    If they actually read the plans or studied other nation's plans, they'd see that they are actually better than what even their VIP private insurance offers, which they lose, of course, if they lose their jobs.  I wish they would actually talk about the specifics of the plans instead of just dismissing them outright as being bad for people with great private insurance.

    Around 5 years ago I had a $300,000 hospital bill. I had no co-pay/my insurance paid for everything. 
     

    I only have to pay for doctors visits which is $20-25, and meds which are $10 each. 

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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

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    3 hours ago, teddysmom said:

    Does that cafe have the a/c set on 50? Who wears a sweater in FL in almost July?  They're like the people in AZ who wear winter coats when it's 65 degrees. 

    What’s wrong with wearing a coat in 65* weather?  Here in SoCal 65* is freezing ass cold. 

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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

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    8 hours ago, oakville said:

    Kasie said voters won't give up their private insurance. Kasie is happy with her plan.

    I’m a  liberal in a lot of things, but I worked my ass off for 35 years for my medical benefits. why should I be forced to give up the benefits I earned  for something  that would be subpar and I’d have to pay for?

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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

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    5 hours ago, WhineandCheez said:

    7:20 AM  Women are VOTING IN THE RAIN in Southern California!  Joe, I lived in San Diego for 18 years, and no one is Voting In The Rain there unless it's March!

    S08.00: The Last Watch

    in Game Of Thrones

    1 hour ago, MrWhyt said:

    the actors gets lots of interviews and other screen time. Why not show some of the lesser famous people who produce the show.

    1 hour ago, MrWhyt said:

    the actors gets lots of interviews and other screen time. Why not show some of the lesser famous people who produce the show.

    Ok, that’s fine, interview the behind the scenes people and the extra ....but not for 2 whole hours...IMO it was a boring wasted 2 hours I’ll never get back 

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    S08.00: The Last Watch

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    What a complete waste of 2 hours. I swear the amount of time they wasted on intervening the extra,  the people behind the scenes, the lady serving lunch, and the foul mouthed lady whose every other word out of her mouth was f.ck  would have been better served talking to the actors. 

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    Small Talk: Cup O' Joe

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    16 hours ago, suomi said:

    OK, Small Talkers, in the spirit of what this thread is for, I look forward to reading what you might decide to share. Who are the immigrants in your family? Do you have funny or sad or heartwarming stories? I figured I'd start this angle because immigrants have always been an issue in every country. Our Canadian friend oakville has mentioned his Greek heritage and his dad being fished out of the drink during WWII. Every immigrant has a face and a name and a story and they belong to someone. Do you have Native American heritage? I have some Cherokee on my mom's side but she said I lost my share with my first nosebleed, heh heh. Was your family here during the Civil War? My mom's people were. Did your immigrant ancestors serve in the wars of their adopted countries? Which ones? Were they respected while doing it, for doing it? My dad enlisted in the Army Air Corps (before it became the Air Force) the day after Pearl Harbor. I hope this doesn't bore everyone. If so, I will slink away ... 

    oakville recently said he saw my username on a hockey sweater in a store. In Finnish, Suomi = Finland. The language most closely related to Finnish is Estonian and Finns and Estonians can understand each other. Hungarian is also related to Finnish but Hungarians and Finns can't understand each other so I don't get how that supposed relation works. (All three are Uralic languages).

    In 1918 my Finnish grandpa emigrated to America because he feared being conscripted during the Russian Civil War when both sides were grabbing anyone they could get, Russian or not. (Finland shares a border with Russia). Remember, in Dr Zhivago, when Yuri was snagged by the partisans while he was riding his horse from Yuryatin to Varykino? Like that. It happened every day. Grandpa came through Ellis Island and sent for his wife a year later after he earned the money for her passage. She came through Canada and I suspect she was illegal because the family goes radio silence when I ask about Ellis v Canada. They settled in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where 14 of their 15 kids were born (their first baby died in Finland). Finns are notoriously reticent so they like their space and their forests and the UP, like Finland, was (and still is) sparsely populated and heavily forested. The men worked as loggers and iron ore and copper miners. My dad didn't learn English until he started school when he was 6. He was scared to death because some older boys told him the teachers were mean. So he was very relieved the first day when his teacher greeted him in Finnish with a big smile and a gentle manner. She said "Welcome, little one. Today we will use the language you know but tomorrow you will start learning to be an American and we speak English in the classroom because it will help you in life." True to her word, she never spoke Finnish again and he said learning English was a breeze because she was so kind and patient. 

    Storekeepers hired first generation kids because they were bi-lingual and translated for the Finnish, Swedish, Cornish and Italian housewives who shopped in town. (My dad raved about everyone who played the immigrant roles in Godfather II because they were authentically groomed and dressed and looked like the immigrant Italians in his town). Grandpa Jaakko (for Jacob, pronounced Yahko) was an iron ore miner but he wanted better for his sons so during high school my dad got a job in the grocery store and he enjoyed observing the daily parade of characters. Immigrant adults learned some English but usually relied on Finnglish; a few (like Grandpa) spoke English well. There were some sounds they couldn't pronounce, like "sh" and "th." Anyway, long freakin' story short, my dad got a kick out of the elders who were unintentionally funny. A lot of us have trouble with idioms in our own language let alone another language, right? When you thanked them for doing something nice, like holding a door open for you, older Finnish men wanted to say something more than "You're welcome," something like "No biggie" or "Think nothing of it." But what came out was "Oh, sit, dat ain't nuttin'." (Oh, shit, that ain't nothin' ... they evidently had no problem learning naughty words). So my dad heard that every day in the grocery store and around town and he and I always said it to each other: daily life, opening gifts on Christmas morning, always. He was bi-lingual for life and I used to trip the hell out listening to him when he called his parents every Sunday until they died. He's gone now and I really miss the old coot. Say ya to da UP, eh?

    I know a little bit of my dads moms side of the family. Some of my ancestors immigrated to this country from Germany in the early 1700’s. They planned to immigrate to Pennsylvania but the captian of the ship highjacked it and brought them to Germanna Virginia  where they were sold as indentured servants to Governor  Spotswood. They were in the second group of people who  settled in Germanna. They  along with other Germanna settlers eventually sued Govenor Spotswood for their freedom. my 7th great grandfather Majer ( pronounced Moyer)was awarded a land grant in what is now Tennessee for fighting at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. My  other 7th great grand father Blackburns family immigrated from Ireland  in the early 1700’s. He and his brother  fought in the Revolutionary War also  but at The Battle of Kings  Mountain.  His brother was killed during the battle, my GGF  and was awarded a land grant in what is now Tennessee. 

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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

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    6 hours ago, WhineandCheez said:

    They did but I'm still waiting for an early viewer to tell us why they started down that entire old song riff.

    Johnny Reznick had the best hair..

    IMO Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder had the best hair....

    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

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    2 hours ago, WhineandCheez said:

    Mika is such an elitist. "I walked out of the first Star Wars."  Mika, you were 10 when it came out--just where did you go to when you walked out, the playground? I hate that humblebragging shit--I don't watch TV, I don't engage in lowbrow popular culture.

    Why is someone called an elitist when they don’t like something other people do? I was a 9 year old when Star Wars came out and I didn’t like it either, and I’m far from being an elitist. 

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