Losing the race

...I'm still waiting to hear if he has listened to the entirety of that youtube video.

You've lost me, Uncle Ken; to what YouTube video are you referring?  I think that I've seen all the video links but one or two may have slipped between the cracks.

I should have made myself more clear when I mentioned the earworm tunes because both of you guys assumed it was Irish music.  Not so.  The group was Irish but they sang older American songs, mostly, and had a good run in the early and middle 60s.  Only three guys, a pair of brothers and one of their friends.  Good voices with nice harmonies and YouTube has a few live versions if you want to check them out.  They are The Bachelors and they were still performing up until a few years ago and sounding pretty good.  The main earworm offenders are Diane and Marie, a couple of old songs, 1927 and 1947 respectively.  Cheesy and schmaltzy but sometimes that's how I roll.

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I'll reserve judgement on Uncle Ken's 5 point racism scale.  Does a preference for your own "kind" mean that you are racist?  I think not but that's another can of worms I'll leave on the shelf.

As far as I'm concerned, a major component of racism, racialism, or whatever you want to call it is simply silly bullshit and not in my best interest.  Suppose I don't like "those guys," or TGs for short.  I'm not about to refuse medical treatment because the doctor is one of TGs or refuse delivery of an Amazon package because the driver is one of TGs.  Taking a broader view, our society would fall apart if it was not for the efforts of certain groups of TGs.  I don't have to make TGs my new best friends but at least I should try to treat them with dignity and respect and not try to screw them over at every opportunity.

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The Epstein case is really something, isn't it?   I bet that guy is sitting on a lot of dirt, just waiting to use it if the price is right.  The guy was a nobody and yet he managed to hang out with heads of state, British Royalty, and the elite of Hollywood.  Something big is going on and will come crashing down, possibly toppling governments.  I remember the scandals with Christine Keeler in the 60s and what a mess that turned out to be.  But at least she was an adult, and a professional to boot, and not some barely post-pubescent teenage girl.  This is going to get very ugly and a lot of effort will be made to keep it under wraps.  We'll see.