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Re: Yeah! More COVID - 2 months ago

QuoteRgrF So you're concerned about how COVID effects people but not concerned about how guns effect people? The passion is appreciated, but even for compartmentalization there is a time and a place. 7. No stalking. If you start following someone around just to kick them in the balls every chance you get, say "adios". (Not playing mod, I’d just hate to lose your contributi

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Re: team Me?!....5 Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ Pride-themed jerseys..... - 2 months ago

Quotetestcase Let me see if I understand this correctly: The LGBTQ community wants to be accepted as they are BUT do NOT want to be accepting of those who disagree with them feel their mere existence is some kind of violation or abomination. Sounds about right in our "woke" politically correct condition we all find ourselves in. FTFY

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Re: Kid shoots man in back and is not arrested - 2 months ago

I applaud both your snark and your commitment to the bit. QuoteAcer Heavily sarcastic post. Trigger warning. Hide spoiler

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Re: team Me?!....5 Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ Pride-themed jerseys..... - 2 months ago

A little torn on this one. I liked the statement by the pitcher, Jason Adam (I am giving benefit of the doubt, and assuming sincerity on his part), even though it could be read as a little self contradictory. So, while I disagree, having a stance of limited support on an issue is not always invalid. Quote”Cyd Zeigler, founder of LGBTQ sports site Outsports, denounced the players' decision to

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Re: the year of living dangerously?!....Treasury says Social Security will last 1 year longer..... - 2 months ago

QuoteAcer And it's not "last." SS can keep paying benefits, but they would have to be reduced to something like 75% of original. I don't have a link handy, but IIRC, interestingly, the problem is the Baby Boomer bolus. If you run the timeline out, the shortfall begins to correct itself. CNBC ”If Congress fails to act by the time the main Social Security trust fund is depleted,

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Texas. Home of out of the coffin thinking. - 2 months ago

I mean “box”. Out of the ”box” thinking. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Clickable

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Re: Are knives next? - 2 months ago

RacerX, at first you struck me as being reasonable, just possessed of a viewpoint outside of that offered by most here. But your position has degraded rapidly into one dominated by sophistry and straw men. It is obvious to all, including you I would think, that you’re not moving the needle in the slightest in advancing your point. So that points towards — given that despite everything you

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Re: the year of living dangerously?!....Treasury says Social Security will last 1 year longer..... - 2 months ago

Not an end of the world thing, but the scare title of the thread is not cool. SS is not a joking matter for a lot of people.

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Re: OMFG. - 2 months ago

QuoteRAMd®d Rep Louie Gohmert on Navarro indictment: "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you" That's an actual quote, not a forum editorialization. I had to follow the link to get the 'actual' quote. Maybe I shouldn't be by now, but I'm stunned. I think the sea change we’ve seen, that has badly damaged t

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Re: This would freak me out if I were there - 2 months ago

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Re: BoobTube Tonight?!....Season P: 'The Boys'_'Physical'_'P-Valley' / 'Fire Island' movie.... - 2 months ago

The Boys! w00t! Quick trip to Urgent Care (Cuz I is dumb. Went down some stairs with 14 steps. Only took 13 1/2 steps.) Then it’s pizza and “Boys” time!! (I think that maybe sounded funny…)

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Re: BoobTube Tonight?!....Season P: 'The Orville' / Season F: 'Under the Banner of Heaven'.... - 2 months ago

“Under the Banner of Heaven” has been absolutely riveting. It’s a bit of a deep dive into the Mormon faith, but for me, the struggle this initiates for so many of the characters is what has drawn me in. Completely hooked.

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Re: Reminder: MO police shoot pregnant Black woman 5 times - 2 months ago

The image released by authorities.

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Re: Michael Avenatti sentenced to 4 years for stealing nearly $300K from Stormy Daniels - 2 months ago

Man, oh man. It will never happen, but it would be so fascinating if it were somehow possible to read a verbatim transcript of the thoughts of someone as completely corrupt and dishonest as this. Just to hear the disdain for others, the entitlement, the undistilled greed and selfishness, the language all that uses in its internal dialog.

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Re: Out of the mouths of babes. The Constitution, “an old outdated paper”? - 2 months ago

QuoteRacer X There are literally billions who wish they could have what we have. Is that an argument against improving it?

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Out of the mouths of babes. The Constitution, “an old outdated paper”? - 2 months ago

I was on another site, reading about the Oklahoma hospital shooting, and in the comments section someone I can only imagine was a younger respondent, was bemoaning that Republicans “…care more about assault weapons and an old outdated paper than the lives of innocent Americans.”, referring to the Bill of Rights and the second amendment. Gun arguments immediately flew to the back of my m

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Re: Breaking- Multiple deaths in Tulsa hospital shooting - 2 months ago

Maybe it’s time. Just get it over with. Mass Shooting News Network

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Re: Uvalde teacher did NOT leave door open. (I'm sure the apologies will pour in) - 2 months ago

QuoteOmbligo Not to be troublesome but a question I have not heard addressed is if the classroom door (not the outside door) was locked, how did he get in the classroom? There was already a shooting taking place, why would they open it? From the latest timelines I’m reading, and the accounts that he was in fact not confronted by anyone before gaining entrance to the school, my read is that th

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Dem. Senator Chris Murphy, “There have been 18 mass shootings SINCE Uvalde.“ - 2 months ago

Twitter “FYI this isn't stopping. There have been 18 mass shootings SINCE Uvalde. You need to know this. Because it's not going to stop until we do something. 1/ Here's just a sampling of the slaughter in the last six days: Last night 10 people were shot at an outdoor party in down Charleston, South Carolina. Four people are in critical condition. A pregnant woman was one of the vic

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Re: Uvalde teacher did NOT leave door open. (I'm sure the apologies will pour in) - 2 months ago

The NYT podcast, “The Daily”, reports that there was more than a little frustration amongst the officers in the school at the order to hold back. But they held to the chain of command.

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Re: Uvalde teacher did NOT leave door open. (I'm sure the apologies will pour in) - 2 months ago

Wait. Wait. Wait. She knew school doors should locked. She KNEW it. Yet she didn’t have the common sense and professional pride, let alone basic love for her students, to acquire locksmithing skills and do daily checks for functionality of all locks in the quadrant of the school where her classroom is? We can only whine about ‘simple human error’ so far. People have to at least try.

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Re: Was the fetus concealed carrying?: MO police shoot pregnant Black woman 5 times - 2 months ago

”… the man ran off and officers followed him while the woman exited the car with her hands up. The officer told her to get on the ground, which she refused, explaining that she was pregnant. The officers approached her with guns drawn and after she took a few steps away, they opened fire five times. The male suspect got out of the car and ran. They chased him. The pregnant, female sus

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Re: DUI?!....Pelosi's husband arrested on suspicion of DUI..... - 2 months ago

I wonder if he has any kind of history in this regard? must… not… put on… tinfoil… HAT…

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Re: Still not convinced MT Greene is a blithering idiot? - 2 months ago

How has she not breached the threshold where they simply tell you that, “You are profoundly stupid and very possibly mentally disturbed. We’re sorry, but you can’t have this job anymore.”? I mean, that line in the sand is way in the rear view mirror. So?

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Re: "Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive." - 2 months ago

QuoteSpeedy QuoteAcer Nah, Canada had 1/69th the population the USA does. Canada 38m divided by USA 335m = 1/69. It’s late, but I think you need to check your math. Current Canadian population. 37,894,799 Current US population: 332,278,200 332,278,200 x 11.4%= 38,879,715 332,278,200 x 1/9= ~37,000,000 (Here’s hoping my math isn’t too sleep deprived. )

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Re: "Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive." - 2 months ago

The point chopper and SD refer isn’t irrelevant to this specific situation. However, it’s only relevance is that humans are human and human error will occur at tragically bad times. It is also wholly irrelevant to any incredibly serious discussion that dwarfs fine tooth combing through any single tragedy. Personally, if mentioned at all, I would only note my feelings of sorrow for anyo

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Re: not kidding-How soon until the next few? - 2 months ago

Quotevision63 The next ones wlll be perpetrated by some nimrod groovin' on all the attention and anguish this one is generating. Although, I’m guessing the NRA and gun manufacturers are pleased as can be about the police crash and burn having stolen the spotlight. Before this, the outrage was threatening to nudge a tipping point they know is coming. Now, it’s all about ‘coward cops’.

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Re: true blue?!....HBO's 'True Detective' Season 4 gets lead actor.... - 2 months ago

Looking forward to it. I’ve liked all three seasons so far, and can’t wait to see what Foster comes up with. RAMd®d, have you seen (maybe even recommended) “The Fall”, with Gillian Anderson? That was a real treat; an interesting turn for her.

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Okay. Okay. So a rape threat here. One or two threats to shoot up a school there. But, you know, who knew? Teenagers, amiright? - 2 months ago

Reps from the social media platform, Yubo, says they’re “deeply saddened by this unspeakable loss” and that the killer’s account has “since been banned from the platform". It’s all good, right? CNN Salvador Ramos told girls he would rape them, showed off a rifle he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the social media app Yubo, according to several use

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Re: Cawthorn admits $250,000 crypto grift (he's a crook) - 2 months ago

“Let’s Go Brandon” cryptocurrency. Seriously?

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