Re: The world's population is well grounded - 4 weeks ago

Quotefreeradical I have flown so many times that I lost count a long time ago. Me too. For first flight I was only a baby. Even hold an (old) intermediate hang gliding certification.

Re: And so it begins. Racist text messages being sent to black students... - 4 weeks ago

divide et impera "... in politics refers to an entity gaining and maintaining political power by using divisive measures. This includes the exploitation of existing divisions within a political group by its political opponents, and also the deliberate creation or strengthening of such divisions."

Re: Trump's Chief of Staff-elect, Susie Wiles - 4 weeks ago

Quotevision63 The lust for power is corrosive. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Dalberg

Re: I think BTC nailed it... - 4 weeks ago

Quotemrbigstuff He's not wrong but he wants to be on equal footing to the NYT? is he delusional? So Joe Rogan was inconsequential in this election? Quotehal these are all the reasons that I won't get news info from social media 'influencers'... But you are not the "target" audience.

Re: TSLA (Tesla Stock) - 4 weeks ago

Quotekj Every time I visit another country it is so obvious selfishness is what really defines the US. Ah… forgetting Brexit perhaps?

This seems appropriate…yet again - 4 weeks ago

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” - H.L. Mencken

Re: Too little too late ... - 4 weeks ago

It’s been out there in quantity for 7 years! See The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump edited by Bandy Lee, published in 2017. “…containing essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the "clear and present danger" that US President Donald Trump's mental health poses to the "nation and individual well being" “A se

Re: "Women for Trump" - 4 weeks ago

Women for trump? There’s nothing about being a woman that endows one with common sense, ethical behavior, or honesty. MTG Bobbert Lake etc. Women are quite capable of being equal to men in duplicity, avarice, cravenness, and stupidity.

Re: Closing Moments for trump - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSteve G. I'm DISSATISFIED WITH 'Darth Fatter' Which would you like better: Darth Hitler? Darth Faker? Darth Liar? Darth Psycho? let me know and I'll change it. Darth Hater Darth Tater Darth Traitor

Re: A sign of the times - 5 weeks ago

(My post from almost precisely four years ago.) QuoteBill in NC Which President had busses parked all around? That would be Nixon; May, 1970. Over half a century ago!

Re: Help me decide which toilet I should get - 5 weeks ago

Toto + Brondell

Re: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Trump Will Seek to Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water - 5 weeks ago

Deja vu all over again… From the “Keep America Comittee” “The Keep America Committee, another Californian ‘superpatriot’ group, summed up the anti-mental-health mood on the far right in a pamphlet issued in May 1955. Calling ‘mental hygiene’ part of the ‘unholy three’ of the ‘Communistic World Government’. it declared: ‘Mental Hygiene is a subtle and diabolical

Re: BREAKING: Selzer Des Moines Register final Iowa poll: Harris surges ahead - 5 weeks ago

QuoteLemon Drop QuoteCarnos Jax FWIW, I think Polymarket (a betting site?) just swung from Trump to Harris. No , it did not. And polymarket is Peter Thiel junk. …” included investments from Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, and Founders Fund, a venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel.” Vitalik Buterin Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, born 1994 Kolomna, Russia.

Re: Trump wants Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad - 5 weeks ago

QuoteOmbligo QuotergG Who said anything about giving Trump a loaded weapon? Trump is a loaded weapon. A true loose cannon!!

Re: 'RFK Jr is going to be in charge of women's health' - 5 weeks ago

CFDT rewards subservience!

Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSteve G. Quotedavester The "infinite monkey theorem" has been debunked. The theory that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard would eventually type out the works of Shakespeare has been proven to take longer than the heat death of the universe (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o). BUT...a monkey typing randomly can reliably turn out a Donald Trump word salad speech

Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - 5 weeks ago

The way I originally heard it was… With an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will type the works of Shakespeare. Not the same calculation, and a cursory web search would indicate that at least some others have heard it as well. For fun…

Re: Former Republican Rep. David Jolly said - 5 weeks ago

QuoteChristian pastor Dale Partridge posted: “In a Christian marriage, a wife should vote according to her husband’s direction. He is the head and they are one. Unity extends to politics. This is not controversial.” “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

Re: Some Real Halloween Horror For You! - 5 weeks ago

Quotepdq …they are interviewing two former people today... That IS spooky! Are they now ectoplasm?

Re: One big reason I want to see him in handcuffs... - 5 weeks ago

He’ll die of old age (or a coronary) before he can be successfully sentenced to prison.

Re: VP Harris gives inspiring closing message to over 75k attendees on the ellipse - 5 weeks ago

Quotesekker QuoteSpeedy The betting line heavily favors Trump. That is easily gamed. One whale put a ton of dough on Trump. Could be a hedge bet. Heard a talking-head conjecture that betting line is because it's believed the MAGAt's 12th Amendment end-run will succeed.

Re: The best video I've seen you YouTube, by far - 5 weeks ago

QuoteLux Interior QuoteDeusxMac There were no older females nor males. I seem to remember that there was a flaw in the way these charts were interpreted. Along the lines of: This is the average life expectancy and that high infant/child mortality rates in the past (100s of years ago, not the millions that that chart goes back) skew the average low. In other words, if you survived childbir

Re: Here are the Super-A-List celebs backing TFG - 5 weeks ago

Quotecbelt3 No surprises there. Many of them have not been “celebrated” for many years. Don’t forget that a number of notable American citizens supported the Nazis in the 1930’s as well. Charles Lindbergh with Hermann Goering in 1938

Re: Here are the Super-A-List celebs backing TFG - 5 weeks ago

QuoteJoe Exotic "...sentenced to 22 years in prison on January 22, 2020, and was incarcerated... and is scheduled for release in 2036."

Re: Here are the Super-A-List celebs backing TFG - 5 weeks ago

QuoteAzealia Banks (dunno - profession not mentioned in article) "she gets more attention for her public feuds than she does for her music" "...repeatedly chastising Ukraine in the 2022 Russian invasion of the country...said that Zelenskyy was trying to provoke a global nuclear war and urged Ukraine to surrender." "...praised Russia's president Vladimir Putin, say

Re: trump reacts - 5 weeks ago

Yeah, this guy wasn't a "Nazi" either...

Re: The best video I've seen you YouTube, by far - 5 weeks ago

Quotevision63 We need 'em healthy enough to carry our progeny forward. We fight other men with our antlers for the privilege. Tongue-in-cheek, but true. Homo sapiens and our precursors have been around for millions of years. For the overwhelming majority of those years successful procreation was the driving, internal mechanism; the biological "urge". AND "...research suggests

Re: WaPo non-endorsement fallout - 6 weeks ago

Killing Freedom Of The Press from within.

Re: Florida postal worker arrested for dumping "election mail" including ballots in woods - 6 weeks ago

Re: love is in the air - 6 weeks ago

Quotewurm We need to find a better word than disgusting. appalling, revolting, repellent, repulsive, sickening, vile, obnoxious, odious