Government control is government control no mater what you call it.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

So go live under a bush in the woods & eat worms........

Franklin Graham Infuriates Christians After Telling Them To Get Vaccinated | Hemant Mehta | Friendly...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

One small step for mankind.....

GOP Senator: No One Should Be Allowed to Vote on Sundays Because That Angers God | Hemant Mehta | ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

I was unaware of any Sunday voting, ever...?

Christian Mommy Blogger: In the ’70s, Moms Stayed at Home and Life Was “Simpler” | Beth ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

I sold Avon door-to-door then (not possible now, nobody's home). My biggest problem was trying to leave, the women were trapped with little kids all day & un-woke husbands who plopped down for dinner upon their return, then watched TV. They had a Shitty life! Having even a young sales gal to talk to was the highlight of their week!

7, maybe 8...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Hovering over the building in a helicopter. Notice attached to a brick!

Lucille Bogan Till the cows come home - YouTube

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 25, 2021:

The censorship of the 30's & onwards sucked a lot of the juice out of popular culture!

The Push to Restore Freedom [aier.org]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Mask haters and pandemic deniers using Bigly words..........ho hum

Political correctness enables sexual violence. [spiked-online.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Ohferpetessake....a new outlook for me, characterizing 3 thugs preying on younger girls (like sadly that has never happened) as some kind of political movement for which some party should be considered "guilty" instead of putting the blame squarely on the thugs. Oh, but wait, the thugs have Arabic names! Gee, ya think this trash "news item" might have been using that to stir up the idiot factions? Shame on you for spreading this manure!

You don't have the right to do these things to ASIAN people! 🇵🇭🇭🇰 [facebook.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Who has the right to do this stuff to Anyone? WTF?!?

A new survey shows that only one in four men are truly happy! :-D

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Single/divorced women live longer & happier lives!

One of the more difficult aspects of being an atheist, at least from an outsider’s perspective, is...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Nobody lives on except in the memories of those still alive...it's not different in any way for Anyone!

Last Week in Boulder, the NRA Struck Down an Assault Weapons Ban. This Week in Boulder, a Massacre.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Gee, what a coincidence......

It's all about how lucky you get I used to work with a guy whose father was a preacher.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Envy steals YOUR time!

Postmaster General DeJoy Proposes Slower Mail and Higher Prices Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Does anyone want to hold him down while i tattoo the meaning of"Public Servant" on his forehead, backwards? (So he can read it everytime he looks in the mirror).

Another jewel from oh- high -uh! [rawstory.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Fail, you F-head!

I can't explain either!

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Makes me smile & feel like like dancing!

[bbc.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 23, 2021:

You try it first...I have gotten both my Pfizer shots!

Kind of hard to blame Trump for the mess we have at the southern border right now!

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Are you actually as foolish as this post indicates? Too bad, so sad.......

Hate-Preacher Promises to Bail Out Protesters at Abortion Clinics or Libraries | Hemant Mehta | ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Just like drumpy bailed out his violent supporters, even before Jan 6!

I am very partial to the pop music of the early 60’s when I was an early teen.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 22, 2021:

The first thing i bought with my first-ever "own money" was this 45!

Letters From An American 03/21/2021

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Here's the deal......TAX money runs the government, state, local & federal). It's 100% OUR money, always has been. The average person does Not need a new bomber or tank. We already own 6x (!!!) more armaments than the rest of the world Combined. What we need is safe infrastructure, safe air/food/water, good healthcare, good schools, safe neighborhoods, job opportunities, & a chance to better oneself....that is where OUR money should be spent!

Fuck Biden. White House staffers fired over marijuana use, Psaki confirms. [forbes.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 22, 2021:

"5 out of several hundred"......... methinks fake-ish news here!

Can anyone help me escape religious groups.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 22, 2021:

"locked down & unable to move" with Internet.......

In Deleted Sermon, Georgia Shooter’s Pastor Said “Radical Feminism” Was Satanic | Hemant ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Yeah, because (probably) captive sex workers epitomize feminism.........

Some AC/DC. With a cute Pranuts video - Charlie Brown getting down. [youtu.be]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

BANG YER HEAD!

Oh goody. Ontario will allow outdoor dining and Greylock them zones [cbc.ca]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Even though I have had both shots & the 10-days is up on Wednesday, I will Only be dining at places that have considerable fresh air for some time to come...and we have Cold springtimes here! Heated tenting, patios with heaters, or take-out........

The dog

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Remove & Hide the tire iron first!!!!!!

As probably you have too, I have noticed that those who create and perform some of the most touching...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Sorry, not wasting any sympathy on people having amazing gifts (musically or whatever), who squandered them on self-indulgent behavior. Too may people have Nothing & would treasure some talent & a break or two.

He is young but he will learn that actions like this have consequences! :-D

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

"Stunmble" & swing that thing right across his junk!

Well, for once it's not Florida.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Jeebus,this was apparently necessary?

You haven't eaten pizza until you have...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

I Seem to remember the two are somewhat different.......

What was your favorite Saturday morning TV show... [youtu.be]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

And his "niece" Penny? Creeeeeeeeeppppeeeeeeeeeeeee

One of my two best girls lost her fight with cancer a couple of weeks ago.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

So sorry for your loss...so glad you had some "extra" time with her

Name a male or female actor whose presence on a cast list will mean you watch the film for me...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Tom Hanks, Frances McDormand, Sandra Bullock

Biden cancels 1 $billion dollars of student debt.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

I think higher education is a necessity nowadays (like healthcare!) and should be part of what WE get from our tax dollars!

What Do Animals See in a Mirror? [getpocket.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Interesting.....ADULT dogs will very carefully avoid looking at "the dog in the mirror"....staring = aggression in dogs, perhaps

Good character is not formed in a week or a month.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Studies have been done on pre-verbal children and show they are invariably kind & helpful (within their physical & mental limits) Therefore it would seem they are more likely to be FU by adults than the opposite.

Icarus, a man, glued feathers to himself with wax and dived from a tower, he flew too close to the ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Actually, he & his Father Daedelus were prisoners on an island and his father devised the feather thing to escape. He repeatedly warned young Icarius not to go too close to the sun, but noooooooo. It is a parable about how the young should not be cocksure & heed the wisdom of their parents/elders....myths are full of excellent ideas! And no religious BS injected!

..........

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I have not been graceful nor able to walk a straight line since a chiropractor snapped a vertebral artery in my neck in 1989. Does anyone here have the unmitigated gall to declare i am incompetent because of it? Do you mock the differently-abled, or older people because of their abilities, or was that something drump taught you? SHAME on you!

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 20, 2021:

When i look at Qanon, Proud Boys & rabble of that ilk, I would be freaking THRILLED if they would/ could develop apathy!

[salon.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Well thought out, but "changing the course of history"??? When they pay No attention whatsoever to any of the ones they do acknowledge?

Watched Nomadland. Read good things about it and I like Francis McDormant. I did not enjoy it

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

As a woman owning a small RV, I def want to see it!

Pastors Are Leaving the Pulpit as QAnon Radicalizes Their Flocks | Val Wilde | Friendly Atheist | ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

If they had focused their congregations on good works & true Xianity, instead of politicizing their preaching, this would not be happening......my heart bleeds for them....NOT.

I think i am going to learn the piano.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

If not now, when? They ain't gonna let you do that in the nursing home! I bought my saxophone because of that thought, just a few years ago

An America Without God

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

I have faith in myself...my common sense, my mechanical ability, my outlook on life that has & will get me through anything. What else do I need?

Why Did Fort Lauderdale’s Gay Mayor Honor an Anti-LGBTQ Christian Hate Group?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

This title is BS! The City Council did the honoring, duuuuhhhhhhhh

Yeah probably is

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

The Poor chicken!

That's really funny

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Is that leftover house paint or pants...?

When Paul Vitz, a psychologist, wrote this book, he was explaining paternal shortcomings, ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

So, if you had an idyllic paternal relationship you will be a gawd-worshipper, and we atheists are prima facie damaged goods? Get A Grip!

Just a silly, fun play on words...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

One little comma.....

YOU THINK TRUMP WAS A NARCISSIST?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

So, you're saying he understands they have an Overpopulation problem.....

"The Southern Baptist church attended by the alleged Atlanta mass shooter has responded to the ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

What happened to "Stand By Your Man"? Oh, wait........

Who's the new bartender?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Stolen from the time of the Red Death.

Hmmmmm........

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Samuel would enjoy the Hell out of himself!

If this so called god actually exists.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Please read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" it will perfectly answer your question.

I don't think it is true. Does anybody think it is?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Horseshit.

If you call them, they will come.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 19, 2021:

True life example: Waiting up for the ex to get home from second shift, I saw a special about a guy who studied the mating habits of male moose by beating the bushes with a pair of antlers & calling, as closely as possible imitating male moose rutting behavior, then filming/observing when they showed up to defend their territory. Not surprisingly, he was killed by one a few years afterwards

I take my compliments where ever I can get them

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I heard that & Totally Agree!

1 shot down.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Murderer!

Why is it so hard to STOP thinking constantly bombarding negative thoughts?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

You must REPLACE THEM, not think about avoiding them (which is the same as thinking about them, only worse!)

& one more...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

It gets easier, one of the few things that does!

My neighbors are all blaming Biden for the of gasoline going up.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

It was going up before he got into office, duuuhhhhh

Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

This entire post ASSUMES you can teach anything to these idiots......

Funny story but true.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Sound lovely But I have heard everyone is everyone's 8th or 9th cousin....so, so is her hubby!!!!! BUWAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

Be a lady they said.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I have had every single one of these said to me in your life, many of them more than once. Meaning, I cannot win beingmyself, ever.....everything about me is wrong! I am sure it is an eye-opener for older women especially, it was for me the first time i read it!

First baby born with COVID-19 antibodies after mother vaccinated during pregnancy [mynbc5.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Now That is actually "herd immunity"!

A New String of State Bills Could Give Religious Organizations Blanket Immunity from Any Wrongdoing

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Support the ACLU & FFS!

PBS Eons The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors [youtube.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

No obesity, , no heart disease, no cancer...gee, sounds terrible! Overdose/overload of any substance is never good.

New Declassified Documents Reveal the Truth About Why the USS Thresher Sank

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Well, so far, no actual info as to cause in this article, just background info

We are assuming we have just had one of our best friends pass.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Look under the water heater.

Massage Parlor shooter was all about guns and God [news.yahoo.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

I'll bet big bucks he was a customer of those places!

Major Hack of Camera Company Offers Four Key Lessons on Surveillance from News & Commentary | ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

If you assume you have no privacy you will not be disappointed

Lying Creationist: Evolution Says Dinosaurs Farted Themselves Into Extinction | Hemant Mehta | ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

I cannot, will not read this!!!!!!

Trust Science

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

These were NOT "given us by science" they were given us courtesy of cigarette, etc, advertisers/manufacturers "funding research" or outright bribery....get it right, quit adding to the rampant willful ignorance!

whats the main reason for such a chaos in world as suffering and greed are getting out of ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Have you read Any history? When, exactly, did sweetness & light ever prevail?

Reposting blog by Heather Cox Richardson March 15, 2021 (Monday) Tonight, the Senate confirmed ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Very interesting!(and saddening) Thank you for posting!

My wife is one of the best landscapers I have ever known, : and I am a pretty damned good vegetable ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Still take care of my yard, house, pool. But now sometimes hire people to help, high school or college kids if i can. Also, it takes 3 days at least to get done what used to take a short afternoon, but so what? And look into Audio books, my 90% blind (from Mac Deg) father-in-law was the most informed man i knew thanks to weekly Time & Newsweek audio tapes,& All books/magazines, all free to him....i believe it was a world-wide organization, cannot remember the name of it, sorry, but most of the readers were famous actors donating their time. Focus on what you Can do,you will be a lot happier!

Pete Buttigieg & Liz Warren do the Time Warp with Tenacious D & Susan Sarandon / LGBTQ Nation

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Well, that was FUN!!!!!!!!!

Ron DeSantis looks a little like Alfred E Neuman

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Alfred E was a Towering Genius compared to this fool!

How would the existence of a god confer meaning on our lives?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Ummmm, what? This is what you think will lead to "witty banter"? Alrighty then......I got nothin'

Today was a bad day.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

So sorry for your loss

Write your answers below...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Trading Places, Miss Congeniality, Independence Day

Omg

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Hope they had a current tentanus shot....

(Tucker is such a douche-canoe) Tucker Carlson: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Entitled born-rich asshole with No Idea what life is actually like for normal people.

Queen. - Somebody To Love. [youtu.be]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Defining "Tour de Force"!!!

We celebrate Harry James' birthday! Two o'clock Jump [youtu.be]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

LLOOOOVVE me some Big Band

For that heavenly scent above and below..

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Everybody in the ER is going to "casually" stroll past your cubicle,and the sound of laughter will follow you....

Who would think that if you degrade over 50 % of the population and dis the military and deny the ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

How long is the line? I'll bring snacks!

The Young Turks Brian Kilmeade: Shut Up About The Stupid Death Toll!!! [youtube.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

I would be proud & happy to kick drump in the groin, and i betcha i could get help!!!!!!

US Air Force is guarding against electromagnetic pulse attacks. Should we worry?

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

I prefer to worry about things i might actually have some control over....

I watched the Grammy's all afternoon.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

How lovely for your whole family!

Get ready ladies...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Looking at the length of their arms, I am wondering how they clean themselves.....and am sooooo sorry I noticed!

Jorge Riley bragged about breaching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6 in an ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

DISGUSTING!

Tonight at my bedtime I find can’t leave you with a goodnight music post because I haven’t got ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 15, 2021:

I could suggest an ear worm...?

History of the Earth How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event? [youtube.com]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Apparently the saying, "Rust never sleeps", is far, far truer than i knew!

Summer is just around the corner

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Well, that's just a skincrawler!

Government subsidies for the manufacturer and infrastructure in China will help their E Cars ...

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 14, 2021:

AS IF i or any regular person could ever buy a Tesla, no matter how much i want to do the right thing for Earth! If we really want to help the Earth, elitism needs to GO!

Grift is Rampnat in His family?: [alternet.org]

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Flim-flam! Funneling money from well-meaning dog lovers to their pockets....DISGUSTING!

Mental Illness on display for all to see.

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Blasphemous at best! Got me some stones!