Tesla: Elon Musk says company headquarters will move to Texas

BD66 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

The California corporate income tax rate is 8.84%, so Musk has a choice. Tesla can go to Texas and keep every dollar they earn (before federal taxes), or he can stay in California and give up the first 8.84 cents of every dollar they earn (before federal taxes). He's making the right decision for his company and his shareholders. The same decision is being made by corporations when they are deciding in what country they should have their corporate headquarters. If the Democrat lunatics get their way, they will drive corporations out of the USA the same way the Democrat lunatics are driving corporations out of California.

Decisions decisions...

BD66 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

I'll go with the Devil.

8th October 1918…American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at ...

BD66 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

I know the whole Sgt. York story, but I never understood the timing. This was when there was 1 month left in the war. Germany was almost certain to lose the war. Maybe the Germans wanted to be captured? They were happy to be captured by the Americans after D-Day.

Alright Aussie friends, how the can a court allow a lawsuit to continue because radio personality ...

BD66 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

Seems like the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show God did it.

The difference between Texas and Somalia.... Uh wait....

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

No pirates off the coast of Texas.

This is one of those critical race theory facts.

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

I don't believe the $300 number. California only paid $0.25 to $5 for each Indian scalp. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/-#:~:text=In%201856%20the%20state%20of,400%20Pomo%20indians%20were%20slaughtered.

Republican motherhood....

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

You left out child support.

The old "back rub" line....😂

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

Works every time!

Yeah. The bible totally wasn't written by a man.

BD66 comments on Oct 6, 2021:

Sounds too specific to me. There must be some back story there.

Brian Tyler Cohen - Senator Sinema pulls DISGUSTING stunt, sinks her own party | No Lie podcast ...

BD66 comments on Oct 6, 2021:

Best explanation I have heard about what is going on in DC.

The cast of Cheers in 1981

BD66 comments on Oct 6, 2021:

I can't believe that was 40 years ago.

Kacey Musgraves Becomes First Artist to Perform Naked on SNL

BD66 comments on Oct 5, 2021:

Too bad she didn't play a harmonica. :-)

“This is, apparently, what the actual Jesus of Nazareth looked like, according to an artist and an...

BD66 comments on Oct 5, 2021:

1. This is what a person born in Bethlehem near the time of Jesus's birth MIGHT look like. The people there did not all look the same, so putting a particular face on Jesus is ridiculous. 2. The photo is what he MIGHT look like from Mary's DNA. The other half of his DNA would have come from God, and nobody has ever sequenced God's DNA. He may have been green with purple polka dots for all we know.

THE OTHER MAN WHO WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT ANDREW YANG LEAVING DEMOCRATIC PARTY Andrew Yang is ...

BD66 comments on Oct 4, 2021:

He got his universal basic income, and now we can't find people to work at retail stores, work at restaurants, or drive trucks.

I'm pretty sure this is accurate.

BD66 comments on Oct 4, 2021:

The future the left gets:

Do You Practice Your Non Belief?

BD66 comments on Oct 1, 2021:

I log in here every day to see what you folks have to say.

My grandma sang this to me when I was little.

BD66 comments on Oct 1, 2021:

I like this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tbrLDA18C4

The regression of society as seen in real time

BD66 comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Iranian women are beautiful. No reason to cover them up! :-)

Something to think about

BD66 comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Weinberg was on my father-in-law's PhD Committee.

Football Game Ended After VICIOUS Abuse - YouTube

BD66 comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Georgetown was pounding Roxbury Prep 44 to 8. Supposedly: Hall said his team was “called N bombs by players, faculty, staff, spectators and were taunted all night” during the game in Georgetown on the North Shore. But nobody thought to record any of the taunting? Sounds pretty suspicious to me. https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/09/20/fight-breaks-out-at-roxbury-georgetown-football-game-after-racially-charged-taunts/

tax the rich and leave the min wager alone

BD66 comments on Sep 30, 2021:

This is what happens when a government continues to spend more than it takes in. It's not pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises

Exactly right. 100%

BD66 comments on Sep 30, 2021:

so·cial·ism noun a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Socialism fails every time because you take the means of production, distribution, and exchange away from the people who created the production, distribution, and exchange, and you give control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange to politicians. The politicians don't have the slightest idea what they are doing, so once the socialism has created misery, the politicians want to hold on to power, so they have to either give up power or create a totalitarian state to hold on to power. Republicans are aiming to prevent the USA from going down that path of disaster.

Republican presidential candidate - 2050.

BD66 comments on Sep 30, 2021:

That's what the USA will likely be like once the world realizes we'll never repay our $29,000,000,000,000 in debt.

Point taken, but then nothing is stopping you from becoming your own boss.

BD66 comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Thumbs up to your commentary, not Bukowski's statement.

An apt description.

BD66 comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Pretty much sums it up. I had a couple of those guys approach me a few years ago. I told them about all the distinguished professors and deans that I knew at elite universities who were raised Mormon. They both had big smiles on their face, then I told them "Those guys don't believe any of the Mormon church doctrines". I wish I had a camera to capture the looks on their faces.

On the other hand...

BD66 comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Looks better than the other one.

I bet he would really enjoy another congratulation.

BD66 comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Looks like the joke is on us: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/biden_approval_index_history

The current example of Democrats misusing language is saying the 3.

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

All leftist are pathalogical liars.

Today is the anniversary of my husbands birth.

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

I'm sorry for your loss.

One idea I really like ... Along with "Eat the rich..."

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Wealth-Creator.

The trick is blend in...

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

That's a VERY stupid idea! Baby alligators can't depend on their elders for a helping hand. In fact, young gators are a perfect bite to eat for large gator adults. Now, a new study finds that between 6 percent and 7 percent of young alligators fall victim to the cruel fate of cannibalism. On the other hand, a little gator-on-gator cannibalism may help keep their populations stable. https://www.livescience.com/14368-cannibalism-baby-alligators-florida.html

Tricking god to get a little nookie.

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

I knew a Mormon woman who passed away in 2008. She was probably born around 1920. She wrote her life memoir and showed it to me in 2007/2008. Evidently almost all the Mormon girls were having sex in high school in the late 1930's.

The math works out. We need to tax wealth hoarders out of existence. They are killing the economy.

BD66 comments on Sep 24, 2021:

If you took your $5000/day salary and invested it at a 5% annual rate of return, you would have: $6,200,000,000,000,000,000 dollars. That's 31,649,386 times more money than Jeff Bezos has.

I love it when their own scripture contradicts whatever line of bullshit they are trying to push, ...

BD66 comments on Sep 23, 2021:

The people who drowned could be comforted by "It's all part of God's plan" and "The Lord works in mysterious ways"

To quote an old saying "no news is good news".

BD66 comments on Sep 23, 2021:

Back in 2016 when it was Trump vs. Hillary, I thought "I don't like either candidate. It's not worth it for me to lose one client or one friend arguing politics over these two." I scaled back the amount of cable news I watch, and I've been much happier since.

Video: Missouri Police Let Dog Bite Black Man in Arrest, Do Nothing

BD66 comments on Sep 23, 2021:

There's a lot of police abuse using police dogs.

Gabby Petito's murder is making headlines in the national and international news in the US across ...

BD66 comments on Sep 23, 2021:

There will always be racism, but it's a matter of degree. The USA is much less racist than it was 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago, and the USA will be less racist 10 years from now than it is today.

Complete trust 😆

BD66 comments on Sep 22, 2021:

My sister-in-law was that way. Just start the car and she falls asleep. It's so bad she cannot drive out of town by herself.

Make it make sense!

BD66 comments on Sep 20, 2021:

That may explain all the defects we humans have.

Tequila is wrong, so very, very wrong

BD66 comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Works for Pee Wee Herman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BodXwAYeTfM

My feelings exactly.

BD66 comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Just a different form of nonsense than Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, etc.

Wyoming county GOP rejects effort to rescind Cheney's party status | TheHill

BD66 comments on Sep 17, 2021:

So now people are big fans of the Cheneys? :-)

Apt description of many in America.

BD66 comments on Sep 17, 2021:

It happens all the time. 100 years ago, they had enough sense to set up quarantine facilities and procedures to help mitigated the spread of diseases like Covid-19. This time the "Top scientists and doctors" didn't have the sense of the doctors and scientists from the 1300's to the 1920's.

I'm taking bets on when Hillary has this poor idiot knocked off.

BD66 comments on Sep 17, 2021:

He will likely shoot himself in the head twice.

Control food and products you control people. 🤷😠 I continue to see this at grocery stores.

BD66 comments on Sep 17, 2021:

I could not believe it last time I went to WalMart. The produce and meat sections were almost empty!

Mmmmmmmmmmm Bacon....

BD66 comments on Sep 16, 2021:

The Mormons are the only ones who can have it all! They even get magic underwear!

Tommy James w/o The Shondells and his last Top 10 song. Draggin' the Line from 1971. [youtube.com]

BD66 comments on Sep 15, 2021:

"My dog, Sam, eats purple flowers." Maybe the strangest song line of all time.

Over 1500 dolphins slaughtered in the Faroe Islands: [theguardian.com]

BD66 comments on Sep 15, 2021:

That's crazy. The dolphin meat is full of mercury and not even fit to eat.

I've transcended this some time ago. Say YES if you have, too. 😃

BD66 comments on Sep 14, 2021:

Yes.

I thought this one was very appropriate.

BD66 comments on Sep 14, 2021:

Joe's in pretty good physical shape. He could go on in this vegetative state for another decade.

I must find more about Osho.

BD66 comments on Sep 13, 2021:

There's a great documentary film on that dude's cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk Watch it, and you won't take him seriously any more.

It did not take long for the Taliban to start imposing their vile misogyny on the population: ...

BD66 comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Not surprising at all

Trump fan tells CNN why she doesn't bother fact checking her Facebook posts: 'Whose reality is ...

BD66 comments on Sep 10, 2021:

That's one of the biggest problems with religion. When someone chooses to ignore all logic and believe a bunch of ridiculous fairy tales that they hear in church, that "suspension of disbelief" extends to all other areas of their life. When my ex-wife became religious, she started buying this special drink at $42 per quart. I looked at the ingredients and said "This is 95% grape juice, and you are paying $42 per quart" She responded "I choose to believe this juice has special health properties". She refused to look at the ingredients.

Apparently that lane was closed this morning

BD66 comments on Sep 10, 2021:

What drives me nuts is when (usually a lonely old person) tries to strike up a lengthy conversation with the check-out cashier.

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency ...

BD66 comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Lee was the first choice to lead the Union Army. He was a brilliant military man. Had he accepted the offer to lead the Union Army, the Civil War would have likely been over much earlier than April 9, 1865, and many hundreds of thousands fewer people would have died.

Bring equal restrictions on men for all woman pregnancies such as men would be responsible for 50% ...

BD66 comments on Sep 9, 2021:

That is just about the most clueless post I have ever seen? Do you have any experience with family law courts?

Thought this might be of use as it pretty well sums up how we should look at elections and voting.

BD66 comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Sadly, it's usually a difficult choice to choose the least of multiple evils.

Socialism is not the bugaboo republicans want you to think.

BD66 comments on Sep 8, 2021:

so·cial·ism noun a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Socialism had been a disaster every time it has been tried. You are confusing "Socialism" with "Social Services"

Loopholes!

BD66 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Religious Freedom Rights: I have these completely insane beliefs, therefore I don't have to follow the same laws as sane people do.

Don't worry, everyone here is safe.

BD66 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

1. We're all vaccinated. 2. Learn to spell.

Or the richest or most corrupt..

BD66 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

Or the most sexually promiscuous!

Me at this point in the dating game.

BD66 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Sorry to hear that.

What's your best atheist joke?

BD66 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

The other night a group of people knocked on my door. When I opened it they said "We have some religious material we would like to share with you" I looked at it and said "This paper is blank" They said 'I know. We're Athiests"

Anti-Vaxxer logic! 😂😂😂

BD66 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

That's the result of new math. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obIGsb-IZMo

Mrs. Betty Bowers spitting facts

BD66 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

It's a matter of degree, for example: Banning Gay Rights: Conservative Christians (and many other people) don't want to give LBTGQ people special protected status. The primary motivation for many is that they don't want to open up the door to unending lawsuits against employers by LBTGQ people who believe they have suffered some form of discrimination. Banning Gay Rights: The Taliban throw gays off the top of buildings in front of cheering crowds.

Robert G. Ingersoll

BD66 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

It's a slow process though.

Rebel HQ - White Privilege MELTDOWN Ends In Surprising Way [youtube.com]

BD66 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

The dude is obviously mentally ill. He may not have a choice of when he leaves the hospital.

Some of y'all should be millionaires by now 🤣

BD66 comments on Aug 27, 2021:

Not dropping 10% of our income in that collection basket every year certainly helps.

I’m waiting

BD66 comments on Aug 27, 2021:

The Taliban were just sitting back chilling, waiting for us to get tired of spending $100,000,000,000 per year in that hellhole. They knew they would be back in power soon regardless of who was in the White Hosue.

2448 US Service personnel have been killed in the course of the last 20 years in Afghanistan.

BD66 comments on Aug 27, 2021:

2448/1000 = 2.448, not 25

Using Delta to kill the delta

BD66 comments on Aug 26, 2021:

They should charge unvaccinated passengers $200 more than vaccinated passengers too.

Why I have not really been sure of meditation

BD66 comments on Aug 24, 2021:

Here's another good one:

The King Master nailed it

BD66 comments on Aug 23, 2021:

And the new guy is even worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbE2SmV2bs

Medical advice

BD66 comments on Aug 21, 2021:

They might let you out of that 20 minute waiting area faster. :-)

I really hope I'm wrong

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2021:

What are the 2nd and third images referring to?

Sorry. But I've a pretty dark sense of humor. 😆🍷🍷

BD66 comments on Aug 19, 2021:

That's dark all right.

I should be afraid to open my door.

BD66 comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Once you are vaccinated, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference how many unvaccinated people are sick around you.

Isn't this a rather baseless, false claim?

BD66 comments on Aug 11, 2021:

Michael Savage is an idiot.

A Happy 46th Birthday to award-winning actress Charlize Theron, born on August 7, 1975 in Benoni, ...

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2021:

We took a Hollywood tour, and she was the first celebrity we saw.

He might be a douche bag and an office bully, but this is also true

BD66 comments on Aug 5, 2021:

No, Bill is a hypocritical SOB too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-joins-private-equity-firms-in-4-7-billion-deal-for-private-jet-company-11612534767

I'm so happy I found this group! So nice to see fellow Atheists not associated with the liberal ...

BD66 comments on Aug 5, 2021:

We are a small minority here

Arguing with me is pointless.

BD66 comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Yes

This pathetic excuse for a President either lied about driving a 18 wheeler or does not know the ...

BD66 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

If his mind is so screwed up that he has no coherent memories, is it still lying?

The pendulum has swung so far in the wrong direction, it’s at the point where you gain more clout ...

BD66 comments on Jul 29, 2021:

I was thinking the same thing. This is ridiculous. All she has to do is show up at a gymnastics meet and perform. It's not like someone was asking her to storm Omaha beach into machine gun fire. If she did not feel like she could compete, she could have bailed out BEFORE the Olympics. I can't imagine people would celebrate Michael Phelps quitting before his big events in the Olympics. If people are looking for a hero, look at Katie Ledecky. People thought she would win the 400, she got 2nd. People thought she would win the 200, she got 5th. Then 1 hour later she won a gold medal in the 1500. The next day she pulled her team ahead in the 4X200m, and helped her team break the world record. Celebrate someone who perserveres through adversity, not someone who quits in the face of adversity.

27th July 1377…Black Death: First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia); city...

BD66 comments on Jul 27, 2021:

And countries did not have enough sense to do that in 2020!

The amount of wrong here is amazing.

BD66 comments on Jul 26, 2021:

That's why I'm agnostic.

Every Saturday night.

BD66 comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw both on the same night!

The most epic way

BD66 comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Makes me glad I'm not an octopus.

From the weird mind of Steven Wright.

BD66 comments on Jul 25, 2021:

Saw him at the University of IL, and in Las Vegas. He's one funny dude.

Vaccinations are up 14% from last week.

BD66 comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Stupid people have been making bad decisions and dying as a result of their bad decisions for thousands of years.

Fauci nailed it again Rand is a asshole

BD66 comments on Jul 24, 2021:

This is a very simple issue: I'm good at math, but Stephen Hawking if much better at math than I am. However, If Stephen Hawking went on TV one day and said: 2 +2 = 5. Then he said: 2+2 = 4. Then he said: 2+2 = 3. I know enough math to show Stephen Hawking is dishonest and cannot be trusted. The same holds for Fauci. He knows more about virology than I do and than Rand Paul does, but Rand Paul and I know enough about virology to know Fauci is a serial liar. Here is the one that convinced me that Fauci cannot be trusted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI He literally says "People should not be walking around with masks" and "Masks are for healthcare providers and people that are ill". You can conclude two things: 1. Fauci is a complete idiot. 2. Fauci is telling a stupid lie to the American people. #1 Fauci and the CDC were complete idiots because the #1 way to prevent a viral spread is for the public to wear masks. They both allowed the store of US masks to be depleted and rather than tell people how to make homemade masks (like I was doing at the time), he lied to people and said masks were not for them. #2. Fauci is obviously lying about people needing masks in a pandemic. They had enough sense to wear masks during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, but 102 years later, Fauci was advising just the opposite. Fauci has since reversed his opinion and advised people who have already beat Covid-19 and people who have already been vaccinated to wear masks. Rand Paul is one of the few people who has been pointing out Fauci's lies and nonsensical advice all along. This not a partisan thing. Fauci is a government administrator who has both lied, broken laws, and been an tremendous failure in his role. The Gain of Function funding issue is more complicated than the mask issue, but you don't have to be very smart to understand that Fauci is again lying to Congress and the American public. This should not be a partisan issue. It's extremely likely that Covid-19 was developed at the Wuhan Virology lab, and that they failed to contain it. Covid-19 cost the USA trillions of dollars. Another pandemic like that could bankrupt the USA. We should not be using government funding to develop any more "super-viruses" that can spread from animals to people. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08837-7

Yes he did

BD66 comments on Jul 23, 2021:

Destroy Rand Paul? "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." ― Ayn Rand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2wVer3E1s

I caught this guy out by my pheasant enclosure last night.

BD66 comments on Jul 23, 2021:

How did it act towards you? Was it aggressive? I've heard feral cats are the worst.

I had just received the most disturbing scammer call.

BD66 comments on Jul 23, 2021:

All of my phones are on the "Do Not Call" list, and I still get the scam phone calls all the time. It's amazing our government seems to be able to nothing to stop the harassment.

Spoiler Alert

BD66 comments on Jul 23, 2021:

It appears to be close to 99.5%

“For me, the most ironic token of is the plaque signed by President Richard M.

BD66 comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Good point!

Illinois becomes 1st state to ban law enforcement from lying, deceiving minors during interrogation ...

BD66 comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Why only minors?

A busy road

BD66 comments on Jul 22, 2021:

At least they have 1 worker. Here in Illinois, they will put road cones out for 10 miles, reducing the 2 lanes down to 1 lane, and leave them there for months without a single worker in sight.

This clip is how I view Bezos and his "rocket" ship.

BD66 comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Do you think Bezos anticipated so much negative PR over this? Space is cool when Elon Musk builds rockets. It doesn't work for Bezos.

Trust the Big Pharma Scientists?

BD66 comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Many government funded scientists are worse. Many will say and do whatever it takes to keep the funding coming in. Here's the best example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdyegf4n1U