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Anti-vax Hillsong Church member Stephen Harmon, 34, dies of Covid after posting 'I got 99 problems ...

SeaGreenEyez comments on Jul 24, 2021:

I was reading some of the comments on this story earlier and it was absolutely appalling. Rightwingers were all over this and loving it. Going on about this being proof America is great because he exercised his freedom, and ignorant shit like that. (And it wasn't a few of those type comments, it ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 27, 2021:

These right-wingnuts are probably celebrating a false martyr. I doubt if the guy who died would have made the same choice if he knew with certainty that it would cost him his life. What they are actually celebrating is fatal stupidity, but they're too dumb to know it! 😳

Was Speaker Pelosi right, tactically and morally, to deny Congressmen Banks and Jordan seats on the ...

linxminx comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Honestly, I don't think it matters who is on the committee. I don't think anything will come of this investigation, just like nothing happened with both of Trump's impeachments. It's all for show.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 23, 2021:

@whiskywoman "we can't sit on our hands we have to get out in 22 and vote" Right on sister!

Was Speaker Pelosi right, tactically and morally, to deny Congressmen Banks and Jordan seats on the ...

linxminx comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Honestly, I don't think it matters who is on the committee. I don't think anything will come of this investigation, just like nothing happened with both of Trump's impeachments. It's all for show.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 23, 2021:

@linxminx Well you can call it whatever you want; it is certainly a political act. But it is also, arguably, a bipartisan or even non-partisan political act. Clearly Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger (whether or not he is seated; that remains to he seen) are motivated by patriotism more than partisanship. This committee and its investigation are needed precisely because Trump continues to spew his big lie and most Republicans are not only backing him on it, but are also refusing to pass a national voter protection bill while red state legislatures are passing dozens of voter suppression bills. This public hearing is a good way to shine a spotlight on all this, and hopefully get people fired up to vote. Mind you, it will be an uphill battle. The electorate tends to be less interested in mid-term elections, and the new voter suppression laws will already be in effect. In my estimation, we stand at the edge of a precipice. We either stand up for democracy and refute Trump's big lie, or we tumble into fascism.

Was Speaker Pelosi right, tactically and morally, to deny Congressmen Banks and Jordan seats on the ...

linxminx comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Honestly, I don't think it matters who is on the committee. I don't think anything will come of this investigation, just like nothing happened with both of Trump's impeachments. It's all for show.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 22, 2021:

You will recall that Senate Republicans blocked the calling of witnesses in Trump's second impeachment (which was all about his incitement of the January 6th insurrection). That will not be the case with this select committee. Witnesses will be subpoenaed and compelled to testify under oath (or invoke their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination). I think there is a good chance that the public will learn new details, and come away with a clearer picture of what happened, and who was responsible. And this is as it should be. People want a full accounting, and they deserve answers. What happened in 1/6/21 was unprecedented in American history. That a sitting President would whip up a violent mob with lies of election fraud, calling for obstructing Congress from carrying out its duty under the Constitution, is unprecedented and deserves everyone's attention. Of course Trump's minions, toadies, and sycophants, just like the cockroaches they are, hate to have a bright light shone upon them. You can hear their jagged little legs scraping as they scuttle for the shadows.

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 19, 2021:

@skado Heh heh! Indeed! Well said! 👍

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 18, 2021:

@Fernapple Yup, the unsupported belief does not have to be in a deity. It could very well he a personality cult. Either way, anything goes once you break free of objective facts. That's what is so scary about what is going on in the Republican Party these days. A near-total break with reality! 😳

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 18, 2021:

@skado, @Fernapple I must say, you have some good ideas and you write well. Keep up the good work!

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 18, 2021:

@skado, @Fernapple You make some good points! However I am not so sure that belief in the supernatural is the least harmful part of religion. I think it is in fact what makes it possible to assign fake authority to persons or institutions that have not earned it. The priest says, "Do this, believe that, or you'll go straight to Hell." This only works because the peasants were not trained in science and most didn't have the temerity to say, "Oh yeah? Prove it!" The small minority that did came to a bad end, either pulled apart on the rack, nailed to a cross, drowned, disemboweled, or burned at the stake. Historically, the religious powerful have ruled by fear and intimidation (which is a sign of the inherent weakness of their intellectual stance). And so it is today in Afghanistan, where the Taliban rule by AK-47 fiat.

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 18, 2021:

@skado We are not too far apart in our views. We both agree with the good professor when he says that literal interpretation of scripture that was meant to be taken metaphorically is bad theology. And obviously much of that conflicts directly with science. But here is where we apparently part ways: both you and the professor seem to maintain that individuals or institutions that embrace bad theology are not religious; that they are simply mistaken, in error. I say that they (the fundamentalists, jihadists, fanatics, extremists, what have you) are extensions and manifestations of the core religion, that they are enabled by the same flabby thinking that underpins the "true" religion, i.e. belief in the literal existence of something for which there is no independently verifiable evidence. Once on that slippery slope, anything goes, and any atrocity can be justified or rationalized. Parenthetically, I would like to note here that not all scripture was meant to be taken metaphorically. Some of it clearly was meant to be taken at face value, such as proscriptions against certain behaviours or guidelines for how to live in civil society. The texts di not come with a primer explaining which bits are poetry and which are meant to be taken literally. That is left up to the priests, church elders, or individual members. It's no wonder there is confusion.

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

@skado No scholarly consensus as to what exactly religion is? Well, yes. But there is consensus that religion can be a lot of things to a lot of different people. Religion's openness to interpretation is one of its defining characteristics. How do I know religion when I see it? Short answer: if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... Longer answer: (from The Random House College Dictionary) "religion: n. 1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of superhuman agency or agencies, usually having a moral code for the conduct of human affairs. 2. a specific and institutionalized set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion. 3. the body of persons or institutions adhering to a set of religious beliefs and practices: a world council of religions. 4. a deep conviction of the validity of religious beliefs and practices: to get religion. 5. the life or state of a monk, nun, etc.: to enter religion. 6. the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith. 7. a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice. 8. religions, (Archaic). religious rites. 9. (Archaic). strict faithfulness, devotion: a religion to one's vow." Notice that these definitions make frequent reference to beliefs, without ever saying specifically what those beliefs are. In fact, they could be just about anything. And there is where the trouble starts. Since religious believers do not have to be in any way constrained by a baseline of objective facts, they are free to form religions around all kinds of wacko ideas. The result is proliferation of sects through a process of schism. Under the heading "Christian" alone there are over 40,000 different sects. They all claim to be the "true religion."

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

@skado When Galileo pointed to the difference between true religion and bad interpretation of scripture he was merely splitting hairs. Religion is not just one interpretation but ALL interpretations. For example, peaceful Moslems who disavow Islamic terrorists as "not true Moslems" are simply wrong. The terrorists are extremists in the same belief system.

Just as is the case today, in Galileo’s time there was no quarrel between science and religion.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I recall Steven Jay Gould proposing that there is no real conflict science and religion because they are "non-overlapping magisteria." I cannot say that I agree. If people are guided by their religions, or even their mistaken interpretations of their religions, to deny facts that science has ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

@skado Yes

Pastor Celebrates a Future Genocide, When God Will “Kill Wicked Men and Women” | Hemant Mehta | ...

CuddyCruiser comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Just a plain sicko who should be locked up in a psycho ward.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

Don't hold your breath.

Pastor Celebrates a Future Genocide, When God Will “Kill Wicked Men and Women” | Hemant Mehta | ...

RussRAB comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Isn't it wicked to judge others and to not forgive them as Jesus commanded? Why is it that some people just assume their favored status?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

Hypocrisy.

Pastor Celebrates a Future Genocide, When God Will “Kill Wicked Men and Women” | Hemant Mehta | ...

abyers1970 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

My question is since god is so powerful why doesn’t he change the minds of these people instead of destroying them.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

Good point!

Pastor Celebrates a Future Genocide, When God Will “Kill Wicked Men and Women” | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Why isn't that pastor already locked up in his local loony bin?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 17, 2021:

Because the judge, the prosecutor, the cop, they're all either in the thrall of the religion (and afraid of God's reaction) or afraid of the backlash from religious folk.

A sadly misinformed person writes, "When I was a kid, the worry was about food shortages.

snytiger6 comments on Jul 15, 2021:

I do think that climate change is altering weather patterns as well as temperatures, and that will result in crop failures and famines.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 16, 2021:

@snytiger6 It's safe to say that all of these problems would be smaller if the human population wasn't so big.

A sadly misinformed person writes, "When I was a kid, the worry was about food shortages.

xenoview comments on Jul 15, 2021:

We need to start using renewable energy now. We have wind, solar, tidal, and nuclear to use. We need the support grid for electric cars. Weather is going to get extreme every year.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 15, 2021:

Don't forget geothermal energy! 😉

A sadly misinformed person writes, "When I was a kid, the worry was about food shortages.

snytiger6 comments on Jul 15, 2021:

I do think that climate change is altering weather patterns as well as temperatures, and that will result in crop failures and famines.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 15, 2021:

California's San Joaquin Valley (aka Central Valley), one of the nation's most productive farmlands, is drying up. With record low snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, farmers are pumping water out of the aguifer that lies under the Valley. And the valley floor is subsiding. In some places it has dropped over 28 feet. Obviously this is unsustainable. The Ogalalla Aquifer just east of the Rocky Mountains is experiencing similar drawdown. In fact, aquifers all around the world are drying up. It's not a question of if they will go dry, but when. And when they do, what then? I predict famine and war.

A sadly misinformed person writes, "When I was a kid, the worry was about food shortages.

AnneWimsey comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Nice explanation, but totally wasted on Court Jester, who has claimed to be a doctor (to push Covid snake-oil "cures") and a pharmacist (to push anti-vax nonsense). Ignore him, make fun of him, but FFS do not waste common sense or time on him

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 15, 2021:

Thanks for that...you are probably right about him...he seems incredibly dense. But I really am writing for the whole community...giving ammunition to my brothers and sisters in arms so they can join the fight against not only ignorant toads but also the canny, smart, and evil big money fossil fuel interests who have been so successful at sowing disinformation and lies.

Messiah or just mess?

CourtJester comments on Jul 10, 2021:

He was a savior. Beats the hell out of the guy that can’t read a teleprompter without getting confused and the laughing hyena in the background. I’d take some mean tweets and $1.60 gas. It cost me $84.09 to fill my truck up today.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 15, 2021:

@CourtJester For most of the 20th century the USA was the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases. China recently edged ahead of us in that ignominious distinction. Now we are in second place. So to say that we are "the cleanest nation on earth" [sic] is grossly inaccurate. Your assertion that China, India, and South Korea are "doing nothing" to combat global warming is also patently false. China has more stringent emissions standards for its automobiles than most states in the USA, and China is making far greater investments in mass transit, including high speed rail. And Americans consumers share a lot of responsibility for greenhouse gases produced in China's manufacturing sector. We cannot simply move our production offshore and then act all innocent when our dollars are driving that pollution. South Korea is a relatively small country and most of its population us concentrated in big cities where they have state-of-the-art mass transit. This contrasts sharply with the USA, with our suburban sprawl effectively necessitating that everyone have a car and drive it everywhere. India is a developing country, and only a fraction if its citizens own cars. You can bet that as global warming bites ever harder, there will be increased effort to combat climate change. It's true that a certain amount of increased warming is already baked into the system. But to just go on with business as usual and ensure a full-blown catastrophe when it could be avoided would be an epic moral failure. Tell me, are there no young people you care about?

Messiah or just mess?

CourtJester comments on Jul 10, 2021:

He was a savior. Beats the hell out of the guy that can’t read a teleprompter without getting confused and the laughing hyena in the background. I’d take some mean tweets and $1.60 gas. It cost me $84.09 to fill my truck up today.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 14, 2021:

@CourtJester My friend, you apparently know nothing of Earth science. In fact, climate scientists NEVER said the polar caps would be melted by 2000 or even 2100. They did predict, about 20 years ago, however, that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free in summer by the year 2100. That prediction has turned out to be inaccurate only in that it placed the time of an ice-free summer too far in the future. The way things are going, the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in summer before 2050. We see a similar acceleration of ice melt on both the Greenland ice cap and the sea ice around Antarctica. At the height of last summer, the melt water that was pouring off Greenland was roughly equal in volume to 20,000 elefants running into the sea EVERY SECOND. In the history of our species, nothing like it has ever before been seen. This is not the world our ancestors evolved in. The extreme and rapid changes we are seeing with ice are only one aspect of a much wider spectrum of problems. Scientists predicted decades ago that global warming would lead to the expansion of diseases like West Nile virus, Zika virus, and malaria. And so it came to pass. They predicted that storms would become more powerful and more frequent, and so it has come to pass. Houston, Texas got hit by three 500-year storms in three years. The very concept of a 500-year event now needs to be revised. In fact, because things are changing so fast, and because the pace of change s accelerating, we cannot even use the term "new normal." The Beaufort scale for measuring hurricane strength needs a new category now. For the biggest storms, "category five" is no longer sufficient. And the sheer number of storms is also increasing. Last year saw the most named Atlantic storms ever recorded, requiring not just the entire English alphabet but also the Greek. This year, having already gotten to the letter E in early July, we are on track to beat last year's record. Pacific typhoons have also been bigger and deadlier than ever. And where the eastern US has has unprecedented heat and floods, water is in short supply in the western states. They are drying up in a bone-cracking drought with no end in sight. Last year, the record for acres burned in forest fires was shattered by a factor of five; the previous record had only been set the year before that. The Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington, and Canadian British Columbia just went through an unprecedented heat wave that killed thousands of people. Scientists say that whereas up to now this was the kind of event that you might only expect to see once in 500 years, we may well see it happen every decade or two from now on. Now I ask you: do you need to see that actually happen before you will act to mitigate the problem? Mind you, the longer we ...

Richard Branson (owner of Virgin Galactic) says he wants to make space accessible to "everyone.

HippieChick58 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

They need to start taxing those billionaires and putting the money to good use here on earth among the living people who need help. Going to the moon or any other planet is not helping anyone except their pipe dreams.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 12, 2021:

Self-agrandizing pipe dreams!

Messiah or just mess?

CourtJester comments on Jul 10, 2021:

He was a savior. Beats the hell out of the guy that can’t read a teleprompter without getting confused and the laughing hyena in the background. I’d take some mean tweets and $1.60 gas. It cost me $84.09 to fill my truck up today.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 11, 2021:

So you will go with the guy who denies climate science and will keep the cheap fossil fuels flowing as the planet melts down? What will you do when repeated crop failures due to heat waves, drought, and floods make food prices skyrocket? When famine sparks war and spurs billions of refugees to migrate? When sea level rise necessitates the evacuation of coastal cities around the world (setting still more migrants on their way)? When people are dropping like flies from the heat? All if this stuff is already happening. Do you really think none of it is going to touch you?

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

xenoview comments on Jul 10, 2021:

It all comes down to people getting the covid vaccine, both shots.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 11, 2021:

@xenoview So religious belief is like training wheels for conspiracy theories.

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

xenoview comments on Jul 10, 2021:

It all comes down to people getting the covid vaccine, both shots.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

@xenoview Let me rephrase my question: why are these people so susceptible to disinformation, conspiracy theories, lies, and other right-wing propaganda?

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

mtnhome comments on Jul 10, 2021:

To a very large extent, this means there will be fewer RED voters left when the dust settles and the funerals are over-with. And some of the survivors may come to their senses. Yes, I know there were "innocents" affected. The vaccines were available to them too, as was the data that showed us all ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Frankly, I wish there were a better way to turn red states blue. But hey, if one's ideology is literally bad for one's health, whose fault is that? And if self-inflicted death is what it takes to rid us of bad ideology, se la vie! It is natural selection in action!

Messiah or just mess?

Matias comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Mocking people living in a trailer park? "White trash" is the only minority that can be ridiculed with impunity.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Point taken, though the words "white" and "trash" are absent from this meme. More importantly, not all Trump/QAnon promoters and followers are poor folks. How would you have written it?

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

KKGator comments on Jul 10, 2021:

If it were just a matter of "stupid is as stupid does", I'd say good riddance to bad rubbish. Unfortunately, it is not. There are far too many innocent people who suffer the consequences of their stupidity.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Yeah, all those walking Petri dishes, so worried about the economy, are breeding more transmissible and more virulent variants, some that might even evolve a way around our vaccines. Then where would we be? How good for the economy is that?

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

xenoview comments on Jul 10, 2021:

It all comes down to people getting the covid vaccine, both shots.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Exactly! But why aren't they doing it in SD?

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

ChestRockfield comments on Jul 10, 2021:

If a ton of Republicans in super low population states die, we could have a bunch of rich democrats from California and New York move in during election years and steal several senators and electoral votes.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

@JeffMurray I have considered that, but I don't want to live in Texas, or North Dakota, or Kentucky, or Kansas, or Mississippi, or Arkansas, or Missouri, or...

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

wordywalt comments on Jul 10, 2021:

It sometimes seems that extreme Republicanism has become a death wish.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Talk about cutting off the nose to spite the face!

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

ChestRockfield comments on Jul 10, 2021:

If a ton of Republicans in super low population states die, we could have a bunch of rich democrats from California and New York move in during election years and steal several senators and electoral votes.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

We could also make DC and Puerto Rico states, do away with the fillibuster, increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court,...

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

rainmanjr comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Yet people continue to tell us why politics aren't important. "Oh, don't pay attention to them," they say. Argh.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

"Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh..." -- from the 1986 movie, The Fly

South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common.

ChestRockfield comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Looks good to me.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Oooo, brutal!

Isn't Cheato's lawsuit against Twitter and Facebook nothing but a political stunt?

RichCC comments on Jul 10, 2021:

I'm having trouble accepting the word 'political' for the games tRump is playing, especially these days. He seems to me to just be riding out the money train (riding the tiger?) as long as he can. A *Protect Our Elections* rally in Phoenix near the end of July will apparently feature him. I'm ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

I use the term "political" rather loosely here. In fact, I'm basically assuming that there is an element of politics in all human interactions. This is probably a good thing. Consider this passage from the 1986 movie The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis: "Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh..." -- The Fly

TWO PLUS TWO By Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, June 14, 2021 Alabama: 5 Alaska: Leaning 4 ...

Storm1752 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Could you explain this, please?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 10, 2021:

Sure! So basically this is a satirical commentary on the political division that exists today in the USA. Without mentioning it directly, the author represents the Republican Party's break with reality as it embraces a set of weird beliefs, including Trump's Big Lie (that he won the 2020 election), the idea that the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, the whole QAnon conspiracy theory, etc., etc. The vehicle for this representation is a simple mathematical equation: 2 + 2 = 4. Or does it? Given their apparent willingness to swallow any ridiculous brain fart proposed by Cheato and his minions, many residents of red states are likely to tell us that 2 + 2 equals 3... or 5, or 6, or...? So that's the basic joke. But Ian Frazier displays particular genius here in how he communicates nuanced differences on both sides of the political divide. For Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states, the answer is "as 4 as it gets," while in a state with a strong gun culture like Idaho, the answer is .40 caliber. Georgia's "11,476 to go" refers to the number of votes Trump tried to get state officials to "find" for him so that he could he declared the winner there. Wisconsin barely went blue in this last cycle, hence its "conflicted 4." North Carolina has been a reliably red state for a long time, but that is changing. So Frazier has N.C. at "trending 4." I hope you found this explanation helpful.

I know this is a contentious subject matter but I came across this picture on the web.

OldMetalHead comments on Jul 8, 2021:

I think most men that concealed or open carry aren't that afraid of crime but instead have some sort of hero fantasy. Women that carry probably are doing so for protection but the likelihood they will successfully be able to prevent an attack from a bigger, stronger attacker is statistically low.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 8, 2021:

@redhog Do you have a legal concealed weapon permit? Or do you live in an open-carry state?

We have a number of people on this site, like Captain_Feelgood, who persist in attacking people with...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Ad hominem attack is a sure sign of a weak argument (and arguer).

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2021:

@AlasBabylon Tru dat

We have a number of people on this site, like Captain_Feelgood, who persist in attacking people with...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Ad hominem attack is a sure sign of a weak argument (and arguer).

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

@waitingforgodo Ipse dixit...it's another fallacy, yes, but how does it apply to the case of Cop'n Feels? Thanks for bringing it up...I did not know the Latin 👍

This time Cheato will not be occupying the penthouse.

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Only been trying for 5 years. Come on man….

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

@AnneWimsey Alas! Poor Yorick!

Ya think Cheato knows how incredibly predictable he is?

rainmanjr comments on Jul 3, 2021:

I don't recall a President Hamilton. Perhaps this bold assessment is the reason?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

A bullet from a gun can also be a rather effective impediment to political advancement.

This time Cheato will not be occupying the penthouse.

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Only been trying for 5 years. Come on man….

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

Alexander Hamilton could see Cheato coming 220 years ago.

Ya think Cheato knows how incredibly predictable he is?

HippieChick58 comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Incredible how the more things change the more they stay the same.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

No kidding! Wow.

This time Cheato will not be occupying the penthouse.

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Only been trying for 5 years. Come on man….

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

@CourtJester Oh, I see you drank the Cool-aide. So how's the weather up there in the ionosphere? Back down here on Earth, we had 86 election court cases where Cheato's lawyers lost or got thrown out...that was all a conspiracy? And his own hand-picked Attorney General saying there was no widespread fraud...he's in on it too? And the Republican AG (Rafthensberger) in Georgia, and the state senator in Michigan (McBroom), they're in on it too? And the Republican election officials in Arizona? Them too? To use your own words: come on!

We have a number of people on this site, like Captain_Feelgood, who persist in attacking people with...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Ad hominem attack is a sure sign of a weak argument (and arguer).

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

@Marionville I remember the 80s...sort of...lol

We have a number of people on this site, like Captain_Feelgood, who persist in attacking people with...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 3, 2021:

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

@anglophone Beware of blowback

This time Cheato will not be occupying the penthouse.

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Only been trying for 5 years. Come on man….

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2021:

Rome was not built in a day.

HeAdAkE posted this excellent question: Have humans stopped evolving?

powder comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Why I love DEVO, they were onto it. Think they were more talking civilization rather than genes when taking their name ie de-evolution. I recall reading an article where some are getting bone spurs growing at the back/ base of their skulls as a counter balance to constantly having heads bent over ...