I'm tired of being single I needed a companion

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 19, 2022:

"I'll take Scammer for $500, Alex"...

Such a nice, thoughtful kitty.....

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 19, 2022:

Hopefully, the mouse is smart enough not to fall for it..

After eviction, Christian hate-preacher Jonathan Shelley can't find a new home

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 19, 2022:

They have no shame, but they do get angry as hell after they say the quiet part out loud, and justly get called out as the bigots they are. In other words, I have the right to free speech, but you don't, because I'm right, you're wrong, so you have no right to call me a bigot, etc. To them, it's all a one-way street... Once a shithead, always a shithead....

I have been reading the dating profiles on Facebook.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 18, 2022:

I think you are being too technical in your interpretation. Like many dating profiles I have seen from women, the women may be either not quite as literate and educated as you or I, so their wording is rather misleading and imprecise. What it appears, at least to me, that they mean is, that they are serious about getting married to someone compatible, instead of just dating indefinitely or casually. Some people, men and women on dating sites, are just not that good at using language clearly or precisely, so they are often misunderstood, even if the writer is being honest and sincere. Your example also shows, the hazards of not having someone literate and at least as smart as you, or smarter, proofread your profile, before you finalize it, because that way the obvious and less obvious errors will be found and corrected. I recently saw the POF profile essay of a male buddy who got me to join POF, after he was already on there. He was a newbie himself, to online dating, and it showed, in his profile essay. A woman on there had replied to his initial message to her with a one word reply, "Fake!". Her reason for that was understandable, after all the scammer profiles I have seen, both on here and real dating sites. He said in his essay, three things that were inappropriate and suggestive of being a scammer, so she tagged him as one, even tho all three things were the truth, but they were what I called rookie mistakes. He said that he had worked in Antarctica, was 195 pounds for his weight, and that he had no prison record. The second item was just unnecessary, unusual and weird, so she was suspicious of that, the first one sounded like typical scammer stuff about working abroad, and the last one, even tho it was meant to be humorous and light, seemed very inappropriate and suggested he was lying and probably had done time. I told him to eliminate all three of those things in his essay, and he would be fine, as his photos were good and the rest of it was fine.

From our Stark Contrast Department:

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 17, 2022:

I wouldn't get too cheery about the Dem record. Food prices are still sky high, Assange is still getting shafted, DeJoy and Powell are still in their jobs, as Trump appointees, we traded Afghanistan for Ukraine, in the MIC making their profits, our manu jobs are still all overseas, corporations still have way too much power to price gouge, and the Dems do nothing about that, or even talk about it, health care costs are still way too high, Medicare and Social Security are still way too inadequate to give everyone decent healthcare and a decent retirement, the mass shooting continue every day, and are getting worse..... I could give you a lot more. The Dems are marginally better than the Repubs in DC, but not much.

Cat safe after hair-raising rescue from Pelican Bay storm drain

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 17, 2022:

I am very happy for the cute kitten, but I am disgusted at how likely these same people wouldn't care a fraction as much about some adult person, or possibly even a child, who was poor or a racial minority, for example, who needed to be rescued from poverty or homelessness. Something to think about...

Saturday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 17, 2022:

A Lynx?

Looking for a new profile photo which one works the best?

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 13, 2022:

For what my opinion is worth, as a man, I would go with the second one. All I do know is that I am turned off by women with profile photos that have the fish lips or duck lips face, as well as other goofy faces. It makes them seem either spacey or trying to be showing off. I prefer just a warm smile, as if they were being comfortable with a friend, or maybe a bright, big smile. I stay away from women with no smiling photos or no teeth showing, because that could mean missing or bad teeth, or simply their bad personality, that my female friends call "Resting Bitch Face".

Said every cat at 3 am

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 13, 2022:

It's nothing personal...

Before we criticize, the current generation for their enthrallment we should remember

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 12, 2022:

To be fair, some of the Gabor sisters did have talent as entertainers, the Kardashian kids, not so much...

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 12, 2022:

Something tells me the OP is way under 50 yo...

Don't forget your little ones this Xmas

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 12, 2022:

Hard to tell if the kitty is excited or scared, lol..

Has anyone seen the new friends feature on the Facebook dating?

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 12, 2022:

I am on FB, but know nothing about it. Does it cost you any $ if you are already on FB? I am wary of using it, as I could see the potential of scammers using it even more than normal dating sites. Scratch that. I looked it up on Google, there is no web version of it yet, probably never will be. You need a smartphone to use it, which I have no interest in getting.

A very interesting discussion and worth the watch although it is a bit long.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 11, 2022:

In some ways, I feel it has already begun, at least on the part of the right wingers. Witness the steep increase in attacks on places where black, queer, Jewish, and immigrant people are gathered, and it's clear that one side has already begun fighting a civil war against the groups that they feel are their cultural, racial, ethnic, and political enemies. As to a point made in the video, I am retired, widowed, and not nearly as busy as most Americans, and I am also a born pessimist, so am also not inherently hopeful. Maybe that is why I tend to see things more clearly and realistically about how America is falling apart, saw Jan. 6 coming, and, like Chris Hedges, tend to see things coming more clearly than most Americans. I do know that I see things way more clearly about what is going on than my married friends with kids, who are totally clueless about what the author in the video calls, "the nuances of what's going on in politics herea". I only wish that everyone was required to be aware of those nuances, in order to get to vote,... As for the video overall, I generally don't have the patience to watch anything over a half hour long, since most times the videos are too long, either from repetition, or the presenter having too much filler or elaboration of their points being more detailed than it needs to be.

Who’s giving Americans spiritual care?

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 11, 2022:

As far as providing spiritual care, ministers are being, and have been replaced, for some time now, by mental health workers, like social workers, therapists, and counselors. It used to be that most religious people went to their ministers for counseling, because it was less embarrassing to them and they already knew the person. Nowadays, as more people become secular, and mental health therapy is less stigmatized, they go to secular helpers.

Here's a chestnut that often comes up when a religious person finds out that I am an Atheist.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 11, 2022:

Going to church, or even simply claiming a religion, makes someone a moral person no more than sleeping in a garage, makes you a car...

FreeLeonardPeltier

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

Same with Julian Assange, but neither one of those will every happen.

There is something very affirming when, as a heterosexual man, a woman is happy to confide in me ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

I can relate, somewhat to that, as I have been the confidant of many platonic hetero female friends, about their past relationships with men, including their stories of rape and sexual molestation, because, I guess, they feel safe with me. But I haven't had them confide that sort of sexual history with me, as far as how men have rated with or been involved with them sexually in the past, as far as normal relationship sex. Probably because I am clear that I am not interested in hearing it and that it's not my business. I am fine hearing from them about the emotional business of their past romantic relationships with men, because listening to them and then them hearing my perspective on it, helps both me and the woman learn from their past, and also hopefully from making similar mistakes on our part in the future, with other partners.

I took my Range Rover to a specialist mechanic 2.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

Sounds like someone needs to learn to keep their religion to themselves. I would have reported him to whatever authority there is, and I'm sure there is one in Ontario, that issues his cabbie license, and have them lean on him. I believe that they can yank his hack license if he is abusive to customers. Congrats to him, NOT, for living up to every stereotype that white people have of immigrant Muslim cabbies.

This exquisite amicus brief was submitted to the US Supreme Court, by the Onion.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

Maybe I'm too ignorant, or thick, as the British say, but is there any particular case that this brief is supposed to be in reference to?

I love how old people solve their problems

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

Any old guy that would say that to his longtime wife, deserves to be murdered in his sleep, for at least the insurance money, lol. If I were him, I would be sleeping lightly with one eye open, as she would likely be solving both their problems, promptly....

The hazards of growing up before the EPA.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

I survived lots of parental abuse, but I paid the price, and chose to never have kids or be a young parent. It also scarred me a lot emotionally. But I did end the cycle and that was worth it. I cringe at the people who survive spankings, but carry on the practice and cycle of abusive parenting...

The hazards of growing up before the EPA.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

Or for that matter, growing up now, where much of those regulations are being reversed or eliminated. For example, how is growing up now, in Flint or Detroit MI much safer or healthy than before the EPA?

Cheato's diabolically clever hiding place for classified documents.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

That's my parody title for that retarded country song, "Digging Up Bones", which I call Picking My Nose..lol..

This just in...

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 10, 2022:

I think the ketchup on the wall story, pretty well settles that ?....

Civil wedding Vs Traditional wedding.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 9, 2022:

I didn't vote and have no real interest in getting married again. The one time I was married was in 1999, at a Unitarian church with two Unitarian ministers officiating, one from her church and one from mine. My only LTR, because here in Iowa, as a young man who didn't want to have kids or be a stepparent, that pretty well disqualified me from marriage or an LTR, since young women here seem to all have kids on the brain, at least then, if not even at my current age. We were both Unitarians who were active with our neighboring churches. That was when I was 41, working poor and had nothing to really lose in a divorce. Now I am 64, financially secure, and comfortably retired, so no way I am getting married without an airtight prenup, since I can't afford to lose half what I have, with a heart condition and the possibility of a stroke from it down the line, costing me expensive care for possibly the rest of my life. So most likely if I find a partner, she needs to have her own money and place to live, and I will keep mine. What my late wife, in her community college course on Courtship, Marriage, and Family, called "Pension Pals", people who are a couple, but remain unmarried for mutual financial advantages... Even with a prenup and such, I would not get married again unless the woman really insisted on it.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona: Why I’m registering as an independent

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 9, 2022:

You're right, she will not even run for re-election. She already has her cushy corporate or lobbyist job lined up, secretly. In the meantime, she loves the spotlight, and will suck up all she can of it until she leaves office. The Dems should have wrote her off long ago, same with Manchin, but behind those two, there are plenty of other centrist, corrupt, corporate Dems to take a hit for the team and play the villain, so that voters think the rest of the party is actually on their side and responsive to us peasants... And the rubes who vote Dem, of course, keep buying the act...

See you later Mom! My ride is here! [twitter.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 9, 2022:

Ever since those vaccums came on the market, I have imagined cats riding them as Ubers. Now I've seen it with my own eyes.

Beauty, family , movie, traveling ,work ,dance , music,games ,shows,fun

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 8, 2022:

And our latest scammer takes the stage...

Do you give money to the red kettle bell ringers outside every store?

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 8, 2022:

Thanks Julie, very informative. I never give to anyone who is ringing bells, or otherwise panhandling, because I only give to charities I already have researched and then either give online or by mailing them a check, not spontaneously giving in person. I also find it annoying that they and other charities hang around outside stores, often enlisting children to assist them and add to the appeals to your guilt and conscience to give to them. Same with boy scouts, girl scouts, veterans groups, and Shriners. etc. In recent years, the only charities I have given to have been a local food bank, public radio in my state, and Planned Parenthood. Nothing else either appeals to my values or seems legit and valuable enough in their service to justify it on my part. And I sure as hell won't donate to the Dem Party, since for all I know, most of it might end up just going to help elect more corporate Dems to congress..

Georgia Senate runoff vote: What Warnock's win means for him, the Senate and Georgia [bbc.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 7, 2022:

What a joke, so they picked up one more Senate seat. I can already see how little things will change with either of the two they picked up this time, as Manchin and Sinema will still always be there to take the blame for the Dems never delivering anything good or substantial, plus they can always blame those meanie Repubs, as well as the fillibuster that the Dems refuse to abolish. "Nothing will fundamentally change", that should actually be the new Dem Party slogan. They should thank Biden for giving it to them.

Do you think "micro donations" in politics contribute to polarization and the vilification of the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 7, 2022:

I am all for micro donations, like Bernie had the last two times, for almost all of his campaign funding. It is positive if, like Bernie, they use the money to fund their campaigns instead of selling out completely to corporations and the rich for all the funding of their campaigns. Almost all the other pols in DC, Dem or Repub, sell out to all the same donors I mentioned, unlike Bernie, so there are exceptions, and I would much rather support them than all the Repubs and corporate Dems I see in federal office, because we all know that voters don't matter to these pols, just their donors. Same for either party.

Time spent together

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 7, 2022:

Not really, in my book. To me, it is something to use intially to test for chemistry or positive vibe between two singles who either are too unavailable to meet in person for the first time, either due to distance or time commitments that are in the way, or, in the case of a long distance relationship with limited opportunities to meet up in person, it compensates for that. But so do and so can phone calls, this is just an enhancement of the old LD relationship phone calls, for the modern age. To me, after the couple have met in person and established a mutual interest and commitment to date, from then on, the video chatting is a pretty poor substitute for spending actual time together in the same place. It can be too artificial, compared to spending time together most of the time in the same location, and can lead to relationships dragging out while deteriorating while the couple grows apart, but is able to cover up and deflect from separation issues longer than they should.

Vandalism is getting to be a lot less in my area.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 6, 2022:

I would never live out in a remote or rural area, because I do not trust most people enough, esp. these days, with the right wing, violent nuts out there, to be at the mercy of strangers who might attack me or vandalize my property because they don't like my politics or non-belief. I would always rather be in a suburban area, like I am now, where crime is low. I live in a condo apartment building, with security doors and an underground, indoor garage, so if anyone who doesn't live here wants to get at me or my car, they would need to follow me after I left or look for me somewhere outside here. My neighbors know that I never have almost never have any visitors here, so they would be very unlikely to ever let anybody in the building, if they used the intercom and asked them to buzz them in to see me. And they know that I would be just as vigilante in protecting them. So, unless one of my neighbors develops a serious grudge against me and decides to vandalize my car or the door of my apartment, I have nothing to fear happening to me, my car, or my door from my neighbors. Because they also know that if anything like that did happen, it wouldn't be that tough to figure out who did it, and for me to retaliate. Mutually assured destruction, like the old Cold War days, lol...

Cat Will Do Anything To Fit In This Box | The Dodo - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 5, 2022:

That is mean and deliberately frustrating the cat. It needs and deserves a bigger box and it's not right to frustrate the cat just to amuse the human. Cats seem to like boxes big enough to hug their whole body, because it gives them a full body snug feeling they like. Most likely it's a way for them to relive being in their mother's womb..

Hi, I was curious if anyone else felt as i do about birthdays.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 5, 2022:

My parents are dead, so my three siblings really have nobody left, except maybe their own guilt or sense of obligation, to have contact with me in recent years. My two sisters have some limited contact with me, initiated always by them, not me. My brother contacts me sporadically. I have never really been close to them after reaching middle age, and that is fine with me. In recent years, I have exchanged B-day cares with my two sisters, no B-day cards with my brother in a very long time. Also fine with me. I like my dealings with people to be completely straight up and honest, whether it's with family, friends, or acquaintences. I like it all clean and honest, no games. Life is too short to spend playing diplomat with people, and having to calculate or strategize how you deal with them, if it's with someone ongoing. Either I can be myself with them, or I don't need them in my life. So I guess, Lonnie, is that you and I are more alike than different on this score.

It’s official.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 5, 2022:

Like in the Mormon church, you are one of the elect, lol. Best wishes in retirement.

I just saw this.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 5, 2022:

Look an awful lot like the principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association Of America, which is the denomination of the Unitarian church.

Quick! To the Cat Cave!

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 5, 2022:

They do love to perch up high, plan their attack, and then pounce!

Time for some lanes to merge. Time for some worlds to collide.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 4, 2022:

We used to tax the shit out of the rich, esp. the multimillionaires, but then we stopped doing it. Back then there were very few billionaires, now there are way more. That's why, not so much because of inflation.

Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban on religious freedom grounds | Reuters

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 3, 2022:

This will never hold up once it gets to the top court..

Republican Elites Are Drawing on a Bizarre Blend of Cultural Weirdness

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 3, 2022:

Sounds like Amalric's motto lived on after him, like during the Vietnam War, when the bomber pilots said, " Kill them all, and let God sort out the mistakes"...

Re Kanye (Ye),

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 3, 2022:

I feel the same about MAGA hats, it saves me time and lets me know immediately who the idiots and assholes are. Kind of like someone wearing a special ed tag, it saves time, tho I don't despise them like the MAGAs.

Hey, How's everyone been?

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 2, 2022:

Well, you live in the US, like me, where we have had uniparty rule, at least since the late 80s, ever since. The only real differences these days, at the fed level, for the major parties, is the identity politics and culture wars, otherwise, the policies and agendas are pretty much the same, serving corporations and the ruling class with tax cuts and eliminating regulation of business, marching us to climate disaster, feeding the MIC and endless wars for oil and empire, etc. Right now, the Repubs are also moving towards open fascism and the end of elections, with a permanent dictatorship, while the Dems want to keep up the charade of democracy, with elections within the duopoly, instead of risking civil war and the disruption of civil war,, for their corporate masters to deal with. Both parties support the neofeudalism we have here, with neoliberal economics and trade policies, all to serve the rich and corporations, over the masses. I see no hope for getting out of this death spiral, unless either the masses collectively ignore the corporate media, quit believing in the major parties, and vote third party only in fed elections, throwing out both major parties in DC. Not very likely and the only way we can vote our way out of this. The other way would be tens of millions no longer cooperating with corporate control of our government, long general strikes, and massive protests, but I am afraid that if the masses took that first route, and voted in a true labor or worker's party, the ruling classes would have the major parties implement a military crackdown, declare martial law, and then we would have to either fight it out in the streets against the now openly fascist government, or else end up under permanent dictatorship.

Bipartisan bollocks.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 2, 2022:

Yup, two parties, both owned by and serving only the rich and corporate masters, but at least one of them offers some identity politics to the rubes in the 99%, who still think they are on their side, instead of just the 1%.

A burglar broke into our house last night...

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 2, 2022:

It's always good to have some attack cats in the home..

You know how they have the ugliest sweater contest? I am going for the gnarliest tree contest.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 1, 2022:

It is a bit scruffy, needs that makeover..

Lying pastor: Bible College students become atheists and infiltrate churches

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 1, 2022:

Someone sounds a bit on the paranoid and nutty side. Projection much?

Boy howdy.

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 1, 2022:

Because this is the world center of capitalism, baby, where money rules everything, when it comes to power and who makes the rules...

My new look babies

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 1, 2022:

Hell man, you don't need this site at all. With your looks and all the women in Iowa City that are politically liberal, hip, and non-believers, you should have no problem finding compatible women to date. The only way you could lose or fail at it is if you are a conservative or an asshole.. My money is on the latter.....

For those of us that are the black sheep of the family, how true does this ring for you?

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 30, 2022:

It sure as hell fits me, and my role in my dysfunctional family. It was probably no accident that I was named Thomas, like the apostle, truth-teller in the New Testament gospels.

I yearn for simpler times and fear for the future.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 29, 2022:

That's me, a psycho. I don't even have a smartphone, nor do I want or need one..But then, I've alway been a non-conformist. So sad that my kind is so rare nowadays, compared to the 60s. Nowadays, everybody likes to think they're hip, yet they are almost all very conformist. Fucking sheeple!....

All five found guilty, four on Conspiracy and Rhodes of Seditious Conspiracy, for at least ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 29, 2022:

Trump has nothing to worry about regarding Jan. 6. Only the smaller fish will ever see prison over it. He's a member of the club, like George Carlin said, and he hasn't stolen from rich people in the club, so he is safe.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 29, 2022:

We need a govt. sponsored buy back program, like I think Australia did, to first start to make a dent in it. Secondly, we need new SC or a much more progressive congress, to ban assault weapons with a constitutional amendment. Until then, we are fucked... The ruling class is fine with our status quo on guns, because they don't care how many of us peasant are killed, since it only happens among the peasant class. Until it actually starts affecting the ruling class and the political class, nothing will be done. But if the peasants somehow started using their weapons against the political class on a widespread scale, or ever began using them on the ruling class, we would see action so fast it would make your head spin!

Cat returns to Brooklyn after saved from bag at JFK Airport

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 29, 2022:

Not sure he should have been given the people food on that plate...

Cat returns to Brooklyn after saved from bag at JFK Airport

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 29, 2022:

Hope he was rewarded with tuna..

The business cry for years was train people for the jobs, don't train them to think and this is what...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 28, 2022:

That is so true. I remember when I worked as a vending route driver at a state university that was all about science and tech, and listening to the students talk amongst themselves, nary a one that had any knowledge of humanities or liberal arts, all of them obviously grooming themselves for careers in science and tech where they would make good money, never join a union, and either loyally vote Republican, or, even worse, become Libertarians... To them, Ayn Rand was a god and science could solve all problems, it was their religion and the only thing that mattered, not people or humans...

You’ll see a lot of people try to blame Christian Nationalism on evangelicals, saying that it’s ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 28, 2022:

It's like Betty Bowers said, " Religious freedom, (or Christian Nationalism, for that matter) is just White Christian Nationalism (or fascism) dressed up in Bible drag"...

I wonder if the Theist and Atheist worlds will ever notice that God and Reality behave exactly the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 28, 2022:

As the poet and philosopher, John Lennon once said, " God is a concept, by which we measure our pain"...

What ever the latest massacre, this is the republiscum response.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 28, 2022:

Yup, the real answer is Fuck you, to the victims, their families, and the gun control crowd...

I'd like to think this is one of those great communities that are hidden unless you go looking.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

I think that is generally true here about Agnostic.com, Glen, unless you begin discussing the dating game and making any negative statements regarding any women in said game, no matter how much the statements are based on your personal experience. The sad fact is that most women on this site are so reflexively defensive of the sisterhood, that they have no tolerance for anything negative said about women in the dating game, no matter how much they may know it to be true. And the same thing with most men on here, they don't have the guts or integrity to stand up to those women I am referring to, either due to lack of courage, or their desire to curry favor with those women by lacking the integrity to admit it when they know a guy is being honest and right about something regarding women in the dating game. So, in summary, this is still not a safe or supportive place, like it used to be, for discussing one's online dating woes, at least if you are a man, and that is why almost no one but me is still willing to do or risk it here. And, as far as I can tell, with the many women who have blocked me over this subject, it also doesn't appear to be a place where women feel that safe or supportive, either, about sharing their experiences regarding online dating, because I don't see any posts from them either, even tho if they had me blocked, I would still see the post listed in the posts column for that group, not sure if that also is true for forum categories like Love And Relationships..

She makes a very valid point that they will deny and deflect.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

So true, they will deny and deflect, she should have gone on to say, that instead of about faith, it really is all about control and domination of those they hate...She was too polite about it and stopped short of confronting their phoniness completely as fake religion... As the Betty Bower's character, America's favorite Christian, said recently, it isn't at all about religion, "It's White Christian Nationalism, dressed up in Bible drag"..... And in the case of abortion bans, it's misogyny and patriarchy, dressed up in Bible drag. As Betty would say, "Glory!".

Here's why vandals sprayed graffiti at Focus on the Family headquarters

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

I see nothing wrong with people from the left desecrating their self-righteous, pious, image with the graffiti. To me, the line that needs to be drawn is physical violence against people, not the damage to property. Destroying property to make a political point, while not preferable as a form of protest, is sometimes necessary to get public attention and make a point. I hope in this case it does make a point to the religious right, that our side is not just polite, meek people who will just nicely protest at rallies and make moral appeals, that in addition to that, we will publicly shame and tear down all of their masks of having some moral superiority to us by confronting their hypocrisy. I see nothing different here than the righteous gay men who spilled blood at Catholic churches and disrupted masses held by the cardinal in NYC during the AIDS crisis of the 80s and the leadership of the Catholic church condemning gays and blaming them for AIDS and their own deaths from it. Another example of righteous, justified anger resulting in property destruction, was in San Fransisco, back in the 1990s, when Dan White was acquitted for murdering Harvey Milk and George Masconi, a totally outrageous verdict, that outraged the gay community there, so at the end of a nightlong, candlelight march, that ended at City Hall, they smashed windows and justifiably vented their rage against the city government, including Diane Feinstein, who had supported White over Milk for years, and pushed for the acquittal. Sometimes, the right, as well as the centrists in power, need to be reminded that those on the left are not all meek, polite, sissies, who will tolerate outrageously being shit on without biting back, and being capable enough of violence to put some fear into their opponents of how ugly things will get if they are ignored and not given any concessions from those in power. The only reason we got progress in the 60s, was because of how much of a threat those in the left posed, unlike now, to act violently and disrupt the system. The progress then was never given to us out of the goodness of the hearts of the rich and corporations. Why we get no progress now, is because the rich and corporations are no longer afraid of us at all, mainly because people will not get out there in the streets and agitate the way they did back then, partly because the Dem Party is now much more corrupt than then, and also because now the cops are so militarized, that they are ready to mow us down successfully, even if we did get out there in tens of millions and raised hell like the old days. But the one thing we still have on our side, is that there are still way many more of us peasants, even tho half of them are MAGAs, than there are cops and military, so if we could somehow ...

Hi guys ♥️ I have been avoiding like hell to make a real post for months and I am trying to ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

I'm glad the TIA happened where you had help. I have atril fib myself, for almost 12 years now, but no episodes for a few years now. I know how getting your rest and staying hydrated, as well as managing stress, all play a part in keeping cardiac issues stable and preventing episodes of heart problems. So now you know better and will take better care of yourself.

Q: Why are so many Americans opposed to a publicly funded health service, when this is common in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

That really is what it boils down to. I can't count the number of times I have heard a conservative say that kind of cut off my nose to spite my face line, usually it's something like "I don't want any right to healthcare for all or any national healthcare plan, because I don't want to have to share it with illegal aliens, black people, gay people, Muslims (insert any despised minority group here). And the people saying this are always working class white people, who would clearly benefit from a single payer system, with much better access to care and much lower costs for themselves, but no, they can't stand the idea of any of their taxes going to help members of groups they despise, or of having to share access and waiting rooms with members of those same groups. What fucking, bigoted idiots! For people on the right, who will never gain anything economically, by voting for Repubs, it really does come down to them voting Repub because, they hate the same people the voter hates.... It takes no imagination to picture these sheeple rabidly partaking of Orwell's daily Two Minutes Hate ritual in his novel 1984, because they already indulge in it every day, while they are watching Fox News...

Thoughts? Really looking for perspectives..

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

In the words of the rock band, The Who, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"...

What Will You Do When the GOP Comes For Women? - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 27, 2022:

What might very well happen, would be some imitations of the movie John Q, in which people will show up at hospitals with guns, bombs, or other weapons, and demand treatment and abortions for their loved ones, who they will bring with them. Life will imitate art and hospitals will have to become like airlines, becoming prepared to defend against armed intruders hijacking their facilities and staff to perform proceedures they can't otherwise get, due to lack of money, insurance coverage, or laws against the proceedure.

A little known fact, there are just as many Atheists that grew up in Islam as their are Atheists ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

Within all cultures and nations that are dominated by believers, we are a small, more intelligent, courageous minority...

I hope Sam Bankman-Fried and his gang get the punishment they deserve for the massive financial ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

Nope, they are part of the club, as George Carlin used to put it, rich and politically connected. Those kind of folks, whether they are Repub or Dem, never go to prison, unless, like Bernie Madoff, they commit the unforgiveable sin of stealing from other members of the club..

FYI, There is a new member, going by the handle @purePBA, who appears to be here solely for the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

I'm seeing more of that too. I think the feature has been removed for posts needing to be approved by higher level members before it can be posted for good. And also there obviously is no mod or admin. anymore policing the scammers that post here or join the site these days.

Trump Dines with Virulent Antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye West Former president Donald Trump ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

Good one, Johnny, great satire.

It is coming sooner than we think.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

It's called evidence of a guilty mind...

Let's place the blame squarely where it belongs.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 26, 2022:

True, the last time the left would bomb things was in the 70s, and in the years they did that, they always made as sure as possible to only blow up empty buildings, versus the way the right always plans their attacks on their targets to kill as many people as possible. So that tells you all you need to know about who is really pro life and who isn't..... The left also doesn't support the death penalty either, just to add that in there, since the right is hypocritical and inconsistent in that way too.

Over a foot of snow here.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

Isn't this really unusual for NM?

The snow had collapsed the net over the bird enclosure I had to repair it, with this much snow the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

I didn't think it snowed in NM.

Christian hate-preacher celebrates Club Q shooting: "It's a good thing"

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

I would surely celebrate the news of someone giving him a much deserved ass-kicking.....

It is greed, pure and simple.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

It's called industry consolidation and monopoly. The laws against it are on the books, but our pols are too bought and corrupt to enforce the laws, so we get screwed, over and over, no matter which major party in in power. Covid and the supply chain issues, which are also related to offshoring of manufacturing and industry consolidation, were used as a cover for corporate price gouging.

Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Says Club Q Victims are Now Burning in Hell Former Trump lawyer Jenna ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

What a nasty twat... I agree with Johnny, that if hell existed, it would be me stuck with people like her and Trump, for eternity, along with one radio station that was on all the time, at earsplitting volume, playing only country music, karaoke style.... And I really enjoy singing karaoke, most of the time, it's listening to all the country songs there, where I live, that I hate...

What were the films of your youth and who were your comedians?

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 25, 2022:

Carlin and Sam Kinison, who unfortunately died too young and had too short a career. Richard Pryor also, for how revolutionary he was...

Christian hate-preacher celebrates Club Q shooting: "It's a good thing"

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 24, 2022:

I wonder how he would feel, not that it would ever happen, if someone gay or queer came and shot up his church? I doubt he would call it justified for them to do it.

Aaron Brink, Pornstar Dad of Colorado Club Q Shooting Suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, Spews Homophobia

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 24, 2022:

He's from a whole family of shitheads, no surprise there...

I died… lol! Bohemian Catsody [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 23, 2022:

Too cute to be mad at them, such funny lyrics. Great real meows.. I enjoyed this a hell of a lot more than about any karaoke performance I have ever seen of the song. Thanks for sharing it. The cats sound better than some karaoke singers... and way less annoying, at least to me.. One of them looks like Ozzie the cat, from the Hallmark greeting cards..

At least 124 drag events targeted this year: report | The Hill

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 23, 2022:

Nothing will happen, at least not from the govt., to protect queer folks and other perceived enemies of the right, and the attacks will continue. This culture war stuff is way too valuable to the ruling class to have the government end it and risk the masses waking up and possibly quit being divided over it, because then they might start voting in their own real economic interests and unite against the 1%. Because in America, the duopoly and the corporate media will only allow class war to be waged from one side, the 1% against the 99%.

Pastor behind 'Miracle Mansion,' a Christian theme park, convicted of fraud

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 23, 2022:

No surprise there. All grifters are the same, whether they are pols like Trump, preachers like this guy, or sleazy business folks like Madoff. They all prey on the gullible and are all about money.

Why you don't negotiate as an individual. Union Yes!

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 23, 2022:

It's that or some company T-shirt. Either one shows you don't really matter to them..

So handsome 😂

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 22, 2022:

Cute and he knows it.

'Hero' Army vet who tackled Club Q mass shooter says he acted on instinct | News | gazette.com

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 22, 2022:

I'm glad he was able to get some licks in and beat the shooter up before the cops got there. And hope that more frontier justice awaits him after he goes to prison...

Monday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 21, 2022:

So fluffy!

If you believe that, I've got some coastal property to sell you that never floods.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

I guess I'm an abnormal freak or something, despite growing up in rural Iowa and being brainwashed all thru public school to believe that shit, I wised up about it as soon as I got to college and started hearing the truth about capitalism and American politics. So what excuse do all the rest of the college educated people have for most of them still believing this bullshit? It's the same idiots who are working poor or middle class, but keep voting Republican, because they are stupid enough to think they will be rich someday... The other part of it is how brainwashed most Americans are about worshiping individualism, from the corporate media and popular culture here. Solidarity is a taboo subject here..

Changes I'd like to see:

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

Because almost everyone in congress is owned by the oligarchs who run those companies, and also because almost everyone in congress long ago quit caring about anything but themselves, their spouses, and their children getting rich off their power, influence, and contacts in congress, both during and after their political careers. And because most of the voters are too dumb to see that or care that both major parties are the same on this, and to instead start voting for third party and independent candidates, instead of the bought members of the duopoly..

Just one more reason to want to send them packing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

They are all about selfishness.. Socialists, like me, or even liberals, tend to be more into generosity and sharing equally, that is, except the comfortably upper middle class Dems, who are really no different than the Repubs, when it comes to sharing and economics.

Leading Evangelical Christians Desert Trump After 2024 Announcement: HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

I agree, the white evangelical vote is the only way Trump was ever able to win the first time, and even with his MAGA base, he has no chance in hell of winning without the Bible thumper vote. And those people always follow what their church leaders tell them about who to vote for...

Lol. Poor Large Mouth Marge..her days are gonna be ruined..lololololololololol [dailykos.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

I guess that would be sort of "owning the cons", the opposite of how MGT is always owning the libs..

Thanksgiving holiday is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

"Oh, the humanity!", about the funniest thing I ever saw on network TV...

Mass shooting at gay nightclub in Colorado Springs - Los Angeles Times

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

When will liberals wake up and realize that, on some level, our civil war has already begun and been going on a while, as far as the right wing attacking obvious targets that they see as their political and cultural enemies? : Queer nightclubs and bars, minority-dominated stores and churches, liberal churches, synagogues, etc.. Time for any of those types of buildings and groups to have armed guards there at all times whenever they are open for business and having mass gatherings. I am not blaming those groups that have been targetted, but time to wake up and quit allowing themselves to be sitting ducks. It's not that fucking hard to know which places will and are being targeted, since mass shootings never seem to happen at places and groups that are supportive of right wing groups, so those who should be able to see they are likely targets, need to quit worshipping non-violence and pacifism as if it were some fucking religion and start reading some Malcom X instead, in other words, that self-defense is merely being intelligent... It almost seems like some people would rather just be sitting ducks for right wing terrorists and mass shooters, but for me, at least, I would rather be protected and ready, rather than some unprotected, righteous victim that chooses to be naive or voluntarily unprepared... And one more thing, those armed guards need adequate firepower, not just a six gun revolver, since the shooter will usually have an automatic firearm, body armor, and plenty of ammo, so the guards need to be well trained and armed for such attackers. It also might have helped to have had armed guards outside the club, searching patrons for firearms, so they might never have even gotten inside the club with that kind of security..

All my life I have been a cluts, I have broken fingers, toes, both ankles, both wrists, and one ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 20, 2022:

I'm fairly clumsy, but never have broken any bones in my body. Just lucky, I guess, but I also learned early on how to fall safely, so when I do, I usually land on my butt or my side, on soft tissue rather than bone. Worst I ever suffered was dislocating my foot while playing basketball and stepping on another player's foot at an awkward angle.

You know who you are.... not so much on this site, Thank Dog.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 19, 2022:

The admin. of this site is a right winger, but even when he was actively involved, which he hasn't been in at least a couple years, with moderating this site, he was fairly even in censorship and sanctioning members, not really favoring conservative members much more than lefty members. And nowadays, there is really nobody moderating much at all, except for group mods.

Catholic-owned gelato shop in AL bans phones, cursing, and bare shoulders

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 19, 2022:

And I thought I was outdated..

Saturday morning cuteness overload!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 19, 2022:

Mini leopards...

Nancy Pelosi has been one the finest Speakers in history.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 18, 2022:

I will disagree, but I won't blow it out my ass. She is old and corrupt, so good riddance, time to also get rid of Biden and Schumer as well. The Dems need young, progressive leaders, not these old neoliberal, corrupt, centrist, corporate political whores. Nobody outside of party loyalists has any respect for them anymore, and if they are still leading the party in two years, it will be a Repub landslide, because most voters have figured out their con and their games. And BTW, big fucking deal if the Dems still technically control the Senate. How well has that been working out with Manchin and Sinema controlling all of the Dem agenda there? It will be even worse now, as the margin is even less now, and the two DINOs are going nowhere and not changing a bit...