Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

WilliamCharles comments on Oct 29, 2022:

This sounds plausible. There's just some things in the original story that don't add up. The "Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" sounds like "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs" to my ears (the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case). ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

Thanks for the link, sounds very plausible that this was an incident that Nancy wanted to cover up, and maybe take advantage of it for some political mileage and sympathy.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 28, 2022:

considering what happened today .... she needs more security.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@WilliamCharles That choice was clearly made by Trump and his cronies in the government. The only ? is if it will ever be proven in court and will he ever see prison over it. In the meantime, I would love to see some lawsuits against him by capital police officers who suffered because of him, because I have no faith the Dems will have the balls to actually get him punished for it. But in civil court, those officers might have a very good case against him if anybody in his circle ends up willing to talk.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@FvckY0u I'm sure they have hired bodyguards for him and other immediate family members.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 28, 2022:

considering what happened today .... she needs more security.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Whether her husband's vulnerability was planned or not, the amount of threats she has received clearly do justify lots of security for both her and her family. The Jan.6 incident by itself made that clear..

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FvckY0u I'm an extremely skilled and careful driver, hence my having had a CDL and never having any accidents outside of in parking lots during my whole driving career, personal and on the jobs. So, regarding your insurance ?, I still carry a normal amount of insurance for my home and car, because things can always happen, even if it's someone else's fault, no matter how careful you are. I do drop collision insurance on my cars after they are ten years old, simply because by that time their worth is usually low enough to not be worth the money of repairing them after an accident. However, with the cost of used cars now, it might be worth adjusting that. I consider it simply being smart and sensible, regardless of what the government requires for car owners, or not. I know as soon as I begin hearing of right wing groups beginning to hunt average lefties, who aren't even elected pols, I will be arming myself and preparing to fight them if they come after me, regardless of the cost for buying a gun, ammo, and learning to shoot. That would simply be sensible spending to defend myself against a very plausible threat and not saving money in the foolish, naive belief that the cops would protect me.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FvckY0u Maybe, but besides those qualities, it also takes money, fame, and motivation, at least most of the time, to make those kind of fake attacks happen. Few of the 50% have all those ingredients, unlike Kavanaugh and Pelosi, for example...

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

I think she is somewhere between brilliant and idiot, but have no doubt she is extremely corrupt and dishonest, like about every pol in DC. It's not that challenging to engineer or stage a personal attack to get public sympathy, so I don't focus so much on her intelligence, but her lack of ethics and honesty, which seem well-suited to colluding on this sort of shit...

Christian hate-preacher: We'd be 'lucky' if Hitler killed 6 million Jews

Barnie2years comments on Oct 28, 2022:

At some point turning violence against these hate mongers is going to be our only chance at surviving as a decent society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

I agree with CuddyCruiser, it's probably too late for that, because so much of law enforcement personnel are members of that tribe, or at least sympathetic to them, so we won't get any help from them in dealing with them, as well as having to arm and protect ourselves...

The January 6 Riot Was a Spectacular Failure of US Law Enforcement

racocn8 comments on Oct 27, 2022:

It's called corruption. Corrupt President. Corrupt Army and Pentagon (in charge of Natl Guard). Corrupt Christopher Wray who only ' warned ' other seditionists in the Capitol Police. Corrupt or intimidated DC Mayor who didn't yank the assembly permit after the previous night's assembly went violent....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Same as 9-11, there were people in the fed govt. that knew it was coming and did nothing to stop it, because all the way to Bush and Cheney, the attack served their purposes, both in providing a reason to invade Iraq and get their oil, as well as to boost W.'s image and power after the country rallied around him. As far as the article's points on support for right wing extremism in law enforcement's ranks, no surprise there, it's been that way for decades. Which is why if the expected civil war comes in in few years or less, started by right wing groups, I know that my side will be entirely on our own, with no protection or help from the cops. So we may as well buy our own guns, learn to shoot and prepare to defend ourselves once it becomes clear the war is about to begin.

How many people are going to be elected in the next couple of years because they are parroting lies ...

BitFlipper comments on Oct 25, 2022:

The big lie project may be what destroys America.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@AlbertSchepis Nowadays, K-12 schools do a terrible job of preparing citizens to become smart voters, and the corporate media doesn't help any either on that count. I do actually think both of those institutions are that way by design. The ruling class does not want intelligent voters who are well informed and can think critically, because they would be a threat to the status quo system. They want them just smart enough to run the machines and do the jobs the system ends up giving them, nothing beyond those things..

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@lerlo One thing I do know is that she would have no chance running for the Repub nomination in two years. The party is so tied to Trump that I think the nomination is his if he actually can and does run. The party hates her for standing up to Trump and that is not going to change in two years or even much later than that. Unless Trump can't run, due to his legal troubles, or decides not to run, he will be the nominee, if not, we will get Cruz or DeSantis for their nominee...

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

I really see no point in pondering any of that, since we have no power to prevent our dying eventually. It will happen and then I will be gone. The end... No point obsessing over or analyzing it into dust..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@FvckY0u I am so over caring about this topic...

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@lerlo Maybe you haven't heard the rumors, but she is likely planning a presidential run for 2024, as an independent candidate. I'm guessing that was her motivation for bucking Trump and the Repubs on the insurrection.

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

xenoview comments on Oct 26, 2022:

We don't know what happens after we die.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

And, as I said below, why should we really care? If we are certain there is no afterlife, why should we really care?

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

I really see no point in pondering any of that, since we have no power to prevent our dying eventually. It will happen and then I will be gone. The end... No point obsessing over or analyzing it into dust..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@FvckY0u Because those things happen, if they do end up happening, happen while you're still alive, with a still-functioning brain, so you can appreciate them? Just a thought, as Beau says....

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

I still would never vote for Liz Cheney, because I don't agree with her at all on policies, but I do appreciate what she did regarding Jan.6, even if her motivations for that may be suspect or self-serving in the long run...

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

Julie808 comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Used to be a persons weight or body type was the deal breaker. Then it was smoker vs non-smoker. Now yes it's politics. I can't imagine dating a Trump supporter, election denier, religious nationalist, racist, etc., and that should be learned before or during a first meeting, unless a Trumper ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

It goes both ways, like everything. I have shared on these boards recently about running across several women on Match who were closet Trumpers or conservatives, but listed themselves on their profiles as Independent or Moderate for their political affiliation. Why they bothered replying to my message, after seeing my profile and that I was a Bernie supporter, is beyond me. But I think the reason they hid their real political position was to be able to get a foot in the door for dating guys that might not care about their politics if the woman was attractive and compatible enough for the guy otherwise. Didn't fool me tho, once I either began trading messages with them or met them in person for coffee. They rejected me and I rejected them, for whatever reasons, but I'm sure politics was probably part of it, for both them and me. My other two dealbreakers, on my end, besides someone being a conservative or Trumper, is being a daily smoker, or a big fan of country music. But that last one is because music is so important to me, as well as the fact that most country music fans also tend to be very different from me culturally, so there's usually other incompatibilities that come with that musical difference in other cultural areas, like what movies they would like, them wanting to fish and camp, etc.. I can also be ok with dating someone who is moderately or mildly religious, as long as they can accept my Agnosticism, but that last part almost never happens on the part of women who are moderately religious, and with women who are strongly religious, it's almost always a dealbreaker on either their part or mine.

Bannon calls it "flooding the zone with shit.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

None of them will testify under oath, unless it means taking the Fifth for every damn ?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir But you and I both know the Dems are unlikely to do that, for whatever reasons..

It seems that climate change issues have been known about by scientists for quite some time even ...

Diaco comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Money-making factor! 😐... Dude, We're standing on the Edge!... How hard should we get fucked to believe the disaster and threat is REAL! Dont Look up!? huh...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@SnowyOwl I think you said it well. My only consolation is that I may be dead before it gets really bad, or I may not. I totally agree that our leadership in DC, with both parties, is too old to care anymore, except about their own short term power and wealth.

Believing Trump won in 2020 is the least popular candidate position in new NBC News Poll

rainmanjr comments on Oct 25, 2022:

So you'd think this a cake walk for Dems but, yet....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

Well, duh... It would be a cakewalk for Dems, if they willing to embrace policies that are proven winners by polling, like lowering health care costs, providing M4All, etc. and other lefty populist policies, but they never will, at least not sincerely, because it would anger their corporate donors. So they go on, election after election, trying to squeeze out, or not, a tiny marginal victory by basically saying, " We're not them!", and playing entirely to political theater, ID politics, and culture war issues. By now most Americans have seen this game long enough and either don't buy it or just give up on voting... Leaving all the populist positions to the Repubs, is not a winning strategy, but winning fed elections has not been a Dem priority ever since Clinton won in 1992.

It seems that climate change issues have been known about by scientists for quite some time even ...

Diaco comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Money-making factor! 😐... Dude, We're standing on the Edge!... How hard should we get fucked to believe the disaster and threat is REAL! Dont Look up!? huh...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

I have a relative that has a PhD. in thermonuclear engineering, who has worked as a researcher. I think he knows a thing or two more about climate change and science than any pol in the US. What he tells me is that we have already reached the tipping point where it's too late to stop the continued climate change, and that changes in practices from now on will only result in less damage, because once the tipping point has been reached, according to him, the rate of climate change can never be stopped, only the rate of acceleration can be reduced, but even then, the acceleration rate of change point has already been reached....

How many people are going to be elected in the next couple of years because they are parroting lies ...

BitFlipper comments on Oct 25, 2022:

The big lie project may be what destroys America.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@mischl I wish that some kind of critical thinking test or political literacy test could be used for voting eligibility, but that has been tried in the past, somewhat, in the American southern states after Reconstruction ended, following the Civil War, and all it led to was voter suppression of black folks. So there is no fair and honest way to make that required for voting, because it would always be abused by partisan groups whenever they gained political supremacy, for them to hold onto power at all costs.

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Betty comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Sure, just as much as I believe in Santa. :)

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

Or the Easter Bunny.... or Linus's Great Pumpkin....

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Rockitflash comments on Oct 24, 2022:

If it's a total stranger, like some idiot trying to evangelize on the street, I just keep walking and give no answer. In a social situation, like a party or a dinner, I'll be more polite but direct. Sometimes I have told them that I was raised in a cult that practiced a mock human sacrifice every ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

I admire your patience and smartassery, sir...I'm afraid I wouldn't care enough to bother with wasting all this wit on them...

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Davekp comments on Oct 24, 2022:

I just say, “No, I don’t. My personal delusions I keep to myself.”

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

If only more of us would keep our delusions to just ourselves, our pets, and our therapists...

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

skado comments on Oct 24, 2022:

For me, it’s not a matter of belief. God’s existence is self-evident. No proof needed. My dictionary defines God as the supreme being. It defines supreme as the largest, ultimate, or most powerful. It defines being as something that exists. So already, God exists by definition....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

@skado Few would have the patience to listen to all that, so If I were you, I wouldn't even bother to begin an answer, but suit yourself....

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

skado comments on Oct 24, 2022:

For me, it’s not a matter of belief. God’s existence is self-evident. No proof needed. My dictionary defines God as the supreme being. It defines supreme as the largest, ultimate, or most powerful. It defines being as something that exists. So already, God exists by definition....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

I promise you most people would have zero interest in having that long and in depth a discussion with you, but suit yourself....

This is hilarious!!! PLEASE let this happen.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 24, 2022:

That would be too good to be true. After Palin, MTG would set the new low for the VP bar... As far as the short list of female VP picks, I would say Trump's best bet would be Nikki Haley, but nowadays most voters don't care about VP candidates, tho with Trump's age and unpredictability, his VP pick...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

@CuddyCruiser I hope you're wrong about that, but I wouldn't bet against you on it..

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

Julie808 comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Wow, that's one for the strange dates file! Sounds like she is on the dating site in order to get some generous men to feel sorry for her and toss her some money. I bet the neighbors have a few tales to tell! Glad you got out of there fast and decided to visit with your daughters with that extra ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

She reminds me a bit of the men who are looking for a nurse with a purse. Objectively, it seems like no woman in their right mind would ever volunteer to be that for a sick old man, but that's the thing, there actually are people out there, both men and women, that aren't in their right mind, on the dating sites, that are so desperate that they will volunteer to be used by someone like this woman, all in order to avoid the loneliness of being without a partner. Glad I'm sane enough to take a hard pass on that.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 23, 2022:

WTF man, you live in rural MO, which is a lot like rural Iowa, only worse. Lots of hicks, rednecks, and white trash. I feel your pain, even tho I live in a suburb that's part of the largest city in Iowa. While my area isn't rural, like yours, most of the available women on the dating sites still are...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

@DenoPenno I guess we are different in that respect. I really miss traveling since my late wife got ill, and would love to start doing that again with a partner. As for partying, I never did that much since I was in my 20s, and don't miss it at all either, same as you. But as a non-drinker, no matter how open-minded and tolerant I am about dating a moderate drinker, it seems like very few women who are social or moderate drinkers are ok with dating any non-drinker, no matter what my mindset, because social drinking is the center of their social life with friends and family, and I would not "fit in" well enough for that, even tho they would have a built in DD with me. So, nothing I can do, because so many women in my dating pool have lots more men to choose from besides me, that are more mainstream in culture and lifestyle, and check every box in their rigid, narrow, stupid long list of traits that have nothing to do with what is in someone's heart, their relationship track record, their relationship skills, and their communication skills, all of which are my strong suits in what I can offer a partner, but that matter very little to most women in my dating pool, who are divorced and have never gotten any therapy. So they keep repeating the same poor choices in who they date and instead blame all of it on the men they choose, rather than getting therapy or looking at their own poor choices and their even poorer criteria for choosing a dating partner.. I would be willing to even try LD dating with someone who lived in Minneapolis or Chicago, even, but it's not worth even bothering to look into, again, after exploring it a few years ago, because it would be a dead end. The women in those two cities, or anywhere else that far away that might have some things to do where they live, are not interested in dating LD, or ever moving to my area, so what's the point in even looking into that? Anybody living in a better place than Des Moines, like Minneapolis or Chicago, usually already has family and friends they don't want to leave behind, same as my friends I have here, and even if they are retired like me or soon to retire, why would they want to move away from a better place to live like there, to live in a place like Des Moines, which is not as good? The answer is, they won't, because single women my age are usually not as interested as men are in making sacrifices just to add a partner relationship to their lives, esp. if they already have good relationships where they live with family and friends. And I am not willing to risk moving away from all my local friends, who are my only real family or support system. So I am just as stuck as you are, with my local online dating pool as the only way to find another partner.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

twill comments on Oct 23, 2022:

You live in Missouri, right?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

Same as living in Iowa, only MO is worse. Fewer liveable places there, as far as culture, lifestyle, and politics, compared to Iowa. Mo has Columbia, St. Louis, and KC, nothing else. At least Iowa has several places that are liveable. Mississippi and Alabama are worse than either state.. as well as probably some of the largely rural western states where I would never be willing to live.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

puff comments on Oct 23, 2022:

Love the line "I drove away thinking Kathleen's dates were not even this bad". Classic. Better luck next time.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

@twill Sounds like Deliverance, only without the mountains and the banjo music.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

BBJong comments on Oct 23, 2022:

sorry to hear~ stiff upper lip/ Keep opptumistic . There are good folk out there❗

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

I agree with you that there are good people out there in every online dating pool, even in a limited geo area of, say, 60 miles or less. But the thing is, online dating is also competitive, and in my case, for example, there are over 3 men for every woman that is in my age range and local distance limit of 60 miles, in my local Match dating pool. So, finding a partner means not only finding someone compatible on paper, in the local online dating pool, but also winning the competition between me and the other men in my age group that share that local geo dating pool on the dating site. Organic dating is way easier and less competitive, because in that sphere, all you have to do is meet someone while they are available and interested in dating, and if you meet their minimum compatibility requirements, and vice versa, you are on your way to dating them steadily. In online dating, you need to not only meet those things, but also end up being chosen by them over all the competition, and vice versa, so it's a wonder that anybody who is average looking is able to ever find a partner who is at least average looking, because all of the variables would seem to work against that happening. Since research studies have shown that both men and women seem to put all of their interest and effort into only trying to online date those who are better than average looking. So average looking men, who make up the majority of online dating singles, are pretty much out of luck against the guys who are 7s, 8s, and 9s in looks, because even the average looking women, who are the minority gender on dating sites, about one third, put about all their interest in the great looking guys.

Rat infestation this morning in Los Angeles, California (south-bound 405 freeway).

Barnie2years comments on Oct 23, 2022:

Trump isn’t the problem. Kanye isn’t the problem. It’s the thousands, maybe millions given the poll numbers, who have always believed this garbage, but never had millionaire, front page, celebrities out there codifying it for them so they could find each other.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

You're very right. There have always been bigots and ignorant haters, but Trump came along and made it acceptable and even popular to be open and vocal about it. And the corporate media played right along and aided it, instead of condemning it, they just treated it as "another valid viewpoint", in the interest of their bullshit policy of "balanced reporting"...

"Religious Freedom" is Neither - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Oct 23, 2022:

I find it more and more odd that white people in America, or just any people in all the Americas, seem to think Jesus knew about them or gave a flying flip about them in any way. This religion started in the Middle East and got passed on everywhere. The modern American Christian thinks this was ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

They also think that everybody in the Bible, including Jesus, were white-skinned...

What separation?

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Thank you conservative atheists who are members of this site for supporting politicians and an agenda that has endeavored to nullify church state separation. 🤦‍♂️

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

Yeah, you have a good argument that they have sold out quite a bit as far as being atheists, just so their conservative tribe can have more political power. Sort of defeats their purpose of being atheists, doesn't it? They are no different than the evangelical Christians who sell out their religion just so they can gain political power and force their theocratic agenda, even if it means supporting Repubs they know are amoral, non-believing pigs like Trump..

Christian nationalists are planning a violent takeover of America.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 22, 2022:

That sounds more like the wealthy take over.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

The wealthy took over the fed govt. long ago, the current battle is between the theocrat fascists and the neoliberal Dems for control of the fed govt.. The wealthy are ok with either group taking control of the actual government, as they will continue to enjoy their profits and power, no matter which group rules DC.

What Is The Manosphere Getting Wrong? - Destiny | Modern Wisdom Podcast 540 - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 22, 2022:

I have always been able to have good, healthy long term friendships with women over my life while single, and that has been a good thing, since it meets some of my social and emotional needs that are not met when I don't have a partner or am not actively dating steadily. The bad thing is, that those...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@rainmanjr I care about both aspects, while you only care about cultural and humanist aspects, not the dating game. There, does that satisfy you? Why be so argumentative? Jessh, how demanding....

What Is The Manosphere Getting Wrong? - Destiny | Modern Wisdom Podcast 540 - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 22, 2022:

I have always been able to have good, healthy long term friendships with women over my life while single, and that has been a good thing, since it meets some of my social and emotional needs that are not met when I don't have a partner or am not actively dating steadily. The bad thing is, that those...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@rainmanjr I understand and respect that, but the dating game is central to my focus, as I miss having a partner and overall have had way more positive experiences with women, both in friendships and my one long term relationship, than most men have had with relationships, both with partners and female friends.

Let's grow!!!

johnnyrobish comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Of course, the powers that be, have no interest in seeing that happen.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

I can tell you for certain that neither major party's leadership wants that to happen, because the same corporate donors that fund both major parties don't want it to happen either. So, look forward to continued distraction from both parties over culture war issues and identity politics, because neither major party will actually wage class warfare against their donors, who are the rich and corporations. Unions and the 99% are on our own, until we collectively wake up and start voting third party in all federal elections. Reich is being dishonest and disingenuous, and he knows it, so he will never be honest about how sold out the Dem Party is at the federal level and how they are equally to blame as the Repubs for how rigged our economy is.

Guys. gals thoughts?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Sorry, she may have the looks and athletic ability, but I prefer some humility and modesty, instead of all her obvious strutting, preening for the camera, and the " Don't I look cool and cute?" mugging for the camera..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@FvckY0u That's my purpose and mission in life, to change people's minds, lol... I still love your username, tells others straight up, that they can take you as you are, or fuck off! And, as far as her looks, I prefer more curves in the chest and hips....

Louisiana pastor admits stealing $900,000 from church and congregants | New Orleans | The Guardian

phoenixone1 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

That should be considered a WIN, WIN,WIN...he stuck it to them THRICE...first by exposing the sky god BS for the MONEY SCAM it is(but doubtful they will learn by it...oh well...it's only THEIR money and not ours). Second by robbing them blind. Third, he is going to JAIL. As an added bonus, a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

Guess it shows that money is not only the root of all evil, as the popular saying goes, but also the root of all depravity...

Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes.

MyTVC15 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

I don't follow Hollywood so I don't get a lot of the jokes. I prefer the White House Correspondents Dinner because I get political jokes.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

I get the jokes about both politics and Hollywood...

Louisiana pastor admits stealing $900,000 from church and congregants | New Orleans | The Guardian

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 19, 2022:

That won’t matter to his sucker followers. Their heads are stuck too far up their ass.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

@phoenixone1 Yeah, blame it on the devil, rather than the asshole who actually stole the money...

♬ When you're a jet ♬

Spudgun comments on Oct 17, 2022:

We know where we're going.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 17, 2022:

To the home of some lonely single person that needs the crazy cat person starter kit...

♬ When you're a jet ♬

glennlab comments on Oct 16, 2022:

Looks like they are headed over to 40 year old single's house, room and food for them all.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 16, 2022:

They just seem to know where to show up.

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 16, 2022:

@MerlinZap You timed the move just right.

Just a few words of advice.

Secretguy comments on Oct 15, 2022:

I just leave. I don't need to hear crap music.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

I don't agree with you about that song being crap music, but I do share your attitude. I feel that about all country music is crap, so I do just walk away and leave, whenever I can, from staying and hearing that music. The only place I have to just about always stay and put up with it, is at karaoke shows. Tho sometimes, I just get so fed up after an hour or two, that I just leave, instead of staying there just to sing some more, because I have reached my limit on country music for that night. Lucky for you, you live in New Orleans, so you probably have to put up with way less country music there than I do here... assuming you feel the same as I do about country music.

New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr Suit yourself, we'll have to disagree on this. This issue is one area where I actually believe in picking my battles, politically, and letting something slide, in the interest of getting action on other things that are more important to me.

New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr It bothers me too, but it is what it is, that's the practical reality, as least for now. I am quite willing to put up with it in pols, as long as they work for the right policies that we need and benefit the masses, rather than the 1%.

New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr The sad, practical fact, is that any elected office that is high enough to have actual, real campaigns, in which the candidate is asked about religion, requires, in America, that the candidate at least claim to be religious in some way, Christian, Catholic or whatever. Because in America almost nowhere can a candidate for a higher office get away with being openly Agnostic or Atheist, or even claim to be non-religious. For example, it seems very obvious to me, after following Bernie Sander for years in the news and even hearing him speak in person several times, that he is a cultural Jew, but most likely an Atheist or Agnostic, certainly not religious or a believer in any religion, but he has always coyly avoided identifying himself as non-religious or a non-believer, because he knows it would be political poison for him if he ever ran for president, even more than his label of being a democratic socialist.

New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr I don't give a shit about their religion, as long as they pursue policies that serve the common good, not just my personal interests.

Prosecutors ask jury to recommend death sentence for Parkland shooter.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 14, 2022:

It would be interesting to hear the pro-life Bible thumpers make the argument that this pregnancy should not have been aborted, sort of brings up the contradiction of exactly what stages of life they care about in their pro-life policies and rhetoric. It obviously would have been the best thing for ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@laidback1 Fuck you! I can and do think way more critically, than anything I've ever seen you post on here. Of course I realize his environment led him to kill, so what? The fact remains that he never should have been born in the first place, to a woman like that. So what are you, some idiot pro-lifer who thinks that no baby should ever be aborted? Good luck with that viewpoint, asshole, as you will find almost nobody on here who agrees with you on that...

New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

I agree that I would prefer that ministers not be in high office, but if one of them is still a moral, ethical person with integrity, as well as similar policy positions as me, then I will gladly vote for them as a better choice than the typical lying, hypocritical, heartless folks that run as Repubs.

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@MerlinZap Not at all. It's a good thing and an advantage, as far as I'm concerned. You don't have to put up with all the yahoo MAGA assholes that I run into all the time where I live, because you aren't so outnumbered like me here. If I could afford it and already had supportive friends or family there, I would much rather live where you are than in red state Iowa here.

Prosecutors ask jury to recommend death sentence for Parkland shooter.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 14, 2022:

I understand how tempting a case like this is to want to have the death penalty, but with how unevenly it is applied to racial minorities and the poor, compared to killers that are white and/or rich, it doesn't seem worth having, to me, as an option. And there is also the issue of how governments ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 14, 2022:

@Betty As a socialist, I am well aware of how it has been used to kill and silence left wing critics of right wing authoritarian governments.

Lawyer fined $400,000 for warning school about predator priest on staff

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 13, 2022:

I’ve said it before…..I’m sayin’ it again. I’m really beginning to lean towards supporting the death penalty…,..especially for these types of fuckers.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 14, 2022:

I am still opposed to the death penalty, but for monsters like him, I can understand how it's tempting to have it for them.

Has Agnostic.com let you down as a dating app? Take heart, there are other options.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Just about as practical as trying to date on Agnostic. I have yet to meet a single member in person from here. Probably doesn't help that my state has likely one of the lowest number of members of any state in the US. Probably also better suited for Luddites like me who refuse to get a smartphone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 13, 2022:

@DenoPenno Glad to know I have company in my habits. I have dated two women from Match in the last three years, six months each, at different times, neither one seriously. The first one bought me a few really nice gifts, that I still value, but have had no contact with her since we stopped dating. The second one remains a friend, tho I wish we had more regular contact, but she has gone on to find a steady boyfriend from Match and is also busy with her work and family, so no time for contact with me.

Has Agnostic.com let you down as a dating app? Take heart, there are other options.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Just about as practical as trying to date on Agnostic. I have yet to meet a single member in person from here. Probably doesn't help that my state has likely one of the lowest number of members of any state in the US. Probably also better suited for Luddites like me who refuse to get a smartphone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 13, 2022:

@KKGator I know it does, for some people, but not for me, so far. it's been over three years, with very limited success.

"The Transformed Wife" has an INSANE guide for being Christians, not feminists - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Sex, according to god, is not for fun. It is for creating new human critters and, according to those religions which say life begins at fertilization, every sperm is sacred. This is a battle of words over a detail of a much larger subject. Just attack the larger subject, put an end to it in any way ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 12, 2022:

Love that Monty Python song, Every Sperm Is Sacred...

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

You also live in Oregon, one of the bluest states in the union.

Saturday I went dancing.

273kelvin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I sympathise, but the important thing to remember here is that you really love dancing. So think of it like Vietnam, some guys went, some guys protested, and some did both. But everyone that lived, experienced that time. There is not much profit to be made dwelling on the different stances and ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

Except where I live, you might have to be careful which women you call ugly. They could be packing a gun and might well shoot you for it. You, Kelvin, live in the UK, a much more civilized place, when it comes to gun control.

Saturday I went dancing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Nice to see you back here on the boards, Stephanie. Your perspective was missed, at least by me.. I can relate somewhat to the bind you are in, whether it's worth it to go out and enjoy an activity you like and yet probably, in order to do that, have to put up with some stuff you don't want or like....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

@Stephanie99 I think you mean blocked, rather than banned. If so, I don't remember doing it, but it could have been some time ago. Anyway, my comment stands, I like your latest post.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Maybe I'm too much of a romantic. Maybe I'm just too old to get or relate to this. Or maybe I have just not had enough bad, long term relationships to join in or relate to all the snark and bitterness I constantly hear from divorced people who are single. Maybe they should consider that not ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@Pralina1 I respect others having a different experience, background and viewpoint, I just don't share them nor relate to it. But the divorced, at least in my age group, make up the vast majority of singles, so they dominate the social media culture of singlehood for that age group. But when you get up into the singles age 70 or above, the numbers get a lot more balanced between the divorced and the widowed. I just hope for their sake, that the currently divorced singles, never end up joining my club of singles, the widowed....the one nobody wants to join...

[tiktok.com] Girl . It gets worse w time 😂😂😂😂💪💪💪💪💪

Mitch07102 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Good one. I find it equally funny when older guys try to hit on much, much younger women. It's also sad.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

I agree. There's a 75 yo guy that is a former radio DJ that is a regular at one of my two weekly karaoke shows. He is a very mediocre singer, but that's another matter. My beef is his clownish, rude, tacky behavior. He is constantly hitting on much younger women, often when they are sitting there with their man. His need for constant attention, esp. from women, and his useless hitting on young women, are both really pathetic, way beyond sad... I think the reason the men sitting with the women he is hitting on don't get mad at him or pound him, is because they think it's pathetic and amusing, as do the younger women. So the guys with those women just give him a pass....

3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds It's the third such ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I hope it causes them as much squirming and exposure of their hypocrisy as possible, but I know it will not change their theocratic agenda and conduct.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@anglophone The religious theocrats treat government as if all citizens share their beliefs, and if they don't, then those citizens should be without any rights or freedoms, if not persecuted as well. All of that is the definition of theocracy, not that the theocrats would ever admit it about their policies and conduct.

Saturday I went dancing.

Sticks48 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I just got the latest booster, and have been doing fine. I play in bars 8 or 9 times a month. Stay on top of getting the booster shots and go live your life. This thing could be like the flu as far as being around all of the time.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

That's what I've been doing after I first got vaxed, went back to singing karaoke at bars and going to hear live bands. I'm going on with my life, for the most part, like I did before Covid, because it's going to be around for years, and who knows how many years of life I have left?

Trump Visibly Disoriented, Brain Glitches Badly at Hispanic Event - YouTube

Druvius comments on Oct 9, 2022:

It's from 2019 and has been edited to make him look confused. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-video-disoriented/fact-check-clip-of-trump-lost-and-disoriented-has-been-selectively-cropped-idUSKBN25Z25Q

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@Druvius That's what I've always felt about Trump, he is a creep and a fascist, but he's a symptom of the disease. Seems like nobody wants to see or discuss the disease, which is that we live in a plutocracy, not a democracy, where more Americans realize that federal elections are just a charade, where the candidates are pre-selected by corporations, so more people now don't vote than do vote for either major party. And the corporate media never discusses this problem. Finally, the working class rightfully feels abandoned by the Dems, so they are always vulnerable to being conned by the Repubs into voting for them, every time that the Repubs promise to help them while lying about it. These things, caused largely by the Dems selling out to corporations and shitting on unions and the working class, are what made it possible for Trump to win in 2016. The Dem Party will get what they deserve, but they really don't care anymore about winning elections, no matter what they say publicly. But progressives like us do not deserve the government we keep getting from the duopoly when we know better and have been rejecting it over and over. But maybe, in a way, we do, because we have never established a viable third party to blow the Dems out of the water they way they need to be. Both major parties support militarism and empire, instead of peace, globalization, neoliberal economics, and increased poverty and inequality, instead of progressive economic policies and fair tax policies that make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Both parties support our continued system of legalized bribery and money being treated as political speech, instead of federal campaigns being limited in length, limits on campaign spending, and full funding of federal campaigns for all qualified candidates. These things are the rot that led us to Trump being elected.

Trump Visibly Disoriented, Brain Glitches Badly at Hispanic Event - YouTube

Druvius comments on Oct 9, 2022:

It's from 2019 and has been edited to make him look confused. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-video-disoriented/fact-check-clip-of-trump-lost-and-disoriented-has-been-selectively-cropped-idUSKBN25Z25Q

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 9, 2022:

He's got way bigger things about him that make him unfit for office than any dementia or confusion, even if that were the case with him, which I don't think it is.

Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Would Outlaw ‘Pole Dancing’ In Pennsylvania Schools At a ...

Charlene comments on Oct 4, 2022:

What's next? No more floor exercises in gymnastics? They've already outlawed the furry kids Cat Boxes in bathrooms, and kindergarten CRT..when will the madness stop?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@johnnyrobish I think most housecats already think that most hoomans are nuts...

It does my heart good to see these things happening.

Garban comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Not that there’s anything wrong with “chasing sin”.😉

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I have always found it strange and disturbing that so much country music, a genre that I generally hate with a passion, is so filled with songs that revere or glorify religion, while at the same time, an equal number of country songs seem to celebrate and glorify alcohol abuse and casual sex. The fans of that genre sure seem to be a contradictory crowd...

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

waitingforgodo comments on Oct 8, 2022:

The negative binomial distribution describes the probability in the absence of a covariance of 1 with money as the independent identically distributed random variable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I love the cold, droll, deadpan delivery of the band's vocals. I realize you are speaking in smartass, but the fancy verbiage you are using is probably over the head of most readers on here, jus' sayin'....

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Well, I'd say it's kind of like the guy in Office Space who was the neighbor of the lead character, Peter Gruber. The neighbor told Peter that if he, the neighbor, ever had a million $, he would fulfill his ambition of having a threesome with two women, because, as he told Peter, " If I had a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe I think baldness is not tied to evolution, it's just a trait that is passed on, same as height or skin pigmentation. Not a plus or minus as far as adaptation to environment, etc..

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Well, I'd say it's kind of like the guy in Office Space who was the neighbor of the lead character, Peter Gruber. The neighbor told Peter that if he, the neighbor, ever had a million $, he would fulfill his ambition of having a threesome with two women, because, as he told Peter, " If I had a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Some women are attracted to baldness with a man, some aren't. Some are attracted to some bald guys, but only if the bald guy also happens to have a cute face and a smoking hot body, such as the actor Shemar Moore, otherwise, if the bald guy is average looking, they won't give him a second look. It's complicated like that. I think the most telling evidence is how few male actors who play lead roles or esp. play romantic lead roles, are bald. That tells me that Hollywood, and most women, don't find most bald men to be attractive, compared to men with full heads of hair. Hollywood execs aren't stupid. They cast male actors with hair, because that is what most of their female audience finds attractive, so they give them what they want to see on the screen... The other evidence is how many billions of dollars per year are made by companies that sell drugs they say prevent hair loss or that provide hair replacement services, because most men know from their experience, how much baldness is a turnoff to most women, and they don't want to experience it themselves. As far as tats, maybe that works with some women as a way to attract them despite being bald, I don't know. I do know that many or most bald men grow facial hair, with beards and mustaches, in order to either balance out their look or distract women with facial hair so they don't focus on the bald top of their head, but I have no idea if that works or not with women. To me, it looks stupid, weak, and foolish, as I'm sure most women still notice that the man is bald on top, and all the facial hair in the world is not going to prevent the woman from still noticing the guy's baldness...

Is DeSantis nothing but a Trump clone, or is it just my imagination?

Scott321 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Not only is Desantis a savvy attorney with a knack for framing issues in a manner appealing to Tea Partiers and deplorable MAGAts, he also is a veteran…Navy JAG with SEAL team connections. The latter service has patriotic appeal to conservative voters. Unlike Trump he’s not a shirker. Plus, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I do agree with you that Liz Cheney is positioning herself to run for prez this time, as a way to kneecap Trump, but I would not fall for it and vote for her. She may have done the right thing regarding Trump and Jan.6, for whatever personal reasons she had, but I don't trust her at all with being prez, knowing that on policy, she is no different than her dad, Dr. evil himself.

Is DeSantis nothing but a Trump clone, or is it just my imagination?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 8, 2022:

I would be careful not to underestimate him and see him as a fool. I remember how many people, including me, saw W. (Bush) as the dim-witted chimp he was, and thought there was no way he would beat Gore, but he did, at least officially in the end. But there was no way it should have even been close ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@Scott321 The Nader thing is bullshit. Bush won FL because the SC stopped the recount, as Gore would have won if the recount had not been stopped by the US Supreme Court. Secondly, even with Nader, it wouldn't have even been close if lots of elderly voters in one part of FL hadn't gotten confused by the type of ballot that was being used in that area, where conservative Pat Buchanan, a Repub, was on the ballot in a spot that the elderly voters were obviously mistaking his spot for Gore's, who they were trying to vote for. Thirdly, the ballot mistake was still enough for Gore to have won if it hadn't happened, regardless of what happened with the Cuban voters. Again, I am sick of people wrongly blaming Nader for Gore's loss, when the election shouldn't have even been close, if the Dems had put up a better candidate, and Gore had run a decent campaign. Gore had no charisma and came off to most voters as very unlikeable, compared to W. Quit believing the Nader mythology, which the corporate media was more than happy to spread, since it gave the Dem Party cover, years later, when they screwed Bernie twice, so they could point to Nader and justify it by saying how bad nominating a progressive would be, etc..

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

antman comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Not punishment. But coming from my former marriage where we never got out of single digits in a year it’s certainly extremely sad and annoying.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Video won't play...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

Aaron70 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

A better question is why would someone stay in a relationship with someone who clearly no longer wants them….🤠

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

In the words of the immortal philosopher Lou Reed, " I do believe, if you don't like things you leave".... esp. if young children are not involved....

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

lerlo comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Let's say it does. Since this isn't in the lots of laughs category, I'm assuming you're serious. Consequently it would violate the Constitution and would give you a right to sue...who? The government? Do you actually blame the government for not providing you sex? Pretty sure prostitution's legal ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

As my brother, the lawyer who is now a judge, used to say, " You can sue whoever you like, for whatever reason you want to, but actually having a case is a whole other matter"....

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

Paul_Clamberer comments on Oct 7, 2022:

If you aren't getting any, you'd better sue Madame Palm and her five daughters.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

Ding, ding, we have our winner!......

3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds It's the third such ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

My understanding is that life does NOT begin at conception, and numerous examples demonstrate that making that claim has little scientific support. For example, 1) swimming sperm are obviously alive and a woman's eggs are known to be alive; 2) identical twins where the egg then splits to form...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

The truth does not matter at all to the courts, esp. to corrupt conservative courts, because it's all based on ideology and power, even law and precedent don't matter anymore, much less science and truth...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

KKGator comments on Oct 7, 2022:

No one is entitled to sex, even if they're in a relationship. If you don't understand that, seek professional mental health assistance. Characterizing it as "cruel and unusual punishment" implies that you feel entitled to it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@BananaFlambe WTF are you trying to say in this last comment? "Human rights"? "1984 trolls at the dollar store"?, as well as the rest of the bizarre stuff about the two rights of free speech and buying a gun, "other documents sound better".. As a shrink would say, regarding schizophrenia, you are making a lot of what are called "loose associations", and it makes me wonder how well your mind is functioning...

Dirtbag lied on application to purchase firearm by omitting drug history and cheated on taxes.

nogod4me comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Look at how many egregious crimes Trump has committed, he should have been locked away long ago. If lying on his taxes would just put Hunter Biden in jail, then Trump should be executed.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

Agree, but you will never get a conservative or MAGA to ever admit that Hunter's crimes pale in comparison to Trump's. Their whataboutism is breathtaking, and even after the country is in civil war due to Trump, the right wing will still be fixated on repeating, " What about Hunter's laptop?", as if it was still relevant and the most important issue of the day... I'm not saying at all that Hunter is not a scumbag in his own right, but, as racocn8 would say, this is one hell of a false equivilency...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

xenoview comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I haven't had sex in over a decade. Nothing cruel about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@xenoview Suit yourself. I really do, along with the affection I also had with her. To me, both are equally important and satisfying..

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

xenoview comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I haven't had sex in over a decade. Nothing cruel about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

I'm closing in on that in a few years, it's a scary thing to face...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Your ? is vague and ambiguous. What do you mean, are you talking about a partner in a marriage or committed relationship refusing to have sex with someone? Or are you talking about any person who is deprived of sex with someone other than themselves for 14 years, such as an incel? Or, as someone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Thanks for clarifying it. I have a computer, a landline phone and membership on Match.com for over three years now. I have been unable to find a long term relationship, tho I did date two women for six months each, at different times. That is the best I could do, with the way the numbers game of online dating works, how mismatched I am for most of my local online dating pool, and how much competition I face in that local pool, but I never blamed the people that run my phone service, that just sounds crazy, sorry to be so harsh. I do feel some resentment at whoever runs Match, because they keep making the profile formats worse and more limited over time, and that does hurt all but their most best looking members from connecting with compatible people. But I still don't feel that the folks running Match are singling me out for mistreatment, just that they only care about money and want to limit their member profiles as much as possible, because it saves them money in what they spend on IT services. Join the club, almost all of us singles are screwed by the online dating sites, but it's nothing personal. The sites don't care about any of us or about helping us find partners, they just care about money and they aren't regulated at all, so we are on our own.

Trump, Mad About Mar-a-Lago Raid, Plots Revenge on National Archives – Rolling Stone

rainmanjr comments on Oct 7, 2022:

He's not going to retake the WH. Ever. I believe he will suffer a heart attack or some other form of induced exit before that could happen. If he were to reclaim it his coronation would likely set off an actual Civil War (provided liberals find some courage to actually do something instead of ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

I hope you're right about Trump, but I know you're right about liberals not having the balls to do anything in response to Trump winning, besides mockery and trying to censor the right wing.

Here's your sign....

Buttercup comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I can't believe I would ever say this but Kid could do better.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

Possibly, possibly not. I've always thought that Kid Rock was a POS asshole, so I'm inclined to think they both would deserve each other. Picture has long been my most cringe-worthy song at karaoke that I absolutely loathe every time some millenial couple gets up there to sing it. To me it only shows how trashy and stupid they are to think a song like that about low-life white trash singing about cheating on each other and still missing them is somehow romantic and cool. I used to like and respect Sheryl Crow, but her recording that song with him lost all of that for me. I blame Rock more than her for that stupid song.

Herschel Walker paid for an abortion. His Christian supporters won't care.

racocn8 comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Hypocrisy is the one true universal religion (But the GQP are the most ardent followers.)

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

That, greed, and white supremecy, appear to be the only things they truly believe in, certainly not the teachings of Christ, unless you count their revised teachings of Repub Jesus.

Obviously. All Republicans are now terrorists. [washingtontimes.com]

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Not all Republicans. Only those who kowtow to Donald Trump and his ilk in perpetuating the Big Lie, and further damage this country through the illegal removal and mishandling of classified documents. Only those who directly, or indirectly through their support, plot to kidnap governors and storm ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

MAGA Repubs not only want to make America white again, they also want to put women back into their place as they were in the 1950s, before modern feminism, contraception, legal abortion, and women had any rights to equal employment and pay compared to men. In other words, to erase any civil rights laws that improved things for racial minorities and women, beginning in the Sixties...

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair Right now the only one I would like and trust would be Nina Turner, but nobody knows who she is and as a black woman, she'd never have a chance... Another person I trust so far and am impressed with is Katie Porter, a congresswoman from CA. Again, she would probably have no chance... I agree with your last comment, except for saying that "they" attempted to destroy Trump, since he deserved every bit of it and then some..

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

MsDemeanour comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Do you have a retirement age in USA? I don't know anything about this video but let the senior cits retire.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

There is a retirement age here, that varies from 62 to 67, depending on when you were born and when you want to start taking the government's old age pension, Social Security. But the only mandatory retirement age for jobs is for judges, who must retire from full time work as a judge at age 70, at least in my state.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair, @DenoPenno Agreed. I am tired of all those countries having geriatric leaders.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair Thanks.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco I don't laugh at it. I find it sad and disgusting that our system, our corporate media, and most of our voters are more afraid of socialism than they are of electing figureheads like Reagan, W., and Biden. Where is the pride in that? Seems more to me like fear of the bogeyman that they are brainwashed in to thinking will ruin their lives, just because it's labeled socialism, lumped in falsely with communism and totalitarianism, which is what we are going to get if a Repub is elected prez in two years, totalitarianism that is in a fascist dictatorship. I have pride in what our country used to be, during the New Deal and The Great Society years of LBJ, except for the the Vietnam War of that time. No, I don't have any pride in what our country has been since 1968, nor should I have. I stand respectfully during the national anthem at sports events, not because I buy any of that patriotic bullshit these days, nor have a ever flown a flag where I lived. I stand respectfully, but not with my hand on my heart or any of that reverent bullshit I see from other people then, but simply because I am too tired and disgusted to want to deal with any of their bullshit and harassment if I failed to comply with their ritual. At the senior center where I live, they used to recite the pledge of allegience once each week before we ate lunch, and I boycotted that, as well as the daily moment of silence, which was just a thinly veiled substitute for a moment of prayer, which I'm sure about all of us would boycott. I did it very conspicuously, and am proud of it. When the center moved to a new building, they dropped the rituals, but I would have still boycotted them. I have pride in what our country was long ago and what it could be, but not for it being any kind of good example for the rest of the world, because it quit being that long ago when I was a child. If you still think we have a functioning democracy, which even Jimmy Carter admitted recently that we don't have, then you are the fool and the naive one... The war to fear is the coming civil one, not one from a country outside our borders... Maybe you're a shill for the defense contractors or weapons makers, for all I know....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco That may well be true of Puff, IDK, and I don't make a habit of investigating everyone who posts and comments on these boards. I do know what I have read online from foreign media that are certainly not friends with or dupes of Russia or China, so why do you assume that everybody that disagrees with you is knowingly or unknowingly helping those two countries? It is equally or more naive and blind to just support an American president, or any leader of a country you live in, simply because you think being critical of them is aiding the enemies of that country. Using that logic, any criticism of any leader, for any valid reason, could be dismissed as lies or treated as treasonous. So, are you by any means trying to equate criticism of Biden's cognitive functioning as being on the same level as any of Trump's treasonous acts against the country? That would really be laughable.... The ruling class and the corporations here in America, that really own things, including the pols in DC, and that really run things, are far bigger and more present dangers to the lives and welfare of most Americans. They are willing to kill or sacrifice as many of us as they need to in order to maintain their profits and power, because they no longer even need most of us as workers, or even as consumers of their goods and services, in a globalized market like we have now. So fear or hate China and Russia as much as you want, I'm not saying they don't deserve some of it, but they are not nearly the threat to most of us like we have from the neoliberal, corporatists and warmongers in both major parties. As long as we continue electing them to congress and the WH, we are doomed, no matter what other countries do. Only a revolution can save us now, but much as I would like to see it happen, I have no faith that it will. What I do see happening, in the next couple years is either a low grade civil war here, or a fascist, permanent dictatorship if the Repubs win the WH and control of congress in two years, both of which I think will happen. The civil war will happen if they don't win control of DC in two years. Either scenario will be a terrible experience. It reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke where he describes two horrible, nightmarish paths that the world can take as the future unfolds, and then says, " Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly (or wisely, I can't remember which)"....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco You are being willfully obtuse, as the character said in The Shawshank Redemption. The OP is not only talking about Biden's pants issue, he is making the connection between that and Biden's obvious dementia, which you are in denial about. Fine, suit yourself with that.. I could give a fuck, esp. since you mention nothing about your own experience with dementia patients, so I can only assume you have none, or at least less than me, or the OP, for that matter, who mentions his own father's dementia. Maybe you might want to read the OP's post again and notice the connection he makes between Biden's noticeable things and the OP's father's dementia that the OPs shared with us. Or maybe you could wow us with your own considerable experience, research, and knowledge of dementia? I thought not....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

What the hell does that prove, Diaco? That he can read a prepared speech on a teleprompter for ten minutes? Show me where he can take unexpected ?s, actually have to think and show that he can not only attend to what is being said, be oriented to what is going on, process the ? and then come up with his own answer. Your defense of him with just this video is laughable... I won't speak for the OP or Druvious, who can defend themselves capably, I'm sure, but I sure as hell, figuratively speaking, am no fan of Putin, nor am I dumb, naive, or any kind of traitor to America, tho I do hate our current plutocratic system, our corporate media, our two corrupt major parties, as does any intelligent, intellectually honest, and thinking person who values equality and fairness, as well as truth. And I will put myself up against about anybody on Agnostic as far as how well-informed I am on at least American politics.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Druvius comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Biden is a loyal party apparatchik doing what the Pentagon, the arms industry, and fossil fuel lobby want him to do, he's not exercising any real power, like the two Bush presidencies. His state of mind isn't really relevant. We are in a stupid and apparently endless war with Russia because it's ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

I can and do agree with you on all that, but I also do strongly feel that he has dementia, but agree with you, that the way the system is now, the way his handlers have been able to get away with working around it, and the way the Repubs play along with the Dems in congress by not going after Biden on his dementia to get him impeached, or force him to resign, because they know their party could well end up in the future with another demented Repub prez like Reagan in the WH, and don't want to set a precedent of impeachment or forced resignation for dementia, they will give him a pass on the dementia, same as the Dems gave Reagan, same as the Dems gave W., a dim-witted incompetent figurehead if ever there was one, even when it was obvious that Cheney was really running things. BTW, Harris would be a terrible candidate in two years and no way she would get elected, nor do I think she would be any better than Biden on policy. She's just another Dem party hack or loyalist, centrist, corporate Dem, just like Biden. From what I hear, Newsom is being built up to be the one who's nominated in two years, and from what I hear, he will also be another supporter of the status quo, except for the usual ID politics and culture war stuff.

I don't feel so bad now.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Truly an example of how being married to the wrong person can actually be worse than being single, unless, of course, maybe, if the sex with her was incredible, and I'm skeptical of that being the case here... between her and her hubby, at least...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

@BDair You may well be right, that in their case with her, it was great, but I'm wondering if she was that great with him, since she chose to cheat on him? Wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't as passionate with him...