Haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years.

xenoview comments on Sep 20, 2022:

Start by not having your picture upside down in your profile.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2022:

I would guess that he doesn't have it that way in his dating site profile. If he doesn't know already, he will soon figure out that Agnostic is not a place to meet a girlfriend, since the site has very few active members left these days, no matter where you live...

sad hospital visit

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

The South is a shithole, third world country, in and of itself. I so wish it would secede from the US.... It has all the qualities of the foreign places Trump condemns, and yet, it is the place in our country where he has his greatest level of support and popularity. Can you say irony?? But Repub ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2022:

@Organist1 True on both counts, I bet, the second one due to inbreeding...

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Nice that the establishment did the right thing, since my experience with bars that I go to for karaoke, never seem to do that when someone harasses me for no good reason. But in your case, you had a whole group there that the guy harassed, unlike my experiences where it was more one on one, so they...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2022:

@Organist1 I have found, in my life, that every small town or city seems to have at least one town character or two, that is known to everybody there. And they all seem to just tolerate them. The person is usually harmless, maybe annoying. They end up being lifelong mental cases that usually never get institutionalized because they are not a danger to themselves or others.

A short collection for your amusement

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 18, 2022:

I feel like the guy on the scooter perfectly represents MAGATS!!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy We'll have to disagree on that. I am usually right about these things.

A short collection for your amusement

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 18, 2022:

I feel like the guy on the scooter perfectly represents MAGATS!!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy It also emotionally prepares oneself for a coming reality... I have a big, fat, "I told you so", waiting for all the middle and upper class liberals who smugly and naively still think that in a coming civil war, that the cops and military are going to take their side, defend, and protect them from the MAGA militia types. They aren't. At best they will stand aside, at worst, they will join in with the MAGAs. The backgrounds of the insurrection rioters, as well as intelligence reports on how much the right wing groups have members inside both the cops and military, have proven me right on this.

A short collection for your amusement

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 18, 2022:

I feel like the guy on the scooter perfectly represents MAGATS!!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2022:

I wish he actually did represent most of them, but he doesn't. I am seriously worried about the next few years and a civil war where our side gets no help from the cops or military, in fact they may join in with these fools...

From Churched To Unchurched... what was your journey?

resserts comments on Sep 18, 2022:

In what church/denomination were you reared? For me, it was Catholicism. My family was strict and strictly Catholic, and we had lots of iconography strewn about the house, attended weekly services, etc., and I was sent to Sunday school for a time before being sent to parochial elementary school. I ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2022:

@resserts Correct..

From Churched To Unchurched... what was your journey?

resserts comments on Sep 18, 2022:

In what church/denomination were you reared? For me, it was Catholicism. My family was strict and strictly Catholic, and we had lots of iconography strewn about the house, attended weekly services, etc., and I was sent to Sunday school for a time before being sent to parochial elementary school. I ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2022:

Paragraphs...

New Rule: A Unified Theory of Wokeness | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Sep 17, 2022:

> Humans are not good people. No shit, Bill. I also think Presentism is stupid, and lib's should stop bringing it up, but it's exactly what one would expect of a victim oriented society. We are acting a bit like fourteen year olds.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 17, 2022:

I have to agree. People in a certain time period are not only limited in their information and knowledge that were available to them at that time, depending both on history as well as their economic class, which determines, in most cases, the level of their education. There is also the obvious matter of conformity, because even if someone in a certain time period was aware of the moral wrongness of a policy or tradition of their time, and wanted to buck the system, the fact is that as individuals who are way outnumbered by the majority, there is usually great social and economic cost to breaking the rules of the time, even if doing so might be legal. And Maher is right about this part of it for sure, namely that most people will not buck the majority, unless they are so rich and privileged that they can get away with it without surrendering their freedom and most of their financial comfort. Humans may not all be bad people, but most of them that I have met sure seem pretty selfish when it comes to bucking the system, if it would cost them much of anything, materially or even socially.... They not only want to keep all their stuff, they also want to be popular...

This is amazing. Innocent man facing the death penalty saved by Seinfeld creator [youtu.be]

JonnaBononna comments on Sep 17, 2022:

I saw that documentary a while back. Pretty amazing how it worked out!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 17, 2022:

Except the real killer is still out there running free...

The peak of self-confidence

Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Sep 17, 2022:

Yes, you are.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 17, 2022:

They know they are purrrfect...

I wonder if she wants the job again?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

I can understand why he had to pay her so much for one sexual encounter. I can't imagine any woman but Melania, if even her, that would allow themselves to be that physically close to him for less money than that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 16, 2022:

@glennlab I have never read her account of it, probably better off that I haven't, as the idea of anyone having sex with Trump would probably be something that would haunt me... Too much like if I had walked in on my parents, don't want any bad images forever burned into my mind..

I wonder if she wants the job again?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

I can understand why he had to pay her so much for one sexual encounter. I can't imagine any woman but Melania, if even her, that would allow themselves to be that physically close to him for less money than that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 16, 2022:

@glennlab That dollar figure seems low, lol. You have to wonder why in the world she agreed to have sex with him for free...

Friday morning cuteness

glennlab comments on Sep 16, 2022:

"I have claws and I'm not afraid to use them"

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 16, 2022:

@glennlab True, we do have to be cautious about the tummy trap.....

Friday morning cuteness

glennlab comments on Sep 16, 2022:

"I have claws and I'm not afraid to use them"

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 16, 2022:

Who could be afraid of such a cute little kitten?

Christianity to lose majority status in US by 2070, per Pew model

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2022:

We can hope, but in the end, Christianity will still have most of the power and be over-represented in government, regardless of being a minority of the population.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@jlynn37 They can, but it can only happen thru brute force and over time, that becomes harder and harder to maintain. See South Africa...

Atheists didn’t finish the job (yet), so God’s Not Dead 5 will come out in 2023

Barnie2years comments on Sep 14, 2022:

A whole lot of money to be made off the true believers!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@snytiger6 Thankfully, I never saw that movie, but boy did I keep hearing about it. I have never been into torture porn, whether it's the Hostel films, Gibson's film, or the Saw series. But I'm not surprised there is such a big market for them. We have lots of sadistic, desensitized zombies here in the US.

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

mischl comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Punishing a woman for getting raped is so Islam.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@mischl That was where I was going with it, along with a little humor about how if you're going to do something, make sure you do it right and very thoroughly. And the thing about leaving no witnesses behind and alive, kind of goes without saying......

This guy wants to meet me.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Sometimes it seem like the scammers aren't even willing to put an honest effort into it, this one's a very lazy scammer... If you want to screw with his head a while, you could play along and be sure to mention how you have a vast fortune and are a lonely widow, etc., I think you can figure out the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@TheoryNumber3 Suit yourself. A couple times I have strung them along for a while, just to amuse myself. I know that it wouldn't be worth the effort and time to me to do it more often than that.

Doublespeak from the Ministry of Truth

Dhiltong comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Actually inflation and market downturns create a lot of prosperity for certain people and entities........

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

Yup, but the fool peasants keep voting for them anyway, indirectly, by continuing to vote for the two major parties and their bought pols that serve only the 1%, not us peasants at all.

Doublespeak from the Ministry of Truth

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Not from where I sit and from what I observe around me with my fellow peasants...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@BDair I enjoy your sarcasm and I loathe the smug arrogance of the rich and conservatives about this.

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

In the interest of fairness and accuracy, I wanted to share that I saw the story of this case on the front page of the statewide newspaper, The Des Moines Register today. I figured this site's members would be interested in knowing that racism apparently was not an issue in her sentencing. The judge...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 15, 2022:

@Betty No idea. The newspaper article didn't go into that. My guess is she was too poor to afford anyone but a court appointed lawyer. Also the county this happened in has a public defender office.

It saves a lot of time, unless they want you to provide the evolution of the facts.

racocn8 comments on Sep 14, 2022:

The destruction of progressive taxation flung wide open the door to the fascism, and made still easier by Citizens United.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

The devolution of America began with him, ending progressive taxation, busting the budget for military buildup and tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and busting unions by firing the air traffic controllers, and finally cutting social programs while spreading the myth of welfare queens. Lastly, he was there for the beginning of right wing talk radio and the beginning of other right wing media, eventually leading to Fox News. He was one of our worst presidents before Trump finally set the new low point...

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

Aaron70 comments on Sep 14, 2022:

A gofundme page has raised nearly $250,000 at this point. So at least she can pay the effin fine!🙃

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

Now that is one fundraising thing I could get behind...

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

rainmanjr comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I'm feeling a strong urge to vomit on someone in Iowa.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

Just don't do it on me, I live there and I'm on her side...

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

mischl comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Punishing a woman for getting raped is so Islam.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

@Buck Well, like I always say, anything worth doing is worth doing well, or in this case, stabbing him thoroughly, lol....

Wednesday morning cuteness...Off to school

racocn8 comments on Sep 14, 2022:

You can teach a cat?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

You can teach a cat a lot of things, it's just they will probably refuse to do most of the things you teach them to do, such as to not knock shit off of surfaces. Unlike dogs, they will do whatever they like, in the end..

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

BitFlipper comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Sounds like the kind of guy who's had the cops called on him before. I hope it's not a scheme to create some new court precedent. The white nationalist pseudo-christians are running a coordinated effort to make their delusions the law of the land.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

@itsmeagain Not surprising that he was an immigrant, same as most cab drivers. Most of the food delivery people I have seen have been like cab drivers, rather scruffy-looking and not the type of folks you would see in a regular office or plant job. The gig economy, whether it's Uber, Lyft, or food delivery, tends to mostly attract those who can't get or keep normal type jobs, which is sad, because they are being exploited, rather than being normal folks who take the gig job mostly for the freedom or flexibility not offered in a normal 9-5 straight job. What's funny about this guy, is that he reminds me of a guy I ran across many years ago when I was a vending route driver on a university campus. We had an old guy that came back to work as vending route driver, temporarily, while one of our guys was out with foot surgery. This temp driver was a religious nut, a white American evangelical, who had quite a history before he retired and then was called back. Apparently he had gotten on some tear with preaching to people on campus at a particular building and had gotten so many complaints about him that he was banned from that building for good. So when he came back temporarily, the vending dept. had to make sure he didn't have that building on his route. I heard that when he had the incident that got him banned he had actually come back there when he was off work and started preaching to people at that building. It takes all kinds, I guess.

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

Betty comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I feel for you and understand the unease. In a country where weapons are easily acquired, caution is a requirement.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

@itsmeagain That food delivery part is disturbing. Now we have to worry about psycho GrubHub and DoorDash drivers. Not that surprising, I suppose, as people in the driving professions tend to be a bit mental...

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Nice that the establishment did the right thing, since my experience with bars that I go to for karaoke, never seem to do that when someone harasses me for no good reason. But in your case, you had a whole group there that the guy harassed, unlike my experiences where it was more one on one, so they...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

@itsmeagain I do enjoy aggravating people but only if they screw with me first, as I take no shit from anyone, unless they are the cops or they are armed, because in either case, they have power over me and it's not worth the risk to mess with them, as it's a no win situation against either group.

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

p-nullifidian comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Crazy people like this achieve their goal when they get a reaction, especially when it becomes physical. The guy who shoved this wacko is right to be concerned about him becoming a stalker. I have found that turning one’s back and ignoring people like this who appear to have some sort of ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

Odds are that he already does a lot of mumbling to himself when others aren't around...

But of course he would..he's a MAGAt Rethuglican.. [aol.com]

Garban comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Is he trying to make a target about himself? What an idiot.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 14, 2022:

Who knows what that closet case is thinking?

Ken Starr, Prosecutor in Clinton Whitewater Probe, Dies at 76 The family said it was ...

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 13, 2022:

I hope he’s burning in the hell he believed in. Fucking Sanctimonious bastard.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 13, 2022:

I'm sure that, if there was a hell, that Rush Limbaugh was there waiting for him, among others..

What does a Harvard educated investment banker look like after drinking Trump koolaide ?

SnowyOwl comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Sounds legit, I doubt this greasy prick has ever taken a bath in his life.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 13, 2022:

Same with shaving regularly or changing his clothes. If he weren't a rich prick and dressed differently, he could pass for homeless.

"A verbal encounter with police at a Black Lives Matter protest led pregnant activist to 4-year ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Ha! There it is! That lousy old double standard. 🤬

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 12, 2022:

And protesters from the left get tear-gassed and their heads cracked, while protesters from the right get kid gloves treatment from the cops. So what else is new? And with the insurrectionists, Trump made sure the cops would be way outnumbered, so even if they did want to fight back against the rioters, the rioters would be the ones causing almost all the injuries and the cops suffering most of the serious injuries. I guess that's his version of really " Backing The Blue", lol.....

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

He's now up to level 4, so it may be Mission Accomplished...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 If your goal really was to just rack up points as fast as possible, then you succeeded, but at the same time, you have probably established yourself as an asshole here who just likes messing with people, so good luck the rest of your time here, as you may end up getting blocked or at least shunned by most of the members here for your games, and then how fun will that be to stay here? I know that I will probably block you once you read this, and I may have more company on that than you think..

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Not the women I know.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 I've known plenty of women that work on their own cars and do their own home repairs and improvements. Try getting out a little more and joining modern society.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Yes, it's a man's world. Shut up and take it like a man. Only a real man can drink this or lift that. That's woman's work. Charlie, are you a woman? Cook me some food, woman.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 Well, that is often what happens regarding lost items and men, while women are more likely to get a little sad about the lost item, shrug it off, and then go on to plan to replace it soon.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

Silver1wun comments on Sep 11, 2022:

And, most of us earn it honestly.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 Nah, never been interested in taking all that amount of risk nor did I ever claim to have the right mentality for that. I am a socialist and my natural bent would be to join a worker's cooperative business, hard as they are to find in my area..

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Your experience is by no means unique. I have run across the profiles of several really hot looking, college educated white professional career women on Match, who only wanted to date black men who were less educated than them, high school level only, for what was obviously just a casual, sex-based ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Unity I respect that, because, who would ever choose to do so if they have any self respect or dignity, when it is so clear that the other person wants to use you and treat you as an inferior to them? You are obviously a real man with integrity, which is more than I can say for a lot of our fellow men who will abandon any scruples, integrity, self- respect, dignity, or principles for sex... And I'm not talking about swingers or open relationships, poly, etc.. I am talking about men who will knowingly lie about who they are as a person and what they are after, relationshipwise, just to get sex from someone they find attractive....

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

Silver1wun comments on Sep 11, 2022:

And, most of us earn it honestly.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 I am nothing but that, too bad not everybody can handle it or accept it, but that's all I've ever been. And I've always been willing to pay the price, such as being mostly unpopular, except to my friends, and working nothing but entry level jobs my whole goddamned working life, not because I wasn't a hard or good worker, but because I refused to play workplace politics or kiss ass to bosses...

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

KKGator comments on Sep 5, 2022:

This is the kind of person who shouldn't be protected by the "cruel and unusual" clause. He, and assholes like him, make "an eye for an eye" a good idea. He should suffer mightily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@ToakReon Well duh...

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

KKGator comments on Sep 5, 2022:

This is the kind of person who shouldn't be protected by the "cruel and unusual" clause. He, and assholes like him, make "an eye for an eye" a good idea. He should suffer mightily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@ToakReon, @KKGator If society cared enough to fix it, it would have been fixed long ago, and that's why it will never be fixed, within my lifetime or after. Same with this comment, KKGator.... Accidentally included you... This whole argument between you and KKGator reminds me of the apologists for the bare-knuckled, heartless cruel capitalism we have in America who oppose socialism because they say socialism is too extreme, unfair, and that capitalism can be and will be eventually reformed, right? Well, it never has been in my lifetime and it's obvious that it has only been getting worse over my life. So why should I continue to support the legitimacy of our current justice system? Because we all know it will never be reformed the way you are claiming it can be and eventually will be.....In the meantime, I will settle for our system giving up as much protection as possible against the strong, powerful, and evil who prey on the weak, the innocent, and the powerless, and hope for the best from our present system, but I won't have any faith or respect for it...

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

KKGator comments on Sep 5, 2022:

This is the kind of person who shouldn't be protected by the "cruel and unusual" clause. He, and assholes like him, make "an eye for an eye" a good idea. He should suffer mightily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@KKGator, @ToakReon Your arguments are merely justifications for maintaining the status quo, which I find unacceptable and not worthy of defending. Not you, KKGator, the comment system mistakenly included you in my reply.

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

KKGator comments on Sep 5, 2022:

This is the kind of person who shouldn't be protected by the "cruel and unusual" clause. He, and assholes like him, make "an eye for an eye" a good idea. He should suffer mightily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@KKGator I agree with you, my conscience would get along just fine with the disapproval of others for my views or for this monster getting what he really deserves...

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

Silver1wun comments on Sep 11, 2022:

And, most of us earn it honestly.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 You do have a point on this guy's bio. It is pretty bizarre...

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

CuddyCruiser comments on Sep 6, 2022:

He ought to be tied up and thrown into a rat infested tenement in the South Bronx.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

That's always been my recommended punishment of choice for slumlords... Let the rats deliver justice.... unfortunately, there's that pesky 8th Amendment.... Another fitting punishment would be locking him in a room with all the women he abused, while he's handcuffed, for say, a few hours....... I'm sure they could come up with some things to do to him..... Maybe some objects rammed up his ass and into his mouth??? Along with some fiddling with his genitals??

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

The article is so right on. The majority of our society and our institutions are dominated by believers, so non-believers continue to be automatically viewed as immoral and unethical, when the truth is many believers are actually those things, but they automatically get the benefit of the doubt from...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 Maybe so. I know that many people in both groups, believers and non believers, include plenty of assholes, phonies, and predators, along with plenty of good people. So to me, labels are way less important at the individual level, and I look at the behavior rather than the rhetoric, from both believers and non-believers.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

xenoview comments on Sep 11, 2022:

If everyone blocks him then he'll go away.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

Capital idea! He would then be left talking to himself....

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

KKGator comments on Sep 11, 2022:

If that's your experience, perhaps you might want to question what you're putting out to them. Most tree removal services are male-run businesses, employing mostly males. Same with auto repair shops. Shitty examples. If you're trying to make a point. Try again.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@MyTVC15 You make a good point. I have run across both many men and women that have their sexist views of what roles and activities are appropriate for each gender, and I get equally disgusted with both genders when they insist on maintaining their double or hypocritical double standards on gender roles. Such as women who want all the perks of feminism, but still insist on the man always paying the costs of dating, at least early on, if not all the way thru the dating process leading to a long term relationship. Same thing with a man being all for feminism, equal pay and job opportunities and such, but still insisting that a woman cook for him all the time as well as clean up after meals and do all the home cleaning and child care, etc.. You don't get to pick and choose your equality without opening yourself to hypocrisy and insincerity... BTW, I hated both Biden and Harris as choices for the Dem ticket, having nothing to do with race or gender, simply because both of them are regressive, corrupt, corporate sellouts, instead of being progressive pols with some integrity, like Bernie or Nina Turner, or even Warren would have been better, even if Warren was not electable for the prez nominee....

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

MyTVC15 comments on Sep 11, 2022:

How do men treat women? "Do my shopping, my cooking, pick up my stinky socks off the living room floor. Have my babies unless I don't want you to then you can deal with them all on your own and if you can't take care of that kid, forget about having an abortion cus you are going to have it whether ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@MyTVC15 I understand, at least, as much as any man can understand. If I were a woman at this time in this country, where they are now being treated as breeding stock or livestock when it comes to reproductive rights, I would feel nothing but rage regarding men who are misogynist. And I did notice that your statement was not characteristic of you on these boards. I just always make it a point to let others know that misandry in women's remarks on these forums is no better than misogynist remarks by men. They both need to be called out and labeled for what they are, rather than one gender always getting a pass, which used to be common on this site, until I and racocn8 started calling out the misandrists, even tho it got both of us bashed on here as misogynists and blocked by many women on here. But, at least to me, it's been well worth it...

A prime snipe at the Russians' Ukrainian debacle:

p-nullifidian comments on Sep 11, 2022:

“It’s only a flesh wound!” 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

You beat me to it! Monty Python And The Holy Grail...

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

My guess is the OP just wanted to stir the shit and rile people up, and he succeeded...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@creative51 True, nowadays, the only thing the levels mean is getting up to level 4 so your comments don't need to be approved, otherwise, since the admin. left and no T-shirts or prizes are being given out, the levels mean nothing anymore.

THE OTHER SIDE.

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 11, 2022:

What will it be like after I die? Same as it was before I was born. Nothingness.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

That's exactly what my late father said, after being a believing Catholic his whole adult life, when he cardiac arrested for a couple minutes the day after open heart surgery. He saw nothing but blackness during that temporary death. He continued to still attend Mass for a while, but he admitted that he no longer believed there was anything after death. Blackness, nothingness, same thing, there is nothing before and nothing after...

THE OTHER SIDE.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

I'm so sick of people saying the term, " passed" instead of died or dead. Why the avoidance of the more accurate term and instead using the milder euphanism?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@RussRAB You do you and I'll do me. We will each use different terms. I did not feel you were denying me anything and I militantly refuse to let anybody deny my right of expressing myself whatever way I choose. Your condolence is noted and accepted as genuine.

THE OTHER SIDE.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

I'm so sick of people saying the term, " passed" instead of died or dead. Why the avoidance of the more accurate term and instead using the milder euphanism?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@RussRAB Suit yourself. I've been widowed for five years, and for several years before that I watched my wife lose who she was to dementia, and then finally watched her body die. So I've more than earned the right to use whatever term I wish to for referring to someone's death.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

MyTVC15 comments on Sep 11, 2022:

How do men treat women? "Do my shopping, my cooking, pick up my stinky socks off the living room floor. Have my babies unless I don't want you to then you can deal with them all on your own and if you can't take care of that kid, forget about having an abortion cus you are going to have it whether ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

Be careful not to generalize that to all men, as it certainly doesn't fit me or most of the men I see on here, who appear to be pro-feminist males. Because, if you do, then you come off as just as much a misandrist as he comes off as a misogynist.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast My guess is you will have great difficulty finding women in your age group that are into poly relationships, but I honestly have little knowledge of that scene, even in my local area, so I have no idea what the market is like in PA.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast I wish you luck in finding something like Agnostic.com The partner dancing is a good way to at least have some physical contact with women on a platonic, casual basis, maybe even meet someone compatible for dating sometime. But I agree, at your age, it's likely very hard to find someone both compatible and in decent health.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast After having read your bio, you clearly would not belong on E-Harmony, so I have no suggestions for where you should seek other fellow travelers.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast Not that I know of. E-Harmony uses a very lengthy questionaire to match its members, but it rejects anyone who doesn't pass its depression screening, and its members tend to all be very bland, mainstream Christians and Catholics who tend to be politically conservative and traditional-minded, so that site wouldn't be useful for most of us non-believers who are here. I agree with you that most of the regular paid sites use bots posing as people for fake memberships along with other deceptive methods to inflate their membership numbers and trick people who are members into thinking there are more people interested in them for dating than is the case. I have had that happen to me personally where it was clear that something fishy was going on with some of the parties that messaged me or sent me a Like notification. I suppose some of the time it may have been scammers and other times it was the site catfishing me with fake profiles pretending to be interested in me. If the other sites, or anyone else who wanted to start a new site and model it after this one, actually cared about helping singles, esp. ones who are not religious and otherwise offbeat and non-traditional as well, instead of caring only about money, then Agnostic.com would be the model for how to do it successfully to effectively help singles find compatible matches over time with being able to get to know them deeply and comfortably thru the groups and forums. And in fact, from what I have heard from singles who were early members of Match, that is what Match originally was like, much like here, where the site had forums and such for members to get to know each other thru group discussions. But that all went away after a few years, probably because the site owners got greedy and didn't want to maintain such a complex site and moderate the forums. So I'm afraid, if anything, the future of dating sites will instead be something more like Facebook dating, with profiles that are very brief and limited, nothing much more than photos and a little intro info on the person, as that is what Match has been moving to in the last couple years. I bet that in a couple years or less, Match will eliminate the profile essay part of its profiles, or at least make it limited to a much shorter number of words. When you have no real competition and monopoly power in your industry, the product and services will only get worse, while the prices will keep going up. I wish things were different, but the trends and history clearly say otherwise. Maybe some billionaire or multi-millionaire will decide to take on the conglomerates that own all the present dating sites and try something like Agnostic again, only this time with enough money and advertising to reach the nationwide membership numbers to ...

At about 18:30 BST on the 8th September at work, I was informed that Queen Elizabeth II had died, I ...

Charlene comments on Sep 10, 2022:

When I heard, all I could hum was God save the Queen by the Sex Pistols..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

What I did later that evening was sing God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols and the karaoke crowd loved it.

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - on the river Thames - YouTube

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 9, 2022:

"It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle." -- Elvis Costello

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

Not surprised at all to read that. Elvis has always had issues with authority and the ruling class, same as me, and we're both proud of it. He has done charity concerts that were sponsored by the royals, but he always made it clear he was doing it for the beneficiaries of the charity, not the royals. He is one of several artists I always admired that never sucked up to the royals or agreed to be knighted, David Bowie being another one, who also did tons of charity concerts sponsored by the royals.

[msnbc.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I think public shaming has its place and some constructive uses. Our modern culture and society might benefit some from having it partially returned to more frequent use, at least on the powerful, rich, and famous... Most of America is way too enamoured of the rich, famous, and powerful, who tend to...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Organist1 I sure as hell hope so, otherwise the next Repub prez, which I think is inevitable in two years, will pardon him.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I think public shaming has its place and some constructive uses. Our modern culture and society might benefit some from having it partially returned to more frequent use, at least on the powerful, rich, and famous... Most of America is way too enamoured of the rich, famous, and powerful, who tend to...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Organist1 And being a state crime, he may not be eligible for a pardon, right?

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I am gratified to see the fairly even split of votes, because it doesn't surprise me much in my online dating experience. The numbers finally seem to add up and make sense. Let me explain. Almost all the women I have connected with on Match, tho they are only a small subset of the total population ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Larimar I get that, but the happiest years of my adult life were with my late wife, before she got dementia. I want something like that again, even tho it obviously won't be the same with a different person at an older age. But I won't kid myself that I will be anywhere near that happy again being on my own the rest of my life. I had a lot of years alone before her and more than five years since she lost who she was from dementia and I was effectively alone again. Some people can be very happy on their own for years, but I know myself well and I'm not one of them. And sorry, Trudy, knowing that I have a lot of company in this is really not that comforting, even tho I know you mean well and are sincere. I want more than this with my remaining life, even if you are willing to settle for less than that.

Voting is the most powerful weapon we have in the fight against MAGA Republicans - TheGrio

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Voting means little if all the candidates with any chance of winning are all ones that are corporate friendly, neoliberals who are funded by corporations, the rich, and industry lobby groups. And some of the worst pols to vote for are ones like Jim Clyburn, the Uncle Tom corporate Dem who led the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@snytiger6 Not really, as far as I'm concerned. All it does for any practical purposes, is provide legitimacy to the charade of our democracy. I wish more people would vote for third party candidates, because if they did, third parties would gain more legitimacy and the corporate media would no longer be able to ignore them. To me, voting for a third party is not a wasted vote, and is better than not voting at all. But of course, the corporate media and the major parties say the opposite, choosing to vote shame and wage culture wars, instead of offering policies that would really improve the lives of average people... If the vast majority of eligible voters stayed home, the corporate media would either ignore the obvious mass protest of our joke of a democracy, or would instead blame it all on voter apathy, even tho any intelligent, thinking person would see it as the voter protest it would be. A wasted vote is continually voting for what you don't want and continuing to get it.

Two halves of a whole cat.

Spinliesel comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Tickle, tickle, tickle.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

That cat is just begging for belly rubs and tickles, tho they may bite as a reward to the hooman..

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Sorry, not sorry... Sex is not important enough to me to date someone whose values are diametrically opposed to mine, and, while sexual attraction is important to me in choosing who to date, it's never been enough for me to keep seeing someone that I am otherwise not compatible with and who does not...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@racocn8 I also have encountered some strange women with online dating, similar to your experiences, such as women that clearly did not match up with me on everything compatibility-wise, and yet, right before parting, gave me a very tight hug. Talk about mixed signals, after not even offering a handshake when we first began the meeting..

Physical Attraction

FvckY0u comments on Sep 8, 2022:

My first marriage. I married my long time on and off again GF. Red flags dancing all around me. We married in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator. The divorce was final right around the first wedding anniversary. My relationship with her prior to marriage was a lot of fun but once we tied the knot...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

Isn't that the way it often goes? Once the novelty and fireworks are over, you realize that there is nothing else solid and substantial left to keep you both together and make it work...

Physical Attraction

racocn8 comments on Sep 8, 2022:

A week before the wedding, my bride admitted that she had tried to commit suicide during her previous marriage, and became divorced while she was institutionalized. She had hid her depression from me as much as possible. I knew she was seeing a therapist (who was useless). If I'd had a clue what ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

I think a lot of us settle, whether we want to admit it or not, for people that if we could do it over, or had full knowledge of beforehand, would have moved on from or passed on. Such is life..

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - on the river Thames - YouTube

Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 8, 2022:

That song came out during one of the queen's jubilees. Ot was number 2 on the British charts at the time. Later, it was discovered that Richard Branson, now knighted, withheld reporting 240k sales of the record to keep it from being number one.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

One rich prick looking out for his peers...

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - on the river Thames - YouTube

Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 8, 2022:

That song came out during one of the queen's jubilees. Ot was number 2 on the British charts at the time. Later, it was discovered that Richard Branson, now knighted, withheld reporting 240k sales of the record to keep it from being number one.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

@Organist1 That is sad and disappointing, but then again, Johnny Rotten was always in it for the money and had no principles or scruples, so I'm not surprised that he went conservative once that became more in fashion and profitable these days. I'm going to have to sing this tune tonite at karaoke, not that I care about offending people there...

MAGA modus operandi

Dave375 comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Yep

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

We've had one coming for a while now, and we no longer have a functioning democracy, so if a civil war needs to happen or is going to happen, ending in open fascism or some kind of real democracy, let's get on with it and get it over with, since I'm tired of seeing us go on with the veiled fascism and charade of a democracy. Let's move on now, to either a real democracy or open fascism.

Voting is the most powerful weapon we have in the fight against MAGA Republicans - TheGrio

racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Women didn't vote in 2016, helping Trump get elected. If they don't turn out to protect democracy, say good-bye to voting forever, to birth control, and to freedom. Let's see if they can begin to undo the consequences of their apathy.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

I think there will be a huge voter turnout of women this year, mostly voting for Dems because of the abortion decision, but the ? is will it be enough to overcome the voter suppression laws passed recently by the Repubs across the country? My guess is that the Repubs, being the crafty, evil fucks that they are, have already factored this in before giving the SC the ok to overturn Roe, so I bet the voter suppression will outweigh the female backlash vote that is coming this year. I hope, as always, that I am wrong about this.

Baptist Bill Grady Spreading Racist Christian Nationalism Bill Grady is a Baptist preacher ...

Garban comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Spread the hate baby, Jesus would be proud.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 7, 2022:

Well, Republican Jesus would be, that is...

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

JGal comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I ask, "are you a MAGA man?" Before i will agree to meet. The one time i didnt ask it turned out he was. Good thing we only met for ice cream. He said he would vote for Trump again. His deceased wife was a democrat and public school teacher. Baffling.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 6, 2022:

@JGal Who knows what they're thinking on the religion issue?. I make it clear I am willing to date someone who is a believer, and I have done it twice since I got on Match, but only if the woman is no more than a moderately religious believer, not a fundamentalist, and is also open-minded and tolerant enough to accept my being Agnostic. I am regularly reaching out to women whose profiles say they are Christian or Catholic, but not messaging them if they identify as Mormon or have things in their profile essay saying they are a Christian, are faith-filled, that their religion is very important to them, etc., because those women would obviously be a waste of time.

Reeling in a 240-pound bigmouth ass takes skill, patience, and finesse.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I'd like to believe you're right, but... 1. Skepticism; 2. Not holding my breath; 3. Don't trust Garland (any more than Mueller) The serious, salient take-home lesson that no one talks about is that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied also applies to the victims of the wealthy. Allowing the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Of course I hope I'm wrong, but when it comes to politics and crimes of pols, I am so seldom wrong. I lost a bet on the last presidential election, betting that Trump would beat Biden, but the problem was, I made the bet too early, before Covid hit. Because we all know damn well that if Covid had not happened, been bungled by Trump and the economy crashing as a result, he would have easily beat Biden last time. It's all about the timing. I still honored the bet, but I know damn well that Covid was the only reason I lost it. And the guy I lost the bet to admitted that if Covid hadn't happened, Biden would have lost and I would have won the bet.

Reeling in a 240-pound bigmouth ass takes skill, patience, and finesse.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I'd like to believe you're right, but... 1. Skepticism; 2. Not holding my breath; 3. Don't trust Garland (any more than Mueller) The serious, salient take-home lesson that no one talks about is that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied also applies to the victims of the wealthy. Allowing the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I'm with Howard, the rich always end up taking care of their own and never sending them to prison, unless, like Bernie Madoff, they steal from other rich people..

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

JGal comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I ask, "are you a MAGA man?" Before i will agree to meet. The one time i didnt ask it turned out he was. Good thing we only met for ice cream. He said he would vote for Trump again. His deceased wife was a democrat and public school teacher. Baffling.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

I fully support you asking, but even then, you end up depending on them being honest with you. These women were clearly lying, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm surprised they even replied to me on Match, since I am very open about my politics in my profile and they had all viewed it before replying to me. Maybe in their minds they doubt that I am honest or sincere about my politics in my profile, and hope that I would later back off from my views, but they would be wrong about that and it's their own false assumption. It's odd that they stayed married with those sort of differences between them, but a lot of couples stay together for other reasons, even after one or both of them changes and they become politically different. But there's no way I would choose to be with someone so politically different from the start of a relationship because politics is so important to me. What did you say when he said he would vote for Trump again? Just like in my local dating pool, I have no doubt the majority of men in yours are Trumpers..

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I think this is exactly why people lie.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

If it works, at least some of the time, and gets them what they want, I can see why people with no scruples do it. Except with online dating, the truth always comes out eventually.

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

xenoview comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I hope he gets abused in prison daily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Hope he gets Bubba as a cellmate.. and gets asked, " Do you want to be the husband or the wife?"...

He didn't really walk back his threat of riots; he lied that he had said something else.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I say bring it on, if his followers want to begin civil war, then let's get on with it, I think it's been coming for a while and is inevitable anyway in the next few years or sooner. If the DOJ lets him slip away without being charged, then it will encourage another insurrection anyway and set the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Whatever..

He didn't really walk back his threat of riots; he lied that he had said something else.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I say bring it on, if his followers want to begin civil war, then let's get on with it, I think it's been coming for a while and is inevitable anyway in the next few years or sooner. If the DOJ lets him slip away without being charged, then it will encourage another insurrection anyway and set the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I don't know those kind of specifics, nobody does. But what we are facing in the future appears to be like a combination of the Purge movies and The Handmaid's Tale, assuming those assholes win.

If a mature woman, enamoured of her husband, said you could ask her any questions you liked about ...

Petter comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Fancy a bonk? 🤣

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Petter Darn the luck!

Biden’s speech and the danger of fascism in America [wsws.

silverotter11 comments on Sep 3, 2022:

All excellent points and circles back to what I've thought and sometimes said, they be all in it together. It's like a giant shell game.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

You can vote away all you want to for the two major parties in fed elections, but it will change nothing when it comes to corporate rule and how the system benefits the 1% to everyone else's loss, same with foreign policy and the military. The only election where us peasants still get any real say is local and statewide elections, not federal ones, because the corporations have those all locked up.

Huh.

Krish55 comments on Sep 3, 2022:

Why does the senate need to discuss this if it was merely a block? I understand the later discussion if he is gone and we are concerned about him. I hope that speaking about him publicly didn't cause him to leave... Perhaps when we have an issue with someone, we can address that person ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Fernapple Actually, Community Senate and General Forum are the two places were blocks are not in effect.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

phxbillcee comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The cost of education has sky-rocketed & this is not the fault of the students. Many nations subsidize higher education as it has short & long term benefits for the society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@glennlab It certainly wasn't stupid on their part, it was evil, calculated, and very effective in permanently moving US politics to the right, for both parties.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

phxbillcee comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The cost of education has sky-rocketed & this is not the fault of the students. Many nations subsidize higher education as it has short & long term benefits for the society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

I recently read a reader's survey of an alternative news mag that is published in Iowa City, Iowa, which is by far the most progressive place in Iowa. It showed that 80% of the mag's readers there have at least a undergraduate four year degree. No wonder it's the most educated place in my state and the politics are so lefty. I envy those who live there, even tho the vast majority of my state is rural Repubs..

My family stayed in the area for over 300 years.

FvckY0u comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I'm about 700 miles from grow up land. All close family and most extended family are nearby grow up land. I'd say, yeah about 300 years. Migration seems different nowadays. Maybe it's essentially the same but what bugs me is there's not a lot of reason for migration within the US. A desire ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Yup, jobs and college are about the only things that people move for within the US, at least until they are old and their health starts to fail, that is when they move to be close to their adult kids, assuming they will comfort and care for them. As long as they have steady employment where they live, few middle aged people will move, as they usually have friends and family there they don't want to move away from

My family stayed in the area for over 300 years.

JonnaBononna comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I grew up in rural Missouri and am now in a New Orleans. I landed in a new place because my ex husband was in the military, and I'm glad I did. You just don't grow much when you're in the same place all of your life I don't believe. All of my family is still in and around Bourbon Missouri, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Amen to that! I see so many people here in Iowa that never left the state, or if they did move out of their hick rural Iowa town, they still kept the country music and rural culture, even if they moved to one of the larger cities in Iowa. And emotionally they seem arrested more at the high school age level, even lower than that if they stayed in a hick town here.

He didn't really walk back his threat of riots; he lied that he had said something else.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I say bring it on, if his followers want to begin civil war, then let's get on with it, I think it's been coming for a while and is inevitable anyway in the next few years or sooner. If the DOJ lets him slip away without being charged, then it will encourage another insurrection anyway and set the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir It's going to happen anyway, may as well make it sooner rather than later.

I thought this was a pretty good deconstruction of Biden’s "Soul of the Nation" speech.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I saw clips of his speech too. Same as his reaction to Roe being overturned, he will cynically use it, instead of actually doing anything progressive, to let innocent people suffer as pawns for his midterm election efforts, which are half-hearted at best anyway, since we all know the DNC long ago ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@WilliamCharles It was pretty refreshing. Their coverage of the presidential debates had them openly saying how bad Biden's dementia was, tho the corporate media will of course never say it, except maybe Fox News. Free Speech TVs coverage also pointed out how many issues were never mentioned in the debate, because both major parties agree so much on them.

This might be the scariest revelation about the August 8th search of Trump's residence.

FvckY0u comments on Sep 3, 2022:

breach? That's no breach. That's flat out breaking the laws of the US in a major way. Personally I'd like to see trump publicly executed but that's my fantasy, not reality.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

I'm totally against the death penalty, for reasons I've mentioned before on this site, but evil monsters like him do sometimes tempt me to want to make exceptions..

This might be the scariest revelation about the August 8th search of Trump's residence.

BitFlipper comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I got some pushback when I suggested Trump should be ground up and used for dog food. So okay for you dog lovers. Trump should be ground up and used for rat bait.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

Somehow, I think even rats deserve better than that, quit hating on the poor rats, lol!

If a mature woman, enamoured of her husband, said you could ask her any questions you liked about ...

Petter comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Fancy a bonk? 🤣

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

I have always admired men with enough balls to take the direct approach, rather than beat around the bush...

It's a blessing to be with the right person

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

It is, the miracle is finding them, and having them choose you over all the competition..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

@terenaskaws That's what makes online dating so much more brutal than organic dating, because in organic dating, you meet someone naturally, and they decide to date you steadily after that because you meet their minimum standards, while with online dating, you not only have to meet those standards for them to agree to meet you and see you more than once, you also have to be chosen over all the competition on that dating site at the time they connect with you. Online dating makes people overly choosy and spoiled by having so many choices at the same point in time, unlike organic dating.

I had stopped drinking back around the time my kids showed up in my life to be a responsible single ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I've had Kaliber before and it's really good. Unfortunately I've only found one restaurant that had it and it was far away from where I live. Just happened to be there once in a while when visiting my father, who lived in that city. I have never found a bar that had it. Like you, I don't drink, but ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@azzow2 At the same time, I have run into a few bars that have no NA beers, which really sucks for me, as I only go to bars for karaoke and live music and it sucks to be there for a few hours and have to drink soda pop, which gives me gas and is not good for my teeth, with all that sugar, or drink cranberry juice, which is what I get if there is no NA beers there. I have found IPA beers that are NA and I like them, but they are rarely available where I live.

The times are changing

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 1, 2022:

My new shirt Glenn, got it today and will be wearing it often!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy I know how to point, click, type and scroll, that's about it, and I really don't want to learn anything else, like copy and paste, etc.

Several prominent Russian businessmen have died by apparent suicide in just three months - CNN

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I doubt those suicides are any more legit than Jeffery Epstein's. They're just murders that will never be proven, that's all.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@Barnie2years I believe that.