Well folks I made it, the only real thing I felt was tired and a wee bit sore shoulder.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

Got my second shot on the 15th and was sick for a couple days. It was a lot like when I had Covid, except the same symptoms were more mild and it didn't last nearly as long. I can rejoin things on the 29th.

Musician and composer Jim Steinman wrote the song I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

I'm guessing that Meatloaf has been retired from music for a while, but even if he wasn't Steinman wrote enough songs for him to last the rest of Meatloaf's career. I'm also guessing that Steinman retired from songwriting a while ago.

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift [news.yahoo.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

It would be nice if prostitution eventually became decriminalized here and ended up with the same system as New Zealand regarding prostitution, but I'm not optimistic. The evangelical and Catholic churches are too powerful. It still might happen in some blue states, but not nationwide.

On a lighter note, how would you react if you had a first sleepover with someone who had sheets with...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

Are you talking about the sheets on the bed of a grown man? If I were a woman, I would be a bit taken aback..

One very obviously bad police officer finally faces justice for a cold blooded killing in front of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

It's an isolated victory. It only happened because someone recorded the whole thing. Most of the time there is not a recording like this, in the future it will usually end up being the cop's word against the bystander's and in those cases, the cop always walks. Even in this case, without the video, the cop's word would have trumped that of all the bystander witnesses.

Hey for those who are interested I got my second covid shot today the Pfizer variety four weeks ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

I had Covid back in Dec. The second shot was like getting Covid again, same symptoms, only milder and not lasting as long. The second day is the worst. I felt back to normal on day four.

When your white priviledge expires

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

When fuckface first realized he was going away for a long time..

Bush reflects on friendship with Michelle Obama - CNNPolitics

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

It's easy to be friends when you're both neoliberals on economics and fellow members of the economic elite. I can't stand either one of them and would not be friends with them, because, unlike them, I'm a socialist and a member of the peasant class.

The testimony of Chauvin’s “experts” and the pseudo-legal framework of police terror

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

I now predict a guilty verdict on at least one charge, now that jury deliberations lasted less than two days. If it had gone longer than that, I would have predicted a hung jury or an acquittal on all charges.

Do you believe in "False Flags", or do you think these are legitimate?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

9-11 and the Jan. 6 riot were inside jobs, where the perps either had help or the authorities let it happen because it benefited them. I also believe the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job. False flag or inside jobs are the same thing in my book.I also believe the FBI or CIA, sometimes both, were involved in the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK.

Bo Burnham - From God's Perspective. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2021:

Nice song. I like how his voice is simple and unembellished, without all that American Idol crap where they do all these vocal tricks and such to show off. He just sings the lyrics with some emotion and lets that do the job. Sometimes the untrained singers are the best conveyors of the song's message. What I like even more is his song about country music where he satirizes the genre and the pandering of it stars to their audience.

So, I joined Humanist.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2021:

I really have almost no friends that are believers, and even with them, religion is a non-issue. It also almost never comes up in my very limited small talk with neighbors. So I really don't care about believers in general or what they think. Only when it gets into the level of government and society where they try to impose their religion on us. Then it matters to me, but I couldn't care less what they believe or do in their private lives.

47 mass shootings in the past MONTH!!?? Just....... wtf... WOW. 😞😞😞

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 18, 2021:

Does that mean that Covid is cooling down and we're getting back to normal, since in the past normal was frequent mass shootings? Must mean that school shootings will resume again next fall after all the kids are back in school buildings, yee haw..

The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

I have found that most people on the liberal side of the spectrum either lack the interest to seek alternative news sources or refuse to question the corporate media or the Dem Party establishment because they lack the strength and courage to deal with facing the reality that the corporate media and the Dem leadership are lying to them about anything that involves the interests of average Americans. It is simply too much for them to believe that continuing to elect corporate Dems will be never be enough to actually change anything for the everyday reality of most Americans. They see the increases in chaos and violence around our country and refuse to make the connection between it and a failed system, instead they see it all as unconnected and due to causes like simply availability of guns or underfunded mental health care. They fail to see how it's all connected to the growing rage that people feel, even if they don't really understand what they feel rage about. That rage fueled support for Trump and it will continue to feed support for the next Repub dictator, unless the people are given a real choice between that and a left wing populist in a general election. The system is not sustainable for keeping order and peace in the US. In the end, it will only result in either revolution or a fascist crackdown followed by permanent martial law and a dictatorship. Most likely it will be the latter.

Far Left, Far right and Centrists

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

You have a typo where you wrote Fare Left.

Far Left, Far right and Centrists

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

Pretty right on, centrists are so out of touch, either because they are clueless or because they only care about issues that don't cost them anything or might affect their upper middle class comfort.

D.C. Police requested backup at least 17 times in 78 minutes during Capitol riot - Washington Post

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 16, 2021:

Just confirms what I already suspected, that this was an inside job that had involvement from the level of line officers, all the way up to Trump.

The racist gang of 6 republicans who voted against the anti asian hate bill the only no votes

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 16, 2021:

Gotta lock in that vote of the racist base.

🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Good one, I can relate..

I'd like to meet a beautiful-1 American woman on this site.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Rotsa ruck getting a beautiful-looking American woman to date across the ocean with a man in Jordan. But if I end up being wrong about that, feel free to let me know. I won't hold my breath.

Your Government has everything under control.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Sounds a little like John Lennon's song lyric in Working Class Hero, "Keep you doped up on sex and drugs and TV"... Just consume, pay your taxes and support all wars for oil and empire, no matter how long they last.

Growing up, my brother’s experiences within our family was very different to my experience in the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Interesting ideas. Seems to make sense.

So hidden right meow.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

I knew a neighbor cat that was smart enough to know how to hide behind a tree from people.

Looking for my partner in crime

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Like me, you live in a bad area for finding many fellow members from here living nearby. You may well have to settle for dating someone LD from here, but you look attractive enough that you will probably get some interest from men who live far away.

I had a productive afternoon.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 14, 2021:

I get my second shot tomorrow, and can't wait to start socializing again on the 29th.

This really has nothing to do with Trump except that it's all about GREED and THEFT...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 14, 2021:

Makes me wish there was a hell, as he would now be there. Hope he suffered enough in prison.

Gwen Shocks a Christian I was in Walmart today and, as is my wont, struck up a conversation with...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

You are such a naughty, mischieveous person. I know I spelled it wrong.

Atheists Will No Longer Have to Swear an Oath to God in Order to Vote in Alabama | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

I can't believe that such a requirement was constitutional in the first place.

Ok Here goes. first attempt at getting something up on Agnostic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

Quite the funny incident there. If I had to bet, the guy is wasting his time trying to get the woman to contact him and meet up. She is too vain to deal with him knowing her secret and giving him a chance to date her. I remember how in the old days of the 1990s, how many local alternative newspapers had voice personal ads listed which would include Missed Connections ads like this. I'm amazed that they have reappeared on the internet.

Last night I was treated to a rerun of the movie, INHERIT THE WIND, on TCM.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

A great movie based on a great stage play. One of my favorite dramas.

Remember Pamela Taylor...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

Karma is rare, but sweet when it happens.

Finally! I've been waiting so long.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

You mean they're no longer just available at shelters and pet stores?

Oliver continues to be my bestest dog-cat ever.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

He looks like Grump Cat.

It doesn't matter if you are real of a statue...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

Poor kitty needs some attention and rubs.

Monday morning cuteness...Flip in 10 minutes!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

Feline sunbathing.

Im kinda curious where this info came from and what were the other 6..

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 11, 2021:

I think I'll hold off on that bee suggestion. My luck she would be deathly allergic to the sting and I would get charged with manslaughter...

Yes Norm, curiosity...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 11, 2021:

More likely they OD'd on catnip...

‘We don’t go to church.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 10, 2021:

I don't believe in hell, but I lived in small town Iowa for two years, Hampton, Iowa, to be exact (pop. 2500). And if hell exists, that couldn't be far off. Lots of small-minded, judgemental people and several churches for every bar in town, of which there were only two. Something very fucked-up about that kind of ratio... But I'm sure there are places in the South that are far worse.

" We should have never trusted them" Let us not forget the goal of the left is to make as many ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 10, 2021:

You are so full of shit, I don't know where to begin for arguing with you. Like racocm8 says below, your mangling of the English language makes it pointless anyway.

Looks like I got arbitrarily booted out of the Agnostic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 10, 2021:

Update: I finally got an answer, sort of, for why Jo booted me from the group. The third party who inquired for me said it was for " a boundary issue". No further explanation, no warning, and no notification from Jo about booting me. What an asshole...

Government always forgets this

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 9, 2021:

If only the congress members had to serve in the wars they support, the endless wars would suddenly end and never start any new ones.

Congresswoman calling for Trump advisor to be jailed

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 9, 2021:

I really doubt Miller will ever even be prosecuted. Here in the US, we don't seem to ever prosecute for human rights violations committed within our borders.

This Short Film About the Harm of Evangelical “Purity Culture” is Worth Watching | Hemant Mehta ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

It's all about keeping them, esp. girls, cloistered, ignorant, and inexperienced, so they're easier to con, manipulate, and dominate. Methinks there is a lot of misogyny and also fear of women behind all that thinking, because it follows that if females are more knowledgeable and experienced about sex, they will demand better from men in marriage and relationships, and the men behind this find that threatening.

Can someone tell me why so many prominent black people are saying this?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

I don't think Barkley is an Uncle Tom, and I mostly agree with him. If you want to call a prominent black man Uncle Tom, start with Obama, who to me is Exhibit A of how to sell out your race.

Real cutie

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Very cute cat smile..

How Men Treat Women They Find Unfuckable

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Even tho I am prone to often use the F-word myself, I find the use here of the term unfuckable gratuitously vulgar and somewhat offensive. I wonder if the author is using it purposely to express anger towards men and possibly a bit of misandry on her part. Regardless, I feel it would be more accurate and less offensive to simply say unattractive rather than the choice she used. When I look at a woman and simply conclude I do not find her attractive physically, at the time I am more likely to thinking more of whether I would want to kiss or hug her, rather than immediately or automatically thinking of whether I would be interested in sex with her. When I first see a woman's photos, whether in a dating profile or some other format, or for that matter encounter her in public, I often do form a quick impression of them either looking attractive or not, but I don't think I change my behavior towards them very much based on that assessment, at least not when I encounter them in person. I still try to see the humanity in everyone, male or female, and treat them with kindness.

How Men Treat Women They Find Unfuckable

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 7, 2021:

For the umpteenth time, I will say it again, it goes both ways. Even tho it was a few decades ago, I still keenly remember both in the dating game and from people of both genders in general, how much better I was treated and regarded when I was much younger and had both a full head of hair and an athletic body. I no longer have an athletic body this time around in the dating game, but my body weight is still average, but apparently I don't have the looks required or demanded by women in the top 50% of the dating pool I use in my dating site, because I seldom get replies from women in that segment of the dating pool and also of the twelve Likes that were sent to me since I became active again in the last few months with the site, only two of those women were average looking, the rest were below average looking and none of them were above average-looking. The assertion below by Detritus appears to be right on the mark about the top 50% of women in looks only being interested in guys who were in the top 20% for looks and money.

The Barack Obama Memoir: Don’t Trust the Process

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 7, 2021:

Bullshit. Obama was a sellout from the beginning and never made an honest effort to accomplish anything progressive, instead blaming the big bad Repubs even when he had a supermajority in both houses to start his administration. Hell, he didn't even try to get something as simple as card check passed to aid unions in organizing, and that would have been a simple task when he had the supermajority, and far less of a battle than the ACA.

Pod Can’t Save America

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 7, 2021:

I really doubt the ruling class give a fuck about saving America...

Here's a self-described "ethical pimp" who left the U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2021:

Decriminalized prostitution sounds like a fair and positive social policy. Too bad it has no chance of ever happening in America because of how politically strong our evangelical and Catholic churches are. And all the while so many of their ministers, priests, and congregation members continue to visit prostitutes illegally now and would continue to do so on the sly if it were decriminalized here. To me, it sounds like decriminalized prostitution makes it no different than massage therapy or physical therapy, just that it will never be covered under health insurance policies like those two services.

Anyone around to chat?( Preferably near my age)

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2021:

I wish you luck, but the vast majority of members who are still here are much older than you, and mostly men. It seems it was always that way, but in the last year or two particularly, the younger people that had come here have mostly gone away.

More of This, Please: Insurance Company Cancels Policy of Corona-Defiant Church | Terry Firma | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2021:

Sounds like a prudent and reasonable business decision by the insurance company. Too bad it takes financial pressure to get a minister to do the right thing in the end for his flock. Just shows how in the end money talks louder than God to these clods...

The untold story...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2021:

Cats gotta do what they naturally do, knock shit off of surfaces.

Sent to a religious teacher site in the UK

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2021:

Narcissistic God, it's too much all about them!....

Bloody hell!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2021:

Looks like the killer rabbit from Monty Python And The Holy Grail...

I'm not sure if this belongs in Politics , Religion & Spirituality or Silly, Random & Fun .

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2021:

Pretty well on the mark. The pols just want to mouth empty platitudes instead of real reform or change on guns. Almost all of them are either bought off or too cowardly to do anything real.

@admin Once again I cannot block anyone. Why is it that this feature comes and goes?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2021:

Someone blocked me today, not that I cared, so the feature is available today.

Loving the Military Because It’s More Diverse – Bracing Views

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2021:

I am less than overwhelmed with diversity in the military. How is it progress for the military to allow gay, trans people and racial minorities to serve when the overreaching goals and accomplishments of the American military these days is to oppress and kill colored people overseas with drones or more conventional slaughter on the ground of foreigners? I would rather see progress here at home with more inclusion of the above minority groups in government decision-making and access to decent jobs and healthcare. It's the same as electing a woman or a black man as prez. Whoop- tee-freakin'-doo.. How does it make any difference or change anything if the person elected supports the same policies and power arrangements as a white man? That sort of ID politics bullshit is what I really hated about Obama and what few people seemed to catch onto.

Three Agnostics in San Antonio today:

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 3, 2021:

All of you look great. Who are the other two?

(A companion piece to @bobwjr 's Post of 3/29) "For me, this IS normal!"

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 3, 2021:

They are both so cute..

Happy birthday, Abraham Maslov.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 3, 2021:

Most people are not aware of this, but Maslow is also largely responsible for designing the AA Twelve Step program for alcoholics. He was involved with the two founders of the program in writing the steps. That program changed the world.

Guns: The Real versus Phony Debate | Egalitarianism

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 3, 2021:

Guns and other culture war issues, like religion, abortion, gays, etc. are just distractions to divide the masses against each other so they don't unite and revolt. Until that happens, the large majorities that want things from the system will never get any of it.

The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year The anniversary of his assassination ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 3, 2021:

At the end of King's life, he not only opposed militarism, but also capitalism itself. Being against both of those was too much for the ruling class, so they had him whacked.

46 Million in US Say They Would Not Be Able to Afford Needed Health Care

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

It wouldn't matter if 80 or 100% of adults wanted these things, what matters is what the donor class wants, and it's not affordable healthcare for the serfs. They no longer need most of us.

It’s Not Burnout, It’s Moral Injury

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

Part of it is our shitty, for-profit healthcare system that was never designed for handling a pandemic. I also remember how, a couple decades ago, that political pundits used to say that if we ever had a pandemic that threatened the rich thru a virus spreading thru the public to them, that we might finally get universal health care. Even that turned out to be wrong.

We Can’t Afford to Live Anymore, and The Rich Are Gaslighting Us It’s doing serious damage.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

I always knew I would be too poor to afford kids, plus my parents were terrible role models for me about parenting, so I am childless by choice and never have regretted it, even tho when I was young it cost me any chance for LTRs in the dating game. Even with all that, I still was never financially secure until I was 59 years old, three years ago, when I inherited enough money to retire and could begin receiving SS Survivor's benefits at age 60. Until then, my whole adult life was living paycheck to paycheck and being poor.

Is there any more worthless of a sentiment than "thoughts and prayers?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

I have a favorite T-shirt made by a local store that specializes in snarky shirts. It has a big headline of "Thoughts And Prayers" followed by a definition of how there is no factual basis for them accomplishing anything and that is followed by recommended actions such as protest and legislation to correct wrongs, etc. It's fun to see the reactions to it by mainstream believers...

Trump-loving GOP candidate says God thinks she's 'cute': 'I've got this high-powered brain that ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

First Sarah Palin and now this. What is it about Alaska that produces such nutcase female pols?

My first grand cat! Following loss of our 17 YO black cat, my daughter chose her first cat.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

So cute. Hope she lives a long time.

A Year Into COVID, What Have We Learned? |

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2021:

We've learned that both parties only care about maintaining profits for the rich people and corporations that donate to them. Public health be damned. Everyone below the top 15% is expendable and disposable, esp. the elderly.

I am growing weary of viewing posts of scantily clad females when I browse posts .

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2021:

I almost never see things like that on this site. I must be doing something wrong.

Trump angrily lashes out at Biden for 'cruel and heartless' plan to create jobs by taxing the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2021:

Imagine that, taking from the rich and giving it to the general welfare...

A kickass version of this song by it's originator.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2021:

Nobody wanted it more and got it less than Rodney Dangerfield....

Corporate Dems Show Progressives How To Play Hardball

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2021:

And progressive Dem pols wonder why the working class doesn't respect them and sees them as pussies at best and sellouts at worst....

Three officers with relaxed body language.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

I have seen people die that were old and sick, but fortunately have not seen anyone murdered except on TV news.

Three officers with relaxed body language.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

They are acting relaxed and casual because they feel superior to some subhuman black criminal and feel they are teaching him a much-needed lesson about how to respect them and stay in his place, rather than stand up to them. No better than the overseers on the old southern slave plantation, which is what the cops have become in most urban cities with a large minority population. An occupying army of plantation-type overseers.

Three officers with relaxed body language.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

I've been watching some of the trial on MSNBC and I have two conclusions from it. One is that if the cop is not convicted of at least one of the charges, then Minneapolis is going to burn, and if it does I really hope that the fires are limited to just the police stations and the courthouse, which is what should burn. Second, the next time a cop puts a black man in a chokehold or holds a knee on a black man's neck for several minutes, I hope the onlookers rush the cop and either kill him, beat him as a group, or force him to shoot them in cold blood, rather than let another white cop execute a black man without resistance. I would love to see a whole mob attack and overwhelm a racist murdering cop the same way the rioters were allowed to invade and occupy the nation's capital. It's time to see some balancing of the scales. Because if that happened even once, it might make the next cop like Chauvin think twice about staying put and murdering a black man for his own twisted racist pleasure and instead choose self preservation by letting the man go and getting the fuck out of there. It's time for the class of former slaves to rebel and take the whip out of the overseer's hand. The Black Panthers were right, just ahead of their time, maybe....

So new to this online dating thing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

Silver Singles is a sister site to Elite Singles, which is supposedly geared to white collar professionals. Silver Singles is supposed to be for older professionals, who are retired or seniors still working. I have heard negative, disappointing testimonials about both sites from other RL singles in my area.

Trump Campaign Nondisclosure Agreements Voided by Court Ruling

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

I wouldn't get my hopes up. People that would sell their soul to Trump in the first place by working for him are not likely to suddenly grow a conscience. They are more likely to only rat on him if there is a book or movie deal for their story. Like Trump, they are opportunists and greedy, so they will only blab if there is something in it for them. Like Cohen did with his book.

For those who now consider Itailian-Americans "white"--understand it wasn't always so.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

The "club" of who gets to be included as white has always been arbitrary and decided by the ruling class. From time to time they have decided to let certain immigrant races into the club, but only when it served the interest of the ruling class. Sometimes certain racial groups are booted out of the club as far as being accepted as regular Americans, such as when the Japanese immigrants were intered during WWII.

The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez This has been its ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

I agree that both Obama and AOC are or were plants by the shadow government to serve the ruling class thru exploiting ID politics to con the voters into thinking these people are actually on the side of the peasants because they aren't white. When will the working class and middle classes ever wake up and realize that just because someone shares their race and/or gender (or is a racial minority) and makes some noises about solidarity with your demo group, that it doesn't necessarily mean they are on your side in the class struggle? Or that, more likely, they are a plant and a fake class warrior?

Spent a month getting to know someone who seemed super compatible—interesting conversation, ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

Sorry it happened. I can relate. I've run across my share of liars and game players in online dating. It goes both ways and in both sexes. If I had my way, everyone would have to have had recent therapy and be moved on from their last LTR before they could use a dating site, but of course, there would be no way to enforce or verify those qualifying conditions. Once I have my full Covid protection, around early to mid May, I am ready to start meeting women in person again and take my chances on exposure. He sounds like the kind of guy that would also lie about not having any SDTs.

Party Primaries Must Go

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 30, 2021:

Party primaries make sure that only corporate candidates can win the Dem nominations.

Conservatives frustrated by popularity of Dems' voting-rights bill

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 30, 2021:

While maintaining voting rights is important, in my mind it's not going to make much difference if in two or four years we are still left with only two corrupt major parties (neither or which care about anyone lower than the top 15% of the class structure or income groups) and no viable third party to vote for at the federal level. In that situation, it comes down to merely have a choice between the two pre-selected millionaires, or stooges for the very rich, you get to choose to oppress you. Either way, you get shit and still end up being oppressed.

The Fact That Americans Think Biden Has Changed Things Shows How Narrative Rules Our World

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 29, 2021:

The only things that have really changed, just as I predicted, since we moved from Trump to Biden, is that we now have some decent leadership on Covid and also no longer have open hostility to women or racial minorities, as well as science is also no longer openly denied. We also have, as with Obama and Clinton, a lot of happy talk and window dressing of lots of women and racial minority members appointed to cabinet posts. Whoop-tee-freakin' dooo.... Mere symbolism as all the real positions of power in the Biden admin. are still filled with all the Wall Street types, lobbyists, and supporters of the MIC.

Why Middle-Class Left Liberals Should Dump the Democratic Party - LA Progressive

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 28, 2021:

This guy makes way too much sense. If he were running for federal office or a governorship, I would suggest he stay away from small aircraft. It's sad to see a photo below the end of the article showing AOC, as if she were a legit progressive. Also, the author's %s in his analysis of the various classes in America only add up to 90%, not 100%, which makes his analysis look amatuerish.

Horrific situation

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Two completely different systems of law enforcement and justice. One for opponents of the status quo and the dominant tribe and another for those supporting it.

Pagan Employee Sues Panera Bread Citing Religious Discrimination by Her Managers | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2021:

These days a worker has no rights unless they have a strong union to protect and fight for them, no matter what rights are in the laws, at least not while they are still employed by a bad employer. And few are lucky enough to find a lawyer willing to help them sue after they lose their job. This may be more of a regional problem with Panera, but it will change my view of the company, which until now has been positive. The thing about mistreatment of low wage employees like this by chains like Panera, or Wal-Mart for that matter, is that it never gets taken up by lawyers to sue the employer unless it's thru a class action lawsuit, because the amount of money involved is too low to be worth a lawyer's time with the normal contingency fee setup for paying the lawyer with a share of the winnings against the employer.

Pagan Employee Sues Panera Bread Citing Religious Discrimination by Her Managers | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2021:

I had a similar situation when I was younger and working a much more professional job, and had even more to lose. It ended up being my last chance job to succeed in my chosen profession as a hospice social worker, but unfortunately for me at that time, the best job I could get in the field, on my third try in the field, was in a rural Iowa satellite office of a bigger hospice program in a decent sized city. I never had a chance, as the head nurse didn't like social workers or men very much and I was both. And then the two nurses that I shared my patients with were both religious nuts and began undermining me with the patients and families as soon as they and the head nurse decided I was not their kind. So as soon as it became clear to all that I was single, liberal, and non-religious, the hostile environment began and they forced me out of there, even tho I did have some allies in the office, but not enough, as well as the social work director in the main office, but they couldn't save me as the director of the satellite office caved to the head nurse, telling me that I needed to attend a Christian church in order to fit in with the rest of the staff and the clients of the program. Also, because I was sensitive and single, as well as liberal, there were rumors that I might be gay. If I were stronger then and had the right lawyer I might have had a case for religious harrassment and discrimination, as there were things on the record by the two nurses and the director of the satellite office that were inappropriate and incriminating. I resigned and then found out six months later that the satellite office director finally realized, too late, that the problem was not me, but the head nurse. So she finally stood up to her and fired her, too late for me tho. Still, I took that as vindication that I got screwed and that the staff and organization finally saw the light, not that they would ever admit they screwed me or apologize, as it would make them more open to a lawsuit from me. I then found out a year later after that that the head nurse had sued the hospice organization over her firing and lost her lawsuit, which I took as further vindication.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2021:

I totally agree about both AOC and Nina Turner. Unfortunately too many progressive people do not keep up with everything or look deeply into the issues and positions of pols like them. I was recently talking with a woman I met on Match who is almost as progressive or left as me, but she still buys the mainstream narrative that both of these women are still true radicals or progressives. I didn't want to alienate or argue with her for obvious reasons, since I find her attractive and very compatible so far, but it is so frustrating to deal with this not just with her, but also some of my friends who buy into all the establishment narrative even tho their values are not that far from mine.

Got two appts for Covid Vaccines, first one was Wednesday morning.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2021:

I had Covid in Dec. and my first Moderna shot on March 18. No side effects except some slight pain on the injection site several hours later, but it was gone by the middle of the next day.

Documents Show Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee in Bottles

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Treating employees like animals, or worse, like machines...

What To Watch for in Biden’s First Press Conference Today | Ted Rall's Rallblog

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Actually, I think it was revealed later that Reagan had dementia even in his first term.

I Am a Victim of Republican Cancel Culture | Ted Rall's Rallblog

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2021:

This so true. Repub and conservative business people have long ago forced all progressive voices out of any mainstream or corporate run newspapers, radio, or TV programming.

I just renewed my FFRF membership for a lifetime.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2021:

What is FFRF?

Why the Democratic Party can never be reformed - World Socialist Web Site

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Nothing new here, just confirmation of everything I already knew in my bones about how the nomination was rigged and that even Bernie was complicit this time in handing the nomination to Biden. The whole nominating process is a charade these days and I will never participate again in a Dem caucus. Next time it will be AOC playing Bernie's role as the fake progressive challenger to whoever the party leaders have already selected, most likely Harris.

Worth a watch.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Tom Arnold was in my high school class (Ottumwa, Iowa 1977) and also played very briefly in a high school rock band with my brother. He was one of the biggest assholes in my class, just as unfunny then as he was later (at least to me and my classmates who walked out on him when he did some standup comedy at one of our class reunions), and also stole the money from the one gig he played in my brother's band. My one brush with fame...

I am very sadden by the shootings/murder in Boulder, CO.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Mass shootings are now as American as apple pie and baseball. Now we will again go thru our hollow ritual of public outrage in the mass media and our politicians while in the end nothing changes.

Religion kills.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

NO shit.

Milquetoast for all Three Meals: All’s Dumb in the United States of A | Dissident Voice

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

This certainly explains why it's so easy for the duopoly and the corporate media to dupe the vast majority of the citizens to swallow the lies of the two major parties. You can't have critical thinking skills if you don't already have functional literacy.