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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2020:

My guess is that there are way more non-believing men than women because most women are very focused on having kids and being involved in churches so they have somewhere to take them for religious education and community with other young families. Men are more interested in just finding a partner than shopping for a place that offers things for kids and families, so they do not need a church as much for their goals. Non-believing men can find women thru many other ways than church, but churches are a convenient and widely available way for believer women to meet their wider goals for kids and family after they find a partner.

I feel this way sometimes...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2020:

That cat wants blood!

He has a point

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

Kitty wins hands down on that debate.

Watching the deer in the yard

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

Surprised that a cat would even care enough to look when the animal outside is not something to hunt or fight with..

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

I like you, Marcie, based on your posts and comments for what they seem to say about your character. So I hope my being brutally honest here doesn't offend you. I have seen your profile pics and based on my own online dating experience in the last couple years as well as the things I have heard from others in the dating game, my take is that when someone seems to be, at least in their mind, continually getting rejected by others over their looks, it is often because they are trying to date "out of their own league" when it comes to looks. I have had it happen to me plenty when I tried to approach women on Match that were clearly a couple notches higher than me on the looks scale. So maybe you need to consider altering your expectations or standards of how attractive a man has to be on the looks scale for you to be interested in him. I won't give your looks a number, as I know that will get me bashed on here, if not by you, by other women. But you are definitely above average-looking even if you are not average weight. Some men, like me, are ok with that, most aren't, which is sad. I will use my own experience and be very concrete in my example of how this works. I tried online dating for two years. I would rate my own looks as a 5 or a 6 at best. I met a few dozen women in this time in person. Not one of them who would meet me a second time or more were above a 7. Of course, all of these numbers are subjective and my own judgement. The one woman who I thought was a 7 went out with me twice and seemed to have a nice time being with me, but when I tried to kiss her at the end of the second date, she pulled back like I had cooties. The one woman that I dated for more than two meetings was someone that I got along with well and we dated for about six months before Covid and my lack of physical attraction to her ended it. I enjoyed affection with her, but there just wasn't enough attraction on my part to sustain it physically. Her level of looks, at least to me, were a 4 or a 5. I honestly kept seeing her, I think, because I really enjoyed her friendship and wanted the companionship. I feel guilty that I didn't end it sooner, which she did once Covid started here. I was selfish and cowardly in how I handled it and hope I learned some things I will do better and differently next time after Covid is over. Let the bashing and gender-shaming begin....

Joe explains it all for you.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

No surprise to me. Your treatment by people running the blog and Discus just shows that some people can't handle certain truths..

Family of Breonna Taylor agrees to $12 Million Settlement

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

I wondered why there had not been charges brought after so long and this explains why. I'm still angry that the cops and the local authorities were able to get away with not sending anyone to prison over this.

Iris is working very hard to press some clothes. Such a good kitty.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The hooman thinks the pants belong to them..

Hillary 2.0. It's as if the DNC wants to lose to Trump.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The further this goes, the more I think they are wanting to lose, partly because the party leaders and their donors are fine with Trump's policies on trade, taxes, healthcare, war, etc. and also because they would rather have Trump stuck with the blame and burden of having to govern with Covid and the economy. As for the BLM movement and racial injustice, the DNC doesn't care about solving that, they are more interested in having that issue to raise money and fire up their base and bash the Repubs with. Corporate America also loves having the BLM movement and racial injustice around so they can virtue signal and pander to customers without having to actually give up any power or give up any of their profits.

Maybe this is why the approval rating of Congress is under 20%?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2020:

All I know is that that majority of Congress are bought off by the rich and corporations, and thus are unresponsive to us peasants.

Tom Cotton 's wife is probably miserable.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Sounds like he would be very happy living in Gilead as in The Handmaid's Tale. He feels women don't need any rights..

Beating you to it on Tuesday morning Robert?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2020:

First creature there has dibs..

I caught these 2 marauders on one of my security cameras. I believe that they are turkey vultures.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Ugly buggers, same as buzzards..

Preparing for winter: What changes do you make to prepare for a different seasons?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

I will very soon be buying a humidifier for my condo apartment so I can breathe this winter. I keep my place warm, 75 deg., so I need to moisturize the air or it gets hard to sleep with the dry air.

Trump Rally Plays CCR’s ‘Fortunate Son,’ a Song Mocking Rich Vietnam War Draft Dodgers (Video)

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Yet another example of how either Trump or his handlers are completely tone deaf or completely arrogant about how offensive his music choices, same as when they played Live And Let Die during his factory visit months ago.

My mother’s cat Teslin turned herself into a pillow sandwich because she was cold. Too cute!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

It's cruel to allow cats to be any less than toasty warm..

Mostly Maskless Supporters Rally for the President in Nevada President Trump held another one ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Hopefully most of them stay long enough to get infected and thin their numbers for Nov..

Imagine for a moment there's a plantation.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Most of them are useless parasites who inherited their wealth. They need to be heavily taxed if they are allowed to remain billionaires or multi-millionaires..

Sadly accurate, I'm afraid.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2020:

It says it all. The DNC will blame anyone but themselves and they feel entitled to a win just because their candidate isn't named Trump. Their attitude is total bullshit..

When you are a child you want to be a teenager.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2020:

As long as I was healthy, I would enjoy living repeated lives as a spoiled housecat.

The question was asked why people continue supporting Trump no matter what he does.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I agree with your analysis. These people are hillbilly idiots to be feared and avoided at all costs. If I had to live around them, I would probably rethink my personal opposition or reluctance to owning a gun, because I would fear for my safety, knowing the local law enforcement would likely be sympathetic to them and unwilling to protect me from them. As far as your point about these people rejecting any forms of humanistic tendencies as weakness, I have generally seen that trait in most conservatives as well. Another part of your post is quite ironic and that is the point that these rednecks consider liberals to be weak. It reminds me of Jesse Ventura's controversial quote that he considered religious people weak because they needed the crutch of religion to cope with life. Two sides of the same coin?

I can't stand when the right says "EVERYONE should be responsible for their own health care.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Your situation and story remind me a lot of my sister in law. Luckily for her, she lives in New York state, which, unlike Iowa, is not so niggardly and neglectful of people who are working poor, unemployed poor or disabled. She happens to be mentally ill-borderline personality disorder-for her whole adult life and because of that she can never keep a job for any great length of time. Luckily for her, NY provides free or low cost healthcare for low income adults even if they aren't poor enough for Medicaid. Because of that form of economic aid, as well as generous Food Stamp assistance, she has always been able to afford food and housing, otherwise she would have ended up homeless or institutionalized long ago if she lived somewhere like Iowa.

Ghost of Nixon past

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Nixon was smarter, was still pretty evil..

The reasons given are more than likely true but it still does not explain why Woodward waited so ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I'm not sure why Woodard waited so long, but I'm not surprised. In my mind, he's been a turd for the last few decades where he's made a habit of cozying up to Repub presidents and not being critical of them until they are under fire or already a lame duck. Only then does he publicly make any criticisms of them. He is a coward and has no real convictions or principles. Such a change from his glory days of Watergate. Nowadays he is content to have his big money from books, his continued access to all the presidents, and his fame. He couldn't care less about the good of the country, patriotism, or reporting the truth to the people. He is too chickenshit to be critical of a president publicly when that president is popular or as soon as he knows they are lying because he puts his own interests ahead of the truth or the good of the country. He doesn't want to lose his access to the powerful when it looks like they will be in power for quite a while longer, because that would kill his access to writing his next book.

8 Best Free Atheist Dating Sites

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2020:

With the exception of Match, I'm sure the other sites listed are like Agnostic.com, with relatively tiny membership numbers and no real dating prospects for most people in their local areas, unless, possibly, if you live in a major city. Move along, nothing to see here.....

Mitch and the republican senate voted not to give a second stimulus.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2020:

I've got a news flash for you, neither does the Dem House. They just pretend to.

Christians teach their children to "believe" rather then to "think", they grow up with limited ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2020:

That would explain a lot.

Looks like something's fucked up with all of the forums.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2020:

Looks like it's now been fixed.

A double Limerick I wrote and posted to a different group. q:531220

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Good one...

Report: 70 Percent Of New COVID-19 Cases Are Coming From Red States.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2020:

I doubt Covid will kill off the Repub voters. Their kind, at least the evangelicals, breed like rats, so there will be plenty more to replace the casualties of ignoring Covid.

Yoo iz in biiiig trubbull!!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Hope kitty doesn't break any teeth biting that mouse..

Going to kinda free write this, and none of this will qualify as "required reading" so if anybody ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Duplicate post much??

Multiple times now I have written private messages only to have them disappear when I hit send.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2020:

I have had that happen a lot of times in the past and also sent messages that never got to the other member. And this has been verified by the other members later on.

Jeffrey Goldberg: I think Trump is genuinely confused by service

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2020:

His attitude also reminds me of the lines in The Godfather by Michael Corleone's family. They bad-mouthed military service as something for suckers who hadn't figured out that family were the only ones worth sticking your neck out for or dying for. In their world only saps would risk dying or put themselves out at all for strangers. It's ironic that he ran for and served in public office as prez when he clearly feels that no one owes anything to society and that he has only used his office to enrich himself, his family, and his friends. He feels they are the only people who count.

Nancy Pelosi says her visit to a hair salon was a 'setup.' Stylist backs her up

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2020:

I've hated Pelosi for some time because she is a typical, lying, corrupt, neoliberal Dem sellout. Apparently she is also stupid, because I would never go to a barber or hairstylist during Covid without wearing a mask and everybody else there wearing one. I guess she is too stupid to hide her selfishness of not caring about protecting the other people there. I thought they teach that in Politics 101 for Dems to at least pretend that you care about the peons.

So who wants to help me argue politics with a stranger on the Internet?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Even living in Covid era quarantine, it seems out of wack to feel compelled to correct all instances of someone on the internet being wrong. There are still more important and healthy things to direct one's energy and focus on. Remember to step away from the keyboard frequently and also heed my longtime motto, "Confuse not the minds of the ignorant, they will only hate you for it"...

We Must Learn to Embrace Populism BY AARON LAKE SMITH "Thomas Frank’s brilliant new book ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2020:

So much truth. We need a progressive party that focuses almost exclusively on economic issues, the environment, war, and civil liberties. Fuck all the identity politics of the two major parties. A party that is about saving the planet, providing college education for all, economic justice, ending permanent war, and reversing the post 9-11 cancelling of our civil liberties, and getting money out of politics are all issues that the masses would be crazy supportive of. It would thankfully destroy the Dem party.

Nearly 100 Prominent Republicans And Independents Endorse Joe Biden For President

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2020:

So what? How is this much of a stretch, when Biden is a neoliberal conservative racist and misogynist himself? He already fits in with most Repub pols...

Christian-Owned Wedding Venue Refuses to Host Mixed Race Wedding Because Jesus | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2020:

They must still be under the illusion that Jesus was white..

That's our problem . . .

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Our main problems in the US, besides bare-knuckles capitalism and plutocracy, are this obedience and the extreme individualism that is practically a religion of its own here.

Christian Booted from Alaska Walmart After Screaming About Satanic Face Masks | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2020:

I'm surprised they didn't just tell him to leave, call the cops, and then wait silently and passively until he either left or the cops showed up and let them escort the asshole out. Trying to talk to him was a waste of time and only encouraged him to stay and have the last word. It also allowed additional risk of him infecting the staff with his yelling and spitting.

Since the title of this section is "Love & Relationships" this is the place for this post.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Some people are naive or innocent enough to think that love and relationships are just like on TV and movies. The rest of us are lucky enough to be older and wiser. Lust and infatuation at first sight happen. Love takes much longer to be real and lasting.

My daughter posted these in defense of Kyle Rittenhouse.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

It's always distressing when a family member loses their grip on reality.

Mmmmmm.... anybody see a resemblance to what Liberals are doing today?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

I have no doubt that Trump's followers and minions are carrying this out on the streets where there are protests, but most Americans are too dumb and ignorant of history to catch on to this. Plus, the corporate media is no help as they won't investigate or expose this. They are just as complicit in maintaining the status quo and our security state.

What is the correct answer?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

The correct answer is however many fingers The Party wants it to be. On a more practical level, any answer given will not stop the torture. Like the WWII saying, " The daily beatings will continue until morale improves", or, my personal favorite, the line from Cool Hand Luke, " I wish you'd quit being so good to me, Captain"..

I received a notification from Agnostic that I have a new follower! I've pasted her bio here.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

"She" visited me too today, obviously a scammer and a fake account. Seems like these days they don't even try to appear real..

Christian Booted from Alaska Walmart After Screaming About Satanic Face Masks | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Where I live just about all businesses are requiring masks for customers, even tho my Repub governor won't order masks in public or allow local governments to require them. The only stores I've seen that don't require them for customers are grocery stores, probably because they are too chickenshit to confront customers and deal with the hassles. It's possible they are afraid of losing customers over it, but some customers are worth losing if they endanger the healthy of your employees and other customers. And the grocery stores probably know that most customers would support a mask requirement. If all the grocery stores required them, then the customer would have to suck it up and comply or else order their groceries for pickup or delivery. Too fucking bad if they refuse to mask up and have to go those routes.

Polish bishops call for "clinics to help LGBT people regain natural sexual orientation"

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Maybe the church needs to pay more attention to converting priests from being pedophiles..

Christian Booted from Alaska Walmart After Screaming About Satanic Face Masks | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

It really stinks that we have to depend on corporate America to start implementing mask restrictions because our Repub governors and prez are not willing to do it.

Those folks are absolutely knocking it out of the park. Truth-tellers all. [m.youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Watched the rest of the video and feel sad that most blacks in SC and the Super Tuesday states chose to listen to Uncle Tom Clyburn and other corrupt black leaders instead of Nina Turner, a black leader who is the real thing. I like her term for the ruling class who control both parties, the "owner-donors".

Republican Lawmaker Wears ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let God Sort Em’ Out', To QAnon Meet-Up

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I heard that's what the bomber pilots and some of the troops used to say in the Vietnam War...

Can an atheist and an Evangelical be friends?

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Yes, but it hasn't worked that way between me and my sister.

Those folks are absolutely knocking it out of the park. Truth-tellers all. [m.youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I have now watched most of the video and the best part was the platform. If we could get even a fraction of that implemented, it would be such an improvement on the status quo. The only platform part I would disagree with might be the animal rights plank, as I don't want to become a vegetarian and that trying to force that on all Americans would be a losing strategy. Most Americans would never stand for it. It would be like trying to take away all guns from Americans.

White supremacy is the true religion of the United States.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

The true religion of the US is white supremacy AND greed.

Well. A nice strong relationship AND...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Sexual content, or at least sexual innuendo, has always sold..

Meant to post this earlier but had a bit of laundry that was urgently needing doing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

You sound a bit like me. Sometimes it's more fun to make a little trouble than to be polite and PC.

Those folks are absolutely knocking it out of the park. Truth-tellers all. [m.youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Too bad Bernie cares more about his token standing in the Senate than actually changing the system, or he'd be there instead of shilling for Joe at the DNC. Thanks for posting the link. I'll try to watch some of it this week.

Nice Bell Bottoms? ... I thought they were way cool! Did you like them too?