White House wanted USS John S. McCain moved during Trump’s Japan visit - Vox

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Before he leaves office, he will probably commission a new warship, named the "USS Donald J Trump".

50 dramatic photos of life on Earth

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Preservation in cyber-space will allow wildlife biologists on other worlds to see what actually used to live on this planet!

Has anybody ever gone numb emotionally?

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

It's the brain's way of saying "Enough!".

Years ago, I notIced a connection with women when young were (looking for the right words here ...

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

I once spent a few months observing the goings-on in a Pentacostal church, in a small Alabama town. Amongst the first things I noticed were where people sat. The rich folks always occupied the pews in the left front, where they could be observed picking their noses, balling up their boogers, and flicking them. (Something that reminded me of eighteenth-century English magistrates,who would flick their boogers at criminal defendents). Another oddity was that the teenagers clustered in the back pews, where they could try their luck at flirting with one another. The pews in front of them were occupied by the single adults, looking to hook up. In the right front pews were the residents of local homeless shelters, where the entire congregation could observe, and self-righteously 'fawn' over them. Just behind them sat the holy-roller performer types, who would periodically jump out in the aisles, and begin babbling in 'tongues', or fall to the floor in faux epileptic 'fits'.

So my understanding is the Dept of Justice cannot indict a sitting president, that is congresses ...

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Pelosi wants to impeach Trump's ass as badly as most Democrats do. But she is apparently waiting until they have a preponderance of evidence against him, and the majority of the Senate on their side. With Trump's propensity for sticking his feet in his mouth, that shouldn't take long!

The Department of Energy is calling fossil fuels “molecules of freedom” and “freedom gas”

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

This sounds like one of Trump's ideas!

What If Only 100 People Existed on Earth? - YouTube

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Out of one human pairing, you get an average of 2,000 offspring, over 12 generations (240 years). A hundred humans equals fifty human pairings. So, multiply fifty by 2,000. It wouldn't take long in historic time, for them to bring us back up to current levels of over-population!

[rcni.com] What do you think?

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Once upon a time, an anthropologist was visiting a tribe of New Guineans, and got to observe a 'witch-doctor' treating his patients. The patient would lay down on a straw mat, and the shaman would dance around them, chanting incantations, and shaking his skull rattles. Afterwards, the anthropologist asked the shaman if he thought his treatment actually worked. No, the shaman replied. But so long as the patient BELIEVED it had done him some good, that was all that mattered.

What is your perception of Memorial Day in the USA?

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

It was Abraham Lincoln who created this 'holiday'. He did so partly to honor the nation's military dead. And partly to appease 'God', and give 'God's' sanction to the bloody civil war then in progress. Like most people of his day, Lincoln was a very superstitious/religious man. And he believed that the reason the war was dragging on was because 'God' was angry at the country's 'sinfullness'. This is why he also made 'Thanksgiving' a national 'holiday'. Though he thought of it more as a 'national day of prayer' (thinking that if everybody prayed hard, 'God' would make the war end). Neither day was intended as an excuse for people to engage in drunkeness , and gluttony.

Trump will get re-elected President of the USA.

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Once Humpty Dumpty fell off his high-horse, all the King's horses, and all the King's men couldn't glue him back together again! That may be the case for Trumpty Dumbty as well. On the other hand, there are large numbers of people who don't even bother to vote. So the next election is likely to be a close one.

Every time, I read about, see and think about Trump, I just cannot understand how addicted and prone...

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

Trumpy has always been a loudmouthed carnival barker.

Anybody have a 1955 Huffy radio bike?

davknight comments on May 30, 2019:

I can vaguely remember having a Huffy (with training wheels). But not with such high-tech features!

‪Another embarrassment from Trump.

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

Space aliens and foreigners, watch so many old re-runs of The Simpsons, The Three Stooges, South Park, American Dad, and Family Guy, that they expect Americans to be stupid. I doubt the Japanese expected anything less from Trump!

A friend and I were watching a documentary called Darwin: No Services Ahead.

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

Looks like Charles Manson's "Bottomless Pit".

Other Countries Know.

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

As the French say: America is a YOUNG country. Europe is MATURE!

Loved it all except for disco.. that shit was nasty.. so glad it ended when it did.

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

Anyone remember the Chicago DJ who blew up thousands of disco records in a Chicago sports stadium?

Does anyone else also make a point of readign books which have been banned at one time?

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

I was fond of MAD magazine as an adolescent. Then, I gravitated to Bob Crumb, and Gilbert Shelton. Along with that, I devoured Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao. Not to mention Bakunin, Proudhon,Rousseau, Voltaire,Reich, Machiavelli, von Clausewitz, and Darwin. My advice: Read EVERYTHING! In that way, you will develop a more holistic view of this round, round World you live in!

Makes sense that the no IQ individual thinks calling someone a low IQ individual is a compliment...

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

China! If you're listening. Can you get us the results of Trump's last IQ test?

In a few generations the caucasion race will be extinct.

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

Not remotely likely. Arab and Berber peoples are Caucasian. The people of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, are Caucasian. Caucasian is NOT a skin color. Caucasian refers to a certain type of skull. In fact, the "races" as a whole, can be divided into a number of skull types.

This old ad is not very appealing but the product is. 😖

davknight comments on May 29, 2019:

Moldy Tuna! Cool! I love the big green n red eyeball!

Have you ever been annoyed by just the sight or voice of a person?

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

I get that way, at the sound of Trump's voice!

The Correlation between Ignorance and Obedience

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

New American Police State mantra: "Ignorance is Bliss. No Sense Makes Sense."

The awesome power of a tornado did this and this is tornado season take them seriosly

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

I once drove through the immediate aftermath of a tornado. On one side of the road, every single telephone pole had been snapped off at the base, and were laying on their sides, in a nice, neat row, for the space of about a mile. On the opposite side of the road, was a 70-car freight train, laying on its side, with every car in perfect alignment. It looked like a little kid had got bored with his toy train set, and kicked it over!

We had a hailstorm in Omaha a few hours ago.

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

The strangest hailstorm I ever experienced was in a small Colorado town, about 25 years ago. I was waiting to make a left-hand turn, and all of a sudden, it started hailing like crazy. But only for a minute or two, and only in that particular intersection! And there wasn't a cloud in sight!

Before I present this question I would like to say I have never seen an object in the sky, night or ...

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

When I lived in Colorado, it was common for Wyoming National Guard helicopters to crash in the Colorado Rockies. So, if something mysterious crashes in your neighborhood, grab your flashlight, and look for the letters WANG on the fuselage!

Angela Merkel warns against dark forces on the rise in Europe

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

Creeping Trumplerism is a trans-Atlantic phenomenon!

Chris Wallace Owns Lindsey Graham With Clip Of Him Lashing Clinton On Ignored Subpoenas

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

Poor Graham has gone stark, raving Trumpy crackers!

Here's a paradox.

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

Women who take botox will find their brains receding into their buttocks! The lesson here is, don't take any harmful chemicals, to make yourself "appealing" to the opposite sex! They aren't worth it! And it messes with your metabolism big time!

Tornados hit my area hard last night.

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

Stay safe!

English wisdom

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

This is what is known as Old Timey Horse Sense, which seems to be sorely lacking nowadays!

What was your favorite Hostess cake?

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

Suzy-Qs were good too!

Memorial Day: Remember the Victims of American Bombs When You Remember the Soldiers Who Died for Our...

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

The problem is, most Americans don't know, and/or don't care about the millions of Phillipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, and others, that the American military has slaughtered. It is all carefully avoided in our schoolbooks.

Anybody else remember their Grandmothers dressing like this?

davknight comments on May 28, 2019:

They still do! They just wear different clothes, and play with their 'smart' phones!

Trump want $16 billion to bail out farmers he hurt with his trade war.

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

Dollar Store is going to have to change its name to the Five and Ten Dollar Store.

If you think saying stupid, flirty, suggestive bullshit to women is "funny", it's NOT.

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

I think its an adolescent boy thing. Some males seem to stay in an adolescent mindset long after they're supposed to have outgrown it. (Poorly developed frontal brain lobes). That's what all that junk food, and faux beer will do to you!

Fuel demand

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

Have any pedestrians been hit by electric cars yet? Just curious. It seems to me that an electric car wouldn't make much noise. I don't know that I'd want one sneakin up on me, when I'm out walking.

Never played with these but the girls in my neighborhood did.

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

I can remember my sister playing jax. 'Pick-up Stix' too. But I was into more 'thought provoking' things, like marbles, homemade bows n arrows, cap pistols, dirt-clod fights, n catchin polliwogs!

For the 2020 presidential election, who do you like and why?

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

Anyone but Trump!

To my mind, Fox News is a bigger threat to us all than even drumpy, as he would not be so slavishly ...

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

Who but the hopelessly gullible buy something, because they saw it in a television commercial?

It Turns Out Christians Have More Abortions Than Any Other Religious Group In America - MTV

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

That's because those darned Preachers just won't keep it in their britches!

We had one like this in the mid-70s.

davknight comments on May 24, 2019:

Where do the tail fins fit on?

Anyone know what I am up to?

davknight comments on May 23, 2019:

Now, cover up one eye with your hand. Out the other eye, imagine everything is distorted. Then, write down what you see.

NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover | NASA

davknight comments on May 23, 2019:

I've got a 500 word essay aboard the Kepler! So I'm already in Space!

Dear People of the World, I don't mean to sound slutty, but PLEASE use me whenever you want.

davknight comments on May 23, 2019:

In 1702, a Virginian was visiting a London shop. The shopkeeper said to him "By your accent, I can tell you come from one of the colonies!". The Virginian nodded, and told the shopkeeper where he was from. I found this interesting because this was less than five generations after the founding of Jamestown. And already, a peculiarly colonial accent had emerged. It got me wondering how, supposing the Chinese are the first to establish a Martian colony, how long it would take for a peculiarly 'Martian'-sounding dialect of Mandarin Chinese to evolve?

We had one like this in the mid-70s.

davknight comments on May 23, 2019:

"Check out the NEW, Betty Crocker swingout regrigerator! All compartments swing out for ease of cleaning!". And also check out those GLASS milk bottles! I haven't seen those in awhile!

Trump is such an easy-going guy who never gets upset about criticism Donald J.

davknight comments on May 23, 2019:

As Tillerson says, "Trump is a certain unique kind of moron!".

Mine was $1.64 back in 1974.

davknight comments on May 22, 2019:

$1.65 per hour, 1973.

Wow!!! the prices back in 1962.🤔

davknight comments on May 22, 2019:

And we called "Dollar Stores" "DIME Stores" back then!

Entertaining crackers..

davknight comments on May 21, 2019:

I like cheese whiz on mine!

Civics 101..

davknight comments on May 21, 2019:

I wanna see the results of his last IQ test!

Husband acts like a Caveman initiating sex. What would you tell her?

davknight comments on May 21, 2019:

Some women prefer brutes. And they got what they asked for. Are we non-brutes supposed to feel 'sorry' for her?

Who was Jesus ?

davknight comments on May 21, 2019:

Like Abraham, and Mohammed, Jesus was a strange dude, who spent too much time in the desert, smoking funny green hay, and chewing too much khat. The result of which, was that he imagined that "God" was talking to him, and telling him he should found a new religious cult.

Do you know who this is? Did you have her?

davknight comments on May 21, 2019:

Charlie Brown's little sister?

Republican fundraising mailer looks like a U.S. Census Survey

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

Both parties use these "official" looking envelopes, in the hopes of mooching money off you. I just throw them in the trash!

What do you think?

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

The humble French fry may save us yet!

It was already a proud day for these new college graduates.

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

He might get a few copycats, but I doubt very many!

Do you agree with the statement that humans are just another twig in the tree of life?

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

Hans Gruber: Who are you then? John McClane: Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

They just figured this out? Its been a Plutocracy since day one! The "Senate", and the Electoral "College" are there to keep it that way! "Money don't talk. It swears!"--Bob Dylan

All Your Favorite HGTV Shows Are Totally Fake

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

All "reality shows" are fake, fake, fake So is most everything else on television! Read more books!

Racism .

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

The Israeli Right is as obsessed with keeping Israel Zionist, as the Nazis were in keeping Germany Aryan. Their motto is "Shalome and Napalm"!

It’s appropriate on so many levels that both Liberty and Justice are portrayed as women in our ...

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

'Liberty' was the most common image on U.S. coins, from the 1790s, through the nineteenth-century. The French painter, Eugene Delacroix, used her as his inspiration for "Liberty Leading the People". Another Frenchman felt inspired to feature her in his famous "Statue of Liberty". It's only when we hit the twentieth-century, that the U.S. Mint began replacing her image with that of dead Presidents! Also, the 'Indian Cent' featured 'Liberty' (in an eagle-feather headdress).

How do you answer the banal message, "Hey, how are you?"

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

I find that annoying too! I respond with "Just fine!" Sometimes, I merely nod my head. I could respond with "Why? Do I look sick?". But "Just fine!" usually does the trick,;and they cease trying to engage me in dingbat blabber-jabber.

I remember doing this, do you?

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

I always hit the discount racks. There, one could find rare treasures, marked down to a dollar or two.

Why do people keep complaining even if things improve?

davknight comments on May 20, 2019:

Could it be that we live in a world of artificial scarcity, and that this makes many people feel compelled to gripe?

Love this❤✌

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

Colonial American farmers grew hemp in great quantities, sold it in port towns, where it was used to make rope for ships. The sailing ships of that day and age, used miles, and miles of rope!

The White House has declared Melania to be “the most important and accomplished First Lady in ...

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

I would say she's the most accomplished gold digger to ever live in the White House!

Which was your favorite as a kid? Mine was Cheerios😊😁

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

I threw my first bowl of cereal at the wall! And I've been like that ever since. Every time I see a bowl of cereal, I wanna chuck it at the wall! You might say I've been a life-long cereal killer!

The American left are pussies.

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

Back in the 1980's, the (then) leader of the CPUSA was a guy named Gus Hall. He decided it was a waste of time, to run candidates on a Communist Party ticket, and that the thing to do was to infiltrate the Democratic Party.Which they have been busy at ever since. Meanwhile, the 'Righties' have decided on the same idea. Only they have been infiltrating the Republican Party. So now, we have a Party of the Pretty Stupid, infiltrated by 'Lefties', and a Party of the Extremely Stupid, infiltrated by 'Righties'. So, for the average American blue-collar jamoke, the choice boils down to the candidates of the Pretty Stupid, or the candidates of the Extremely Stupid. (Some choice, huh?). Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, between the Party of the Pretty Stupid Rich, vs. the Party of the Extremely Stupid Rich. Third parties don't stand a rat's chance here. You are right about American Lefties being wussies. They are mostly from bourgeois, or petit-bourgeois class background. So, they tend to be very much like their rich parents. Lenin might have called them "useful idiots". But I consider them "useless idiots"! Also bear in mind that what are called "leftists" here, are really just spoiled hipster-liberals. And, as Bill Heywood once pointed out: "A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts".The American working class has no party of its own. And very little in the way of class-consciousness. Even if they did, the 'Lefties' are bound and determined to take away their firearms. Which may be why so many of them are under the spell of the Party of the Extremely Stupid!

Evolution deniers are the worst

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

Just ask them "How do you think you got a tail bone?".

What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

davknight comments on May 18, 2019:

Nothing to read!

I would like to see trump humpers take a civics test.

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

Trump himself, would flunk a civics test!

[yahoo.

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

Trump is unwittingly speeding up the arrival of the Inflation phase of the Capitalist cycle. The Inflationary phase precedes the arrival of Recession, followed by Depression. If the economy goes into Recession, Trump will probably blame Obama, or the Democrats.

[yahoo.com] Trump says he doesn't want war with Iran but can he control war hawk John Bolton?

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

There is no leash long enough, to restrain John "Dr Strangelove" Bolton!

I'm curious to know if some of you can't help themselves saying " Thank God" or Oh my God", even ...

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

As a note of historical interest, the expression "goddamit" dates from the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), in which, French soldiers overheard English soldiers saying "godamned" so much, they nicknamed English troops "goddamns".

The best bubble gum ever.

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

When I was 5 or 6, we used to scour vacant lots for empty beer, and pop bottles. Then, we'd haul em up to a 'corner store' (in a little red wagon) to collect the deposit money. Next stop was the 'mom n pop' candy store, where we'd spend our newfound 'riches' on candy. Pretzels-3 for a penny. Licorice-2 for a penny, and my favorite-Bazooka Joe bubblegum, 1 penny each. (I loved to read the comic inside each one). Those were the days!

I'm curious to know if some of you can't help themselves saying " Thank God" or Oh my God", even ...

davknight comments on May 17, 2019:

There is also: Dad Gum! Gull Dang! Gull Darnst! Dangit! Dang Me! Gull Darn! Gosh Darn! et. al., et. al., et. al.!

Jeff Koons 'Rabbit' Sells For $91 Million, A New Record For A Living Artist : NPR

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

Aint I seen that in Hobby Lobby?

Wow!!! Today is my one year anniversary being here with all you wonderful people.🤗😘

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

Congratulations! And we are happy you're here! Your posts always brighten up my day!

Why are agnostics and atheists so hostile to my non-theistic belief of theological noncognitivism?

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

Uh oh! I'm feeling zickle! I better find a place to take a splop!

Why are public high school curricula permitted to enforce professing the Shahada? [thomasmore.org]

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

This is downright dingbat! Schools should not allow fruitcakes of any religion to proselytize!

An old beer ad🍻😁

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

The beer that made Milwaukee famous, and gave millions of blue-collar workers enlarged livers (commonly known as "beer bellies"), and/or chirrhosis of the liver!

Trump is always giving "nicknames" to people he doesn't like.

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

The Bellowing Orange Hippopotamus Trumpty Dumbty Orange Stupid Baby Huey Orange Dumbo Donnie Two Tongues Donnie Double Tongues Orange Wingbat

Please welcome @Tooreen to the group. Let us know a bit of your Scottish connections.

davknight comments on May 16, 2019:

Failte!

Why do some people say "Warshington"?

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

Too bad there aint no Geordies in here, from northern England. They could really confuse y'all!

Why do some people say "Warshington"?

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

Ah say askeert insted of afeared! But I do call a crick a crick!

Why do some people say "Warshington"?

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

Mah next door neighbor is a hangin out her warshin awn the close line!

How many of you had one of these.

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

Yep! I had one of those. But the "cool" kids had ten-speeds!

I so miss these days, do you?🤗

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

Yup! I especially miss my marbles, which they say I lost long ago!

Why do some people say "Warshington"?

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

I encountered 'Warshintonians" when I lived in Colorado. Near as I kin figger, it comes from the waves of Dust Bowl refugees, who migrated to Californy, and then up the Pacific coast, following the agricultural jobs (esp. fruit-picking), until they ended up in "Warshinton". And yep. Southern English is one of the four main dialects of American English. The others are, General American, New England (" Bahston"), and Northeastern (" I gotta walk my doag"). Believe it or not, there are eleven sub-dialects of Southern English.

I don't care.

davknight comments on May 15, 2019:

I can remember paying $12-$15 per ounce, and $100-$150 per pound!

You can pick one horror movie villain/monster to defend you against all other horror movie ...

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

Leprechaun!

Just announced on CNN.

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

Oh, he's filthy rich alright! He just over-inflates his "losses", so he doesn't have to pay any taxes! Which just means he's one of the biggest tax cheats around!

✌ have a beautiful day🤗

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

I think I'll roll around in the grass, and get some of these twigs outta my fur!

If given the choice, would you want to live forever?

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

I'd love to live forever, if just to see all the changes that take place. Also, I'd be able to travel to planets in other solar systems, and galaxies!

It's my birthday!!!

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

Happy Birthday! May you live a hundred years! And may you drink ten-thousand beers!

The American Dream Is Killing Us - Mark Manson - Pocket

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

The "American Dream" is mostly a Cold War invention, designed to make people in Third World countries hanker for Capitalism. But if ever there was a real American Dream, it was the desire of early Americans to own their own land, and not have to work for anyone but themselves.

A little memory from Detroit 1964.

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

"cheap whiskey, and 10,000 camels"--Love it!

My great grandmother was a McDonald.

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

Welcome!

Well I never, have you?

davknight comments on May 14, 2019:

Zingers were pretty good. Although, I don't recall ever seeing the 'designer' Peanuts package edition.

Wow! The deepest ever dive into the ocean - and they found new life forms as well as sweet wrappers ...

davknight comments on May 13, 2019:

One day, a new species will emerge from the deep--a jellyfish-plastic bag hybrid, of gargantuan size!