Decided to just sit quietly on my front veranda yesterday afternoon and enjoy the bit of sun that ...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

It's really a comment on Humanity that, if a horse goes lame, we put it out of it's misery. If a person goes lame, we just allow them to keep dumping on everyone else. How very pro-life of us...

My bet is from the looks of his background in the picture is he is living in his mommy's basement ...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

(Gaydar beeping...) (Just your run-of-the-mill sexually repressed Christian) (If he weren't gay, he be extolling Incel)

Reminds me of the name game.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

What an ennobling bit of pareidolia!!

Been true for a long time

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

Not voting to protect your own rights is bullshit (along with helping an utterly unfit, degenerate psychopath to become president).

'Buffalo shooting' reached the UK across the pond.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

I am desensitized (somewhat) and resigned. I am not afraid of being a victim of a mass-shooting because the odds are against it. That's the best excuse I've got. My understanding is the US has about one multiple/mass murder per day, and two police murders per day. My estimate is the mass shooting rate has doubled in the last 5 years. But it may not be that bad. Shootings spiked and peaked during Trump's term, but sources seem to use different definitions. One source (Statista) lists 10 incidents in 2019 while CBS lists 417. Rand reports on this variation, but it's safe to bet that a higher number will be more accurate. https://www.statista.com/statistics/811487/number-of-mass-shootings-in-the-us/ https://everytownresearch.org/maps/mass-shootings-in-america/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shootings-2019-more-than-days-365/

A client of mine posted this meme on social media this morning.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

It'd be great if people would be like that. However, our capitalism motivates people to be assholes. They make money from being assholes. They make money from encouraging others to be assholes. Plus, a lot of people have fucked up wiring. They get a thrill from kicking down. They like yelling and lying. They want drama, and will be as obnoxious as they have to be until they get it. What we need is are ways to profoundly change these people's minds and behavior. We have to do it forcibly because they are not about to volunteer.

1 million deaths Remembering the lives lost to COVID-19 in America [axios.com]

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

250,000 died needlessly because of politicized vaccine resistance (per Fauci).

When homophobes say, "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2022:

WTF?

The ultimate Sunday snack!

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

Blood and body to go...

I recently met with an old friend of the last 59 years.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

I think Fox is amping up its psy-ops and the Trumpers are literally going crazy now. They have completely lost it in the last two weeks.

There must be something in the water. [m.youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

They have sold their brains to Fox. Shame on these assholes for continuing to pretend they're human. This is why democracy is a joke.

How should Putin the Putrid be made to suffer for all the pain, misery and death that he has ...

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

It can't be done.

Julian Assange said this

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

Acting by helping totalitarian dictators? Thanks for the help, asshole.

What Christian album made you come back to good ol' rock n ' Roll?

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

While working in the garage of a business, one day I heard the sound of plastic stuff being smashed. I went outside and a guy from the carpet business next door was smashing CD's and cassettes with a hammer. I asked him what he was doing and he said that this was demonic music and needed to be destroyed. Then I asked why he didn't just pitch in the trash? He replied that he wanted to be sure no one fished it out. Psychotic. Religion makes you psychotic. Period.

Disconnect 😆✨

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

I've had to say goodbye to a friend. I've known him more than 50 years, and we had many adventures. He has gone Trumpy, so much so that all he can do is scream Fox talking points into the phone. Maybe he's just acting out because he's close to passing. Even so, the friend I've known all these years has gone. Maybe I'm not who I used to be, but no, he's the one that changed. His fondness for guns drew him in. It's hard to say goodbye to someone you basically love. Motherfucking Trump and God damn Fox and Putin.

This is exactly what those bastards want to do.

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2022:

Instituting theocracy by abolishing the wall of separation is very early on.

It is not the same Where is Voice of America?

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2022:

I expect it's a lot worse than that.

If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2022:

The ultra-wealthy could easily be taxed a few more percent and provide the needs of children. But, this is Murka and having more money than you can spend is sacred to the bribed politicians.

And yet, here WE are Again!!!

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2022:

Six years too late...

The Greatest Things Anyone Has Ever Achieved While On Drugs

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2022:

Except that while Moses didn't exist, maybe others in that time used mushrooms. I doubt the Old Testament would be as it is if much mushroom use was going on.

“You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2022:

Martyred by her own people to interrupt the news cycle. SOP: Blame the Israelis.

Do you like looking at the clouds?

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2022:

I think those are bimbo cirrus...

Well the Christfool numb-nuts received my written costs estimate regarding repairing his wood-heater...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Don't do it.

The one on the right is, by far, the deadlier of the two. [who.int]

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Can we recall that the Saudis control the price of oil, and this is the treatment we get after supporting their ugly war in Yemen. And we should have assassinated Maduro yesterday.

CALL TO ACTIVISM on Twitter: "Should Senate Majority Leader Schumer REMOVE Joe Manchin from his ...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

They need to call his bluff and give him the stripped down version of a codified Roe. Or, they can limp along to the election thinking that this issue will finally bring women out to vote.

Free yourself from a fixed mindset.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Non-white races and ethnicities vary regarding their judgment of appearance, and may be less inclined to discard one based on appearance. Appearance is a major issues White women use for not accepting a man. Being with a different ethnicity presents other challenges for relationships.

Delaware Attorney General's Office call for investigation into alleged profiling of lacrosse team

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Makes one wonder how often they plant it. Seriously, marijuana? Horrors!!!! Where the Fuck is Joe Biden?

Why should this guy get a "last meal"? [yahoo.com]

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

I hope they're absolutely certain they have the right guy, and not arranging a legal lynching. If he is guilty, I hope he chokes. Get it the hell over with already.

Awwwe..... Why was this omitted from the story?

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

I always wondered why they called her Snow White. (As if pallor was an feature)

How did it take me so long to figure out that the reason the grandfather on Ozark looks so familiar ...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Does he still have that giant mole?

Disturbing video shows Russian troops shooting unarmed civilians in the back.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Russian soldiers have been given orders to rape. Footage out of Bucha shows a pile of bodies in a basement, with an infant less than three with her hands tied behind her back, then shot in the head. The murder of civilians is genocide, which is especially ugly given most of the victims are ethnic Russians.

Thursday morning cuteness...All them beanie's

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

"Cats with extra toes have them because of a genetic mutation that often results in a dominant gene being shared down a family tree. If one parent is polydactyl, odds are good that at least some of their children will also be polydactyl."

Naomi Judd died of self-inflicted firearm wound, Ashley Judd reveals - CNN

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

I lost my aunt that way. The firearm was a shotgun, and what was left was discovered by her grandson. This shouldn't happen given the remedies available for depression, but the ideation of suicide is singularly distinct with some imbalances, i.e. coming off some SSRIs. I had a coworker who, even though religious, came off Prozac and felt compelled to kill his wife and then himself. Years later I saw my coworker describe it all on an anti-depressant propaganda video by Scientology.

When I use the word “purpose” please interpret it as a scientific function, not a philosophical ...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Not enough people CAN understand Entropy to make it useful as a societal purpose. Thus, there can be no link between entropy and societal injunctions. Particles that travel backwards in time reduce entropy. Nothing is or can be blasphemous. One interesting area is how many phenomena develop harmonies while seeming to be otherwise unconnected. This may happen at lower levels using entanglement. Perhaps that also gives the appearance of decreasing entropy. Delta-G = Delta-H - T times delta-S (In my Nucleic Acids class, the prof asked us to explain that equation in a quiz before actually covering it in class, just to gage our level of understanding. )

Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

That picture has to be at least 26,000 years old... What do you look like now???

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 5/12/2022 President Joe Biden nominated new members of the U.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

More than a year into Biden's administration and what has he done? How can he expect credibility on other issues while he screws this up?

Biden: Same-sex marriage next if Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Contraception is next along with health care, Church-state Separation, LBGTQ rights, democracy. The whole country is on the line.

Religion Heard a quick bit on NPR and thought I’d look this up as it is sooo insane.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

A junket paid for by suckers; what could be more rich?

Most of us have a bad habit we are constantly trying to break.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

My bad habit is coming on this site.

In Palestine, to stand with the truth makes you a target – Mondoweiss

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Except that Al Jazeera went with calling Akleh's death an assassination without evidence much less proof. That's what passes for journalism at Al Jazeera. The Arabs made sure that there'd be no evidence showing how she was killed by her own people. Anything to distract from the terror campaign being waged against Israel. Let's remember that only Arabs are allowed to assassinate Arab journalists like Khashoggi, with the charming touch of sawing apart his body. Is that the Wahhabist Islam way?

I say heck with it, lets just get the divorce! They can call their country trumpkanistan or ...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2022:

Can you imagine how well off we'd be financially if we didn't have blood-sucking red leeches stealing our wealth? What people won't understand is that the U.S. doesn't just have one coup going on. It's got several. It is a multi-pronged attack on women, non-whites, LBGTQ, science, education... and it's coming from MAGAs, Christian Nationalists, racist militias, SCOTUS, FOX and PUTIN. And while Ukraine may be winning, as the U.S. burns, so does the Earth.

Pretty sure you're not doing it right if you're licking stubble

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

You forget the smell. Maybe more like a blowfish covered with cottage cheese?

Justice Sotomayor suggest SCOTUS won’t survive the stench if Roe vs Wade is overturned.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

It is nominally fair for her to warn her fellow justices. I really am surprised as how stupid these people are. Did they not realize that tampering with Roe would paint a bullseye on their backs? Do they not remember Prohibition? I can guarantee that their ruling won't stand, even if it might take some time. The ruling will not stop abortions, but will simply drive them underground.

Israel Shares Video Showing Palestinian Did Not Kill Journalist

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

Except that no one knows who shot her and the Arabs won't allow an autopsy. Not that anyone really cares once the narrative have been contrived. Maybe come back when we're not as busy with real issues.

How many of you watch or have watched the new Discovery, Picard, and the newest one Strange New ...

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

I'm a fan. I've been watching the snippets on youtube. I'm not sure it's worth watching the whole thing. It's a bit painful to watch Patrick Stewart, but we're all getting older. Also, the story skips around so badly, it's hard to be invested. And, yes, I totally resent all these paywalls. The one thing I especially miss from the original series is the complete lack of serious music. I guess the level of action doesn't allow for moments of suspense. I'm betting it's only of interest to fans like myself, and then, barely. Pretty much nothing memorable. All the more kudos to Roddenberry.

Why is the church failing in the West?

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

Too many reasons, too little time. Answers: it's bullshit, sexually repressive, hateful against everyone else, hypocritical, absolutist (except for child molester priests), cafeteria catholics, lying about accepting evolution, politically corrupt, murderous (but manages to be guilt free about that), and so much more. Even as writing this, I learn of a case of a fellow needing counseling because he was molested at 12. How about stealing hundreds of indigenous children in Canada, they treating them so badly that they are, only now, discovering mass graves behind churches. In this country, we have SCOTUS packed with Catholics who can wait to destroy millions of lives.

I feel a chill. Do you feel a chill?

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

How many women were already frigid? Cause and effect?

Wise beyond his years

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

Except for Pascal's Wager, which is utter bullshit.

Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin: 'Christ will reign' if I'm elected governor

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

Sickening. Sorry, but in my book, that behavior is entirely on par with pedophilia.

Having physical pain in the US means you don't always get what you want.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

Tennesee has severe cannabis laws, so THC concentrate is probably not an option. Becoming tolerant to the psychoactivity can seem problematic at first anyway. If that is somehow still an option, THC hits a lot of the same cells as opiates. A possible alternative may be large doses of CBD or hemp extract (in tincture). If CBD is available, you might try gradually taking more to see if you get any relief. Chaga extracts are also anti-inflammatory but be cautious in case the active agent includes an NSAID.

Why are atheists always so angry?

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

The United States has many enemies. Those who care know that Putin's stooge followed all Putin's suggestions to recover the lost election. Most of those schemes failed, but several only by chance and the residual honor of a few. Republicans are still preparing to subvert the next election, and most people understand this as an extension of Trump's conspiracies. The SCOTUS decision is only the opening shot in the coming Christian Nationalist Coup. This is a theocratic coup that's been in the works for decades, and, again, has significant support from Russia.

This is how authoritarian regimes start. [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2022:

You cannot shame those incapable of feeling it. GQP are proud of their Nazi heritage and embrace it. GQP are proud of Putin's beachhead because winning at all costs is what matters. What's a little treason; it was good enough for Trump...

Help my co-workers are too hot.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

I stick post-its over unwanted faces.

Fuk You 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 I wish you'll be dead now!!!!!!! ...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

To what can anyone attribute such unmitigated stupidity?

There's no better example of dogmatic thinking in some atheists.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

How is that response dogmatic? (Since you so often make a point of falsely claiming atheists are as dogmatic as Christians). (Posting bullshit is not a valid answer, except in your case).

Yeah, that's her all right.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

That's when he unzips and uses his laser pointer.

Can someone explain their logic to me?

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

Another asinine line (of these motherfucking racist pricks) is that being pro-choice is racist because non-whites get abortions more than whites. I got that one from a Fox cretin today.

I would never disturb

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

I think she's had enough. Have mercy...

That doesn't seem to have helped.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

And I wish (pray) every night that they ALL die of a heart attack. Isn't that sweet?

I have not been pregnant

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

IS: MAYBE ; S/B: MAY BE

I have been warning....

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

Yeah, it's called a marriage license.

Are we losing our freedom of religion in America?

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

The problem is that reality does not agree with personhood starting with conception. Identical twins start as a single fertilized egg, but the multicelled blastocyst becomes divided (for whatever reason) to become two blastocysts with genetically identical personhoods. The same issue for allophenic people. In that case two genetically different blastocysts fuse to become a single blastocyst with two different genetic complements. On the other hand, one could make the argument that the fetus is not even human, recalling that embryogenesis replays all the genetic coding developed for more primitive forms, and that the actual exclusively human coding doesn't kick in until fairly late in development.

For Tens of Millions of Americans, the Good Times Are Right Now

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

Usually when times aren't shitty is about the time when it goes back to being shitty. I'm OK for right now except for my health, but that's what matters.

Gallows...well actually, morgue humor.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

...Still stiff during sex...

He don't like bs

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

IS: ALRADY ; S/B: ALREADY

One Way Or The Other

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

And be assured that when one is praying on their knees, they are wondering what blessing they will get for blowing god.

Over 55 years ago, I was a high school teacher certified in both science and social studies.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2022:

So did you ever have a problem because of what you taught?

Very random,very mixed bag but all funny to me.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

"Skeptical? Well, you should be. Because this is in fact, a load of pure unadulterated BS concocted by a man named John Holladay. ...So, just to clear things up. The Veiled Lady, WILL NOT GIVE SPONTANEOUS ORGASMS TO ANY WOMAN WHO SMELLS IT. In fact, it actually smells quite horrible. Many compare its stench to rotting flesh or a decaying body. Some have even said it smells like semen." https://www.malamamushrooms.com/blogs/news/does-sniffing-this-mushroom-cause-spontaneous-female-orgasms#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20it%20actually%20smells,said%20it%20smells%20like%20semen.

Hi, I need a hug today from my fellow heathens.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Very sorry to hear of your country's corruption. Once it gets going, hardly anything short of revolution can stop it. The US is near death too and Putin's stooges get pennies to betray their country. Shame on the traitors who don't deserve life.

This was used for hair spray officially, but it had a multitude of uses.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Magicians would pay a pretty penny to buy a lotion, block or spray used to provide "roughing" to the backs of cards. At last, someone told me that clear matte spray worked, and that has been my go-to ever since.

“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

He would know.

How do religious people admit that their god creates more spontaneous abortions than all people put ...

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

And this is where the utter impracticality of anti-abortion laws: How does the government determine whether a fetus is aborted or miscarried? They would call all women out as felons...

Some morning's....

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Who the hell is that in the mirror? Do I know you?!

Okay so I managed, after he left sulking, to re-stocking the wood supply that is convenient to my ...

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Thanks for reporting that interesting reaction. You should try to see if the reaction repeats under similar circumstances.

I ended up indirectly blocking @FrayedBear by reporting him for a private message he seems to have ...

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

I blocked the moron early on. Sucks to be him.

Mary Trump Calls Susan Sarandon a Moron for Democrats Criticism

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Spot on.

“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting but by ...

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

Ayn Rand's tirades put into stark relief (as unintended parody) the hysterical hatred of communism, even though communism had fully given way to fascist kleptocracy and Stalin personality cult. Being completely self-deluded, Rand turned a blind eye to the many failures of capitalism, this quote being an excellent example. How many of the wealthy obtained their wealth honorably, paying fair wages and providing humane working conditions? Bias In, Bullshit Out. Q-anon is Rand's grandchild. With such inane support of corporations, Rand laid out a red carpet to support the fascism (and abuse of power) she meant to hate.

Trump has lawsuit against Twitter tossed out for failure to meet his burden of evidence.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2022:

In my utopia, a wealthy person who engages in frivolous lawsuits would have progressively stiffer CRIMINAL penalties assessed.

Exhilarating!!! America could be under total rightwing dictatorship by 2030, Canadian professor ...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

2025

Thems Good Eatin

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

They had a scene where he eats a cow, but they cut it out.

Good Morning Everyone

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

It is and has always been pure gimmick, a schtick, a con, to corral the sheep and fleece them.

Your neighboors and allies are worried.

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

I wish the rest of the world would embargo the Red States and let that choice be known.

The Kingsmen : Haunted Castle [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

I'm sure they had good music-making intentions before they put this out.

Judge Says Marjorie Taylo

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

More, straight up corruption, placing loyalty to party ahead of truth and justice. The judge becomes a party to Greene's sedition.

How the CDC bought YOUR data to enforce lockdown: Health agency paid firm $420,000 to track tens of ...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

The bigger issues is who is actually abusing their power right now. Let's stick with actual threats; there are plenty we aren't dealing with.

Defense Department tried to block Esper from revealing in book that Trump floated launching missiles...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

We need to identify that partisan and eject them from their position. Favoring party over country is a bad look (violates their oath, demonstrates their unfitness to serve).

Democrats are going to lose in 2022 and 2024....

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

Thanks for the encouragement...

Just a reminder that the majority opinion in Roe v.

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2022:

Sinking Roe is the U.S. Mockva. It is very much Moscow's counterattack in a culture war it has funded for 20-plus years (along with anti-LBGTQ, anti-Semitic, and pro-Gun propaganda...). Putin has fostered (with pennies) connections with American churches, fighting a proxy war inside the U.S. Our UnCivil War is the result, along with rampant corruption, sedition and right-wing militias.

I'm going to try to stay offline for the next week. And I'll fail miserably...

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

We'll be sure to talk about you until you come back. (Then we'll ignore you as usual) (Just kidding.)

STENTORIAN.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

And an interesting organism, Stentor coeruleus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stentor_coeruleus

I want my freedom

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

And I demand the right to employ legitimate political discourse against bigots and fascists.

Ted Cruz Declares To The Nation, “I’m Not A Moron.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

Maybe not a moron, exactly, but definitely 100% asshole.

The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

By being so focused, SCOTUS correctly pins a bullseye on churches as real enemies of the people.

Pro-abortion groups target churches for Mother's Day protests | Fox News

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

Got your C4 ready?

This illegitimate SCOTUS is the direct result of this illegitimate "president".

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

Abortion is only a gimmick for the GQP. Look to see Roe's destruction quickly followed by contraception, gay marriage, education, and freedom of religion and speech.

New Rule: The Misinformation Age | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

Once again, Maher figures he can build bridges to conservative fascists with his Fox talking points, and uses Fox lies to do it. Maher's integrity is on par with SCOTUS.

If respect for the Constitution is an American attribute, then the MAGA crowd is fundamentally ...

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

They are FAKE Americans, and all too often, Putin-Americans. Favoring fascism and theocracy is definitely anti-American.

Liberals are not looking to dominate anybody. We just want fair treatment for EVERYBODY.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

To those accustomed to arrogant brutality and abuse, behaving in a civil manner is interpreted as weakness and feels oppressive (reminds one of their sexual inadequacy). At this point, I would kinda like to do some dominating.

When parenting got a little complicated

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

As we always knew, god is a motherfucker. (That one anyway is for sure)

Does anyone still have wire coat hangers?

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2022:

Time to come up with something better that can be sold on Amazon/Ebay. Or a better abortifacient.