Freedom is wasted on those who would take it from others.

racocn8 comments on Jun 7, 2022:

(In the Star Trek immediate future, we're just about to have eugenics corporations develop GMO humans that start WWIII...) I think it might be more like Hand Maid's Tale crossed with Red Dawn, with the Evangelicals taking the part of the Russians, and that crossed with Soylent Green.

"To dismiss religion without being aware of the evidence is to do the same thing so many religious ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 7, 2022:

The problem with trolls throwing shit at a wall to see what will stick is that it is the same old shit that has been tossed forever. And they know that, but being a troll means being a mediocrity and spewing mediocrities for the sake of ATTENTION and DRAMA. We should have sympathy for such pathetic people, more so because their insecurity means they cannot be educated. They're looking for validation, rather than truth.

Anyone who suggest that the founding fathers wanted to enable private militias with weapons so that...

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Up to the point where Trump is re-elected, the country is turned into a Russian client-state, and Christianity is made mandatory.

Self accident

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Total loss...

Proud Boys leader and top members charged with seditious conspiracy over January 6.

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Don't be cheering until they're sentenced. So far, nothing but the silliest of wrist-slaps have been meted out for sedition, assault, etc. Now if they were carrying weed, it'd be 20 years for sure.

People need to remind today's Republican politicians that in the good old days of the 1950s, if a ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

With any luck, the Catholic SCOTUS will mandate open-carry nationwide. Hopefully, that will bring out the voters (but I'm not holding my breath. ). Expect to see militias turn out with rifles around polling places.

Anyone, citizen or Supreme Court judge, who even suggests that our founding fathers would have ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

For the Christian GQP, as long as mass shootings target and thus intimidate their opposition, they are (secretly) good with it.

I met my boyfriend at the Senior Center.

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Sorry to hear it.

Do you like sculptures?

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Where is that?

AS THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA GOES ON.

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

The body count is more than twice what the MSM reports. Frankly, I suspect Ukraine's number is closer to truth. (So shame on the MSM?)

I have rarely ever commented on social media, but Republicans are burning my ass right now and I ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

This isn't about guns. It's about fascist Christians having found a way to intimidate the rest of the population without consequences. We can either live with the threat of death every day, everywhere, or take them on.

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 6/6/2022 Former Attorney General Eric Holder said legalizing marijuana...

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

What the hell was Holder doing while he was AG?

A mom takes her daughter to the doctor The doctor says, “Okay, what seems to be the problem?

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Or the doctor is looking out the window to hide his reaction.

Former GOP congressman: Jan. 6 was an "attempted coup" by Trump

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

The problem is that evoking hate, however nonsensically, is stimulating to the cretins in the middle as well as the fascist Christians. They'd rather listen to bullshit than engage their brain to understand the threat they're helping. Trump exploited every possible means to stage his coup. Only those devoted to blindness don't know what happened.

Life can be funny at times but we need to apply wisdom

racocn8 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

I came up with four "Ahs" , an incomplete categorization of basic notable experiences. 1. Ha-Ha - Humor and paradox 2. Ah-ha - the satisfaction of seeing a relationship, as when grasping a proof. 3. Ahhh - Letting go of self and ego, also, extending oneself into a machine (as automatic driving) 4. Hah! - The sense of wonder and perception of beauty

Inspiration......

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Except that the phrase is most commonly used by Qanon.

Now think about it.

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

That would be a broken mirror with a shitload of bad luck for everyone.

This was a rather large gopher snake in my garden this morning.

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

I had a 5 footer as a pet for years. Once, on a field trip, saw a 7 footer that had been run over. Amazing but sad to see such a beautiful specimen. Your catch looks to be about that size.

We first sent men to the moon over fifty years ago.

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

"I swear, Alice, someday, someday, 'wham' to the Moon..."

I find myself wondering how a suicide or self murder as it is called in Scotland of a prominent ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Suicidal ideation is a very specific neuro-chemical condition. I encountered it by accident and was stunned at how uncharacteristic it was, but there nonetheless. Because of this experience, I am sorry to hear about this behavior which clearly represents an imbalance that can be treated. I had a coworker whose father killed her mother and then himself. He had been a Christian preacher, but I surmise he stopped taking an SSRI and had the same reaction as myself. I later saw her (my coworker) on a Scientology documentary denouncing psychiatric drugs.

"Do you support new gun laws in the wake of this Texas shooting?

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Clearly the wrong people are being shot.

Good Evening all The human that steals due to necessity.

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Please try harder.

So, I did a thing yesterday. I married someone I met online. We've been dating for three years.

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Congratulations.

You wouldn't know how I feel

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

I thought men weren't supposed to get pregnant? Let's hope a scientist figures out a remedy.

Who are the real Nazis? [msn.com]

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Then as now, the so-called (utterly fake) Christians won't say a peep about the ugly bigotry shouted from the pulpits, nor from the political podiums. Even with the survival of the country at stake, the media won't even whisper that this Christian fascism will shortly win, if only by corruption and murderous force.

We did not have social media

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

After decades of estrangement, my Dad and my aunt made up. In a letter to my Dad, my aunt chided him for pushing her off her bicycle when she was 12. Shame on him doing that, but shame on her for holding onto it for so long. But they're both gone now...

The Little ones Look at the little ones With tears in their eye Running from their school ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

This is the cost of Christian fascists making the rules. Ain't 'democracy' great?

Condiment come out...

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Hint: Mayonnaise delivers the mail.

White Christian Nationalism Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

The U.S. has completely forgotten Nazi Germany (on purpose).

Right now, I cannot express how much I loathe string trimmers and how I resent my dependence on ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

The tangling can be infuriating. Do some research and buy a different brand.

Bakery hygiene is important, but spelling wins out here!

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

While I consider my spelling to be OK, I've seen much brighter people with much poorer spelling. Go figure...

Yes. 😆

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Ah, the anthropic principle at work...

So.... god isn't all powerful?

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

God sure looks to be gay...

School officials dragged autistic child several hundred feet – then tried to delete evidence: ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Nashville? That figures. Yep, not a good look.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think.

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

And doubt is not allowed within faith...

Does anyone believes in life after death or has ever been to the after life and still lives today?

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

It is comforting to imagine reincarnation or an afterlife. However, one can be certain that it's self-deception, and not actionable.

Senior Trump Administration advisor Peter Navarro first defied a congressional subpoena to testify ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Utter BULLSHIT that DOJ won't indict Meadows and Scavino. If we don't have a functioning justice system, we don't have a government. Basically, the DOJ is giving up on its mandate. Good bye USA. You've probably been an illusion for decades. Now the shit really flies as the vultures line up to pick the bones....

Pachyderm pivot, mammoth mendacity, elephantine evasion 🦣

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Being dishonest is THE integral feature for owning the libs. It is an exploitation of the double standard that distinguishes the two parties, and what disproves the false equivalence (again, dishonestly) claimed against both parties (typically by the extreme progressives who 'unintentionally' help the GQP).

A meme that explains the NRA.

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

It's pointed the wrong way.

Ohio GOP Thinks Requiring That Getting Your Kid's Genitals Checked To 'Own The Libs' Is Totally Fine...

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

So while a few trans biological males are prevented from taking scholarships that were meant to go to young biological women, this article complains about school shootings. Meanwhile, Roe is overturned along with gay marriage, the wall of separation, contraception and all the rest. This is a cultural civil war and the cause of freedom is losing. The video seems both rational and thoughtful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9YAFYIBOU

On the PBS Newshour tonight, New York Times columnist David Brooks opined that for Republicans, ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

And, much more often than not, the shootings serve the GOP purpose of intimidating minorities that lean democrat. Students, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, and LBGTQ that the GOP would like to disenfranchise, also happen to be the targets of mass shooters. How convenient!!

Coming fast... not just soon

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

So the Captain shoots the turds as she flings them at him? (Kinda like at the zoo?)

And I support this post.

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

...and replaced !!!

How conservatives work

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

As I said Christian Americans are neither Christian nor American.

Somebody not happy with Christians

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Save the bales...

Eric Swalwell gives the single BEST speech shredding Republicans you’ll ever hear [youtube.

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Mass murders serve the purposes of the Evangelical White Supremacists. Christian Nationalists have a stranglehold on the GQP, and THESE SHOOTINGS SERVE THEIR INTERESTS in intimidating those deemed as lesser (democrats).

"There is too much to do" is a terrible excuse for doing nothing.

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

And yet our media seem configured to waste our time and overwhelm our ability to focus.

'Quit filibustering it': Republican's town hall heats up over gun laws

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

I don't think you can meaningfully claim this is coming from the Baby Boomers. Do you have any arguments to support the assertion? Certain very few of the shooters are Baby Boomers.

Here's what will work

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Sorry, but no. It only takes ONE person to mess up a relationship.

Letters From An American 06/02/2022

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Where the hell is the DOJ?

Fox News Tried to Blame Weed for the Uvalde Mass Shooting

racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

And yet many who support cannabis decriminalization think that GQP are their friends, if only because the GQP is prevalent in rural states. Only a few GQP support cannabis, and that's only if they think they can make some money off of it.

It's JUNE!

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Guess which one's a virgin?

Hope you have your sunglasses on.

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Is that like a skinned elephant seal or what?

Try not to look too long, or cringe too deeply

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Makes perfect sense to me. As long as it works...

Avoiding work and workers.

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Yeah, me at work, a smiling, bug-eye chihuahua doing all I can to keep from going into an ankle-biting frenzy.

Thursday morning cuteness

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Looks like Beelzebub to me...

I have no need to lampoon Marjorie Taylor Greene as she lampoons herself in a most spectacular ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

I swear, every time a Republican pulls their head out of their ass, for just a moment (and it's always only for a moment), the whole of the MSM jumps up and down shouting "look at that, look at that"!!!!

Time to bring back the Darwin Awards.

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

I was hiking near the Catalina Island isthmus and thought to take a shortcut down a ravine. I was down a ways and saw a clearing ahead of me. Sitting in the middle was a mature male bison. I was unsure of any other way around, so I decided to go back up to the crest and continue down what would hopefully be a safer path.

Investigation Scorecard XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX MUELLER INVESTIGATION Purpose: investigate Russian ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

What is amazing is how so many people are readily brainwashed to believe the Russian/GQP version of events, and make up utter bullshit to support their beliefs. Mueller's Report lays it all out, and if one believes it was a Democrat conspiracy, simply arm-wave it away. However, no small number of these people are trolls who are addicted to the infamy of repeating asinine lies. They even take pride in their immoral behavior. Sucks to be them.

There go your tax Dollars

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

Under Wray, who is an extremely Conservative partisan, the FBI has no interest in stopping these shootings, any more than in stopping the Jan 6 coup nor all the election subversion underway.

The shooting at Uvalde is bringing forth many concerns.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

You cannot expect White police officers to protect Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Muslim children (nor adults).

My dream list of national gun laws.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

You REALLY want to stop mass shooting? For every victim, burn a church. And make it clear which victim is being avenged.

It doesn't hold much and doesn't draw very well.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

Tell her she needs to up her dosage of anti-depressants.

The bottom line in this accounting: moral bankruptcy.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

Pro-life evangelicals love mass shootings, whose targets are almost always minorities they hate anyway, and whose shooters almost always hail from Christian Nationalism.

([nationofchange.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

When you see Trump, think Putin. Now imagine Putin embracing the American flag. He loves us like he loves his fellow Russians in Ukraine.

Southern California hit with water restrictions.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

The Arco refinery evaporates half a million barrels of water each day (21 million gallons) for cooling.

One perspective

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

Kudos to her for preserving her curiosity and sense of wonder.

A just released report added another, obvious, indictment of the tRump disaster.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Why make plans for the future when your cult believes the world will shortly end in apocalypse? Sanctioning insanity has it's drawbacks.

“You all look like idiots now”: Legal experts mock Trump after John Durham’s “big fat ...

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Another chapter closes on Trump's crime spree. What we really need is an investigation of Durham for his malfeasance.

Marjorie Taylor Greene states that there will be no straight people in the few years.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Yup. When I take power, I will delight in turning all the MAGA men into gays (many of them already are secretly), and then turn all the MAGA women into lesbians. Then I'm going to neuter the lot of them with my laser-driven zombies who will wield old rusty razor blades. Sadly, a few might survive.

Clinton campaign lawyer found not guilty on charge of lying to FBI in loss for Durham

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Shame on Biden, Wray and Garland for not shutting down Trump's vindictive farce (and this after more than a year of tax money wasted on partisan malfeasance). Durham should be demoted with a cut in pay and pension for this base violation of his oaths.

"And of all the things you do, Wayne LaPierre (director of NRA) thanks for your thoughts and ...

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Good luck selling sardonic humor in an auditorium filled with people who have no sense of humor (nor decency nor empathy nor humanity).

Must maintain....

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

The cross ruins it.

Gun manufacturers have always been the real money behind the NRA.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Don't forget Putin's contributions.

Arizona Can Kill Barry Jones, Supreme Court Rules

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

It's discouraging to be reminded so frequently of just how degenerate GQP partisans are once they are allowed into power. The partisan Catholic SCOTUS makes an ever better case to replace the unfit majority by whatever means necessary. And this time, it needs to be clear that precedents generated by this court will not be regarded as deserving of Stare Decisis.

How about a theme?

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:

Thank you Saudi Arabia.

It became his job

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

Get your taser ready. That chicken is resisting arrest...

What are your thoughts on the idea of "collective consciousness" as something we absorb not ...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

Some believe Remote Viewing taps into "collective consciousness". I'm skeptical.

What if 🙄🤔 A Harvard scientist has an interesting theory as to how our universe was formed: ...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

Hey, that's just a rip-off of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 wherein the Tralfamadorians said that in the future, they destroy the Universe in a laboratory.

Call the cardiologist

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

A man clutching his chest.

Hey heathens 😅 what do u think?! 😂😂😂

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

Nightmare Alley

I wonder if anyone with kids in school worries about this.

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

In my day, it was drills to 'duck and cover', and prepare to be roasted alive.

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy - TPM – Talking Points Memo

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

Except that the imbalance of wealth is much worse than it was in the 1980's when Reagan changed the tax code. People with billions wield their wealth/power incompetently and corrosively.

Hey yah heathens 😅 I got a question 😉 • When are you most receptive to critical feedback?

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2022:

A good time is shortly after I've been successfully productive for myself.

Something to share with your religious friends. One of mine shared it with me.

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

Modern Christianity in the U.S. has nothing to do with the Bible. (Nothing of significance) The cult of hate has no objections to the slaughter of Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, LBGTQ; only thoughts and prayers that are hypocritical and insincere. The latter come with a wink-and-a-not, reinforcing their psychopathic lack of shame. They secretly applaud these atrocities, supposing that these "others" belong in hell anyway. And, these massacres feed their warped notions of justice, seeing them as helpful in suppressing and intimidating the *others* who favor a secular government. And they have no issue with fostering the militia kooks and lone wolves who are encouraged by racism and bigotry. Where are the Christians who denounce their fellow *Christians* as the meme suggests? Crickets do I hear?

Democrats making fake hamburger meat for Bill Gates! Republican Rep.

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

Funny, but also sad, pathetic and dangerous. (Like the rest of the GQP)

Just looking about FTL flight and found this which I thought was interesting.

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

At least it seems to address the melt-down problems. I'm not at all sure how well helium would work as a heat exchange medium. If it becomes contaminated with radioactivity, it's likely it could be continuously scrubbed out, so again good (Unlike the molten sodium of other designs, which is also highly reactive chemically). Still, uranium daughter-product generation remains a politically insoluble problem.

Reading so much on this site, I have become interested in why a culture of fear and hate seems to be...

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

A large share of the mass murder events are in schools. Now what group has sought to defund and undercut public education? Does that group support politicians that prevent gun legislation which would reduce these atrocities? (Pro-life?!!!) And remember that a large share of the other mass murder targets are similarly denounced and hated from the pulpit: Blacks, Gays, Jews,... These mass murders serve the purposes of the Evangelical White Supremacists, and a goodly share of the shooters are racists or bigots. Christian Nationalists have a stranglehold on the GQP, and these shootings serve their interest in intimidating those deemed as lesser. Even with Biden as president, we have slipped into an authoritarian fascist state so long as the police departments side with the fascists/neo-Nazis (i.e. Kyle Rittenhouse).

Our son was a good kid

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

I never cease to be repulsed at how evil the Bible is, exhorting it's readers to hate ordinary people alongside psychopathic killers (many of whom are inspired by the Bible to BE psychopathic killers).

Do you believe in Fortune Cookies?

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

At last, a practical application... (Tastes like chicken...)

Well people think anyone who become atheist is because they are upset from God?

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

Nearly all the believers objections to atheists are made-up nonsense. I can't think of one that's legit.

To borrow an expression from novelist Margaret Atwood, I'd say that we are "doomed by hope".

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

It's more like fear and paranoia that drive elections. (The difference being whether that fear is legitimate or cynically stoked out of nothing).

Singapore 🇸🇬 A brewery in Singapore has taken the message of being environment friendly to ...

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

Scratch Singapore (or bring all my own water).

Hello heathens 😄 I got a question 😉 "cheesy kinda question but it would be cute to know that ...

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

I would travel back to when I first dated my ex and tell myself to look elsewhere.

Sorry, I'm on a tear this morning.

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

People of both sexes can be assholes. The trick is to not let it get to you. Some people WANT to be assholes. It may be harder to let that go, but that is still necessary.

'Enraging': Hayes On Dystopian Call To ‘Harden The Schools’ After Shootings - YouTube

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

Robb was hardened, and the police claim that slowed down their response, looking for a key to open the door.

Totally justified.... Lol

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:

I know someone who had the misfortune of going by the name: Howard Stern. They got all sorts of crank calls and even death threats.

I couldn't wait

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2022:

Looks 98% solved to me. But, the problem is just based on the car's name. The evaluation from zero to 1 looks confabulated. Shouldn't it be 0 to 60? And the 4x4 refers to the drive, not the name. Too much coffee...

In case I haven't convinced you to go vegetarian.

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2022:

The resemblance is uncanny. What is it?

From a friend on Facebook: I've seen a lot of people share a false equivalency about how we ...

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2022:

I've been reading some screeds where the posters continue to advocate Putin's talking points (in the face of dozens of documented civilian atrocities). That seems very similar to the gun advocates who continue to resist regulations approved by 90% of the rest of the citizenry. Like the Putin-stooges, they are intransigent (lacking empathy and critical thinking). The problem we face is that their world-view is indifferent to new events. They are completely committed to their views, and continue to support the corruption that endorses their position. Thus, half of Congress refuse to do the job they were elected to do. Indeed, they view their mandate to be obstruction and derision of anything from the democrats. Thus, we have no government, and without a government, we have no country. A civil war is upon us without the benefit of acknowledgment. The sedition that started Jan 6 is ongoing and the United States really doesn't exist anymore. It is a not-so-secret secession.