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Hello alll... I just bought a two peep carriage? Woohoo! I told sassy awhile ago..

t1nick comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Hmmm. Sounds like Christmas news? Congrats. Company for little Jillian. How's Frankie dealing with it?

exile in happy valley: The Panarchist Solution to a World Divided

t1nick comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Resembles a paradigm shift.

coprolite cop·ro·lite /ˈkäprəˌlīt/ noun a piece of fossilized dung Here’s a big one:...

t1nick comments on Dec 17, 2019:

This word was coined by paleontologist Marsh against his competitor and antagonist, paleontologist Copes. Basically Marsh was calling his arch enemy a dinosaur turd. Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. He was a founder of the Neo-Lamarckism school of thought. ... Cope had little formal scientific training, and he eschewed a teaching position for field work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drinker_Cope Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American paleontologist. He was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of new species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies. Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education thanks to the generosity of his wealthy uncle George Peabody. After graduating from Yale College in 1860 he traveled the world, studying anatomy, mineralogy and geology. He obtained a teaching position at Yale upon his return. From the 1870s to 1890s he competed with rival paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in a period of frenzied Western American expeditions known as the Bone Wars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othniel_Charles_Marsh

Please post only uncommon words and their meanings.

t1nick comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I heard Michael Schiff use this word last night on an interview. I knew the word previously, but wasn't sure of origin. According to Stormy Daniel's tell all book, this word accurately describes Trump's manhood. scin·til·la /sinˈtilə/ noun noun: scintilla; plural noun: scintillae; plural noun: scintillas a tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling. "a scintilla of doubt" Similar: particle iota jot whit atom speck bit trace ounce shred crumb morsel fragment grain drop. spot mite tittle jot or tittle modicum hint touch suggestion whisper suspicion smidgen smidge tad stim scantling scruple Origin late 17th century: from Latin. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+scintilla&oq=define+scintilla=chrome..69i57j0l3.12063j1j7=ms-android-verizon=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Why do some men think women should be attracted because they are?

t1nick comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Most men are legends in their own minds. Due to traditional roles that men have been inculcated into, mens egos are unnecessarily vulnerable. The fear of rejections often causes men to overi-inflate their assets, to the point that they eventually actually believe their own press. It's not right, but given the old pervasive culture, it happens all too often.

Update: some sites for co-parenting - modamily.

t1nick comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Gender does not determine who is or is not a good parent. How many children have been irreparably damaged by parents who remained together because they feared social stigma or feared leaving g their undeserving spouse. Two men, two women, or a communal situation (as long as it's not a cult and all parties are well known and vetted), can be very good parents. As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child.

Mike Huckabee Argues LGBTQ People Are ‘Biggest Threat’ To American Morality | Michael Stone

t1nick comments on Dec 15, 2019:

I personally fear that men like Huckabee and Santorum are far more dangerous with their hypocrisy and hate given the size of the audience they are able to reach.

Peripeteia noun A sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary ...

t1nick comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Are peripeteia and perapetetic related. Roots appear slightly different, but in general sense they seem that they could have once been related?

Good morning

t1nick comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Now that's one sexy ride! Lol

14000 years old bison’s sculpture found in Le Tuc d’Audoubert cave.

t1nick comments on Dec 14, 2019:

Cool

Rather a new and different set of thoughts on cave-art and it's many ramifications - I'm not sure I ...

t1nick comments on Dec 14, 2019:

Intetesting article. A bit to many assumptions and unsubstatiable conclusions.

As often as I have brought this up with believers I have never had a lucid response. ?

t1nick comments on Dec 14, 2019:

Interesting observation. Given the significance that Christians attach to Pontius Pilot and the role of the Roman Empire in Judea, it is significant that no mention exists.

Esculent adjective suitable for use as food; edible.

t1nick comments on Dec 14, 2019:

es·cu·lent /ˈeskyələnt/ FORMAL adjective adjective: esculent fit to be eaten; edible. noun noun: esculent; plural noun: esculents a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten. Origin: early 17th century: from Latin esculentus, from esca ‘food’, from esse ‘eat’. https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNSEkr7CWv6f-POAONDQL7v5ubNHCw%3A1576334222592=hp&ei=jvP0Xb_7IYb9-gSmnaSACA&q=define+esculent&oq=define+esculent=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.3..0i70i249j0i22i30l6.3091.9861..11623...1.0..0.999.11414.5-3j12....2..0....1.......8..35i362i39j46i362i39j35i39j0i67j46i131j0j0i131j46j35i39i70i249j0i10.cLJba-sjRno

RECURSIVE--Characterized by repetition of a rule, principle.

t1nick comments on Dec 13, 2019:

re·cur·sive /rəˈkərsiv/ adjective adjective: recursive characterized by recurrence or repetition. MATHEMATICS•LINGUISTICS relating to or involving the repeated application of a rule, definition, or procedure to successive results. "this restriction ensures that the grammar is recursive" COMPUTING relating to or involving a program or routine of which a part requires the application of the whole, so that its explicit interpretation requires in general many successive executions. "a recursive subroutine" Origin late 18th century (in the general sense): from late Latin recurs- ‘returned’ (from the verb recurrere ‘run back’) + -ive. Specific uses have arisen in the 20th century. https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon=ACYBGNS3UDsk7v2cxVqEPWA4unfvxTzqUA%3A1576244014925&ei=LpPzXcb8N8LY-wTly5noAg&q=define+recursive&oq=fefine+recursive=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.1.0.0i13i70i249j0i13l7.4655.12761..13681...1.0..3.253.4904.0j24j4......0....1.......8..35i39j0j35i362i39j0i131j46j0i273j46i67j0i67j46i131j46i275j0i10j46i10j35i305i39j35i304i39.YFlEH_pDwBc

A dinosaur tale! [bbc.com]

t1nick comments on Dec 13, 2019:

If I remember correctly, the sparrow is the closest extant species directly related to the true dinosaur lineage (i.e. Dinosauria -Saurischia).

It is impossible to believe a person (a man named 'Jesus,' for instance) did what is described in ...

t1nick comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Given the time in history, most events were passed on orally. Oral transmission is a common method for many cultures to keep important items alive. Oral transmission is subject to the tellers memories and personal embellishments.

Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back | FiveThirtyEight

t1nick comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Some background and the 538 website: FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college,[538 1] was founded on March 7, 2008 as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online. It was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus. FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college,[538 1] was founded on March 7, 2008 as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online. It was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus. In April 2018, it was announced that FiveThirtyEight would be transferred to ABC News (which, as with ESPN, is also part of The Walt Disney Company). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight Pictures of Nate Silver and the 538 logo

lumpenproletariat lum·pen·pro·le·tar·i·at /ˌləmpənˌprōləˈterēət/ noun Coined by...

t1nick comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Oh you mean Trump supporters. Lol

SEMINAL--(Of a work, person, event) Strongly influencing what comes later. Related to semen

t1nick comments on Dec 12, 2019:

sem·i·nal /ˈsemənl/ adjective adjective: seminal 1. (of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments. "his seminal work on chaos theory" Similar: influential formative groundbreaking pioneering original creative innovative imaginative productive major important Opposite: irrelevant unimportant 2. relating to or denoting semen. Similar: spermatic sperm seed spermatozoal spermatozoan BOTANY relating to or derived from the seed of a plant. Origin late Middle English (in seminal (sense 2)): from Old French seminal or Latin seminalis, from semen ‘seed’. seminal (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+seminal&oq=define+seminal=chrome..69i57j0l3.6749j1j7=ms-android-verizon=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

PULCHRITUDE.

t1nick comments on Dec 12, 2019:

My thought as well. Such a dichotomy between sound and meaning.

The Indian Land Claimed in the Name of a (Baby) God | OZY

t1nick comments on Dec 10, 2019:

Some background on OZY online: Ozy (styled OZY) is an international media and entertainment company launched in September 2013 by former CNN and MSNBC news anchor, journalist, and businessman Carlos Watson and Goldman Sachs alum Samir Rao. Ozy's headquarters is in Mountain View, California, and it also has an office in New York City, as well as staff reporters and correspondents across the globe, including Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Toronto, New Delhi, Kiev, Paris, London, Cape Town, Lagos and Mexico City. As of 2018, Ozy claimed an audience of 3 million subscribers and a monthly reach of over 40 million Ozy has branched out since its inception as an online magazine to become a producer of podcasts, television events. Ozy's investors include Laurene Powell Jobs, Mike Moe, Louise Rogers, Marc Lasry, Dan Rosensweig, Larry Sonsini, David Drummond and Ron Conway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozy_(magazine) Carlos Watson in pic below.

Albert Einstein quoted Science without Religion is lame, Religion without Science is blind.

t1nick comments on Dec 9, 2019:

Einstein is a product of his time. Nowadays we see a significant rise in secularism. This means that it is more acceptable to question or challenge religion. Not so the case for Einstein. He grew up at a time when it was mot acceptable to profess secular beliefs, especially if you were an important personage of the stature of Einstein. This does not say that Einstein didn't believe in God or Christian doctrine and believe himself to be spiritual. This poses a problem concerning my usual argument. Religion and Science are mutually exclusive paradigms IMO. One depends on faith and accepting supposed doctrinal truths at face value. Proof in the form of miracles are not subject to repetition, one of the fundamental tenets of science. Science is based upon replicable proof. Evidence must be consistent and replicable before it can be accepted as evidence. All knowledge in science is based on prior knowledge and used a regular and prescribed method for moving that knowledge forward. Religion does not. Heres the rub. The two paradigms are mutually exclusive from one another, and that any attempt to meld the two does disservice to both. It's like serving two Masters. One can never do credit to either one. To do justice to one means compromising the other, and visa versa. To compensate for the slighting of one, extra compensation must occur to set the balance right, and the seesaw goes on. I suspect (speculation) that Einstein was only a Christian by convention. He leant credence when convention demanded, but held little deep conviction when push came to shove. He realized the unfathomable perspectives his theories opened up and dealt with this perspective in the most acceptable manner given his times.

Despite my being an atheist, I still like Christmas.

t1nick comments on Dec 9, 2019:

I always enjoy a metal Christmas beginning with Bob Rivers, " I am Santa Claus" (heavy metal satire on Black Sabbath. Other metal Christmas songs: https://www.google.com/search?q=heavy+metal+christmas&oq=heavy+metal+christmas=chrome..69i57j0l3.8543j0j7=ms-android-verizon=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 Lol

I usually just buy the magazine every now and again, so haven’t read the full article, but it ...

t1nick comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Stephan Jay Gould, pre-eminant evolutionary biologist, discussed the appearance and role of altruism in organisms as related to evolutionary theory. It does occur in organism besides humans, but is rare as opposed to other behaviors. Generally altruism is mal-aladaptive for the host species.

What album had the biggest impact on you as a teenager?

t1nick comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Beatles White Album, or Jethro Tull Aqualung.

'Expedition Bigfoot' Scours Oregon Woods for Signs of the Mythical and Elusive Beast: ...

t1nick comments on Dec 8, 2019:

It's hard to believe that with all the hunters, hikers, and back country campers in Oregon and Washington, that if " bigfoot" existed, some physical evidence would have be uncovered by now. It is almost inconceivable that a mammal as large as the purported bigfoot supposedly is, would leave evidence of habitation or existence. Bones, tools, campsites, heritage, something. Couple this with the need to maintain a large enough population for maintaining a viable breeding population to sustain the species. Verifiable sightings should be more prevalent than the specious sightings that presently exists.

Great View!

t1nick comments on Dec 8, 2019:

We just had a balloon jamboree and launch here yesterday.

Love... Yes.. ?

t1nick comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Yes

Fastigiate adjective Having branches that are erect and parallel, tapering to a pointed top.

t1nick comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Fastigiate

I love Maria Sharapova's photos!

t1nick comments on Dec 7, 2019:

She is attractive.

What are your objections to the fine tuning argument for the existence of god

t1nick comments on Dec 7, 2019:

The first line of your premise is both flawed and incomplete. It is neither chance or design. If you mean by Physical Necessity that it is following the physical Laws of physics as we understand them, then okay. Chance does come into play in some circumstances, but once the event occurs, it followers the prescribed Laws as understood by Physics. The encounter may seem completely random, but in actuality the same laws that rule their reaction after the event, allowed them to be in the location to begin with. Therefore, your final line and conclusion is specious. Just because it outwardly appears random it isnt completely. The physical laws of physics are called Natural Laws be cause they are part of a larger system in which events and their results are predicated on logical, physical traits. Not by any outside design.

WSJ Essayist: Atheists Should Just “Lie” to Their Kids When Talking About Death | Hemant Mehta |...

t1nick comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Why lie, and why make is so bleak as turning to dust then nothing? Celebrate the truth. When not locked a cemet shoe box for all eternity, bodies decompose. Their decomposition returns nutrients to the soil. Which in turn supports plant lie, which in turn supports all other living things. It's beautiful cycle of giving back and replenishment. Much more important and uplifting than a fictional playground.

Is it just me or is she an 11?

t1nick comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Definitely

Republican Rep. to Step Down After Redrawn Maps Undue GOP Gerrymander

t1nick comments on Dec 6, 2019:

What I can't cheat anymore. I'm going to take my ball and go home. Humph. Typical Republican M.O. Can't cheat, well then cut and run.

Raquel Pomplun. Beautiful Latina!

t1nick comments on Dec 6, 2019:

Love latinas

Here's a little tiny butt...

t1nick comments on Dec 6, 2019:

Now let's find a middle ground, so to speak. Lol

I like big butts and I cannot lie.. All you guys cant deny..

t1nick comments on Dec 6, 2019:

Me, not so much. Lol

AAhhhh! We now know where this comes from!!!!

t1nick comments on Dec 6, 2019:

Lol

The cutting edge of Human Evolution is the integration of science and religion.

t1nick comments on Dec 5, 2019:

Two separate and opposing paradigms. Mutually exclusive. To try to meld the two does justice to neither. To serve two masters [opposing paradigms] means that you are only doing half service to both and not adequately serving neither. The push-pull means, that at any given time, one paradigm is being slighted in order to satisfy the other. One ends up doing both poorly and never excels at neither.

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t1nick comments on Dec 5, 2019:

No offense, but you do not understand science or the scientific process. In real science there is no such thing as j"ust a theory". You mean it's just an hypothesis. Words matter. An hypothesis doesn't become a theory until it has been replicated consistently many times over. A theory is backed by thousands, if not million s of data points which support the same conclusion. 90 % of what people call a theory in popular culture is really a hypothesis. A theory is as close to a scientific fact as you can get. It's by improvements in technology allowing for greater precision and accuracy does a theory get upended. Many get modified to account for better data, but few get upended.

misotheism mis′o-thē-izm Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισόθεος (misótheos, “hating ...

t1nick comments on Dec 5, 2019:

Intetesting.

Michael Bloomberg.. He was republican as as mayor and now democrat as president candidate?

t1nick comments on Dec 5, 2019:

Opportunist? Plus traditional Republicans no long exist. Remember Trump used to be a Democrat. Another opportunist

A family member of mine is now into Hinduism.

t1nick comments on Dec 4, 2019:

I spent 26 years living in Santa Fe, NM, and grew up just outside of Boulder, CO. Both are big centers of Hinduism and Buddhism. No so much by Native Hindus or Buddhists, but by anglos who have adopted these beliefs for various and assundry reasons. When I got married, my wife-to'be asked me to write our vows. I was an anthropologist and a teacher in the Native American community. We had friends in the Christian community, wife to be was Jewish, had friends in the hindu community, the moslem community, the South American shamanistic community, and of course the Native American community. It goes without saying, I included all of them. Lol We had a Christian prayer, a moslem prayer, a jewish prayer, the giving of Native tobacco, a hindu song, a quan lin buddhist statue, and a shaman minister. All done by friends of both of us. My wife-to-be loved it. my family was aghast. Lol.

An Avalanche Survivor Tells Her Story.

t1nick comments on Dec 4, 2019:

In many ways you are one of my heros. We are the same age. I used to be very out of doors oriented and athetically active. I grew up in the Rocky Mtns of Colorado. But over the last decade I have slowed down. I'm still teaching with no intention in retiring anytime soon and still being creative and innovative. Thats my claim to fame these days. Keep hiking and reporting back.

Several I want to share.....

t1nick comments on Dec 4, 2019:

Nice collection

Good night all.. The sexiest pic of all.. !! Ain't she great?!

t1nick comments on Dec 4, 2019:

Nothing came through

Warning!!!!

t1nick comments on Dec 3, 2019:

Lol

GHILLIE (or GILLIE).

t1nick comments on Dec 3, 2019:

Ghillie is also a sniper's or hunters disquise that is made to look like the surrounding vegetation

Hi Everyone! I survived my move.

t1nick comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Congrats on a successful move

A FRAGMENT OF CHRIST’s MANGER IS BACK IN THE HOLY LAND! HOW DESPERATE ARE CHRISTIANS FOR ...

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Historic church relics have been a thriving business for millennia. I think every Christian that survived the Crusades and returned from the Middle East brought a relic of Christ with themselves. No wonder nothing is left in the Holy Land. Lol. Snake oil salesman all.

This is Delma rose, planted in memory of Delma by my neighbour, her husband of 60 years, when she ...

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

One thing I've learned over time. If a person does not ask they will not listen or hear. They may be courteous and let you complete your thought ( that is if your lucky and not hit with immediate defensiveness). But none of what you say will be heard or considered. Your words will go in one ear and out the other. However, if you are asked your opinion then your chances of being actually heard is improved. They will listen you, may even seriously consider your remarks. May even follow them. Regardless, even if they do not follow, at least they considered( if only for a monent).

Who’s your favorite scientist and why?

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Darwin and Wallace (separately of course) Their ability to use their powers of observation and take disparate pieces of information and realize their significance. From these surficially unrelated observations an explanation for how life operates evolved (pun intended). Nineternth Century preconceptions and biases made their conclusions even more heroic. Darwin never totally abandoned religion and a belief in a God (a product of his age) . But the fact that we are debating their ideas 190 years later suggests the significance of thier contributions. No other area of science is so hotly debated by the lay public. Despite the fact that their conclusions have been thoroughly proven over and over again.

Religious freedom

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Unfortunately not. It means freedom to follow "my" religion. A form of fascist-lite.

A whole lot of Drumsticks Gobble, Gobble!!!

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Victoria's Secret models? No more Secret's Fashion Shows. ☹

Good morning all.. wakey wakey... You likey?

t1nick comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Hmmmm. Lol

freshly minted ex-facebooger: I just deactivated my Facebook account.

t1nick comments on Nov 30, 2019:

I deleted my facebook account 18 months ago. It got too toxic.

Warble; the sound an Aussie magpie makes.

t1nick comments on Nov 30, 2019:

As a point of intetest, the American-Eurasian magpie is part of the Corvid or crow family along with crows and ravens. The Australian magpie, despite sharing it's common name "magpie" has absolutely zero relations to the crow family.

Friendships with former lovers.

t1nick comments on Nov 30, 2019:

My ex-wife is one of my best friends. We live 4vhours apart, but check in frequently to male sure the other is okay.

So on thanksgiving, I was at Frankie's parents home.

t1nick comments on Nov 30, 2019:

Frankie is old enough to decide for himself his values and morals. He should have taken your side as the two of you have a child together. Therefore, he has an obligation to you and your feelings. Agreed family can be important, although just because someone is related by blood doesnt make them good. Not to imply his mother isnt good. But Frankie is old enough have put his foot down and protected the relationship. Taking you to the metro is insufficient. He should have escorted you all the way home.

So on thanksgiving, I was at Frankie's parents home.

t1nick comments on Nov 30, 2019:

You will.pronably hear about this very soon. I was afraid that his parents were going to become a problem. I'm sorry you had to deal with the situation. Been there done that.

Spicy wings are the absolute pinnacle of human evolution.

t1nick comments on Nov 29, 2019:

Lol

Queen of the IBTC!! You likey?

t1nick comments on Nov 28, 2019:

IBTC. Yes very nice.

BAUCHLE.

t1nick comments on Nov 28, 2019:

This word is used in the lyrics of the Irish folk tune, "By the Rising if the Moon".

Last pic of the day.. Good night all and happy thanksgiving! Gobble gobble... 🐔🐷

t1nick comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Roman Mosaic beneath a field in Turkey - [archaeology-world.com]

t1nick comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Cool

Photographer visits so-called Lost Mongolian Tribe that lives in harmony with nature.

t1nick comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Wonderful pics. This is what humans should be.

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both...

t1nick comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny.

When men leave the toilet seat up....

t1nick comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Lol. I learned a long time ago to put it back down. Lol

NOT WANTED: Another Bygone Bro-gressive Who Thinks He’s The Future Of America

t1nick comments on Nov 26, 2019:

I concur. Time for the Boomers to stand back and let the next generation take over. We've done enough damage to the country and the planet. The future rests in the the post 70's generation and not in the post-War generation. New paradigms are needed.

What I have gathered to date (11-24-19) regarding Trump's Ukraine escapades: 1.

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Another fact that occurs to me. Part of the Trump Conspiracy entails the DNC servers. During 2016 Presidential campaign. Russia broke into the DNC computer servers. They got copirs of Hillary's campaign adviser's email, as well as some of Hillary's emails. The Russians fed these to the Trump campaign. There is proof that the Russians also hacked into the RNC servers as well. But as well as anybody can tell this information was never offered or given over Hillary's campaign. Now Trump is obsessed with getting Hillary's lost emails, which if I read it correctly is thought to be on the DNC servers. Trump claims that the Ukraine recieved the missing servers through a private company called CrowdStrike. Owned by a wealthy Ukranian oligarch. Here's the catch. The DNC servers aren't missing. There's not one, but over a hundred servers used by the campaign. After the campaign was over, the FBI came into the DNC and downloaded the contents of the servers onto external drives. They are stored at the FBI. The FBI did this to the RNC servers as well. The whole server claim is a bold faced lie.

Kinda big on top 😱 but very nice bottom 😊

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Poor lady. I bet she has terrible back problems.

What I have gathered to date (11-24-19) regarding Trump's Ukraine escapades: 1.

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

That is the way I undetstand it. I watched about 1/4 of the testimonies as they occurred when I working. You left a couple of key items that play into the Republican counter-story and conspiracy. 1) While Joe Biden was acting Vice-President, his son took a position on the board of a Ukranian gas company. Burisma. 2) Joe was warned that the optics of his son at Burisma appeared to be a potential case of "conflict of intetest". Nothing more. 2) Hunter Biden left Burisma prior to the investigation and removal of the corrupt Ukranian attorney general, Shokan. 3) Suspicians arose that Shokan and Burisma were both corrupt and funneling money illegally into their own accounts and frauding the EU. This incurred the wrath of the EU, our Adminstration, the World Bank, and many others. 4) Joe Biden appealed, along with the EU, and the World Bank, to the Ukranian government for Alexader Shoken to be dismissed as Attorney General. Hunter Biden was nowhere on the scene by this time. 5) An investigation into Shiken and Birsma was initiated. NO EVIDENCE was found to implicate Hunter Biden with the Burisma-Shokan corruption. 6) Sometime around this time (I'm not clear on exact dates) Manafort was discovered to have been part of the corruption that was happening. 7) Manafort's role was illuminated and he was ultimately sent to prison. 8) Manafort was a personal friend of Donald Trump. 9) Trump feels no love lost for Ukraine since it was their initial investigation and evidence that helped place Trump's friend, Manafort, in jail. 10) Biden' s popularity was surging in the polls for the Democrats running for office. Trump's number were slipping quickly. Rumor had it in the WH that internal polls showed Biden beating Trump by double digits in the 2020 election. Trump was livid. This was in April-May of 2019. Coincident with the timing of the infamous "perfect" phone call between Trump and Zalensky.

Alone on Thanksgiving Day. How do you cope?

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

I enjoy the silence with my dogs.

The uncomplicated truth about women’s sexuality. [ted.com]

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Take a look at the book, "She Comes First". An insightful look at how the female organ works and how to use that knowledge to assure your partner is always fulfilled.

Happy Monday all!!!

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Nice composition.

There is a connection between spider solitaire and the argument of intelligent design.

t1nick comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Interesting post. Please use paragraph breaks next time for easier reading. I play spider solitaire occasionally. I've played it for about three years now. There is a point of diminishing return in which even the undo button will not allow you to proceed to a successful outcome. Now to your point. If I understand you correctly, because you have a perpetual undo option the process is therefore not random. Therefore, by not being random and always being able to autocorrect, one can always expect a positive outcome (success). Working with this knowledge, the player moves forward more confidently having the knowledge their success is assured. Using game theory this conclusion is consistent, logical and mostly assurred. Extending this to a metaphysical construct of a God-world in which their is a non- random design and a preordained underlying structure, a distinction arises. In spider solitaire, if a person moves slowly and deliberately, using the undo button liberally one moves with increasing confidence knowing the undo can change the outcome. In real life, even with the knowledge of a structure that there is a greater plan, the individual does not have an undo or a reset button. The only comparable analogy would be prayer. Working on the assumption that a omniscient God is listening and will address ones requests. By praying, the God figure will introduce an out that nullifies or redirects previous circumstances to a more positive outcome. Therefore, one always has an opportunity to win, thus infusing a false level of security to the individual. Conversely, if one accepts the concept of a heaven state, the undo button becomes the asking of forgiveness. As the Christian paradigm works, if one asks for forgiveness and accepts the proverbial host they are assured a successful outcome, "a place in heaven". In the big picture, this is a successful outcome. Thus prayer becomes the undo button. It does not help them in this world, but is still a successful outcome in the next. A challenging post this early in the morning. Lol

Rights cannot be abridged because of religion