Gregg R Thomas

that lox looks outstandingly outstanding...

Yes, absolutely. It is the “real deal“. To the point of making you miss it any time you have lox from any other source. With lemon, freshly milled black pepper….and maybe a few drops of Tabasco (yes, the one at the back of the shelf). I have a friend who gets it shipped to his house in Alameda, CA on…[Read more]

A lot of lox for sale…..and maybe some tariff free whiskey’s on sale in the USA? Go on, make the horses pay for it 🙂

It is kind of amazing that there is not more resentment of Brits as it relates to the Irish. The shit during the famine was so damn cold.

I don’t recall ever hearing an Irish person bearing any ill will toward “the Brits” over the famine. There have been incidents involving “soccer hooliganism” but no reason is ever needed by the perpetrators to…[Read more]

That’s one thing I love about the Irish, they love reciting poetry and singing songs.

jakelafort wrote:
Which identity English or Jewish is more likely to cause a problem?

English.

If you’re English and you go to Ireland, it’s well to mind your manners.

An English friend of mine came to visit me in Ireland one summer (circa July 1991). We had shared a squat house together in London. He was looking forward to drinking a “skinful of real Irish Guinness”. I brought him to a traditional Irish bar (not a tourist one 😊) which w…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
It is kind of amazing that there is not more resentment of Brits as it relates to the Irish. The shit during the famine was so damn cold.

If you’re English and you go to Ireland, it’s well to mind your manners.

The demographic time bomb that will consume China and is coming our way if we don’t do something may have a solution, and Peter Zeihan thinks he knows who will point the way.

The creation of Israel/Palestine borders (via the Balfour Declaration) and the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were both outcomes of British imperial decisions, and both have resulted in prolonged, identity-driven conflicts. However, they differ in origins, religious dynamics, international dimensions, and…[Read more]

If the EU can grant Temporary Protection Directive status for 4.2 million Ukrainians, then surely the rich Arab nations can do the same for 2.2 million (or many more) Palestinians in their own countries?

Could it be that authoritarian regime like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or the UAE just don’t want politically active populations, and Palestinians a…[Read more]

Again, they probably won’t connect the dots because of the horrors of “Hunter Biden’s Laptop” and trans-story hour.

What dots?

Ah, the national debt may not matter anyway…

_Robert_ wrote:
The country wants a dictator.

People are wising up, I think, but it may be too late to keep the looming disaster from happening. Some people don’t feel sorry for them:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
the future, China will be dominant. The U.S. will be irrelevant??

Maybe in the very short term, but China is doomed:

And then, we’d better not try dancing on their grave.

We need to get those Latin American immigrants back, not just to pick our crops, clean our hotel…[Read more]

In the future, China will be dominant. The U.S. will be irrelevant??

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Social Security is so good, why do people have also private investments for their retirement? And do caring societies rip off future generations for the sake of the present?

No one is claiming it’s more than it is or was ever intended to be. As for ripping off future generations, that’s a bug not a feature. The mens…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Fact is, you are not even safe in a canoe round here. We have a million gators, and they are everywhere but it still is a rare event when someone is killed.

There’s a snake for that. Just ask Florida.

Odd fact about alligators: Despite living in one of the least sterile environments on Earth and often suffering serious injuries…[Read more]

RE the Alex O’Connor question…….what if he does murder the “potential” Christian an hour before his conversion therefore sending him to Hell for all eternity…..and then he (Alex) repents of his sins and becomes a Christian and then, one hour later, he also dies?

The non-believer sends a person to Hell, just as victim was about to become a…[Read more]

@_Robert_  I posted this in Sunday School at the time….. 🙂

Kentucky Noah’s Ark sues insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains

This scientist’s reply to a YEC (from Northern Ireland and who thinks the world is 6k years old) is a classic.