Gregg R Thomas

@Unseen – Yes, a lot more than just the economy.

Project 2025 ‘is the agenda’ for Trump’s second term and they admitted it the day after the election.  The thing with the lies is that there were so many of them and fired from various sources simultaneously. There was too much to unpick. By the time people got over the “Eating the dogs and eating…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Democrats should have reused the brilliantly simple political messaging strategy that helped Bill Clinton defeat George H.W. Bush in 1992.  James Carville’s famous phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” was a reminder to the Clinton campaign to stay focused on what truly mattered to voters: economic issues. Yes, Har…

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On the Nobel prize:

From the NYT:

On Sunday, Mr. Rubio leaned heavily on emotive language to push back against the critics who have since berated the Trump administration for the public display of hostility toward Mr. Zelensky, a wartime president who frames his battle against Russia’s invasion as a bulwark of Europe’s security and freedom. Mr.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Had she been a black girl or a homely white girl, she’d have been toast.

If she had been Black, she would have been treated worse by the police and the press.  Beyond that, that’s a pretty misogynistic assessment.  What do the Brits think?  We’ve pretty much forgotten about it.  I think it unfolded in a complex way and we follo…[Read more]

@Unseen

The mayor of Perugia in Italy where Meredith Kercher was murdered was annoyed that Knox filmed her “Blue Moon” documentary there. Knox did not bring shame to the town, its own police force did. The mayor was more concerned about the public image of the town being associated with the crime again than with the 16 years Knox had spent cle…[Read more]

@Unseen – The Dems simply got ahead of their skis and are paying the price.

They paid the price because the GOP amplified their “wokeness”. It got major airtime on Faux News and the other platforms that MAGA tune in to. It was always headline news for MAGA even when only a small minority of the Dems had vocalized it. The GOP got voters foc…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer: On the design argument……

There is fundamental flaw in the Fine-Tuning Argument that many Christian apologists use. If a god created the universe, then it would not appear finely tuned—it would simply be as it was designed to be. The need to invoke fine-tuning actually undermines the premise of an all-powerful creator in s…[Read more]

@ Reg

The Democrats forgot that they need to give people reasons to vote for them rather than reasons to vote against them. The average American (myself included) doesn’t want to hear about pronouns, doesn’t want “females: with male bodies competing against their daughters in sports, doesn’t want to share restrooms with people of indeterminate or…[Read more]

@_Robert_ Sunday school today is awash with stories of how Amerika is bucking traditional conservative values.

At the editorial meeting this morning I decided to tone down “the politics”. No-one disagreed with me 🙂

But you comment got me thinking. I started to answer it and somehow ended up with the following so I will publish it and be…[Read more]

The only thing that spared Amanda Knox 28 years in prison was what’s known as the “pretty white girl effect” that got her face (and body) in the news and garnered her lots of sympathy. Had she been a black girl or a homely white girl, she’d have been toast.

Let’s face it: She’s an attractive woman today, but back then she was fucking…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Once again i commend the lefties for their role in preserving the death cult. Death to intellect. Death to freedom. Death to civil rights. Death to equality. Death to morality.

An apt description of the segment of the American political sphere that blindly backs Israel no matter what they do.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Good that this was one result, but others still have right to speak without interruption from a heckler’s veto.

Not on private property at a private function. One party had a right to eject her and that was the owner of the venue, but that didn’t happen.

I get that you’re a law and order person, but for you order is m…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week folks!

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for critical thinking.”

– Leo Tolstoy.

@ Enco

Disruptive protests are an effective political tool going back in American history at least as far as the “Boston Tea Party,” and in the case of the protest in question, has resulted in uncovering the Sheriff’s apparent disability scam.

Perhaps the shortest, but certainly one of the shortest, great speeches in American history. Mario Savio’s speech on the steps of Sproul Hall during the so-called “Free Speech Movement.”

@ Enco

How do we get the country back on track? Trump isn’t smart enough to know he’s being played, so he plays his role as figurehead while Musk calls most of the shots. And the shots he does call are likely handed to him by Elon in a “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you” fashion.

So, Musk is busily tearing our democracy apart and our…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Incidents like this don’t belong at any meeting, public or private. Maybe the holders of such meetings need to busted for maintaining a disorderly house or some such as that. Maybe the woman should have been busted for using an animal call out of hunting season.

I know the difference between an opinion and a fact and I…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’ve seen public town hall and state university meetings handled in the way I specified and I see no problem with that, as it prevents the heckler’s veto from silencing someone else’s free expression. And the enforcement if it can’t be upheld should be that the meeting is cancelled.

There laws against interfering with of…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Private security should be bound by the same restrictions as law enforcement officers.

No, they should be bound by the same restrictions as ordinary citizens, which they are. If they have legal grounds for a citizen’s arrest, swell. Otherwise, they were engaging in an assault. The hall was open to the public. Had…[Read more]