And this…[Read more]

Can I refer to the 1619 project for history of slavery? What? Too Woke.It’s been explained to me that the words Slave and Plantation are no longer acceptable and enslaved person and slave labor camp should be used instead. Slave can be used as an adjective but not a noun.

Is the word Holocaust still…[Read more]

Exhausted with this shit. But you do make some salient points and I have to give it to you. Thanks for the lesson.

Wow! How to unpack that?

Is it narcissistic to want to be treated equally?

Is it narcissistic to want to be able…[Read more]

Yeah, must be so easy for them, despite having a Governor on their side, what with the State Representatives and State Senate majority’s all…[Read more]

Different times I guess. Maybe our social skills were a lot more developed. Looking at my 34 year son, who works…[Read more]

“Woke has become a snarl word, used by those who resist change to old structures that give an unfair advantage to certain people and keep us from giving the respect and equality to all…”

Thank you. I needed someone to explain this to me like I was 10. Have been walking around doing my lawn, cutting the hedges, and power washing my…[Read more]

Yeah but, I don’t see you as a reincarnated Roger Ebert. And even if I did I love watching what I like. Goes right along with that whole live and let live mantra I apply to everyone.

I enjoy STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS (Superhero’s) Grew up col…[Read more]

I liked Captain Marvel! Brie Larson is so easy on the eyes! And as powerful as she was in that movie the writers made sure Thanos kicked her ass in the last installment of the Avengers. (is my geek showing?)

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. Loved her performance. Was that Woke? I don’t fucking know (LoL) I’m…[Read more]

Thanks

My experience has been that they tend to associate only with others in their tribe. Talk to most New York City Muslim cabby’s and they’ll tell you that they have college degrees but find it hard to find jobs in their chosen fields.

I’ve had full on conversations where we pull ov…[Read more]

Point taken. You missed the entire exercise though. Over…[Read more]

The M483 artillery shell and the longer range M864. These are Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions shells, DPICM’s or cluster munitions.

Condemn by over 100 nations. Reason being that, like land mines, unexploded “bomblets” delivered by such artillery can hang around for months and…[Read more]

Let me preface that with the fact that I don’t keep a Facebook profile and I deleted my Twitter account the day after Musk paid $44 Billion for it. It’s now worth $15 Billion. Talk about taking a bath. My online social…[Read more]

In 1978, on my first Naval cruise to the Pacific, we pulled into Yokuska, Japan. A buddy of mine, also from New York, talked me into taking a train ride to Tokyo. I know, it’s a ways but we did have two days Liberty.

We board the train and immediately start comparing the differences between mass transit in Japan…[Read more]

Heard a Brit friend of my daughter, while talking about 9/11, say that Ame…[Read more]

John Coltrane wrote the music to his album “A Love Supreme” soon after getting clean off heroin. The entire album is a letter of gratitude. Gratitude to self and to his convers…[Read more]

Isn’t that beautiful? Thanks for the heads up. Makes you wish that someone would do something like that but instead of god, jesus have them sing about Sunday hot cakes and sausage. Love choral music. Daughter does it here and there, mostly in London.

My introduction to Mozart was by dumpster diving at my place of work. A company in the…[Read more]

Listening to the choral piece in that Ninth Symphony (BTW: The first time a choral movement was used in a Symphony, if I’m not…[Read more]

Gravitated to the website for this photograph.

Stan Lee and the illustrators at Marvel Comics would be proud. Someone invented Dr. Octopus’s arms! Now for Steve Rogers shield, and Iron Mans metal…[Read more]

Weird! I was walking my dog Coltrane and always don my headphones to listen to tunes on the walk. Gravitated to Apples New “Classical” app and dialed up Beethoven’s 9th. You know the one where he was completely deaf but managed to still roll out a masterpiece. In the fif…[Read more]

“Neil Gorsuch has a problem with telling the truth while SCOTUS rules that religious discrimination is now legal.

If the State allows Christians to take Sunday off work, does that mean that employers will have to ask atheists to cover for them? If someone works Sunday, will they be deemed to be an atheist in…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
For your information, when I was in high school, 16 to 18-year-old members of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC the prelude to ROTC in college,) trained with strict adult supervision to disassemble, re-assemble, clean, and target practice with .30 M-1 Garand Rifles such as used in World War II.

I was an…

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The right shouldn’t be violated. But it should be regulated.
Muskets then pistols and rifle…[Read more]

According to the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.012 The majority held that the Second Amendment’s pre…[Read more]

I normally ponder why the forefathers included a preamble in the second amendment and no one, not even the supreme court, recognizes that it’s there. But it’s plain as day: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, “.  But maybe it’s my clinically diagnosed deep depression that understands that sentence…[Read more]

I watched that episode with my wife. The contestants missed, I think they said, 20 questions that went unanswered. Not the sharpest bunch that day. All the religious were shocked (“shocked I tell you!”) that these people did not know the…[Read more]

Your thinking is that if the United States…[Read more]

In 2001 we Americans had a trillion dollar surplus. President Bush quickly instituted tax cuts that wiped out the surplus. No better health care or infrastructure for you!!! In 2008 stock market crashed and we Americans slowly clawed our way back and the deficit was actually lowered. But the…[Read more]

From Tuesday, when Putin said that Ukraine lost 7,000 men, 160 tanks, and 360 armored vehicles in the opening days of the counteroffensive.

Republican Senator Dick Black: “Ukraine’s offensive hit a steel wall. 7,000 KIA, 160 tanks and 360 armored vehicles destroyed in just one w…[Read more]

I’d like to think that NATO exist to prevent the Putin’s of the world from dictating how I should shower, shit, and shave. That NATO exist to prevent a repeat of what happened in the late 1930’s and early to mid 1940’s. You know what I’m talking about, The Holocaust. That NATO exist to further the interest of the nation…[Read more]

So sorry to hear about this horror. I’ve found that abusers can hide their violent tendency’s until they feel comfortable enough to think that no matter what they do the person they abuse won’t leave them.

A Guy I served with in the Navy and use to call friend preyed on overly religious woman. He marri…[Read more]

When I was 15 I left home. I got a job moving furniture and later in the evening pumping gas after school. Rented a furnished bedroom for $25 a week. One of my teachers knew my situation and chose not to report me to Social Services.

One day I got into a fight, kid pulled out a knife and stabbed…[Read more]

when I read the thing about tattoos I identified immediately because I was the sailor who refused to get one while on liberty in The Philippines. Told everyone that I’d probably feel differently in twenty years.

You’re so right. There is no comparison between that and a fifteen year old getting medical care.

Thanks for the ver…[Read more]

That was entertaining.Thanks for the heads up. Just sent a link to our daughter.

Loved the show where he said, “If you want to know about the Old Testament there are people walking amongst us called Jews who can tell you all about it.  You’re reading it all wrong. They, the Jews, can help you. Just stop one on the street and he’ll be more than happy to explain it to you…for a fee.”

Non Religious on the graph in the “The decline of white evangelical Christians continues to trend downwards,” shows that it is larger compared to any one religious denomination. Great news.