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Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
If Obama had taken one document from the White House when he left office, Republicans would have screamed like mashed cats. Yet they are strangely silent about Trump taking boxes of full of documents, including some that were labelled CLASSIFIED.
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Politics
Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Please Alaska, don't send this person to Washington! We already have too many wack-a-doodle populist Republicans in Congress.
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Politics
Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Nevermind the spelling; the message is spot-on.
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Politics
Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
It's written all over his face.
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Politics
Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
We hold this truth to be self-evident:
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Politics
Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
His recent grandstanding in the Jackson Judiciary Committee hearings were the latest in a long series of insults to our intelligence.
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Politics
Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
What are the odds that Viktor Orbán's recent landslide victory in Hungary was legit?
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News & Links
Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Latest IPCC report says we have the means to avert catastrophe but we are sitting on our hands.
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Politics
Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
No one can compel Clarence Thomas to recuse himself. Will he do the right thing? Or will he do the Right thing?
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Politics
Apr 4, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
The "genius" weighs his options.
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Trump Pinata
Apr 4, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
As your physician I recommend self-immolation.
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News & Links
Apr 2, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Legal Term of the Day: Consciousness of Guilt. One after another, members of Trump's inner circle have either refused to testify before the Select Committee, or have refused to answer questions and pleaded their 5th Amendment right against ...
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Trump Pinata
Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Do not be fooled by his obvious incompetence. Slippery as an eel, he is a very adroit escape artist.
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News & Links
Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Local news reports are full of people complaining about the price of gasoline. Here are some costs that should be factored into the price at the pump: 1. Loss of land and infrastructure due to rising sea levels. 2. Crop failure and famine due to ...
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Politics
Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Hope springs eternal.
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News & Links
Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.” -- U.S. District Court Judge David Carter
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Politics
Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
I'm not too impressed with the grammar, but the basic idea is spot on:
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
In German, a bat is a "flying mouse." The Spanish word for bat comes from a transposition of letters in a word that means "blind rat." Mouse, rat, bat,...any of them would make a better president than Don Cheato.
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Health & Happiness
Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Shaken, not stirred.
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Politics
Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
On The News that a 221-Year-Old Church Closed its Doors for Good: It is tempting to take the closure of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, PA, as a sign of progress. Unfortunately, however, while moderate Protestant church attendance is ...
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Politics
Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
So sad, bad lad Vlad is mad Ukraine won't let him be their dad 🤣
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Politics
Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
On the home front:
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Politics
Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
The Republican playbook, in a nutshell:
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Selected quotes from "Beyond Belief," an article on cults by Zoe Heller, The New Yorker, July 12 & 19, 2021 "... brainwashing is neither all powerful nor irresistible." "...cultic conversion usually ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Evil is not something supernatural. It is simple cruelty, the willful infliction of pain on others, the desire to do harm. And by the same token, grace is not supernatural either. It lies squarely within the range of human potential. And the ...
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News & Links
Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Déjà vu all over again
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News & Links
Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Putin's evolution: weird kid -> spook -> kleptocrat -> war criminal ->
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Politics
Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Not-cute couple.
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News & Links
Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
I'd vote for him.
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News & Links
Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Putin's titanic mistake:
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Politics
Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
"Stupid is as stupid does." -- Forest Gump
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Canine beats vulpine.
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Politics
Mar 18, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Doing what he knows will please his Uncle Vlad.
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Politics
Mar 18, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Give 'em enough rope...
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Politics
Mar 17, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Trust the hand-written sign over the billion-dollar corporation or the TV-dinner princeling.
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Trump Pinata
Mar 16, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Would you agree that recent events have brought the true significance of this to the fore?
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Politics
Mar 14, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
A few words on the role of religion in politics today. Religion has always had an outsized role in human affairs, and, one way or another, we are all affected by it. While I myself am not a believer, many people are, and those people vote, and they ...
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Politics
Mar 14, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Is there anyone little Donald admires more than his Uncle Vlad?
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News & Links
Mar 14, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Putin's red line...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 13, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
To my neighbor the climate science denier:
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Posts
Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
One rejected US intelligence in favor of the other's "very strong" words 😡
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Love & Relationships
Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Birds of a feather...
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Politics
Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Must be something in the water...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Mr. Jinks never saw it coming.
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Politics
Mar 10, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Isn't it amazing how a good cartoonist can capture the essence of a thing in one small panel?
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Politics
Mar 9, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Drum roll please!
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Politics
Mar 9, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Fake patriot vs. real patriot:
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Politics
Mar 6, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Stark contrast:
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Health & Happiness
Mar 3, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
The best possible outcome:
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 1, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
If at first you don't succeed,...
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Politics
Feb 27, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
January 6th, 2020: a day that should live in infamy. Will it?
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Posts
Feb 26, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
He can't evade all of them... can he?
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Trump Pinata
Feb 25, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Imagine the Donald's face when he heard the news...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Feb 24, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
My question is,...
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Politics
Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Do you personally know anyone to whom this wise cowboy might well be speaking? If so, what is your relationship to them? Have you tried reasoning with them? Would you go so far as to send them this image?
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Politics
Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Do you personally know anyone to whom this wise cowboy might well be speaking? If so, what is your relationship to them? Have you tried reasoning with them? Would you go so far as to send them this image?
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Silly, Random & Fun
Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Provide a title for this image:
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Silly, Random & Fun
Feb 21, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
In 20 words or less, can you define the symmetry here?
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Politics
Aug 9, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
We got our own problems, right?
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Politics
Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
George Washington mandated the first U.S. mass immunization campaign in 1777, when he inoculated soldiers against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. What are we to make of Republican Governors like Greg Abbot of Texas and Ron De Santis of ...
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Politics
Aug 4, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Kevin says it would be hard not to hit Nancy with the gavel. And after Kevin is safely locked up it would be hard not to lose the key to his cell. What would be best for everyone: that Kevin never gets near the gavel.
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Outtakes from "Beyond Belief," an article on cults by Zoe Heller, The New Yorker, July & 19, 2021 "... brainwashing is neither all powerful nor irresistible." "...cultic conversion usually involves ...
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Politics
Jul 27, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Are Fox pundits Hannity & Carlson having a true epiphany? Will they acknowledge that their own dogma is the ultimate weapon in conservative voter suppression? Is this their come-to-Jesus moment, at long last?
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Politics
Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
LINKFox is Killing Us - YouTube
Fox's demagoguery is deadly.
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Politics
Jul 22, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Was Speaker Pelosi right, tactically and morally, to deny Congressmen Banks and Jordan seats on the select committee investigatiing the January 6th insurrection?
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
A sadly misinformed person writes, "When I was a kid, the worry was about food shortages...That didn’t freak people out enough yet so they switched to global warming and promised that the polar caps would be completely melted away by 2000, then ...
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News & Links
Jul 11, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Richard Branson (owner of Virgin Galactic) says he wants to make space accessible to "everyone." This is a collosal perversion of science and technology. Branson (along with his rivals in space, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos) are encouraging people, at ...
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Religion & Spirituality
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Messiah or just mess?
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Politics
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
South Dakota and Vermont have a lot in common. The two states have similar population sizes. Both states are mostly populated by older, white folks. Both populations have mostly medium income levels. So why the huge disparity in deaths due to ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Isn't Cheato's lawsuit against Twitter and Facebook nothing but a political stunt? Aren't they private companies, and as such have every right to ban him from their platforms? Isn't it funny how people who tout anti-government ideology at every turn ...
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Politics
Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
TWO PLUS TWO By Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, June 14, 2021 Alabama: 5 Alaska: Leaning 4 Arizona: T.B.D. Arkansas: 3-something California: 4.000001 Colorado: About 4? Connecticut: $4.4 billion Delaware: Ordinary 4 Florida: Commonsense 5 Georgia: ...
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Politics
Jul 3, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Ya think Cheato knows how incredibly predictable he is?
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Silly, Random & Fun
Jul 2, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
This time Cheato will not be occupying the penthouse.
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Politics
Jul 1, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
So, not sure which Texas-smashing, global warming-related disaster the authors of this meme are referring to, there have been so many lately. Was it the ice storm, or the three 500-year floods, or the heat wave? Or all of the above?
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jun 30, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
HeAdAkE posted this excellent question: Have humans stopped evolving? I decided to answer this question in a separate post because it is one that comes up fairly often, and deserves a scientific treatment. Let the science speak first, then we can ...
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Religion & Spirituality
Jun 28, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
I found this question on an online dating site: "Would you consider dating someone whose religion or spirituality is the primary focus in their life?" Here is how I answered: “Yes. Religion or spirituality...that leaves a lot open to ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 25, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
This is a follow up to a previous post. I recently posed this question: "Why should the word atheist even exist? After all, there are no special terms for people who do not believe in Santa Clause, Bigfoot, or the Tooth Fairy." I would like to ...
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Religion & Spirituality
Jun 21, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Why should the word "atheist" even exist? After all, there are no special terms for people who don't believe in Santa Clause, or Bigfoot, or the Tooth Fairy. 😳
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Religion & Spirituality
Jun 21, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Why should the word "atheist" even exist? After all, there are no special terms for people who don't believe in Santa Clause, or Bigfoot, or the Tooth Fairy.
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Religion & Spirituality
Jun 21, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Someone recently asked me how important religion is to me. The question got me thinking. Religion in its many manifestations has always had an outsized role in human affairs, and one way or another, we are all affected by it. While I myself am not a ...
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jun 10, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
(I placed this post in the "academic" category, because I speak about education in America. However, I could just as easily have identified it under "religion" or "politics." It's really about the nexus of all three, and how together they inform the ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
May 18, 2021May 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
So.... you've been eating hotdogs and McNuggets all your life, but don't want the vaccine because you "don't know what's in it?" 🤦
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Politics
May 7, 2021May 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
I am soooo ready to forget Trump and move on. But he continues to repeat his big lie, that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The facts are not on his side. Trump and others filed and LOST at least 86 lawsuits contesting the 2020 election ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
As a longtime resident of San Diego County, I found this little bit of trivia amusing. (after James Michener's account in "Iberia") King Felipe II of Spain (1556-1598) had a son whom he named Carlos, after his own father, Carlos V. Carlos the ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Trump's continued lies about the election, the media, the pandemic, etc., bring to mind these words from Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." The January 6 mob attack on the US Capitol completes ...
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Politics
Mar 2, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Some things never change.
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Silly, Random & Fun
Feb 19, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
According to Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003), imbecile is a French import that entered English in 1802; in contemporaneous French, imbécile meant "weak" or "weak-minded." For its part, cretin arrived in English in 1779, from ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Jan 31, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Ok today is January 30 I've been off the site for a while. Trump's legal team has lost 60 court cases around the country. In one case, when Giuliani was asked point blank by a judge if he was asserting that election fraud had been committed, he was ...
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Site & Customer Service
Aug 27, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Is access to this site purposely being reduced?
I'm just wondering if others are experiencing the same difficulty that I am: inability to log on to Agnostic.com. Sometimes days go by and I cannot log on. When I try, I get a message telling me that my request "timed out." Yet I am able to access other sites. Could it be that someone or some group with a religious or other unknown agenda is manipulating a technical lever to keep users off the site? Am I being overly suspicious?
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Health & Happiness
May 1, 2020May 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Expect changes in the guidance for suspected COVID-19 infection! We have been instructed not to go to the hospital unless we feel shortness of breath. But if patients wait that long they greatly increase the odds that they will end up being placed on...
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Health & Happiness
May 1, 2020May 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Ronald Reagan once said California's Orange County is a place "where good Republicans go to die." One 1970s issue of the satirical comic book Mad Magazine described a unique raptor species, the Orange County Hawk, whose right wing was weirdly ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Apr 26, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
We have all heard tRump's continued wacko suggestions of possible cures for corona virus disease. In response, Aldous J. Pennyfarthing of the Daily Kos shared these observations: "...if Trump keeps saying random things, maybe he’ll stumble on a ...
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Politics
Apr 21, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Leadership vacuum
This from The Boston Globe:
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News & Links
Apr 8, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
A buddy forwarded a video with this heading to me: "Top Doctor EXPOSES EVERYTHING The Deep State Is Trying To Hide About CV" He added, "I think there is some evil going on out there multiple versions of the same virus, iranian virus the most ...
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Apr 7, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
April 6, 2020: Vaccination Ruminations. California has been in lockdown for three weeks now. We might still be under stay-at-home orders three weeks hence. In fact, it might even be longer. When restrictions are eventuality relaxed, we will probably...
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General & Hellos
Mar 31, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Young people seem to be having a tough time coming to grips with the COVID 19 crisis. This should come as no great surprise. Americans are notorious for ignoring or denying death. The kid across the street and his buddies are no exception. I guess ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 26, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
These are the times that try men's rolls...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Mar 20, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
New definition of an atheist: a person with no invisible means of support! :-D
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News & Links
Mar 14, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
March 13, 2020: With empty shelves, cancelled events, closing schools, rising infection, high mortality rates, and no real testing capability, clouds of misinformation, political posturing, and lies emanate from the Whitehouse. Trump disbanded ...
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Politics
Feb 6, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Trump supporters are predicting that he will win re-election. Some even say by a landslide. But I do not see 2020 being a repeat of 2016. After three years we know Trump a lot better than we did back then. Let's take a look at his record. First, ...
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