...and in the park, and at the grocery store, and watching a parade on Main Street, and...

rainmanjr comments on Jul 5, 2022:

Since guns are tied to militias, in the 2nd, let's ban militias. A nation with 5 military branches really doesn't need the public creating more so make them illegal and remove their weapons. YW.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 5, 2022:

That would require a constitutional amendment...a steep climb in the best of times.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

JackPedigo comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Just more evidence of how out of touch some in SCROTUS are. Wonder how the three liberals feel? Maybe the newest member will speak out.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 5, 2022:

@JackPedigo Facts vary? I think you mean estimates. At current consumption levels, there is somewhere between 40 and 70 years worth of oil left in the ground. That is if we go by the unaudited field data from most of the oil-producing countries. (They do have an incentive to shade their estimates downward to keep prices higher.)

"I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form.

silverotter11 comments on Jul 4, 2022:

The thing about ol' Billy Graham is he used the whole system thinking he could control it to gain an edge for his beliefs. Like many on the right thought they could control trump while using him to gain their edge. None are willing to accept their ideals are not that popular but believe if they ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 5, 2022:

The ones we have to worry about don't have any ideals other beyond getting money and power. They're just using the true believers like pawns.

An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.

ErichZannIII comments on Jul 3, 2022:

I saw this on Facebook. It's so true.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 5, 2022:

@ErichZannIII What a clusterfuck. Glad I'm not a part of it.

An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.

ErichZannIII comments on Jul 3, 2022:

I saw this on Facebook. It's so true.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

@ErichZannIII The problem is that so many people don't know what to block. Their friend sends them some wacko conspiracy theory and they believe it. And its the biggest platform, so a lot if bad shit gets passed around. And that little weasel Zuckerberg put profit over country, and let it happen.

Doing the Numbers Tomorrow we celebrate our nation's birthday.

Jolanta comments on Jul 4, 2022:

It is a very sad state of affairs.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

@Jolanta In a country of 325 million people with this many guns there are going to be shootings. But this is not the biggest thing we have to worry about. In the short term, it's white Christian nationalism or theocratic fascism. We have to tamp that down first, because their aim is to keep the filthy rich wealthy. That means keeping the status quo vis-a-vis burning fossil fuels. We can't have action to combat climate change until that old guard is shoved aside. That will require political will. The fossil fuels industry has so far been able to delay the inevitable by casting doubt on science. But as climate disaster becomes a reality for more and more people, denial is becoming less and less effective. I think we are approaching the point where the old liars are going to be discredited widely enough to turn the tide. I am hopeful because younger people know that they are staring down the barrel of a gun, that they will not he able to live out their natural lives without being severely slammed by climate change. They don't just want change; they NEED change; they DEMAND change. And they are the future. Mist of the bad shit that the USA has done over the last century was done in order to keep oil and gas flowing. The Marine Corp anthem goes, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores if Tripoli..." Why those places? Because Libya and Mexico are sitting on lots of OIL! Imagine a world where fossil fuel is no longer a factor; one where all energy is harvested locally, from the sun, from wind, from tides, and from the Earth's internal heat. Breaking up energy suppliers will have a democratizing effect on the whole world.

Leap-of-faith year

HippieChick58 comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Only on the Republican calendar.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

Instead of birds, flowers, waterfalls, or mountains, it has pictures of oil wells and cruise missiles.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

JackPedigo comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Just more evidence of how out of touch some in SCROTUS are. Wonder how the three liberals feel? Maybe the newest member will speak out.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

@JackPedigo You're right that it's a finite resource. But there is still a hell of a lot of it left. If we burn a tenth of what is left we're toast.

Doing the Numbers Tomorrow we celebrate our nation's birthday.

Jolanta comments on Jul 4, 2022:

It is a very sad state of affairs.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

This country has been through worse. We'll get through this.

Doing the Numbers Tomorrow we celebrate our nation's birthday.

Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Suggestion: Look up 'democracy'. We've never had one. The founders sought to avoid one. The closer we've moved toward one, the worse our government and society have become. The closer we become to a democracy, the more we resemble the empires of the past that our founders knew about (knowing ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

Democratic republic OK?

Doing the Numbers Tomorrow we celebrate our nation's birthday.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 3, 2022:

No offense, but people use paragraphs for a reason....

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

@PondartIncbendog I divided it up into paragraphs. I hope that helps.

Doing the Numbers Tomorrow we celebrate our nation's birthday.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 3, 2022:

No offense, but people use paragraphs for a reason....

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 4, 2022:

I guess you have not read much John Stuart Mill. He wrote sentences that went on for pages. 😂

An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.

ErichZannIII comments on Jul 3, 2022:

I saw this on Facebook. It's so true.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2022:

A golden nugget embedded in a steaming pile of horse shit. 😂

An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.

silverotter11 comments on Jul 3, 2022:

The right lost it's fucking mind over a blow job and the lie attached but thought nothing of grab 'em by the pussy comment. The right then goes on to justify ever damn vile thing that comes out. :(

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2022:

@Betty In my experience culture comes down from the top. In corrupt cultures, the underlings collect the proceeds (from extortion, bribery, bookmaking, blackmail, robbery, pimping, prostitution, sale of illicit guns, drugs, stolen merchandise, etc., etc.), take a small slice for themselves and pass the rest on to their superior. And so it goes up the chain. Napoleon Bonaparte pioneered this system, sending his woefully underpaid tax collectors out with the understanding that they would supplement their own salaries on the job.

An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.

CourtJester comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Just remember; the Klan was an arm of the democrat party.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2022:

Dear boy, it's the Democratic Party. And Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Republican Party. That was over 150 years ago. A few things have changed since then.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

JackPedigo comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Just more evidence of how out of touch some in SCROTUS are. Wonder how the three liberals feel? Maybe the newest member will speak out.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2022:

It really shows how much power the fossil fuel industry has in this country. But we will break their death grip on us yet.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Global warming is nothing more than a liberal tax and controls scheme. Obama (a man that made only a few hundred thousand dollars a year) just purchased a $12,000,000 mansion on the ocean at Martha’s Vineyard and still talks about rising sea levels. I’m calling Bull Shit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 3, 2022:

@CourtJester 🤣🤣🤣

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Global warming is nothing more than a liberal tax and controls scheme. Obama (a man that made only a few hundred thousand dollars a year) just purchased a $12,000,000 mansion on the ocean at Martha’s Vineyard and still talks about rising sea levels. I’m calling Bull Shit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

@CourtJester Your surrender is accepted.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

yvilletom comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Where are we? We are voting more Democrats into Congress.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

@Theresa_N Speaker Pelosi is a pragmatist. The Democratic Party is a very diverse bunch. Getting them all to work as one is like trying to herd cats. Nancy works with what she's got. I doubt that anyone could have held the coalition together better.

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

Barnie2years comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Right where the Republicans want us: back in the “laisser faire” 1920’s, when corporate robber barons controlled the government with little regulation and entire waterways were poisoned and air barely breathable in Urban areas. And mainly the poor and middle income paid taxes.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

Right you are. And this is only possible because the elites have successfully controlled the national discourse, convincing many average citizens to vote against their own interests. The playbook is simple: find a convenient scapegoat or two (say, immigrants and welfare mothers; throw in some tree huggers for good measure), jump up and down while screaming about high taxes, defund the schools and water down school discipline so the level of discourse is set by the lowest common denominator, flood the country with guns so everyone is terrorized into keeping their heads down, flood social media with disinformation and wacko conspiracy theories, keep the Kardashians in the spotlight and cast aspersions on intellectuals, indoctrinate the youth in the fallacy that unregulated market capitalism is self-correcting and solves all problems, set up some think tanks to produce slick brochures full of specious arguments casting doubt on science, claim the moral high ground on hot-button cultural issues like abortion and gun rights, bribe some politicians, blackmail some others, pay lip service to the sanctimonious church pricks, get the Supreme Court to allow unlimited dark money in politics, and voila! The rich get richer and the average American is consigned to perpetual serfdom!

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Global warming is nothing more than a liberal tax and controls scheme. Obama (a man that made only a few hundred thousand dollars a year) just purchased a $12,000,000 mansion on the ocean at Martha’s Vineyard and still talks about rising sea levels. I’m calling Bull Shit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

To go on burning fossil fuels is to commit ourselves to a murder/suicide pact. The climate system has natural feedbacks that will exponentially amplify the warming we cause. We have very little time in which to stop burning fossil fuels before these feedbacks are running so strongly that we can no longer halt them. One feedback that is relatively easy to visualize involves Arctic sea ice. Unlike the South Pole, which lies in the middle of a continent, the North Pole is situated in the middle of an ocean. Normally, the Arctic Ocean is covered year-round by a thick layer (about 20 feet) of sea ice. Until recently, this ice typically melted a little around the edges in the summer time, but most of it remained intact year-round. Due to its high reflectivity, Arctic sea ice has an important role in regulating global climate. During the Arctic summer, when Earth's North Pole is tilted toward the sun, the white ice cap reflects 90% of the solar radiation that hits it. The ocean beneath the ice stays cool. If that ice cap is taken away by melting, however, then what is left is a dark ocean that absorbs 90% of the radiation that hits it. The ocean then warms up. That heat is distributed all around the world by ocean and atmospheric currents. Over the last half century, the thickness of the Arctic Ocean ice pack has diminished by about 90%, and the area that it covers in summer has steadily shrunk. If current trends persist, the Arctic Ocean will be virtually ice-free by 2050. Another natural feedback loop involves the permafrost. The land surrounding the Arctic Ocean is normally frozen to a depth of over 200 meters year round. This permafrost is composed mostly of wind-blown silt, frozen water, and the largely intact frozen remains of plants. There are also some animal remains (you have undoubtedly heard of woolly mammoths being discovered in the melting permafrost), as well as bacteria and fungi which, when thawed, come to life and continue doing what they were doing before they froze. Bacteria and fungi play an important role in the recycling of organic matter. They break down dead organisms and return their atoms back to the environment. This recycling usually takes the form of gas emissions, specifically CO2 and CH4 (methane). Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 60 times more efficient at trapping heat than CO2. The permafrost covers vast swathes of land in Alaska and Siberia, and the organic material it contains is sufficient, if totally thawed and converted to CO2 and methane, to instantly triple the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We are already seeing devastating warming effects resulting from an increase in CO2 concentration from about 300 ppm (parts per million) at the start of the Industrial Revolution to around ...

If the conservatives on the Court won't let the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, and Republicans in ...

CourtJester comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Global warming is nothing more than a liberal tax and controls scheme. Obama (a man that made only a few hundred thousand dollars a year) just purchased a $12,000,000 mansion on the ocean at Martha’s Vineyard and still talks about rising sea levels. I’m calling Bull Shit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

My dear boy, I hope you won't take this personally, but you obviously know jack shit about climate science. (You also apparently have no idea how much money an ex-president can make on a book deal and/or a lecture tour.) Here is a little primer on climate science history for you. Please endeavor to absorb it. In 1822, Jean-Babtist Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth's atmosphere would be much colder than it is if the incoming radiation from the sun were the only warming effect. His idea that the Earth’s atmosphere acts like an insulator was the first formulation of what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Fourier, however, did not use that term. In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist and prominent suffragette, for the first time tested the heat-trapping abilities of different gases. In 1859, John Tyndall wrote, "...the atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat; but checks its exit, and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet.” In 1896, Svante Arhenius was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations led him to conclude that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming. Around 1899, Nils Gustaf Ekholm wrote, "The atmosphere plays a very important part of a double character as to the temperature at the earth’s surface, of which the one was first pointed out by Fourier, the other by Tyndall. Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easily, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth’s surface. Secondly, the atmosphere acts as a heat store placed between the relatively warm ground and the cold space, and thereby lessens in a high degree the annual, diurnal, and local variations of the temperature.” In 1958, while working under the direction of Roger Revelle at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Charles Keeling began monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from a station on Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. Keeling's data, when plotted on a graph, showed not only the annual fluctuation of carbon dioxide due to seasonal changes in photosynthesis, but also continuous year-to-year increases in overall CO2 concentration that roughly matched the human emissions from burning fossil fuels. This graph, which came to be known as the "Keeling curve," shows that atmospheric CO2 is not only increasing, but that the increase has been accelerating. While Keeling ...

We're not out of the woods.

HippieChick58 comments on Jul 1, 2022:

Donnie boy is only the face of the issue, there are too many folks out there who think he did no wrong and even idolize him. That makes me throw up just a little just typing that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

True but that face has egg all over it, thanks to the J6 Select Committee.

We're not out of the woods.

Organist1 comments on Jul 1, 2022:

No, we are most certainly not out of the woods yet!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

@Organist1 I feel you sister.

Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses may get access to elders' files on them

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 1, 2022:

The idea that a Christian church would keep records on people seems to run contrary to its supposed core principle of redemption and forgiveness. If they really believe that, why keep files on people? Well, there is a possible explanation: maybe its all about money. 🤑💰

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 2, 2022:

@ErichZannIII Note to self: never join any organization where signing a non-disclosure agreement is a prerequisite.

We're not out of the woods.

Organist1 comments on Jul 1, 2022:

No, we are most certainly not out of the woods yet!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 1, 2022:

I like your hopeful "yet." 😎👍

Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses may get access to elders' files on them

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 1, 2022:

The idea that a Christian church would keep records on people seems to run contrary to its supposed core principle of redemption and forgiveness. If they really believe that, why keep files on people? Well, there is a possible explanation: maybe its all about money. 🤑💰

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jul 1, 2022:

@ErichZannIII When I wrote "Christian" that included the LDS. In the case of Scientology, it's definitely about money. In fact, it's definitely about money for the Christians too.

Mr. Attorney General, ITMFA!

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 29, 2022:

Too funny! But I have no faith in Merrick Garland, or the Dems, having the balls to make it happen...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin The ACA passed the Senate 60-39, which was the minimum required. There had to be Republican votes. No Republicans were ever going to sign on to Medicare for all. Not ever. If you think that they ever were you are living in a fantasy world. As for indicting Cheato, frankly I think you are too pessimistic. Time will tell. Stay tuned.

Mr. Attorney General, ITMFA!

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 29, 2022:

Too funny! But I have no faith in Merrick Garland, or the Dems, having the balls to make it happen...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Ahhh, well, Medicare for all was never going to happen under Obama. Not because he didn't want it, but because there just never were the Republican votes for it. But Obama did get the next best thing, or at least something good passed, and now 14 million people who didn't have health insurance AT ALL now have it. It's a big deal. We are both old enough to remember Tricky Dicky resigning the presidency. That was a first. What Cheato did is far worse and is also a first, and we are seeing the evidence of his guilt in these hearings. Stay tuned. Done Cheato will be indicted.

It's speech that should be protected just as much as Christian prayers, right?

of-the-mountain comments on Jun 28, 2022:

When actual history is probably stranger than the fairytale religious deceitful dogma pushed for the last two thousand years!!!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

I would not go that far.

It's speech that should be protected just as much as Christian prayers, right?

p-nullifidian comments on Jun 28, 2022:

In this fictional story, it would seem more likely that Joseph was the father. The authors of Matthew and Luke go to great lengths to trace Jesus’ supposed genealogy back to David, beginning with his father, Joseph.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

The Bible has gone through several rounds of translation. From Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English, German, French, etc. In one of those early translations, I think it was the Hebrew, Mary was described with a word that means "young woman." And apparently that word was translated as "virgin." And it's been downhill ever since. 😂

Mr. Attorney General, ITMFA!

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 29, 2022:

Too funny! But I have no faith in Merrick Garland, or the Dems, having the balls to make it happen...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

I know you don't, and I understand why you feel that way. We in this country have a really bad record of holding powerful people to account. But this time it might he different. I hope I'm not Charlie Brown and the Select Committee is not Lucy and Cheato's indictment/conviction is not the proverbial football. 😂

Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "If we delay emission cuts we “will miss a brief and rapidly closing ...

Reignmond comments on Feb 28, 2022:

Greta is just a little kid who has learned to parrot 1960s enviro-rhetoric. She knows nothing. Listening to her is like getting your education from memes. Go to the actual science.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 29, 2022:

@ChestRockfield Excuse me, I misspoke. The airline passenger's carbon footprint from one flight LA to Paris is about one third that of a US motorist from one year of driving. Average miles driven: 11,500 Average miles per gallon: 22 11,500 mi ÷ 22 mph = 523 gal 523 gal x 19.6 lbs CO2/gal = 10,251 lbs CO2 = 4.6 metric tons CO2/year/US driver CO2 per passenger on a flight from Los Angeles to Paris: 1.6 metric tons The average US driver's annual carbon footprint is about 4.6 metric tons CO2. The carbon footprint of each passenger on a fight from Los Angeles to Paris is 1.6 metric tons. 4.7 tons CO2 ÷ 1.6 tons CO2 = 2.9375

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Constitutional originalism does not address the simple reality that times change and conditions differ. And, while the framers were exceptionally smart, they could not foresee all the changes that would take place two or three hundred years down the line. To remain relevant, interpretations of the ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 28, 2022:

@lerlo OK anything not specifically addressed in the Constitution is automatically left to the states to decide. I get that. When Gorsuch, Kavenaugh, and Barret stated in their confirmation hearings that Roe was "settled law," implying that they would respect stare decisis and let Roe stand, was that a lie under oath? Can they be impeached for that?

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Constitutional originalism does not address the simple reality that times change and conditions differ. And, while the framers were exceptionally smart, they could not foresee all the changes that would take place two or three hundred years down the line. To remain relevant, interpretations of the ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 27, 2022:

@Alienbeing ✔️✔️

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Constitutional originalism does not address the simple reality that times change and conditions differ. And, while the framers were exceptionally smart, they could not foresee all the changes that would take place two or three hundred years down the line. To remain relevant, interpretations of the ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 27, 2022:

@Buck ✔️

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

KKGator comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Alito cited some bullshit 16th century English dude as some sort of "explanation". Along with a lot of other bullshit. Fuck the 6 justices who ruled to strip basic rights from Americans. They're all liars and scumbags. I hope they die painfully, and soon.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Roberts voted in favor of Citizens United, one of the worst decisions ever.

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Constitutional originalism does not address the simple reality that times change and conditions differ. And, while the framers were exceptionally smart, they could not foresee all the changes that would take place two or three hundred years down the line. To remain relevant, interpretations of the ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

@Buck Yes, amendments may he made, but it is extremely difficult. Can you see an amendment legalizing abortion passing in today's polarized political environment?

We need to understand that Ukraine was NEVER a willing part of Russia.

racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Yeah, Putin wants Ukraine back under his thumb, but more than that, he wants it's resources. It's all about the oil.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

The sunflower oil.

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

KateOahu comments on Jun 26, 2022:

They are not. They are “Originalists”. And their assumptions about what was originally intended are wrong. They want to take away civil rights of a vast group of people, especially non-binaries. Women need to stop this shit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

@LucyLoohoo Warren Zevon got it wrong when he wrote "Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun." This implies a political conversion, when what really happened was Stockholm syndrome.

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Maybe those assholes have no right to breathe. Color me not sympathetic if any of them are assassinated, not that it will ever happen. They have too much security provided them by now, and anyway, the left gave up violence decades ago, unlike our own modern domestic terrorists on the right.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

Let's not forget that it was liberals who won the Civil War and WWII. Standing up for democracy is a liberal project.

The Justices that overturned Roe are “Constitutionalists.

racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:

This is NOT about abortion. It was never about Pro-Life, which is obvious. This was ALWAYS about having a dog-whistle to mobilize fascist Christian voters. And NOW, that has morphed into a culture-war sledge-hammer. The fascist Christian judges have openly admitted they intend to undo every ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Right on. Hope it doesn't come to that, but if it does I'll be right there with you.

Might as well enroll him/her/them in paramilitary training while we're at it.

ChestRockfield comments on Jun 26, 2022:

We're about to have a whole ton of extra kids no one wants, so maybe they're counting on one problem solving the other?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

That's dark and twisted, but the scary thing is that doesn't sound so far-fetched. (Soilent Green is people!)

Was there a pro-choice rally/protest in your town today?

Mofo1953 comments on Jun 25, 2022:

This is Floriduh, De Santis passed a anti protest law.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 26, 2022:

@Mofo1953 It won't pass muster

Was there a pro-choice rally/protest in your town today?

Mofo1953 comments on Jun 25, 2022:

This is Floriduh, De Santis passed a anti protest law.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

@twill @Mofo1953 https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035687247/florida-anti-riot-law-ron-desantis-george-floyd-black-lives-matter-protests

I see the corruption of Christian immorality being the order of the day for the SCOTUS for the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:

Yup. precedent means nothing anymore, as those fucks lied thru their teeth during their confirmation hearings..

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin I actually find the law a very interesting field of study.

Was there a pro-choice rally/protest in your town today?

Mofo1953 comments on Jun 25, 2022:

This is Floriduh, De Santis passed a anti protest law.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

What? Any such law is / would be unconstitutional.

Was there a pro-choice rally/protest in your town today?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 25, 2022:

There was a rally in Omaha yesterday, however I was visiting my new granddaughter who was born yesterday. I will be at future rallys. Her reproductive health is now at risk because of the a--holes of the Republican party and warped Supreme Court justices. I don't want some man making decisions about...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

Congratulations! 🎉🍾🥂

SCOTUS: Supreme Christian Overlords Terrorize US.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:

Gilead, here we come! Right about now, I wish I were a lot richer, a little younger, and knew a compatible Canadian woman that I could marry for immigrating there, with an agreement to be able to easily divorce later if it became adventageous for either of us. Canada is looking really good right ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

Having lived most of my life in California, Canada would really take some getting used to. The loooong summer days and winter nights, the cold,....I know I would enjoy the northern lights....

SCOTUS: Supreme Christian Overlords Terrorize US.

MizJ comments on Jun 24, 2022:

They can have Florida

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

Shouldn't Georgia be colored blue too?

SCOTUS: Supreme Christian Overlords Terrorize US.

Shaggy2018 comments on Jun 24, 2022:

If we had a President with any balls he would be trying to expand the Supreme Court and pack it with liberal democrats. Democrats need a new candidate for 2024!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

I feel your frustration but there ain't a damn thing the president can do about it if Manchin and Sinema won't agree to changing the filibuster rule.

I see the corruption of Christian immorality being the order of the day for the SCOTUS for the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:

Yup. precedent means nothing anymore, as those fucks lied thru their teeth during their confirmation hearings..

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

Lawyers know how to lie and get away with it.

I see the corruption of Christian immorality being the order of the day for the SCOTUS for the ...

racocn8 comments on Jun 24, 2022:

If you look at Europe, their history of state support for religion often generated contempt and derision, pushing people toward being secular. Let's hope that pattern holds.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

@anglophone The trend toward secularism among younger people is a good sign. I wish we were not leaving them such a fucked up country and planet. They've got an uphill battle ahead.

I see the corruption of Christian immorality being the order of the day for the SCOTUS for the ...

bklynite53 comments on Jun 24, 2022:

And the won’t be happy until they turn america into a theocracy.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

@anglophone The fucking Christians invented sectarian warfare.

I see the corruption of Christian immorality being the order of the day for the SCOTUS for the ...

Mooolah comments on Jun 24, 2022:

Impeach the 3 liars in SCOTUS for contempt of Congress & purgery!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 25, 2022:

You didn't actually believe that shit about "settled law" did you? 😂

With the recent SCOTUS ruling on New York's concealed carry law, it looks like we are going to see ...

Trajan61 comments on Jun 24, 2022:

I consider it to be positive. New York will have to respect the 2nd amendment for once. Just because you carry a loaded firearm for self defence doesn’t make you a criminal.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

I don't think the majority opinion is constitutionally valid. A well-regulated militia armed with muzzle-loaders is a far cry from average Joe armed with a semiautomatic pistol and multiple 14-round magazines. That being said, if California's concealed carry law is repealed then I will be strapped just like everybody else.

With the recent SCOTUS ruling on New York's concealed carry law, it looks like we are going to see ...

rainmanjr comments on Jun 24, 2022:

It's not a positive one but we will have to do the negative for any chance of reaching the positive. Not enough death, or intolerable conditons, have occurred. This is why I say putting a few AR-15's in each classroom and/or installing a gas release and issuing gas masks, is necessary. The outrage ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

On the basis of the 2nd Amendment text alone, IMO, the SCOTUS decision is deeply flawed. But if California's concealed carry law is repealed then I foresee times when I will carry. Hopefully I will never have to draw.

With the recent SCOTUS ruling on New York's concealed carry law, it looks like we are going to see ...

Barnie2years comments on Jun 24, 2022:

The old west was a perfect example. Shootouts at high noon, bar brawls that turned into street shootouts, posses turned into lynchings. There was a reason larger cities banned the carry of weapons, we seem to have forgotten what it was.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

There was a time in Japan when samurai always carried their swords in public. They eventually banned swords in public because of all the bloodshed.

With the recent SCOTUS ruling on New York's concealed carry law, it looks like we are going to see ...

yvilletom comments on Jun 24, 2022:

I think it’s a positive development. We build jails and prisons, hoping we won’t fill them. More of us will start “packing heat”, also hoping. Nature doesn’t give us certainty.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

Yeah I'll be packing too, and hoping never to unholster it.

What is a civilization worth?

yvilletom comments on Jun 24, 2022:

When enough people, more than the idealists among us, feel the effects they will pay attention. Do what I wasn’t smart enough to do, be ready to organize them.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

The way things are going, it won't be long now.

Well hell... Will they outlaw cigarettes next? How about ice cream? Beer? 🙄 [forbes.com]

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 23, 2022:

IMHO, this is a legitimate action on the part of the FDA. Juul has not provided evidence that its products are safe. This is especially relevant because the flavored products are designed to appeal to kids.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

@Captain_Feelgood You're right, I don't have evidence that Juul designed their product specifically to appeal to kids. What we can say, however, is that the product does appeal to kids, and the product contains very high levels of nicotine, which makes them very addictive. And there is some data indicating that the "flavored" additives are hazardous to human health. So again, it seems to me that the FDA has taken a legitimate action consistent with their mandate to protect the public from hazardous foods and drugs.

“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 23, 2022:

There are places for faith, but a supposedly omnipotent sky daddy who allows 4th graders to be gunned down in their classooms is not one of them.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 24, 2022:

@mrdunn I don't disagree with the general thrust of the Nietzsche quote above. Faith can be a corrupting influence. But if that was all he ever wrote on the subject then he obviously did not treat the subject comprehensively.

“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 23, 2022:

There are places for faith, but a supposedly omnipotent sky daddy who allows 4th graders to be gunned down in their classooms is not one of them.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 23, 2022:

@mrdunn You got this right: I have faith in myself and others to do the right thing in certain situations, and that that faith is not unqualified or absolute. As for other legitimate objects of faith, you would be right to conclude from my example of drivers following the rules of the road, that I feel a certain amount of faith in the rules themselves is justified. And in the engineers who designed the cars and the highway, and the contractors and laborers who built them. In other words, a certain amount of faith that rules or laws are wise, and that professionals will adhere to the standards of their profession, is justified. This qualified faith is underpinned by faith in the general intention of most people to do good and failing that, in a system of justice to hold them accountable for negligent or criminal behavior. None of these is perfect. Not the people, not their physical productions, not the laws, not the institutions. But they are a hell of a lot better than anarchy and chaos.

“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 23, 2022:

There are places for faith, but a supposedly omnipotent sky daddy who allows 4th graders to be gunned down in their classooms is not one of them.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 23, 2022:

@mrdunn Are you trying to put words in my mouth? I did not say I had faith in any power, natural or supernatural, to prevent all random acts of violence. My point was that either this purported omnipotent being does not exist or He is a cruel son of a bitch. As I said, I think it is reasonable to have faith in some things. For instance, we can usually have faith in our own powers of observation to determine if it is safe to cross the street. Every time we get in a car as a passenger we place faith in the driver to observe the rules of the road. When we drive on an undivided highway with two-way traffic we take a leap of faith that oncoming drivers traveling in the opposite direction will not cross into our lane. Obviously such faith is not always rewarded with a safe trip. Faith does not come with guarantees. There are other legitimate objects of faith, but none of them are supernatural.

I don't worry that some may have so far managed to tune out the hearings.

Mooolah comments on Jun 22, 2022:

Keep 'em ignorant. A method the xtian church uses.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 22, 2022:

Fox actually carried the 4th hearing, so that's progress. And I have been hearing reports of people who were, up until the last few days, ardent Trump supporters are now saying they can no longer support him. Cracks are appearing. The dam is breaking.

Sotomayor warns Supreme Court ‘continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 22, 2022:

The court had a choice between favoring one of two elements of the First Amendment separation of church and state: the "government shall make no law establishing a religion" clause, or the "government shall not infringe upon the free expression of religion" clause. Establishment versus infringement....

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 22, 2022:

@HankSherman Oh I do realize, but that is just part of their sky daddy delusion.

These dirty cockroaches have names: 🪳 Donald Trump 🪳 Steve Bannon 🪳 Roger Stone 🪳 Rudy ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 22, 2022:

And a supporting cast of hundreds of thousands slimy worms, aka as your neighbors.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 22, 2022:

At least the Faux News viewers among them.

This post is a combination of science, philosophy, and music: Every bit of matter and energy in ...

Mcflewster comments on Jun 15, 2022:

Although we may not know precise locations, that was the point in my college course at which probabilities of finding a position of matter were introduced, and at that point my mathematical abilities got off the bus, so I cannot help much. I just like the idea of no beginning and no end. I am sure ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 22, 2022:

@Mcflewster We needn't worry outs over the end of the universe. Our species will have gone extinct loooong before that.

The microbe behind the baby formula recall can be benign—or deadly

Beachslim7 comments on Jun 20, 2022:

You don't really believe this shit do you? Hyperinflation in Venezuela no food. Not hard to put 2 and 2 together . USA spends 40 percent of what they spent from 1776 to 2020 I one year= inflation and food shortages. It's the same shit that happened in Venezuela

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 21, 2022:

@Beachslim7 Are you off your meds?

The microbe behind the baby formula recall can be benign—or deadly

Beachslim7 comments on Jun 20, 2022:

You don't really believe this shit do you? Hyperinflation in Venezuela no food. Not hard to put 2 and 2 together . USA spends 40 percent of what they spent from 1776 to 2020 I one year= inflation and food shortages. It's the same shit that happened in Venezuela

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 21, 2022:

@Beachslim7 Well that was another string of emotionally-charged nonsequitters, Slim. Please do us all a favor and take some time to develop a cogent argument.

The microbe behind the baby formula recall can be benign—or deadly

Beachslim7 comments on Jun 20, 2022:

You don't really believe this shit do you? Hyperinflation in Venezuela no food. Not hard to put 2 and 2 together . USA spends 40 percent of what they spent from 1776 to 2020 I one year= inflation and food shortages. It's the same shit that happened in Venezuela

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 20, 2022:

Not sure how that relates to C. sakazakii, but we don't really have hyperinflation here in the USA. It's a little high right now, but it has been higher and the sky did not fall.

The microbe behind the baby formula recall can be benign—or deadly

BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 19, 2022:

Interesting. Lived in a house with well water and I had been raised on well water. My kids had drank well water. My husband at the time was on city water all his life and he became really miserably ill. Even after going to bottled water it turned out the water used for ice was still doing it. ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 20, 2022:

@BufftonBeotch Drank from a garden hose? Oh Hell yeah!

The microbe behind the baby formula recall can be benign—or deadly

BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 19, 2022:

Interesting. Lived in a house with well water and I had been raised on well water. My kids had drank well water. My husband at the time was on city water all his life and he became really miserably ill. Even after going to bottled water it turned out the water used for ice was still doing it. ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 20, 2022:

When I was a kid my family lived in a rural area and we got our water from a well. The water tasted great but at one point we noticed the taste was off. Long story short, a rat had somehow gotten in under the well head and had fallen into the water below. No one got sick, but the thought of that rotting rat body in our drinking water still turns my stomach. 🤣

I had a feeling the J6 hearings would blow the Done Cheato's sedition conspiracy wide open, and ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 19, 2022:

I feel a small kernal of hope growing that there will be a favorable outcome and that the tide is slowly turning.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

@rainmanjr tiered voting., AKA instant runoff voting... and there's also another term for it. Whatever you call it, I like it! 😎👍

I had a feeling the J6 hearings would blow the Done Cheato's sedition conspiracy wide open, and ...

Barnie2years comments on Jun 19, 2022:

You have more faith in justice than I do. The hearings are great and they have already bumped the numbers who believe Trump was lying up 10% over the numbers before the start of the live hearings. By the same token, Trump picked candidates are winning primaries in many Red states and the line up ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

You're right: Republican primary candidates are falling over each other trying to be the bigger Trump sycophant. But that is to be expected in primaries in gerrymandered districts. The big question is, can they win in a general election? That 10% figure you cited is huge.

What does liberalism mean to you?

TheInterlooper comments on Jun 18, 2022:

If you oppose liberty, you are not a liberal. Modern "liberals" sacrifice liberty for (what they believe is) the common good at every opportunity. I agree with Spike, libiralism has been hijacked by authoritarians. Modern liberals have no problem using the power of the state to force people to ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

I think you are referring to neoliberals.

I had a feeling the J6 hearings would blow the Done Cheato's sedition conspiracy wide open, and ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 19, 2022:

I feel a small kernal of hope growing that there will be a favorable outcome and that the tide is slowly turning.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

@Druvius I don't know if it's optimism so much as belief that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one (an idea popularly known as Occam's razor), and in the case of Done Cheato the simplest explanation is that he is a crook and a liar. I think fence-sitters will come to see that as a trial unfolds.

I had a feeling the J6 hearings would blow the Done Cheato's sedition conspiracy wide open, and ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 19, 2022:

I feel a small kernal of hope growing that there will be a favorable outcome and that the tide is slowly turning.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

@Druvius I think you are forgetting the powerful effect that putting Done Cheato on trial would have. Trumpists may ignore the Select Committee hearings, but I think they will tune in to a trial with rapt attention. And the same testimony and witnesses they dismiss now will be right in their faces. Sure, there will always be a hard core that will never accept reality, but I think they will turn out to be a smaller group than they appear to be right now. The white supremacists and white Christian nationalists were already among us before Cheato's rise, and they will still be here after his fall. But putting him on trial will be a defining moment. As the American public comes up to speed on the facts of the case it is going to become increasingly difficult to argue in favor of "witch hunts" or a mythical "deep state." So far, the right has been loudly voicing their opinions while the left has been quietly gathering evidence and building a case. Now the whole discussion is shifting; the center of gravity is moving to the left. Stay tuned.

I had a feeling the J6 hearings would blow the Done Cheato's sedition conspiracy wide open, and ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 19, 2022:

I feel a small kernal of hope growing that there will be a favorable outcome and that the tide is slowly turning.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 19, 2022:

The dam is breaking and Done Cheato is right downstream 😂

The official first day of summer 2022 is Tuesday, June 21.

AnneWimsey comments on Jun 18, 2022:

Got the pool up & running, it has dropped to 59 degrees here, 50 expected by morning....how am I doing.....

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 18, 2022:

Sounds like you're doing fine as long as it's 50 Fahrenheit and not 50 Celsius 😂

The official first day of summer 2022 is Tuesday, June 21.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 18, 2022:

Grandson had a Tball game today, these kidlets are 4 years old. They did not want to play today, way too hot and humid. That "game" ended after 30 minutes, no one was having a good time. Then grandson wanted to go to the playground, and his dad sighed and said OK. Kidlet wasn't on the playground for...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 18, 2022:

I guess we will just have to learn to adapt.

The official first day of summer 2022 is Tuesday, June 21.

racocn8 comments on Jun 18, 2022:

So in 2025, going naked??

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 18, 2022:

Maybe sooner than that 😂

The lack of night time cooling is a hallmark of global warming due to increased concentration of ...

HankHunter13 comments on Jun 16, 2022:

It has been over 80 degrees at 1am & 3 am, the last 2 nights, here in Cincinnati Ohio. It's still only Spring. We're in big trouble.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 16, 2022:

You said it.

The lack of night time cooling is a hallmark of global warming due to increased concentration of ...

Mooolah comments on Jun 16, 2022:

We could begin by ending the mowing of gargantuan lawns. Mowers pollute far more than our vehicles as they have no pollution prevention devices.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 16, 2022:

Not to mention the collosal waste of water those lawns represent (at least in the southwestern USA).

The lack of night time cooling is a hallmark of global warming due to increased concentration of ...

Gustav comments on Jun 16, 2022:

I have been wondering how cattle in the south are doing. Part of the problem is the market place that demands consistency. (Monoculture)

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 16, 2022:

Agriculture of all kinds is getting harder to do pretty much everywhere. If it isn't a drought then it's too much rain, or a warm spell followed by a killing frost. Southern England is a notable exception. They're growing wine grapes in Dover now, while that is becoming increasingly difficult in traditional wine provinces of France.

This post is a combination of science, philosophy, and music: Every bit of matter and energy in ...

Mcflewster comments on Jun 15, 2022:

Although we may not know precise locations, that was the point in my college course at which probabilities of finding a position of matter were introduced, and at that point my mathematical abilities got off the bus, so I cannot help much. I just like the idea of no beginning and no end. I am sure ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 16, 2022:

@Mcflewster There is no evidence of a previous Big Bang. I checked the numbers. 13.8 billion years is apparently the age of the universe. The CMBR temperature is about 2.75°K. So I was not off by much. 🙂 You may like the idea of an endless, cyclic repetition but there is absolutely no evidence supporting such a conclusion.

This post is a combination of science, philosophy, and music: Every bit of matter and energy in ...

Mcflewster comments on Jun 15, 2022:

Although we may not know precise locations, that was the point in my college course at which probabilities of finding a position of matter were introduced, and at that point my mathematical abilities got off the bus, so I cannot help much. I just like the idea of no beginning and no end. I am sure ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 16, 2022:

@Mcflewster I think the 13.7 billion figure comes from analysis of the cosmic background microwave radiation, which, if memory serves, is the about 3° K energy left over from the Big Bang. So that, apparently, is close to the actual age of the universe.

This post is a combination of science, philosophy, and music: Every bit of matter and energy in ...

Mcflewster comments on Jun 15, 2022:

Although we may not know precise locations, that was the point in my college course at which probabilities of finding a position of matter were introduced, and at that point my mathematical abilities got off the bus, so I cannot help much. I just like the idea of no beginning and no end. I am sure ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 15, 2022:

The universe apparently had a beginning (about 13.7 billion years ago) and will have a end some trillions of years in the future, when the last star has finally winked out and all matter has spontaneously converted to pure energy and disipated.

Enough with the phony sanctimony!

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Thoughts and prayers are easy. And ineffective but at least they can say they're doing something. Back in the day that I was a follower, I'd say I was praying. Sure, I'd pray because that was a fast way for me to fall asleep.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 14, 2022:

I listen to ted talks. They put me right to sleep. 😂

Ukraine War: President Zelenskyy Says The Russian Death toll Could Reach 40,000 In June

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Ya know, though I gave this a thumbs up, I don't really like it. The 40,000 who have/will lose their lives will do so via blind ambition on the part of Putin and his cohorts. It reminds me on the WW I poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est": Bent double, like old beggars ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 One of my great grandfathers was a German soldier in WWI. He was killed by a bomb dropped on his camp by an Allied plane one day AFTER the armistice.

Ukraine War: President Zelenskyy Says The Russian Death toll Could Reach 40,000 In June

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Ya know, though I gave this a thumbs up, I don't really like it. The 40,000 who have/will lose their lives will do so via blind ambition on the part of Putin and his cohorts. It reminds me on the WW I poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est": Bent double, like old beggars ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@barjoe There are a few die-hard supporters of Trump/Putin here. I suspect that at least one, and possibly more are in the employ of the Internet Research Agency or their affiliates.

Ukraine War: President Zelenskyy Says The Russian Death toll Could Reach 40,000 In June

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Ya know, though I gave this a thumbs up, I don't really like it. The 40,000 who have/will lose their lives will do so via blind ambition on the part of Putin and his cohorts. It reminds me on the WW I poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est": Bent double, like old beggars ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 13, 2022:

Thanks for Owen's poem; I had not read it in many, many years. (Back in high schooI, I was taught that it was "the greatest" lie. Even today I would say it's certainly a contender for number one.)

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

Druvius comments on Jun 12, 2022:

On the one hand, Trump in jail would be fine by me. On the other hand it might well inspire his supporters more to get him reelected by fair means or foul. Scary times.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@Druvius Good point! But hope springs eternal 😂

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

jlynn37 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I have no interest in the play by play of this shit show, I am only interested in the final outcome. Https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/society-of-spectacle

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@silverotter11 Trump himself is a crashing bore.

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

phoenixone1 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

As much as we would all like to see him behind bars...Garland will not go after tRUMP with "he said...she said"...unless you get a video of him "ordering an election overthrow"...it just "AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN". Trump has been very careful with his speeches(if you can call them that 😂). He never ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

You got that right: "He is a slimey WEASEL...but he is unfortunately very good at it." But it is worth a try. Give it to a jury. Let them decide.

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

silverotter11 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

When trump announced he was running in 2016 I was stunned how little people here on the west coast knew about his crooked financial dealings. That he is a liar, racist, etc. and how many around the area in Kittitas County supported him. Stupid, stupid people.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

Watching and listening from California, I knew what a shit-heel he was. I didn't know as much as I know now. I never thought that he could get elected president either. 😂

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

Organist1 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

This is a direct challenge to Merrick Garland: Do you have the guts to do it? You have the evidence.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

I hope he hears you!

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

Druvius comments on Jun 12, 2022:

On the one hand, Trump in jail would be fine by me. On the other hand it might well inspire his supporters more to get him reelected by fair means or foul. Scary times.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

Maybe so but fear of a backlash on the part of a snotty and stupid crowd is no reason to not pursue justice.

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

jlynn37 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I have no interest in the play by play of this shit show, I am only interested in the final outcome. Https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/society-of-spectacle

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

There's where we differ. I find the details very interesting.

President Biden urges Congress to pass bipartisan gun framework: '

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 12, 2022:

This bill obviously does not go far enough, as President Biden said. It seems that the sponsors of the bill think that the baby step this bill represents is better than nothing. I disagree. I think that it will only serve to temporarily let the Republicans off the hook for their lousy anti-gun ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 12, 2022:

@SeaGreenEyez Closing loopholes is exactly what I meant when I said "universal" background checks. I probably should have been more explicit. 😎