Geographical tragedy..

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2023:

Got that right, Kid Rock is an asshole, always has been... as for Fourida, the South, as well as most of the Midwest these days, are mostly cultural and political wastelands...

Sunday past, I'm sitting at a memorial bench I donated to this park near our home, on behalf of my ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2023:

You might want to delete your two duplicate posts of this post. I know it was accidental on your part, but it is the courteous thing to do.

Cash is no good at Dunkin Donut. [youtu.be] Can't buy me lunch, oh no no nooo

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2023:

I'm not laughing and never have been about this prospect. I've been seeing it coming for a long time, beginning with when the stores starting installing self scan checkout lines and firing cashiers. It will be cashless soon enough, and I don't want that, as it not only makes it so easy for the government and corporations to know everything about where we shop and what we buy, but it also makes it that much easier to lose track of how much you spend and put yourself in debt thru overspending or overdrawing your debit cards. etc.

Do the Refucklicans think that by introducing their fascist theocracy bit by bit that we won't ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2023:

I don't think they care about being subtle nor are they trying to be subtle about it. All they care about is power, and they are doing all their shit because they can. They will ram it down our throats until we are ready to stand up to them, violently if need be, and fight back against them. Until then, being nice and polite, will get us nowhere with them, and I really hate Biden for his fake attitude of calling them our Repub friends, and pretending that there is bipartisanship that can be found and should be sought. Fuck that, this is a political war for trying to maintain some small amount of democracy, and it needs to be fought just as passionately as real war, and as non-violently as possible. But I am not holding my breath that we will be able to win it non-violently..

It can be really confusing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2023:

That looks like the actor who played him and the character Pauli, from The Sopranos...

Conservative logic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 11, 2023:

It's not about protecting babies, it's all about controlling women and their bodies, because conservatives don't give a rat's ass about children once they are born, and not even sincerely about them while in the womb. But they will never admit any of that stuff...

[tiktok.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 11, 2023:

I'm not surprised that Lindsey Graham is an expert on having no friends.. So many weak little bitches...

Texas Gov.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 10, 2023:

Makes me glad that Abbott is a cripple...

What a snowflake -- and his "music" SUCKS!!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 7, 2023:

Kid Rock was always an asshole in my book, but his song Picture just made it even more obvious. I go to karaoke frequently, and unfortunately, I often have to endure regular performances of that song, usually by young, drunk couples, often rednecks, that think that song is just so cool and funny.....NOT......

The last supper; Jesus gets the bill, looks at it and passes it on to Peter who in turn gives it to...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 7, 2023:

Sounds as plausible as anything else that is in the Bible..

Messaging on the frazzle again?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2023:

I haven't been able to send a message for a few weeks now, but I did recently get a message, unsolicited, from an obvious scammer, lol.

Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from GOP megadonor for decades without disclosing them: report

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2023:

No surprise here, only that it eventually got publicized..

Religious jurors punish defendants who don't swear to God to tell the truth New research suggests ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2023:

No surprise. Research that merely confirms the already obvious...

Thursday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 6, 2023:

Giving those thorough tongue baths...

Ron DeSantis' Book Ban Comes Back to Bite Him -- Newsweek

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2023:

Since Repubs have no shame about hypocrisy, they never consider whether their policies and laws could come back to bite them or be used against them.

All the news that matters - to the idiot demographic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2023:

My fav is the MAGA guy with his head up his ass, literally this time....

So America's most fascist governor, Ron DiSantis has quietly passed legislation that makes ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

I agree, he's obviously trying to outdo Texas in passing psycho laws, because he figures it's the sure way to lock up the MAGA vote for his presidential run, and I'm pretty sure he's right about that. But I hope it would be enough to cost him the general election..

Texas lawmakers want to replace trained school counselors with untrained chaplains

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

Oh yeah, that's really going to work well, esp. with kids that are non-believers, or at least non-Christian or Catholic. Because we all know prayer solves everything, lol.... And as gun-crazy as that state is, and the likelihood these days of being shot while on the job at school, I can just imagine how eager qualified, licensed school counselors and social workers are these days to be showing up for work there....

Even as the evidence about the relationship between economic growth and ecological breakdown ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

Capitalism sucked to begin with, at least in my mind, and esp. with today's bare-knuckle variety of it, coupled with globalization to back it up and make unions powerless beyond their national borders, while capital has no border restrictions on it at all. And to then add to it, it's mindless drive for growth, capitalism is long past needing to be abandoned, with fair socialism, or at least extremely regulated capitalism, that has regulations preserving the environment over profit, in some new form of capitalism.

That sounds like a challenge. Murka can always out-stupid the taliban. USA, USA.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

We're No. 1, we're no. 1, yeah, in religious fascism....

Texas judge orders banned books returned to library shelves | The Hill

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

I'm not much of a fan of juvenile fart humor, but I do get a chuckle on how thin-skinned the censors are to have removed, not one, but at least a couple books about farts, butts, etc.. Obviously, some people need to get or buy a life, so they will not have such a compulsive need to control and obsess about other's lives..

Atheists sue WV prison officials for forcing some inmates to profess Christianity

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 4, 2023:

And I thought that only happened in the Middle East, where not getting with the program of the state religion resulted in prison or death. Guess WV is joining the Taliban. No way getting parole should be conditional in any way on professing belief in any religion.

North Carolina Republicans Introduce Bill to Outlaw “Participation Trophies” Republicans in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2023:

Yup, time to stop coddling those mentally challenged kids with the Special Olympics, and make all of American life just as bare knuckles competitive as our economics are, at least for the non-rich and all businesses that are not corporations.

North Carolina Republicans Introduce Bill to Outlaw “Participation Trophies” Republicans in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 2, 2023:

Taking the culture wars to its absurd conclusion... I personally can't stand liberals who worship at the altar of PC, and take it to ridiculous extremes, while smugly shaming anyone who violates, even innocently, their sacred speech codes, while all the while they care nothing about economic justice or wealth inequality. In my mind, they are just as bad as Repubs, but in this case, the Repubs have outdone even those PC liberals that I hate, when it comes to being absurd, tone deaf, and totally uncaring about real issues that affect people's lives...

THE GENERATION THAT WILL NOT RETURN.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

Like the old TV show, it truly was The Wonder Years...

Lindsey Graham: Trump Should 'Punch a Cop' Before Being Booked -- Insider

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

Trump is way too much of a puss to risk punching a cop and getting his ass kicked by same cop..

You can't tell the difference until you unwrap them

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

And you also can't tell the Repubs from the Taliban, as far as their policies, except for the turbans the Taliban wear. Kind of makes you wonder why we kept fighting the Taliban so long and stayed in their country so long as occupiers. Oh wait, I forgot, it was very profitable for a few people and the multinational corporations they worked for...

I hear the proud boys are asking Ron to hold off on that drag law thing for a little while.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

I would pass on even walking across the street, much less paying a donation or ticket price, to watch these fuckups and jerkoffs dance....

What has happened to their innocence?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

I feel lucky I was able to have as much innocence as I did during childhood. I have no idea how parents these days are able to preserve or protect any innocence for their kids. Between the present threat of nuclear war and the certain coming effects of climate, change, combined with the constant mass shootings at schools, I am glad I am no longer even middle aged. As I am a wimp about witnessing constant collapse and dealing with our impending doom as a species, as well as my own aging, I am relieved that my death will likely happen before the shit hits the fan in the worst ways.

Pretty much!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

Dicks, pricks, or tools, they are both all of the above, so take your pick of derogatory terms...

He might be getting plenty of reading time in the future unless he decides that he wants to follow ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

We can only hope he meets Epstein's fate, except that we all know Trump would never off himself, and that Epstein was whacked, not a suicide. And I also have no doubt, as the loyalty-lacking guy he is, that he supported the conspiracy that got Epstein whacked, so it would protect his ass, as well as Slick Willie and who knows how many other famous, rich, and powerful men, from Epstein taking them down with him by ratting them out.

Let us not be distracted by our glee at Trump being indicted, they GQP is still out there trying to ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

You forgot the other obvious solution they have for everything, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, in other words, more trickle down economics, tho the corporate Dems are also their partners in this last policy, every damned time...

I guess it really was Karma or just desserts.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

That is true. Stormy Daniels was the most honest relationship Trump has ever had with a person, male or female. Yes, karma is a bitch...

[tiktok.com] Cry me a river cunts

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

That is priceless, Pralina! Thank you and you have outdone yourself. I esp. like the narrator's line about the guy being a blubbering elf. I like to think that I never use the c-word, on women, or even men, because I have too much class, but in this case, it does seem apprapo..

With the news of the last couple of days check on you MAGAs, they may need to be fed and watered.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

From what I have seen, they are laying low. A MAGA guy I see all the time at the local senior center has not worn his red hat in a long time. Maybe he is realizing that his ship has sailed..

Talk about a deep kiss!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

Lindsey Graham is the ultimate ass-kisser and lying cocksucker, with apologies to righteous gay men who enjoy giving oral sex. As for other ass-kissers of Trump, I have no doubt that my state's Repub guv, Kim Reynolds is somewhere deep in there too.

I',m not even ashamed that I think this is funny

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2023:

The perp walk we were always hoping for...

Laws do work, otherwise we wouldn't have any.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2023:

The same things used to be said about drunk driving laws, before they became widespread and enforced. Nowadays, it's an accepted fact of life, and countless lives have been saved by it. I only hope that someday the same thing will happen with laws against distracted driving by people who use handheld phones while driving and texting.

Which is worse?

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 29, 2023:

Some people are too stupid to be allowed to breathe, a waste of oxygen..

The U.S.'s ridiculous obsession with "Why?

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 29, 2023:

This is true. The whys do matter, in the long run, but in the meantime, what's much more important is limiting the killing power of the mass shooters, by passing sane, effective gun control laws to limit their access to automatic weapons of military grade firearms, so that even if they do kill, they can't kill near as many in a single attack. But the mass shooters never target or kill members of the ruling class, who are so well-protected anyway, that they can't be killed by a single lone gunman, and thus the political class and their rich donors, feel no threat and are perfectly content to let the lower classes continue to kill each other thru mass shootings. If we suddenly saw any mass shootings targeted at and killing any members of the political class, their rich donors, or the children of those two groups, you'd be amazed how quickly we would see radical gun control laws passed.

North Carolina Church Raises Thousands to Pay Off Cafeteria Lunch Debt For Every County School ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 29, 2023:

Free lunches should be available to all school kids who need or want them, regardless of income level. It's the least we could do. And all that conservative bullshit about how "there is no free lunch" and that free lunches would harm the character development of kids, etc., is just that, bullshit and propaganda, since they also believe that tax cuts for the rich and corporate welfare are both good for the character of the rich and corporations, when we all know that they aren't.... I also wish that churches and religious orgs. would quit making hungry people listen to preaching before they could get free meals, but as long as it happens in their house, they will get to keep making their rules about it.

According to the rules of English, the first person singular is I.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 29, 2023:

I don't sweat pronouns. I leave that to the PC-obsessed phony liberals who only care about identity politics and culture war issues, playing right into the hands of the ruling class, who use those things to divide the lower classes against each other. And these phony liberals never care anyway, about the class war, because they are always members of the Comfortable Class, up there in the top 15% anyway, in terms of wealth and income.

The Covenant School tragedy shows how more prayers will never stop gun violence

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 28, 2023:

Thoughts and prayers are only for deluded suckers and insincere pols who offer them after each mass shooting. As Malcom X said, arming yourself, when you truly are an oppressed group in a society dominated by racists and Christian fascists, is simply intelligent and prudent. And the MAGA white Christian fascist nationalists, are not an oppressed, targeted group, despite all their whining and self-claimed victimhood, as they have all of the police, as well as most of the pols, on their side. Same with the military and the FBI.

The national TV news reporters kept pushing the miraculous miracles of the tornado survivors in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 28, 2023:

Reminds me of the wisecrack by Hannibal Lecter in the movie The Silence Of The Lambs, where he mentions to Clairice Starling that God so loved his followers at a Texas church, that he sent a tornado there that wiped out the church and killed them all...

Fires & floods in california: school shootings even 5 more people dead as i write; train and ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 27, 2023:

Duplicate post much?

Alternative views will not be tolerated.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 26, 2023:

Much like the way I see it with liberals who are passionate worshipers of PC speech codes to the exclusion of any other policies. They are just as bad as Bible thumpers in worshiping their dogma over all else.

Eastern Florida State College Professor Cancels Civil Rights Lesson Because Student Objected

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 25, 2023:

This law undermines the First Amendment the same way the so-called Heckler's Veto undermines free speech. In the case of this law, it ought to be called The Whiner's Veto or the Snowflake's Veto....

GOP rep suggests replacing libraries with ‘church-owned’ alternatives: Wrong, GOP.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 25, 2023:

Education is the key to fighting the ignorance that drives most Repub voters, and good public schools and libraries are crucial to that.

After Utah lawmakers allowed book banning, one parent went after the Bible

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2023:

I love it when smart, feisty people stick the hypocrisy of the Repubs and conservatives right back into their faces. It doesn't ever change them, but it sure feels good and also makes an impression on those who are moderates or on the fence about whether to support the right or not...

Trump Escalates Violent Rhetoric, Says Indictment Will Result in 'Potential Death & Destruction'

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2023:

I say if indicting him causes that, then bring it on, time we got on with our delayed civil war, so we can all find out if living out the rest of our natural lives will be worth it, at least if we stay in the US.

Don’t say “period”: How Florida Republicans are taking aim at basic sex education - Vox

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2023:

Don't teach girls about sex, but also don't let them have abortions. Just treat them like the breeding livestock they are supposed to be, at least if they are poor...

Parkland Dad Manuel Oliver Arrested After Being Ejected From House Hearing -- The Daily Beast

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2023:

Typical selective definition of free speech by Repubs....

Pro-Gun Tucker Carlson Pumps Brakes on Armed Transgender People -- The Daily Beast

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 24, 2023:

Typical conservative hypocrisy. So what else is new? Same way the Repubs suddenly got interested in gun control laws back in the 60s after the Black Panthers started arming themselves and showing up in public armed. It's all about exactly what type of people are arming themselves, and if they are inside or outside of the conservative tribe... Racist whites have always been against black folks being armed...

POST/COMMENT DELETION Sometimes, when I click on a post I get the following “Sorry, this post ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 21, 2023:

Or it could be that you have been blocked by the poster of the post, and didn't know you had been blocked.

Just as a quick reminder: Between 1947 and 1979, productivity in the U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 21, 2023:

Duh, it was all trickle up economics after Reagan...

Not sure where to put this: A recent photo appeared in the FFRF newsletter under the section, ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 18, 2023:

Typical MAGA asshole. I'm sure he's even more repulsive when viewed from the front. Glad we were spared that.

Republicans: Hey, we got a plan! Here's your plan missy! Now, go make me a sammich.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 17, 2023:

As former FL congressman Alan Grayson used to say, the Repubs also have a plan for Americans who get sick and have no health insurance. " The Repub plan is: You get sick, then you die"....

Cher pretty well nails this

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 16, 2023:

When and where did she say that? I would be interested in the source of where the quote occurred.

Bobo should have been paying more attention to the morals at home than everywhere else.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 16, 2023:

And yet, she will oppose legal abortion.

Laissez-faire Capitalism fails again.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 15, 2023:

So what else is new?

Wednesday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 15, 2023:

Kitty looks extremely happy.

Jim Bakker Claims Satan Directing People to Mock Him for Selling Survival Food During a recent ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 13, 2023:

But mocking him is one of my small pleasures in life, esp. when I saw the movie The Eyes Of Tammy Faye. I actually felt some sympathy and compassion for Tammy Faye while watching the movie, but as for Jim, he was just a buffoon and a con man, so easy to mock and laugh at, along with how he also was such an obvious closet case... It is also sad and pathetic that he would also fit in so well with the modern Repub Party's collection of hucksters and nutcases in congress. I also agree that having the Rapture happen would almost be worth it if it did in fact remove so many of these religious right assholes from this world, but I am not optimistic that such as event would actually result in them being taken away from this world, and instead, there would just be a lot of actually decent people removed. All I know, is that we collectively appear to be figuratively headed to hell in a handbasket, and the only dispute is over the velocity with which we are heading there...

It's quaint.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 13, 2023:

And to think I spent all these years thinking that cattle drives over open land ended for good after John Wayne died at the end of the movie The Cowboys, lol...

Weakening child labor laws is the latest Republican target - Vox

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 13, 2023:

Our Repub guv in Iowa, Covid Kim Reynolds, is doing her part to solve Iowa's labor shortages by putting it on the backs of high school kids to work the jobs we can't fill. Because anyway, those kids don't need a good education for anything anyway, and she's making sure of that by defunding public schools and putting the money into school vouchers for private and Christian schools.

Monday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 13, 2023:

Love the look of tuxedo cats.

Certainly up to something.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2023:

That kitty certainly looks to be up to something passionate and ornery.

Insert Musical Interlude Here [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2023:

I hate him just as much as you, tho probably for not all the same reasons. We should have had Bernie, instead of him, and Bernie would have beat Trump, tho the corporate media and Dem loyalists will never admit that. Thanks for sharing this, and I do agree with most of the criticisms in the song. I assume you are not a fan of Bernie yourself. My guess is that your political viewpoints are Libertarian, which I despise, so you undoubtedly reject socialism, which I embrace. So our differences are clear.

Abby Martin & Immortal Technique: Civil War Legendary rapper Immortal Technique joins Abby to ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2023:

I like this guy's direct, blunt approach and also his healthy sense of anger.

Woke Imperialism Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2023:

Yup, identity politics is all bullshit and window dressing, since in the end, the token minority group members that get appointed to positions of power never end up actually promoting any real progressive change or making any changes. Like Thurgood Marshall said, after he retired from the Supreme Court and saw that he would probably be replaced by a token black man, which he was, by Clarence Thomas, that he needed to not just be replaced by a black man, but that it needed to be "the right black man". Boy was he prophetic...

Good for Marianne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 6, 2023:

I'm not into her New Age spirituality and such, but last time she did say some rather refreshingly candid and intelligent things, in the Dem primary debates. She has no chance at all, but I hope she stays in the race a while and ends up in the debates. Always glad to hear someone calling out the corporate Dems and the ruling class that funds them and pulls their strings.

The odds of being attacked by a...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 5, 2023:

Such a cute uniform on the kitty...

Body cameras.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 4, 2023:

I loath the idea of getting a smartphone, but after what recently happened to a friend of mine, getting pulled over late at night by a cop who was out trolling for drunk drivers, and determined to arrest my friend on a DUI charge so he could put a notch in his belt, I would recommend everybody have something handy to record any traffic stops with the cops, to protect themselves from being railroaded like my friend was. He ended up being taken to jail, even tho he was not intoxicated, because he refused a breathalyzer tests, on principle, as well as to do a field sobriety test. He refused the breathalyzer because he didn't trust the cop to not tamper with it and also didn't want to blow into something that had been used with other people and risk getting Covid from it. He couldn't walk the field sobriety test, because he has a bad foot that has had several surgeries on it, and he had bloodshot eyes, according to the cop, because he had had three cataract surgeries within a month and a half before the stop. The cop was unwilling to listen to or accept any of his reasons for the bloodshot eyes and foot, and instead was clearly determined to send him to jail, claiming he was "swerving" before being pulled over, but refused to show my friend the dashcam evidence of him swerving before being stopped. My friend is planning to sue the cop and his department for false arrest, and I think he will win, if he can find a lawyer to take his case. He has already talked with one and thinks that lawyer will work with him. A local college kid recently did the same thing, sued for false arrest on a bogus DUI charge, and is asking for 1.2 Mil, so it might be a big payday if he can win.

Just logged on after awhile and got many responses to a comment I made on Trump piñata.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 3, 2023:

Join the club. I got booted from the group long ago, by HippieChick, the group's mod, after I had an argument outside of the group with her on another forum of this site. The bitch was petty enough to boot me from the group, even tho the argument was personal, outside of the group, and had nothing at all to do with the Trump Pinata group. So that is how much the mods here can get away with abusing their power these days, since nobody is watching over them and they have no accountability to anyone.

Who of you would self-identify as nihilist?

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 3, 2023:

No. If for no other reason than that I think morality is very important, esp. since we only go around once in life on this rock, so living morally is extremely important.

Cat helps rescuers find man who fell down waterfall - pennlive.com

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2023:

A true rescue cat.

Everybody does.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2023:

My new girlfriend sends me messages during the day while she is working, but I don't find them boring and she does it because she wants me to know she is thinking of me and that I am important to her.

My life story, so to speak

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2023:

Acting immature, by itself, is harmless, but still, it's also important to not act like an asshole, at any adult age...

Thursday morning fluff

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2023:

Nice assortment of color markings. I assume that's the mama cat by the cat bed.

I've always wanted to publicly post my groin for all to see.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 1, 2023:

As Jim Carey's movie character would say, "Well, alrighty then..."....

A whole lot of fluff!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 1, 2023:

Very cute fluff.

Republican Rep.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2023:

Another C student, like W., thinking he is smart enough to run other people's lives. Sounds like he is one of those " I is a college student" types... He may be dumb as a box of rocks, but I have to admire his persistence to keep at it for 17 years to finish his degree, lol. And, of course, he comes from a Southern state, where ignorance is revered, common, and valued by its voters, because those voters feel threatened by leaders who are smarter and more knowledgeable than them.

Church mice ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2023:

The rodent version of Jehovah's Witnesses. Cheeses, Jeezus, whatever....

Christians who went to the Asbury "revival" may have been exposed to measles

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2023:

I'm sure that prayer will solve any problems they get from being infected. (snark).

I wonder why that is?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2023:

They also don't talk about how the rich quit paying Social Security taxes very early into each tax year, because it takes almost no time for them to reach the income earnings cap on SS taxes, and/or because most of their income is in stock options that are not even taxed at all. And I know the argument that will be used by the rich to justify the earnings cap on SS income, and that they and their supporters will say they shouldn't have to pay into it at all, etc., because they don't need SS themselves, but my counter-argument is that they benefit from all the workers they exploit to achieve their capitalist wealth, so they should be required to financially support the SS benefits their workers need, the same way that capitalists and their businesses should be taxed for SS when they replace workers with machines, because doing so drains the SS system of revenue, so let the capitalists replace workers with machines, but also make them pay SS taxes on those machines, the same way they would for human workers staying in those jobs. If that happened, maybe they would think twice about automating everything in the name of efficiency and greed.

Singaporean man sues woman for $3.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2023:

It's always comforting, at least somewhat, I suppose, to hear of other countries, such as this, where the legal system is even more cock-eyed than here in America. I would like to think that in America, this kind of lawsuit would be laughed out of court, even with how patriarchal America is.

After school club banned

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2023:

Hail Satan, lol!

In 2006, billionaire Warren Buffet said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2023:

I am a proud socialist, and the professional managerial class are what socialists like me call the coordinator class, as they do the work of the 1% in managing the rabble, feeding them propaganda, shaping opinions, etc., and most importantly, distracting them and keeping them focused on issues irrelevant to the class war, like PC, culture war stuff, and identity politics, while all the while, these members of the coordinator class hide behind the political label of liberal. I know, I've seen many of them up close and personal at Unitarian churches. They talk a good game of being social justice warriors, etc, but when you scratch them deep enough, you find that they are just as materialistic, greedy, selfish, and classist as any conservative or Repub when it comes to issues of class and income inequality. They are fine with the status quo, as it serves them well, and they don't want to give an inch on their comfy spot in the top 10% class economically.

No questions, just pictures. This is Puff.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 22, 2023:

Puff's cuteness deserves to be shared with the world.

New Rule: Parliament Fights | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 18, 2023:

He has a point, but making a work of art and compromising and cooperating on governing, where getting elected and staying in power to do it, involves not only accomplishing things, but getting enough credit for it is key to winning elections, is a whole other thing than making movies or TV shows. Because actors and directors can still keep getting work and making big money, even if they don't get all the public credit, as long as they are regarded as being highly talented in the industry, and even more so, if they are popular with the public and can draw viewers.

There Are No Permanent Allies

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 18, 2023:

I despise identity politics too. It allows people who are just as callous, greedy, and selfish as the Repubs to identify themselves as liberal Dems and hide behind that, when in actuality, they are just as greedy, callous, and selfish as the Repubs they profess to hate, only because of culture war issues. That is what MLK realized near the end of his life, that the movement needed to go beyond racism and identity politics, and embrace socialism wholely, if it was ever going to defeat racism, because all of the above issues Hedges mentions are inseparably connected to matters of inequality in power and wealth.

"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2023:

Still classic and still true, the insatiable thirst for profits over people, the evil root of capitalism.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2023:

File under " People With Issues", lol...

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TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2023:

They are such entertaining creatures.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2023:

All of that is proof that we no longer have the rule of law and have also become a lawless country, where nobody who is rich and powerful is held accountable anymore, from either major party. Thus, we have become a clearly failed democracy, and I don't see it ever being reversed in my lifetime, if ever. Because that would involve the sheeple finally waking up and dumping both the major parties, voting in third parties in DC, and then eliminating the big money in politics. None of that is ever going to happen, with the power of the corporate media, and the ignorance and gullibility of most Americans.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2023:

You have a delightfully twisted sense of humor, Pralina, same as me.

I'm sitting in company break room listening to conversations while eating lunch.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 16, 2023:

It's baffling at times, isn't it, how these people never listen to themselves and have no clue how idiotic they sound. Sounds like you have a similar workplace to my last one before I retired.

I apologize for the length of this post.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 15, 2023:

I have no idea of your age nor that of the women you are talking about. It is always nice to have too many options and prospects, rather than too few or none, which is how the dating game goes, at least for most men like me. It's always feast or famine. Glad I seem to be finally ready to retire from the game for good, as I seem to have met my unicorn a few weeks ago. So if it lasts, and she doesn't get ill or die prematurely, I should have a partner for the rest of my life. As to your situation, I think that with how horrible the dating game is these days for anyone middle aged or older. Because of that, I think that many or most women who are single or in your age group, as well as mine, like to protect themselves emotionally, as well as keep their expectations in check, by saying they are "only interested in a friendship", etc., early on after meeting a man, as well as on dating sites in their profiles. Their reasons for this are to not only fend off and discourage the men who are either wanting to drag them into bed as early as possible after connecting on a dating site, as well as men who are more sincere and interested in genuine and lasting relationships, from putting too much pressure or seriousness on them early in the dating process, etc. But make no mistake, I suspect that most of these women are actually looking for something deep and lasting with a man, despite their statements saying they are more interested in just friendships, etc., for the forseeable future. And they know that time is not on their side, nor that of men who are also single and in the dating market. So, no matter what they are saying, or even what you may be sincerely saying and wanting, these women do see the other female friends of yours as competition and potentially someone who will prevent them from being able to enjoy a lasting romantic relationship, whenever in the future they might feel ready and honest enough to admit that is what they want with you and are willing to take the risk of being rejected for that, or, if you accept their proposal of a romantic committed relationship, being disappointed in how you pan out for that. Best of luck, as the singles world these days, esp. the online dating part of it, are a real jungle, at best, or a cesspool, at worst, depending on your perspective. PS- I'm amused by your reference to Literate Hiker and her many stories about her experiences with men in the dating game, as I blocked her long ago after getting fed up with how she constantly was engaging in low key male-bashing by always putting the blame, fault or deficiencies leading to incompatibility on the men, and never owning up to any of her faults or her own unreasonable or unrealistic demands on the men for qualities they lacked. At least you seem to...

Nobody talk to me till I’ve had my coffee

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 15, 2023:

Uh oh, now that kitty might be awake for a whole hour or two!......

Schools become flashpoint for Republicans eyeing 2024 presidential race | PBS NewsHour

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 13, 2023:

My fav is the cigarette smoking, burned out teacher.

Red State Republicans Propose Using Children to Fill Labor Shortages Faced with low unemployment ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 13, 2023:

Yeah, why not go back 100 years in social conditions, instead of just to 1950? These assholes want as much regression as they can get.