Ouch! Living in America is crazy even for crazy Ozzy Osbourne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

If I was that rich and could live anywhere, I would be in BC, British Columbia..

An example of the right politicizing something that had no political content, and even worse, an ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

While the Dilbert strip is usually right on the money in making fun of how fucked up corporate life and workplace politics are, he has always been a right wing asshole, so I have always hated him personally and ignored the messenger is this case.

I wonder if Tina Forte and her drug dealer family are aware that casting for The Sopranos ended 15 ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

She's too late for The Sopranos, tho she would have fit right in with them, and she's too old for Jersey Shore, so I guess that leaves her with just Repub politics. Yes, she is a a buffoon and I'm sure there's no way she will get elected over AOC. She is probably just there to excite the base, attract publicity for the party and help other Repubs on the ballot there with turnout. I do have to admit it would be fun to watch her debate AOC, altho it would surely degenerate into a shouting match the same as the debate between Trump and Biden. It would be entertaining, but totally uninformative...

Cat in therapy...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

Cats are such stressed, aggrieved creatures, except for when they are blissfully napping, while dreaming of treats, hunting mice and birdies, etc... They have such a hard life, and it's hard work staying that cute....

There’s a shark on my head isn’t there

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

Kitty looks very scared or confused about the shark....

Trump Tells Hannity He Can Declassify Secret Documents With Just His Mind During a recent ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

You mean, instead of waving a magic wand, he simply thinks them into de-classification?

Republican Senator Says God Sent Rain to Oklahoma as Payment for Anti-Abortion Laws In a recent ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

He must have forgot the story of Noah and the flood...

A National Year Of Humiliation U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

I'm embarrassed to admit I am familiar with Miller-Meeks from Iowa. She is a nutcase that represents a rural Iowa district full of hicks and ignorant idiots, so that is how she gets elected over and over.

I knew I shouldn’t have had that last slice of pizza

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

Kitty has a funny tummy now....

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books from the library, watching a lot of TV, surfing the net, and visiting Agnostic a lot, as back then there were a lot more active members. Then, after I was finally able to get vaxed, I started getting back out there to enjoy karaoke, live bands, movies, and, finally, live theater again. I resolved to start living my life again as normally as possible once vaxed and I am determined to keep doing so, as long as being vaxed and boosted protects me from serious illness and death. The only things I am holding back on are commercial air travel and out of the country travel.

Gotcha!!! [twitter.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Cats can make chasing their own tail so damn cute!

My feral has started bringing me stuff, so I'm on the look out

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Their hearts are in the right place and they mean well....

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Not the best way to intro yourself to the community, jus' sayin'... Interesting username, since your style is anything but laidback....

Never heard of the Somali before. What a beauty!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2022:

Such a huge fluffy tail..

UMass football team schedules 'Pride Day' for game against Liberty U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2022:

I dunno, all that hugging between the male Liberty players looks kind of homoerotic to me.....

They are plotting my demise...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2022:

I would be worried too, if I were their hooman... They have probably already interviewed and selected your replacement. It will be made to look like an accident...

I guess that makes them neither of either.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

Most people make the easy mistake of thinking Repubs can be shamed by others pointing out their obvious hypocrisy. Maybe a long time ago they could be, but not in this century...

Cats and their tiny crocheted couches.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

They also love their boxes...

A bit of fluff for the day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

I have to go with Mr. Burns...

Haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

I'm sure living in GA doesn't help. All the non-believers probably either live in Athens or the Atlanta area. You seem to live in that area, so you may have way more luck than me.

the orange traitor

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

I esp. like the first meme, about how for decades the Dem Party has been led by pussies and corporate Dems, who never fought back or played hardball against the Repubs, because they were equally corrupt and had no intention of being a real opposition party. That is why liberalism no longer has any credibility with average Americans and neither does the Dem Party, because neither one deserves it. And that is how the white working class, after being overwhelmingly loyal to the Dems historically, was driven into the arms of the Repub Party.

sad hospital visit

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

The South is a shithole, third world country, in and of itself. I so wish it would secede from the US.... It has all the qualities of the foreign places Trump condemns, and yet, it is the place in our country where he has his greatest level of support and popularity. Can you say irony?? But Repub supporters are mostly too damned dumb to get or sense irony about anything..

Instead of restricting it by high prices, educate every person in whatever their abilities allow ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

No need to sell me on it, but the rich, corporations, and our leaders want anything but this to happen. They want the masses ignorant and dumb, but just smart enough to be able to run the machines at work. That is, until they can be replaced by machines....

Don't forget which party wants to restrict all your rights.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

Unfortunately, too many Americans only care about four freedoms, the freedom to hate everyone who is different than you, the freedom to own guns, the freedom to believe in their religion of choice, (but not in any other religion) and the freedom to own the libs. As for as the rest of their own freedoms, they really don't care when the government takes them away..., such as the Patriot Act or the NSA spying on Americans...

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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

As has been said ad nauseum on these boards, even if the Christians become a minority of the population, they will still dominate the politics of America..

Dear God I just want to say you really like to hide from your children on earth and watch all of us ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel, lol...

SHIT HAPPENS! Close-to-complete ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2022:

I add the philosophy of the rock band Dawes (not a religion): Things happen, that's all they ever do....

Where the hell do I belong?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2022:

Congratulations! You are even more of a cultural and lifestyle outlier than I am, in my local dating pool. I always fear that I am terminally unique, but you take the cake. Thanks for letting me know that others have it worse than me when it comes to the dating game. I have no advice...

Lauren Boebert has to be mentally ill.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

She gives a bad rap to other ignorant trailer trash that deserve better than to be lumped in with her, lol...

I wonder if she wants the job again?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

I can understand why he had to pay her so much for one sexual encounter. I can't imagine any woman but Melania, if even her, that would allow themselves to be that physically close to him for less money than that.

I wonder if any of the financially inconvenienced millionaires that support the rights of businesses...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

The answer is NO.... Most Americans are idiots who politically identify with who they admire or aspire to be, even if it's a delusion in thinking that they are or will ever be a member of that club, so they keep voting and politically allying against their own economic interests. If most Americans ever heard George Carlin's rants about the club they are not in, and never will be in, and believed him, we would have much better politics here. The Lucy and Charlie cartoon here is like Trickle Down economics, a myth spread by the rich for their benefit and the fleecing of everybody else, but it works because most of those being fleeced buy into it.

Christianity to lose majority status in US by 2070, per Pew model

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2022:

We can hope, but in the end, Christianity will still have most of the power and be over-represented in government, regardless of being a minority of the population.

I'm concerned with the design of this group that posts by the Admin seem to be permanently pinned to...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I prefer the Liberal Progressive group format to this one.

Doublespeak from the Ministry of Truth

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Not from where I sit and from what I observe around me with my fellow peasants...

Before we lay off any more non essential workers, I suggest these first

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I would also include the many Dems in congress that are corporate Dems and make up the majority of the party in both houses... The are just as worthless, and opposed to the interests of average Americans, as the Repubs... All those Dems care about is campaign donations of corporate cash, keeping their jobs and perks, while posturing about identity politics and culture war stuff that has no real effect in improving the lives of most average Americans. Which is why so many average Americans have caught onto both major parties and no longer vote in federal elections. In fact, the non-voters outnumber the number of voters who voted for Biden as well as those who voted for Trump. In any other country, that would be seen as a vote of No Confidence for either party.

Ole 3 toes is finally adding class somewhere.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Trash hanging out with trash...

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

In the interest of fairness and accuracy, I wanted to share that I saw the story of this case on the front page of the statewide newspaper, The Des Moines Register today. I figured this site's members would be interested in knowing that racism apparently was not an issue in her sentencing. The judge was a black male, same race as her. Sounds like she maybe could have had better legal representation and not settled for the plea bargain that took away her affirmative defense for the stabbing and murder. But that could easily have ended up with a conviction, where a long prison sentence would have been certain. I do hope this troubled young woman does take this opportunity of the fundraising paying her restitution to finally get her head straight and make something positive out of her life. She has clearly suffered greatly and also made some bad choices, along with developing some behavior issues. I think the restitution was excessive, but it's now a moot point. The future is all up to her. I hope she completes her probation and gets into some programs for her issues and learns some job and life skills as well during her probation.

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Should have given her a medal and sent her home..

Atheists didn’t finish the job (yet), so God’s Not Dead 5 will come out in 2023

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Well, I guess it's no different than how Dracula seemed to always come back no matter how many times he got staked, lol... Same as endless Dracula movies, it's all about money... Christianity will never die in American politics...

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Nice that the establishment did the right thing, since my experience with bars that I go to for karaoke, never seem to do that when someone harasses me for no good reason. But in your case, you had a whole group there that the guy harassed, unlike my experiences where it was more one on one, so they probably figured it was worth bouncing him in order to keep your group coming back. I call that bar economics or bar injustice, where it's not about behavior, but about numbers of each party involved, that determines what, if anything, the bar does after a conflict occurs. In this case, the guy was clearly a nutcase, rather than some regular drunken asshole like I encounter at bars, so hopefully the place will bar him for good with the police call, and if he shows up there again, he will be charged with trespassing and violating a no-contact order they got against him after the police call. I'm like you, in that I enjoy screwing with the heads of religious nuts, but I have begun to realize, like Betty said, that it's probably not worth the risk now that right wingers feel so emboldened to act violently towards us and that you never know which of them might have guns at home or in their vehicle, even if they are unarmed when you encounter them.If we were a sane and civilized country with gun control, the risk from these people would be a lot less, but we aren't and it isn't.

Wednesday morning cuteness...Off to school

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I remember a neighborhood cat back when I lived in another city, that would follow his owner's kids to school while they rode their bikes. We called him a school cat because he wanted to go to school with the kids he lived with and become smarter. He was a black cat..

Who you going to vote for?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

For now, who knows how much longer we will still have elections for?

Ken Starr, Prosecutor in Clinton Whitewater Probe, Dies at 76 The family said it was ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

The good die young, pricks and bitches live forever, it seems...

A couple of days late, but still relevant.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

We all knew that the Repubs who were so righteous about memorializing 9-11 were fake patriots, with their Support Our Troops bumper stickers and such, and all the while denying the evidence that the Bush admin,. was at least aware of, if not involved in, letting 9-11 happen. But they didn't care about the truth, only about using the event for their own political ends, including getting Dems and people on the left to shut up and support the troops, etc...

Trump supporter shoots family after being radicalized over Trump's loss [newsweek.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Crazy people and guns, not a good mix. Too bad our system does little to keep crazies from owning guns. This was a tragedy waiting to happen and the right wing internet stuff was there to light the fuse.

Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Why does none of that surprise me? The MIC always get all the money they seek from our congress, and more, but nobody ever criticizes it for ballooning the debt or the money being wasted. It's the biggest and best scam in our federal government..

Capitalism versus communism debate [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Because communism has already become fairly discredited, I would much rather see a debate in which one side argues for democratic socialism, which has been successfully practiced in many countries, and the other side attempt to argue in favor of American capitalism, which in practice is actually a plutocracy for government and neoliberalsim and unchecked capitalism for its economic policies. The argument that societies have only two choices, capitalism and communism or some other totalitarian form of government, is a false one. Socialism has been given a bad name because if its critics constantly lumping it in with communism, falsely and bringing up the boogeymen of Mao and Stalin... But unfortunately, most Americans are too ignorant about politics and economics, along with being brainwashed by the corporate media, so they fall for it...

This guy wants to meet me.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Sometimes it seem like the scammers aren't even willing to put an honest effort into it, this one's a very lazy scammer... If you want to screw with his head a while, you could play along and be sure to mention how you have a vast fortune and are a lonely widow, etc., I think you can figure out the rest.. Just enjoy having the last laugh when he finally comes around to making the financial ask or wants your banking or identity info, and you tell him to go screw himself...

Chewy randomly and unexpectedly sent me this free painting of my Oliver! 😱 It looks just like ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Oliver is the new Grumpy Cat..

Holy Babymaking, Batman!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Didn't I see some kind of cult fertility ritual of this sort many years ago in the horror film Harvest Home with Bette Davis?

Several posts have been made on this site recently about Hasidic schools in the USA, which are ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2022:

No, there can't be, but the Repub theocrats are fully committed to no separation of the two, as long as the state religion is fundamentalist Christianity..

"A verbal encounter with police at a Black Lives Matter protest led pregnant activist to 4-year ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

It's bullshit that her lawyer is even having to make the appeal for a reduced sentence solely on grounds of mercy for her medical condition and pregnancy, rather than just on the obvious unfairness of the original sentence and the original charge against her. She was no threat to anyone, unlike the insurrectionists. Typical American justice, one standard for colored defendants and left wing protesters, and another one for whites who are right wing protesters or terrorists, unless the latter group actually kill or shoot somebody that is law enforcement, then they get the book thrown at them... Unless they kill or shoot law enforcement, they always get the kid gloves treatment, since the cops and prosecutors are usually politically allied or at least sympathetic to them.... The story give no details about the sentencing judge, but I have little doubt that he was likely a conservative white man, probably racist, who wanted to put this black woman in her place...

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

He's now up to level 4, so it may be Mission Accomplished...

Who played this ? At school? after school? during the summer?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Nowadays, seeing a tether ball pole only makes me think of the movie Napoleon Dynamite, where the final scene included a game of that.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

My guess is the OP just wanted to stir the shit and rile people up, and he succeeded...

So terribly sad the guilt this innocent man has borne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

He has no reason to feel guilt. The real guilt and blame belong to Cheney and maybe also W., as well as all those in the intelligence community who I have no doubt at least knew 9-11 was going to happen and let it happen, all so Cheney could have his war with Iraq and get their oil, as well as provide the excuse for the War On Terror, the Patriot Act, and other policies to take away our freedoms, civil liberties, and rights to dissent. An added bonus was that 9-11 allowed W. to suddenly rocket in popularity and stature as the country predictably rallied around him and he went from looking like a doofus to a Churchill-like statesman. I'm a pretty cynical person, but even I don't want to think the Cheney and some of his allies in the intelligence community were actively, instead of passively involved in the attack on that day, but either way, it was obvious the government was involved in the demolition and collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center, so they knew something was going to happen and were ready that day to work with it to serve their ends.

THE OTHER SIDE.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

I'm so sick of people saying the term, " passed" instead of died or dead. Why the avoidance of the more accurate term and instead using the milder euphanism?

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Your experience is by no means unique. I have run across the profiles of several really hot looking, college educated white professional career women on Match, who only wanted to date black men who were less educated than them, high school level only, for what was obviously just a casual, sex-based relationship, if you can call it that, or dating. It's not hard to figure out where these women's heads were at, maybe some sort of fantasy about black studs, etc. Needless to say, I never messaged any of them after seeing their profile, as I'm not their type or the race they wanted, to each their own.....

Cat Obsessed With Baby Brother Thinks He’s Also A Baby | The Dodo Cat Crazy - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Some cats really do think they are people, this one is so cute and amusing. I have also seen cats who think they are actually dogs and who interact with dogs as if they were the same species..

How The Big Lebowski Inspired Its Own Religion

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

I'm not surprised it inspired a religion. Sounds like it would be fun, as sort of a pseudo religion.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost the vast majority of members that joined in the last several years. As for finding people here that are interested in poly relationships, I would say the odds are even more uphill than for finding people interested in mono relationships. Rotsa ruck... I like the format of this site for being able to get to know people more deeply and gradually than in other dating sites, where the process is more brief and superficial than here, and would prefer this to the regular paid membership dating sites, but since this site offers no local dating options for me, and never has, since I joined several years ago, it's either Match or nothing for me as far as ever meeting someone to date. And even Match has become a worse site over the last couple years, as is probably the case with all paid dating sites, since they have no real competition and have no incentive to improve their quality and services. It appears that all of them, except E-Harmony maybe, keep making their profile formats worse and more limited, so their usefulness in finding compatible matches keeps getting worse. But the prices keep going up. That's what happens when companies have no real competition, enjoy monopoly power in their industry and have no government regulation either. And the dating sites really have no incentive to help their members successfully find long term compatible matches, as they make more money from keeping you single and a paying member for years and years. So they will, as long as most singles continue to have hope that by remaining a paying member, their ship will come in eventually and as long as the dating sites have enough anecdotal success stories among the public to continue to seem legitimate as a way to meet a partner.

Doesn't this just sound about right?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Trump is the proverbial creep who would sell his own grandmother for a nickel...

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Met another woman last night who labeled herself as Independent on her profile. She rejected me, mainly on not being outdoorsy enough to match her, which I think was probably honest and legit, but what struck me as weird, in hindsight, is that my profile info should have made it pretty clear that I'm not as outdoorsy as most people, so why did she reply to my first message and agree to meet me in the first place? It was obvious once we started talking about politics last night in our meeting, which she doesn't like to discuss, that she is very conservative on the economic issues, with the usual mindset that most poor people made bad choices, deserve to suffer for it, and don't deserve much help from the government or society. I learned this from her bringing up the issue of student debt relief and she had no response when I heard her out, and then brought up the counter arguments of how a highly educated general population is a social and societal good that would improve our politics, government and society, as well as the contrast and lack of justice, fairness, and equality in how corporations receive all kinds of undeserved and unneeded welfare from the govt., same with the military budget, and finally how businesses were all bailed out with Covid relief along with the Wall Street banks that made bad bets and fraudulent loans in the Great Recession and they were not seen as undeserving. She had no answer and changed the subject, but I had already knew we were politically incompatible and just wanted to maybe get her to learn something about her selective standards for who is worth and deserving and who isn't, regarding government help.

Does reversing abortion laws give all non-white Americans a better socio-economic demographic ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Whites becoming even more of a racial minority is not a concern for these theocratic, racist fascist nationalists, because, under a totalitarian, fascist government, a minority group can still control the majority oppressed group or groups thru sheer force of the iron fist. Ever hear of South Africa? It's not something that is easy to maintain forever, but it's something that can be implemented, and don't think the Repubs and their white Christian nationalists allies are unwilling to take power, thru elections or civil war, and go for it.

[msnbc.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I think public shaming has its place and some constructive uses. Our modern culture and society might benefit some from having it partially returned to more frequent use, at least on the powerful, rich, and famous... Most of America is way too enamoured of the rich, famous, and powerful, who tend to be some of our worst people. All because, in many cases, becoming one of those three groups requires a certain moral flexibility, shall we say, that I find disgusting and shameful.

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I am gratified to see the fairly even split of votes, because it doesn't surprise me much in my online dating experience. The numbers finally seem to add up and make sense. Let me explain. Almost all the women I have connected with on Match, tho they are only a small subset of the total population in my local online dating pool, tell me that almost all the guys they encounter on Match seem to be only interested in sex rather than actual long term relationships. But at the same time, over 85% of the women in my local dating pool, even tho I am very selective about who I message and reach out to in the first place, reject me without ever replying to me. What I infer from that, for what it's worth, is that there are also plenty of women in my local dating pool who are glad to also, like all the men I keep hearing about, go ahead and date someone otherwise incompatible if they are hot enough looking and the sex is great. Because so many women are rejecting me, due to looks or maybe also or instead feeling I'm not compatible, even tho they seem to be compatible on paper, otherwise I wouldn't have messaged them in the first place. So looks and dating just for sex, seem to be the unspoken factors, at least in my experience, of who gets chosen for dating, rather than it being mostly or always based on compatibility traits that show up on paper and in profiles, so to speak. And it goes both ways with each gender. Which is what people have been saying for years on this site as well as what the research has shown. Looks matter way more than most people are willing to admit in their dating choices, except maybe in polls like this, where people are willing to privately admit what their priorities are in dating and partner selection. I have no doubt that, in spite of how mismatched I am on paper with the local dating pool, on traits like religion, kids situation, drinking habits and hating country music, that if I still had a full head of hair and an athletic body, my response rate to my first messages would be a lot higher than the 10-15% that it is..... even with the fact that in my dating pool, the ratio of men to women is almost 3 to 1. And it is also obvious with online dating, including with my choices, that the first factor people use in narrowing their choices for who to connect with, is how attractive the photos look, and then moving on from there to see how compatible the rest of the profile appears to be, on paper, so to speak.

Ex-FBI Official Says Trump's Nuclear Information Had High 'Price Tag'

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

His ass should be in prison for espionage, not Assange's, but that difference shows how our system has one set of rules and justice for those rich and connected with the establishment and another set for those like Assange, who aren't and who dare expose and challenge the establishment.

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Sorry, not sorry... Sex is not important enough to me to date someone whose values are diametrically opposed to mine, and, while sexual attraction is important to me in choosing who to date, it's never been enough for me to keep seeing someone that I am otherwise not compatible with and who does not share my values. I won't even maintain a friendship with someone whose values are extremely oppositional to mine.

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - on the river Thames - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

I always liked what Elvis Costello said about the royals, something like, " Why do we still have them? All they do is attend ceremonies and spend their whole life on holiday".... The hypocrisy of the rich royals preaching austerity is jaw-dropping...

Federal lawsuit challenges Oklahoma anti-transgender bathroom law

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Bigoted, Bible-thumping rednecks...

MAGA modus operandi

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

That is it in a nutshell.

Voting is the most powerful weapon we have in the fight against MAGA Republicans - TheGrio

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Voting means little if all the candidates with any chance of winning are all ones that are corporate friendly, neoliberals who are funded by corporations, the rich, and industry lobby groups. And some of the worst pols to vote for are ones like Jim Clyburn, the Uncle Tom corporate Dem who led the kneecapping of Bernie in the primaries by turning black voters against him and rigging the nomination for Biden last time. These black pols are selling out the economic interests of most members of their race, but they do it shamelessly for their own wealth and power and most fellow blacks fall for it and vote for them solely out of race loyalty...

Baptist Bill Grady Spreading Racist Christian Nationalism Bill Grady is a Baptist preacher ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2022:

This guy is like that now dead gay-hating nutcase preacher Fred Phelps. He needs to be repeatedly humiliated and ridiculed by frequent pies in the face at public events. The sick thing is, his followers are brutal and crazy enough to shoot and kill anyone that had the guts to pie him. And in some parts of the country, they would walk free after doing it..

Yet another massive disaster. They just keep coming [accuweather.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2022:

Extreme weather is the new, frequent norm. Get used to it, as we're past the tipping point on climate change. Taking the needed policy changes now, not that I think our planet's leaders ever will, is not going to prevent it or stop it, only mitigate what happens in the future with climate. It's too late to start doing what should have been done decades ago, and have it prevent more climate change. It's morbidly comforting to know I'll be dead before the planet becomes uninhabitable....

Anti-gay WI GOP candidate had 'many sexual encounters' with male colleague

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

The right wing male Repubs that are anti gay almost always turn out to be closet cases. Both hypocrites and self-hating gay men... Sounds like this guy also has some anger management issues.....

Love is all you need!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

Those two things do make life worth living and can help heal a lot of ills.. Woody was by no means a saint, but he was a good man and very inspiring.. One other thing that is a great remedy for many societal ills is average people organizing and gaining power, instead of all the organizing occurring only with people who already are rich and powerful to become even more rich and powerful, which is how it's been for the last fifty years..

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

It's also amusing and gratifying as well, to see some women who are closet Trumpers and conservatives read my initial message to them, then view my profile, and finally go back and change their profile to say they are a conservative. To me, that feels like a small victory that I got them to finally be honest so that they don't mistakenly get messaged by lefties like me. Too bad that it takes that for them to finally do the right thing. I notice the change in their profile when I go back periodically and view the profiles of women I have messaged and sent Likes to that never message me back, just to see what their current status is, active or not, etc..

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

The article is so right on. The majority of our society and our institutions are dominated by believers, so non-believers continue to be automatically viewed as immoral and unethical, when the truth is many believers are actually those things, but they automatically get the benefit of the doubt from other believers, all because they identify as being members of the same tribe. It's all about tribalism...

Out of curiousity, how many different people do you, personally, think is the AVERAGE number of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I have no doubt I am below the average, but I don't worry about it. We all have different natures and what matters is being ok with your own and finding someone that matches it. I would guess my number is 7.

He didn't really walk back his threat of riots; he lied that he had said something else.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I say bring it on, if his followers want to begin civil war, then let's get on with it, I think it's been coming for a while and is inevitable anyway in the next few years or sooner. If the DOJ lets him slip away without being charged, then it will encourage another insurrection anyway and set the precedent, which is already being set with the light sentences, that insurrections have no real consequences for the plotters or even for the violent rioters.

I thought this was a pretty good deconstruction of Biden’s "Soul of the Nation" speech.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I saw clips of his speech too. Same as his reaction to Roe being overturned, he will cynically use it, instead of actually doing anything progressive, to let innocent people suffer as pawns for his midterm election efforts, which are half-hearted at best anyway, since we all know the DNC long ago quit caring about winning federal elections and instead raking in max corporate campaign money while caring only about serving them in between elections. I wish the two commentators would just let the speech play and interject their comments as it plays, rather than all the pontificating before they actually began playing it. On Free Speech TV, when they cover a major party speech like this, they just get right to it, commenting on the speech as it plays, so we can clearly see the contrast between how corporate media covers and comments on these speeches and how Free Speech TV covers them

If a mature woman, enamoured of her husband, said you could ask her any questions you liked about ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Frankly I have no interest in the sex lives of others, whether they are single friends or married friends, not my business. If I encountered the woman thru the dating game, I would proceed very cautiously and slowly towards inquiring about her sexual history or preferences. The thing that women in the online dating game keep telling me, and I have no reason to doubt them, is that 95% of the men they encounter thru that are either just interested in meeting women for sex or that they want to move onto sex way too quickly, like on the first or second meeting with the woman. Fortunately for me, I am wired more the opposite way than the 95%, for what that's worth, but it doesn't seem to really matter, since on average I only end up meeting one or two new women per month thur Match. Guess I have way too many other traits, including average looks, that make me undateable or too undesireable for almost all the women who are average looking or better in my local online dating pool.

Trump Claims He’s ‘Financially Supporting’ Jan 6th Defendants During an interview on the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Only the stupid among his MAGA followers will still believe him that he will give them pardons if elected again or that he will ever pay their legal fees before then, but then again, there is an awful lot of stupid among that crowd of insurrectionist rioters. I feel no sympathy for them, even tho Trump conned them. There need to be consequences for stupidity, for any of the stupid to even have a chance of learning from their faults.

I had stopped drinking back around the time my kids showed up in my life to be a responsible single ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I've had Kaliber before and it's really good. Unfortunately I've only found one restaurant that had it and it was far away from where I live. Just happened to be there once in a while when visiting my father, who lived in that city. I have never found a bar that had it. Like you, I don't drink, but it's because of my heart condition and the blood thinner I take for it. Never had any issues with alcohol as far as addiction or abuse. St. Pauli Girl NA, a German import, is also good.

The times are changing

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I really doubt many Repub women will vote Dem because of it, but I do think some Independent women will vote Dem over this, becoming single issue voters over it.

Several prominent Russian businessmen have died by apparent suicide in just three months - CNN

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I doubt those suicides are any more legit than Jeffery Epstein's. They're just murders that will never be proven, that's all.

It's a blessing to be with the right person

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

It is, the miracle is finding them, and having them choose you over all the competition..

Important to understand....

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2022:

Smartass!

America's like a car accident.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2022:

How dare reporters ask a Repub to justify their election by pinning them down on policy and trying to hold them accountable later on for not living up to their pre-election promises of what they'll do in office? Don't those reporters know that being a Repub pol means you only need to campaign on Fox News talking points about the Dems and other evil people that are ruining the country? The nerve of those reporters!

Beware of the man that tells you he is honest, if he is he will show it and he won't have to tell ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2022:

Well duh. To me they doth protest too much and are usually just covering something else up thru it, but unlike most voters, I am capable of critical thinking and reading between the lines of what they say, as well as comparing their words to their deeds. Most Americans, not so much, they take the words at face value, are not as smart, and sure as hell don't use critical thinking. Detecting nuance is beyond most people.

White nationalist: After School Satan clubs are an 'act of terrorism'

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2022:

Such hypocrisy. The real terrorism is the Bible thumpers threatening Greaves and his group. Clodfelter is such an appropriate name for that fool..

Maine's religious schools are choosing bigotry over taxpayer dollars

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2022:

I live in a red state, and the private religious schools started recently getting state money, with no strings attached...

It seems like every major injury I've had stems from this cause.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I'm very aware of my physical limitations. I quite lifting heavy things almost a decade ago, after an aortic aneuryism left me unable to safely lift over 50 pounds.

what are sweet life loving an agnostic who knows what it takes to be in love

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2022:

Rotsa ruck...

Love will come your way

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2022:

If I were a betting person, I'd say the odds are better than even that I will die before I find my next long term relationship, which would only be the second one in my life. I am too much of an outlier for my local dating pool..

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance | Don Caron - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2022:

I agree with every word of it, and nothing will change until most eligible voters break out of the duopoly and start voting for only third party candidates in fed elections, until then, prepare for full out fascism.. Because the Dems will not campaign honestly on the issue of economic populism, the Repubs will continue to be allowed the opening of running on right wing populism by pushing fascism and false promises of economic populism under the cover of patriotism and a return to white supremecy. Honest left wing populism is a winning issue, but the Dems will never honestly run on and govern with it, because it would offend their corporate donors and winning elections are no longer their top priority.

Conservative Christian groups are targeting Louisiana libraries : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The book that everybody should be required to read, but won't is Orwell's 1984, because it spells out the dangers of totalitarian governments and societies where assholes like this control all thought and information.. That is the last thing these fools would ever read and the first book they would ban..

Republican Heads Spinning As Biden Calls MAGA Thugs ‘Semi-Fascist’ Prominent Republicans ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2022:

Wish he had the balls to call them the fascists they are, without qualification....and not just the MAGA followers, but the Repubs in congress that support them.

Conservative Christian groups are targeting Louisiana libraries : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The right wing assholes are bullies and ignoramuses, but in that state, it's probably a qualification for public office...

Some salmon for my son,my daughter and I like the tilapia more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2022:

No offense, Aaron, but are we ever going to have singles post here about something besides food, pets, and wildlife? Surely there are other aspects to single life besides dating and those things...