Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

KKGator comments on Sep 5, 2022:

This is the kind of person who shouldn't be protected by the "cruel and unusual" clause. He, and assholes like him, make "an eye for an eye" a good idea. He should suffer mightily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@KKGator I agree with you, my conscience would get along just fine with the disapproval of others for my views or for this monster getting what he really deserves...

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

Silver1wun comments on Sep 11, 2022:

And, most of us earn it honestly.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 You do have a point on this guy's bio. It is pretty bizarre...

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

CuddyCruiser comments on Sep 6, 2022:

He ought to be tied up and thrown into a rat infested tenement in the South Bronx.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

That's always been my recommended punishment of choice for slumlords... Let the rats deliver justice.... unfortunately, there's that pesky 8th Amendment.... Another fitting punishment would be locking him in a room with all the women he abused, while he's handcuffed, for say, a few hours....... I'm sure they could come up with some things to do to him..... Maybe some objects rammed up his ass and into his mouth??? Along with some fiddling with his genitals??

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@Focus1 Maybe so. I know that many people in both groups, believers and non believers, include plenty of assholes, phonies, and predators, along with plenty of good people. So to me, labels are way less important at the individual level, and I look at the behavior rather than the rhetoric, from both believers and non-believers.

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

xenoview comments on Sep 11, 2022:

If everyone blocks him then he'll go away.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

Capital idea! He would then be left talking to himself....

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

KKGator comments on Sep 11, 2022:

If that's your experience, perhaps you might want to question what you're putting out to them. Most tree removal services are male-run businesses, employing mostly males. Same with auto repair shops. Shitty examples. If you're trying to make a point. Try again.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@MyTVC15 You make a good point. I have run across both many men and women that have their sexist views of what roles and activities are appropriate for each gender, and I get equally disgusted with both genders when they insist on maintaining their double or hypocritical double standards on gender roles. Such as women who want all the perks of feminism, but still insist on the man always paying the costs of dating, at least early on, if not all the way thru the dating process leading to a long term relationship. Same thing with a man being all for feminism, equal pay and job opportunities and such, but still insisting that a woman cook for him all the time as well as clean up after meals and do all the home cleaning and child care, etc.. You don't get to pick and choose your equality without opening yourself to hypocrisy and insincerity... BTW, I hated both Biden and Harris as choices for the Dem ticket, having nothing to do with race or gender, simply because both of them are regressive, corrupt, corporate sellouts, instead of being progressive pols with some integrity, like Bernie or Nina Turner, or even Warren would have been better, even if Warren was not electable for the prez nominee....

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

MyTVC15 comments on Sep 11, 2022:

How do men treat women? "Do my shopping, my cooking, pick up my stinky socks off the living room floor. Have my babies unless I don't want you to then you can deal with them all on your own and if you can't take care of that kid, forget about having an abortion cus you are going to have it whether ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@MyTVC15 I understand, at least, as much as any man can understand. If I were a woman at this time in this country, where they are now being treated as breeding stock or livestock when it comes to reproductive rights, I would feel nothing but rage regarding men who are misogynist. And I did notice that your statement was not characteristic of you on these boards. I just always make it a point to let others know that misandry in women's remarks on these forums is no better than misogynist remarks by men. They both need to be called out and labeled for what they are, rather than one gender always getting a pass, which used to be common on this site, until I and racocn8 started calling out the misandrists, even tho it got both of us bashed on here as misogynists and blocked by many women on here. But, at least to me, it's been well worth it...

A prime snipe at the Russians' Ukrainian debacle:

p-nullifidian comments on Sep 11, 2022:

“It’s only a flesh wound!” 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

You beat me to it! Monty Python And The Holy Grail...

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@creative51 True, nowadays, the only thing the levels mean is getting up to level 4 so your comments don't need to be approved, otherwise, since the admin. left and no T-shirts or prizes are being given out, the levels mean nothing anymore.

THE OTHER SIDE.

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 11, 2022:

What will it be like after I die? Same as it was before I was born. Nothingness.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

That's exactly what my late father said, after being a believing Catholic his whole adult life, when he cardiac arrested for a couple minutes the day after open heart surgery. He saw nothing but blackness during that temporary death. He continued to still attend Mass for a while, but he admitted that he no longer believed there was anything after death. Blackness, nothingness, same thing, there is nothing before and nothing after...

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?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@RussRAB You do you and I'll do me. We will each use different terms. I did not feel you were denying me anything and I militantly refuse to let anybody deny my right of expressing myself whatever way I choose. Your condolence is noted and accepted as genuine.

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?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

@RussRAB Suit yourself. I've been widowed for five years, and for several years before that I watched my wife lose who she was to dementia, and then finally watched her body die. So I've more than earned the right to use whatever term I wish to for referring to someone's death.

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

MyTVC15 comments on Sep 11, 2022:

How do men treat women? "Do my shopping, my cooking, pick up my stinky socks off the living room floor. Have my babies unless I don't want you to then you can deal with them all on your own and if you can't take care of that kid, forget about having an abortion cus you are going to have it whether ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 11, 2022:

Be careful not to generalize that to all men, as it certainly doesn't fit me or most of the men I see on here, who appear to be pro-feminist males. Because, if you do, then you come off as just as much a misandrist as he comes off as a misogynist.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast My guess is you will have great difficulty finding women in your age group that are into poly relationships, but I honestly have little knowledge of that scene, even in my local area, so I have no idea what the market is like in PA.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast I wish you luck in finding something like Agnostic.com The partner dancing is a good way to at least have some physical contact with women on a platonic, casual basis, maybe even meet someone compatible for dating sometime. But I agree, at your age, it's likely very hard to find someone both compatible and in decent health.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast After having read your bio, you clearly would not belong on E-Harmony, so I have no suggestions for where you should seek other fellow travelers.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

@SunshineEast Not that I know of. E-Harmony uses a very lengthy questionaire to match its members, but it rejects anyone who doesn't pass its depression screening, and its members tend to all be very bland, mainstream Christians and Catholics who tend to be politically conservative and traditional-minded, so that site wouldn't be useful for most of us non-believers who are here. I agree with you that most of the regular paid sites use bots posing as people for fake memberships along with other deceptive methods to inflate their membership numbers and trick people who are members into thinking there are more people interested in them for dating than is the case. I have had that happen to me personally where it was clear that something fishy was going on with some of the parties that messaged me or sent me a Like notification. I suppose some of the time it may have been scammers and other times it was the site catfishing me with fake profiles pretending to be interested in me. If the other sites, or anyone else who wanted to start a new site and model it after this one, actually cared about helping singles, esp. ones who are not religious and otherwise offbeat and non-traditional as well, instead of caring only about money, then Agnostic.com would be the model for how to do it successfully to effectively help singles find compatible matches over time with being able to get to know them deeply and comfortably thru the groups and forums. And in fact, from what I have heard from singles who were early members of Match, that is what Match originally was like, much like here, where the site had forums and such for members to get to know each other thru group discussions. But that all went away after a few years, probably because the site owners got greedy and didn't want to maintain such a complex site and moderate the forums. So I'm afraid, if anything, the future of dating sites will instead be something more like Facebook dating, with profiles that are very brief and limited, nothing much more than photos and a little intro info on the person, as that is what Match has been moving to in the last couple years. I bet that in a couple years or less, Match will eliminate the profile essay part of its profiles, or at least make it limited to a much shorter number of words. When you have no real competition and monopoly power in your industry, the product and services will only get worse, while the prices will keep going up. I wish things were different, but the trends and history clearly say otherwise. Maybe some billionaire or multi-millionaire will decide to take on the conglomerates that own all the present dating sites and try something like Agnostic again, only this time with enough money and advertising to reach the nationwide membership numbers to ...

At about 18:30 BST on the 8th September at work, I was informed that Queen Elizabeth II had died, I ...

Charlene comments on Sep 10, 2022:

When I heard, all I could hum was God save the Queen by the Sex Pistols..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 10, 2022:

What I did later that evening was sing God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols and the karaoke crowd loved it.

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

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 9, 2022:

"It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle." -- Elvis Costello

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

Not surprised at all to read that. Elvis has always had issues with authority and the ruling class, same as me, and we're both proud of it. He has done charity concerts that were sponsored by the royals, but he always made it clear he was doing it for the beneficiaries of the charity, not the royals. He is one of several artists I always admired that never sucked up to the royals or agreed to be knighted, David Bowie being another one, who also did tons of charity concerts sponsored by the royals.

[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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Organist1 I sure as hell hope so, otherwise the next Repub prez, which I think is inevitable in two years, will pardon him.

[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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Organist1 And being a state crime, he may not be eligible for a pardon, right?

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@Larimar I get that, but the happiest years of my adult life were with my late wife, before she got dementia. I want something like that again, even tho it obviously won't be the same with a different person at an older age. But I won't kid myself that I will be anywhere near that happy again being on my own the rest of my life. I had a lot of years alone before her and more than five years since she lost who she was from dementia and I was effectively alone again. Some people can be very happy on their own for years, but I know myself well and I'm not one of them. And sorry, Trudy, knowing that I have a lot of company in this is really not that comforting, even tho I know you mean well and are sincere. I want more than this with my remaining life, even if you are willing to settle for less than that.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@snytiger6 Not really, as far as I'm concerned. All it does for any practical purposes, is provide legitimacy to the charade of our democracy. I wish more people would vote for third party candidates, because if they did, third parties would gain more legitimacy and the corporate media would no longer be able to ignore them. To me, voting for a third party is not a wasted vote, and is better than not voting at all. But of course, the corporate media and the major parties say the opposite, choosing to vote shame and wage culture wars, instead of offering policies that would really improve the lives of average people... If the vast majority of eligible voters stayed home, the corporate media would either ignore the obvious mass protest of our joke of a democracy, or would instead blame it all on voter apathy, even tho any intelligent, thinking person would see it as the voter protest it would be. A wasted vote is continually voting for what you don't want and continuing to get it.

Two halves of a whole cat.

Spinliesel comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Tickle, tickle, tickle.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

That cat is just begging for belly rubs and tickles, tho they may bite as a reward to the hooman..

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

@racocn8 I also have encountered some strange women with online dating, similar to your experiences, such as women that clearly did not match up with me on everything compatibility-wise, and yet, right before parting, gave me a very tight hug. Talk about mixed signals, after not even offering a handshake when we first began the meeting..

Physical Attraction

FvckY0u comments on Sep 8, 2022:

My first marriage. I married my long time on and off again GF. Red flags dancing all around me. We married in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator. The divorce was final right around the first wedding anniversary. My relationship with her prior to marriage was a lot of fun but once we tied the knot...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

Isn't that the way it often goes? Once the novelty and fireworks are over, you realize that there is nothing else solid and substantial left to keep you both together and make it work...

Physical Attraction

racocn8 comments on Sep 8, 2022:

A week before the wedding, my bride admitted that she had tried to commit suicide during her previous marriage, and became divorced while she was institutionalized. She had hid her depression from me as much as possible. I knew she was seeing a therapist (who was useless). If I'd had a clue what ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 9, 2022:

I think a lot of us settle, whether we want to admit it or not, for people that if we could do it over, or had full knowledge of beforehand, would have moved on from or passed on. Such is life..

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

Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 8, 2022:

That song came out during one of the queen's jubilees. Ot was number 2 on the British charts at the time. Later, it was discovered that Richard Branson, now knighted, withheld reporting 240k sales of the record to keep it from being number one.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

One rich prick looking out for his peers...

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

Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 8, 2022:

That song came out during one of the queen's jubilees. Ot was number 2 on the British charts at the time. Later, it was discovered that Richard Branson, now knighted, withheld reporting 240k sales of the record to keep it from being number one.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

@Organist1 That is sad and disappointing, but then again, Johnny Rotten was always in it for the money and had no principles or scruples, so I'm not surprised that he went conservative once that became more in fashion and profitable these days. I'm going to have to sing this tune tonite at karaoke, not that I care about offending people there...

MAGA modus operandi

Dave375 comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Yep

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

We've had one coming for a while now, and we no longer have a functioning democracy, so if a civil war needs to happen or is going to happen, ending in open fascism or some kind of real democracy, let's get on with it and get it over with, since I'm tired of seeing us go on with the veiled fascism and charade of a democracy. Let's move on now, to either a real democracy or open fascism.

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

racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Women didn't vote in 2016, helping Trump get elected. If they don't turn out to protect democracy, say good-bye to voting forever, to birth control, and to freedom. Let's see if they can begin to undo the consequences of their apathy.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 8, 2022:

I think there will be a huge voter turnout of women this year, mostly voting for Dems because of the abortion decision, but the ? is will it be enough to overcome the voter suppression laws passed recently by the Repubs across the country? My guess is that the Repubs, being the crafty, evil fucks that they are, have already factored this in before giving the SC the ok to overturn Roe, so I bet the voter suppression will outweigh the female backlash vote that is coming this year. I hope, as always, that I am wrong about this.

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

Garban comments on Sep 7, 2022:

Spread the hate baby, Jesus would be proud.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 7, 2022:

Well, Republican Jesus would be, that is...

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

JGal comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I ask, "are you a MAGA man?" Before i will agree to meet. The one time i didnt ask it turned out he was. Good thing we only met for ice cream. He said he would vote for Trump again. His deceased wife was a democrat and public school teacher. Baffling.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 6, 2022:

@JGal Who knows what they're thinking on the religion issue?. I make it clear I am willing to date someone who is a believer, and I have done it twice since I got on Match, but only if the woman is no more than a moderately religious believer, not a fundamentalist, and is also open-minded and tolerant enough to accept my being Agnostic. I am regularly reaching out to women whose profiles say they are Christian or Catholic, but not messaging them if they identify as Mormon or have things in their profile essay saying they are a Christian, are faith-filled, that their religion is very important to them, etc., because those women would obviously be a waste of time.

Reeling in a 240-pound bigmouth ass takes skill, patience, and finesse.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I'd like to believe you're right, but... 1. Skepticism; 2. Not holding my breath; 3. Don't trust Garland (any more than Mueller) The serious, salient take-home lesson that no one talks about is that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied also applies to the victims of the wealthy. Allowing the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Of course I hope I'm wrong, but when it comes to politics and crimes of pols, I am so seldom wrong. I lost a bet on the last presidential election, betting that Trump would beat Biden, but the problem was, I made the bet too early, before Covid hit. Because we all know damn well that if Covid had not happened, been bungled by Trump and the economy crashing as a result, he would have easily beat Biden last time. It's all about the timing. I still honored the bet, but I know damn well that Covid was the only reason I lost it. And the guy I lost the bet to admitted that if Covid hadn't happened, Biden would have lost and I would have won the bet.

Reeling in a 240-pound bigmouth ass takes skill, patience, and finesse.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I'd like to believe you're right, but... 1. Skepticism; 2. Not holding my breath; 3. Don't trust Garland (any more than Mueller) The serious, salient take-home lesson that no one talks about is that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied also applies to the victims of the wealthy. Allowing the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I'm with Howard, the rich always end up taking care of their own and never sending them to prison, unless, like Bernie Madoff, they steal from other rich people..

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

JGal comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I ask, "are you a MAGA man?" Before i will agree to meet. The one time i didnt ask it turned out he was. Good thing we only met for ice cream. He said he would vote for Trump again. His deceased wife was a democrat and public school teacher. Baffling.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

I fully support you asking, but even then, you end up depending on them being honest with you. These women were clearly lying, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm surprised they even replied to me on Match, since I am very open about my politics in my profile and they had all viewed it before replying to me. Maybe in their minds they doubt that I am honest or sincere about my politics in my profile, and hope that I would later back off from my views, but they would be wrong about that and it's their own false assumption. It's odd that they stayed married with those sort of differences between them, but a lot of couples stay together for other reasons, even after one or both of them changes and they become politically different. But there's no way I would choose to be with someone so politically different from the start of a relationship because politics is so important to me. What did you say when he said he would vote for Trump again? Just like in my local dating pool, I have no doubt the majority of men in yours are Trumpers..

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

DenoPenno comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I think this is exactly why people lie.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

If it works, at least some of the time, and gets them what they want, I can see why people with no scruples do it. Except with online dating, the truth always comes out eventually.

Federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing female inmates

xenoview comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I hope he gets abused in prison daily.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Hope he gets Bubba as a cellmate.. and gets asked, " Do you want to be the husband or the wife?"...

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Whatever..

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I don't know those kind of specifics, nobody does. But what we are facing in the future appears to be like a combination of the Purge movies and The Handmaid's Tale, assuming those assholes win.

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

Petter comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Fancy a bonk? 🤣

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Petter Darn the luck!

Biden’s speech and the danger of fascism in America [wsws.

silverotter11 comments on Sep 3, 2022:

All excellent points and circles back to what I've thought and sometimes said, they be all in it together. It's like a giant shell game.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

You can vote away all you want to for the two major parties in fed elections, but it will change nothing when it comes to corporate rule and how the system benefits the 1% to everyone else's loss, same with foreign policy and the military. The only election where us peasants still get any real say is local and statewide elections, not federal ones, because the corporations have those all locked up.

Huh.

Krish55 comments on Sep 3, 2022:

Why does the senate need to discuss this if it was merely a block? I understand the later discussion if he is gone and we are concerned about him. I hope that speaking about him publicly didn't cause him to leave... Perhaps when we have an issue with someone, we can address that person ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Fernapple Actually, Community Senate and General Forum are the two places were blocks are not in effect.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

phxbillcee comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The cost of education has sky-rocketed & this is not the fault of the students. Many nations subsidize higher education as it has short & long term benefits for the society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@glennlab It certainly wasn't stupid on their part, it was evil, calculated, and very effective in permanently moving US politics to the right, for both parties.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

phxbillcee comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The cost of education has sky-rocketed & this is not the fault of the students. Many nations subsidize higher education as it has short & long term benefits for the society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

I recently read a reader's survey of an alternative news mag that is published in Iowa City, Iowa, which is by far the most progressive place in Iowa. It showed that 80% of the mag's readers there have at least a undergraduate four year degree. No wonder it's the most educated place in my state and the politics are so lefty. I envy those who live there, even tho the vast majority of my state is rural Repubs..

My family stayed in the area for over 300 years.

FvckY0u comments on Sep 4, 2022:

I'm about 700 miles from grow up land. All close family and most extended family are nearby grow up land. I'd say, yeah about 300 years. Migration seems different nowadays. Maybe it's essentially the same but what bugs me is there's not a lot of reason for migration within the US. A desire ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Yup, jobs and college are about the only things that people move for within the US, at least until they are old and their health starts to fail, that is when they move to be close to their adult kids, assuming they will comfort and care for them. As long as they have steady employment where they live, few middle aged people will move, as they usually have friends and family there they don't want to move away from

My family stayed in the area for over 300 years.

JonnaBononna comments on Sep 5, 2022:

I grew up in rural Missouri and am now in a New Orleans. I landed in a new place because my ex husband was in the military, and I'm glad I did. You just don't grow much when you're in the same place all of your life I don't believe. All of my family is still in and around Bourbon Missouri, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

Amen to that! I see so many people here in Iowa that never left the state, or if they did move out of their hick rural Iowa town, they still kept the country music and rural culture, even if they moved to one of the larger cities in Iowa. And emotionally they seem arrested more at the high school age level, even lower than that if they stayed in a hick town here.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir It's going to happen anyway, may as well make it sooner rather than later.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 5, 2022:

@WilliamCharles It was pretty refreshing. Their coverage of the presidential debates had them openly saying how bad Biden's dementia was, tho the corporate media will of course never say it, except maybe Fox News. Free Speech TVs coverage also pointed out how many issues were never mentioned in the debate, because both major parties agree so much on them.

This might be the scariest revelation about the August 8th search of Trump's residence.

FvckY0u comments on Sep 3, 2022:

breach? That's no breach. That's flat out breaking the laws of the US in a major way. Personally I'd like to see trump publicly executed but that's my fantasy, not reality.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

I'm totally against the death penalty, for reasons I've mentioned before on this site, but evil monsters like him do sometimes tempt me to want to make exceptions..

This might be the scariest revelation about the August 8th search of Trump's residence.

BitFlipper comments on Sep 3, 2022:

I got some pushback when I suggested Trump should be ground up and used for dog food. So okay for you dog lovers. Trump should be ground up and used for rat bait.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

Somehow, I think even rats deserve better than that, quit hating on the poor rats, lol!

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

Petter comments on Sep 4, 2022:

Fancy a bonk? 🤣

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

I have always admired men with enough balls to take the direct approach, rather than beat around the bush...

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..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 4, 2022:

@terenaskaws That's what makes online dating so much more brutal than organic dating, because in organic dating, you meet someone naturally, and they decide to date you steadily after that because you meet their minimum standards, while with online dating, you not only have to meet those standards for them to agree to meet you and see you more than once, you also have to be chosen over all the competition on that dating site at the time they connect with you. Online dating makes people overly choosy and spoiled by having so many choices at the same point in time, unlike organic dating.

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 ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@azzow2 At the same time, I have run into a few bars that have no NA beers, which really sucks for me, as I only go to bars for karaoke and live music and it sucks to be there for a few hours and have to drink soda pop, which gives me gas and is not good for my teeth, with all that sugar, or drink cranberry juice, which is what I get if there is no NA beers there. I have found IPA beers that are NA and I like them, but they are rarely available where I live.

The times are changing

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 1, 2022:

My new shirt Glenn, got it today and will be wearing it often!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy I know how to point, click, type and scroll, that's about it, and I really don't want to learn anything else, like copy and paste, etc.

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.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@Barnie2years I believe that.

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..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@GreenAtheist I have been friends for some time with the woman who used to run the Singletarians group, before it dissolved right after my late wife died. She told me the reason it ended was because none of the single women in the church had any interest in dating anymore, at least the ones in my age group, so she said the group was almost all men and it was not worth continuing. So that church is a dead end for me on dating. The group ended five years ago. If anything has changed with the single women at the church in my age group, since the group ended, she would have told me.

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

DenoPenno comments on Sep 3, 2022:

My take on this is when Vlad finds out you are against his war he will have you killed just to prevent you from talking about it. Businessman or not, if you are silenced the public knows not to engage in anti-war talk. They are afraid to even talk to the neighbor about it but secretly people know ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@DenoPenno The whole history of Russia in the last century shows that it doesn't matter if the system is capitalist or communist, Russia has had a totalitarian government the whole time, and for the average citizen, they are no more free under either economic system. And economically, most Russians were better off under communism..

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

DenoPenno comments on Sep 3, 2022:

My take on this is when Vlad finds out you are against his war he will have you killed just to prevent you from talking about it. Businessman or not, if you are silenced the public knows not to engage in anti-war talk. They are afraid to even talk to the neighbor about it but secretly people know ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

Just like the old Soviet days when people had to worry about their neighbors ratting them out to the KGB.

The times are changing

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 1, 2022:

My new shirt Glenn, got it today and will be wearing it often!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy I am too.

Thoughts on this?

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2022:

Stupid and asinine. Let the city buy apartment complexes if that's the path they want. Putting any of them in conventional housing is a prescription to destroy those assets. Many homeless WANT to be on the street. They include: 1) Mentally ill; 2) Behaviorally ill; 3) Out of work/resources/just ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

I would agree, but the leaders of both parties are unwilling to spend the kind of military budget money that would be needed to provide the necessary specialized help. Plus, the corporate donors to both parties want to keep the homeless population around as a warning to the peasant workers that this could be them if they get out of line and too uppity to their employers...

Thoughts on this?

Theresa_N comments on Sep 2, 2022:

I think it's a great idea. I used to be with a group that advocated that families take in homeless people. Theres no good reason that people have to go without housing.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 3, 2022:

Bet none of the families who participated were conservatives, since they feel the homeless need to die quietly in the gutter, all of their own fault, rather than be treated as human.

The times are changing

Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 1, 2022:

My new shirt Glenn, got it today and will be wearing it often!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

Why is the photo sideways?

Ok... maybe the guys can answer this. What's the deal with the dead fish?

BitFlipper comments on Aug 22, 2022:

People of both sexes like to include photos of the things they have accomplished. Women inexplicably include pictures of their offspring.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@BitFlipper Calling them sex trophies seems overly harsh. I see the photos of kids and grandkids more as the women displaying achievements they are proud of, mostly for how the kids were supposedly ending up happy and healthy, whether that is the case or not, that is the image the woman is trying to project.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@MyTVC15 I can understand that. I was with my wife until a couple hours before she died, and the hospice nurse at that time said it could be later that night or it could be another day or so, I needed to go to work the next morning, so I went home, and then got the call from the nurse later that evening. I hope you are able to eventually get past feeling haunted about it, either with therapy or some other healing experiences.

America's like a car accident.

Switchcraft comments on Sep 2, 2022:

I keep waiting for that one wreck that makes the maga nutjobs start to rethink, but it never happens/

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

And it never will. They are immune to seeing reality.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@MyTVC15 I would blame him too. Covid was such a hell for the elderly in facilities and their families, who couldn't visit them in person until they were in their final days. I am so glad that my late father and my late wife both died before Covid, so we could visit both of them frequently in person.

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@PadraicM I know, that would be asking too much...Personal responsibility is not for Repub pols, only for losers that are not rich or part of the privileged classes. Those people need to just suck it up and pull on those bootstraps..

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@MyTVC15 At least for me, not being able to speak or walk after a stroke is no kind of life, so if I suffered one like that, I would hope that the stroke finished me off, and if it didn't, I would probably be considering suicide.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

@MyTVC15 I am very sorry to hear that. You seem like a cool gal. You are not a bummer, at least not to me. I prefer people that are courageous enough to tell the truth, esp. about their mortality and health status. As for my health, I have a few mild chronic heart conditions, but they are stable and really don't affect me very much or very often these days. And my parents both lived to be pretty old, so as long as I don't suffer a stroke from those heart conditions, I may live to around 90, like my father, or I may not. So I try to do as much as possible while I am still younger than my 80s, because that is where I really saw my parents begin to decline in health. I'm currently 63. My heart conditions were inherited from my parents, and they lived a long time with theirs, so maybe I will too.

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

KKGator comments on Sep 2, 2022:

Clodfelter can kiss my dimpled, white ass. I love that satanists make the NatCs so crazy.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 2, 2022:

It's sort of the liberal version of "Owning the cons", only without the outrageous lying that conservatives use to own the libs...

Turkish Airlines

creative51 comments on Sep 1, 2022:

This needs to be deleted. Total troll,scam, what ever you want to call it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 1, 2022:

That's what happens, once a site is left unmanaged, the scammers and advertisers overrun it with shit like this..

Sarah Palin loses in bid to be a House member from Alaska.

David1955 comments on Sep 1, 2022:

And they used what you call ranked voting, what we call preferential voting, and America would greatly improve if its adoption was general there.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 1, 2022:

So true, but most voters aren't aware of it and the two major parties would never allow it, same as with public financing of federal election campaigns being fully funded, because they know it would spell the end of their winning elections and their stranglehold on federal elections.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 1, 2022:

@MyTVC15 That is the tradeoff, your physical health for the social isolation and emotional toll of no longer doing all the social things that you enjoyed.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 31, 2022:

@creative51 Who knows? I might, I might not. I have had scans of my heart after both episodes and they detected no signs of damage to it, tho they were looking for it, as the scans were for chronic issues they were monitoring. I do know that I have no idea how many years of decent health I have left or when I will die, but in the meantime, I am going to go on with my life doing the social and recreational activities I missed out on for almost a year and a half before vaccines were available to me, like going to watch swimming meets, karaoke, and live music. Because those things help me cope emotionally with being widowed and alone and failing at online dating. But in the meantime, I will continue to hold off on traveling until I can find another partner or Covid becomes less of a risk with that sort of exposure.

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

creative51 comments on Aug 31, 2022:

I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask when in stores or offices. I use hand wash when appropriate. At this point in time, I have never had any covid. Hmmm...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 31, 2022:

I know someone older than me, age 75, who, like you, has done everything right to avoid Covid, and she succeeded, until she took a long trip to Europe this summer with her adult daughter. And then she got Covid, but it was a mild case. When she's back here, she is very cautious about where she will go in public to avoid crowds, while I am more daring about going to crowded places for karaoke and live music. I have gotten Covid twice so far, tho fully vaxed and boosted the second time, recently, that I got it. My second case was mild too. My lesson from her experience? It's still best to avoid going on cruises or traveling out of the country, two things, along with flying commercially, that I have avoided doing since Covid.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

NHjulie comments on Aug 31, 2022:

When I started college, it was $150 a semester for tuition, $300 for my final semester. Rented 2 bedroom apt inside a home for $35 a week. When I returned a mere 5 years later, same school was $3000 a semester. Yes, this was under Reagan. I've seen so many people my age talking about how they paid ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 31, 2022:

That is the mantra of conservatives and Libertarians, I got mine, and FU to everyone else...

The 'Safe and Effective' vaccines may not prevent infection or transmission.

skado comments on Aug 31, 2022:

Anybody can make graphics and type claims. Can you provide a direct link to a CDC page that says the same thing?

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 31, 2022:

I don't think he is willing to do that, he wants to keep the info limited to his state's Libertarian, anti vax organization's site, not the CDC. Sounds like someone has drank the Trump Kool-Aid about the deep state...

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.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 31, 2022:

@racocn8 Your interpretation seems correct.

So much has changed, My freshman year, my books were $40 with half covered by a scholarship, the ...

phxbillcee comments on Aug 30, 2022:

The cost of education has sky-rocketed & this is not the fault of the students. Many nations subsidize higher education as it has short & long term benefits for the society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 30, 2022:

We certainly would have more progressive politics than we have if most people were college educated, instead of the regressive, reactionary kind we have now. But, as Reagan's advisor privately admitted, we can't have a majority of college-educated peasants, they might get dangerous ideas about equality and revolution, etc...

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 30, 2022:

@jlynn37 Including mine, Iowa is not much better. We get the same kind of yahoos showing up at school and library board meetings.

42 year old widower.

Organist1 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but honestly, I haven't noticed that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 30, 2022:

@Organist1 You were, but it looks like it's over between me and the dog man. He couldn't take it, so he blocked me. I am not sore at you, I just think he kind of used you to diss racocn8, and didn't like being called out on it. It's over now, and you were just pulled along in his game. BTW, Howard-racocn8, saw it after I messaged him and agreed with me about what this guy was doing here. That's probably why he blocked me and exited the argument, as he might have been afraid Howard was coming in here to also call him on it, and he didn't want to get humiliated or embarrassed by two guys calling him on his bullshit.

42 year old widower.

Organist1 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but honestly, I haven't noticed that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 30, 2022:

@PondartIncbendog I'm not going to paint either of you a picture, so to speak. Why don't you message racocn8 about it, and maybe he'll agree to indulge you more than I'm willing to here, since he is the one you were acting dismissive towards, more than me... His first name is Howard, username racocn8, he makes a sincere, serious point about the genders and rejection of others for dating based on looks, you jump in later in the thread and start up making jokes about looks and whether you are cute or not, etc.. then Organist1 plays along and jokes with you. Now do you get it????? I'm not saying I'm smarter than either of you, but I sure as hell seem to be more socially observant..... as well as more respectful when someone is being serious and sincere.... It appears that Pondartincbendog blocked me, guess he couldn't take the truth of me calling him out on his innocent, dumb act after he dissed racocn8. I'll just call that a win and take it....

42 year old widower.

racocn8 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

That is one of the main problems on dating sites. Most women reject most men on looks. That is part of why I hate Disney, which inculcated that value in all the princess movies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@racocn8 I have no idea what Lorajay said, because there is a block between her and me, but I'm guessing she jumped in and defended her gender, predictably as always, and said something like men were worse or more common than women in rejecting on looks for dating.

42 year old widower.

Organist1 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but honestly, I haven't noticed that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@PondartIncbendog racocn8. Didn't you see his comment and how you and Organist1 started getting all cutesy and joking about the subject he raised? I promise you that he did, because he messaged me about how the thread progressed after his comment above. Care to step in and speak for yourself, Howard, instead of me defending you here?

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

rainmanjr comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Seems like a great strategy for others to follow.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@Barnie2years I can mostly agree with you. I find wrestling pretty gross overall, no matter which gender is doing it. With males, I find it very homoerotic, if you know what I mean... Still, as long as people are making their own choices and not using unhealthy or banned drugs for sports, I am ok with people playing whatever sports they want, regardless of gender or gender identity. It's the same way I support abortion rights, let people make their own choices. I trust them to do the right thing for themselves, rather than passing laws that say I or some religion knows better than them. And if they make a bad choice, it's their life, not mine. The only exception I make is when religious nutcase parents, like Christian Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses, deny medical care to their minor children, and cause them harm or death, because those kids are too young and dependent, as well as brainwashed, to protect themselves from their parents dangerous choices. Only in those sort of cases of parental abuse or neglect, should the state step in and overrule private choices.

42 year old widower.

Organist1 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but honestly, I haven't noticed that.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@PondartIncbendog And once again Howard, racocn8 from above in the thread has probably noticed, we see that when the discussion gets too tense, uncomfortable, or heated, the clowns show up to lighten things up by making fun of the points you (Howard) are making....So predictable and true to form...... Like Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men, some people can't handle uncomfortable truths....

42 year old widower.

racocn8 comments on Aug 26, 2022:

That is one of the main problems on dating sites. Most women reject most men on looks. That is part of why I hate Disney, which inculcated that value in all the princess movies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@racocn8 I've had an interesting discussion with a female friend I met on Match that is a psych social worker, 75 yo and very much a feminist, but she refuses to accept your viewpoint that women are just as likely as men, much less more likely than men, to reject others for dating based on looks. She keeps saying that women are more likely than men to accept dating partners that are "not conventionally good looking". I concede that she might be right about that, but that does not negate or change the trend of women being more frequent than men in rejecting for looks on dating sites. All it proves or says, is that women have maybe more exceptions among them, than men, who will date someone who is not conventionally good-looking. Her argument, while it may be true, is something I see as more of an excuse or rationalization for not believing that women are just as shallow as men, if not more, when it comes to rejecting dating partners on looks.

National Anger Over the Removal of Abortion Rights Is Catching Up to the GOP – Mother Jones

Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Keep shouting, "Roe, Roe, Roe your boat."

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

It's pretty pathetic that these days the Dems have nothing to run on except " We're not as crazy as them and we're not fascists or theocrats", instead of being able to honestly say they are making things better for the average American. It's been a couple decades now that it's been that way, which is why I want a third party that actually gives us a choice for progress, instead of defensively voting lesser evil to slow down the damage..

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

xenoview comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Scared of being beat by girls.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@rainmanjr I know they can't, but the schools have their parent or guardian sign for them. I've seen the forms. Hell, these days, you even have to sign a liability waiver like that to play Little League or to run in a road race. Your stance is why some political moderates hate liberals and lefties, because we come off as being advocates of a nanny state that goes overboard, in their eyes, by trying to eliminate all risk in life. We need to be aware of that and avoid playing into the stereotype there....

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Dumbshits. I taught and coached at a private school and the league in which we played contained at least three xtion schools. Not just the students, but the parents were some of the worst behaved assholes. I and two others stopped a fight at a basketball game between parents. The xtions had been ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

I've heard the same thing from other school sports coaches about Christian schools, that they have the worst behaved parents and athletes, and also some of the dirtiest players, since they believe more than other schools in win at all cost, rather than sportsmanship.. I still say things like Goddamn and JFC too, when I am angry, not that I believe in either being..... It's instinctive habit...

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

xenoview comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Scared of being beat by girls.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@rainmanjr I'm sure the girls, as well as boys who wrestle, have to sign their rights away for any liability on the part of the schools involved as well as the officials and other competitors. So no, there would be no risk of a lawsuit against a boy opponent.

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

rainmanjr comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Seems like a great strategy for others to follow.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@rainmanjr Have to respectfully disagree. As long as high schools have football, which may not be the case after I'm dead, without serious rule changes to protect the players, I support equal opportunity, for both genders. I hear you about the safety risks, but have to respectfully agree to disagree. Personally, I would like to see high school football continue, but only with enough drastic rule changes to make it a lot safer, for any gender. But, like a lot of things, I'm not in charge of the universe and don't make the rules, same as I would like to see recent proof of therapy for anyone to be able to join a dating site. So you and I can wish all we want about how things should be, but our opinions won't change a damn thing about how things are run by organizations..

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...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@glennlab Not interested in posting, just thought someone should point out the obvious, and instead, I appear to get bashed for it with sarcasm by Aaron, the dominant poster..

Former Elder Robert Lee Harris Convicted Of Killing Wife In Kansas

KKGator comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Hope he's got a very full dance card in prison, but not in the fun way.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@Beowulfsfriend I corrected it.

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

rainmanjr comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Seems like a great strategy for others to follow.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@rainmanjr I'm not a fan of football either, since I find the game too violent to even watch, but for me it's the same as gays and lesbians in the military. I would never have joined and am not a fan of the military in general, but I believe in equal rights and opportunity, so if the girls want to play football, it's their choice and not my business. Title IX is all about that equal opportunity for women and girls. I too am worried about concussions in football but it's their choice, for both males and females. That's not the same as using steroids in sports, where the cheating dopers are indirectly trying to force their competitors to do the same in order to win. That's why sports have rules against doping and enforce testing and bans to allow clean athletes to have a fair chance to win.

Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster

rainmanjr comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Seems like a great strategy for others to follow.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

Suit up at least one girl and collect the forfeit. I do hope the lawsuit against them succeeds and that they are kicked out of the conference. They need to play with themselves, literally, lol! Maybe they and their shithead coach can have a circle jerk...

Former Elder Robert Lee Harris Convicted Of Killing Wife In Kansas

KKGator comments on Aug 29, 2022:

Hope he's got a very full dance card in prison, but not in the fun way.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

He'll either stay in protective custody or make friends with a black gang that will protect him.

Let's talk about access to higher education.... - Beau of the Fifth Column [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2022:

That is why in Europe, esp. in England, free college based on merit, rather than being able to afford it, and the rich have always hated it. And even in that merit system, the rich kids still get into the best colleges, thru their connections and thru sending their kids to the best prep schools, so ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 29, 2022:

@phxbillcee Sounds like a Talking Heads lyric, lol!

Same-Sex Marriage Support Inches Up to New High of 71%

RussRAB comments on Aug 28, 2022:

In the decision overturning Roe, Justice Thomas specifically targeted same sex marriage and access to birth contol. Will this extreme right wing court buck the opinions of the majority to roll back marriage equaliy as they did with women's reproductive rights? I'm not holding my breath.

TomMcGiverin replies on Aug 28, 2022:

If they do, there'll be an even bigger backlash than we have now against the Repubs..