Cat's Reaction to Treadmill !! [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Smart kitty, quick learner...

Hi Everyone!!!! I want to apologize to my Zoom Chat friends for forgetting about Sunday night.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I wish you the best. In my experience with online dating these last few years, it seems like the vast majority of women in my dating pool are really busy, either with work, their family, or both. So I often wonder why they are on a site like Batch, if it appears they only have time and interest for meeting up occaisionally and keeping things very casual. And if that's the case, why aren't they on more of a hookup site like Tinder, unless that is what they really want, but are too modest or proud to admit it here in traditional cultured Iowa? I honestly wonder if they really want more of an FWB with a man, but just don't have the guts or humility to ask for it. Anyway, glad to hear that it goes both ways as far as single people seeming or acting too busy to give time to a real relationship. I thought maybe the problem was mostly me and being retired, but I think it's about more out there than me in the local dating pool. There are a very few women in my local dating pool on Batch that are very openly seeking men just for a FWB, but they are much better looking than me and would never want me. One woman is about as open as you can be, as all of her profile pics show off her breasts, she writes about how she is seeking "fun.... with a man who is athletic and healthy, etc...." and she is only seeking black men (while she is white, well-educated, and a white collar professional), who are less educated than her. I have to give her props for being honest and bucking the Iowa culture....

Colorado's Polis marries longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I hear CO has more than its share of religious crazies, but it's nice to hear that it's now way more progressive than Iowa, which has had gay marriage way before most states, but it only happened thru a state Supreme Court decision that really cost some of the ones who voted for it. Since then, it's been a very red state. We have yet to elect a queer person to statewide office, tho I have heard that one longtime statewide elected official is gay and in the closet, obviously for good reason. An appointed gay man who used to be Labor Commissioner was removed by a Repub governor for that and other reasons. It led to a lawsuit that went on for several years and the SC here finally ruled in favor of the governor. So that settles the ? of whether it's safe to be openly gay in statewide office here.

Biden Piñata = 42 members (including trolls) Trump Piñata= 1100 members I am a member of both ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I am guessing you troll the Trumpers on the Biden Pinata group. But I am a member of both groups too, and I troll the Biden supporters, but do it from the left side of the political spectrum, not from the right as the Trumpers do.

Riddle me this, republicans

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Pro-life in name only and only up to birth. They also support the death penalty, so much for consistency.. It's more accurate to say they worship and support the fetus and the womb, nothing else or beyond that.

I think this says it all

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I can't imagine what it's like these days treating these idiots for Covid and knowing how preventable and voluntary their illness is. Esp. if they have to continue to listen to their bullshit and denial about the virus. I don't know how docs and nurses can stand it.

Very prophetic

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Like the old saying goes, Give the people what they want.....

Perfect cartoon

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Yeah, there is a lot of hypocrisy on the right.

Interesting statistics

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Where is OSHU located?

[youtu.be] I made a new friend today who wrote this powerful song and sings it.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

You might want to delete on of the posts.

20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia The constant demand that we “Never forget!,” the events of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

I think the things to never forget are the corporate media cheerleading for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, the suppression of truth about what really happened on 9-11 by the commission that supposedly investigated it, and the way the Repubs accused anyone opposed to the wars or their administration as unpatriotic and to shut up and support the troops. How quickly that last part was proven to be a lie as the Afghan war went on for twenty years, long after it was clear it could never be won. So the slogan of supporting the troops didn't take long to be proven as not at all about caring about soldiers and entirely about shutting down dissent.

Campus Preacher Provokes Fight After Carrying “Women Belong in the Kitchen” Sign | Hemant Mehta ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

This reminds me of the good old days in the late 70s, where campus preachers like Rev. Jed Smock and his wife Cindy would ride the circuit of college campuses preaching against sin and the vices of college kids. They would usually get the sort of slapstick pushback from students, like being pushed into a flower bed, hit with a pie, or having water sprayed at them. They were quite entertaining, I hear, and even ended up being wrote about in Rolling Stone, including how they ended up with people, nicknamed Jedheads, who would follow them around from campus to campus, same as the fans of the Grateful Dead would follow them on the concert circuit. I find the idea of Jedheads to be really funny and indicative of how much they functioned more as entertainers than preachers, even tho I'm sure their intent was more about being the former. I just checked Wikopedia, and there is actually a good article on him under the name Brother Jed.

I'm a Octogenarian male Agnostic--Are there any Octogenarian female Agnostics on board?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

In a word, no, or at most, very few. Welcome to the club, alon, as for the vast majority of us, including me, this site is worthless for meeting people to date, except for a very few who live in a large metro area that is not part of the Bible Belt. I am much closer to middle aged, for example, and live in the largest city in my state, but I have yet to meet a single member of this site in person, male or female. And I have no doubt that my experience is probably typical. But since you live in Cali, I would say try a mainstream dating site, like Match or some other one that caters to older folks, because I have no doubt there are probably many single women your age in Cali that aren't believers. If only that were true in my state.

Saw a profile in which the guy would have seemed reasonable, except he used this kind of language: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2021:

This is someone who obviously prefers communicating in text speak, instead of actually using full words, correct spelling and full sentences. Probably not very deep intellectually, probably also a short attention span and rather lazy, since the profile is really short. Too lazy to write a full one and put some real thought into it.

Of course this was posted in a private group, since anti-vaxxers aren't actually interested in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Getting vaxed "later" won't do them much good if they are already dead or in the hospital with severe respiratory problems already. What is THEIR Plan B for that scenario? Prayer?

Are vaccination passports and putting unvaccinated Covid patients to the bottom of the triage queue ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

These people have chosen to deny and ignore science. Fine, then if they get sick with Covid, let them be denied or at least put at the back of the line for scarce medical resources, when it comes to using that science to treat the disease. They made their choice and there should be consequences for it. That is how the real world works, there are consequences for every choice, at least for average people. Not so much if you are part of a rich aristocratic family like Trump, or part of politically connected family either, for that matter.

Billboard Hailing Donald Trump As Second Coming of Jesus Appears in Georgia

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Further proof that Trumpism is a cult and these people are nuts.

How to care for your human

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

I've always suspected they were plotting world domination..

Abortion pills are booming worldwide. Will their use grow in Texas?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2021:

We can hope so. What are they going to do, rip open every package to make sure no Texas women are able to get them thru the mail?

A Vaccine Or This Marriage: Conspiracy Theories Are Tearing Couples Apart | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2021:

In the past couple years I have run across a few people that have actually experienced this. They have been married to someone who either became a Trumper, an anti-vaxer or both, and it killed their marriage. They said, rightly so, that there was no reasoning with or changing them, same as if you had a spouse that suddenly became severely and permanently mentally ill, but refused to get treatment for it. In cases like this, I feel the traditional marriage vows of "in sickness and in health" don't apply, because the person is not willing to get help or do anything to preserve the marriage, so the best you can do is cut your losses and save yourself. I think that the Covid pandemic has made this worse, as the isolation it has caused many people, as far as having less face to face contact in person, has made it easier for people to get sucked into all the online and media disinformation without any real life interactions with others that might contradict or challenge that misinformation. So people can adopt a new, dysfunctional belief system without any real need to ? or defend it.

America's medical system cannot function normally with the burden of the anti-vaxxer campaign of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

The second option in the poll is not really relevant, as we have had a tiered health care system for decades, where there is one tier for the uninsured and poor, another for the insured who are in the middle classes, and then finally a top tier for the rich. So the idea of discriminating against the anti-vaxers being unfair or a perversion of our health care system is long out-dated and disingenuous. We have had second and third class citizens for a long time, esp. when it comes to health care, because it has never been a human right in America. If they choose to act with violence against the policies, then they should be met with violence, since their actions result in death anyway, let it include their own deaths if necessary. They are itching for a civil war, maybe it's time to have it, as long as the authorities, most likely, decide to act on our side rather than theirs. I believe they would, as the rich would instruct them to do so in order to preserve the medical system for their benefit, even if they don't care about preserving it for us peasants.

9/11: Why Americans Were Never Told Why They Were Attacked When Western media discusses terrorism...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

Most Americans have no idea that if we got the hell out of the Middle East and stopped giving Israel unlimited and unconditional support, the Islamic and Arab world would no longer want to attack us. But that is something our corporate media is never willing to discuss. They are never willing to honestly discuss our wars and military interventions that our government does for empire and resources. If they did, it would be very clear to most Americans as to the real reasons we are hated in that part of the world, and that it has nothing to do with them "hating our freedoms", etc. What a load of bullshit!

COVID-19 spreads at Dana plants as company, unions force workers to stockpile parts I feel ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

I am glad I am retired and have been able to start hunkering down again, maybe not quite as much as I did before being vaxed, but much more than I did after getting vaxed this spring. I think I will have to pretty much stay away from large crowds again this fall and winter, until my state gets somewhere near herd immunity level in vaccinations, and that's only if the new variants are not resistant to the present vaccines.

I've always been a sap for soundtracks and musicals as great music provides a pathway to a different...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Wouldn't know. You failed to provide a link or tell us even what song you are talking about.

[youtu.be] I made a new friend today who wrote this powerful song and sings it.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Nice to see somebody else agrees with me about how Obama was W. in blackface. I bet Joe Elmo also sees Biden these days as no different than Obama, just another corporate sellout.

The Young Turks - Fox Guest Complains: We Have To Pay A Living Wage Now! [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

The business owner is typical of what I encountered in most of my jobs, before I retired. I figured out at an early age that in most workplaces it is a war between the workers and the bosses, including the owner. There is only a pretense, in some businesses, that they are on friendly terms or on the same side. They are out to use and screw us workers, and I learned to have nothing but contempt for most of them and resolved to put up with as little shit as possible, hoping that some day I would inherit enough money to get out of the rat race as soon as possible. Three years ago, my day came. I can now be open about my contempt and speak as often as possible to other workers about the reality of the modern workplace and encourage them to vote accordingly and get out as soon as possible too. One of my last jobs was a three year lesson in bare knuckles capitalism. I worked in a plant that packaged and shipped auto accessories for people wanting to chrome up their vehicles. The guy who owned it is very well known in my state, reportedly worth 78 mil., and a big donor to the Repub Party. He barely had any heat in the plant during the winter, only some floor fans in the summer. But the office staff and management of course has climate control year around. Sort of like the field slaves and the house slaves system in the old southern plantations. I began working there several months before the Great Recession, got downsized with most of the other workers in the collapse, couldn't find another job for a few years... So after being laid off for several months, they called me back to work, then kept me there for a few months. This process was repeated several times over the next couple years of my indentured servitude there, while I kept looking fruitlessly for other jobs, until I finally found an escape thru school bus driving for a private contractor that had taken over the busing for the local school district. So, ironically, my escape from the plant job was from outsourcing of formerly govt. jobs. The plant job was essentially a perma-temp job, where I would work a few months, get laid off again and go back to collecting UE for a few months, then back again, but without any benefits or health insurance. This was also before Obamacare was passed. I even wrote and turned in a letter to the plant manager about how I had been working there for over six months in one stretch, and asking to be hired as a permanent worker with benefits. I never got an answer from him, just got word from my supervisor that I was turned down and would always be a "temp" worker, as they put it. Talk about exploitation. They were just hoping I would eventually find something else or just quit in frustration, so they would then be permanently off the hook for UE liability for me. ...

The Young Turks - This White Nationalist Is UPSET People Are Mocking Him [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Poor baby.. This reminds me of the former Trump aides that now can't get a job in DC or find women willing to date and have sex with them, so in both cases they lie about having worked for Trump.

Hunter S. Thompson's 9/11 Essay Is Still Chillingly Accurate 16 Years Later | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Thompson had a keen sense of the rot, corruption, and ruthlessness of our leaders and our fed government, esp. the military and the intelligence community.

This guys sounds like an Athiest blogger! I do agree with his message though.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

This is also a good retort to the usual "Thoughts and prayers" bullshit that we get after each mass shooting or natural disaster......

This guys sounds like an Athiest blogger! I do agree with his message though.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Sounds like he is saying that fate, life, and the world around us helps those who help themselves.

Even on their death beds, some COVID-19 patients in Idaho still reject vaccination ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Their deaths are no loss for our collective society. Less crazy and stupidity is a win-win for us overall. I only feel bad for those health workers and relatives that these fools may have infected and that the health workers have to treat them no matter how much risk these people expose them to.

Unpopular take: I am tired of the 9/11 crap. I watched it happen on live TV. Was it a tragedy?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

I agree. It is bullshit that the corporate media uses to brainwash Americans about the "official" version of 9-11, which I have never bought. They want us to keep believing the government told the truth about what happened, play on feelings of nationalism, and gin up fear that something like that will happen again, in order to distract from how they country is falling apart and decaying from within, while all the while our leaders and the ruling class go on stealing from the rest of us thru corporate welfare and the funneling of money from the lower classes to the top class thru government spending on war. You also hear no perspective in the corporate media of how many people die every day from Covid compared to how many died from 9-11, because that would reveal the hypocrisy of the Repubs in how many dead Americans are acceptable to them if it furthers their policy goals. My position on the 9-11 event is that, at the very least, the Bush administration knew it was coming and let it happen, because it served their purpose and goals of getting a war with Iraq, spreading empire to the Middle East, and getting their oil, as well as occupying Afghanistan. It is also possible that they actively assisted in the attack happening. People thinking that the Repubs would never purposely allow the killing of a few thousand Americans for their political goals is hopelessly naive for these days, as I also feel the Dems are also just as callous when it comes to achieving their political goals. The lives of us peasants really don't matter to them either when it comes their goals or their ambitions for power.

Fuck texas

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

You will live a very sad, disappointed life if you seriously expect or wait for Repubs to ever admit hypocrisy. They are totally shameless and oblivious to that concept, except when they are projecting it on their opponents or bashing them for hypocrisy. Otherwise, it's a taboo subject for them.

Mary Trump: Uncle may be 'too busy' with depositions to stay politically involved | TheHill

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

We can only hope.

Steve Cutts : Happiness Rat race. [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Very true. As an older friend, a woman who was very socialist and feminist once told me, "Even if you win the rat race, in the end, you still end up a rat, rather than a real human".

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee - Racist and Sexist School Dress Codes Continue to Fail Students ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

I still liked the way some school district in Texas punked Governor Abbott by adding masks to the dress code to get around his order prohibiting school mask orders.

Relationship counseling

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

My parents had a very negative attitude towards therapy and counseling in general. They thought it was only for losers and weak people. Of course, they were very much in denial of their own dysfunction. As for relationship or marriage counseling, I have never had it, not because I was against it, just didn't end up with the need. I have been to individual counseling or therapy a few times in my life, and I think it has been helpful. I am currently still in it and also taking meds for depression. I have had a lot of loss and trauma in my life the last ten years, and I need all the help I can get for it. At the same time, I realize that there is only so much that meds and therapy can do for someone. The rest has to come from, at least for most of us, by improving your life situation and your social support system as well as having positive experiences and social interaction in your life, except maybe for introverts, unlike me. For example, staying in a job you hate, is not going to allow you to be happy, no matter what meds and therapy you have going. Same with a terrible marriage.

Valor Christian High School Colorado, Certainly lives up to its name Very Christian indeed ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Can't have those queer people teaching and coaching kids. Have to make room for all the hetero child molesters who are already teaching them.

Valor Christian High School Colorado, Certainly lives up to its name Very Christian indeed ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Love the photo from Monty Python's LIfe Of Brian, where John Cleese played the smug pharisee who is condemning a man to death for uttering the name Jehovah. The man then explains himself and protests his innocence while uttering the name again, while Cleese tells him "You're only making it worse on yourself!" To which the man then says, "How can I make it worse on myself? You've already sentenced me to death by stoning." He then begins kicking up sand and yelling the name Jehovah, over and over, mocking the Cleese character..

In the Middle of the Great Resignation, Employers Are Rejecting Millions of Qualified Workers, New ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

The fancy hiring software, as well as the moving of the application process to being entirely online, even for jobs that don't involve using computers at all, is also a way to weed out or eliminate any older workers who are not computer literate, don't have internet access, or too expensive to insure for health care, even if they might be quite competent for the actual job being advertised. But the online hiring process gives them a backdoor way to discriminate against poor people (who don't have net access) or older workers without actually doing anything illegal or blatantly discriminating based on age. Of course, they will always have the opportunity to do that once the person shows up in person for an interview and the hiring person can then react to the applicant's being too old with the tried and true excuse that they are "over-qualified"..

In the Middle of the Great Resignation, Employers Are Rejecting Millions of Qualified Workers, New ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

I have no sympathy for the employers. They have been spoiled for decades with an abundance of wage slaves to hire and exploit, so they grew complacent with how they could structure the hiring based on that power imbalance and make the job descriptions and hiring criteria so rigid and overly-broad that they could make hiring like a boutique shopping purchase, all the way down to getting that "sweet spot" of what age employee they could get for the job, younger and cheaper being the general rule of thumb in who they prized. Fuck them if they are having problems hiring. They are butt hurt that the power has shifted some, finally, towards the workers, and the employers don't want to adjust to it and give up any of their power and advantage over workers in the hiring process. They also are the ones responsible for overly-automating the hiring process, another thing I hate, so they could save time and money, supposedly, and now they are paying dearly for that. I also remember how before Covid that employers would lie all the time and pretend to have more openings than they did, playing workers who were sincerely seeking jobs only to find out that the employers were advertising for phantom jobs that didn't exist, doing what was called talent banking to get a reserve stock of resumes and applications for jobs they might need to fill later with future openings from workers leaving. The practice was also just a way to keep HR people busy and justify their existence in the company while the company was not hiring very often.

Biden Has to Flay this Prick.. [rawstory.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2021:

I love it when a progressive Dem has the balls to go after a DINO or a corrupt centrist Dem.

(Tennessee) " Student whose grandma died of Covid-19 mocked at school board meeting while he ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Let them all die and do whatever is necessary to prevent them from taking innocents down with them, even if it means quarantining them thru vax mandates, so that they are restricted from most normal social life. The innocent deserve that protection. As far as the video, it was no surprise to me, as I grew up in rural America and also lived there a little as an adult. Mean-spirited, ignorant hicks doing what they usually do. Hard to have any sympathy for them. So grateful to have lived most of my adult life in larger cities than that, even tho still in Iowa.

At last they never deserved to be there

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2021:

If only Biden would get rid of De Joy and restore the postal service. Won't hold my breath on that one...

This technology can predict early Alzheimer’s with near 100% accuracy [euronews.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2021:

If this tech proves to be effective in prediction, it will be interesting to see how many people will be willing to use it. Personally, I am more afraid of getting dementia and living with it for very long than I am of death itself, esp. after seeing my late wife suffer and then die from it. To be honest, I think that many people, including me, would probably commit suicide somewhere in the middle stage of dementia or earlier if we found out we were going to get it. In fact, many people might kill themselves soon after getting the prognosis. I know if I had this testing and got positive results, I would begin making my plans for suicide soon after, probably try to hold off until reaching the middle stage. I really doubt that a cure or effective treatment would come soon enough to hang around for.

[bitchute.com] "He doesn't know anything about anything and I'd say that to his face. Nothing."

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2021:

I hope he gets his Darwin award soon...

Words to live by

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2021:

It's what I've always said, men should have no say about abortion, since they can't get pregnant. The only men who should be involved in decisions about abortion should be the doctors of pregnant women, and only as their advisors, not as decision makers.

Hi there fellas!! Robert Nappi2 and Transition1 from Yonkers Empire casino… and RN2’s old ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Any reason the first two photos are upside down?

Taliban Parade Shows-Off Plundered U.S. Weapons of War | NewsMo - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

Glad to hear that professional courtesy is not dead these days between fellow hit men for governments.

Why Won’t People Take Low-Paying Jobs?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

You would either work yourself into bankruptcy or, if you are able to supplement your slave wages by using state or federal assistance programs, like Food Stamps, Medicaid, etc., you can let the government subsidize your sleazeball employer's exploitation scheme. In Europe, McDonald's workers are all unionized, have benefits, and make around $25 an hour in US dollars, and yet their burgers only cost a dollar or so more than in the US, so I also don't buy the usual conservative excuse that paying workers a living wage means making prices so high that businesses can't survive or be profitable. The only ? is how much profit is fair and how much is too much or too greedy.

I hope this is readable. It's an excellent argument.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

It is very simple. Women can get pregnant. Men can't. Until that changes, men have, and never should have had, no say or business whatsoever in deciding or telling women what to do with their pregnancies. The only men who should be involved with those decisions should be the women's doctors, and only as an advisor regarding the health of the woman and the fetus.

Why Won’t People Take Low-Paying Jobs?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

Aww, I feel so bad for greedy shithead employers that they are now having trouble hiring new wage slaves...... maybe if they provided a living wage and benefits they wouldn't have that problem. And if their business model doesn't allow for that and a modest profit, maybe their business shouldn't exist and they should try going to work for someone else, and see how it feels to be a wage slave. Exploitation should not be the norm in capitalism or American businesses, but it is. So I don't feel bad when the labor market finally pushes back on that, since unions and the government sure won't do it.

Wondering why they weren't screaming about their "right's".

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

I wouldn't say they were smarter, it's just that they had fought a very bloody world war, and, unlike today, individualism was not as enshrined as now. There was a widespread belief in sacrifice for the common good, which had allowed them to fight that war.

Don't you wish you lived there.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

I wish I lived there. Instead I live in the fascist US. I love the Tom Tomorrow, as he is as radical as me, sees and calls out openly the collusion of the two major parties, how rigged the charade of elections is with the duopoly owned by the rich and corporations, as well as how corrupt the corporate media is in supporting the duopoly.

I would never encourage anyone to attack a site that had to change its server because of past ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 7, 2021:

As Monty Python would say, " Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?, say no more"......

Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Probably hopes that he and other rich fucks will live there in the future and be able to escape the apocalypse that engulfs the rest of America.

Gov.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Then why do they need so many guns?

Happy 5782!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2021:

What does 5782 mean?

A severe WTF moment

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 6, 2021:

As a society, most Americans and our leaders, have decided that we must accept mass shootings as a regular occurrence, rather than change our gun laws. And yet, a vocal minority is being allowed to endanger all of our school age children because they reject science. In both cases, a vocal minority is allowed to endanger the safety and health of most, and that is insane.

What's it all about?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Probably is. The admin. is no longer around and there appear to be no signs that anyone is maintaining the site's functioning.

Recently I met a woman on a dating site and this progressed to the point of her coming to visit me ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Same here. Another reason for me to not have a smartphone and I insist that if I share phone numbers with someone early in the dating game, it is for verbal phone talks only, no texting, as I have a landline only, at least as far as anyone new to me knows. If they won't video chat or talk live on the phone with you after trading some messages for a week or less, they are probably hiding something, too busy to actually date, or maybe just busy and messaging several other men, so they are short on time to communicate or meet in person with all of them. Regardless, in most cases, these are women not worth wasting my time on, as they are either hiding something, too busy to date, or I have so much competition for them that I am likely to get rejected or passed up anyway.

If it works a good idea

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 3, 2021:

The Repubs are America's Taliban. They oppress women and they use domestic terrorism against their enemies. They are the greatest threat to this country, not foreign terrorists. I wish the feds would treat them more like the Taliban, but they won't because secretly, many members of the police and military are sympathizers, if not actual members, of these right wing groups.

I’m becoming increasingly concerned at what damage to the long term health of large numbers of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

What is ME? I agree that there will be long term effects both at the personal level and the societal level.

I’m single and ready to mingle….

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

I am widowed and I just want someone average-looking or better, who shares some of my interests and is otherwise compatible with me on paper, oh, and also that they be old enough to not be my daughter, lol..., but I'm ready to mingle too, as long as the woman also lives less than an hour away from me, oh, again, that would eliminate every woman still active on this site.......

I am single and I want to mingle

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

You two guys both crack me up! Can't you just let an earnest scammer try to earn their money, lol?

My daughter in law came over wearing a shirt that said: UNMASKED UNMUZZLED UNVACCINATED ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Unlike her, I really tried to protect myself from Covid after it came here, and I managed to for ten months, but then my luck finally ran out and I got it, tho I still don't know how. I am damn glad that the urgent care doc that treated me got me signed up for the Regeneron treatment as soon as possible after I tested positive. But that treatment is no substitute for being careful in the first place to avoid getting infected, kind of like using abortion as your only form of birth control, it is the choice of idiots. The story of your daughter in law shows that her reluctance to mask or vax is not about distrust of science or medicine, it is about being a defiant child in an adult body that doesn't want to care about other people or follow any inconvenient rules. She needs to grow the fuck up.

I’m single and ready to mingle….

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

And, we have a new scammer! Even quotes the usual playbook, about how they are heartbroken after their partner cheated on them with their best friend, etc. Probably will also see something later about their being widowed, etc. At age 27, lol?

It seems to me that the Texas legislature was voted into power by mad men and by insane women who ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Gilead, here we come!

I'm finding that putting the forever block on the anti-vax members very satisfying.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

I concur.

i really am surprised how satisfying it can be to block persistent stupidity.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

I am approaching near five dozen total blocked, but I suspect many of them have left the site, so it may actually be much smaller than that on active members. But I have enjoyed every block I make. I call it customizing my site experience.

Biden: Texas abortion law "blatantly" violates constitutional rights - Axios

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

For those of you familiar with The Handmaid's Tale, it looks like Texas is now Gilead, here we come!....

Fauci Says Only Way to Herd Immunity May Be Through Natural Infections - Second Nexus

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

And yet, after the deaths begin piling up, the Repubs and Trumpers will still put the blame on Biden for it, somehow...

Whatever works

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Maybe in this case, appealing to their paranoia is the way to get them to do the right thing, whatever works, indeed...

Va. Supreme Court sides with teacher who refused to use transgender students' pronouns - Axios

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

I know I will get flack for this, and I agree that gays rights and such matter, and I am a supporter of such, but personally this whole pronoun thing seems a bit overwrought. In fact, at times I think people carry it to such an extreme that it becomes PC run amok. I say just have the teachers call the kids by their first name, whatever it is on their student info, and leave it at that. I guess I never cared what teachers called me by as long as it wasn't some insult or made up name, but then again I am hetero and cis, as they say nowadays. I think it's way more important for schools to focus on dealing with the bullying that happens between kids, of which I experienced my share. I wish they had been trying to deal with that back in my day.

Can US Elections Really Be Stolen?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Most eligible voters in America are either too demoralized to even think that their votes matter in fed elections, and of those that still do vote, they buy all the propaganda from the corporate media that voting third party is always a wasted vote, etc. And as long as that message remains so powerful, and that third party candidates get no mass media coverage, the remaining voters who keep voting will keep staying within the duopoly. I see no solution as long as the corporate media remains such a powerful influence, that third party candidates remain off mass media, except for the internet, and also shut out of presidential debates, and as long as unlimited money is allowed for the major party candidate's campaigns. I we had adequate public campaign financing for third party candidates in fed elections to be able to get on TV regularly, that might change things a lot, but it will never happen with the current laws and even then, the corporate media would probably just refuse to run their ads.

Brian Tyler Cohen - Texas man goes viral, HUMILIATES anti-maskers with unforgettable stunt ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2021:

I love it when someone humiliates, shames, and confronts the hypocrisy of these assholes. The pantless guy's point also shows how easy it would be to require masks by adding them to the school dress codes, in states like mine where the state government won't allow mask orders in schools.

Cougar that was kept as illegal pet removed from NYC home

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2021:

Bet the neighbors didn't know about the cougar and are glad to hear it's now gone.

Jim Jordan gets schooled while attacking Dr Fauci

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2021:

The First Amendment, liberties, and freedoms don't matter much if you are dead or seriously ill with Covid. This fuck refuses to admit how much more important public health is than those things for most of us, and he also won't admit that he really doesn't care about those who die or get seriously ill from Covid. To him, their deaths and suffering are way less important than his own political ambition and power.

I did not write this opinion piece and the original author is not known to me.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2021:

We barely survived Trump, so I held my nose and voted for Biden because even tho I knew he was just as corrupt as Trump, he would at least have some competent people around him and do a better job of trying to help us thru Covid, unlike Trump. That he chose to finally get us out of Afghanistan, after both parties worked to keep us there way too long, was a bonus. Our country will survive whatever Biden does during what will surely be only one term, but more importantly, we will not survive the continued neglect of our leaders not fighting climate change as well as the bipartisan program of letting our jobs here be eliminated thru automation and outsourcing overseas, as well as worsening economic inequality. It helped lead to the Jan. 6 insurrection and if the duopoly continues to sell us out economically, we will have civil war in this country, before the end of the decade, if not sooner, between the fascists and either the federal government, or, more likely between them and the federal govt., against the rest of us with marital law, and, after the crackdown, a dictatorship of the right wing, and no more elections. Probably as well a dictatorship that is theocratic Christian.

Liberal Redneck - "Spoiled" Little Poor Kids - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2021:

This was already posted somewhere else on Agnostic., jus'sayin'.

I don't drink however I found this amusing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2021:

I haven't drank alcohol since 1996. Originally, it was because my late wife was married to an alcoholic before she met me, and she asked me to stop drinking so she could feel more emotionally secure with me, but after 2010, I no longer had any choice in the matter, as I had developed atril fibrillation in my heart. After that, drinking would only cause me to have espisodes of atril fib and also work against my heart medication and the blood thinners I have to take to prevent a stroke if I go into atril fib..

My son got married on zoom last year (September) so we had the reception this past Saturday.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Glad it was finally able to happen in person, even with Covid, now that I assume they were all vaxed by now. I think this virus is going to continue to be a challenge to having large gatherings for some time to come, even if all those attending have been complying with the science of masking and vaxing. It's going to be a long time, if ever, before we can return to any pre-Covid kind of normal lifestyle.

Trae Crowder - Liberal Redneck - "Spoiled" Little Poor Kids [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

He makes the best point right at the end, referring to The Great Resignation, because that is the point that many on the left, like me, have been begging for for decades, a series of general strikes. That is key to ever having any kind of peaceful revolution, because, at least for the time being, the rich still need our labor, at least until they are able to replace all of us with robots. But we can't wait much longer, because, as Andrew Yang pointed out a few years ago, they are already on the way to replacing most of us workers in the US between outsourcing and automation.

Found in my FB folder

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Cats planning world domination..

“I Was Living Like Scarface”: The Ludicrous Costs of the War in Afghanistan Revealed in New ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

War is very profitable, but only for a few individuals, and for lots of corporations.

Can US Elections Really Be Stolen?

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

They can always be stolen as long as most of the voting is done electronically with touch screen voting machines and no paper receipts, instead of paper only ballots so there can be accurate recounts. I would prefer a mix of mail in ballots and paper in person ballots, instead of what we have, but right now our federal postal system has been fucked up so badly and only getting worse with bipartisan support.

It just might work!!

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

The Trumpers are so oppositionally-minded, that it just might influence some of them, because they so enjoy "owning the Libs" and spiting Dem leaders, that they just might fall for it. But the anti-vaxers, this would make no difference to them.

Well, boy did I get played.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Update: She finally came back on Batch tonite and read my tell off message to her, must have really pissed her off, as she blocked me without replying to my confrontation. I had the last word, but I really doubt she will report me to Batch for telling her off, much less get me banned from there for fairly and accurately stating what she did to me and simply saying how I felt about her behavior. If I do get booted from there, I will share it here.

I work in "member" service for a federal credit union.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2021:

I guess for every scammer there is at least one poor sucker like this guy. Sorry you ended up in the middle of this train wreck in progress. This guy is probably not very good looking or at best average-looking, and he is clearly seeking a modern version of the old mail order bride. How sad, as the commenter below said, that conditions in places like Latin America and eastern Europe or Russia are so bad that women from there are willing to become mail order brides in this day and age. I also suppose there are some Asian countries where this is happening too.

Yes, the cat HAS been fed.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Most cats will let you feed them as many times a day as you like.

Got a text from the asshat who dated me a few weeks before revealing he didn’t tell me about his ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Probably about the same. Karma is a bitch for him. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's been shitted on lately by game players in online dating.

Rebel HQ - Cops Kicked Off Property In EPIC Fashion [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 28, 2021:

That was beautiful to watch. I loved how he cussed them out and they had to just silently take it, once he mentioned that he had their police chief already on his side. They left with their tails between their legs, figuratively.

The truth but the system will never have the power as we have

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 27, 2021:

I think that is often true, as far as it being used to distract or invalidate someone telling a truth that is damaging or inconvenient to someone else's ideology, so PC is used as a weapon to avoid debate or discussion of whether the speaker's point is valid or the truth, no matter how uncomfortable or offended the listener may be about hearing that viewpoint. I especially resent it when someone else who, like me is on the left of the political spectrum, uses PC to shut me up about saying something that makes them uncomfortable to hear, no matter how true, and they pull out standards of PC to come off holier than thou or more purely lefty than thou, and thus try to intimidate me or shut me up as not being as pure or virtuous as them. Needless to say, it doesn't work on me...

Robert F. Kennedy’s sons support release of dad’s assassin

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 27, 2021:

I sadly have to agree with you. Like what really happened on 9-11, the American public will never get to know the real stories behind the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, nor even about Paul Wellstone or Mel Carnahan, probably all of which involved the assistance of the CIA or military intelligence services. And to think that most Americans don't even realize how often these agencies interfere with foreign governments, why would they suspect them of interfering with our domestic politics? Of course, you and I know why they do, because the powers that be don't trust or want the peasants to actually have any power or say in who really runs things here. We are supposed to just participate or not in our charade of elections and democracy, or not, and just drop out. Either way, it really doesn't matter to them as long as they get their pre-vetted, already bought candidates in place to run things for them.

Well, boy did I get played.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 27, 2021:

And anybody that wants to blame me or bash me on this one, well, I haven't noticed many people these days having the guts or balls to post on here about their experiences being mistreated on dating sites, so if you want to judge, then be willing to bare your feelings on here after you get hurt. Until then, don't be quick to judge or blame me.

I find it interesting that many atheists, including ones on this platform, give up their belief in a...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 26, 2021:

Duplicate post much, asswipe?

Anti-vaxx lawyer for dozens of Capitol rioters is now on a ‘ventilator’ with COVID-19 Attorney...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 26, 2021:

Karma's a bitch, and so is payback....

This guy has balls of steel! He goes right in the belly of the beast to expose the Trumplicans for ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 26, 2021:

This squares with what many others have told me, such that you can find Trumpers, rednecks, and right wing assholes anywhere in the US, even in Boston, California, and New York. Loved the video, idiots, nutjubs, and paranoids...

Sturgis South Dakota has had a1500% increase in covid cases

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 25, 2021:

Bikers have always hated hippies and other people from the left, so their politics tend to be right wing or at least Libertarian. So it's no surprise that they drink the Kool-Aid about Covid being a hoax, plus, they embrace the whole outlaw attitude of ignoring personal safety, whether it's wearing a helmet on the road, or wearing a mask and getting vaxed during a pandemic. They get what they deserve, with no sympathy from me, except for the innocent people they will infect when they return home from their superspreader event. Anyone with half a brain will stay away from anyone they know attended this event.

Well folks it's been pretty well confirmed that I will be dying of cancer is spread now from my ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 25, 2021:

I am very sorry to hear this. It takes guts to come out publicly about one's dying, and I admire you on that. Hope I have the same when my time comes, if there is any advance notice.