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No shit no progress from them

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2021:

That pretty well sums up the differences between what each group wants.

Was religion an old form of government?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2021:

For many people, religion, with its emphasis on the afterlife, and people being rewarded then for good behavior in this life, functions as a way to get people to put up with being poor and oppressed by the rich in this life. So in that way, it does prevent revolution and the poor robbing the rich.

Docs Reveal How They Really Feel About Anti-Vaxxers In Scathing Kimmel Segment | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2021:

Funny and truthful, but I doubt it will change the minds of the deluded.

Just an FYI.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2021:

I have three years of online dating experience with Batch, and the scammers have been here on Agnostic since the beginning, as far as I can tell. They should be obvious to spot.

It occurred to me that most, if not all, Republicans are also Xians.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2021:

Repub Christians are only interested in the Old Testament, as far as they are concerned, Jesus never existed, much less that he was a socialist.

The Trolley Problem

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2021:

Got to always favor the few rich over the many "surplus population" of peasants. Scrooge, before his transformation, is their hero.

The Carter Library just released a photo of President & First Lady Biden visiting former President ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2021:

If only most presidents were at least decent human beings like Carter, instead of entitled selfish assholes like Trump and W.

My first selfie...What ya think???

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2021:

Wait, this is a fake... All the human selfies have a bathroom in the background, where's the kitty's litter box? Maybe this kitty is a scammer.....hmmm... Coming soon to CatMatch.com.....

Mencken on Government...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2021:

Can't agree with that. It sounds way too much like Ann Rand type Libertarianism and extremely individualistic. If anything these days, we need more socialism and less greedy, predatory capitalism.

Sticks48 (Larry) would be so disappointed in me.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2021:

Update: The first meeting/date last night with the other of the two women I have been chatting with went really well. I helps that we had video chatted a few times before meeting in person and had also been having daily phone chats after moving on from the video chats. Really enjoy her company in person and also felt some chemistry and physical attraction. She was very easy and comfortable to talk to and I felt very relaxed and at home with her. Had dinner to celebrate her birthday early and then went to karaoke for an hour or so, where I got to sing for her twice. She really enjoyed the meetup and said so when we talked by phone today. We both agreed and told each other we should be able to at least be lasting good friends even if the dating part doesn't work out. I am still going to go slow on anything physical with her, tho it was clear she feels some of the same attraction. We had a long, slow hug before she got in her car to leave, after I walked her to it, and after the hug she gave me a quick, enthusiastic kiss on the cheek after she was surprised by me not leaning forward for a kiss after the hug. Did not want to lead her on or encourage her too soon. I responded by giving her a quick, somewhat awkward kiss on her cheek. I think she gets my caution and that it's nothing personal. We are meeting for a few hours again, plans made over a week ago, to go on a winery walk in her town next Sat.. After that, I'll see what happens. We first started messaging in the middle of March, so it was a relief to finally meet in person. She looks better in person, as do most people do, than in her current pics. I thought her figure was noticeably better in person than in photos.

An infamous 1957 quote by Conservative Movement founder and editor of the National Review William F.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2021:

Well, at least he was more honest about being racist than most modern Repubs and conservatives. Not all white conservatives are racists, but almost all white racists are conservatives.

Christian love...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2021:

Bring it on assholes. I live in a very safe building with security doors and underground parking only accessible to residents. If they want to try gunning for me away from my building, I don't make it easy for them because I am smart enough to refrain from posting bumper stickers that would set me up for a target.

isnt it interesting how men age like wine and women age like milk?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

Good ?

When your date shows up and ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

Poor kitty. Sorry to hear it happens even to them....

Arizona Atheist Lawmaker Stands Up To Christian Bully: [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

He seemed to be the typical smug, arrogant bully.

Has your interest in religion increased or decreased after leaving your religion? Why?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

Decreased. I rarely think about it anymore.

Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic The public health measures that slow the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

No surprise there.

Sticks48 (Larry) would be so disappointed in me.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

One other point I'll add, just for shits and giggles, this woman's profile pics, all six of them, were all head shots, not one of her body, which actually was a fairly good figure. But her deceptiveness with the photos, probably because she was embarrassed about gaining some weight during Covid, should have been a tipoff to me about her personality.

Hey, gals! If you're tired of the 'soy boy swamp,' this new 'Christian' dating site is for you!

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2021:

If I were a woman, I would give that a hard pass...., but for you, Paula, I think you should enjoy yourself and give those pricks the punking they deserve.

Sticks48 (Larry) would be so disappointed in me.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2021:

Personally, tho I know it will sound like sour grapes, I and a friend I processed this experience with, think that I dodged a bullet here. All is not lost, tho, because tomorrow night I have sort of a first meeting/date with a woman that I have been not only messaging with on Batch, but also moved on to video chatting with and talking on the phone about every day for almost three weeks. She is down to earth, and I already feel pretty comfortable being myself with her. I think there is at least a good lasting friendship there if both of us want it, should it fail to pan out as a romantic relationship. We have a lot of shared interests and she is funny and smart. Also seems a hell of a lot more honest than the woman from today. But at least I will see her in person tomorrow to celebrate her birthday a few days early with dinner and karaoke. I am also planning to see her for a winery walk where she lives next Sat.. Hopefully those two experiences will tell me enough to know if there is the right kind of chemistry or attraction on my part. If I feel there isn't, I will be straight with her that I'm not interested in continuing with her unless it's as just a friend and with the agreement that we each should keep looking for other people to date romantically. I may be a lot of things, but I really hate and try not to be a hypocrite.

There are always a few alternative apples in the bunch.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2021:

Is that anything like Jews For Jesus, lol?

Ever the kitchen helper... Alastair.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2021:

The cat was going to help wash the dishes?

There’s a New Dating Website for Christian Men Who Hate Feminists and Soy Boys | Beth Stoneburner ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2021:

That's the beauty of the internet, there's something for everyone, even the most fucked up.

It seems I spend most of my time....

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2021:

That's what they do.

Update time.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2021:

22 hour drive? Is she too broke to fly? I would never put myself thru that long of a car trip, even when I was young.

Justice Department has charged at least 400 people in Capitol riot so far - CNNPolitics

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 28, 2021:

That still means that most of the rioters who got inside the capital have not been charged and will probably get away with no consequences. There were at least three or four times that 400 that got inside the capital.

Black soldiers were harrassed by a white woman at an IHOP.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

Typical Karen, just a little nuttier than most.

Remember: If you received either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, you need two doses to ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

My two week period is over on Thur.. I can't wait to get back out to attending movies-tho only with very small groups in the theater and socially distanced-and also to karaoke shows at bars, which are higher risk, I know. But I will just sit with my group of vaxed people and wear a mask whenever I leave my table unless I am singing at the mic. I will also begin meeting women from Batch for coffee or meals, providing they too are vaxed.

Just went to a pharmacy and got my first COVID vaccine! Didn't even have to make an appointment.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

I'm glad for you. Even tho I live in a Republican-controlled state in the US, we are soon getting to the stage where you can get a Covid shot without an appt.. By early summer, the only adults in my state who aren't vaxed will be the ones who don't want it.

Private school in Miami won't hire teachers who are vaccinated

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

Who ever thought supporting public health could get you blacklisted as a teacher? I always thought that to get that you had to either get caught molesting students or teaching socialism in a red state.

ALTERNATE REALITY MONDAY, link: [united-cats.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

I enjoyed your blog post, Doug, but I miss your profile pic of Smudge For President. That cat looked so darn cute and was such a superior candidate to Trump or Biden.

I don't get intimate relationships but platonic I do... Anyone else who has views similar to me?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 26, 2021:

I "get" and have enjoyed both with women. I think that Gwen's comment below is pertinent.

New Rule: OK Boomer | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 24, 2021:

Who is the young brunette woman that the camera went back to a few times? I don't have HBO, so I don't watch Maher's show. Does he have a co-host, or is she a guest?

Well folks I made it, the only real thing I felt was tired and a wee bit sore shoulder.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

Got my second shot on the 15th and was sick for a couple days. It was a lot like when I had Covid, except the same symptoms were more mild and it didn't last nearly as long. I can rejoin things on the 29th.

Musician and composer Jim Steinman wrote the song I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

I'm guessing that Meatloaf has been retired from music for a while, but even if he wasn't Steinman wrote enough songs for him to last the rest of Meatloaf's career. I'm also guessing that Steinman retired from songwriting a while ago.

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift [news.yahoo.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2021:

It would be nice if prostitution eventually became decriminalized here and ended up with the same system as New Zealand regarding prostitution, but I'm not optimistic. The evangelical and Catholic churches are too powerful. It still might happen in some blue states, but not nationwide.

On a lighter note, how would you react if you had a first sleepover with someone who had sheets with...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

Are you talking about the sheets on the bed of a grown man? If I were a woman, I would be a bit taken aback..

One very obviously bad police officer finally faces justice for a cold blooded killing in front of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

It's an isolated victory. It only happened because someone recorded the whole thing. Most of the time there is not a recording like this, in the future it will usually end up being the cop's word against the bystander's and in those cases, the cop always walks. Even in this case, without the video, the cop's word would have trumped that of all the bystander witnesses.

Hey for those who are interested I got my second covid shot today the Pfizer variety four weeks ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2021:

I had Covid back in Dec. The second shot was like getting Covid again, same symptoms, only milder and not lasting as long. The second day is the worst. I felt back to normal on day four.

When your white priviledge expires

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

When fuckface first realized he was going away for a long time..

Bush reflects on friendship with Michelle Obama - CNNPolitics

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

It's easy to be friends when you're both neoliberals on economics and fellow members of the economic elite. I can't stand either one of them and would not be friends with them, because, unlike them, I'm a socialist and a member of the peasant class.

The testimony of Chauvin’s “experts” and the pseudo-legal framework of police terror

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

I now predict a guilty verdict on at least one charge, now that jury deliberations lasted less than two days. If it had gone longer than that, I would have predicted a hung jury or an acquittal on all charges.

Do you believe in "False Flags", or do you think these are legitimate?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2021:

9-11 and the Jan. 6 riot were inside jobs, where the perps either had help or the authorities let it happen because it benefited them. I also believe the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job. False flag or inside jobs are the same thing in my book.I also believe the FBI or CIA, sometimes both, were involved in the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK.

Bo Burnham - From God's Perspective. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2021:

Nice song. I like how his voice is simple and unembellished, without all that American Idol crap where they do all these vocal tricks and such to show off. He just sings the lyrics with some emotion and lets that do the job. Sometimes the untrained singers are the best conveyors of the song's message. What I like even more is his song about country music where he satirizes the genre and the pandering of it stars to their audience.

So, I joined Humanist.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2021:

I really have almost no friends that are believers, and even with them, religion is a non-issue. It also almost never comes up in my very limited small talk with neighbors. So I really don't care about believers in general or what they think. Only when it gets into the level of government and society where they try to impose their religion on us. Then it matters to me, but I couldn't care less what they believe or do in their private lives.

47 mass shootings in the past MONTH!!?? Just....... wtf... WOW. 😞😞😞

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 18, 2021:

Does that mean that Covid is cooling down and we're getting back to normal, since in the past normal was frequent mass shootings? Must mean that school shootings will resume again next fall after all the kids are back in school buildings, yee haw..

The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

I have found that most people on the liberal side of the spectrum either lack the interest to seek alternative news sources or refuse to question the corporate media or the Dem Party establishment because they lack the strength and courage to deal with facing the reality that the corporate media and the Dem leadership are lying to them about anything that involves the interests of average Americans. It is simply too much for them to believe that continuing to elect corporate Dems will be never be enough to actually change anything for the everyday reality of most Americans. They see the increases in chaos and violence around our country and refuse to make the connection between it and a failed system, instead they see it all as unconnected and due to causes like simply availability of guns or underfunded mental health care. They fail to see how it's all connected to the growing rage that people feel, even if they don't really understand what they feel rage about. That rage fueled support for Trump and it will continue to feed support for the next Repub dictator, unless the people are given a real choice between that and a left wing populist in a general election. The system is not sustainable for keeping order and peace in the US. In the end, it will only result in either revolution or a fascist crackdown followed by permanent martial law and a dictatorship. Most likely it will be the latter.

Far Left, Far right and Centrists

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

You have a typo where you wrote Fare Left.

Far Left, Far right and Centrists

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

Pretty right on, centrists are so out of touch, either because they are clueless or because they only care about issues that don't cost them anything or might affect their upper middle class comfort.

D.C. Police requested backup at least 17 times in 78 minutes during Capitol riot - Washington Post

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 16, 2021:

Just confirms what I already suspected, that this was an inside job that had involvement from the level of line officers, all the way up to Trump.

The racist gang of 6 republicans who voted against the anti asian hate bill the only no votes

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 16, 2021:

Gotta lock in that vote of the racist base.

🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Good one, I can relate..

I'd like to meet a beautiful-1 American woman on this site.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Rotsa ruck getting a beautiful-looking American woman to date across the ocean with a man in Jordan. But if I end up being wrong about that, feel free to let me know. I won't hold my breath.

Your Government has everything under control.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Sounds a little like John Lennon's song lyric in Working Class Hero, "Keep you doped up on sex and drugs and TV"... Just consume, pay your taxes and support all wars for oil and empire, no matter how long they last.

Growing up, my brother’s experiences within our family was very different to my experience in the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Interesting ideas. Seems to make sense.

So hidden right meow.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

I knew a neighbor cat that was smart enough to know how to hide behind a tree from people.

Looking for my partner in crime

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

Like me, you live in a bad area for finding many fellow members from here living nearby. You may well have to settle for dating someone LD from here, but you look attractive enough that you will probably get some interest from men who live far away.

I had a productive afternoon.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 14, 2021:

I get my second shot tomorrow, and can't wait to start socializing again on the 29th.

This really has nothing to do with Trump except that it's all about GREED and THEFT...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 14, 2021:

Makes me wish there was a hell, as he would now be there. Hope he suffered enough in prison.

Gwen Shocks a Christian I was in Walmart today and, as is my wont, struck up a conversation with...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

You are such a naughty, mischieveous person. I know I spelled it wrong.

Atheists Will No Longer Have to Swear an Oath to God in Order to Vote in Alabama | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

I can't believe that such a requirement was constitutional in the first place.

Ok Here goes. first attempt at getting something up on Agnostic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 13, 2021:

Quite the funny incident there. If I had to bet, the guy is wasting his time trying to get the woman to contact him and meet up. She is too vain to deal with him knowing her secret and giving him a chance to date her. I remember how in the old days of the 1990s, how many local alternative newspapers had voice personal ads listed which would include Missed Connections ads like this. I'm amazed that they have reappeared on the internet.

Last night I was treated to a rerun of the movie, INHERIT THE WIND, on TCM.