What would you do if you had the fattest kid in the world? Whose fault is it? [facebook.com]

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

Cut out the sugar, cut out the starch, cut out the sodium! That stuff will kill you!

Can you trust the Main Street Media coverage of Venezuela and the American spin there? [fair.org]

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

The American media seems to be giving it less coverage, now that the coup has failed.

Man wearing Maga hat charged with attempted murder after allegedly slashing man with sword | The ...

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

Trumplerism is a mental disorder!

Evangelist Declares White House To Be "Holy Ground" And Commands "Demonic Networks To Be Scattered" ...

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

The "holy ground" was originally, a neighborhood of eighteenth-century 'New York Towne', where prostitution flourished. It was centered around where Trump Tower stands today.

Jerry Falwell suggests Trump is owed two more years as president due to Mueller "witch hunt.

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

Trumpy is owed 2 years, plus 2020 years, raking leaves in National Forests!

The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy

davknight comments on May 7, 2019:

The original "Night of the Living Dead" film was a sort of noir spoof of the 'Apocolypse'. Trumplerites can be likened to contemporary Zombie hordes!

It's been a long time since I had some holy rollers come to my house .

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

You need to get you one of those realistic looking plastic alligators, and a sign saying 'Solicitors Will be Eaten!'

Statistics published recently suggest 42% of US households have at least one gun.

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Actually, it's 25% of American households with guns. The more regulated guns become, the more expensive they are, and thus less affordable for the majority of folks. Britain began regulating gun ownership in 1903. Now, gun ownership there has become a luxury of the rich. The US began regulating guns in 1934. And gun ownership amongst poor and working class people has shrunk, while the wealthy have been hoarding guns. Your figures are about forty years out of date. Keep in mind, as of about 1975, 50% of American homes had an average of three firearms each. Nowadays, its 25% with an average of six firearms.If, as Mao stated,"Political power grows out the barrel of a gun", then 'gun control' means stripping the majority of people their political power. Not a smart thing to do. Especially in the Age of Trumplerism!

Should all drugs be legalized?

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Yes. Because all you really need when you are sick, is a copy of the Physicians' Pharmacopia, like doctors use. You could then look up the medicines you need to take, and go down to the drug store and buy them. No "prescription" (or physician) needed!

Swimmers beware: Rivers and lakes remain dangerously cold

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

I know all about that. One unusually hot day, in Michigan's UP, I charged into Lake Superior to cool off. Then I charged right back out again! That water was as cold as when the Wisconsin III glacier melted!

🎙 Happy Birthday Robert ”Bob” Clark Seger (Born: May 6, 1945)

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Favorite Seger tune: "Back in Seventy-Two".Back in Detroit, I used to get mistaken for him when I was in my early twenties. I suppose I should have been 'flattered'. But it used to drive me crazy when teenage girls would approach me in public places, wanting to know if I was "Bob".

How are so many so blind to trumps corruption?

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Because three-quarters of the US population read and write at a twelve-year old's level, and are thus gullible, and susceptible to Trumplerite propaganda.

Our deranged POTUS is now considering, in jest I hope, asking for an additional TWO YEAR EXTENTION ...

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Nothing the Mad Orange Hippo bellows should be taken in jest! They are just the rantings of a Mad Man!

Should we respect other people's beliefs?

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

People with ignorant, or reactionary views comprise a large segment of the population. Therefore, we must TOLERATE them!

Who all had a pet rock? 😜

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

Biggest marketing scam ever, until the Kardashians, and Trump came along!

For Gammar People

davknight comments on May 6, 2019:

And a 'burrito' is NOT a baby burro either!

Pocketctor, remember them? 😊

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

I used to have one of those. I didn't know they had gone 'extinct'?

Who knew if you turned Donald Du k upide down you get the other Donald?

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

Sometimes, Trump reminds me more of Baby Huey!

I had a visitor today. Isn't he a beauty?

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

Looks like a Black Indigo.

I can prove that God does not exist with one word.

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

An old geology professor of mine told us how, one day, he was lecturing about dinosaurs, and one of his students ran out of the class in tears. He caught up with her in the hallway, and asked her what was wrong. She explained that dinosaurs didn't fit in with her religious beliefs. She had been taught that 'God' created the world just 4,000 years ago. And that dinosaurs couldn't have gone extinct 40,000,000 years ago, because the World 'didn't exist' at the time!

Well looky here

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

Spring-breakers are largely self-obsessed hedonists, just like their rich parents. So, it should be no surprise that they behave like their rich parents.

I remember growing up loving this stuff, I will not touch it today.

davknight comments on May 4, 2019:

It's okay, until it starts ta turn green!

A word of advice to men who feel the need to impress women: Try impressing them withyour ...

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

That depends on their age. Younger women tend to be attracted to older men. After they hit forty, they start desiring younger men. Keep in mind also, that 75% of the US population have the intellects of 12 yr olds. That means that 3 out of every four adults you meet are airheads. This type isn't impressed by intellect, or empathy They have neither.It doesn't matter whether they are male, or female. If you have money, you have to beat them off with a stick. If you have none, then you are S.O.L.!

Maybe it should be called the violent book...

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

In Colonial, and Early America, most people had 'good books'. Unfortunately, illiteracy was high, and most 'good book' owners didn't know how to read them.In his younger days, the Shawnee Chieftan, Tecumseh, used to visit White settler families, and amaze them by reading their own 'good books' to them. He would later earn their ire by trying to forge a sort of 'United States of Indigenous Tribes', to prevent the White settlers from penetrating farther westwards.

New haircut. First-ever cell phone selfie.

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

Looks purty!

Which came first: society or a fear of god? | PBS NewsHour

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

Animistic religions preceded the rise of the first horticultural civilizations.

The Idea of God

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

I am DOG the Great and Powerful! And I created the Heavens and the Earth. And I created everything which walketh, crawleth, slinketh, or stinketh upon the Earth! I created everything which swimmeth, or flieth, or twerketh! And I created both God, and the Devil, to thoroughly confuse you! In my name's sake!

What to say when hijacked by two born agains in public

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

" No thanks! I don't want any!", or "Sorry, but I aint that kind of guy!".

What is the greatest invention ever created?

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

How to make fire!

Today, May 3 1919, singer-songwriter Pete Seeger was born.

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

In spite of it all he's able to grin and think of the places his get-up has been!

We tried to change the world. After all these years... what happened to that dream? [youtu.be]

davknight comments on May 3, 2019:

Youthful idealism fades away, as one ages, and reality exerts its hold on one's imagination.

Well I never, have you?

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

Nope!

If you drink Alcohol... there will be Nights like this...

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

On my first acid trip, the carpet looked kinda like that. But with piles of green snakes, wriggling and writhing.

If you had to choose between keeping 30 grand or bailing a loved one out of prison with the money, ...

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

Keep the money, and set up a Go Fund me page for the loved one in question!

I'm a curvy girl! With that said, a man from this site messaged me to tell me admitting to my ...

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

I thought all girls have curves???

Electing an atheist president? [bigthink.com]

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

An overtly atheist presidential candidate could never win the majority of the voters.

What is an Anthropologist?

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

I have a BA in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Historical Archaeology. I also have a BA in History, with a minor in Physical Anthropology. Being fascinated with Human origins, it was a natural progression from being a history major, to a second degree in anthropology. It is the most holistic study of Humans that there is. One thing it is not--it is NOT the study of ANTS! Also, in some countries (e.g. France, and Australia), archaeology is actually considered a separate field.

ISRAELI COWARD soldiers beating Children - YouTube

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

Shalome and Napalm!

Here's one for anyone that grew up in the Detroit area and is over the age of 65.

davknight comments on May 2, 2019:

I'm surprised the old Grande Ballroom is still there! And that it hasn't gone the way of the old Easttown Theater!

This is maga?

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

Those pot-bellied, beer-brained ignoramouses will just lay on their couches, nursing their collective hangover, if Trump ever got impeached. Although, years from now, we might see a few of them, in red Trumplerite hats, mooching money at airports!

The wonderful world of Capitalism .

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

They are lucky the Sans Domiciles don't rise up en masse, and rectify things!

Joe Biden; how closely do we examine the past?

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

I'll vote for anyone they pick at the convention. ANYONE BUT TRUMP!

Short stop in Atoka, OK. Taken with my phone and converted to b&w.

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

It looks like the town in "The Last Picture Show". But I'll bet it was a rip-roarin, oil boom-town once!

American backed coup in Venuzuela is an attempt to subvert democracy.

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

It doesn't look like the US-sponsored coup is doing too well, with over two dozen 'Guaidistas' taking refuge in foreign embassies. Will the Brazilian and Colombian militaries be sent in as US proxies? The founder of Black Water is pushing the idea that 5,000 of his 'contracter'/mercenaries be sent in.

The entrance to Disneyland in 1965, when parking was only $0.25 😊

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

What's a day at DisneyLand cost a kid nowadays?

Is there really any difference between Biden and his Dem supporters from Trump and the Republicans?

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

In the US, the Democrats appeal to the Libertine ("Let's have laissez faire EVERYTHING!") faction of the Rich. While the Republicans appeal to the Philistine ( "Sure, I'm stupid! But I'm RICH n stupid!") faction.Unfortunately, Third Parties don't stand much of a chance. So, American voters must choose between "kinda stupid" and "pretty stupid".

The entrance to Disneyland in 1965, when parking was only $0.25 😊

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

Dang! Musta been a pretty nice place back then!

I'm going to brag on my daughter here for a minute, if you don't mind.

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

Did her poem get the place d'honneur (inside of the front cover) in the school's poetry journal? I made that once, at my old alma mater. Good for her!

Over 30 tweets from POTUS this morning so far..

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

Twitter should just ban his account!

Just Michigan things.

davknight comments on May 1, 2019:

I used to like pasties. But the last one I bought, had a hair in it! That was in '75. I haven't bought one since. I still use my hand as a map, however!

Facts matter. trump incites violence.

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

He sure does! There's blood in the streets of Caracas!

The democrat party has become increasingly anti Semite with 2 Muslim congresswomen who support ...

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Are you equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism?

Impact of baby boom🤗

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

My high school was so crowded, I used to think they needed traffic lights in the hallways!

This may cause a bit of controversy but the Peanut Butter Snickers is the perfect candy bar by far, ...

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

My all-time favorite was Oh Henry!

Impact of baby boom🤗

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Yup! There were armies of us out, every Halloween!

Washington passes bill to become first state to compost human bodies - The Washington Post

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Wouldn't that make for extra-stinky compost?

Who had one of these and did this to record music.. I still do and it works.

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

I've got one of those.

I remember these came with a way to use the box as a cereal bowl, leaked like hell. lol

davknight comments on Apr 30, 2019:

According to my mom, the first time she shoved a bowl of cold cereal at me, I picked it up, and chucked it at the wall! I've been that way ever since! I guess I'm just a natural-born cereal killer!

What scent triggers a memory for you?

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Autumn leaves. Reminds me of rollin around in em as a pup!

De Niro told the audience on Friday that he stood with host Samantha Bee to support the First ...

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I wanna see Sam Bee host the next White House Correspondents Dinner. That way, she won't have to host her own. And she can put the sting to that cheap carnival barker in the White House!

The 'c-word'- oh, naughty, naughty! I have often wondered how the f-word became the most foul ...

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

The 'F' word is Anglo-Saxon slang, for the act of nooky-wooky. Its literal meaning is "to bang two objects together".(They said "fuckin"). The 'P' word ("pysse" in Anglo-Saxon), meant the act of urination. While the 'S' word ("shytte"), meant the act of defecation. So why are they considered 'bad' words? Well, the Normans invaded England in 1066, and tried to Normanize the population. That included discouraging the use of the Anglo-Saxon language. They wanted the natives to say "coitus", instead of "fuckin". And "urinate", in lieu of "pysse". But they didn't have a lot of luck; and instead of Normanizing the English, they found themselves being Anglo-Saxonized instead.

“Jesus Not Coming Back By The Looks Of It” Admits Vatican – Waterford Whispers News

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

What's white and silver, and shoots across the sky? The Second Coming of Christ!

The First Week in May, a history post: [patreon.com]

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

How come no mention of May Day, the international workers' holiday?

What's your opinion on this chandelier, from back in the day? 🤔

davknight comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Possibly late 1950s, or early 1960s, and influenced by Sputnik?

“The goal of a good society is to structure social relations and institutions so that cooperative ...

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

Humans learned how to create surplusses of wealth, 12,000 years ago. They just haven't learned how to distribute it yet.

I just read an Atlantic Article regarding the end of the US as a world power.

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

American billionaire in 2050: "Oh well. We might have lost the Empire. But we still have the Kentucky Derby, and the Newport Yacht Races!"

Can't believe drones not mentioned, marine and air [nationalinterest.org]

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

Once upon a time, the battleship was the principle capital ship of navies. The battleship was armored, equipped with 14" to 18" guns, and could rain death and destruction on targets 20-25 miles away. But then, the aircraft carrier took the place of the battleship, due to being able to hit targets out to the maximum range of the aircraft it carried (the strike radius for modern carrier-based fighter-bombers is about 1,500 miles). Thus, the floating gun platform idea was replaced by the floating airbase idea. The Falklands War showed the vulnerability of surface vessels to land-based anti-ship missiles, such as the Exocet. The Chinese have long been improving the range of their Silkworm anti-ship missiles.To the point where they can reach surface ships in excess of 1,500 miles away. The Iranians also have Silkworm missiles (albeit older models). I have long predicted that in a US-Iranian War, the American Navy might very well lose a surface ship, or two, to the Iranian Silkworms. And this would be a big blow to the US Navy's ego. As it is confident in the effectiveness of its screens of guided missile frigates and destroyers, which are supposed to keep incoming missiles and aircraft away from their aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers will continue to be the principle capital ships of navies, at least for awhile. And the arms race will continue, as each country seeks to develop the 'longer arm'. This goes back into pre-history. One monkey clobbers another monkey with his fist. The other monkey invents a club, that out-ranges his antagonist's fist. The other monkey picks up a rock, and throws it from well outside the range of the club. Then, his adversary invents the slingshot. And on it goes...

400-year-old Bible stolen from US found in Netherlands

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

Antiquarian book thieves are just the modern version of tomb robbers.

Lara Trump says Angela Merkel's decision to welcome refugees led to 'the downfall of Germany'

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

Stupidity runs in the genes of the Trump family!

I've finally figured out what I really want to be in life: A safe space... for as many as I can be.

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

I'm STILL tryin ta figure out what I wanna be when, and if, I ever grow up!

Usually stops them in their tracks.

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

And therein lays the principle difference between religion and science. Religion says 'believe it'. Science says 'prove it'.

I finally programmed myself to say salud instead of god bless. So pleased with myself.

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

"Salud!" was the greeting that the Republican side used during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939.( It just means "salute" in Spanish). The Republicans had large numbers of anarchists, socialists, and communists in their ranks, and they thought that "salud!" sounded more 'comradely' than the usual "buenos dios".

I will be travelling around the UP via car in August.

davknight comments on Apr 27, 2019:

Laughing Whitefish Falls!

Pick one!!!

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

How come they don't have 'Headhunting, cannibal, zombie killer' on there? I always wanted to be one of them!

Kids Watch in Horror as Cops Mistake Mom's Diabetic Shock for Being High, 'Brutalize' Her

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

We are ruled by mad men, and "policed" by power-crazed lunatics.

This old ad takes me back to my summer youth.

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

Grrrape was great! Don't remember White Lemon. Green Apple sounds like it might have given you a tummy ache. And I never liked those Boo Raspberry ones!

What an awesome picture.

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

Cool! I seem to recall nights like that!

This old ad takes me back to my summer youth.

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

Yuppity yup! That was our version of the 'Slurpee'!

If you’re at all familiar with the German language, you’ll enjoy this meme... 😂

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

Beer steins with Albert's face on them might sell well as novelty items!

Would anyone be opposed to mandatory psychological evaluation for all citizens?

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

I'm all for mandatory IQ, and psychiatric testing for all political candidates!

Can you believe it's was 20 years ago in October?

davknight comments on Apr 26, 2019:

Okie Mall is next!

Got to love a stout beer called Sweet Baby Jesus

davknight comments on Apr 25, 2019:

Back when I could drink, I used to love stouts! Reminds me of Guiness, just lookin at it!

Remember when?

davknight comments on Apr 25, 2019:

AM radio was actually kind of fun to listen to back in the 'olden days'!

Can you believe it's was 20 years ago in October?

davknight comments on Apr 25, 2019:

I heard Northland got blown up too.

Largest non-government employer in each state.

davknight comments on Apr 25, 2019:

Trump: " N the unemployment rate is the lowest ever!"

I have come to realize there is no where to escape "god talk".

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

About thirty years ago, I was sitting in a Pentecostal Church in a small Alabama town. The head Preacher and his wife had just returned from a vacation in Maui, paid for by the congregation. The Preacher described playing golf with some wealthy businessmen. When they asked him what business he was in, he proudly told them he was "in the God business!". And I thought to myself, he sure is! Then, his wife came out, in a mumu she had bought there. She was big as a house, and looked utterly ridiculous in it. At that point, I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing, as I mused over the origin of the mumu. It seems a missionary from Boston was prosyletizing out there, back in the 1850s. And he would send letters home to his wife, lamenting about the nakedness of the "heathen". Especially all the young Hawaiian girls running around naked. Well, his wife thought she would do her 'Christian duty', and have the ladies of her sewing circle sew together patchwork dresses, and ship them out to Hawaii, to clothe those poor, naked girls with. When the preacher got them, he distributed them amongst the island women, only to discover his wife and her friends had made them all in extra-large sizes! When he asked her about that in a letter, she replied "well, you didn't tell me what sizes they wore!". The God business sure has its funny moments!

I always thought these were nasty, what about you?

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

There was hardly any Kool Aid in em! But it was a clever way to market wax!

Why do people cheat in monogamous relationships?

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

Hormones!

Name an old school word that we don't use anymore.

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

GIQ

What's the oldest thing you own and still use?

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

A USMC K-Bar knife, I bought in a military surplus store, back in 1975.

Do You Enjoy Wine With Your Meals?

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

I used to like to cook with wine. White wine goes great in an etoufee!

Israel to name new town on Golan after Trump: Netanyahu

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

That oughta draw a lot of fire from Hamas!

The earth's magnetic North is shifting so fast! [amp.businessinsider.com]

davknight comments on Apr 24, 2019:

Bad news for Dogs! They must orient themselves towards one pole, or the other, before they can take a crap (70,000 Dogs taking a crap, were studied to get this information). Now, us poor Dogs are gonna get good and CONFUSED!

President Trump accepts Queen Elizabeth's invitation to visit U.K. - AOL News

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

I can't even imagine why she'd invite this clown! I'm thinking Trump's PR people pressed May to wrangle up a Royal invitation?

4th June Donald Trump is coming to UK.

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

George "Big Ears" Bush once got pelted with rocks and bottles, while visiting Nova Scotia. But I'm not trying to give you any ideas here!

This was my first bottle of wine, what was yours?

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

When I was fifteen, I took this girl to a party, where there were a bunch of people chugging down entire bottles of Boones Farm in continuous gulps, to show how "tough" they were. Well, this girl that I had brought, wanted to chug a bottle. And I warned her not to, on account of she was on the petite side. But she did anyway. To my amazement, she chugged down an entire bottle of 'Strawberry Hill'. Then, she stood on her tiptoes to kiss me, and vomited back up that entire bottle, right in my face!

Did you ever have one?

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

Ward: What was that big boom? June: Oh, don't worry dear! Wally and the Beaver are setting off pipe bombs in the back yard!

This was my first bottle of wine, what was yours?

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

Homemade dandelion wine, from a dirty plastic jug. Boy did I barf!

I just read an Atlantic Article regarding the end of the US as a world power.

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

I don't know about "Balkan" president. But Trump is certainly the most blatantly Fascist POTUS ever!

What is the difference between "makers" and "takers" in the economy?

davknight comments on Apr 23, 2019:

"There are those who do all the work. And there are those that live off the work of others"--Old working class proverb.