Hiding a Report? [alternet.org]

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

The person(s) responsible for hiding such a report should be fired and prosecuted.

FL Pastor and Son Accused of Sexual Cyberharassment by High School Cheerleader | Hemant Mehta | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

On issues of sex, evangelicals can never be trusted.

Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

The Keynsian model works when conservative do not deliberately sabotage it.

Trump has emboldened Christian nationalists and sparked a rise in Patriot Churches - The Washington ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

But he is alienating many evangelicals. What you are speaking of is occurng only in churches already controlled by bigot pastors and congregations. He is splitting evangelical denominations.

BIDEN WILL BE ELECTED AND REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE WILL RETURN IN 2024 Consider these hard ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

You are wrong. Due to actions that make a difference, to the tone and quality of the Biden administration, and to control of Congress getting things done, the Democratic hold on both the senate and house will increase.

'60 Minutes' Reveals What Was Really In That Giant Trump Health Care Plan Book | HuffPost

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Just shows what manipulative liars the whole cabal is.

Pastor Curt Landry: A Vote for Biden is a Vote for “Evil” and God Will Curse You | Beth ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

This political campaign is leading demagogic charlatans to reveal their true blasphemous selves.

GOP House Candidate Was a Sexual Predator in College, Say Christian Classmates | Hemant Mehta | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Spread the word.

Religious Conservatives Lash Out at Kellogg’s Over “Anti-Christian” Cereal | Hemant Mehta | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

And, these people call themselves Christians are condemning Kellogg's is putting on an anti=bullying campaign???

As polls reveal he’s trailing by 10 points with only a week to go, Donald Trump’s campaign ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 26, 2020:

After Putin said, "Donald, you know what I have on you, don't you? You'd better try harder."

People Can’t Believe This RNC Tweet About Donald Trump’s Priorities Isn’t A Parody | HuffPost

wordywalt comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Could it e that they hope to send the idiot Trump out of this world?

Money So Dark....: [citizensforethics.org]

wordywalt comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Not at all surprising. Trump and his cabal are the epicenter of corruption in our country.

Fall is my favorite time of year.

wordywalt comments on Oct 25, 2020:

We all need a place like that.

Lincoln Project Attorney Scorches Lawsuit Threat over Ivanka, Jared Billboards

wordywalt comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Trump and his enablers don't seem to understand who they are up against in the Lincoln Project.

I do worry for the lives and mental health of those who won't be able handle the election results if...

wordywalt comments on Oct 25, 2020:

It ain't gonna happen. No way. No how.

Satirist Tom Lehrer has put his songs into the public domain [marketplace.

wordywalt comments on Oct 24, 2020:

I have always like Lehrer's works, going all the way back to 1957.

Time Square - Lincoln Project [yahoo.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 24, 2020:

Let them try to sue. They will only make a further laughing stock of themselves.

Some doctors fighting the pandemic now have another thing to worry about - CNN

wordywalt comments on Oct 24, 2020:

It is saddeningly amazing how destructive and hurtful Trump decisions to\end to be.

The next stage of my life shall be entitled "Leaving Evansville."

wordywalt comments on Oct 24, 2020:

Good luck!

C19 causes diabetes. Are you a diabetic?

wordywalt comments on Oct 24, 2020:

I have diabetes -- as well as heart disease and COPD, and am 83 years old, I am taking NO chances.

National Guard called in to thwart cyberattack in Louisiana weeks before election [reuters.]

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

The reactionary right and their Russian allies are forces for chaos and tyranny.

[twitter.

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

Trump is a despicable excuse for a human being. Everything he does wreaks chaos and destruction.

Vote early if you can, just be sure to vote! I was going to vote by mail.

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

Ialso live in Florida, and voted by mail almost a month ago.

White supremacist group talked about paramilitary training in secret vetting calls – Boston News, ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

I certainly hope that the FBI is tracking these nuts.

Trump accused Biden of 'socialism.

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

This a problem ever since the McCarthy era. McCarthy gave the word "socialism" such a venomous connotation. Now unethical conservatives and reactionaries simply throw the word at people and actions with which they disagree The action is knowingly vicious in it intent and effect.

[nbcnews.

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

The emotional venom of these rabidly reactionary racists is something.

Even if Trump loses, Trumpism may outlast him - Los Angeles Times

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

It probably will. About 30 percent of our population has been racist and reactionary for well over a century.

Trump is right; he has done more for blacks than "Lincoln".

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

The man is a shameless liar.

I thought maybe I was the only one who noticed.

wordywalt comments on Oct 23, 2020:

I noticed that from the very beginning of his public performances with a podium. Her also supports himself with the podium.

Fact-Checking the Final Presidential Debate

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Trump did not make even one factual thing in the entire evening. His performance was a shameful debacle.

The opposite of Trumpf: [youtube.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

An ad with class, unlike anything that the idiot Trump touches.

One Million Moms Threatens Oreo Boycott Over LGBTQ+ Ad: VIDEO - Comic Sands

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

"One Million Moms" is jus as bad a misnomer ass Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" was.

EU sanctions Russia over 2015 German Parliament hack Germany had been asking and pushing EU ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Why isn't the USA doing the same thing?????

Being positive in life

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Your perspectives change as you get older. Your goals are less ambitious and more short term ones. You learn to live each day to its fullest within the limitations you. You appreciate and respect relationships more. If you do not do these things, your life becomes a miserable chore.

Trump's Man in the Senate, McMachaivelli [truthout.org]

wordywalt comments on Oct 22, 2020:

You underestimate how pernicious McConnell is. His actions over the past 30 years have made it possible for people like Trump to gain power.

How Next-Door Neighbors With Opposing Political Views Stayed Friends

wordywalt comments on Oct 21, 2020:

One of my next-door neighbors has a Trump sign in his yard. I have two Biden-Harris signs in my yard. To keep a war from starting, I do not discuss politics or social issues with him.

Would you go to the poling station with covid?

wordywalt comments on Oct 21, 2020:

I planned to vote by mail from the very beginning, so the question is moot for me.

U.

wordywalt comments on Oct 21, 2020:

This man should be thrown out of his office.

Televangelist Pat Robertson predicts Trump win, then chaos, then the end of the world

wordywalt comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Robertson, like Glenn Beck, is a blithering idiot. It is astounding that anyone would listen to this deranged demagogue.

Glenn Beck: “I’m Always Wrong with Timing,” but the End Times Are Near | Hemant Mehta | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Beck is a blithering idiot.

Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches 'The Left Ruins Everything' Assigned In Ohio School | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 20, 2020:

All teachers and administrators should be fired.

[youtu.be] love me some m steel

wordywalt comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Steele is sO right! Anyone who skips this election has no idea of what is important for us and our nation.

Okay, okay, I admit it.

wordywalt comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Absurd demagogery!!

Retired General Backs Biden, Says A 2nd Trump Term Would Put Democracy 'At Risk'

wordywalt comments on Oct 20, 2020:

To say that a second Trump term would put our democracy at risk is a dramatic understatement .

10/19/2020 Reality just gets weirder and weirder.

wordywalt comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Trump's crap is outright absurd!

[rawstory.com] GOOD NEWS?

wordywalt comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Fantistic!! news!!If it happens, that will make the idiot absolutely furious. He will explode and make even more an ass of himself than he did in the last debate.

I heard a guy on TV make the following observation.

wordywalt comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Republicans will say anything to try to scare people into voting for them. I would guess that probably 2/3 or 3/4 of our population cannot tell you what socialism is and isn''t. They just know that the term has a supposed negative connotation since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.

Being neutral is helping the evil

wordywalt comments on Oct 19, 2020:

So very correct!!!

Venal Legacy!!! [truthout.org]

wordywalt comments on Oct 18, 2020:

The idiot is a human wrecking ball.

MAGA Pastor: How Dare Anyone Criticize Donald Trump’s “Character”?

wordywalt comments on Oct 17, 2020:

How dare any moral and sane person NOT criticize the idiot Trump?????

Trump jokes he might leave country if he loses to Joe Biden in Nov. 3 election

wordywalt comments on Oct 17, 2020:

Ir may not be a joke. It may take place to try to evade prosecution.

Trump's Fog of War? [snopes.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 17, 2020:

Atrocious!

Was Ayn Rand inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche?

wordywalt comments on Oct 16, 2020:

No. Her family were very wealthy Russian oligarchs. Their wealth and property was taken away by the Bolsheviks when they came to power after 1917. Her political and economic philosophy was formed simply as a reaction to that. That philosophy was formed of several premises: greed is good, (all governments are bad, and (I can do what the hell I want and nobody has any right to place any restrictions on me.

[bbc.com] A look at how Trump could win (or Biden lose) the looming presidential election.

wordywalt comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Ain't gonna happen!!! No way, no how!!!

Whomever in NBC chose to air the town halls at the same time is a fucking moron.

wordywalt comments on Oct 16, 2020:

I disagree on NBC. I think they did us a service by providing a stage to show what a boorish lout the idiot Trump is. He is incapable of acting reasonably.

4 Funny Feelings About 2020 - POLITICO

wordywalt comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Take heart. This time Trump's ass is grass. We are going to do it!!!

Proud Boys Supporter Warns of 'Civil War' if Donald Trump Loses Election

wordywalt comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Let the SOBs try! Those that survive will spend many years in jail.

As if things weren’t bad enough there’s news reports of large animals attacking people, like the...

wordywalt comments on Oct 15, 2020:

If those animals had the reasoning power, they might come to such conclusions. But, they do not. The reasons are simple -- seeking food and protecting their young.

This is why we can’t have nice things, such as staying alive, here in the land of the free.

wordywalt comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Absolute lying insanity!!!

Pastor Claims Christians Who Criticize the President Are Angering God Pastor Robert Henderson, ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 14, 2020:

Who in the hell is this demagogic idiot?

This is the "catholic scholar" the republitards are pushing, for those gullible enough to think she ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 14, 2020:

Barrett seems to think being a federal judge means playing inane word and logic games very similar to Hermann Hesse's "glass bead games" of academia., ignoring questions of moral action, true equality, and fairness. She is a threat to us all.

I'm listening to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Republican politics lack the courage, ethics, and patriotism to take such a stand.

Romney decries state of America's 'vile, vituperative, hate-filled' politics, puts blame largely on ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

He also needs to blame his Republican colleagues who are refusing to even say no to the idiot Trump. They just go along with the cretin.

Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

The cretin is trying to see just how much he can get away with.

More proof that there did not need to be a god involved to create life.

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

This is a terribly important article. When it becomes widely accepted -- and it will be -- it means that religion has lost its creation story. That could mean the end of religion for the vast majority of people.

The Ethical Barr! [rawstory.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

He should have been impeached long before now .

..as she’s painfully confused… this is why I consistently vote Democrat! [youtube.]

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

His remarks are totally true!!!

Barrett’s Appointment To Supreme Court Could Make It Harder To Fight The Coronavirus Pandemic | ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Barret refuses to take a public stand on any moral issue, except for her clear public stand on abortion. This is totally unacceptable!!!!

Who else is Conservative fiscally but Liberal on social issues?

wordywalt comments on Oct 13, 2020:

I am liberal of social issues, but also believe that we need to reduce the national debt -- by raising taxes on the rich and on corporations, not by cutting needed programs.

"Lord of the Flies" Time, Indeed! [dailykos.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

I am retired. My wife and I look ed the villages as a possible last residence. There is no way I would live in the place. The whole development is an authoritarian bit of ticky tacky. There are no trees in the entire development -- the trees were razed. It is an entirely artificial "community." Its management is ultra conservative and excessively controlling of what people can and cannot do. It actually tries to attract very conservative residence and does not allow normal families with children in the home to reside there. In effect, it a socially engineered community designed to take over the politics of the entire county.

What does accountability mean to you?

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Accountability means that you are held responsible for your actions and their consequences. Integrity means that you act with consistency, in general, and in relation to your professed values in specific. Depending on the professed values, one can forgive maintaining accountability and integrity, leaving the past behind

How will I know if my brain is in a jar on someones desk and this is a simulated reality?

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

You will not know.

“Basically, more unequal societies have worse quality of life.

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

A well stated, accurate premise.

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Mencken was a hyper-sarcastic cynic trying to be a wit.

Does the Commision on Presidential Debates own a monopoly?

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

It does not own anything.

This is what happens when you have a country where most of the population is poorly educated, and ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Unfortunately, true.

Transfer [youtube.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Damned right, we are!

Elsewhere a poster asked why it was reasonable to believe in the FBI.

wordywalt comments on Oct 11, 2020:

Unadulterated horse manure. There is NO damned deep state. No way, now how. Stop trying to spread that crap.

Trump White House Rally Attendees Were Paid To Show Up – Breaking News USA

wordywalt comments on Oct 11, 2020:

I suspected that.

[psypost.org] The true problem

wordywalt comments on Oct 11, 2020:

Absolutely true. Ever since 1964-65 the deadly virus of southern racism has spread to the entire Republican party. The infection started when racist southern Democrats fled the Democratic party and found a new home for their racism in the Republican party.

The Robert Cray Band Get Him Out! [youtube.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 11, 2020:

Damned straight!!!!

My message to Joe, Nancy, and the voters who would have us believe that taxing corporations heavier ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Corporations do and should pay taxes. They constantly lobby congress and state legislatures for special considerations and privilege. They also take advantage of many public services which cost all other citizens money.. Those corporations want something for nothing. In other words, they are freeloaders.

Tweet from the New England Journal of Medicine.

wordywalt comments on Oct 10, 2020:

AN excellent decision.

Trump's public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge's order [theguardian.

wordywalt comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Add to that contempt of court and hit him with fines for every day that he tries to remain in office.

You reap what you sow! [thehill.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Those would be fantastic results!!!

Hit me with some good music or movies and maybe tell me your favorite genre or genres.

wordywalt comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Folk music, modern jazz, and modern classical music.

This Might Be the Last Straw, Even the Last Gasp for Donny! [rawstory.com]

wordywalt comments on Oct 9, 2020:

He is and has always been a fraud. His time and luck are running out.

Donald Trump came for Steve Schmidt (founder of Lincoln Project) on Twitter this morning.

wordywalt comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Superb!!!

Donald Orwell Strikes again: [npr.org]

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

What do you expect from a Trump appointee?

In Indiana. Mike Pence signed a law forcing Indiana women to pay for funerals for miscarriages.

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Horribly disgusting.

Makes you wonder, is life a repetition. Have we live our lives a million times over. Jeez

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

No way.

Just read that Donny, J for Jerk, tRump wants to 'delay' further debates with Biden until later this...

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

He is just using the tactics he always uses to try to throw others off balance and gain an undue advantage. It is a lifelong pattern.

trump is such a criminal

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

He has been a criminal for many years.

liberal thoughts

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Spread this across the internet!!

In keeping with Trump's disrespect for science, note that his doctor is a Chiropractor.

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

I think the doctor is an osteopath, not a chiropractor. Check your facts.

Gasping for Air And I'll personally add: "grasping at straws.

wordywalt comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Profoundly true!! Keep hitting the idiot until his whole physical and mental being hurts.

If anyone but me has taken enough xanax or alcohol to watch the VP debate, I think we'd all agree: ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 7, 2020:

No. Harris showed herself to be more real, direct, and knowledgeable. Pence simply showed himself to be another slippery Trump enabler.

Anyone watching the debate between Harris and Pence? Thoughts?

wordywalt comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Harris showed herself to be more direct, real, and capable.

Henry Kissinger absolutely NAILED human culture when he said, “The most fundamental problem of ...

wordywalt comments on Oct 7, 2020:

The measure of righteousness or morality is how any action of decision upholds or violates respect for the dignity and worth of all people and of the environment which supports and sustains us. It has nothing to do with religion or politics. Politics becomes righteous when it acts in such a supportive manner.

I would like to submit the idea that religion IS politics.

wordywalt comments on Oct 7, 2020:

No. Most religions are total system ideologies. That is, they purport to explain and include everything. So do some political total system ideologies. like communism. Religion becomes political when it attempts to use or control government power.