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All the people protesting besmirched got it. Black Lives do not in fact matter. Kill them, enslave them.

So, the average person who says BLM is not tied to any organization. Its something that HUMAN fucking beings should be able to agree upon. BLM must be some shadowy Soros-driven Jew thing in which space lasers are directed at our genitals or something in this other narrative.

Crazy lady

He can't have been impressed by the 20th Century.

Having a very similar youth softball experience this weekend. Jackasses ruin everything.

I think I can agree with the ideals of Christianity and other major religions without even having to adopt the stringent "lets blow up a girl's school so they aren't defiled by knowledge" rule sets of the extremists. As one writer put it: it keeps the peasants in line. It doesn't hurt that the alcoholics and the other 12 step programs have that rock to hang onto in the rough waters. If I have a religion its a soft-cultural Christianity (I love me some Christmas) guided by the Enlightenment principle that we should always be striving to reduce the suffering of those truly in need and that Science and Reason should be used to the benefit of humankind. I've seen enough of the terrible that man can do to know that there is a lot of awful on this planet. There are quite a few Churchill quotes that I liked about all this. That its a wicked thing to take away a man's hope. Some others as well. He was not much of a fall on his knees bible man but he saw and lived through a lot.

crooks?

BLM is a terrorist group?

National...should be natural. Spellchek got me. My assumption is that if God is there, he's been punking us. You have to appreciate the small wonders but the big horrors are pretty bad.

This couldn't be more spot on with the last 4 months of war could it? The rebels have Kalashnikov-based weapons for pete's sake. I'm so there for the Stellen Skarsgard.

There are ways in which we are giving a LOT of help to the Ukrainians that we have not given another country since 1942-45. That goes for intelligence, that goes for weapons technology. I think its a given that Russia and China are salivating over the potential to get sources and methods and tech from that when the dust settles. That said, the Ukrainians are not getting everything and they are pushing for everything because that's their card to play. Our interests align with their defeating Putin in such a way as it cripples his ability to do this again for a long while. If it ends up with him being forced out or further isolated, all the better. If it teaches Xi a lesson in better manners equals better partnerships, also very good.

Good

Many a victim of man made and national disasters has pondered this

That sits in my bookshelf. Hitchens was a very interesting voice.

Ausmus had a hand full of aces and got bluffed

This team is mired in mediocrity this year but damn, it feels good to win on a walk-off

The useful purpose is to protect Northern Virginia from Putin

My position as a gun owner who has built more than one AR by myself (way too easy to do that). You need personal liability insurance to own a firearm You are obligated to keep them under lock and key If you can't rent a car you can't buy a guy Background checks to which you self-certify annually. Fees for the background checks should fund some sort of mental health clearing house. No ghost guns allowed Federal Tax stamps for ARs of any kind (these are required for fully automatic weapons and silencers now). I could think of a few more. The nutters who are into this for boogaloo Civil War won't like all that.

So, Ukraine and multiple random slaughters seem to be getting in the way of people paying attention to this stuff.

That's amazing. Kissinger was actually in the US Army when it liberated concentration camps and he lost family to the holocaust. Why be such a shit, Henry?

I like that she's open about all of it. I think she should be more open minded about her policy decisions.

She's complicated.

The guy who participated in Rand Paul's armed UAV protest filibuster? The guy who shut down the US Government multiple times thus jacking up the cost of every defense acquisition to the tune of billions in waste, That Raffy?

I realize this topic doesn't lend itself to comedy but you won the morning for me with this.