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7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Somebody has been two busy self promoting to actually do a smidgen of research on the founders  view of Freedom of Religion.

Most of us critical of organized religion support the right to decide who and how to worship, not just blindly follow what the TV and most MAGA Church leaders want us to believe. Basically they hate educated folks

do they hate Jews too?  Or Buddhists?  How come those religions never whine about it?  It's always the Christian Nationalists.

SEriously... look through history. Every important social evolution that's taken place in our nation's history had protestant Christianity opposing it.  Slavery.  Womens rights. Civil rights.  Interracial marriage.   Gay acceptance.  

Yet they bitch anytime you call them out and pretend to be victims.  

calling a "freedom from religion" group a group that "hates Christians' is some of the biggest pussy ass thinking you can find.  Grow a pair.  Man up.  Stop acting like a victim just because someone doesn't want your theology shoved in their faces.  What a coward.   It really shows a lack of faith and confidence in your own beliefs to have to play victim all the time.  But we knew that.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

seeing that Stevens has pulled ahead in MI Senate race polls.  Is that good?  I ask you niggling purists?  

Hard to say... I personally don't really care as long as D wins the seat but I fear that Al Sayed's supporters will pull a Bernie and bail because, as MB said, Stevens isn't anti "zionist" enough or whatever.

progressives can be cry babies and the arab/muslim community is very tribal and once Al Sayed had a shot, if he doesn't get it, they'll see it as an anti muslim act and just sit at home... unless our local leaders show courage that they didn't in 2024, by pretending there's no real difference between a republican and a democrat.

Sounds like someone you’d like. 

A news story said the guy was looking for Tom  Cruise and made references to his father but it wasn’t clear whether his or Toms father. He was going the wrong way then slowly drove into the terminal. 

I think that was the McNamara terminal. This was the Evans. Wonder how busy that one is now with spirit gone. I used it once for United. 

I remember being sad that I missed 1976 because I was just under 3 years old.  I had 250 marked as something that would be awesome.  Now it's just meh.  That bastard will make it all about himself and show no dignity or grace.

Speaking of... Obama's library is opening up soon.  Those events used to be fun for bipartisanship.  You'd get all the former presidents together being friendly.  In one of my books they talk about Clinton's library opening and George HW Bush and Clinton had by that point become great friends. They were wandering around the halls slowly and Dubya, showing his hand as POTUS told a staffer "Will someone tell 41 and 42 that 43 is hungry?"

There's plenty of money to go around and really the only meaningful competition between the two regards the lunar lander and even as presented there's a lot of doubts.   At minimum the New Glenn's are needed to deliver rovers to the moon for use on any lunar landings, they were awarded $188M to do that this week.... Artemis's goal isn't just to go to the moon and back like Apollo.  If all of these systems aren't working then there's no point.   Artemis III is going to test out lunar landers in low earth orbit, allegedly next year.  I doubt it.

Martina McBride is playing our local homecoming festival this summer.  Good for her.

deja vu all over again?

shrugs

**** them.  They aren't just on the other side of my politics.  They are evil people.  The most evil people to have ever held office in our 250 years.  they all deserve pain and suffering and a lot of it.

I think Artemis II is going to be our peak in our lifetime. That’s why I enjoyed it so much as a space geek. Finally… I got to look at the moon that morning and get to say “there’s people up there”

Maybe the Chinese beat us back to it.  
 

That…. Sucks.  

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Maybe it’s just what gets fed to me but I see lots of anecdotal stories on there being second thoughts on corporate AI use.  You are basically putting your “employees” in a subscription model.  Instead of buying DVDs of your favorite movies just subscribe to streaming. Then we will keep jacking up the price and play around with “licensing” until you get pissed off and miss your DVDs which were yours.  
 I saw my companies license fees on our models. Some were minuscule but the more complex tools were not. Of course the die is cast. 

With regard to the senate flipping are we sure MI stays blue?  Al- Sayed is a lightning rod and can split the D vote because he and his supporters thinks anybody who is nice to a Jewish person is a Zionist.  If he’s the nominee will he keep pro Israel Democrats?  If he isn’t will he support Stevens?  Doubt it. 
 

That’s horrible news. His son found him?  Despite the public bluster I always got the impression he was well regarded among the players.  I remember reading in a book when McCarty opened up with his struggles that Claude slated up to him and said he’s fought it too and would be willing to talk and help him. 

40 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

So Texas is just about the cruelest state for low income health care, its big cities have higher murder rates than NYC, its tax system is more regressive for the bottom 50% of earners than the national average, and life expectancy is lagging the rest of the country.

Yup, sounds exactly like the vision of paradise the GOP has been trying to build, why should they even think about changing course?

Reminds me of the famous LBJ quote, which I'll paraphrase from the language of the day... "If you can convince the poorest white man that he's better than the best black man, you can pick his pocket.  Give him someone to always look down on and you can rob him blind"

He's gonna win.  Who are we kiddin'?

I'm not a fearful flyer but that 6-7 seconds from touchdown to going "fast" vs "very fast we could still flip over" gets me every time.  

Couldn’t they, or do they, have cameras on the foul poles that can clearly measure when a ball goes over or either side when it’s hit so high?  I’m not implying their call was wrong but I’d feel better if technology made that decision since it’s available. 

13 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

This proves it. The so called "rich' New Yorker is definitely trailer trash

 

 

redneck trash

22 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Killing democracy with darkness....

 

those will not hold up in court.

Seems like it would be easy to get people in that  activity. Like any random “massage” place has to be a front for this, right?   You tell me that next to a dollar general and check cashing place is where you can just go in and get an above board massage? 

The end of Colbert’s show was great. Goose bump inducing 
 

then this last night.  He did joke about it during his last monologue. 

He slowed down physically, and visually in terms of performance, but I am not convinced he couldn't do the job.  The mind is what matters and I wasn't there and I don't trust the media or staff members to give us an honest account.

But politically that stuff does matter and difficult conversations should have been had earlier.