Zguy28

Terminal List...holy smokes! Not sure how it was only rated 16+

7 hours ago, Fergasun said:

Vaccine mandates, right now may be a public health winner, but I don't think they are a political winner.  Just look at the VA Gov race.  I think, in general vaccine mandates at the govt level will be a politicial loser.  

 

Biden's popularity started to turn after he gave his (and I paraphrase), "to the unvaccinated... what are you waiting for?!" speech.  Youngkin started to pick up momentum in VA when he came out as "pro vaccine", "anti-mandate". 

 

Again, I understand why, but Americans typically don't like mandates.  All the companies will blame Biden when they follow his mandate, even if they agree with it.

 

I work for a medium size U S defense contractor who is subject to the mandate for all US employees. And you better believe then every communication regarding vaccine mandate blames president Biden.

4 hours ago, @SkinsGoldPants said:

again, this should at least be web-ads in Georgia with "There still is no AIDs Vaccine, he's lying......again"

 

Dems suck.

Something must be wrong, because I've been gone from this forum for a few months, and when I came back it was still full of threads about how terrible Republicans are and virtually nothing about anything positive the Democrats are doing.

Granted, GOP continues to provide stupidity.

16 hours ago, PeterMP said:

1.  Colleges are absolutely tipping the scale to bring in males.  Where I work the average SAT of male students is about 100 points less than females and we sill are predominantly female (and its getting worse with time and people expect it to get even worse over the next few years with Covid).

 

2.  The biggest issue is likely that most males mature more slowly than women.  Most male brains don't fully develop until years after a female brains.  And the last part to develop is impulse control.  Should I study for my test in two days or go do some other random thing?  The person that has poor impulse control and goes and does whatever random thing instead of studying is going to be in trouble.

 

What you do about it, I don't know.

 

(There are other differences too.)  

prime example is my oldest son. He'd much rather be playing rocket league or some other game of the week then studying for cyber security degree. He took a threat to stop paying for his college and to raise his "rent" ( which goes into a savings account for after his graduation) to get him to buckle down at all.

On 12/29/2020 at 10:06 AM, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Let the thread title be your guide and start there.  The current GOP is a wretched hive of white supremacists and conspiracy nutters.  I'd perhaps throw in rampant science denial, though in a way that fits under conspiracy nutters.  That is what is wrong with the GOP.  Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are read herrings.  An apotheosis of such values, not the cause.  So don't be confused.  What may come across as mixed messaging is mostly people focusing on particular traits is these individuals as exemplars of the underlying problems.

 

Now...what I haven't read a lot of in this thread is "How To Fix It".  So if you have some ideas we are all ears.

I really have no idea how to fix it. it's anathema to me like Martin Luther and the Roman Catholic church.

So, is Mitch McConnell "everything that is wrong with the GOP" or is it Donald Trump? i'm getting mixed messages...

26 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Called it, Canada closing our border with them before we did, they know what time it is, we are the only country they share a f'n border with...hmm...

exclusion for US Citizens.

12 minutes ago, Llevron said:

 

Im not sure how to articulate it, but I suspect that Republicans and the people who give them orders are smart enough to know that they need people to take advantage of to stay on top. And if those people either die or have no money at all to take, then Republicans lose and they whole system falls apart. So as always, they will end up doing what they have to do to retain power. Not explicitly to save or help people. But if they have to, to benefit themselves....sure it will happen. 

That's not unique to Republicans. That's most politicians in general.

At the rate this is going, we may need the Avengers.

1 hour ago, Rdskns2000 said:

Trump is mentally a 7 year old; not the person I would trust when things blow up.

I oscillate between this ^^ and "crazy... like a fox."

2 hours ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

Not sure if you all are looking at around the world, but there are a bunch of protests taking place because of corruption and anti-democratic efforts. Ecuador is Kicking off right now too.

 

But us Americans are doing nothing while a guy is becoming a dictator with no impediment. 

We are a docile nation who is sitting down and watching the world burn and our institutions collapse.

But we have Hulu, video games, and pro sports to binge on... we're too fat and lazy as a nation to care (generally).

4 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

I blame the President for making it acceptable to have syphilis again. No need to even treat it when the end result is the highest office in the land.

Make Syphilis Great Again?

I don't know. War would likely escalate to thermonuclear.

On 6/9/2019 at 8:07 AM, LD0506 said:

 

^^This

 

I have to say though, the ones that really turn my crank are the people that still imagine there is some middle ground, some fence to perch on, that still tell themselves "Oh, I'm not into politics" or "Can't we all just get along?" No, no no no stop that horse**** no. The population of this country is parting like the Red Sea, and at this point I am of the opinion that the people that can't find it in themselves to take a stand are actually supportive of this fascist crap but too gutless to come right out and admit it.

 

Does that sound strident? Extreme? Tough titty said the kitty, our goddam country is being undermined, our childrens lives are being sold as salvage, I have no sympathy for ya if you can't admit it.

10 minutes ago, DCSaints_fan said:

 

Thanos from the past travels forward into the future just after the Avengers return from the past with the Infinity Stones.

 

They kill past Thanos in this future, therefore he can no longer return to the past.  So their entire past leading up that moment, including Thanos finding the Infinity stones and wiping out half the population, could never have happened.   Hence the paradox. 

 

Actual the most straightforward one was Nebula - how did she not disappear when she killed her past self?   (Unless her past self wasn't dead)

 

If I go back in time, even if only like 5 minutes, and kill my past self (or my mother/father/grandfather/whatever), then I could not have existed in order to  kill my past self.  Therefore it should be impossible.

 

Its a slightly different situation in Endgame, with the past versions travelling forward into the future.  But still the same issue.

When the people were pulled forward, their original past selves didn't change. You can't change the past, just make branches off the timeline... or something.

Maybe the school could do a GoFundMe to make up the difference?

54 minutes ago, stoshuaj said:

Churches should step up in the interim.  

 

The whole “help the poor” mantra.

 

long term, for all the things we give away as a country, no kid should go hungry.

How do you know they aren't already trying?

2 minutes ago, AsburySkinsFan said:

The natural world doesn't have nail holes.

No, but your Savior does. You know the truth. Dark nights of the soul can be agonizing. I have suffered it myself, yet also experienced intense spiritual times of refreshing. Even Mother Teresa doubted, and yet persevered.

4 hours ago, No Excuses said:

 

You can call it religion bashing but I am simply providing a counter argument to the ever bogus claim that religion is needed to create a society with good moral values (which has been said repeatedly in this thread). It's a nonsense claim that time and time again is not supported by empirical data.

Ok. In your counter argument, what is "good"? As in good vs. evil or moral vs immoral? When you accept the existence of goodness, you must affirm a moral law on the basis of which to judge between good and evil. But when you admit to a moral law, you must admit that there is a moral lawgiver. The moral lawgiver is God. If it is not, and it is humanity itself that gives the moral law (as you and many others here obviously believe), then it is completely subjective and who are you to say your opponent is wrong/bad/evil?

11 hours ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

 

 

Old, 3rd way Democrats are cowards.

 

You have the power to subpoena Barr, Mueller, and anyone else who was involved. SUBPOENA THEM!

Which means really...not much. They could refuse an at worst, its a misdemeanor.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-can-congress-do-if-flynn-or-anyone-else-refuses-comply-subpoena

Let's see you make a Hallmark murder mystery out of this one Lori... I know, it will be set in a prison...

These people are stupid.

1 hour ago, Burgold said:

Did you read up about all the North Carolina farms failing because of salinization? Apparently, the incremental sea rise isn't leading to flooding, but huge deposits of salt into the coastal ground, making all but impossible for farms to operate.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ruined-crops-salty-soil-how-rising-seas-are-poisoning-north-carolinas-farmland/2019/03/01/2e26b83e-28ce-11e9-8eef-0d74f4bf0295_story.html?utm_term=.aa8119fa2dc1

 

MIDDLETOWN, N.C. — The salty patches were small, at first — scattered spots where soybeans wouldn’t grow, where grass withered and died, exposing expanses of bare, brown earth.

But lately those barren patches have grown. On dry days, the salt precipitates out of the mud and the crystals make the soil sparkle in the sunlight. And on a damp and chilly afternoon in January, the salt makes Dawson Pugh furrow his brow in dismay.

“It’s been getting worse,” the farmer tells East Carolina University hydrogeologist Alex Manda, who drove out to this corner of coastal North Carolina with a group of graduate students to figure out what’s poisoning Pugh’s land — and whether anything can be done to stop it.

Of climate change’s many plagues — drought, insects, fires, floods — sal****er intrusion in particular sounds almost like a biblical curse. Rising seas, sinking earth and extreme weather are conspiring to cause salt from the ocean to contaminate aquifers and turn formerly fertile fields barren. A 2016 study in the journal Sciencepredicted that 9 percent of the U.S. coastline is vulnerable to sal****er intrusion — a percentage likely to grow as the world continues to warm. Scientists are just beginning to assess the potential effect on agriculture, Manda said, and it’s not yet clear how much can be mitigated.

I'm a self-described conservative, but believe climate change is real. However, even the article admits that the example farmer's fallow fields were salted from hurricane Florence. The deniers will latch onto that.

I for one don't mind paying more taxes. It goes to meet less fortunate people's needs right?

7 hours ago, Forehead said:

 

As far as your first part goes, there's a difference to me.  I'm speaking in generalities, but the certain other elements I refer to, such as the worst of Fox News talking heads or your hardcore MAGA folks, I'd expect to use this as an example of how all these types of stories are made up and to dismiss other victims in the same circumstances.

 

Whereas the people who immediately jumped to support him, and yeah, directed a lot of hate at the above group...I'd imagine their response is more along the lines of being pissed off because this mother****er hung them out to dry and will not make it harder for them to advocate for other victims without this being thrown in their face.

 

This is assuming of course, that he did in fact stage this whole thing.  While I don't necessarily agree with the tactics of group number two, I still feel like their motivations are better than group #1.

 

Already seeing re-posts of Nancy Pelosi's tweet on social media and comments like "I bet you'll never hear an apology from a single Democrat!!!!!!!!!!!" Like dude, its not wrong to condemn violence, you just care all about winning.

1 hour ago, Renegade7 said:

@tshile and @Zguy28 all I did was post the article because I found that quote interesting.  Saying they made more throughout the year doesnt negate the lack of communication on the smaller to no refunds.  This is going to go down like "you can keep your doctor " . 

 

People plan on them being a certain size, a shock like that comes from GOP not wanting to want them about its and that's messed up.  Same article shows people with same jobs and house losing $3k from last years refund.  That's not cool.

Sorry, while I also saw a significant reduction to almost even, I'm more concerned why my taxes owed to Maryland increased 400% over my 2017 return. I must be paying into the free tuition fund or something. Glad I was ready.