LDSGator

That’s awesome my friend. Though I wonder about the wisdom of starting a radio station in 2023….

https://deadline.com/2023/01/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting-charges-mary-carmack-altwies-halyna-hutchins-1235226760/ It’s official now.

We did fine. I got vaccinated as soon as I could, got the boosters, everything. Looking back I’m just glad everyone in my life, including all of us here, made it through it.

Wow the disco duck is still quacking after all these years?? 😉

Didn’t he die years ago? and thanks for the explanation.

Can you go to a ward that you aren’t geographically “in”? I was told I can’t do this when I asked.

Ahh. Makes sense, given how disgusting he was when it came to basic morality. Thank God I live in America, where that doesn’t happen. Once again I feel very blessed to be here.

I forget who said it but “A single death is a tragedy a million is a statistic.” Really depressing to think that each one of those people was an individual with hopes, desires and (hopefully) people who loved them. 😞 I’m very much against it. I have huge respect for 98% of our troops. They have a bigger backbone than I have. But forcing people into service, even with the best intentions, is repulsive to me. There’s also the practical excuse. We’ve all done group projects with one guy who doesn’t do anything and doesn’t want to be there. He brings morale down. I never served in the military but I imagine it’s a downer when you have large groups of people there who don’t want to be there. Even if you ignore the practical side, for a country based on individual rights and freedom to order people into the service at gunpoint/under threat of jail is inherently flawed.

https://www.nps.gov/apco/planyourvisit/upload/Why-Confederates-Fought-Final.pdf Only a little more than 10% were drafted. The overwhelming majority appear to be volunteers.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/15/pennsylvania-elections-republicans-postmortem-00077986?fbclid=IwAR2bx7MVDH9Zax89bGO-8LfW17hcnmvyRMXahqF0zgO7LN9nYfoYRhex7BM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ It’ll be fascinating to see what happens here-and it’s interesting to see the contrast in how the GOP handles loss in each state.

Lisa Marie Presley. 😞

I generally use the cheating spouse test. If you aren’t cheating, then you give your spouse your phone. If you are cheating, you hide your passcodes, etc. In most situations that applies to the government.

Oh, agree fully. Like you I’m a transparency guy. But I admit there are limits like what you listed.

Not really, because I think the election conspiracies are wrong but mostly harmless. The Jan 6th crowd that tried to party it up in DC are the exception. They also aren’t terribly influential so I don’t worry about them. They’ll end up hurting their own side in the end, so it’s they need to learn that lesson themselves. A person becomes a dangerous conspiracy theorist when they slander innocent people like Alex Jones did or when they go full Nazi and start ranting about how much they hate Jews, etc.

I read a comment that said “Jeff Beck was your favorite guitarists favorite guitarist.”

Yup.

Good point, I shouldn’t have done that-assigned a number. But my experience with election deniers and other conspiracy theorists has been overwhelmingly negative. No joking, you are absolutely correct there.

@Anddenex-No one will argue that I’m not royally arrogant. Yup, guilty as charged 100%. I admit it and embrace it. I can genuinely say that every conspiracy theorist is just as arrogant as I am, but they won’t admit it. They get a giddy little thrill feeling superior to all of us sheep who need to “do our own research.” I think that is what bothers me more than anything about them. They want to feel superior and this is how they do it. Anyway, Arizona. I don’t understand what the clear goal Is here. Do you think someone is going to break into the governor’s office and place Kari Lake in office?

Is that your answer to every election integrity case, always? Actually, yes, because like I mentioned before I’m very skeptical of conspiracies. It always comes from…well, the losers. If my candidate wins, then everything is fine. If the they lose, then it’s it a giant conspiracy! It’s childish and very, very predictable. The democrats are praying for this. What do you think they want? More chaos and flocking around Kari Lake, or putting time and resources around a winnable candidate?

Yeah, I get all that but in my experience when people say “conspiracy” 99% of the time that means “I don't understand what is happening so I’ll call it a conspiracy to make me feel smarter, more in the loop, and better than all you sheep!”

Sad day.

I get that losing is bitter. I’ve lost many times in TKD. But when I lose I look inward, blame myself, and don’t make up conspiracies or scream at the judges. Not surprisingly, because I handle loss like an adult, my scores generally go up because I learn what I did wrong. If I just stomped my feet, held my breath until I passed out and blamed “haters” I’d get nowhere and I’d alienate even people who want me to succeed. Just like politics. In 2000 I felt the same way about Al Gore. When liberals whine about 2000 (and sorry @Godless but they did until 2008) I laugh at them for being sore losers too.

Is that she didn’t get enough votes to win. There is no conspiracy, no fraud. It’s that simple. The voters picked someone else and the losing side is unable to grasp it. The hard right can have yet another tantrum, but it’ll do them no good at all. A wiser response would be for them to choose better candidates and realize that voters don’t flock to sore losers.

Her doubling down reminds me of the democrats running Beto again. Political zealots are too stupid to learn from mistakes. You’d think the democrats would learn not to run Beto again after he loses for the 3rd time. Well, you’d think that republicans would quit promoting this woman after she keeps losing, but no.

:: shrugs :: could be. It’s odd because high religious commitment generally leads to increased feelings of happiness.