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Now, it is official. It was world record big as 92,003 tickets were scanned - more than for any other women's sports event in history. The previously recognized world record was 91,648 fans in an UEFA Champions League match between Barcelona and Wolfsburg on April 22, 2022, at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain. The previous record for an American women’s sporting event was 90,185 in USA’s FIFA World Cup Final against China on July 10, 1999, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

https://www.cornnation.com/2023/8/30/23853329/nebraska-volleyball-world-record-attendance-huskers-memorial-stadium-92003

#1 feeblemind on 2023-08-31 08:23 (Reply)

The hunting of a Finnish heretic

Northern Europe is going crazy. How will they come to their senses? What will it take?

#2 CapitalistRoader on 2023-08-31 10:19 (Reply)

"Why are Trump and Biden tied?"

If by that do you mean why at this point in time would any rational human being vote for Biden unless they hated the country or were profiting by his dishonesty? Well, there is the answer. But it is more too. Many on the left literally hate conservatives, they hate religion, they hate the 2nd amendment, they hate white people. And that hate translates into aggressively supporting any politicians that mirror their views and that the conservatives dislike. They would vote to destroy this country even though it would destroy them and their family seeking solace in the fact that it would destroy conservatives too. The left is driven by hate, deep long smouldering hate.

#3 OneGuy on 2023-08-31 10:40 (Reply)

Why the 2024 Race is Neck and Neck Right Now

Reading the comments on this article demonstrate that Biden supporters live in a completely different world. They can't vote republican because the R's are obviously and inherently evil. On the other hand, Biden, they believe, is a great statesman and even if he's not quite competent or maybe too old, he is surrounded by a group of people that are smart, ultra-competent, and (most importantly) compassionate.

LOL. There's no reconciling the opposing worldviews. Buckle up.

#3.1 eeyore on 2023-08-31 11:24 (Reply)

'Weight-lifting might help heal trauma through a sense of mind-body connection'

I left high school with self-esteem levels that were so low I had to reach up to touch rock-bottom. God moved it on my heart to begin working out regularly, and it's been a tremendous boost to my well-being.

#4 Maniac on 2023-08-31 11:27 (Reply)

Say, if I was the Devil, I would make long held Biblical beliefs illegal. I would prosecute you for following those beliefs. You aren’t allowed to have those beliefs. That’s hateful.

But why isn’t it hateful to prosecute me for my Biblical beliefs? Why are your beliefs approved? Your beliefs allow you to say and do to me any number of vile things. You can drain me financially. You can take away my every right. You can throw me in prison. All the while calling me a hateful bigot. You don’t see the hypocrisy in that? Why are your beliefs protected and my beliefs prosecuted?

Say, if I was the Devil, I would have my servants go to schools and teach that a boy can be a girl. A girl can be a boy. I will tell the children that they were born into the wrong body. All the while I would keep this a secret between me and the children. I would sick my government servants on all parents that tried to interfere. I would take their children away from them.

Say, if I was the Devil, I would constantly lie and call it the truth. I would call all those that question the truth, deniers, and have my servants in the government harass and prosecute them. I would call freedom slavery, up down, black white, and slowly repress and censor all information.

Say, if I was the Devil, I would call a molecule that is essential for life, a pollutant. I would tell humanity that their very existence is killing the planet that they live on. I would cull their farm animals and plow under their crops. I would make the old believe they are a burden to society, and get the humans to kill off their unborn.

Say, if I was the Devil, I would question every election ever held in which my servant lost, and would prosecute any of the opposition that did the same. I would gather unchecked power for my servants. I would convince the people that is for their own good. Then I would really get to work on them. I would ban all mention of He that kicked me out of my rightful spot. I will destroy His creation, using His own creation to do it.

Aren’t I clever?

#5 Paul Harvey. Good Day. on 2023-08-31 11:42 (Reply)

"Porn is the disastrous replacement for intimacy among my sexless, anxiety-ridden generation."

And in a roundabout sort of way, it's a logical one, too.

While the young lady who penned that article sounds like an exception, young Western women today are rude, mean and extremely narcissistic. Young men need an outlet for their (God-given) sexual urges, and many of them have no choice but to seek "alternatives."

#6 Maniac on 2023-08-31 11:57 (Reply)

I don't think you understand it. Do you drink coffee, alcohol, take drugs? Do you eat things you enjoy, steak, cake, salads? Do you or did you ever enjoy sex? All of these things provide a mental and physical stimulus to humans that feels good. Ditto for porn. Simple as that. Not good, not bad, it simply feels good to enjoy. But there is something else that is enjoyable to many people; Karens. Putting down other people. The way you dress, your exercise or lack or exercise. Your haircut, your age, your weight your pleasures. It feels good doesn't it?

Porn is simply a stimulus and god created it. It was designed to give you pleasure and those who hate that anyone has pleasure disagrees.

#6.1 JustMe on 2023-08-31 12:13 (Reply)

Re: god created porn. Blasphemy.

1 Thes 4:3-8
This is the will of God, your holiness:
that you refrain from immorality,
that each of you know how to acquire a wife for himself
in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion
as do the Gentiles who do not know God;
not to take advantage of or exploit a brother or sister in this matter,
for the Lord is an avenger in all these things,
as we told you before and solemnly affirmed.
For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness.
Therefore, whoever disregards this,
disregards not a human being but God,
who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

#6.1.1 B. Hammer on 2023-09-01 10:53 (Reply)

So help me out here. To you just not know that god created sex to insure procreation or are you joking. And God made women's bodies, especially young women's bodies, sexually appealing to men so that they would, how should I say this, become aroused when they see a women's body. And that to insure that the "act" would take place god made it extremely pleasurable. What I have just described in porn, like it or not, and God made it.

#6.1.1.1 JustMe on 2023-09-01 15:46 (Reply)

If you can read the passage that I posted, and still believe that it’s holy to fondle yourself in front of a computer screen, then there isn’t much I can say to change your mind. What do you think Jesus was saying when talking about lusting after women?
Matt 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Does that sound like pornography is just a wonderful creation of God?

Perfectly fine, and healthy to lust after your wife. You’re trying to equate a marital act, between two loving people, for procreation purposes, into something crude.

I wouldn’t want to try your explanation as to the wonderful merits of porn, to the Big Guy, but you can try. Good luck with that.

#6.1.1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2023-09-02 12:34 (Reply)

Just from my anecdotal experience in college, psychology students were generally well-known to be interested in how the mind worked because they were all seriously messed-up in the head. Glad to see somebody making the point that you could wipe out whole swaths of psychological research and it wouldn't make a whit of difference to the field of psychology. Now if only somebody would do the same thing about the Science™ of climate change.

#7 Jerryskids on 2023-08-31 12:13 (Reply)

If you laid down every psychologist in the world in a long line they would all point in different directions.

#8 OneGuy on 2023-08-31 12:15 (Reply)

Ed Dowd: America is too far gone to save... Brace for impact

https://whiskeytangotexas.com/2023/30/ed-dowd-america-is-too-far-gone-to-save-brace-for-impact/

The uniparty rules w/o the rule of law... debt, war, vax deaths and financial collapse. And a bit of financial advice for the short term.

#9 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-31 13:12 (Reply)

correct the date to /2023/08/30/

#9.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-31 13:15 (Reply)

Tucker Warns Of Trump Assassination, Hot War With Russia

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-warns-trump-assassination-hot-war-russia

#9.1.1 feeblemind on 2023-08-31 13:55 (Reply)

Gavin Newsom turns to fossil fuels to keep California's power on

QUOTE:

Newsom and other Democratic politicians have attempted to fast-track the switch to renewable energy, however, reality appears to have sunk in

https://thepostmillennial.com/gavin-newsom-turns-to-fossil-fuels-to-keep-californias-power-on

#10 feeblemind on 2023-08-31 13:12 (Reply)

Saw a thing on the news where they were complaining about price-gouging at Florida gas stations where they were charging $8 a gallon for gas. Well, why don't you go somewhere where they're charging less? Oh, those gas stations are sold out of gas or have no power? Guess what? Prices are simply information. You know why gas is eight bucks a gallon? Because there's very little of it and everybody wants some. Jacking the price up let's you know gas is precious right now and you'd better be very frugal with it. If they sold it at regular price nobody would get the message and they'd be sold out quickly and nobody would get any gas at all.

Reminds me that my brother's mother-in-law had a little beach house down in Florida and every time bad weather threatened my brother and his brothers-in-law would head down to board up the house. One of the brothers-in-law would load up his truck with 20 sheets or so of plywood to take down there and sell on the side of the road for 50 bucks a sheet. Made enough to pay for the trip down there. Then they passed the anti-gouging law that made it illegal to sell plywood like that. You think the brother-in-law loaded up his truck with plywood just to sell it for the same price he'd paid for it? Not hardly. Now nobody got any plywood at any price. That's government for you.

#11 Jerryskids on 2023-08-31 13:58 (Reply)

Then they passed the anti-gouging law that made it illegal to sell plywood like that. You think the brother-in-law loaded up his truck with plywood just to sell it for the same price he'd paid for it? Not hardly. Now nobody got any plywood at any price. That's government for you.

Yep. That's what price caps do, they create shortages.

If the Biden administration tries to cool inflation by decreeing price caps, look for the targeted items to disappear from the market place.

#11.1 feeblemind on 2023-08-31 14:19 (Reply)

They have tried price controls in the past and all you are assured of is lack of product. Doesn't work any better than rent controls. The near future prediction for rent control is no new rental units come on the market. Prices are determined by availability in the market other than prices determined by monopoly.

#11.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-31 14:22 (Reply)

feeblemind: That's what price caps do, they create shortages.

True enough. However, there are limits to all things, especially in an emergency. Suppose there is a flood and you are drowning. Someone with a boat comes along and says he will rescue you if you give him all your property. Free exchange, right? Meanwhile, other people are risking their lives for free to save others.

#11.3 Zachriel on 2023-09-01 11:54 (Reply)

Another ChatGPT red herring from the Quibble-DickZ.

#11.3.1 Zachinoff on 2023-09-01 13:20 (Reply)

Category 10 shitstorm approaches...

https://fredoneverything.org/fred-and-loathing-on-the-campaign-trail-and-a-vote-for-trump/

...and the comments on the 'storm'.

#12 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-31 14:57 (Reply)

Good comments but I totally didn't get his first paragraph. Was that humor or does he really think all that is true??? I dunno! I recognize that since Trump is a threat to our own ruling Junta that they will say anything about him and will pay news people to say anything about him to dissuade the average voter. But I honestly cannot think of a single negative about Trump that is true. Yeah I know he makes honest, oops, I meant "mean" tweets, but so what. The biggest negative I can think of about Trump is he was too naive about how badly his advisors and Republican politicians would advise him about who he would appoint to various positions, AG Barr comes to mind as an example of someone pushed on Trump to help destroy him. But I am confident that Trump is no longer naive about this and if elected he would fire almost everyone in in leadership in all the federal departments and replace them with true conservatives/honest people. Probably also appoint a number of special prosecutors too. That would all be a good thing.

#12.1 OneGuy on 2023-08-31 16:51 (Reply)

QUOTE:

I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is. The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies . . . What theories had to be rewritten? . . . Basically none, as far as I can tell.

That's often true in even the hard sciences.

Suppose a study claims to be able to more accurately determine the gravitational constant. It's widely cited because it represents the latest value for the gravitational constant. Suppose then, it is determined that the entire study was fraudulent. Now ask the question: What theories had to be rewritten? Do we toss out Newton and Einstein?

Or consider the Piltdown Man fraud. There were questions about the claimed find from the beginning, and as scientists continued to study human evolution, Piltdown Man was relegated to an anomaly. What theories had to be rewrritten? Did we toss out Darwin? Only later was it proven to be a forgery.

If you have the idea of scientists as disinterested and objective, then you are ignorant of human nature. Eppur si muove.

#13 Zachriel on 2023-09-01 11:49 (Reply)

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