We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
42:2 "I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
42:3 'Who
is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered
what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not
know.
42:4 'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
42:6 therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
42:10 And
the LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his
friends, and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11 Then
there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known
him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him
sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought
upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.
42:12 The
LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had
fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand donkeys.
42:13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
42:15 In
all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters, and
their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
42:16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children's children, four generations.
There are surely many who have changed to the view that Kamala is an amazing person. But from things I hear from people, that's not it.
To me, Kamala is truly cringe. Embarassing. That's obvious to everybody but I do not vote against her (I am no Trumper, but he is my choice). But that doesn't matter much. Kamala voters are voting for the Dem/government machine, and against Orange Bad Man who many people feel is cringy in his own way.
Kamala voters know that presidents do not run the country, much less run the federal government. Yes, they do have a phone and a pen, and a bully pulpit. Yes, they do control the State Dept and the Justice Dept and the War Dept, but government is too big - it's its own animal. Obama and Trump both bitched about that, but it is supposed to be that way.
I envy their adventurousness and joie de vivre. And their competencies. I can't speak for women, but aren't competencies what men value most highly?
By our lame standards, hiking in the Outer Hebrides, skiing at Whistler/Blackcomb (yeah, with avalanches), hiking the Moroccan mountains, hunting in Manitoba, and taking our boat to Rhode Island for a few nights seemed like plenty of adventure. It's all relative.
To the Normies, the Spoils! Plus. . .Elon’s million-dollar checks and Kamala’s megadonors. ‘60 Minutes’ keeps stonewalling. Blackouts in Cuba. And much more.
I've been off chicken since my nasty experience with Campylobacter a year ago. Not rational I know, but I do not want to go through that hospital adventure again.
Orange Man Bad: While exploring the "news," I learned that Trump is mentally-ill, unfit for office, demented, retarded, deplorable, overly-fatigued, a felon, fascistic, Hitler, a warmonger, misogynist, anti-semitic, and racist. Sounds pretty bad. Did I omit anything? Oh, I did: He is against reproductive rights.
The Big Bang is a mirror, hiding another universe behind it. 
