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.
Laura Helmuth, the editor in chief of Scientific American, chimed in
with a now-deleted tweet: “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X
is so full of fucking fascists.” (Fifty-four percent of Gen X voted
Trump.)
We'll get off politics soon, but not today. Interesting detail I saw: 90.6% of Washington DC voted Dem. Hmmm. Another thing: No more complaints about $ and politics. She had double Trump's money. Spent a billion.
"I am not voting for Donald Trump today, and here's why"
He calls it a perfect beginner boat, but I don't think so. For him, maybe. Like him or not, he is a competent fellow, a mechanic, from Maine. Alas, mechanics are a black box to me.
The writer used to live in Park Slope (a nice part of Brooklyn).It's a nice post, and I agree with the sentiment. Because of my moderately conservative views, I do not liked to be viewed as garbage by some who have entirely different views of life.
12:28 One
of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and
seeing that he answered them well he asked him, "Which commandment is
the first of all?"
12:29 Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
12:30 you
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
12:31 The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
12:32 Then
the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher; you have truly said
that 'he is one, and besides him there is no other';
12:33 and 'to
love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all
the strength' and 'to love one's neighbor as oneself' --this is much
more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
12:34 When
Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far
from the kingdom of God." After that no one dared to ask him any
question.
I was enjoying a beer on a NYC rooftop yesterday afternoon, watching the airplanes and choppers overhead. I thought that being an ATC at a major airport would be one of the toughest jobs around.
I don't mind being called an extreme MAGA fascist, racist, white
supremacist, domestic terrorist, sexist, insurrectionist, transphobic,
climate denier...but being called "GARBAGE" is the last straw. It's
outrageous and deeply offensive.
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.”Charles M. Schulz, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
" The Democrats have coalesced around a closing message, and it's not just
that Donald Trump and half the country are Nazis itching to round up
women and force them to bear blond children as their husbands,
boyfriends, and boyfriend's boyfriend are carted off to the gas
chambers; they have another message they want you to hear: Trump's
supporters make unfunny jokes."
" I was proud and happy to vote for Douglas Roofing for everything.
What The 
The Therapist in the Machine - 
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.”