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.
De-policing? Sounds like a good idea. American cops are running wild and need to be confined to not breaking our laws. They are treating the rest of us the same as they treat the Afro-Americans
Feminism/fat shaming/hair-dos and other assorted nonsense.
I can't even read this drivel to make fun of it anymore. It's like an infected mosquito bite. Annoying to the point where I want to amputate that limb affected.
Bird Dog- My thanks are long overdue for the great job you do and the invaluable stuff that I'd miss w/o you. This Evangelical Climate Change letter of encouragement depresses me, particularly since the pres. of my churches seminary (Evang. Covenant Church) is on there. I've been holding my pastors feet to the fire for over a year because our ECC pres. is a signator on the Evang. Immigration Table, a veritable "who's who" of the Evangelical church.
I know this isn't the first time in church history that its leaders have done a piss-poor job of guiding the flock, but it sucks anyway.
De-policing: As an experiment or slective city policy it is fine with me. Make it publicand well known so that no law abiding citizens inadvertently goto one of these cities and lets see how that allworks out for the locals. Baltimore has been a stinking pile of corruption and black crime/violence for years. Let's see how bad it can get and howmany of the perps can off each other. Perhaps this is the ony way the liberals will understand the effects of their policies. They destroyed Detroit, one a great city with jobs and industry and now a city of empty homes and broken dreams. So why not Baltimore next? Maybe even NY City.
The myth of a harmonious multicultural Medieval Iberia is hilarious. It was a 700-year war with some pauses. Captives on both sides were sold into slavery. Losers were expelled or forced to convert.
It was religious war at it's worst and it's coming back.
It's not racist if you believe White People are the worst of all people of color.
It is racist if you include people of darker complexions, such as from the Mediterranean area as White, even if they historically and genetically are Caucasian.
It is not racist if you include Jews as Whites deserving special disapprobation, unless they are Progressive Jews who don't support Israel, then it is racist.
And really, why isn't there an app to help us keep all this straight. Perhaps one linked to the camera so we can get objective determination of racism.
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