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I saw that thread—-turns you were surfing in shark-infested waters wearing a bathing suit made of seal meat!

What got you banned, and was it from PPP or the other parts of the board? I can confirm your failings in this area. I, on the other hand am completely consistent except when I am not, usually with good reason.

Let the courts decide intent to defame if it comes to it. We’ve seen some real funny business afoot lately with media sources finally recognizing exposure exists for malicious activity. Seems the Kirk family will have deep pockets, perhaps enough to battle the major players.

Should the medical practice(s) consider providing these shots for free? It seems like a good value-add for the patients they serve.

Hey Mup, This video has been shared by people of various political leanings in the past, and I think it's spot on. I do think at times those sharing maybe miss the message a bit. I know we've discussed this before, but outside of this little pit of occasional despair, people get on and about their lives without swinging at their neighbor, screaming at one another over orange men and word salad women, or praising yet another lunatic who cannot control his/her/they emotions or wildly fluctuating mental state. I think we're all wise to at least consider the lens through which we view matters like this. I can't really watch any of the Kirk videos, like you, I'm disgusted and sad that a young person was murdered. That he was murdered for what he said or stood for makes it that much more tragic. You should post as you see fit, ignore the noise and distractions, and consider not referring to yourself as a pipsqueak. Speaking only for myself, you changed the mind of at least one poster who's pretty sure he's reasonable and open-minded, and that's more than most of us can say. As for being a female, beyond the cooties, it's good to have different voices (and I would argue outside of the board, absolutely imperative in the national narrative).

For some, we've become a society that focuses on quick upgrades, early obsolescence and a need for near immediate gratification. I've certainly made those mistakes in the past, but at some point, reality should sink in. I'm aware of a few scenarios where student loan debt just about crushed the parents over a couple decades, with the child/children following the same path. Agreed on financial common sense, and btw, the entire credit modeling scenario is....interesting. It's absolutely imperative that people understand how it works.

Gosh, then he would probably have a field day with your Stockholm witch conspiracy theory.

Good to see we finally agree on something.

There is a lot to unpack here, but an interesting fact is that student loan repayments were paused for quite some time. For those going the outcome was a release from the obligation, it would be interesting to know if they put aside any funds to meet to resume payments in the event the Biden scheme fell apart. There’s also this: Tsolakis owes $35,000 in student debt but has had to pause repayments to focus on making his car payments and paying for other living expenses. It’s impossible to know what the full story is here, but I’d think it’s possible his decision-making may be part of the problem. Many of us who incurred student loan debt were faced with similar choices in the past (including college choice, major, planning for work after graduation), it certainly would be important to know the impact of car choice, payments etc to see what went on there.

Well, I would think if those who are difficult to offend are not easily offended, the answer to your second question would be people who get offended easily. Have you seen her…this Stockholm Syndrome Witch? Is she scary? Medical school must be easy to get through.

I’m hard to offend, to be candid. Seems a waste of time and effort to let someone else possess the control to offend you.

Great question……this sort of random political photo the poster thought to share should go in a thread specifically targeted to that sort of thing.

Gosh, Roundy #metoo!

It's mindless banter on an anonymous message board. Your only hope here is getting the attorney who represented Mighty Mouse in his libel/slander case against Oil Can Harry. It's a long shot at best.

Defund the police!

To the bold, with rare exceptions, there are always differences in opinions in every relationship including the most intimate in our lives. My wife and I were discussing the Trayvon Martin case one day, and I was telling her how the evidence revealed he was actually physically attacking Zimmerman when he was shot, not to suggest Zimmerman was right, or that the shooting was justified, just to point out that the facts matter in a trial. She wanted nothing to do with that discussion point, perhaps because our boys were younger at the time and it close to home. It hit close to home for me as well, though for different reasons as a father. People misspeak, have bad days, say stupid things, and that’s before we speak of deceptive editing, gotcha questions, and manipulation. The suggestion that CK spoke of “stoning” is an example of that, repeated as fact by agenda-driven individuals. The other poster and his thoughts on the grandchildren of others, on the other hand, seems pretty clear. Some people are crazy.

I am out of G/PG13 comments, thus will simply wish you a good night.

Dagnabit if you don’t seem smitten by the lady. Perhaps consider asking for her number? I’m not certain of your chances, but I’d bet at a minimum you get an interesting retrospective on traditional gender specific cultural mores, the patriarchy and it’s role in shaping homogenized agrarian economic theory vis a vis the Zollverein treaties of 1800s Germany. I’ll grab the popcorn!

I agree with you, and did when you first posted it in the aftermath of the tragedy. I made a similar point after the raid on Mara Lago and the (temporary) outrage by some at the handling of classified documents. I think if you pay attention to behavior and people long enough, trends appear that are fairly easy to spot. Best to sit back, wait and see what comes out, understanding of course that what comes out may not be the whole truth. To me, it’s sort of irrelevant as to what shirt he wears,who he voted for or anything else, he. is. crazy. Now, the aftermath of people in positions of power, what they say, how they say it, well that will be quite telling. People are people, I suppose.

On the bright side, you haven’t aged a bit.

I don’t know about that, but I’ll go back to my basic belief that of all the gun collectors and firearm enthusiasts I know—and I know many—none have shot, murdered or assassinated anyone. My concern about anyone of those people is non-existent beyond general anxiety of firearms not being stored safely in the home, which didn’t seem to apply to any of those people. As for learning to shoot, I was not raised that way but I would bet the number of fathers/mothers/sons/daughters who bonded over the love of the sport exceeds those who had a child go off the &$@$ing rails a thousand fold.

I was at a car dealership, having my Lambo detailed, and hit submit and it didn’t submit. So, I hit it again….and again…and maybe again. And yes, by Lambo I mean Honda, and by detailed I mean oil change.

I’ve been around Mup, just not necessarily wanting to get into the weeds on this. Horrible, tragic mess indeed.

Crazy is as crazy do. It’s virtually always this way. Right wing…left wing…irrelevant to me in the grand scheme of things. Most non-crazy people don’t shoot other human beings in the neck from a secreted location, or shoot people out shopping at a TOPS, or climb on a roof and take a pot shot at a guy running for President. Mental illness is the fashionable term, &$&@ing lunatics is appropriate. The rhetoric from leaders is certainly problematic at times, and to be clear, I’m talking about most leaders of the modern era, but somehow, someway an estimated 258,460,000+\- adults managed not to climb a building and take a shot at a guy talking to a group of kids on a college campus and 1 found a way to reveal his madness in a massive way. When I was a kid, I was climbing over some snow banks and made it to the snow fence separating the public from the general public. I stepped on the fence, the wood slats broke under my 75ish pound frame, and I dropped almost straight down onto the gigantic splinters that were left. The snow gear helped, but fortunately the spikes did not break the skin on my leg, nor anywhere else in the very important area immediate area south of the belly button or north of the mid thigh. There are other stories like that, near misses, decisions to avoid a place and time, and we all have them. Sometimes you have to get lucky in life (Trump moving at the last second before being struck), and poor Charlie Kirk was not so fortunate.