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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.

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.

I’m thinking if some unstable employee in the Department of War stalks and shoots CEOs/Managers of the right type of companies, Roundy may soon be wearing the T shirt with DoW on the front and “That’s What It’s Good For!” on the back? It’s all in the branding.

I don’t think there’s some grand conspiracy, but my experience with doctors is trust but verify. Remember these are the same folks who prescribed Oxy with regularity, well intentioned though is might have been. I also believe there are doctors who take the least common denominator to a patient with a problem—-anxious? Here’s a prescription. Upset? Here’s a prescription.

That was some wedding Chelsers had.

Why not just get to this point instead of silliness about hating vaccines? That’s absurd and nothing I’ve said or done is even remotely adjacent to that. Interesting on the booster shots AFAYK.

We don’t have to assume, I’m happy to look at any reports of Fauci or other parties acknowledging the participation in the development of the virus. Do you have something, or do you feel that what I offered is untrue? The point for me is not hating vaccines, it’s trust in people in positions of authority telling you what you should do. Given what I know now, I probably would not have gotten the COVID vaccine and I think it was significantly oversold. I’m neither an anti-vaxx nor do I blindly follow guidance without question. As stated previous, I’ve gotten the flu shot for years, was recently vaxxed against whooping cough, and my children were vaccinate on schedule. I don’t think I’m an outlier on this issue, and represent a cross section of people across party lines. Have you gotten COVID shots over the past several years?

Are you at all concerned that our country was engaged in research in Wuhan, that the research included dangerous viruses, and post COVID there wasn’t an acknowledgement of our involvement there? I think looking back, if Fauci was more honest, and the US government demanded more accountability from the Chinese government, the average American wouldn’t feel that there was a massive cover up.

Asked, answered. I was listening to Gimme Back my Bullets yesterday, just sort of popped into my head. The interesting part about the music is that there is precious little they offer that intersects with anything in my life. No whiskey, no ludes, no Saturday Night Specials, no girls on the road, no bullets to gimme back, not really all that much fighting. I’m not from the south (likely obvious), yet here we are because the first album I ever bought was an LS album. So…yeah, I think the song is pretty much spot on though you all seem to do a pretty good job of minimizing the problem when it comes to violence in Chicago. I do think it’s telling that LS didn’t even include a reference to Indiana in that song. They must not have gotten the memo?

That’s pretty good, though you’ve missed on a number of points. 1A-D. Wrong. In a perfect world, citizens of any city receive the services they pay for and have a right to expect. Many things get in the way of that, including poor leadership. Maybe, especially poor leadership. When things go south, from the perspective of the victimized, solutions should be found. More intimidating than the National Guard? Probably the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime, unless you’re an upper middle class moop lecturing people on how crime in their area is acceptable. My hope would be a refocus on the nuts and bolts of civil society and the mantle of leadership to lead. 2A-B. Fair enough. It’s an old Seinfeld reference in which George is playing Trivial Pursuit with a guy in a plastic bubble. The answer is “Moors”, the bubble boy answers correctly and George says the answer is “Moops” due to a misprint on the card. Chaos ensues. It’s a term of affection. 3A-B. It was a movie, the idea was to make a movie and make some dough. Mission accomplished. Chris Farley was all of those things, take your issues up with Lorne Michaels, the cast and crew of SNL, and popular culture of the day. 4A-D. I hope you have a great day, in spite of your increasingly concerning rage issues. I wish you…joy.

That was Donald Trump. I’m talking the lunatic who stalked another human being he didn’t like, waited for him to walk down the sidewalk and shot him dead. Luigi Mangione. The guy with the groupies like Charlie Manson had.

Gotcha. It can get confusing, there isn't even a Y in MAGA. For clarity, I meant you as in you with respect to that psycopath who murdered the guy on the street.

You're still coming up short on explaining why you lied about what I wrote. What I intended was the use of 'you' in the informal, colloquial sense to describe people that might be directly/indirectly impacted by the aforementioned death, crime, inept leadership. Citizens of Chicago, for example. I guess I can see how that threw you. Still, Tibsy, 'you' would not be 'I', even in the monkeyenglish world in which you reside.

Why do you keep changing what was written? I never suggested I was “bombarded” as you said the first time, nor did I claim I was “bombard” the second time you said I did (mostly because I went to school last 4th grade). Are you taking all the meds or just the one with pretty colors?

Hmmm. I read stories on Fox News on occasion. I have never read, listened to or thought about Alex Jones much beyond what I know about his reprehensible comments on the Sandy Hook massacre. “Fun cast of characters” reads as if you felt you were on a roll and then completely ran out of steam. I was vaccinated against COVID almost immediately, drove 80 miles to get the vaxx. I got my booster shot promptly, before the Biden admin changed the description of fully vaccinated to have at least one shot to make the numbers look better. Ironically my children thought I would be anti-vaxx, until I reminded them I had gotten the flu shot for many years before Covid. Other that that, I developed tinnitus not too long after getting vaccinated and have dealt with it since then. Could be old age, could be bad vaxx. Two young family members developed myocarditis after getting vaxxed, one ended up hospitalized. My only regret regret is pressuring one of my children into getting vaxxed based on the pressure of members of the scientific community. I don’t know anything about ivermectin, but it seems clear you considered it as an option. I couldn’t tell Matt Walsh from Matt Stafford. You, on the other hand, support and understand the emotion behind a lunatic gunning down a man calling down the street—-which basically puts you in the same category as any of the most fervent Alex Jones disciples, you just wear a different uniform.

Ah, she thought she was getting Swayze but ended up with Farley? Could be.

Because it was politicized and things simply don’t add up. From social distancing to churches closed and liquor stores open, to stay at home and no more than one person per household in a group to the elderly dying alone, to lock down/stay down while there was support for tens of thousands of people gathering in the streets, to the Harris declaration that she wouldn’t trust a vaccine developed under Trump when the world was in crisis…to myocarditis in young people and everything else——some people simply don’t trust pharmaceutical companies (and never have) and leaders who threaten to have you arrested when they knowingly break their own rules. Add to that the past administration encouraging unvaccinated people entering the country with not a fear in the world about spread, what would you think would happen? Personally, I think it’s nuts, but when you lose trust, it’s hard to get it back.

I’m worried about my participation in the series of events that lead to Kay defending Tibs and his subsequent outreach to her here. I feel that connection does not bode well for the future of the planet with lots of little Comrade Tibsys running around. I feel like the scientist in Terminator 2 who unwittingly put civilization on a collision course with the apocalypse, and I don’t know how to undo what I have done.

I'll repeat what I wrote earlier: I don’t watch much media, I have a short attention span for that sort of thing. Here are things I didn't say: I don't follow the news; I don't ever watch media; I am from Chicago; I am "bombarded with news from that one city"; After reconsidering a potential Tibs/Kay union, I beseech the Comrade to avoid a close personal relationship with you. There's not enough smart in Kay to offset the dullard in you. Your children will be simpletons.

Tibsy and Comrade sitting in a tree Kay Eye Ess Ess Eye Enn Gee First comes love! Then comes consciously coupling and cohabitating with equal division of labor in something that seems an awful lot like traditional marriage Then come the moops in the baby carriage! No sir, not from Chicago, but we have access to online news and news aggregators that covers news outside the area I live. Are you limited to news sources that only produce content related to your Grammies basement? Sad!

“Special rules for electeds”?