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Why was it high? Be specific if you will--give me top three or four. That's the question you as a filthy footed sandal wearing hippy stoner beach bum* need to answer. *We tease because we love. I have a big nose and lazy eye--have at it.

You're the Canadian Enrique Iglesais-- a man with a smooth jazz rhythm in his soul and boy-next-door good looks. Men wanna be your friend and girls wanna get wit ya. Who would put you on ignore? The old expression "out if the mouth of babes with screen names Over 29 years of fanhood..." is relevant here.

I agree that there are usually three sides to every story, side A, side B, and the truth somewhere in the middle. That applies to what I think as well, and one of the reasons I stick around is to hear other voices. One poster took a shot at me recently for thinking I'm the "smartest guy on the board", and that one made me chuckle as well. My first thought was "Hardly!", but I'm smart enough to pay attention and strong enough to defend what I believe. My point on you taking swings wasn't that you're solely responsible for anything, just that it reads to me sometimes that you're suggesting you wander in like a baby doe and people set upon you. I don't see it that way. One of my faves of yours is 'cultists', which where I come from, isn't a compliment. This board is no less echo-chambery, no less toxic at times, no friendlier a place to be, but the dynamic has shifted. I take very little personally here, but folks take their shots at me and they are not always nice, warm or fuzzy. Who cares? I told another poster one time in a PM that imo one of the things I thought he should consider was the old adage of 'When you lay down with dogs, you get fleas". To be clear, that was not a reference to you, but it was reference to this board and some garbage posted. Unlike one of the better posters on the board(s) @billsfan1959, I'm unable to see beyond what I think is coming with this presidency, congress and senate. Before DJT became president, I had pretty much resigned myself to the notion that most of the political creatures in Washington are cut from the same cloth--some likely start out noble, quickly morph into something else, and those that stay around the longest turn into a Joe Biden. I didn't see much difference between a Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, and early on in the Trump campaign and admin I saw them working directly against him in spite of the victory. Sure, they glommed on when he started having success, but there is no deep ethical conviction to serving the will of the people. They'll slide right back into form, raging against the opponent, propping up wives, sons, daughters and brothers in lucrative positions just like the future current douche in the WH. I'm not a proponent of violence, see the anarchists who stormed the Capitol as no different than the anarchists who burned buildings, looted stores, victimized citizens and murdered citizens over the summer. That applies here, that extends to the other board. I don't engage in that talk nor will I. Like many on my side of the aisle, however, my skin crawled when I watched Biden talk about how racist law enforcement defending the Capitol was relative to what might have happened if those that stormed the building were "BLM" anarchists. What made it particularly offensive was seeing those inside, our 'leaders'--no doubt many who railed about 'defunding the police' --cowering and praying like hell that the law enforcement line would hold. As Biden spoke about the soft and gentle approach, a rioter was put down like a dog as tends to happen in those situations. No pass for the white girl. No martyrdom because she's not a cause d'jour, not a Michael Brown, or Jakob Blake, just a foolish and violent act that ended the way those things tend to end, and our new leader and his attempt to unify with some good old fashioned race baiting. Why? Because it works. Anyway, to the extent I have something to offer, I'll stick around. It seems to me that time is coming to a close, but who knows.

“Never confuse George with Donald.” -me, watching an old geezer flip the script back 20 years before being saved by the Missus. I’m particularly interested in how he deals with Chairman Mao. We can agree on RR.

Herein lies the problem and why we disagree on 'they both do it'. We've gotten to the point where you, an otherwise reasonable guy it would seem, view an offer to reduce the level of compulsory taxation under threat of incarceration as an attempt at 'buying' a vote. That's akin to a mafia play where the protection money required at $100 a week is actually a gift to the victim because it wasn't $200. But, folks are so beaten down by the system that they're thrilled to know that the tax rate is staying the same! In a similar vein, when the issue of SALT tax deductions came up, the chief tax collector of NY complained about the unfair impact on NY, folks went around nodding their head in agreement without ever stopping to suggest that perhaps the undue tax burden could be addressed. I'm pro-tax, btw, happy to do my part, but when positioned as the problem by an entitled rich a-hole like Biden who avails himself of tax planning I simply could not afford, I get offended. As for senility, sorry FR, we disagree on his current mental state. He's sliding downhill fast, and it's not just old guy static in the attic. Watching his wife tend to him and try and keep him on track was just pathetic. If you personally think he and Trump are the equivalent in vigor and mental capacity, God Love ya man. I never got into dogging these guys for errors on the campaign trial--nucular, 57 states, corpsman, covefe. However, Trump was working 22 hours a day creating energy and inspiring his supporters to come out, Biden appeared 90 during his 10 minute, no question, no pressure bi-weekly presser before heading back to the home for his puddin.

Well, we agreed on one thing today. Biden’s greatest attribute is he hung around long enough to see a nation crippled by a pandemic to the extent that they would look past the obvious character flaws that had disqualified him from any reasonable chance at the presidency when he wasn’t 78 years old but appeared 90. He’s a 50 year slow motion train wreck who checks off all the boxes that the moral left once complained about Trump—he’s abused women, he’s thin skinned when questioned, he makes racially insensitive comments and the stench of corruption is all over him. That was before he began to show the effects of old age and senility. He also found the sweet spot where the line between meeting one’s obligations and having someone solve your problems gets murky— soaking those who make &400k+ (enemy!) and keeping Trump tax cuts for those making under $400k (victim!), buying off student debt for the highly educated. Nothing sells as quickly as free stuff. But, it worked. Should be an interesting 4 years, though I’d be surprised to see him make it 18 months. He’s done like dinner.

I didn’t intend to imply that you were inconsistent, I was just asking. I agree on pretty much everything here. My building can be rebuilt, my cars replaced whatever. I’m thinking I wouldn’t want a lone officer or two confronting a gang of a fifty scumbags looting my office, the numbers are not in their favor. Now, the swat team laying a bully beat down in a like-kind encounter when someone is trying to destroy the fruits of my labor, cool. Nice chat.

I sit him this Saturday at Defensive End. The risk outweighs the reward.

I'm not looking to argue, but why the softer approach to rioters in the street v the Capitol? I'm guessing you are categorizing destruction of property separate and apart from threats to people? I own an office building and while I'd hate to deal with the aftermath of rioters burning it to the ground, I'd not think lethal force necessary (all other things being equal), but I'd certainly hope the police would do their best to stop the destruction. As for this lady--I think I read yesterday she was a 14 year Air Force veteran, making her at least 32-34. It's on her. I disagree with you that Trump is to blame for her actions, though I would agree that his statements regarding violence and destruction of property should be every bit as forceful as t was over the summer. However, I also think when law enforcement officials and local governments from across the land issue stand down/let 'em riot orders and allow for the destruction of property to be the order of the day--as many 'leaders' did this summer, it normalizes behavior and gives the appearance there are no consequences to stupidity.

I'm not a young guy anymore, Frankish, and I've jumped to more than a few conclusions in my life and found out I was wrong later on. Nothing would surprise me here-from 100% lunatic Trump supporters to 100% antifa f***s to an unhealthy mix of agitators. I'd go with option 3, and have long believed far left/far right agitators are one in the same. As for the fatality, here's the dilemma for me. I see a young lady laying in a pool of blood, I think of lives wasted and lost. My natural instinct is to think of my own children and defer to 'she's a victim'. So, I have to step back, wait and see. For me, it's a learned behavior and I try not to be lead along the way by media reports because we frequently find the people reporting these stories are less concerned with facts, much more concerned with getting a story out quickly and in many cases, telling the story the way they want it to be told. On the other hand, I'm a pretty simple guy. I have one life to live, it's of extraordinary value to me, so I pretty much default to "If you come for me, I have to put you down". Over the summer, I saw videos of people on the roof of private homes, taunting them, screaming in windows, whatever. What do you do there? Sit tight, hoping folks won't burn you out? Leave the house, abandon and let the looters loot? I'm not a gun owner, yet, but kinda feel the same way I feel about the response here. You breach the window, I'm assuming you want me dead. In fact, when you're climbing all over my roof and you're not cleaning the gutters, I feel pretty strongly you don't have my best interest at heart. And, rot in hell on Saturday, but all the best to you and yours come Sunday.

I agree with this, and it actually points to the silliness of Biden's "shoot 'em in the gams" philosophy. An assault on the Capitol needs to be put down, hard. To be completely honest, it's not even so much about protecting the folks in there--though that's important, it's about sending a message that there are certain lines that cannot be crossed. One of the problems in modern society is the lines that should not be crossed are being replaced with a propensity to second guess decisions made in a split second to achieve a desired political outcome. See Jakob Blake, Chop zones, murders and looting on the streets.

I typically avoid you like the plague, I think you’re a really disturbed person. Your post a couple rows up is an example of that,and while I’m confident that Ann would suggest I simply ignore the troll, I feel compelled to say something. Your post is disgusting, not because of your rather peculiar fascination with presidential loads, but because of your lame attempt to objectify and marginalize a strong woman with hypersexualized commentary. On the one hand, its largely irrelevant because it’s fairly clear you manned up long after she moved on and she can’t respond. On the other, it is true potentially that when we allow good, decent and intelligent people like Ann to be spoken about in such terms, we’re perpetuating the problem. I’d simply leave it at this—in a debate or discussion about any issue of substance, 100 times out of 100 she destroys you and exposes you for the small minded man that you are. My hope for my political party moving forward is more Ann’s with seats at the table,and way less of this sort of garbage. Dig deep, do the right thing, delete that garbage and I’ll gladly delete this one.

That’s a series of unfortunate events. I’m always disappointed in bans, mostly because I figure if someone is offending me I just ignore them. It’s happened here fairly often of late, but you know. Styx. Stones. My feelings actually dates back to the earliest of bans here. I can’t provide feedback on the political side of the board. I may be the second most sane crazy person over there (Thank you sir for the compliment) but I ain’t no snitch. I think though you seem to want to position yourself as the victim when you complain over here, after swinging over there. I don’t know what happened last night, but whatevs. These are trying times, I just popped off Facebook as I saw some otherwise friendly folks swearing up a blue streak about everyone who disagrees with them being an @hole. I get enough stress in my normal life without having to worry about what some dope who thinks Facebook is THE place for the airing of grievances has to say about anything.

I feel like you’re sliding the diamond around the old Oujia board and summoning me. What is it you would like to ask me? And for what it’s worth, I don’t mosy, I saunter.

And yet you say nothing about the cur dog Tuesday badmouthing 1970s rock royalty. We're done here sir.

This is a good post on some levels, it's probably where most of us in the middle agree. Personally, when taken as a whole, I view law enforcement as a whole of being guilty of systemic heroism at their best, consistently decent citizenship on the whole. I base that primarily on the numbers--millions of fellow citizens doing the job, tens of millions of interactions each year, and stories like the officers clearing the area around the Nashville bomb at great risk to themselves. On the body camera issue, a client of mine is a police office who was talking to me about this a couple years ago. His thought echoed what many police officers thought then--that body cameras would vindicate officers far more frequently than not, and for those that were not vindicated--that was a good thing. His response was pretty much on point--the body camera footage was not going to reveal what the liberal left was hoping it would on a wide spread basis. I haven't talked with him in a while, but I'm wondering what he feels now that the rules of engagement are being changed as we speak. The Jakob Blake case comes to mind where, from the perspective of the police officer--the best course of action was actually not to respond at all. As for Portland, I don't know, I guess whether or not the protests were mostly peaceful sorta depends on whether or not you were directly impacted by the lawlessness. What we can agree on is that more training would not hurt, a clarification of the rules of engagement would make sense so that well-intentioned people would know whether or not the occupation was worth pursuing, and off-loading domestic violence calls to counselors will certain reduce the potential for officer-involved shootings. On this note: https://dailygazette.com/2020/11/17/former-schenectady-county-jail-guard-arrested-for-attack-that-left-detainee-hospitalized/ I knew this young man and his family on a casual basis up until he was 20 or 21. His family remains friendly with friends of mine. Nice enough kid, comes from a good family (near as I can tell), and yet he apparently assaulted a prisoner in custody. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want this type of job for a number of reasons, but it does make me wonder how the heck he got so far off the rails as to end up in this predicament. Would all the training in the world prevent this? I don't think so.

It's so funny--I was just wondering what you thought about the music. I like it, "Street Survivors" was the first album I ever bought, just after the plane crash. For what its worth--- I think Tuesdays BLOW in general, though I think Tuesday's Gone is a beautiful yet melancholy song about love and loss. It's complicated for me, this whole Tuesday thing.

We're polluting the ethersphere with mindless back and forth. I understand you. Really. I even appreciate your desire to save my soul, but I shall pass. In an effort to drop down the traffic, I'll stop replying unless you have something other than 'brainwashed', 'idiot' or the like. My best to you, friend.

You're preaching to the wrong crowd NB. I didn't support the riots and anarchy all summer, and don't support what's going on at the Capitol now. Still, it seems odd to me that you didn't feel we were teetering on the brink over the summer when people were killed, businesses and personal property destroyed and lives ruined. I know, you've said it 14 times in a row, sorta like a brainwashed person. I've considered your opinion, rejected it as the ramblings of a hostile actor, and moved on.

I'm sitting in my office outside of Albany in tan pants and a Brooks Brothers no-iron shirt, contributing to the local economy, supporting local causes and treating people with respect in every transaction. I did the same with you, and the fact that you see me as an extremist of any sort again simply reinforces just how soft you are as a human being. I'll move on, but understand the sympathy I feel for you is real. I can only assume someone really messed with your head (or heart) at some stage of your life.

That was your point? That the governor would be in a luxury box during a pandemic, not out with the few members of the peasant class? Uh, ok. Cool.

Hello!! McFly!! There’s a pandemic! Tickets are electronic, you’re not smoking doobies and scalping J Geils tickets are the Aud!

So, he obtained a free ticket, planned on attending the game like Emperor Caligula himself when true fans (the little people, I think he would call them) of the team were prohibited from attending, and has decided to give the freebie away to someone working in and around high risk COVID patients from a known hot spot? On the bright side, he won't have to drive by all the less fortunate fans protesting. Buffalo folks can be pretty creative, it would have been fun to see the stretch driving by a Cuo-man with creatively placed genitalia.

And yet you took the time to copy, paste and edit a posting. Go figs.

You know an internet tough guy is broken when he uses the old "LOOK I CHANGED THE TEXT!" play. I'm unsure how you arrived here, but listen up: You don't have to be weak--you don't have to lie about who you voted for, you don't have to lose your marbles and send threatening texts, and you don't have to pretend ya 'got me' with that silly stuff. Man up, speak boldly and have the strength of your principles. You'll be happier in the long run.