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On that note, this seems appropriate here. From the poetic musings of Harry Chapin: The rock is gonna fall on us, he woke with a start And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart And he told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're having a bad dream!" Silly child Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground Remember Chicken Little said the sky was falling down Well nothing ever came of that, the world still whirls around "The rock is gonna fall on us, " he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!" Crazy boy Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years "The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates "I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete." He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street Just a madman Everybody knows the rock leans over the town Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground Everybody knows of those who say the end is near Everybody knows that life goes on as usual round here He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone They knew he was insane so they left him alone He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself One night while he was working building braces on the ledge The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge "The rock is gonna fall on us! Run or you'll all be crushed!" And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop The people ran into the street but by then all was still The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft. Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit

When you say you spoke with him, it occurs to me---does a ban shut down an account totally? My assumption was he was locked out of site access, so I didn't think to send him an email of support. Now that I think about it, maybe he could have accessed the email for whatever that mkght/might not have meant to him. @NankerI swear by all the is good and holy I will crack you and find out what your cryptic message means. It will become my life's work to see this through, and by the god's of Zeus I will prevail. Tell me now or you are heading into a storm with a headwind the likes of....you're going to encounter winds stronger than...ah, I got nothing.

I hate to jump in here with your dialogue with Bill. I know how you feel about Covid, a little bit about your background from what you have shared, and how passionate you are about this. I'm not a scientist, a doctor or anyone remotely qualified to debate the merits of testing, treatments or the future of the virus. I am, however old enough to have seen a crisis or two, political manipulations by political leaders, and been through enough post-crisis debriefings to have some opinions on the world at large. For what it's worth, I wear a mask, I respect social distancing, I try not to put others in harm's way. I believe the virus is dangerous to some, not so much to others, and that there is an awful lot of political skulduggery afoot. This positioning on protests makes zero sense. 20,000...30,000 hell 500 people gathering together in outside venues do not spontaneously appear at a protest. They arrive by public transport, private transport, by foot. They travel in groups, alone and create the normal human trail along the way. They eat at McDonalds and interact with humans there. They use public restrooms, they eat, sneeze, burp, and vomit along the way. They interact with other similarly minded individuals, they share emotions, tears, rage, victory and defeat. They twist their ankles, get into shoving matches, fall off a curb and break their arms. They share drinks, split an order of french fries, and of course, engage with police or other responders. They have heart attacks, appendicitis and car accidents. Some will get heat stroke. Many will need to visit an ER, an urgent care facility, whatever. I'll bet you, people being people, there will be some bodily fluids exchanged and some babies born 9 months out. Once at the protest site, they march arm in arm at times, in extremely close proximity, often engaged in shouting and screa.ing to be heard. I think we would all agree that mask discipline is suspect at best, meaning the potential for transmission is quite high. When I consider the backdrop and what he himself has said about the virus, the political branding of the virus and protestors is absurd. Yet...Cuomo limits just about everything else. It's no secret there is money and power in COVID, and it doesn't matter which side of the argument you are on. In my opinion, Cuomo badly mishandled NYC in general, and the nursing home situation. It was a tall order, being Gov during this crisis. I detest the guy, but he deserved a pass early on and I gave it to him.

Dude, they're destroying property, some public, some private. They are engaging other citizens with baseball bat, fireworks and worse. If your premise is that an overthrow of this government is the ultimate end game, then perhaps 250 years from now all the peaceful citizens in the liberated CHoP Zone States of Socialteria will look back at this as a watershed moment. Perhaps it will be celebrated and they'll tell stories of their famous ancestor--a wealthy kid from Chappaqua who went to Berkley for degree in Social Justice Revolutionary Arts--speaking in hushed tones of the day he fired a bottle rocket through the left eye of the enemy--a guy named Anthony who followed his father into law enforcement, who two weeks earlier dragged a motorist (who hated everything he stood for) from a burning automobile after he crashed while attempting to switch Fave stations on the Spotify app on his iPhone, a guy who was recently married, his wife with a baby on the way. In the meantime, m80s hurled at police officers and other spectators should be dealt with in relation to exactly what they are--serious and potentially deadly weapons hurled by those with an intent to cause significant and likely permanent injury.

I was at a non-sanctioned fireworks event on the NJ shore probably 15 years ago. We would go every year to the beach, and all sorts of folks had all sorts of fireworks. I don't ever want to assume I know the occupation of the hundreds (?) of participants up and down the beach as far as the eye could see, but many apparently have jobs that rhyme with shmireshigters and shmalice shmofficeshmers. Anyway, for many years it was the highlight of our trip down. That year, something went wrong and fireworks were fired in our general direction. We were pretty far from where they were being set off and really thought we were pretty safe. Anyway, we hit the deck behind the dunes, but not before one of the children in our party was struck with a bottle rocket and her hair started on fire. Thankfully, it was quickly extinguished and while her hearing was impacted for a few days, she had no residual trauma except a now lifelong fear of fireworks. It was exceptionally dangerous and we (the masses in the general area) were fortunate not to be seriously injured. If your leadership issues stand down orders when those intent on injuring, maiming, blinding or killing an officer can act with impunity, it's really just a matter of time before and officer is seriously injured. Evenutally, fireworks are used as cover for gunfire. I'd expect that at some point, the officers will return fire, and things will get ugly fast. Or uglier, seeing as how it's perfectly acceptable for "protestors" to target individuals with ^%$#ing explosives and to have your *&^%ing leaders sit back and say "this is progress". What a disgrace.

The Hitler reference has been locked and loaded for a long time. You see it becoming much more mainstream because over time, the men and women who lived through that era have largely passed on. Prior to that, a dipsh*ttedly moronic statement like 'Trump = Hitler" would be called for the dipsh*ttedly moronic statement that it is.

The hypocrisy is stunning, easily identifiable and for reasons that escape me, many people are perfectly comfortable with it. Between locked down churches, winners and losers in retail, and the freedom to risk every person’s life in the world with mass gatherings in protest, I can understand bar and restaurant owners moving in this direction. By nature, these are tough, aggressive and business-minded people. They shut down and shut up early, but understandably might well be thinking wtf by now.

Flip flops?? I see a banana chasing a donut.

In fairness we really only want to rule the world. KaBoom.

I’ll tell you why. I think there are three reasons I’m only half-convinced. 1. You bought the Bernie hype. The man was consistent for as far back as we can reasonably see. He was consistently espousing socio-commie ideals. He has consistency railed against the most obvious boogeymen of all...any commercial enterprise you can place BIG in front of, at one point “millionayas” until he became a “millionaya” himself, then he just raged against the billionayas, the ones nobody is ever going to successfully take on. He’s also been a ward of the state for decades, and from everything I’ve been able to see, always planned to remain exactly where he is until his time ends. He was the biggest poser in 2016, and worse still in 2020. Of the 50% remainder on my half-convinced analysis, you lost 25% here. 2. You suggested that you “enjoy numerical lists”. That’s just quirky enough to be interesting, this passion for la Liste Numérique, but when combined with the Bernie Sanders thing it cost you 20% here. 3. I’m just going to say it. Conditioners and brushes. I don’t understand how some people need 15 different conditioners and 5 or 6 differential brushes for different looks—especially in light of the looming crisis with man made climate change. I think if we accept frizzy hair as the future we’ll be much better off as a society. I realize it sounds petty, but it cost you a fiver here as far as I’m concerned.

Done. I married an Italian woman who has convinced me I’m convinced that should the time come, a My Pillow over the snout does the trick just fine. I know she cares because a couple times I’ve woken up and she appeared to be about to practice.

I'm thinking relative risk. The prospect of existing in a persistent vegetative state is a concern of mine. But I'm sure you're correct.

I don’t know this Jack Squat kid, but if he’s anything like the Squat kids in my hometown, he’s a bra-snapping-toilet-clogger and general troublemaker. I was probably a little harsh there. Many, many people don’t have a plan in place. My visceral response came from a place where I think some teachers and teachers organizations are utilizing the crisis as a hammer against the public they serve. I do not place you, or most in that category. That person struck me as soft and exploitative, apologies to that person if I misread them. Btw—the bra-snapping reference. In between classes in my sophomore year, there was the normal mayhem of kids moving about in a very busy school. As I got my books out to go to my Expository writing class (I was an advanced student), I was looking around and saw this teacher talking to a group of students and he put his hand on the shoulder of one girl, rubbed her neck for a couple seconds, slid his hand down her back and snapped her bra strap. I was a naive kid, not so much sheltered but just unworldly. I remember looking around like “HOLY CRAP WTF!!” as life went on around us. There were times it seemed like Thunderdome to me. Btw—I do not think that most teachers behave this way, do not think you would and simply included it because I can. I’m also a fibber, because I was not an advanced student, and I may have been on my way to lunch, chemistry or PE. You should have a will and HCP at a minimum. If you don’t outline your thoughts and plans when you can, The State likely figures it out on your behalf and you may not like their plan.

It's weird, that protestor didn't do a little dance, make a scene like a d-bag and attempt to slap the officials in the face like we see in some other videos. It's almost like some protestors prey on the elderly and weak, supported by other violent protestors and enablers. Yet, when the opportunity to slap someone who slaps back is presented, they seem to fear that their arm will be forcefully removed from their body and they might be beaten violently with the bloody stump. Go figure. Edit: I watched that with the sound off at first, nothing worse than listening to screeching revolutionaries. I just turned the sound up, and the moron screaming into her own phone "USE YOUR WORDS" over and over is awesome. She must run an Antifa Pre School. She demands they "USE YOUR WORDS!" as they calmly cuff the chump and lead him away like a scared sheep.

I have no idea what you're attempting to say about honor and class, but that's ok, I'm certain you don't know what you're saying either. Why would a conservative voter want a conservative senate to wait until after election season to appoint a conservative judge? Feel free to substitute "liberal" for the words underlined if it helps you wrap your head around your silliness.

Conservatives certainly should hope a seat opens before the election, and that Mitch moves quickly to fill the seat with a candidate that the dems will quickly move to disembowel. All the best to RBG and I certainly hope she's pain free and doing well.

I’m no longer interested in long, drawn out arguments on this topic with my friends. I get bored after “even if it’s not true, what’s wrong with doing things that are good for the environment?”. In the old days, this usually took place right after we discussed their trip to Disney, trouble/or not with the flight down, which rental car they used and how cool the hotel they stayed at was. Oh, and it would not be uncommon for them to be wearing Nike gear, made by workers in far away lands and transported by cargo ship and over-the-road trucking concerns to the local departments store, where they hung on plastic hangers among all sorts of good wrapped in plastic. Keep fighting the good fight BT. Edit...just saw this story of climate warrior using a carbon-neutral crane to move his hemp clothing into his eco-sustainable apartment in a skyscraper built with recycled bottle caps (after returning via catamaran from Ireland where he was sheltering from COVID). Consider this my extreme example of the scenario described above. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/matt-damon-closes-brooklyn-street-move-penthouse-report

I was watching the news on the Washington ______________ football team and the allegations of a culture of sexual harassment and worse over the past decade. I’m always surprised to see a news outlet like the Washington Post sitting on a story until the time is right to release it, but that’s a story for another day. The coverage sure to follow is that there are no allegations personally against Snyder yet, but he surely must answer for the culture he allowed to thrive and fester in his organization. Certainly, there will be calls for him to step down, to answer and to be held to account. Certainly, #metoo, #timesup and well-intentioned left-leaning voters will be outraged. They will then proceed to the ballot box and attempt to coronate a true Washington insider, a man with decades on the inside, who was a key and powerful man for decades in one of the most exclusive Old White boys club where—according to my friend @transplantbillsfan own citation/link from Vox—women young and old were afraid and concerned with getting on a freaking elevator with powerful men alll while Joe was in leadership and Joe brags about his friendship with the worst of the crowd. Snyder will fall, as he should if allegations are true. In Washington, though, they honor the lecherous and enablers. Kennedy, Byrd, McCain and soon....President Joe Biden. Dems are outraged over some predators, others they want to rule the world.

Agreed, some people push back.

Privacy issues? ? Most CIA spooks work in the shadows, under cover and dare I say...in private. Your cover is blown, and you might as well fess up. How many kills do you have? Is this a CIA drop zone/hot site? have I stumbled into the dark web? PM me if you think these other mutts have loose lips. Yes, and while I understand procrastination and human nature, these are teachers being interviewed for news stories basically saying "Look, until I knew people could actually die, I never thought about it. But hey, global climate change from cow farts is a real thing.".

I know I shouldn't be surprised by the inhumanity of others, but this sh^tbag is just a klansman without a sheet. He's a coward to the core. As we typically see with these losers, he's chosen an 80 year old lady incapable of even understanding what's about to happen to her. See I'm thinking that most people have a car, and if the car were to jump the curb....

Nike factory to knock out some Air Js. But thankfully, Nike got right on that Washington Redskins thing 37 years after it started.

30,000 years? We have no time! Joe says by 2022, 15 billion people will die from gun violence alone, and that's just in big cities like Arizona.

If a person who "teaches" needs worldwide pandemic to be inspired to execute a will and health care proxy, they probably should not be teaching. Jesus, this is pathetic.

They never dealt with the inclusion of the 12,000,000 uninsured and cost for same. The implication was 12,000,000 were coming in and paying premiums of whatever--$1000 per year. That never happened, or never happened to any great degree of. And by 'never dealt with it', I mean that was part of the plan.