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Niagara Bill

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  1. 9 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

    I keep thinking people won’t surprise or disappoint me, but then I read something like this.    It is what it is, indeed. 
     


     

     

    So you suggest all repubs are fascists, or no repubs are fascists?

    Enlighten us with your wisdom oh wise one.

    Isn't one man's fascists another man's revolutionary in the US.

    I see the Poor Boys as fascists, you see them as heros and revolutionaries. 

    I see guys walking thru the halls of congress with guns threatening to kill the VP as unacceptable, you see it as justified. 

    It is what it is, still. 

     

     

  2. 2 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

    Stating that the government is persecuting you makes you a wannabe dictator? Really? How so? Come on Man! 

    Just looking at other countries around the world, trying to end an election, defying laws of document removal, kinship with Kim, Putin, Poor Boys, enjoying the attempted obstruction of congress on Jan 6, just to mention a couple little things.

    Look, the left have gone way too far, and I hate that people call me a racist because I say D Watson is headed in the Jeffrey Epstein direction.

    You taught me to love surfers, and I never liked lefty, being fiscal conservative,  never believed governments should build houses, hate illegall immigration, hate when police issue a description of a dangerous suspect and omit skin color, but Trump would love to be leader for life...and would destroy institutions to do it. IMHO. 

  3. 2 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

    So...this is interesting. 

     

    94zed comes out and declares that based numbers from the last election, 75 million +/- people in the country are fascists.  Your response is you're "not sure" 75 million citizens are fascists, which is a very brave position to take, Bill.  Godspeed for taking this stand, God Bless the Queen, and Go Trudeau or Go Home!  I guess maybe you see it as 40 million, or 20 million, 60 million or maybe the full 75 million.  Hard to say, not being sure and all.

     

    I would suggest, humbly, that the siren call of the every day simpleton is declaring tens of millions of non-believers fascists. 

     

     

     

     

    So Lenny, trying not to go over the top. But NOT ALL repubs are fascists, but maybe 10m are. You know all the Poor Boys, Parkland, Sandy Hook denying lovely folks. The rest are being fooled or just hate the left so much. I get that. 

    But Trump talks like a wannabee dictator. It is what it is.

  4. 8 minutes ago, Nineforty said:

    if you support Donald Trump and the Republican party in its current iteration, yes, you are supporting fascism in America and can consider yourself a fascist. its quite simple.

    Not sure that all republican supporters are fascists, but Trump is as close to being a dictator in waiting that the country has ever seen. "This corrupt government and justice departments are persecuting me.". This is the cry of all wannabe dictators.

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  5. 8 hours ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

    Wut?

    Wut you can't figure this out. 

    Another slug who the press and teams said was a great guy, great positive influence on their team. So one yr later he is out beating up women. 

    This guy had them all fooled 

  6. So tough guy Gore drags a woman by her hair!

    WTF does it mean in the NFL to be  good veteran presence on a team, a good role model for younger players.

    Oh, I don't bring no weapons to the dressing room? Or

    I pick up the breakfast tab, or I can teach you how to get hoe without no one knowing...

    Another suppose to be classy guy bites the frigging dust.

    Throw the key away, please!

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  7. 15 hours ago, L Ron Burgundy said:

    I don't like this.  Russia is putting more blame on us for helping Ukraine,  who knows if it's true, and now we're stirring the pot with China.  The last thing we need is conflict with both of them at once. 

     

     

    Or, China was or is about to take advantage of Russian aggressiveness and take what they want. 

    US policy for 8 years of Obama was soft. No one has any idea what trump said behind closed doors with Xi, Putin or North Korea. His shooting from the lip, poor relations internally with State and Forces did damage for sure. Trump hurt alliances around the world. Trust was damaged.

    25 years ago US dominated with strength, compassion and money. Following Russias 20 years fighting in a dustbowl was followed by 20 years of US dragged into the dustbowl in the mideast.

    The political divide has stopped presidents from appointing the best person into key positions due to confirmation or has stopped many from wanting to be involved. 

    China does not want to be seen as weaker than Putin. XI and Putin sat side by side at the Olympics while we all pouted at home thinking we proved something. That was funny. Insult Xi and let Putin glad hand him. 1 communist to another. 

    Meanwhile we watch MT Greene, AOC, Trudeau set agendas that divide us. 

    By not stopping Putin, China is assured of successful Taiwan takeover. They took Hong Kong, NEXT UP. 

    IMHO 

     

     

  8. 4 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    That’s kind of a functional definition of “intelligence,” isn’t it?

     

    The discussion started with someone labeling Tucker Carlson as “Ivy League educated.” I said he isn’t. So … why would that matter?

     

    1. We are in a world in which relying on  intelligence testing per se is illegal at worst, considered uncouth at best. So we use proxies for intelligence. One (for now at least) is whether you were admitted to a top college. And it’s a pretty good proxy since the Ivy League schools generally only admit the top 5% of SAT/ACT scorers. (Note: test optional crap may ruin this.) Economist Bryan Caplan puts it this way: Would you rather be admitted to Princeton and have a run of the mill public university education, or would you rather be denied at Princeton and get a superb, world class education at Southeastern Nebraska State College? That is the “signaling” importance of elite education. If I see Harvard on your resume, I immediately think “high IQ.”  Better to just ask the candidate to take an IQ test, but I can’t do that. 
     

    2. High IQ — general intelligence, or “G” in the trade, is critical for many (most) important jobs in the non-manual labor sector.

     

    3. Completing college is also a signal — a signal that one has the sticktoitiveness  that is critical to success in many challenging fields of endeavor. We are at an odd moment in history today: a Gates or Zuckerberg can also signal “I’m really smart, look at my Harvard acceptance, but my ideas are so awesome they can’t wait 4 years.” But that’s a modern anomaly that applies to the .01 percent. 

     

    4. Many non college educated people are as smart or smarter than those with college educations, or maybe even smarter than those with elite college degrees. But it’s really hard to find that out until someone has a long, long history of sustained excellence. So we use college degrees, and elite college degrees particularly, as a proxy for an extended test run. 
     

    i used to say being smart doesn’t correlate with being, say, a good President. I still think this is largely true. But our recent experience with some, umm, “non-smart” Presidents (Bush 43, Trump, Biden) is starting to make me reconsider that opinion. And yes, one of the above has that Ivy League undergrad degree, and one has an Ivy MBA. Hey, I never said it’s a perfect proxy. 

    Seriously. Schools are a gauge of intelligence? Have you watched college sports, basketball, football, or notice the number of people charged with falsely getting into schools?

    College education in the US is likened to being a royal in England not a commoner.  College is worn as a gold star, social status. It is announced with elitism at events and parties. It gives you the right to party at age 65 because of a sporting event on a distant campus. College has made the phrase " alma mater" important in social settings.  But it has nothing to do with intelligence. 

     

    Me thinks😅

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  9. 10 minutes ago, DRsGhost said:

     

    Good. Justice.

     

    Now, should we commence with all the rest or nah because you've been told  it was the most secure election in US history?

    So let's start Jan 6th over again. Let's have a revolution. Let's listen to Ghosts.

    Let's forget about actual law and react to the votes of 200,000,000 as being all questionable because a corrupt judge in the wilds of AZ  can't find a thumb drive. 

    Yes...a small amount of corruption exists in a country of 400,000,000. 

    It started in the Oval office... has been around in my life time since the Warren Commission. 

    The country runs on corruption...every congressman is corrupt. They can't pass 1 bill that does not hide millions of corrupt dollars for pet projects in some hick town. The public purse breeds corruption. 

    If the 2020 election had corrupt results...the most corrupt prez jn the past 100 years is not the guy to expose it and be believed. imho

  10. 3 hours ago, Gugny said:

    It's EASILY one of the best football games in the history of the league.

     

    This should be unanimous.

     

     

    And Music City Miracle is 2nd, and which Superbowl is 3rd? 

    You must be a saddest.

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  11. On 6/21/2022 at 10:35 AM, ALF said:

    Inflation rocks businesses as owners warn Americans are cutting home improvements, service expenses
    Businesses say customers putting off roof replacements, house cleanings and AC repairs due to rising costs

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/inflation-rocks-businesses-owners-warn-americans-cutting-home-improvements-service-expenses

     

    After 43 years cancelled Buffalo News home delivery , 3 months ago stopped buying beer. I lived thru inflation early 80's maybe I was too young to care , well being retired does have limitations.

    Lived through 20% mortgage rates in 80s. Retired now, and I get why $700 per yr is way too much for BN. 

    We are all having to reconsider beer, wine for sure. Dinner out is done with thought, purchases now trimmed. What most people do not understand that for most inflation is temporary, maybe 1 or 2 years, then wages catch up and move on. Retirement brings perspective that these massive increases are for ever and your income does not keep up.

    But you need to still enjoy life. Rather than beer, wine, try cocktail hour, different one each time. Nice to plan, cheaper. There are hundreds of cheap cocktails made with bourbon. Lots of fun. 

     

     

     

  12. 14 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

    Conventional wisdom is that absent COVID, he wins by a mile in spite of the issues you laid out.    
     

    As it turns out, he was correct on what the focus on COVID would look like post-presidency.  While suggesting it would disappear was a stretch, the reality is that there was substantially less focus on death, spread, vax status and when Biden washed his hands of the problem, the national media and Dems barely blinked.  
    the half-a-mill dead under the Biden plan was a non-event.  

     

    We now have a pattern where what constitutes “vaccinated” has been redefined to substantially less than vax/vac/booster or vax/boost for JNJ. 
     

    All this, of course, post Operation Warp

    Speed which based on preliminary numbers and projections, saved millions of Americans in spite of Dems encouraging mass protests and mass spread throughout the pandemic.  

     

     

    Conventional wisdom also said if  Kamala Harris was not vp candidate and AOC shut her mouth trump would have lost by a larger margin. 

     

    There is 2 sides to politics. The folks in the middle are affect both ways. 

  13. Laws that proclaim a bill of rights for any group, only serves to separate people. One bill of rights for all. 

    Any consideration of any religious order, is wrong. You are American, Canadian or whatever. Your religion may be important to you, but not first. Even the founding fathers knew that. 

    If we do that then the issues of gay, Muslim, transgender, Catholic etc etc no longer exist. 

    Do knock on my door with your beliefs, and I will respect your privilege to practice your beliefs, providing you practice man's law in our country.

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