Mark Davis

I feel that way about ours. On poker nights a lot of times I’ll just swing by and get chicken tenders there to carry with me. The Zaxbys in the same shopping center isn’t even in consideration.

IMO you tend to view the Civil War through a modern lens when you post about it. That wasn't reality at the time. Even realizing the post above was tongue in cheek, it's still romanticizing something that wasn't reality.

Those bombs saved a lot of lives when doing the accounting for what an invasion of mainland Japan would have looked like. The threat of the Russians being a part of a land invasion helped tighten the screws a bit more as well.

I live in the southern burbs of Birmingham, the city to the west of I-65 north of the US 31 intersection is a f'ing war zone. Some of the parts to the east of 65 have been gentrified and the younger college students and grads from UAB have moved in where old buildings were renovated or torn down and new structures built.

This is the only thing stopping the Dems from a really good 2026 is this kooky embrace of socialist/communist ideas. History tells us they'll win seats this cycle and almost any net gains flip the House. There should be no way they can screw that up. But the only ideas coming are just opposition to Trump or this off the reservation leftist economic ideology. They likely will fall over the finish line for flipping the House but the gymnastics some are doing to excuse Mamdani in particular is quite interesting.

Whenever I see anything related to Mother Jones I get ready to see something outlandish. I remember frequently that kook David Corn on Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show. He made O'Donnell look like Rush Limbaugh at times. What's really funny is Corn is the one who got the infamous Romney video at the private dinner referring to the 47 percent. In many ways that video helped sink Mitt Romney and for the most part show that old faction of the Republican party wasn't capable of winning anymore and in some ways opened a lane wide open for Donald Trump. So now Trump, who puts the folks over at Mother Jones into the straight jackets/catching them with butterfly nets category, is someone they indirectly helped get to power.

The question people should wonder is why the Maduro regime would want someone back? There's something of value in them to Maduro. Whether they are gang bangers he can call in favors for, criminals he wants his hands on, or whether they are somehow doing the work of his regime, there's something in it for him and it leads me to believe they were dangerous folks. It's odd people put righteous values in something Maduro wants when history tells us he wants things for just the opposite. However, it's good that we got our folks home in exchange.

Those guys in the MSM were hot on the trail of discovering Joe Biden had failing mental acuity. If only there was some way to have known before that debate! They'd have really shilled for Trump had they known that.

Gotta love Elizabeth Warren. I'm sure the folks at CBS who were airing Stephen Colbert to begin with are hardline MAGA righties and they terminated him for political reasons.

Yeah I mean the guy is telling us in his own words what he believes. I'll take him at his word.

So much for just being a socialist https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1945851817142993386

I thought I was in decent shape on the weight until about 5 years ago my doc told me if I wanted to live I'd clean up my cholesterol numbers. I went 6 months of exercising daily, jogging some, push ups daily, etc. Over that 6 months I never ate one fried food or one dessert or even piece of candy. Went back in, had dropped 25 lbs that I didn't think I had on me to drop, and got told "You look good and trim and your numbers are better but you just have bad genetics. We still need to put you on a statin". So now, I take a 10mg statin, smallest dose I believe, eat not whatever I want but I have desserts and fried foods in moderation, still exercise. My cholesterol numbers are still good, still pretty much at that lower weight, if anything too lean really vs muscular. 6'3", about to be 51. My daughter is a distance runner, people think I run bc of the body type and way I look, but I'd die if I even tried to do an "easy run" with her.

If the reports are true about NATO picking up the tab on the weapons that is a huge improvement.

Exactly. It justifies these kinds of acts in their minds. Sometimes people don't understand all the hyperbole that is used in speech. This is just the start too. You can see it in the deflecting that has gone on trying to blame Trump or ICE for the violence that takes place. You see an attempted assassination and then have people wonder why ICE agents don't want their identity to be found so it can be circulated online to have their families put in danger.

I've heard the new stadium is nice. I have meetings there later this month and have been invited out by one of my businesses' vendors to go sit in their suite. That always is weird to me that minor league stadiums now have suites. When I was in high school and college I went to tons of games at old Greer Stadium. They finally demolished it after letting it sit, rot, and be vandalized for years. One of the best events a minor league stadium had was in '95 when they had 9 MLB teams I think it was stop and play exhibitions at Greer over 3-4 days at the tail end of spring training. Teams that played more than once stayed at the Opryland and bussed to Greer and back.

It changes nothing. The warnings were on time. There is debate at what local authorities weren't willing to spend on warning systems. Who knows if that would have even made a difference. It's an uncomfortable topic but there is always a cost/benefit to life risking situations or perils we face daily, or rarely in this case. To take an extreme example, we could save a lot of lives if we just eliminated driving. I don't think anyone here would argue that would be the right thing, yet a lot of people die every day in their vehicles. People choose to live in hurricane prone areas, flood prone areas, near fault lines. None of these are 100% safe and the best of warning systems can't totally protect everyone. Those truths shouldn't be political. The more telling thing is that we know now for the next 3 years, every incident of a natural disaster where there is loss of life or air disaster, that the media and left is going to drum this stuff up whether it's factually supported or not. The next one that happens, we will be right back here.

Olbermann appears to be mentally unstable and has appeared to be so for quite some time. He's made some pretty angry and bizarre comments about former girlfriend Katy Tur. He is 24 or so years older than her so more power to him for that part. But in that you need to realize there may be some differences in where you are in life, etc. But given his comments about other girlfriends he tends to like to make public, my guess is he's the problem.

The whole politicization of this is stupid. When you build houses/shelter in a flood plain, well, every so often these things will happen. Warning systems are better today than they've ever been and people have taken those risks to be near the banks of rivers. You take a risk when you build a property there as well as in a known fault area or coastal area prone to hurricanes. Donald Trump nor Joe Biden are going to cause the next earthquake or flood, but the next one is going to occur and people are going to die. If you want a 100% guarantee that a tragedy of that type won't happen to you or a loved one, you can never spend time in those areas.

One of the dead little girls they recovered is from near here. I think the mom's family may have been from that area. I can't even imagine what they and the parents of those missing currently are going through.

It's going to be the usual raising the incremental brackets and making villains out of those "not paying their fair share". I've asked many times over the years at what rate that would be? There isn't a rate you can saturate "the rich" at to cure our deficit/debt issue. When you lower marginal rates, it actually gives relief to those bearing the brunt of it. Most of the folks that people say use loopholes or pay such low rates aren't impacted at all by these incremental rate table changes. These bracket modifications impact earned income, and that's not the line where those folks' income flows through. But you know, that doesn't stand in the way of some good gaslighting and pandering.

I think it's worse than that. I think it lacks moral clarity because I feel like he hates Jewish people so he has no morals. In your example, ask yourself if you'd give such benefit of the doubt to someone who wouldn't condemn someone for using the "N" word. I don't think you'd vote for someone like that or lay any cover fire for them. But at the end of the day, this guy is likely going to win. We are going to see what happens. But I believe much like Lori Lightfoot failing in Chicago brought about Brandon Johnson who has failed even worse, the left will only find another elite, capitalist (gasp), white person, wealthy person, oligarch, or someone to blame when this guy fails too. It's what happens as their society and city falls apart around them because the ideology doesn't work, it can only find another oppressor to blame. And usually that blame is shifted to the very system that has made Western Civilization so great that people want to escape other cultures and societies to move here.

The amount of money we are wasting on this one guy is incredible. Which of course is ultimately the goal. The goal is to make the time and money to one by one go through everyone that crossed illegally during Biden's term essentially infinite.

Well, his wife was asked in a nationwide interview where she was trying to get sympathy for him and she couldn't bring herself to say "no, he didn't hit me" when asked about it. That was the biggest softball interview and she didn't even offer even a token defense for him. But you guys know this. You can play stooges for him if you want, but it makes you look silly and unserious. You defend him because your political side has chosen his cause. The guy is a dirtbag.

I'm all for leaving those ideas dead and buried in the scrap heap of failures in history but Mamdani and the far left are the ones trying to resurrect them. To promote the idea that government dependency is desirable is a dangerous thing.

You're ascribing a worry of leaving family to a man who clearly punched his wife. But if I were him I'd run if given the chance.