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You think I'm a democrat?

I did not realize PTA meetings had the potential for such entertainment until the last year or so. Seems that is becoming more common behavior.

I am getting a banner ad for We Are Pride-Wholesale

yesterday a young girl in a red bikini asked me if i needed help yesterday getting my kayak back on my truck rack. She was being kind to the elderly. I think she thought I might have a heart attack if I did it myself. Frankly her body was more likely to give me a heart attack than would the effort of lifting the kayak. Oh, by "young girl" I meant someone probably in their mid-20's.

With trees you cut them open and count the rings to determine age. With men you measure their ball dangle. Every inch equals five years. Mine hang below my knees.

Air fares opught to be based upon the milage flown and the poundage of then person transported and the space they require. Skinnys, like my wife, take up no room and require next to no jet feul to get them to thier destination. Me, on the other hand, it takes a bit of feul to get the plane off the ground when I am in it.

As a youth in elementary school in the 60's we recieved some minimal instruction on the history of memorial day, usually the last day of school before that holiday. Nothing extensive, but a bit of instruction. The instruction occured at an end of day assembly in the gym. The flag was displayed and the most accomplished trumpet player in the student band would take a run at playing Taps and we were dismissed. My takeaway at the time, novice musicians should not attempt to play Taps.

The whole subway experience is simply foriegn to me. I'm a country boy and my mass transit experiences are generally while flying. i do have to fly out of DIA and they do have undergroung trains from the main terminal to the gates, but for me, that has been the extent of my experience. Those trains maybe run a minute between stops, they are well lit and clean and everyone has a purpose and a destination and has been through airport level security, so hardly analogous to big city subways.

I heard the monkeypox was transmitted by anonymous gay sex. I thought to myself why don't the gays stop the spread of it by simply introducing themselves before sex so it would no longer be anonymous. Remove one of the elements. Seemed a simple solution.

The most shocking part of that video to me was the level obesity and the number of obese men marching. i had presumed a better level of fitness among that community.

I am just wondering whether 15 minutes between stops is a reasonable figure. i don't know. Maybe that is normal, or maybe this was an unusual route, or maybe the incident happened a bit more quickly. I am not rying to draw any conclusions right now, I was simply interested in establishing in my mind tyhe time frame. I support the right of the accused to defend himself, and others, from immenent danger accurtately and reasonably perceived. As I understand matters the perception of real and immenent danger was not only the perception of the marine, but of several otyhers in the subway car. To me taht confluence of perception is indicative of an objective danger, not merely a subjectively perceived danger, incorrectly perceived. i was just soliciting further information. i suspect we will all be inundated with spin as this moves forward. i am trying to get the video and to hear the 911 calls. i suspect the contemporaneous calls, what the law would call exicted utterances, will tell us much, as will a viewing of the whole video, uncut.

I was just off looking for the original video to get a time reference. Right now google is so flooded with the indictment stuff it is difficult to find the original video. My memory is like yours, that this was allegedly a 15 minute event. That was, I believe the narrative. I am simply open to the possiblity that the narrative was overstated. I will say that the person who brought that up to me is rather partisan so I don't know. Whether 15 minutes or 4 minutes ends up being determinative of anything, who can say? I just wonder if hyperbole has crept into the narrative or whether a new, self-serving narrative is being forged. in the end we will start seeing the original video again and will be able to read the time stamps on it.

I understand that time frame is now being disputed. That was, however, my understanding. Thinking about it now it does seem unlikely that there are 15 minutes between subway stops, but what to I know, I have never riden a subway.

While two examples do not establish a pattern the 6th day of a month may be a day for flare ups in opposition to governmental power.

Chores done. Grabbing a long sleeve shirt and a hat to hide from the sun, a bit, and then off to do some paddling.

As whataboutisms are not a legal defense in a court of law I think Trump will be found guilty on a few counts, though not all

That's where I ran across the name Rittenhouse prior to Kyle Rittenhouse.

Myself I reject religion though I have found certain religious scholars to be extremely intelligent. Though I reject it I do defend the right of parents to indoctrinate their children. Children belong to the parent and not the state unless extreme circumstances exist where stepping into that relationship is absolutely essential. On this issue that means parents are free to support or oppose thier children's transitioning and I want no laws prohibiting the same. I could, potentially, support laws prohibiting state licensed professionals from taking irreversible action on a child. Once a child reaches the age of majority, or can convince a court they ought to be emancipated earlier than the standard age of majority, then I see no legal reason to deny them access to medications or surgery.

For me, and I don't advocate this for others, but for me I don't care how one presents themselves. I don't care how one views themselves subjectively and internally. I do care if they want to control how I percieve them by demanding control over my language. If I meet a trans woman I endeavor to be polite. I treat them with courtesy. I do not acquiese to using their preferred pronouns but I do refrain from using what to me are the apparent and correct pronouns. I simply use the name they give (eschewing pronouns all together) as I generally know no other. In the rare time where I did know their given name I did and still do them the courtesy of using their adopted name. Same as if I meet a body modification person who has leopard spots tatoo'd all over them and who has had their canine teeth lengthed. They may think they are a leopard but I do not. I will offer them social courtesy up to a point. I will not share their delusion but I give them room to be who they are. The world is a rich tapestry and i do not seek to pull out any threads.

As are nematodes.

I must admit no one of that description comes to mind.

Todays toxic male itinerary for the day. Change oil in wife's and daughter's cars and wash them (the cars not my wife and daughter) Cut grass 50 bags of fresh mulch in border of yard. My wife wants the yard looking "finished" for the 4th of July Replace showerhead in MIL's apartment and purchase and deliver to her the cannabis cream she uses for joint pain Replace the ignitor on the grill. Kayak and probably a bit of fishing while I am on the water, mostly working out today so more paddling than fishing. Yes, I am retired

So Vivek Ramaswamy? He lacks the administrative experience to be President.

Maybe you could honor your dead by not promoting indoctrination of youth. The nazis too thought they had science and reason on their side in their indoctrination and the communists thought they had reason. I would argue otherwise. I argue against those who think they have the truth and are therefore entitled to force that truth on others, as you advocated in your original post. I note Jefferson in promoting state-sponsored education proposed a secular cirriculum. He wanted the basics of math, science, and languages taught as well as the arts and philosophy. He did not seek mandatory indoctrination to belief. He sought providing the tools of thought, as do I. I would include in those tools of thought logic and rhetoric, something at which you fail, continually engaging in logical fallacies (your favorites are apeals to authority, authority you frequently misunderstand, and moving the goal posts though I dare say I have seen you employ nearly every logical fallacy in your time on this board) . I do not promote racism or bigotry. I oppose those as I understand them. I promote allowing children the freedom to reach their own conclusions, just as you were allowed to reach your own conclusions. You seem to not trust the next generation to make the same conclusions on their which you have reached. You need to indoctrinate them to your orthodoxy. I need them to be creative thinkers, free from the shackles of indoctrination. I need them to be free from overbearing government. You often argue that the history of human thought is a progression to your way of thinking. You should trust in that inexorable march forward. From my limited observation of the history of thought the march forward is only interrupted by powerful institutions like church or state attempting to impose by indoctrination an orthodoxy of thought. I argue you are delaying the very progress you seek.

Mandatory education to a specific belief is indoctrination. You want them to love and respect what you love and respect, not what their families may teach them or what they may come to believe on thier own in the due course of time. I presume you came to your beliefs over the due course of time without having them force fed to you, or perhaps in spite of that. Maybe you could allow that same grace to others. If my comparison was gross it was meant to be, and it was also entirely apt. When you raise the specter of mandatory you are crossing into oppressive territory. For simple regulatory compliance it may be tolerated, but for shaping belief, no. You support government sponsored orthodox belief. You seek the genocide of free thought and belief.