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This was my wife's reaction yesterday when she saw the story. "Huh. Who knew they still existed? "

First, I don't condemn college students for anti-Semitic remarks per se; they are young and ignorant and their mind is being filled by TikTok algorithms which reinforce that ignorance. Unless the remarks are calls for violence. I'm pretty libertarian that way. What I condemn is them disrupting classes and physically confronting people, and more so the colleges lacking the balls to stop it and punish them. Second, you respond with this to a post where I said I don't like having to defend Trump, and that some folks know not to take him literally. Yet here we are. If you listen to the actual speech, he talks some about re-instituting the ban he had for 6 nations with known terrorist ties, and expanding it to further restrict an influx of people who are aligned with groups like Hamas, but he frames it with phrases like "if you don't like America, we'll kick you out." That's a simple way of saying what in implementation will be a much more limited set of restrictions, but common people get the point. His supporters do, anyway. You take him literally, and think he has the power (and desire) to send gestapo door to door with a survey and a paddy wagon if you answer something incorrectly. This is of course consistent with your belief that he is Satan personified. I would offer as evidence the four years of his presidency, where nothing of the kind occurred, but you'll tell me this time will be different.

I saw them 10-15 years ago, agreed it was awesome. Great music and light show (unless you are sensitive to strobes, in which case you'll have a massive seizure ). I play Christmas Eve and Other Stories (their first album) a million times every year. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 is the song everyone knows, but I love the beginning (An Angel Came Down) and the end (An Angel Returned) of the story. My favorite song is An Old City Bar, it brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it. I sometimes think of @wiffleballlistening to it, I hope he doesn't mind. Typing this, I think I'll branch out and play more of their other stuff this Christmas season.

I didn't know that, thanks for sharing.

I don't like being put in a position of trying to defend Trump, because he says things in a stupid way many times. Well, "stupid" isn't the right word. He phrases things in a simple, base manner which rallies a lot of folks on an emotional level, and at a level they can understand. Somebody said prior to 2016, and it is a great summary: people who support Trump take him seriously but not literally. People who oppose Trump take him literally but not seriously. That being said, I will concede that his comments could be construed by some folks as a call for anti-Islamic behavior. Your Vermont example may be one, although I've heard there are some questions about that situation. Regardless, we have not yet seen that put in action on any measurable scale. When we do, we can discuss it. Until then, it is the false equivalency between the two situations that the MSDNC is pushing so hard.

No. It's not. And your one-off anecdote doesn't make it so.

Read my words, Tim. They came from a basis of civilization. If your argument is that any culture that has done bad things in their history is not civilized, then no cultures are civilized.

Example of the Palestinians just wanting to get along, like @The Real timschochetassures us: https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1728722696505033125?s=20

You studied acting?

I had wanted to respond to this earlier but have barely been online. No Tim, the lack of a detailed plan is not the difference. I'm confident that over the multiple decades of Iraq and Afghanistan, many detailed plans were devised. The difference was that Japan and Germany were civilized. Different cultures obviously, but civilized. Iraq, Afghanistan, and certainly Palestinians were not civilized. They are barbarians. Japan and Germany were able to adapt and change, because they came from a basis of civilization. Palestine does not. I can't speak for everyone, but I think this differentiation expands to most people's objections to our fairly open immigration policies. The objection is not nearly so much for those folks from civilized countries who go through proper processes. They are the ones that are able to integrate and contribute to our "melting pot." People from non-civilized places, not so much.

It's probably getting a little warmer here during the summer, but the culprit is the every-increasing amount of roads and concrete which absorb all of the heat, not climate change. Winters are awesome; been 70's all week, highs will get down into the 60s later this winter.

Same. Except for that one person, you know who you are. Turkey is brined and about to go on the pellet grill. Waiting for my kids to show up so that I can start drinking adult beverages with them (they are adults). Seriously, I hope you all have a happy and blessed day.

Sorry, I've got a busy week including today so I'll be brief. First, that is happening, Hamas is being destroyed. But then what? We let them elect a new government? Who will they elect? I guess we'll see, but remember that if the US or Israel is involve, your Lefty buddies will scream apartheid$#@! Second, you are asking arguably the most backwards people in the middle east, so bad that other Arab countries don't want them, to set up the bastion of democracy there? And by the way, those same other Arab countries have a vested interest in that NOT happening. Third, while I support continued research into nuclear fusion, it is beyond words to propose this as a solution to this problem.

So, the answer to the problem of showing too many anorexic women is to mix in more morbidly obese women? How about... I dunno... healthy, normal women?

What does this have to do with the Pelosi trial?

Look at that picture, the kid isn't anywhere near his adult body. Looks like he is just starting adolescence. I'm not saying he is the second coming of Tiger, but 26th in the state of Florida is pretty good for someone in that body.

Looks like I underestimated your unicorn love. So how do they achieve these things?

True, that is an opinion. So how do you think the majority of people there can be deprogrammed?

I know, I'm just trying to point out the discontinuity between his acknowledgment that they can't be changed, and his unicorn desire just try, Strike, can't we just try?!

Well, one of my statements was that most of the Palestinians can't be deprogrammed. If you agree with that, what do you propose be done?

My wife was digging through a cabinet for Thanksgiving stuff and found an unopened 6-pack of sardine cans. I told her about this thread and that I wanted to try them; she said to wait until we plan to eat the whole can, because the expiration date is 2026. That late of an expiration makes me question if it is actually food which humans should consume, but I expect that sometime in the coming months I'll try them.

You can say the bolded to justify practically any behavior. When you say "evil," you must mean Michael Myers-like evil. Sure, most of them aren't probably inherent sociopaths. But they've been programmed since birth in evil beliefs. Is that unfortunate? Very. Is it reality? Very. Can all but the youngest of such people be de-programmed/avoid programming? No. So what do we (western civilization) do with such people? Allow them to continue to foment hate and support soulless, terrorist organizations? Is that good for the world?

You recently said that the vast majority of Palestinians just want to get along. That seems in conflict with supporting Hamas, whose stated goal is to kill all the Jews. Do you have a link to yourself saying most Palestinians publicly support Hamas?

Fair enough. I'll take your word that you've changed your behavior.

Says the person here who pathologically starts new threads instead of bumping existing ones. Also, what's wrong with a new NFL thread every week? Is the front page clogged with NFL Weekly threads?