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1. about 24 hours ago on Reality Check

   I prefer alternate timeline. ;-)

2. about 24 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Was just discussing this book with my wife a day or two ago. She was watching some family she “follows” on FB going about their morning, baking, cooking, whatnot. It made me think of the rooms with the screens for walls and how one would immerse themselves in what was going on, acting as though they were a part of it all. Give me a good book, albeit read on my e-reader, any day. She, however, would rather watch what’s taking place on screen. We are quickly heading towards the plot in that book if not more careful.

3. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   The first time I ever went on a roller coaster was at Dollywood in Sevierville Tn back in the early 80’s. Can’t say that I have been on one since.

4. 3 days ago on Cornered

   I will say that 6 weeks in a teaching hospital strips one of all modesty. (Personal experience).

5. 3 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Thank you! You made the general reply I was about to.

6. 3 days ago on Wizard of Id

   The flu, pneumonia, shingles shots and others like them are vaccines. Been around for a long time. Never claimed to keep you from ever getting these things or eradicating it from existence, but do say that they can lessen the severity of it. Same with the COVID shot. Never claimed to block it entirely, but it does have the ability to keep the severity down where it might not be life threatening. You call it a “Kool-Aide pandemic”. Others have related COVID to “just the flu”. Spanish Flu reportedly wiped out as many as 100 million worldwide, around 675,000 were here in the US. The recommendations were pretty much the same then as now, so, you could possibly argue that it is like influenza in that it does have the ability to wipe out many lives. I don’t consider those “collateral damage” and I am sure you don’t either. I consider them tragic losses. I, personally, have a condition where getting the virus could be life threatening as does my wife of 37 years. If I can lessen the severity of this virus that is with us, just like influenza, then I will continue to get boosted against it. My choice to do so as it is yours to not.

7. 4 days ago on Wizard of Id

   (Continued):

   I will admit that there is no “perfect” politician as one person cannot make good on all the promises that they put out during campaign, but the choice you and the reportedly other 70+ million chose is no politician. He’s a reality TV wannabe that will make a mockery out of this country that obviously is going to need to remove the United for its name as the only way it could be considered united is by each state’s borders touching the ones next to it.

   I have already witnessed firsthand the amount of anger that individuals are now projecting on others that I hadn’t witnessed to this degree before. This is the kind of thing that your chosen one does. It goes back to the WWE type “entertainment” that he was known for.

   I wish I had the luxury of being able to say that none of this matters, but I have a wife, daughters and a granddaughter that will be among those most affected by some of this person’s plans. And that, among other things, is the reason I will never support this person. I am guessing by your support that you don’t have family members that will negatively affected by his “plans”.

   To make this country “great” as he continually repeats can only be achieved by getting all to work together. This will never happen. Too many are of the mind of getting theirs before others do that unification will never happen.

   I am betting that you will not have gotten this far in reading this, but if you have, how about we meet up again in a few years and discuss how badly things actually went, ok?

8. 4 days ago on Wizard of Id

   I kept looking for the implied sarcasm in your comment, but just could not find it.

   To say that he will do great things is to parrot his words. He knows that the things he wants to do will be great for those with the most money. When all the programs are, as you put it, smashed, then there will be many many individuals who will lose their medical coverage, supplemental income, etc. I am guessing that since you support your choice for the next 4 years that you must not be one that will ever have to rely on things like social security or Medicare. There are many who have been members of the group making these people that fall under the classification of the wealthy to be just that, wealthy, that don’t have the luxury of doing without these things that they have paid into all their working career. Sure, it would be easy to say that they should’ve become one of the wealthy members. But you know that’s not the reality. There will always be that division between the working class and the higher ups…..unless your chosen one miraculously decides to throw his idols (yes, idols not ideals, as in the ones he is actually pandering to without actually saying it) under the bus and create financial equality across the board, but surely you aren’t so blind that you think that will ever happen.

   You say that the 70+ million will relish? I say that we will just have to see just how bad it gets before you and the other of that group of individuals realize what you voted for. I won’t call it buyer’s remorse as that could at least be returned. Voting in what could quickly change from a democracy to a dictatorship will have no return policy guaranteed.

9. 5 days ago on Cornered

   Oops! Didn’t catch that! Then maybe he had a charger (or plan) like Papillon.

10. 6 days ago on Cornered

    Door Dash and the like. You don’t have to carry money, just a cell phone with the card attached to the app.