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1. 8 days ago on M2Bulls

   Yes, the rate, I’d already written too much! We folks that were born here are way more dangerous.

2. 8 days ago on M2Bulls

   Also… My dad used to oversee the state-sanctioned seasonal foreign worker program here in Virginia. He explained to me that many farmers preferred to use undocumented workers because, right, it was cheaper – the state mandated a certain wage rate and that housing be provided. Also, he outlined how undocumented workers helped the rest of us as per Social Security. So even an undocumented worker needs a paper trail to look legal, and that paper trail includes a Social Security number, which has to be fake, but which also means Social Security is removed from those workers’ paychecks. The end of this story goes like this: Undocumented workers help grow the Social Security pot for the rest of us, but never receive Social Security benefits because, well, they’re undocumented. Yeah, it really makes you wonder about Republicans – they’re just not into facts. When they drive around, do they ever look around? Do they ever notice who’s cutting all of the grass, and putting new roofs on all of the houses, and bussing all of the restaurant tables??? It’s not that liberals think that an undocumented guy killing someone is not newsworthy. It’s just that it’s such a tiny part of the immigrant story used always to make a false point. (And how many murders today will be committed by citizens born right here in America? You’ll never see this headline on Fox News: Citizen Born Right Here in America Commits Murder.)

3. about 1 month ago on Jen Sorensen

   You know those folks – you know who they are – who like to wax fuzzily about how good things used to be, about how there used to be REAL patriots in this country who would sacrifice and unite to defeat a common foe, such as Nazi Germany in WWII. It sure was quite ironic watching these same folks during the pandemic. Right, none of these folks saw masks and vaccines as vehicles to help keep their fellow citizens from being harmed. No, in their tiny hearts and petty minds, these were devices utilized by an overreaching federal government to oppress the people. And once the orange guy’s wind sock picked up the direction the political winds were blowing, there suddenly was no pandemic and therefore no need for him to do anything to mitigate the resulting illness and death, except to share the misinformation that his followers were soaking up on social media. Who can ever forget THAT press conference?! Once, the leader of the most powerful country in the world really did suggest that a laser beam directed up and into one’s hindquarters was an effective way of stopping a viral pathogen. And this grifting snake oil salesman still mesmerizes about one third of the country. That said, as Jen illustrates very well here, he was able to convince a portion of America likely larger than a third that the best thing to do to counter a world pandemic is, well, nothing.

4. about 2 months ago on Jen Sorensen

   Yes, your first point, that demographic detail would likely negate them from being considered human. Hadn’t really thought of that. Good, yet sad, point…

5. about 2 months ago on Jen Sorensen

   Okay, so let’s say that some poor guy from some violence-ridden Central American country takes off for America’s southern border, but not just for his own safety, but also for the safety of, say, 100 frozen embryos, but the ice packs in his cooler are about to give out. (He’s a frozen embryo activist and has been moved to do something desperate to prevent the murders of thousands of these each year in his country.) He makes it to the razor wire there in the Rio Grande at the Texas border. Yet, as close he is, the brave man gets caught in the wire and can’t extricate himself, his energy sapped from his long journey. He drowns. His cooler floats away. The ice packs eventually give out, and the embryos perish, their deaths being the result of a slow, horrific thawification. Right, so in this scenario, wouldn’t Gregg Abbott have to be charged with 100 counts of murders? (Of course, it wouldn’t be 101 counts simply because the actual feeling, thinking, walking, talking, breathing human wouldn’t matter here.) I’m tellin’ ya. If Democrats shared my hypothetical here, I suspect their buds across the aisle might reconsider their stance on this IVF stuff. I’m just sayin’.

6. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   Yeah, this guy would have been, I think, a great uncle of my grandfather… He left the little town that he lived in in North Carolina, traveled to Ohio, joined a Union regiment there, and fought with the North. He was never mentioned at the big family reunion that was held to celebrate the return of his brother, who’d fought for the South. And of all ironies, this get-together was held on July 4th!!! Right, no white redneck numb nut wants to learn any history that does NOT characterize all white folks below the Mason-Dixon line as redneck numb nut traitors. In America, it seems that the most gullible demographic always consists of lower and middle class blue collar whites. Back in the day, these boys fought and died so that wealthy plantation owners could keep their slaves. And today, they send checks to Donald Trump – a rich brat from up north! – so that he can keep his money, stay out of jail, keep breaking the law, and be their president. I can imagine what those plantation owners were yelling and screaming: They’re not coming after my slaves – they’re coming after you! Seems I’ve heard that orange guy whine a similar line.

7. 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Didn’t know that about Cowens. Here’s one along the same lines…. Phil Ford, the point guard that played for UNC from 73 to 77, word was that he was good enough at baseball to have played in the pros. He was a shortstop on his high school team. I too am glad that both he and Jordan went with basketball, and I’m pretty sure Dean Smith was too, right.

8. 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Thanks for this info – forgive my slowness. Piedmont… I live in Virginia, and my parents are from North Carolina, two places that use the word Piedmont a lot – they both have a Piedmont! And speaking of minor league baseball and things North Carolina, my pa went to UNC, so I’m one of those annoying Tarheel basketball fans – can’t help it. However, I never saw Jordan play basketball, college or pro. However, I did see him play baseball, for the Birmingham Barons. Way back in 1994, my in-laws lived about two hours from the city, and my wife and I were visiting them that summer. And one night, we drove over and saw the Barons play. I thought he looked much smoother playing basketball than baseball. However, I’ve read more than once that lots of folks thought he could have made a pro baseball team if he’d kept practicing and playing in the minors. Forgive my boring tale!

9. 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   And the Piedmont Phillies tee, that’s a nice touch as well. There’s gotta be a story here… Obviously, a minor league baseball squad, likely single A, no longer around, and their home field was probably somewhere in the, uh, upper midwest, say, Sheboygan! (Am I close?) It’s all definitely a Bob thing that wouldn’t be understood by many.

10. 3 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Yes, believe it or not, the idea that there’s more to border policy than just killing all of the immigrants as they’re coming across the river or the desert or the ocean is not just a lilbrul talking point. For instance, right now, there are several million business owners across America, all conservatives, terrified that Republicans are going to have their way here, and they’re terrified because they know that their businesses would dry up and blow away if they didn’t have access to an immigrant labor pool. This is especially true when it comes to agriculture, construction, and the restaurant industry. But this is where the Republican pols are now. They don’t look for information on which to base policy. They’ve got a stage on which they perform their political theater, and their main concern is putting on a show, a show they think their constituents want to see. And their director, at least for now, is always Donald Trump, as this cartoon illustrates well.