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Nope. Those masks were no more useful than tin foil hats helping out crazy people defend against space rays. Your point is refuted.

The US of A. The end of black enslavement in America. The removal of the wehrmacht from Western and Eastern Europe. I know those things are only about 250, 160, and 80 years old so it is kind of early to tell if they will last. But each was gotten when the good guys wielded not only the barrels of guns but also the high velocity projectiles emanating from the ends of those barrels. Asking the British parliament and monarchy, asking the slaveholders, and asking the wehrmacht to see the light was spectacularly unsuccessful. Maybe no one said the magic word. Please.

Here are the masks my colleagues and I wore every day. The last picture is the helmet my mask attached to and other gear I wore every day. I no longer have my mask from 35 years ago as I gave it to the aviator in picture 3 who is my son. Tough enough for you, RL?

O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, ⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave? The question now has changed from the original. No longer is the fact of the waving in question as it was when Key wrote the lyrics. Whether we remain in the land of the free and the home of the brave is now the pertinent part of the question. I, personally, felt distinctly unfree and cowardly wearing that idiotic, inane, and ridiculous mask on flights in 2021 for just one example.

The National Anthem is not about the military. I am very uncomfortable with the idea that the National Anthem is about them. By the way, I am retired military so maybe I should say us. The National Anthem is about the United States of America. Whenever I am announcing at an event and the script says anything like " . . . rise as we play . . . to honor those who fought and died . . . " I do not like it. Memorial Day is for that purpose. The National Anthem is a time for us to rise and to acknowledge and honor what brings us together. And, maybe to ponder whether the second question in the lyrics is still true. But it is NOT to honor the military. The military is here for and about the country. Not the other way around. IMHO

Rapinoe's gay? Did not know. Do not care. I do not care whose peepee she wants to play with. My beef with her is her. Not her lovers.

Another genius comments on the climate. Sunny Hostin from The View: HOSTIN: “. . . We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake . . . Also, I learned that the cica-ah-das are coming. . . . All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.” I really resent that someone like this gets to vote and thereby cancel the vote of people who really know things. SUVs and cow farts caused the eclipse. And it's racist. And her slave owning forefathers can attest to that.

Now scientists say wearing JEANS is bad for the environment: Nope. No hoax here. It's gotta be the science. Jeans cause earthquakes. And eclipses.

I used to think that until Rapinoe and the US women's soccer team totally trashed all good will that had been built up by their predecessors and betters over a couple decades. So, if a wrestler wearing our colors chooses an international stage to exercise first amendment rights (rather than expressing them by not competing for the USA) and freely expresses his/her disdain for me and this country then, like the women's soccer team, I have no time for them and will support whomever is playing/wrestling against them. Even Ruskies, Iranians, or defectors. Now, on to a less incendiary take on the point: I can root for one of the defectors as my back-up favorite until the point of a head to head matchup with the USA wrestler because I am sure that none of our wrestlers are idiot enough to stage such a protest at such a venue.

First we had earthquake cooling. Then earthquake warming. Then earthquake change and earthquake crises. We simply need a global day of transquake visibility and all will be OK. If Barney the T-Rex had not driven his Hemi-engined SUV and instead used windmills to power a Tesla then Yellowstone never would have quaked then volcanoed and the world would be a better place.

The cost of owning a medium valued house has doubled since 2021. Maybe this is another reason for no "atta boy" cheers. And also, maybe, why capital gains taxes have cratered. People are hoarding assets which represent real value and borrowing money which will surely be devalued soon thereby resulting in Biden's tax cut. The following article points out the consequences with respect to median housing costs vs median household income: ttps://jewishworldreview.com/0424/antoni040524.php The Fed has a target of 2% inflation. This is a core problem. 0% inflation should be the target. A unit of work today is worth the same for the rest of my life. If I spend 7 units of my work every day and save 1 unit of my work that saved work value (money) should have the same value when I want to spend it 50 years later. 2% inflation target results in my $1.00 saved at age 20 is worth $0.37 when I am 70 and need to use it. That is official government goal and policy. The actual numbers are far worse. $1.00 saved in 1974 is worth $0.16 today. We targeted 2% but achieved an average of 3.75%. How about targeting 0% and then if we miss the goal we average about 1.75%?

Warp Speed was a master stroke of manipulating Trump. Power mixed with ego which simultaneously lacks principles or wisdom results in the biggest manmade disaster (COVID response, lockdowns, school closures, medical experiments perpetrated on mankind, vexxination passports, etc.) ever outside of war.

Yet government got bigger, the value of our collective savings accounts decreased, we can't buy as much stuff, and our great grandchildren are burdened with the largest debt in the history of the world due to spending out of all proportion to any actual government function or valid authority to do. No "atta boy" for that. Redneck wingers, and even soccer moms, know economics better than Biden & the Swamp People and their carnival barkers shilling for them in the leftie (i.e. 90 % of all) media.

The physics claims are outright fraudulent also. On both ends of the hoax - that the earth is about to cease existing and that their "solutions" are the only salvation. Remember, they are lying only to the people who want to believe them. They know that people who are numerate, logical, and have a grasp of physics principles see through the fraud. However, the mix of do-gooderism (say-gooders), mob mentality, and social pressure, and governmental force can overcome facts . . . up to the point where reality slaps the idiots in the face.

Finding a vulnerable Indonesian trans sex worker just does not seem as edgy and "dirty" as it once did. I don't think global warming is the problem. I think it is more of a "ho hum, transes here, transes there, transes everywhere, so now who cares?" mentality.

Because your great great grandparent once picked a banana in a forest without asking in what eventually became some latin american country you are responsible. Or it might have been Kamela Harris' or Barry O's ancestors picking produce without license and enslaving people. Whatever. Stop whining you oppressing straight, white, conservative, male. Keep paying taxes, get ready to pay reparations. Sheesh. Crybaby.

Is it a hoax if you are too stupid to understand physics, facts, relative risks, basic logic, that others have different priorities, etc? If you identify that the earth is about to stop existing due to all human economic activity since Prometheus gave humans the knowledge to harness fire then it is not a hoax. It is their truth. Wrong but "true". Which is possible in their cult world. Is it any wonder that the correlation between being a climateer and the belief that men menstruate is very close to 1? WKN probably can give us the R-value.

Men are better are womaning than women are, apparently. Look at all the woman of the year awards men are winning. Must be easy to be a woman if any ole man can do it.

It would be great if the church of government limited itself to 10% of my toil. Working until nearly noon every day for the church of government is getting very old very fast.

Illegal aliens are the ultimate squatters. And some of our colleagues on this site feel Americans deserve illegal alien squatters amongst us because of . . . you know . . . come on, man . . . the thing. So hundreds of years ago someone's grandmother looked sidelong at someone else's grandmother 3 continents away so these peeps today get to take your house. It's only fair.

Research complete. And accurate. Revenue (i.e. tax dollars) went up on a real basis over 16%. Spending, NOT TAX REVENUE was, is, and always will be the problem with our deficit spending. Military spending did not go up enough to use up all of that $750 billion increase in revenue\ during the Bush years. In fact (research about to be put forth) military spending went up $180 billion from 2002 until 2008. That left $570 billion ADDITIONAL DOLLARS in 2008 above and beyond all of the federal spending in 2002 for paying off national debt. Remember that in each year the revenue increase exceeded the military budget increase therefore we had the opportunity to pay off over a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) of debt during the Bush years with the additional tax revenue received. But, no, we spent it on stupid things So if your argument is that during Bush's presidency we expanded our non-essential government spending beyond any imaginable rational purpose, reason, or need then we are in agreement. But taxes were not cut. By the way, please realize that Bush was not a conservative in thought or deed. He was mostly a country club family scion pretty boy with no real conservative governing principles but he made donors comfortable.

No. Water buffalo is not a race.

Taxes went up. More dollars to the treasury. No tax cut happened. You can't buy things with rates. Only dollars buy things. Dollars up therefore taxes up. Period.

Wrong. 2002 (first year any Bush proposals could have been enacted as he was inaugurated Jan 2021) fed tax revenue = $1.85 trillion 2008 tax revenue = $2.52 trillion. 36.2% increasae!! Inflation over the same time was 19.7% so revenue was up 16.5% on a real-dollar basis. NO TAX CUT HAPPENED. You are misinformed.