JoeWeber

No, the Global, Elite, Border Wall Hating Cartel is not saying that Climate Change will kill us all. We are actually happy that we'll all be dead from other causes before the worst effects of a warming planet make life on our pale blue dot less tenable. Now I won't lie, I think most of us would be happy if it could be arranged that all of the chowder heads went first. But I digress, the thing is that we have already had a more active than "normal" Atlantic Hurricane season and warming sea temperatures have caused NOAA to upgrade their forecast to more activity. Will it happen? Got me, but I wouldn't bet against it. In truth you'd need to be a complete ninny to not notice that hot, ugly, weather is happening mostly everywhere. Yes, Brent will be along with a graph he doesn't understand to refute the point but if you don't believe it just step outside. Now, you'll forgive me for being a little giggle and agog as I enjoy the world going to hell but here in Oregon, where no one believed it was safe to cross the border without a stash of umbrellas and a few bath towels not too long ago, we are now the nations comfy banana belt of easy sunshine, with no humidity, and pleasant light winds daily. Add to that excellent wine, great craft beers and, for those so disposed, weed stores in numbers like auto part stores in Georgia. The point being that one mans melted glacier that ruined his life will be another mans benefit at least in our meaningless time frames.

Crazy. So once we passed the Slim King golden age of communication, a time when just yelling at your neighbor over the fence constituted social media, and found a way to let folks know that tornadoes and hurricanes and floods and locust explosions and zombie attacks were coming deaths went down. Damn, who could have guessed?

Without mutations there would be no genetic variation. I'll leave you to sing, dance or skeptical think about why that would be bad.

Well, this might cheer you up. Jack Smith is requesting trial on January 2 and say's the government will need only 4-6 weeks to present their case. gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.23.0_1.pdf

Maybe we should just ditch sports as an important human endeavor and switch to board games. Problem solved.@

Yep, and it's not owing to fewer voters identifying as R or leaning R according to Gallup: https://news.gallup.com/poll/467897/party-preferences-evenly-split-2022-shift-gop.aspx They've actually gained on the D's while the number of voters identifying as Independent is falling. So get ready for living in an armed autocracy and a lot more Jesus.

So much stuff that we did in the old days and I miss it all. But leaving it all behind was what we needed to do to advance the sport and I do not regret that at all.

I used to bring 2 182's and 8 jumpers plus me to Dave's Memorial Day deal at Snohomish. The funnest jumps were the 5 airplane 10 ways, 2 from each airplane with a second pass of 5 airplanes in formation in the shit. Sometimes we did it from 6-8K half blind. Big fun before we had any sense.

OMG, are you saying that God might look like Dav3e Ruckert?

Please, pretty please, and please again Judge Cannon, please say yes.

Can someone please wake me when it's over?

Vicarious pleasure?

Seems like you can't even swing a false assumption without hitting a victim blamer these days. I wonder why?

I would expect so.

I'm still totally backed up on seeing all of the Shrek movies and one or two of the polka dotted fish flicks. I need to get caught up, for sure.

Amen.

The price of quality pastoral care is going up and up, apparently.

Your wife has done quite well for you. Congratulations.

Before I go to my rest, please also think about the fact that it's not about Christian religionists but about Christians versus Muslims versus "other" Muslims. Just like here in America where Christians have grievances against each other but that they are lately not acting on with deadly violence.

Yeppers, just as ordered. To all of our clever and smart Republicans who post here, are you not yet ashamed enough to change party affiliation? No? Well then please know that we who look at you will never consider you to be serious: just selfish and not patriotic.

Fine, then read about it. But to be brutally clear I think you know exactly what I am discussing and are just pretending to not know.

Trump lawyer John Lauro said Thursday that his client asked Mike Pence to "pause the voting" during the 2020 election. Alrighty then, I guess my client actually did interfere withe the peaceful transfer of power and conspire to deprive millions of Americans with their constitutional right to vote just as described in the indictment. Well that sucks, especially the part where I'm going to get thrown off the case, but at least I was smart enough to get my fees upfront.

Okay, where is the dividing line between personal responsibilities and religious belief? Do the muslims making threats against a small democracy have any personal responsibilities, too?

So you think that a small democracy should pretzel twist their own free speech freedoms, with unknown consequences to other free speech freedoms, to accommodate the religious sensibilities of Muslims?

Good catch. As long as you are here and on offer, what is your opinion on the Swedish Quran burning free speech issue?