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07/25/24 01:17 PM #30433    

 

Lowell Tuttle

David.  Dechambeau from the "red" tees.   

I would take him as a scramble partner from the red tees.   The red tees at Falcon Point 4563.   

Still 50 is a really good score.   I think 220,000 is a great charity raise.

Both those guys could match that with no problem...No mention of that either.


07/25/24 01:27 PM #30434    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

I can remember reading NEWSWEEK at our home in the '60s.

It has always been a left-leaning magazine, as far as I can determine.  Nothing new to note.

WE also got TIME magazine, LADIES HOME JOURNAL, READER'S DIGEST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, HOUSE AND GARDEN, etc.  We had plenty of variety as well as THE DALLAS TIMES HERALD, RICHARDSON DAILY NEWS, etc.   My mother and I would also buy magazines continually, when we went to the grocery store or the pharmacy. etc.   Our coffee table was a bit cluttered often times!   I think it was typical of the '60s era families.


07/25/24 02:28 PM #30435    

Jim Bedwell

Don't believe anything this unreliable, lying greeter will tell you!!! hahahahahaha!!!


07/25/24 03:36 PM #30436    

Jan Alexander

By the way , if we are talking boundaries and not crossing the line,  Jim B , that was a very insensitive post about Biden.  

Poor old man , he is struggling with his health and age. He reminds me of my parents as they withered away.. So yes, that was a sad ,unempathetic , unpleasant post , if you ask me.   #31171    not Ha , ha ...nor  Yee - Haw

You might need to read, #31165 again.

 


07/25/24 03:59 PM #30437    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

I just had a flash of a memory as I was thinking about going to the swimming pool on Arapaho, when I was in the fifth and sixth grades.  I would ride my bike up to the park, then ride across the park grounds to the little wooden bridge that crossed the creek to get to the pool.  Other friends and neighbors were riding along with me.  We would swim for a while then before riding back, we would go to the candy bar machine to get candy, because we were famished from exercising and chasing around.  I would always get the ZERO candy bar, since I thought it was delicious, and because it was covered in white chocolate fudge.  Do you remember ZERO bars?  Or do you remember STRIPE chewing gum?

Why these things pop up in my mind is a mystery to me, but they are kinda fun to think about after all of these years.  Good times from the '60s!


07/25/24 05:26 PM #30438    

 

Wayne Gary

I heard Southwest Airlines is going to assigned seating.  In 1982 I am glad they had open seating.  While waiting to board I met a woman that intreaged me.  I boarded first and took a seat.  She boaeded and took a seat in the first row.  I moved to be by her.  Before the flight was over we exchanged cards.  I called her several times before she agreeded to go on a date.  Boy am I glad because a year we got married.  It was great until she passed away 10 jears later. With assigned seating we probaly would not have gotten married.


07/25/24 08:58 PM #30439    

Jim Bedwell

Jan,

I have ZERO sympathy for congenital liar, plagiarist & quintessentially evil career politician Biden, who sold out his country to that country's mortal enemies in his criminal-family influence-peddling felonies, sometimes with our tax money as leverage as in Ukraine, and he should have been prosecuted and sent to prison long ago. He was always stupid, immoral, completely uncaring about others' plights (that he often caused - e.g., 13 Gold Star Afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle families), and now he's severely demented, the worst President ever by far, with more blood on his hands than any other President.


07/25/24 10:52 PM #30440    

 

David Cordell

Lowell,

Yeah, I think the shortest par 4 was 299, which DeChambeau drove with a 3 wood. But 22 under par equates to 14 birdies and 4 eagles. Not too shabby.

By the way, you said, "Both those guys could match that with no problem...No mention of that either."

Geez, dude, raising $220,000 for charity isn't good enough for you? By the way, I think the money comes from DeChambeau.


07/26/24 07:30 AM #30441    

Jan Alexander

To all,  Good Morning !  May you find your way this day... ! laugh



AND Happy Birthday , Bob D. 


07/26/24 08:18 AM #30442    

 

Lawrence (Lance) Cantor

IN GOD WE USETA TRUST

 


 

Chuckie said:  “So now that the process has played out from the grassroots, bottom-up, ($125M in 8 days...thank you Soros!) we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris!” he said, breaking into applause by himself at the microphone.

 

“I’m clapping, you don’t have to,” 

“It’s a happy day, what can I say?”

 
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07/26/24 08:21 AM #30443    

 

Lawrence (Lance) Cantor

 

 

Mick, Tommy, and Jimbo....keep on twerkin'!

 

U2...Bob, the birthday boy!

 

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07/26/24 11:37 AM #30444    

 

Lawrence (Lance) Cantor

THAT’S GUARANTEED!

 

It's commonly said that “there are two guarantees in life: death and taxes”,                      Benjamin Franklin 1789

 


 

Jim, et al,

Well Jimbo, those 2 are truthful certainties…but with some awkward strings attached.

 

If living under corruption, we may choose in disobedience not to render to Caesar what is his…and face prison as a consequence.   

 

Worse still, if we choose in disobedience not to render unto God His Commandments, then we are guaranteed death…eternal death with the wicked!

 

Being fortunate to be living in this generation…above all generations… we as Born-Again Christrians have the privilege to walk our talk to this decaying world…that is soon guaranteed to be judged and damned to Hell.

 

This term refers to Jesus's prophecy in the New Testament (Matthew 25:32) that the sheep (that is, the compassionate), will sit on God's right hand (and find salvation).

 And the goats (the hard-hearted), will sit on the left (and be sent to damnation).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=269kJEY8wqE



 

 

Sadly Jim (et al),  in your hard-heartedness against those here, are actively guaranteeing your forfeit of God’s relational blessings of Heaven…while forfeiting any harmonious community here.

 

Short of a miracle…that’s guaranteed!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOhPNnFOJU



 

 

 

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07/26/24 12:17 PM #30445    

Jim Bedwell

Tommy,

The truth sometimes hurts, doesn't it?

Lance,

A person truly born again cannot lose his salvation; God doesn't make mistakes. "And a person's enemies will be those of his own household" Matthew 10:36 (ESV).


07/26/24 12:22 PM #30446    

 

Marty Fulton

Re:  posts 30985 & 30990 - Tommy, I do owe you an apology for my alcohol-induced comment on July 15th.

Jan was observant that it was an emotional and irrational statement that I would not normally have made.

Re: post 31127 - I see that I have been hoisted into the Punography Top-10 Most Wanted list.  AW - SHUCKS.

I could not find your post that included a great-big-long-ole-sentence with fancy words which caused me to break out my Websters' to decipher.  Y'know - longer than a Lowells' entire post.

I do agree, basically, with your take on age restrictions for law-makers.  Check it out.  Most privately owned companies 'encourage' retirement around age 55.  By age 60, they usually offer a retirement package too good to refuse.  For those who are contributing enough to the company at age 65, my congrats.  One of my former girlfriends worked at Exxon (Houston area).  She was a manager - over maybe 15 or 20 employees - and her father was the Big-Shot who was in charge of the Refineries east of Downtown.  He retired at 60 or 65, but 'counsulted' weekly into his 80's.  Not sure if he was compensated for his consultations (probably not).   The point is - not age but competency that matters.  p.s. - the father (George Crist) lived in an ordinary 3-2-2 house in Clear Lake, TX, and drove a late-model Buick.  Total Class.  And he was a decent golfer who insisted on walking the course, usually every day.


07/26/24 02:00 PM #30447    

Jan Alexander

Marty , my dear... One thing to know, we have all been in your shoes...  and also ONE doesn't even have to even be inebriated to get hot under the collar... It has happened to the best of us , especially when it comes to POLITICS! BUT , it doesn't hurt to try to be calm and polite.... laugh.... 

Here is an example of how we feel sometimes.......



 

07/26/24 03:41 PM #30448    

Gil Ohlen

Trump is a self proclamed Victim & Victims are not Leaders.He will fade away...


07/26/24 04:50 PM #30449    

Jim Bedwell

Now we're hearing from the corrupt legacy media that Kamala is misunderstood - she's really a moderate!?!?!?!?! Made my weekend with all my belly laughing on that!


07/26/24 09:20 PM #30450    

Jim Bedwell

First we heard that the border was secure and no problem.

Then we heard that there was a border problem but the Republicans were blocking legislation to solve it.

Now we hear that Kamala didn't have anything to do with the border (ironically this 1st part is actually true due to her malfeasance) & wasn't the "border czar" like Republicans are now saying.

Too bad that on May 24, 2023 (so 2 years later), the Congressional Record said that "On May 24, 2021 when President Biden made Kamala Harris the BORDER CZAR..................."

See a pattern here? As in LIE, LIE, LIE?


07/26/24 09:31 PM #30451    

Jim Bedwell

Gil,

Trump is a literal shooting victim and if he hadn't turned his head to the right and then cocked it to the left, he would today be a literal homicide victim.

Gandhi was definitely a leader in India and also a literal homicide victim. Dr. Martin Luther King was a great leader and a literal homicide victim (and martyr in my opinion). RFK Sr. was also a leader and a literal homicide victim. Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was a literal shooting victim, almost losing his life, and has been a leading Republican for years.


07/26/24 09:55 PM #30452    

 

Ron Knight

I have tried to stay out of ALL political and religious debates and confrontations on this site. BUT, I am compelled to express my deepest true opinions of this upcoming election. Those of you closest to me know that my own attorney daughter in Atlanta, GA is a firm Left Winger. I know Tommy you know that as you have engaged communications with her. And I have encoraged that. I sent her a recent email asking her that if Kamala Harris is confirmed who would she speculate as the VP to Harris. To this date I have not heard a word.

My daughter, as I ,can be very calculated in any response on such a subject. I love that about my daughter. I feel I have taught her well. However, there are issues that the Democrats are trying now to cover. The issue that Kamala Harris was NEVER the "Border Czar" may have some truth but ONLY by semantics. In March of 2021 Joe Biden asked her to be taking care of all issues concerning the southern borders. She actually went to El Paso and was interviewed as quote being in charge of the border. She did not deny that. 11.5 M have illegally crossed our borders since Joe Biden came in power. Kamala is COMPLETELY tied at the hip with Biden on that.

I ask all of our hard leftist do they believe that Kamala Harris will be an effective leader in Foreign Policy?  It seems to me it started rather badly not showing up for Benjamin Netanyahu's Congressional address. And leaving the Prime Minister with a very uneasy feeling that she may even be backing Palestine, which would ALSO mean backing HAMAS!!! 

I applaud Senators Cruz, Hawley and Kennedy for their constant defense of our democratic freedoms and calling out radicals like Kamala Harris,who by the way is even more left than Bernie Sanders!! 

I am sorry to Tommy, Jan, Sandra and Hollis to feel so impelled to post this. However, I love this country and I want to save us from a take over from countrys like China, Russia, etc... We are the weakest currently we have ever been since President Jimmy Carter. The world is taking notice. WE need strength in the Whitehouse. Not some far left liberal from San Francisco.

Regards to all and no slam against any of you. I am a Patriot and love this country and want the best for all.


07/26/24 10:56 PM #30453    

 

Ron Knight

And another thing that infuriates me is DEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would suggest that DEI is fine IF you add one more letter - Q!!! being QUALIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. A prime example is Kim Cheatle former head of the Secret Service. What a disgrace  to America. Not only the Republicans, BUT also the Democrats grilled her. Have you ever seen such a clueless person derelect of her duty?


07/27/24 12:02 AM #30454    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Ron,

I think the Republicans who read your posts above, are in complete agreement.

The bottom line is that we GENUINELY HOPE AND PRAY that we can still, possibly save our country from the headwinds we know are coming our way, but with a leader like Bernie Sanders in a skirt, we will not be able to survive, most likely; will not survive to have the country we have now.  We might survive with a completely changed and controlled country, as in the way the Russian and Chinese people are controlled, but we will not have the freedoms we now have.  Many fine minds of scholars, have said the same.

I have a daughter much like yours, but she is maybe a little less of a lefty.  She frustrates me, mainly because I can't get through to her that the freedoms she now enjoys, and the comforts she now enjoys, will be changed, if a Socialist/Marxist leader takes over.  She is HEAVILY influenced by her fellow associates at work, and is stubborn, as she has always been, in not wanting to listen to her parents, who she considers, "old fashioned, and not WOKE enough, and not 'with it enough.' "

I constantly worry about her and her child.  My son is a total opposite of her.  I don't worry about him.  I've told him that I think at some juncture, he will probably have to help her in her life.

To me, it seems like she is kind of bohemian in her thought processes.  She just lives to be happy and enjoy whatever comes......which is okay, to a point.  But there are forces at work in the world that take advantage of those who are glib and unaware, in my opinion.  I think it's important to be mindful of what's going on at all times.  At some point we all must grow up.  We must take responsibility and direct our responsibilities toward what is best for our country, and what we want our country to have as its principles.  Otherwise, we will lose it (the country.)   And......we lose freedom.  With Socialism & Marxism, those in control want you/us to take what is given BY THEM, with no opposition allowed, and what is dished out, is dished out to everyone equally and with a mediocre quality, or less.   Individualism goes in the dust pan.  Freedom of choices in life go extinct.  Religions also generally go extinct, since they are considered unimportant and too competitive in their tenets' directives with the goals of the elites/controllers, the goals they dish out to us as they marvel at how malleable we are.


07/27/24 11:20 AM #30455    

Jan Alexander

Just hav tawink




07/27/24 11:33 AM #30456    

 

Ron Knight

Janalu

Your daughter as mine has the right to believe how she wants and to vote how she wants. That's the beauty of our democracy. And as a parent it is where unconditional love comes in. We do the best we can in raising them and having them grow into confident mature adults. But as parents we never stop caring and always want the best for them. 


07/27/24 11:40 AM #30457    

 

Lowell Tuttle

I know where we are as far as selecting candidates and running mates by party...and it's basically a two party system...with all it's flaws.

Wayne made a point a couple of weeks ago about how we didn't have a President from 1776 to 1788/89 when there was somewhat of an election of George Washington being unanimously selected by an electoral vote.

Finally, in 1796, there was a real election with parties and candidates...and John Adams was elected.

In those years there were Party's, but there were a lot of candidates for President.   The candidate with the second most votes was Vice President and there were many candidates from the same party.   Adams was a Federalist and got 71 electoral votes, Jefferson a Democrat-Republican got 68, Pinknay as a Federalist got 59, and Burr a Democrat-Republican got 30...A bunch more finished with a few...

I was just wondering what that would be like now.   Multiple candidates running with the same party all the way through November, no ULTIMATE party candidate...Votes split all over the place...VP to second...

They may have had it all right at that time...It would somewhat solve the divisive two party singular choice shortcomings we have now...and it would set up future candidates for consideration...

Oh well...just spinning...

Of course, We had only just unleashed the power of the Presidency on our culture at that time...and only about 20% of the voter population took part in 1796.   From what I can gather, there are no records of the Presidential "popular" vote in 1796.   

I did find a story about women and slaves/blacks/recent immigrants being able to vote in New Jersey from the date of it's Constitution until 1807 when women and any person with less than 50 lbs of assets voting rights were stripped.   I did not know that women could ever vote before sufferage...The story behind the people of New Jersey's reasons for that is fascinating...How people thought of things back then...very interesting.

https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/when-women-lost-the-vote-a-revolutionary-story/pages/how-did-women-lose-the-vote-the-backlash


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