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Bob Davidson

Lowell Tuttle

Face it Bob, your parents and most RHSer's parents voted for Nixon.

My folks had just moved from Washington DC in January of 1960.   They were up front an close to that beard shadow guy...They were probably the only Richardsonions who voted for JFK and LBJ...

Well, there was that Dixiecrat straight ticket plan going on though.  Even Connally was a democrat back then.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Bob D.,

I mentioned that I like to listen to Dennis Prager's YouTube speeches to college campuses and other offerings he has, so one in particular I heard recently, was a speech he gave to Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.  He made a point of asking the question he frequently asks college students, which was: "Do you think that people are basically good?"  He said that when he asks that, almost  ALL students answer "Yes."  But then he goes into his reasoning of why the answer is actually "No," as his studies have revealed to him.  He has taught numerous classes in several different topic areas, all of them relating to man's journey through life.

It's a good YouTube speech to hear, I think.  All folks should hear what he says and think about it for a while, in my opinion.  He is a man who has traveled to 130 different countries and has seen so many eye-opening actions from people who are not at all from a Judeo-Christian-based society.  He has learned an awful lot of what mankind has dealt to all people around them, throughout the ages. 

One little note I noticed:

Prager mentions in his speech that Anne Frank wrote in her diary that she believed that in spite of everything happening in her world view, she still felt man was basically good.  She was, as I recall, about 13 years old when she said those words, or words to that effect, but Prager thought she was about 16 years old.  My memory tells me she was younger and quite naive about much of the world, which he also noted as he spoke.

Steve Keene

Bob  D.

I got my second Pfizer Covid-19 shot yesterday afternoon.  I think I was wearing the only tee shirt at Red Bird Mall that said "Orange Male Guys! Matter and Much's" Shirt.   Of course, I abbreviated that so my shirt looked like it said "OMG! M & M'S!"

Wayne Gary

Steve,

It seems we are about 2 weeks from being able to share a bottle of bubbly grape juice.

Jerry May

Steve, I know all are different, but I've heard of a variety of reactions to the 2nd Moderna shot which I received 10 days ago. 

Friends have told me they had few reactions........with the (sore arm) of course being primary. Most said it went as expected.

My first was not bad.......just the arm and general malaise. (nothing unexpected)

The 2nd shot was much more like a bad flu for almost 2 days!. I had driven myself down there, and waited a little less than two hours this time (not bad) I did not experience much in the 15 minutes they have you wait.

But as soon as I got out of my car here at home, I had to drag myself out of the car, and negotiate the stairs which felt like a marathon!

I went to bed.......took a nap, and woke up feeling rough. I was running 101 temp which is high for me, since my usual is 97.5. 

All of the feelings one gets from the flu were at full throttle by the next morning. I did not go to the office.

Matter-of-fact I slept much of the entire day. By the next day, my aches, pains and fever had subsided and I felt some better. 

The next morning I woke up feeling as if I had not been sick save some weakness......which was tolerable.

By mid-afternoon I was fine! More than fine actually, because the shots were now history!

Lowell Tuttle

I posted this cartoon elsewhere, but I know it would be better apreciated here...This is funny to me even.

Wayne Gary

Jerry,

I went to my range last week and picked up 85 9mm cases so I can supply them to your friend if he can reload them for me.  I shot 22lr and 5.56 last week since I have plenty of them.

Marty Fulton

Lowell, excellent post!  Andrew Cuomo is a mass murderer, plain and simple.  As far as his accusers of sexual misconduct, why did you wait 20 years to come forward?  Oh wait, it's the 21st Century....

Wayne Gary

Lowell,

I heard Cuomo use the same old thing the Biden and other men say when they get called "I never new what I was doing was wrong" .  Cuomo had an assistant take the training and sign for him.  For over 30 years companies have been doing training dealing with 'sexual harassment".

Wayne Gary

I just saw this classic dance rutene with Gene Kelly

Wayne Gary

Just found this song with WWII footage.

Bob Davidson

Lowell -- I don't think the JFK image has anything to do with our parents -- any more that the fact that most of our grandparents were probably FDR supporters.  When I was young, immature, and ignorant I was a Democrat, but I grew up and the Dem party changed "bigly."  Reagan said the Dem party left him, not the other way around; in my case I used to admire some Dems and still don't like a lot of Pubs, but they're the best we have. 

"Ron"/Tommy/"Sue"/whoever-troll -- I wasn't complaining about not being able to take my image off the screen (I like the opportunity to see how I'm presenting myself), but rather joking a bit about feeling old to people who share that characteristic and might possilby appreciate the humor.  That you wouldn't have a hint about that is a pretty good indicator that you lack a sense of humor -- like other sociopaths.

Also, I don't see myself as particularly "Republican" -- I generally vote for them because they are the closest thing we have to a party of limited government.  Since I don't claim the name of the party, I am certainly not a RINO.  To the people for whom the term means anything, "RINO" refers to people who say they are Repbulicans but support the big-government agenda of the Swamp.  Juvenile name-calling demeans you, not the person you are trying to insult.

Steve -- the shirt made me smile.

Marty Fulton

Here is a website (just a couple screen shots that are 'live updates') that shows the US National Debt.  It also has many other 'running statistics', such as, # of Medicare Enrollees AND # of Medicaid Recipients.  Care to guess which one is higher?  U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time (usdebtclock.org)  FYI, it passed $28T last week.  ....Will be interesting when the new stimulus package 'hits' the Debt Clock... 

Lowell Tuttle

all over the place today...but, here...something that can unite us.  Supposedly this is the Youtube link to the https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardsonISDVideo    RHS Eagles HS boys basketball top four semi finals game with Duncanville tonight at 7

Ron Knight

To All - The Covid Relief Bill

Looks as if the $1.9 Trillion package is going to pass the House as in total as it sped through the Senate. Even Liz Cheney thought it could have been scaled down and still have had a similar effect. Maybe she should have thought about that before she cast her vote in November. I understand the millions out of work and small business owners struggling or going under as well. And on many levels this could have been a more bi-partisan relief package. This is historic and will have so much long term effects on our children, grand children and great grand children. Indeed, there's nothing like it since President Roosevelt passed legislation for The Great Depression.

Thanks China for the Corona Virus. If you were wanting to bring down a great country as our's without firing a single shot in warfare, you've done a helluva job. But wait, who allowed outsourcing so many of our jobs to third world countries? I think that was our own U.S. Corporations. It was called "outsourching" as a means to reduce labor costs in the U.S. by eliminating our own lower paying jobs at home to even lower paying jobs outside our borders. And how many of those U.S. jobs went to China?  Countless!!!! In business terms to U.S. Corporations, it was a direct result to a more profitable bottom line for their share holders.  After years of corporate outsourching, we've eroded the middle and lower class of our nation's employed. Add a Corona Virus pandemic on top of this and you get to where we are today.

I"ve spent many years - over 4 decades going back to school to keep learning about business, finance and finally international finance. I was very curious about "outsourching" and what it could could mean to our country and the world as a whole. Certainly it would shrink the world as we knew it when we were in grade school - in that it would bring our world together much more closely than our parents knew. Technology also shrunk our world as well. With the shrunken world and the ability to be so mobile, the virus passed among us. China is poised to overtake us as the world's #1 economy, thanks to us.

We are now stuck with the tab and it looks as if $1.9 Trillion is what it's going to take this week.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Good post, Ron K., although I think a whole lot of the 'pork' in the massive bill could have been eliminated, but since the Progressives and radicals have taken over the Dem Party, it was predictable.

I think it is peculiar that the children's movie, "Dumbo," was created in the early '40's' by Disney, and the flim "Peter Pan" was also created by Disney in the 50's, yet now, because of 'political correctness,' Disney is saying that the two films are offensive to certain folks and they are removing them from their favored selections.

Isn't it interesting how the focus of 'race' has become so all important to American citizens recently, when just a few years ago no one took much notice at all towards the issue, (mainly because of all the civil rights laws enacted during the LBJ years) & as just a few years ago, Americans were influenced by Martin Luther King's vision of an America that DID NOT focus on race, but focused instead on the content of character possessed by all of its people as our best goal to seek.

Why are we now ignoring Dr. King's vision, especially so, the Biden administration?  Biden speaks constantly of racial differences, emphasizing equity rather than equality, and tells us of just how many different races he has placed in his administration, as if that is his MAIN FOCUS when pulling together his staff.

WTH?     (H=heck)

Steve Keene

Wayne,

About your post #21753. I have had a long talk with Tommy and I think we can discuss the psychology of what makes who we are from a Freudian perspective.  A glass of bubbly would be the perfect way to release our inhibitions so that  I can reveal my theory about such matters.  I believe that Tommy must have been molested as a child by a Methodist minister.  Therefore, he has turned away from the Methodist faith. I was molested by a poor urban type who was a scoutmaster. who went to school at A & M. Therefore I hate the Aggies, city boys and my accomplishment of achieving Eagle Scout is a little overblown. Unless I missed my bet, you were molested by your spelling teacher.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Ron Stocklas,

What are you saying about Tommy Thomas?  You don't like him?  Why not?

Tommy is the favorite jokester of Richardson!  Most everyone there thinks he is hysterical and is ready for primetime employment at CNN or at "THE ATLANTIC'S" expanding humor division, which is rather tiny at the moment, but appears to be adjusting for a new twist in its efforts to offer a special tweak for the Spring season.

Tommy could fit right in as part of their staff and be an overnight sensation to readers, I'm sure.  He has the perfect balance of superior educational rank to appeal to the elitist snobs, and he elicits dry humor with snark at times, plus he offers reminiscent high school sniggering and guffawing, experience he gleaned from mastering the status of being the official class clown of '69!

He's quite a prankster too, dabbling in reunion hoaxes, causing law enforcement chaos with weapons rumors.(Some think he is a blockhead menace.)

His humor can be annoyingly disgusting, at times, but he delights in that, methinks...

Jerry May

Lowell, Here's one we havent played in a long time.......

Lowell Tuttle

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Lowell Tuttle

Like listening to far out far off radio stations?

Pam Taylor (Russell) posted this site and I have been exploring.   It is very cool.

http://radio.garden/visit/spring-tx/8Nnby6Q0

Bob Davidson

Ron - Tommy Sue - troll:

A couple of things:

I believe you are wrong about Tommy being hated by his classmates.  Although he says he finds the terms "liberal" and "leftist" to be abusive when applied to him, he reacts to disagreement with the typical weapons of liberals and leftists:  abuse, invective, name-calling, and bullying.  No one likes to receive such treatment and people have objected, but most of us, I think, are like me:  I remember Tommy fondly from high school and college as a quick-witted, likeable, funny guy I enjoyed knowing and the fondness has lingered.  His political nuttiness and the problems with his ex-close friend Cordell aside, I can't imagine hating him or anyone else I know on this board hating him.

As far as your poseur identity goes, you need to do a little more research about how to pretend to be a conservative and/or Republican.  As we conservatives say often, we know how you all think while you have no clue about us.  Some examples:

The way you use RINO.  Only a befuddled liberal/progressive would think it is a general term of abuse for Republicans.

"Narcissistic" is a liberal's insult word.  It is one of the memes you people constantly use to describe us and doesn't have much meaning to us, other than you dislike us and are being ugly.  My divorce clients almost all describe their soon to be ex-spouses that way -- because they hear it constantly on the drive-by media.  It used to be undiagnosed bipolar.

I suggest you devote a bit of your top 1% mental acuity to learning how conservatives and Pubbies think.  A good start would be to spend a week watching some of the Fox opinion shows.  Hannity is good basic, no nuance mainstream conventional conservative thinking.  Tucker Carlson is a former CNN and PBS contributor who is the most interesting mainstream conservative on TV now.  He's very nuanced and a bit difficult for a liberal to understand, I would guess.  Then try The Five with Greg Gutfield, a libertarian leaning conservative (like me) who started out very sceptical of Trump and came to admire him, Dana Perino (an establishment Republican with totally conventional Washington Pub opinions), Jesse Waters (a funny, slightly quirky conservative), Juan Williams (a much brighter than most liberal who presents the Dem talking points of the day -- so you won't forget them), and a fifth rotating host.  You can compare what they think and how they express themselves with Juan and maybe catch on how to present yourself as an actual Trump supporter.  Mark Levin is another Fox host from whom you could learn how we think.

As an aside:  where did you choose your pen name?  My dad had an actuary friend with the last name you use, but I can't imagine you knowing him, but maybe his family.

Wayne Gary

Steve,

It's more fun talking about guns and shooting things (targets, cans, tanerite etc.) Last week I was feeling aggressive and went out and killed several defenceless paper targets.. If you watch the movie "36 Hours" with James Garner you can see where as a result of James being attacked by a paper map and the inflicted injuries saves his life.

Holly Hobby

Get your headshots ready.  The modeling industry is booming for boomers.

Nope.  Not leaving investigative journalism/oppo research.  Not with exponentially increasing corruption/fraud among our nation’s most trusted hospital systems.  Not a chance.   

Call it schadenfreude. Call it anything you want. There’s just something about seeing a major health care system held accountable; in the process, God willing,  helping people/patients I’ve never met and never will.  

But.  Upon (allegedly) “catching the eye” of a fashion brand representative came the chance to do something fun, I thought “why not?”  Maybe a job here and there, a break between hard-hitting investigative cases. 

Finally, retailers are getting it.  Our generation might be up there in age. But we’re also the first generation to rebrand aging.  

Seriously. Get your headshots ready. Who knows, one of us could end up on the cover of AARP;  (better than making the cover of Cat Fancy or Field and Stream). 

https://www.globalwellnesssummit.com/2020-global-wellness-trends/aging-rebranded/

Wayne Gary

Holly

Good to see you posting on the forum.  Looking Good.

Don't mind Lance.