James Riley

I have not. All my understanding is very dated. A lot of Indians had no treaty or, it could be argued, they breached first. But there is a lot out the...

It continues because not vaxxed, not masked, not boostered, not locked-down. It would be long-gone if only masked and distanced. But no. Too many free...

I wish! Decades ago I found they started putting pieces of paper in the box, with links to a web sites for some weird digital shit. :rage:

So far, coffee. I'm about to go have a bowl of cold cereal. You?

As I remember it, "specific performance" is a common law legal principle in equity. It requires that you have parties. One party could be an Indian Tr...

No one appointed them as the 4th estate gate-keepers. They must earn credibility before truth will spend time with them. Truth will need to vet the si...

Sounds good to me. But if it's in a treaty, then don't fall for the "fair compensation" BS. Just give them back the land. It's called "specific perfor...

Well, like I said, every group has there 10%, but in general: I'm man enough to turn over the reigns and step back. It's time for a change, as far as ...

Experience, yes. Especially the experience of being human, male, straight, and white. P.S. Add value for being American and Republican.

:up: Agreed.

That's the answer you deserve. :cool:

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We're talking about it. So there's that.

P.S. As a little background, I'm always giving NOS shit about a lack of alternatives. We just have to suck it up whether we like it or not. But I want...

I found these comments to sound in blame: Maybe I shouldn't have said "blame." Again, while I could dissect that (rocket scientists are still pollutin...

I've often made the argument against NOS and libertarians that there is no hypocrisy in doing X if to not do X actually works at cross-purposes to the...

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That's the other thing about politics: She's forced to stand on her own. And I guess that is as it should be. And I think she can do it. She's tough. ...

I have to be careful here, because that is exactly how I feel about guns. So yes, maybe the manufacturer is not liable for how his product is used. Bu...

I do too. I just hope the years in contact with politicians doesn't turn her into one. Bernie seems to have been *relatively* human, so it can be done...

I was thinking more of a situation where they are both on stage and Crenshaw (or anyone, really) faces Trump, looks him in the eye and says "You are a...

I liked when he pushed back against smarmy "journalists" playing "gotcha." But once the table manners return, it's time to settle down and act like ad...

I might be able to do that! :smile:

My hope is with the younger generation and women. Sure, they have their 10%, but generally they are better than what's been the dominant paradigm.

Liz Cheney gave her finger to the devil. As Trump and those who like him, yes. As one wag said some time ago: "The reason people like Trump is because...

I think a man of violence is the type they need. Bullies tend to stand down when called out. You'd think that former SEAL with the eye patch would sta...

I've had some oblique experience with that, but mostly when I was younger. Man, what a trip! I want to grab that and hold on, but my brain will even f...

:up: Agreed. Makes you wonder if there is something in the water. I can't imagine being a Holocaust survivor listening to all these equations. :roll:

Gravity? :grin:

:100: Muscle memory can be a good thing. :up: Shortly after posting my last I came across a T.V. reference about a pending show on Sequoya and it used...

P.S. A distinction can be found here: There was some guy who shot up a bunch of Republican legislators while they were playing a game of baseball. I'm...

The double standard is there. But I'm also seeing this: https://scontent-hou1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/258764635_1274027313102306_6257915448044934...

Where I think animals live in the now, some might say living in the now is to be unconscious. I tent to think living in the now is a state of super-co...

:up: It would be nice if more effort was put in to a laughter that would get both sides rolling on the floor. I don't know if that can even be done an...

Well, it has you in here raising a ruckus. LOL! Anyway, we all know how the left will jump on the bandwagon with the right, all to burn their own down...

Anime meme, or reality T.V. host, or a plastic head held by a known comedian. I think you parse the hair too thin. Besides, it's not the left looking ...

You can't fix stupid. Well, Covid can. Maybe a bullet. But the left doesn't like guns and they go high when the right goes low. Unless they use a cart...

Get back to me when the left storms the capital, or starts taking over state houses with their M-Forgeries, or threatening their own with violence for...

They'd probably do what the Republicans did and get their panties all up in a knot. :rofl: The point here is, the Right has the thinnest skin in the g...

Yeah, ask Kathy Griffin. :roll: Or Devin Nunes suing cartoon cow.

I know, right? I mean people have meltdowns over Dr. Seuss and Big Bird. What's up with that? (Que my own whataboutism. :wink: Karma.)

Edited to delete comm with a party. Here is my read on it: The "right" will have created a monster. It will have awoken a sleeping giant. When "the ri...

That's why they shortened it to AOC. :grin: Anyway, stand by for the inevitable whataboutism. 3 . . .2 . . . 1 . . . P.S. The real danger is not what ...

:blush: :sweat: I hope that is a good thing. Thanks.

I was just playing off your statement that "everybody does." If we can't rally around loving the children, then I'm going to take more time off. This ...

I think both work and play can be executed in the moment, and both can be considered, before and after the fact, as goal-directed or otherwise. The qu...

I guess it's up to "everybody" to put their foot down. If they don't, do they get to say "There is nothing I could do!" ?

I hope the Chinese love their children too. "… In Europe and America there's a growing feeling of hysteria Conditioned to respond to all the threats I...

Yep. If they were purely mental taxonomies then you'd have nothing to complain about, now would you? Taxes are real and you, as an actual flesh and bl...

I think play is living in the moment. Sometimes, but not always, that moment is fantasy. Nature might view play as practice, and serious business. Pla...