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by Burning Petard
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:04 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Gradually, then suddenly
Replies: 9
Views: 836

Re: Gradually, then suddenly

Well, the parade is over and the anti-King demo here in Newark DE achieved not much. I was disappointed that none of the Tanks in the Washington birthday parade had a subway tunnel fall in under them. It was a wonderful historic demo of American know-how when it comes to killing people and blowing t...
by Burning Petard
Sat Jun 14, 2025 6:46 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Insurrection in Los Angeles
Replies: 41
Views: 523

Re: Insurrection in Los Angeles

The left has supported concentration of power and favored limitations on constitutional protections? It wasn't the left that created the HUAC and the Hollywood Blacklist.

I guess among many things Liberty is ignorant of the long history of the American Civil Liberties Union.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:38 am
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Music recommendations
Replies: 914
Views: 216342

Re: Music recommendations

Thanks BSG. One tribute I heard on radio said Brian Wilson was always about music of joy. I certainly need more of that now.

Ron Baldwin
by Burning Petard
Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: U.S. and Russia are talking about resuming direct flights
Replies: 3
Views: 76

Re: U.S. and Russia are talking about resuming direct flights

W O W ! I wonder if New Mexico is one of those countries? Perhaps they are just quoting a Whitehouse staff person?

Gives me a reason to watch the Fox channel when I get bored with the Comedy Channel.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:24 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Car advice, please!
Replies: 71
Views: 19665

Re: Car advice, please!

Toyota is not perfect either. My sister drives a Prius (don't know what year) It is her second Prius. Her husband drives the biggest Toyota pick-up, six years old. It is very much a work truck. They live in central Illinois and they deal with about the only Toyota dealer around. They love the vehicl...
by Burning Petard
Mon Jun 09, 2025 1:14 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Insurrection in Los Angeles
Replies: 41
Views: 523

Re: Insurrection in Los Angeles

I think this 'Insurrection' you are describing is in Los Angeles, California. There is NO 'flood of foreigners' coming into LA. The ICE carefully disguised agents there have a hard time finding enough people they can incarcerate to fill a school bus. "No legal right to be here' has too frequently no...
by Burning Petard
Sat Jun 07, 2025 3:47 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....
Replies: 10
Views: 161

Re: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....

It is paper spray. Harmless but effective. It produces a thin layer of opaque paper on what ever you target. Suddenly the van is covered in a layer of paper. The occupants must stop, get out, and peel off the paper. See! Modern non-lethal defense arsenal is always expanding. No longer does one need ...
by Burning Petard
Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:59 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....
Replies: 10
Views: 161

Re: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....

Sounds to me as tho the neighbor was the one soliciting.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The bromance is over
Replies: 20
Views: 323

Re: The bromance is over

Trump is a liar? How can that be? is that special enlightenment derived from special experience as a white man in South Africa? Next you are gonna tell me that yesterday the sun came up in the East. Is there no shame to what fake news can be spread these days?

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:08 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Car advice, please!
Replies: 71
Views: 19665

Re: Car advice, please!

I think the best advice today is time on the oil is more important than mileage. Me personally, i like every six months. It has become very difficult for me locally to find a place that will take my used oil if I change it myself. Some authorities say I am engaged in superstition, but I prefer to ch...
by Burning Petard
Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:00 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....
Replies: 10
Views: 161

Re: Well... I Thought it was Funny.....

Pants down? I read the lead post in this thread and I visualize a male type person running down a street, with a cluster of cooking pans rattling behind him. But either way, I too think it is funny.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:43 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: My Buddy Grok on TwitterX
Replies: 2
Views: 93

Re: My Buddy Grok on TwitterX

IMNSHO, This 'Grok'' based on the example posted here (please remember that I have never, ever logged into X or twitter.) is blasphemy against the Lord Heinlein. But I giggle to note the use of the pronoun 'they'. Is that not evidence of the dreaded woke syndrome?

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:06 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: PRIDE
Replies: 4
Views: 122

Re: PRIDE

Thanks Sue. I Iive nearby this bridge but habitually avoid any place where I could see it after dark. (I hate driving in Philly. For me at nite would be impossible.)I wore my new gay pride t shirt today. The weather is cooperating for t-shirts this week. My particular faith organization has a nation...
by Burning Petard
Sun Jun 01, 2025 3:52 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: How to make the world a better place:
Replies: 14
Views: 294

Re: How to make the world a better place:

Never seen anything like it? I guess you never stumbled into 'The Onion" or the "Sacremento Brie" to name two that were centers of attention in the past but are gone now. On religion, I like 'Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian.' She is still around.

snailgate
by Burning Petard
Fri May 30, 2025 3:48 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Happy Memorial Day?
Replies: 7
Views: 275

Re: Happy Memorial Day?

The picture is fake news, according to Snopes. There is no evidence that he left West point and went to play golf. (go to Snopes for a fuller discussion. However Snopes said it is true that trump did not perform the traditional shake the hand of every Westpointer as they crossed the stage for their ...
by Burning Petard
Fri May 30, 2025 3:36 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Legal question
Replies: 7
Views: 292

Re: Legal question

Post modernism on full display. There is no truth. There is no objective reality. Only reflections of particular observations, which are measurably different depending on the position of the observer. This is the old lesson of the fable of the blind men and the elephant. All are blind for no one can...
by Burning Petard
Thu May 22, 2025 9:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1460
Views: 172160

Okies v. Arkies v. MJT

My personal favorite for the Senator Claghorn memorial award has been Marjorie Taylor Green, Congress Critter from the great state of Georgia. She is a reliable source of quotes for any needed example of combined political ignorance and stupidity. But now I have to consider Oklahoma Superintendent o...
by Burning Petard
Thu May 22, 2025 8:20 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: The violence inherent in the system
Replies: 22
Views: 3146

Re: The violence inherent in the system

Thanks Sue. I was assured I could not get it last October. I will contact my state district rep. about this. I think we got a new insurance commissioner after the election last November. Snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Thu May 22, 2025 1:14 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: The violence inherent in the system
Replies: 22
Views: 3146

Re: The violence inherent in the system

As far as I know (and this is a very changable legal environment) medicare advantage plans are not offered in Delaware. I lay that at the feet of the Delaware Insurance Commissioner. In this 'the Corporate State' there seems to still be some portions of state regulators who give priority to the best...
by Burning Petard
Tue May 20, 2025 2:11 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: If you look up "trash" in the dictionary...
Replies: 17
Views: 490

Re: If you look up "trash" in the dictionary...

Please, I know about the principle of suspension of disbelief when reading literature, but I am have a very hard time accepting that the posted quote from Don Jr. is real. If it is real this is not 'trash' It is something far more scary, given this family has tremendous power and influence. It is so...