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^ I could not agree more. There is so much that I want to say, but I can't get control of my emotions or express my disappointment in the "conservative" element within American Christianity.

I suppose a good rule of thumb may be:

If it falls, it's your call.
If it stands, then it's banned.

Get well and take that clot seriously. They are no joke. I assume the new meds are to dissolve the clot?

Oh, they will reject him one election AFTER the Republican voters reject him. They are followers, not leaders, looking to advance themselves.

Ordinarily, I would worry about low bridges. In this case, I'm not sure the open road would be safe! :) Also, it needs some straps to hold it down.

I'm 67 and when I was a teenager there was actually a 1-night, blackface minstrel show just a block from my home. The memory of that is still with me and I think of it whenever I think of people...

I guess I'm getting old, but I have gone from being annoyed by heavy feet that pass me on a double solid yellow line to just waving to them (maybe flipping them off) and hoping there is a cop...

Forty years ago I used to go to an arcade about once every week and I liked some of the driving simulators.

I learned to sit around for 10 or 15 minutes before driving home or I was a menace on...

Vile. Cowardly. Immoral. Arrogant. Truly about as low as a human being can fall.

There is a HUGE difference between using a hands-free device and fumbling with a cell phone.

Actually, one of the reasons I was so slow to realize what the car was doing is because it was responding to a car that was SURPRISINGLY far ahead.

On a related topic, I noticed that my "new" car (it's 2 years old) not only has cruise control, but it uses radar to slow down if you are closing on the car ahead of you. My old car would have just...

That concert is beyond any doubt the best recording that Denver ever did. I have it on the memory stick in my car and I play it often.

I pulled out of the Starbuck's drive thru and took a parking space to check my cell phone. I pulled up by a decked-out van driven by a man in a wheelchair. I had to admire the tech he had to help...

Well, they confiscated a laser pointer of mine that looked like a bullet in the x-ray even though anyone holding it could tell that it wasn't, but it did get through about 50 times before that...

Personally, I don't object to a public school library containing a Bible, but it then needs to have an assortment of other religious books so they can be used like a proper library to learn about the...

I know I've posted this before, but Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote this for Graham:


https://youtu.be/CIVK1ZFobI0

https://youtu.be/CIVK1ZFobI0

My car occasionally tells me that I'm not paying attention. I am assuming it monitors my steering wheel, but for the life of me (bad pun) I can't make it happen deliberately.

Here is what you do: You bake some homemade cookies, pack them in the cans, and ship them off to your friends.

I will provide you with my address if it helps. :)

I'm not sure whether this is real or a ploy to make a point, but it does illustrate that the difference between art and obscenity lies in the eye of the beholder. There is no law that says the...

I have to agree that it's less than a slap on the wrist. Still, I was surprised.

This is interesting, if minor:


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That is your choice. Others choose differently.

John, I don't know what awful trauma you experienced, but your complaints rob others of their constitutional rights. Whether I agree with them or...

Because it is their constitutional right to express their mind and attempt to change public opinion.

Look, John, is there nothing you would picket? Would you picket capital punishment? Would you...

Oh! My bad. Still, any schooner with top masts is a lovely vessel wherever they may be.

Jimmy Buffet did a good job of this, but I still prefer Guy Clark:


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

https://youtu.be/TaCtloljfzs

You win! :)

Oh, Bobcat, so close! :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0KIOfN_tec

https://youtu.be/i0KIOfN_tec

Am I confused? I thought the thread title was a typo and meant to be "Adventure's top masts". I believe Adventure carried top masts in the last decades of the last century.

As one of the few Maine schooners that have carried top masts in recent memory, I think she is spectacular!

There is an enormous difference between a picket line and threats in any form. Threats should not be tolerated and I whole heartedly recommend going to the police when a disagreement turns into a...

Yes, I would say the same thing. You see, I wear big-boy pants and I can walk past people who disagree with me to do what I think is right.

No, I don't think it would discourage people unless an...

Those black sails should not look so good on an older hull design, but they sure do!

https://youtu.be/Zjd9rKZ9Crk

https://youtu.be/Zjd9rKZ9Crk

John, they are making a public statement of their opinion, which is something that you and everyone else is entitled to do. If they are not directly limiting your access to the film, then you have...

Wow! You're still worked up over something insignificant that happened in 1972? Tell me, John, did the picketers threaten you with guns? Did they charge you? Were you harmed? Or, did you just...

Actually, I tend to think that plastic surgery accelerates the biodegradation. When the war against wrinkles starts to look like a mask, it's time to stop.

^ Well, the women will still be biodegradable when their time comes. From what I've seen, I think some of them have already started to biodegrade. That first bit of surgery is one thing, but after...

Hasn't this always been the way? You need only look at the list of historically banned books such as much of Mark Twain's writing because of a word that offended people to understand the simplicity...

Bill Staines "Wild Wild Heart"

My absolute favorite trucking song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ano8Ib2j6O8

https://youtu.be/ano8Ib2j6O8

You know the definition of a contrarian, don't you? I do, because I researched it!

There are many biodegradable straws including paper, some material literally made from straw, and pasta.

John, you keep coming back to this whole "picket line at the theater" problem and I can't remember a single once since I was a little kid.

Could you tell us where this is happening and whether...

Wow! Thank you for sharing that!

That sounds about right. I don't know how they could best down a stout door (I can't quite picture the mechanics of it), but they are powerful.

This is the reality. Big Bang Theory did it in fiction. It grosses me out.

My understanding is that they are not particularly aggressive, not like a grizzly, and won't hunt you down, but you don't want to mess with one.

I miss driving stick. My wife misses it, too. However, my hybrid is much better technology and it's a small price to pay.

A relative of mine had her water break early in the pregnancy (I think it was 4 months or so?) before the fetus was viable. The doctors said that the child was being crushed in the womb and if they...

Those last few were so extreme they almost looked like an animation.