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I'm for both.... But neither has served me well....

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These folks listened to me when I divorced after building a little sailboat with lots of help...

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(I'm fifty... So is my lover. Never makeup. Always beautiful, A little grey. I'm a lot. She's...

This can be a friendly place. But it's just the internet. Go out. Just open up a little in person. Meet for coffee. Get a little silly in a bar without walking out with strangers. Join a cause....

I 'spect a few folks here know I went through a similar stretch. I chose to share only the broad strokes publicly, but I still received many expressions of support from the community here. Meant a...

Harry Truman said it best. "The buck stops here." A president, like the captain of a ship, may not be aware, involved or even sympathetic towards the actions of those who serve him. But the safety...

Know why Jersey got so much toxic waste and California so many lawyers?

Reminds me of Depoe Bay, Oregon. Spent several hours there once, shortly after taking a boat a little bit further south to Newport. I thought THAT was bad. Then I drove up the coast towards home. ...

An unpopular law was passed by a little known legislative "slight of hand" which culminated in a electoral rout at the next opportunity. The "unelected" judiciary branch of our government is doing...

Not a Christian. Just a pragmatist. In my experience, people who have an interest in the game, play closer attention. Make anything a "given", it'll be treated as such. That's perhaps a Darwinist...

As the law stood before Obamacare, I was free to chose to opt out of paying into any federal, state or local revenue enhancement/public safety schemes. Impracticable in practice, but possible by...

That's my old dock! The missing woman used to give me matches when nobody else was open yet. (And coffee...) Damn.

Damn... That's the dock I used to work out of back when I was doing sailing classes... My buddy lived aboard there. Any news of the names?

I can't imagine ANY school district opening their doors to the general public, (as in hosting a poll) while class is session. Show me I'm wrong. The danger goes FAR beyond the possibility of some...

In my experience, when schools are used as polling places, classes are not in session. Can't remember ever going to vote with students present. You?

Hey... You guys are just "gun nuts". I, apparently, am a racist. Consider yourselves lucky!

Just noting the irony. It's never been shown in either case that anybody was "prevented" from voting. Haven't seen a picture of the gentleman with the gun. Was he posturing in front of the doors...

"We must have the freedom to exercise our right to vote without being exposed to a show of force by someone who might disagree with us politically."
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Yet you actively participate on a free forum paid for, in large part, by advertising. Your hypocrisy is showing.

(BTW, Advertising in "public spaces"? As opposed to, I don't know... "Private...

Don't forget salt! Stuff's nasty bad for you! ('Cept that you need at least at some to stay alive...) And caffeine. Horrors! The government really should require prescriptions from your doctor...

Well, hell. I'm just hibernating in P-town. Girlfriend in town for a visit. Might be fun! Come up with a time and place and I'll be there! (The PSEBS gatherings were always fun... Would this be...

"Or...." Why limit yourself?

Nothing. it works. (Long as you don't let 'em heat up too much.) And you can get all anal and go "scary sharp" with a plate of glass and emery cloth afterwards if you wish. But a quick run on the...

Without "Google", I'm guessing, "Rock throwing"?

Gotta admit... I had to google "fenestration".

Yeah. Lead paint and all. Had to have the proper paper work. (My buddy is the professional. Knows what he's doing. He actually spent last winter rebuilding that seawall on the same property. ...

Never used the phone once. (Well... other than to tell 'em it was done...)

(I also did a "restoration" of two, larger, better preserved, ground floor windows on the front of the house. What a pain in the ass! Scraped off all the old paint and rock hard, but failing...

A buddy and I just replaced those three windows facing you on the big white house in the picture. Right across the street from me. Can't beat THAT commute! Nice old windows with traditional wooden...

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Just so we're all on the same page, so to speak...

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"Methinks he doth protest too much"... I'm admittedly biased. But I think the first few paragraphs of the Declaration are among the finest examples of writing the English language has ever...

'84, I think...

That actually brings to mind a pretty good story. Ten days into a delivery of a new "Moorings" charter boat from Myrtle Beach to Tortola. About a hundred miles north of Jost Van Dyke. My radio...

Projection of power. Simple as that. We have made the commitment to serve as a deterrent force in multiple regions around the globe. For good or ill depends on your politics, I suppose, but that...

(Don't even ask me about the time I got my hands on a quarter pound of pure sodium from the High School chemistry lab...)

Shall we discuss the intentional misuse of pop-bottle rockets next? (I know of one "Sunfish" sail that carries a very small burn hole to this day.... almost forty years later... You guys would have...

Kid I grew up with did something very similar. Compound bow, steel tipped arrow. Shot it straight up from a field behind his house. Going back home we found it buried about twelve inches into the...

"Ordinary" people doing extraordinary deeds rarely get noticed. Most often it's just their job. Psychopaths, malcontents and thugs get all the press.

And we, as a people, have historically tended to take quite a bit of pride in our "faith" in "ordinary" people. They've done pretty well by us so far. Something we perhaps ought to remind ourselves...

Perhaps. But I understand firearms and their safe and effective usage. That's one person, at least, who doesn't have a rusty, neglected pistol in the bottom drawer.

Nope. Not one. But then I don't tend to associate with people who would. That such irresponsibility exists, I don't doubt. Hardly a problem amenable to political/legal correction. Not the kind of...

I think you have a very strange notion of gun ownership. They aren't flashlights or bottle openers.

The total combined wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans is $1.5 trillion. How much did Obama just call for as a new debt ceiling? Anybody doing math here?

Well, I for one don't have any problem with individuals professing their faith, whatever it may be. When they claim their faith is a licence to kill me, I get a little upset. Don't bring none, there...

I write this from Provincetown, sitting in the "little house" An old garage my Uncle Charlie turned into a cottage when he and Auntie Claire sold the "big house" to my parents. (The "little house"...

I dated an old school friend for a while last year. She's a kindergarten art teacher. Wouldn't order alcohol if we were out anywhere NEAR home. I didn't understand. Still don't. Not sure if it's...

A little M. C. Escher influence there...

Best post on the thread.

Did the feds REALLY sell the fish for only $5,000? (That's what they just said on the local news here...) To whom? I'm sure the skipper would have GLADLY paid that to get his fish back. So just...