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You are right, it does not have any bearing on the Neely/Penny case. It discredits the uncle and hopefully shuts his mouth. As far as I know, nobody is making a claim that he was. If he was then deadly force is justified.

I don't know if the implication that no boomers at all tried to resist the creeping crud is more ridiculous, or the pipe dream that younger generations have enough more wise people and fewer suckers to meaningfully change direction. There's a sucker born every minute. They compose a majority of every generation. Anyone who thinks that history teaches us anything different is a fool begging to be played.

That seems less relevant than all of the times George Zimmerman was arrested before and after being acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. And George Zimmerman's attorney was arrested for soliciting perjury. Seems he was pressuring a 9 year old rape victim to lie in order to get his client off. So yeah. I could care less about the crimes of Jordan Neely's uncle. His uncle was carrying a knife. I'd like someone to provide evidence that Jordan was carrying a knife at any point the day he was killed. And I'm not saying that to be snarky. If I was Daniel's attorney and someone brought me this story I'd politely tell them not to waste my time. Even Jordan having a knife on some other day might be admissible if Daniel knew about that and thought Jordan might be carrying that day. (Then again, taking a knife wielding assailant to the ground is very dangerous and possibly suicidal.) Same goes for all of the "Here's Jordan Neely punching out women" videos. Did any of that factor into Daniel's mental calculus on that day?

Blaire is self described as "a transwoman who rejects gender ideology and trans activism."

Blaire White's real name is Blaire White. People change names all the time. That's even in the Bible. What were the "real" names of Abraham, Israel and Paul? As for pronouns, in English "you" is gender neutral. I never got that "My pronouns are" thing. If you're taking to me I don't expect you to say "him." If I'm not around and you're talking about me, well I hope it's good. It's only an issue when there are three or more people talking and you say something about someone to someone else. For trans people I avoid using pronouns altogether. In other word's "Blaire" is my pronoun for "Blaire." And I generally don't call people "sir" or "ma'am" especially if I'm not sure. One irritation for me as a naturally born, and still am, male is that sometimes people who don't know me call me "ma'am" on the phone or over intercom systems. I don't at all think I have a female voice and nobody that I've ever asked about this thinks that, but somehow that comes across over electronic signals. That happened to me yesterday at McDonalds. I work an IT help line as my main job and sometimes I have callers with female sounding voices but typical male names. (I haven't had the reverse yet as far as I can recall). Maybe you consider this "caving in" but my position is "What's the point?" What do I gain from trying to look up the name of someone just so I can call that person by a name that person never uses now? I feel different about people I knew before transitioning. If I have strong memories of you as "Joseph" those memories are not tied to "Josephine." Interestingly enough you see Jacob and Israel used interchangeably throughout the Bible, but Abraham and Paul are never called by their "dead names" once their names were changed. Anyway, from a spiritual perspective I look at how Jesus treated the woman at the well. When He told her "You have five husbands, and the man you are living with is not your husband" it was clear he was neither condemning her as a person nor condoning her lifestyle. He acknowledged what was going in her life while He was offering her a much better life in every possible way. When she asked Him a direct theological question, worship in Jerusalem or in the mountains of Samaria, Jesus was direct but again not confrontational and ultimately offered something more. "You Samaritans don't know what you worship. Salvation is of the Jews. But eventually this Jerusalem/Samaria place of worship thing won't even matter because God is a Spirt. He's everywhere and He wants worshippers in spirit and in truth." Recently High School Musical star Joshua Bassett took flack from the left for joining a conservative church that supports "conversion therapy." Now here's the funny part. Joshua is openly gay. Note I didn't say "was" openly gay. So even though there were no "rainbow flags" at the church signally they accepted his lifestyle, he felt comfortable joining. I think Jesus approves of that. The Bible says "By beholding we become changed." If Josh isn't comfortable enough to come to a church that upholds Biblical standards then how is he going to behold Jesus long enough to change?

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The fuck is this halfwit babbling about now? https://twitter.com/i/status/1664429081008676864 1664429081008676864

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Folks seem intent on starting WW 3. Am I the only one curious as to why the Polish air force uses English? https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2023/06/01/Poland-Weapons-Moldova-3.jpg

That's your interpretation. I've heard the lichen explanation and lichen are not mushrooms. They are fungi and algae growing together. But...okay. If your point is there are more analogies that can be drawn than just the slingshot, fine. As a child I learned to identify two edible mushrooms that grow in the southeast, puffball and inky caps. To this days those are the only wild mushrooms I'll mess with. (I haven't seen an inky cap in years but I usually find a puffball somewhere.) Puffballs look like loaves of bread. A young amanita (VERY poisonous) looks like a puffball but upside down and when you cut it open it's hollow with a toadstool like mushroom in the middle. When a puffball gets old, if you step on it then it will release a "puff" of spores. Inky caps are small, grow in bunches, have gray stems and black gills underneath the gray caps. Inky cap Puffball

I'm not disagreeing with you about what is going on currently. My point was that this backlash that you speak of will fade over time. Sexual ethics is a line in the sand that needed to be drawn decades ago. The party of "family values" has embraced no fault divorce, gay marriage/gay adoption and is now slowly embracing trannies. How long will it be before conservatives start to argue that the government has no right to tell their kids that they aren't allowed to express their true selves?

At this point, they're also naive to the point of blindness. The powers that be have been deliberately wrecking the currency and the country. They've driven every wedge they can think of. And the mainstream media has run quite a number of trial balloons along those very lines. We may frustrate what appears to be their plan, in fact, by not splintering into enough small, easily controlled little countries to play off against each other properly. The Psyop counts on people who refuse to believe anything is possible but business as usual. The Psyop could be defeated by people who could anticipate it. If anyone has the imagination, enough sense to see what's right under their nose, and isn't so hidebound that they say silly things like never ever, it could be defeated. The federal government and mainstream media has done so many things it would never, ever do the last few years that I can't count them all. And yet...

Yeah, I don't agree with that. The "freedom" you are describing is like the "freedom" that beasts have. But they are not free, are they, since they are shackled in the chains of the cruelest slaver of all: Nature. Freedom comes only from God and his Gospel. We should stand up for freedom, and we should set the example of what it means to live freely, in the light, as the saints have done for centuries, often at the cost of their life. And a just government would empower us to defend our natural rights and freedoms with the backing power of the law, rather than impeding them. So, you and I agree that we're all to blame, to some extent.

I saw this on PBS back in 2007. I can't find the video but I found a synopsis stored as a word document: https://pressroom.pbs.org/-/media/Files/doc/2/22nd-century.ashx 22nd CENTURY “World Wide Mind” Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET

Um, didn't he essentially run for federal office on the promise that he would try to make it unnecessary? Nothing like announcing, sorry, I'm useless. Why can't a state senator do it? Because they're less famous than federal senators? After the federal government gets both fists and at least one foot stuck in the Tar Baby named Russia, what happens to your never ever? They're not going to have any Marines to spare. They're going to need more than 87,000 IRS agents.

Yeah....that wasn't my point. My point is that it's not that conservatives haven't embraced the "T" yet. Trump embraced Kaitlan Jenner about the same time he brought the rainbow flag into the RNC. Conservatives have a problem with the "P" (although they might go with "M" now). The current backlash is literally about protecting women and children. The bathroom fight wouldn't even be a fight if it were transwomen that actually looked like women going in there. (Don't ask don't tell). But when you've got full bearded dudes in heals going in? Yeah that's a problem. There are a few pushing against "gender affirming care" for adults, but most states just want to stop that for kids. Edit: And yeah I get it. There are those on the left who will keep pushing for MAP rights. I'm just addressing what's triggered the backlash from consevatives.

Normalizing adult LGBTQ deviancy will inevitably result in normalizing it for children. The revolution will not stop because you want it to stop. EDIT: Just after I submitted this reply, the term MAPs is trending on Twitter. Just in time for Pride Month.

You can see from these responses that many did not take them seriously, including me. Would any of have been so laissez-faire if we knew, just 10 years later this would be in store: https://twitter.com/i/status/1664248278903590912

Unfortunate that the name of her show was the same as the newest He Who Must Not Be Named.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association ILGA controversy Main article: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association § Controversy and loss of UN consultative status In 1993, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) achieved United Nations consultative status. NAMBLA's membership in ILGA drew heavy criticism and caused the suspension of ILGA. Many gay organizations called for the ILGA to dissolve ties with NAMBLA. Republican Senator Jesse Helms proposed a bill to withhold US$119 million in UN contributions until U.S. President Bill Clinton could certify that no UN agency grants any official status to organizations that condoned pedophilia. The bill was unanimously approved by Congress and signed into law by Clinton in April 1994. In 1994, ILGA expelled NAMBLA— the first U.S.-based organization to be a member—as well as Vereniging Martijn and Project Truth, because they were judged to be "groups whose predominant aim is to support or promote pedophilia". Although ILGA removed NAMBLA, the UN reversed its decision to grant ILGA special consultative status. Repeated attempts by ILGA to regain special status with the UN succeeded in 2006.

I don't care to blame the Boomers. But I am angry that the vision of the Founding Fathers was destroyed, most of it in the post-war era. I don't believe the Boomers themselves caused that... the only people to blame are the ruling elites, the very same elites who sent their parents off to the battlefields of Europe, Japan and Korea. They have destroyed every square inch of American culture with their infinity-cash printing-press. I just wish I could afford to rent a curbside cardboard box despite earning an above-median income. I seriously cannot figure out how 50+% of this country is even surviving...

Apparently so have I. Can you cite a source for that? Not being snarky, but that's powerful ammo, and if I'm going to drop a Tsar Bomba on somebody, I want to make sure my powder is dry.

Stopping omnibus spending bills alone is a pretty damned tempting straw, considering budgets during Pelosi were, like, vote for every penny of pork or get accused of throwing little orphans out in the snow. Yeah, that would be a major improvement.

It was the last war the U.S. fought to win. And it's Clark Gable, though admittedly it might be the case that...