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UpperWestside

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  1. A guy I work with put it fairly succinctly. Americans do not like to be told what to do. We never have and never will and that’s a big weakness when you cannot agree on common sense solutions for the entire population. We will never be like the countries in Europe that take care of the population like the countries in Scandinavia. We have too much “F you pay me” types to ever come together as a whole and transform our society into something that works for everyone. I still think we can eventually get along again, but it is going to have to take millions of people realizing how much they screwed up by joining a death cult led by a clown.
  2. I also don’t mind Derka starting this thread and asking who you would want. Sometimes you will get a different perspective if you can take the time to listen to what evidence someone is providing about their position.
  3. Kawhi does not have the same drive of any of those players listed. I am not sure he is self-motivated to play more than Embiid is, much less a player that absolutely despises coming in anything except 1st.
  4. Get back to me in a couple of weeks when the entire top 20 is his.
  5. Drew Magary is one of the best writers in America and he was cool to meet after he and David Roth did their podcast together. I knew that was him before I even looked at the link. I have mentioned it several times, but anyone who wants to get great news on politics, sports, the environment, nature or really anything they want to write about needs to get a subscription to Defector.com. David Roth's political articles alone are worth paying for. I met him in New York at a Defector birthday celebration in 2023 and he's a really, really smart guy. I will try to link some of his articles here.
  6. You leave those fine South Pacific folks alone! At least they aren't hurting anyone by worshipping crates.
  7. Here’s our gay hating former president of the Young Conservatives of Texas. I know this is him because he listed that last part in his LinkedIn bio. This screams closeted to me.
  8. And that was that incel’s moment where he decided he’d dedicate his life to making others more miserable than himself.
  9. Bernie Mac and Robin Harris.
  10. @realgreggym is a gutless and racist coward. Show your face again here you worthless one foot in the grave trash and regale us with more lies about the children being gone.
  11. I saw a few bits and pieces of what he said. It was amazing to hear a politician talk like that. I genuinely do think he is sorry and that he does care about Americans. Anyone that wants to bring the negativity with Booker right now can kick rocks. If you are unable to appreciate what this man just did just sit down and keep the negativity to yourself. Better yet just shut up completely if you have nothing positive to add to Booker doing something like this. These are the moments that galvanize people to do better. I’m actually really proud of him for this and glad it took Strom Thurmond’s name from the history books. Booker is good people.
  12. She chose you over a location because she LOVES YOU. You know this. Go tell her how thankful you are to be her husband for no other reason than to just say it. I think it’s beautiful that she picked you to share a life with. Things will change and these idiots will eventually be gone, but you can’t replace love.
  13. Aww man thanks! This is a blessing to get to be on the ship four days a week. For me this is something that will never get old. Doing this is a way to educate people who show up from around the world, but also it’s a reminder to folks what the cost is of freedom was and is. I wish I had had the mentality when I was younger to have been able to have served, but since I didn’t this is a small way to give back to folks and keep memories alive of sailors and Marines that served on the Missouri. One guy that is new along with me is someone that helped tow the Mighty Mo from Long Beach to Bremerton in 92 when he was in the Navy. Having someone there to work with like that is pretty cool.
  14. I have only taken my dogs into one store and it was a Petco to get them some shots. I don’t take my dogs to the grocery store. I don’t mind seeing dogs at the grocery store though. I do understand people taking issue with seeing pets in a store where food is sold. If a store is willing to let them in though so be it. You won’t see my two in a grocery store or any other store outside of a pet store.
  15. Carlos Watson getting a pardon, well, that’s something right there.
  16. Man spoiler that. That’s nightmare fuel.
  17. Okay so what's her screenname on Surly?
  18. Where's that spineless pissant coward @realgreggym? Defend these morons you worthless trash excuse for a human being.
  19. Whole lotta folks there with more money than they could ever hope to spend. I did read the link above. Bezos and the child-tax credit is something that should upset American families that struggle just to make it on a daily basis.
  20. Can we see the entire list of them posted here? I know I can google this, but a link or page listing them all might be helpful.
  21. I wake up being thankful for another day and choose not to give into the negativity on a day not promised to me or a single other soul. It is a choice made to take advantage of today because if this is it I would prefer to not go out being angry about life. Again my view is one shot at life that might be 80 years if all goes well in a universe that is about 13.6-7 billion years old. That lifespan is a speck of sand. You are darn right I am going to find it odd and say as much for anyone to be as negative as a few people constantly are on here when life is that short. None of us are living to be a million.
  22. I remember when I was up in the mountains living around almost all conservatives. Stranger in a strange land at that point, but it sure was beautiful with the cleanest air I've ever taken in up in the High Rockies.
  23. I do not fool myself with anything. Every single generation of people thinks that what is happening to them is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened in history. This is not a good part of history, but it is not the worst and I am not going to get up each day thinking how awful this world is. A lot of human beings did not get to wake up today. Yesterday was it for them. I am thankful for today and thankful for the opportunity to do better than the day before. I have a finite amount of time on this rock like everyone else and I will make the best of it. Everyone gets to make that choice every single day. I just reached that point where all of the negativity is just pointless noise not worth participating in. I do not like what I see in Washington, but waking up with Brisket’s attitude is a backwards way to think. Expecting the worst out of everyone is toxic and accomplishes nothing good.
  24. I wish I had more time to read a book like that one.
  25. How very Mack Brown of you. That's the epitome of how he killed football at UT towards the end. Yes I choose to like people. I am not even naturally a people person. I'd rather just hangout with dogs or even go swimming with sharks again than spend copious amounts of time with people. That's just my personality. I do enjoy helping people and I run across enough good human beings to know there are plenty of them out there still. My neighbor the other day was going to wait to take the elevator because he had a bunch of stuff and had his wife and grandson with him. I told him to get in. We wound up talking for about 10 minutes and he tells me he's Marshallese. He asks me if I know where the Marshall Islands are and I say I do and I start talking about them. I tell I want to live there in the future as well as in Kiribati and he tells me his wife's family is from Kiribati. These are good people and there are so many of them out there. You want to keep to you and yours you do you. That does nothing to help move America is a good direction.
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