CardinalBacker

That guy had too much time on his hands. He posted so much that it made me re-evaluate how much I post and whether I needed to rein it in a little.

Sometimes a little profanity is an excellent enhancement to a story. Jokes just don’t have the same pop when you say “fudge.” But I get it. It doesn’t bother me as long as it’s not directed towards others.

Somebody message me and let me know who got the boot, please.

Kap didn’t get blackballed. He lost his mojo and I’m convinced that he submarined his workout that the nfl did specifically for him to perpetuate his victim hood. He wants to get under center as badly as Biden wants to debate trump. The problem with Kap is that teams felt like he would hurt their bottom line. Analysts predicted that any team that signed him would lose approximately 20% of their gross revenues. Baltimore got close and then Kap’s gf took a massive dump all over management and they decided not to sign him. [Hidden Content] Much less the fact that Kap turned down his offer from the 49ers. So “blackballed” is a lie.

The word “racist” means nothing anymore. it’s been used and abused by the left to explain away everything (including black-on-black) crime and nobody cares anymore. “Racist” now means “isn’t liberal.”

And Biden is loved by all of those looters. What’s your point?

I never understand the analogy between liberalism and liberty, because it seems to me that liberalism is more threatening to my liberties, lol. I’m kinda more inclined to describe today’s liberals as “progressive.” Somebody once described the two movements as those who want things to stay more the same (conservative) and those who want to see things change (progressive). That’s probably the best analogy that I’ve seen so far. It doesn’t really even matter about the issues-just change and our reaction to it. It’s important to note that not all changes are actually “progress.” When your talking about issues like slavery and civil rights, being conservative is not where you’d want to find yourself. But when “progress” means socialism and over-reaching government control, I don’t think liberal/progressive is where you’d want to be either. Or at least that’s how I see it.

Ummmmm.... does that mean that we can differentiate between confederate supporters and slave owners? If anybody that fought for the Confederacy is now scorned and viewed as a racist, then anybody that has ever voted for a democrat is also proudly supporting that history of bigotry. You can’t have it both ways.

There are all different types of conservatism. Some people are socially conservative on issues like abortion, etc.... those are now morally aligned away from the current Democrat platform. I know of a Pentecostal lady who ran for office for years as a democrat because that’s what you do to get elected where she lives. She’s the furthest possible thing from a modern democrat. There are also fiscal conservatives like myself who live conservatively and think our governments should not be spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need. you mentioned a while back that you felt like you were better able to manage your investments than with a 401k. Don’t you think that you can do a better job of spending your earnings than the government can? That makes you somewhat conservative, Amigo.

I just wonder how much damage will be done by then? I don’t watch the NBA, so they’re not affected. I hear so many people complaining about the NFL and promising to tune out. I strongly believe that the protests were a major reason for the decline in viewership and attendance in the last few years. i think it’ll be much worse now... even people like me who love the sport are talking about tuning out. Same thing with NASCAR’s anti Southern push. Are they gonna generate new fans to replace the ones that are leaving? Most of those soy boys in Seattle don’t look like roundy-round fans to me.

That’s a good question. I honestly don’t know. Some communities favor a more centralized, controlling form of government. That could possibly be it. I’ve also wondered if it was just out of tradition... those are some pretty traditional people-but I kinda doubt it. I’ve never understood that voting pattern.

The Democrats were never anti black... they were pro-racist. Still are. As most white people moved on from race being a key issue, there were plenty of people willing to join up for divisive racial rhetoric. Its George Wallace winning as a staunch segregationist but still winning in the 80s with 90% of the black vote. A lot of it is the free stuff.... people vote in their own self interest, so they can overlook a history of oppression if it gets them an Obama phone. It’s people who hate the founding fathers because of the history of slavery but vote Dem in spite of their history of bigotry within the last 60 years.

Colin Kaepernick has a right to his opinion and nobody wants to see other humans being needlessly injured by the police. I just disagree with a protest that does more to push people away from your cause than to unify it. There are countless ways to get the point across without alienating so many who would actually support your cause if the delivery wasn’t offensive. How badly has Kap and the BLM screwed up their delivery if we now have people out protesting and even shooting each other over something that we all fundamentally agree upon?

I’ll have to spend my time trolling message boards.

Randy Weaver and I support this opinion.

All at once our decision to play tomato cans in non-district doesn't look so sissy-fied.

Yes, sir....

I hate neither you or the game, my good sir.

I've never pronounced the "g" sound at the end of an active verb. I'm workin'. I'm talkin'. I'm arguin'. Doesn't change what I mean. If you murder someone, am you a killa or a killer? Same difference.

Nobody should use that word and anybody that does has race issues. I’d like to know of another word that’s offensiveness can be judged by the color of the speaker’s skin. The fact that “educated” people will try to argue that is okay for some and wrong for others is just baffling. The whole “I can but you can’t” is no different than when they were saying it about voting, going to school, riding on the front of the bus, etc.... There’s no point in claiming to be “equal” when you think that way.

*tales.

I haven’t heard that yet... the last that I sat the County was agreeing to a tax abatement for them. If the EPA won’t permit the thing, it does kinda go back to the guy who appoints the head of the EPA.

Well, some people did dislike him over race and religion. Not all, not even a majority, but some did. I had lunch in a cafe on the square in Newton the day after Obama was elected. People were openly discussing it and it disintegrated into people telling n-word jokes. Openly, back-and-forth, table to table. The kind of “jokes” I hadn’t heard since I was a kid. I didn’t join in, but I didn’t say anything and I didn’t stand up and leave, either. There are a few things in life I’d like a chance to do over, and that’s on the short list. My company matches my contributions with another 25%. That 25%in year one is hard to leave on the table. Schwab handles our accounts and they have tons of options for the employee to choose from in regards to the actual stock and securities. It’s been good to me, lol.

I'd disagree.... The only color business cares about is green. The only thing he did to make them mad was be anti-business, lol. If I had to guess, President Obama didn't have a hand in a lot of the things that were going on while he was in office. Obama was the most progressive president that we've had so far. The people who were appointed to positions throughout his administration were exceptionally liberal/progressive, and what you saw were regs and policies that negatively affected business and the economy. I'll be curious to see if that proposed new Chevron plant in Orange comes to exist if we elect a new president who's promising to end fossil fuel use and turn us onto new green energy sources. The Department of Energy and the EPA can absolutely hamstring that deal if the president lets them. When a candidate runs on promises of new programs that will help everybody, and the question of "how will we pay for it" always comes back to "we're gonna make Wall Street pay their fair share!" I don't know how you're situated financially, but it really helps if every time that a politician says "Wall Street," change that wording to "your 401k" and you'll get a lot more conservative, lol. You should have seen a boost in your pay after the tax cuts in 2017. It was small, but it happened. The tax plan actually hurt me a little bit because a lot of the business-related deductions that I was taking advantage of disappeared. And I say "hurt" but it really didn't. It used to be a no-brainer for me to file long form, and now that the standard deduction is bumped, standard vs itemized is really no difference for me-it's a wash, now. As far as affecting me personally? Not so much. But then again, I'm not really expecting anything from the government. I just kinda want to be left alone. Probably the most important part of the presidency is the appointment of federal judges and the selection of Supreme Court Justices. Those nine wise souls play a bigger part in public policy than I think anyone ever imagined. If you stop and think about it, most of the hot-button issues that we see today are ones that the Supreme Court decided, not Congress. Roe vs. Wade on abortion, the legalization of same-sex marriage, and even the results of the 2000 Presidential Election are the first ones that pop into my mind.

Good point.