We as humans are just ginny pigs to those who only care for their pocket books. The activists are in it for their own gains as well. Pseudo science is used on both sides of the fence. The "Death Ray" device is now in most household and called a microwave oven.

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Facebook only removes those things they don't agree with. Horrid things like memes and wrong think. Hate speach is whatever the Stazi doesn't like.

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I was reminded of some of "Sailor Speak" the other day. Most of that went with my grandfather's generation when they left in the 80s. Of cause there's some still used today. Not so much the colorful bits.

"Your full of whale piss", Skeive Bilgerat", "Suck a belaying pin" and "Shove a Marlin Spike in your barnacle encrusted aft porthole" are the only ones that come to mind. "Talk like a sailor. You can work like a sailor."

Was talking with my mom the other day and she told me, "Grandpa would tell people who he got mad at, 'You're full of whale piss skeive bilgerat'. Really nasty stuff like that." 🤣

The "Creator" exists. Some refer to this as The Divine, Reality or God(deities) which is the foundation of religions. This covers positive, ethical and Good as we know it as human beings. The contemplation of Life allows a person to realize that life matters. Either a spiritual or scientific belief is secondary to the understanding that your life means something allowing a person to seek vertue (right reason, prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance) instead of running themselves into the ground.

The opposite of this is nihilism in all it's form. Which is a hatred of life. They just want to destroy everything around them. Most don't even realize what they've become.

"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general."

NOVALIS

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

EPICTETUS

I haven't cooked in years. Since it's just me things tend to go to waste without someone around. So I just get prefab meals and microwave or in the oven.

Tom,

We're talking about the progresive clowns who twist our language into what they want it to mean. The new NPC programming just came out and was uploaded. They're now using "positive" in a twisted way.

Senate, House Dems Equally Far Left, Conservative Group Says, as GOP Remains Solidly Right

MARK TAPSCOTT

Democrats in the House of Representatives are often viewed as radical left-wingers, but their partisan Senate colleagues are just as extreme, according to the latest congressional voting scorecard.

“The days of the ‘moderate’ Democrat Party are over,” American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman Matt Schlapp told The Epoch Times on May 6, regarding his organization’s congressional voting scorecard for 2019.

The ACU was founded in 1964 and is best known for its annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The group— like the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)—has rated Congress since 1971.

“Our ratings show that lockand- step Democratic lawmakers and the insurgent ‘Squad’ have taken to heart the socialist agenda of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” Schlapp said.

“By earning more zero percent ratings than ever before, congressional Democrats have demonstrated that they’ve abandoned any form of moderation and chosen the path forged by their radicalized party leadership.”

The ACU scorecard is based on how a representative or senator voted on 26 specific bills, procedural votes, or resolutions the conservative group believes represent the best measure of an elected official’s views.

Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress are led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (DCalif.), who wasn’t scored for 2019 because officials in that position don’t normally vote.

Pelosi is, however, among the most radically left-wing members of the House, as seen in her 4 percent rating in 2018 prior to her current speakership, and her 3 percent lifetime rating.

She has been in Congress since 1987 and became the first woman ever elected Speaker in 2007.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was one of 36 Senate Democrats to receive a zero percent rating for 2019; he received a 9 percent rating in 2018, and his lifetime ACU score is 5 percent.

Schumer was first elected to the House in 1981 and was elected to the Senate in 1998.

Because of the 36 zero ratings, the Senate Democrats’ average overall score was 3 percent for 2019, compared to 11 percent for 2018. The most conservative Democrat in the Senate is Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who scored a 32, according to ACU.

Sens. Kirsten Sinema of Arizona and Doug Jones of Alabama followed Manchin with scores of 19 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

Former Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate were among the most radical, with Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York scoring 6 percent, 6 percent, and 5 percent, respectively.

Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts were among the 36 Senate Democrats with zero percent scores. Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.), who caucuses with Senate Democrats and was a presidential contender in 2016 and 2020, also scored zero percent. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who also caucuses with Democrats, scored a 9 percent rating.

Senate Republicans scored an overall average of 74 percent, with nine scoring 90 percent or higher, including Sen. Pat Toomey (RPa.) with a 100 percent rating. The other eight included Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and

James Lankford of Oklahoma, all with 95 percent, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Ben Sasse of Nebraska at 91 percent, and Mike Enzi of Wyoming at 90 percent.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is the least conservative among Republican senators with a 23 percent score.

The lifetime ACU scores for current GOP senators is 82 percent, compared to 7 percent for current Senate Democrats.

In the House, Democrats’ overall average score for 2019 was also 3 percent. Even so, a dozen House Democrats scored 40 percent or higher, with three above 50 percent.

House Republicans’ overall average for 2019 was 81 percent, meaning they voted the conservative position in four of every five opportunities. Fourteen House GOPers scored 100 percent, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who represented a North Carolina district in 2019. Eleven House Republicans scored 97 percent.

The lifetime ACU score for current House Democrats is 6 percent, compared to 83 percent for current House Republicans. Contact Mark Tapscott at Mark.Tapscott@epochtimes.nyc

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

TACITUS

Stick with "Woman's Intuition". Lots of weirdo male feminists try to become freinds with women and sezualy assualt them. Contrariwise to the propaganda pushed. A real man will always make his intentions known from the get=go.

One banana and an 8 oz cup of milk a day during a woman's menstrual cycle is recommended to reduce the severity of it. So, blending it up to drink is easier.

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"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

MAYA ANGELOU

The 'Gibbering Twelve' attack everyone who isn't braindead losers as themselves. Don't apologize, reason or argue with them. Just tell them to screw themselves into the dirt where they belong. They've sacrificed their humanity on the alter of "Woke" and just appear to be humans. They need to be incessantly mock or shund.

Justice is very slow. They finally started to use the internet. Now it's just a matter of time before they get to fixing the problems we all have found on it. Say maybe, ten to twenty years from now. We may even get to hear Thomas ask another question in the future. It could be shorter than 3 years for the wait.

Smooth Sailing in US Supreme Court’s First Teleconference Case; Thomas Joins Fray

WASHINGTON—The first U.S. Supreme Court arguments conducted by teleconference— a break from tradition because of the COVID- 19 pandemic—played out smoothly May 4 in a case involving the hotel reservation website Booking.com, with even the typically silent Justice Clarence Thomas joining the fray.

The pandemic has prompted changes at almost every level of U.S. society, with the nine justices holding arguments in the trademark case not in their courtroom but by participating remotely using a dial-in format to combat the pathogen’s spread.

The arguments began as usual with the marshal of the court’s traditional words, “Oyez, Oyez, Oyez,” and proceeded with Chief Justice John Roberts playing the role of a traffic cop. Thomas, who usually refrains from asking questions during arguments, posed two rounds of queries.

In another first, the court provided a live audio feed, making these the first arguments that the public could hear live.

The technical hiccups were brief, including moments when Roberts had to prompt liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Department lawyer Erica Ross a second time after short silences, suggesting they hadn’t unmuted their phones.

“I’m sorry, chief,” Sotomayor said, before launching into her questions.

Roberts directed which justice was up to ask questions and cut off lawyers when they went on too long, in an effort to keep the arguments close to the scheduled one-hour length. The arguments ran about 15 minutes over the allotted time.

Thomas, a conservative who is the court’s longest serving justice, embraced the new format. Thomas last had asked a question in March 2019, which was three years after his previous one.

But Thomas queried both Ross, who explained why the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office wants to prevent Booking.com from trademarking the site’s name, and Lisa Blatt, the lawyer presenting the company, a unit of Norwalk, Connecticut- based Booking Holdings Inc.

For example, Thomas asked whether trademarking a website name would be similar to 1-800 toll-free telephone numbers, some of which have received trademarks.

The justices asked both sides tough questions. A number of them—conservatives and liberals—expressed concern that trademarking the name Booking. com would give the company monopoly power that could hurt business rivals as well as consumers.

The Patent and Trademark Office is appealing a lower court decision that had allowed the trademark because by adding “.com” to the generic word “booking” it became eligible for a trademark. The online reservation service filed several trademark applications in 2011 and 2012.

Booking.com, along with the rest of the travel industry, has been slammed by the pandemic, which has caused tourism and business travel to evaporate worldwide.

Several justices asked questions about handing companies an advantage over competitors through trademarks.

“You are seeking a degree of monopoly power that nobody could have had prior to the internet age,” conservative Justice Samuel Alito said.

A ‘Bridge Too Far’

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, while sounding skeptical toward some of the company’s arguments, also wondered whether siding with the government and creating a rule barring protection for all generic website names is a “bridge too far.”

A Patent and Trademark Office tribunal in 2016 rejected the company’s trademark applications, concluding that the name Booking.com referred generically to the common meaning of booking lodging and transportation and couldn’t be used exclusively through federal trademark registration.

Under U.S. law, only terms that distinguish a particular product or service from

The nine justices held arguments in the trademark case not in their courtroom but by participating remotely using a dial-in format

to combat the pathogen’s spread.

others on the market can be trademarked.

Booking.com appealed, presenting a survey that showed that 74 percent of consumers identified Booking. com as a brand name. The Richmond, Virginiabased 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the company in 2019.

The court has scheduled teleconference arguments in a total of 10 cases spanning this week and next week. The biggest ones are three that focus on the question of whether President Donald Trump can keep his financial records, including tax returns, secret. Those cases will be argued on May 12.

The Supreme Court building has been closed to the public since March 13 due to the pandemic. The justices have met only via teleconference, and have issued rulings only online.

The virus has proven to be particularly dangerous in older adults, especially those with underlying medical issues. Four of the nine justices are age 70 or older: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (87), Stephen Breyer (81), Thomas (71), and Alito (70). By Lawrence Hurley & Andrew Chung The Epoch Times contributed to this report. From Reuters

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

ANNE FRANK

Well, you can always go with mountain man long beard that was mentioned after the ad.
I was on a different site a couple years ago and my beard was longer (5 inches or so) which I was attracting lots of domanatresses. Not my thing is why I trim it down tight then let it grow no longer then 2 inches before trimming it down again now.