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1. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I bother because confronting them will only make them dig in deeper if they have to defend their beliefs. Just seeing it from someone who they don’t care about might make them think without feeling threatened. Granted, it’s not much, but it’s something.

2. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Alternative facts have made logical discourse impossible. It is possible to reason from accepted facts and at least consider each other’s viewpoint and possibly make some progress toward uniting our country. But, the right wing media has been presenting a twisted view of reality, designed to benefit the rich who own news outlets, for about 40 years now. If you think you can reason with someone who was raised on Rush Limbaugh, then Faux news etc. you are as delusional as they are. And, in the last five years or so, the truth can’t even be twisted enough to suit their purposes, which is not a problem because their brainwashing has resulted in a number of people who will believe them when they tell out right lies.

3. 9 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I’m a Packer fan. Please keep watching.

4. 9 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   When we were in England, my Mother had to visit the emergency room. We were seen immediately, possibly because she was older and they weren’t sure what was wrong with her. We asked for the bill, explaining that we were Americans and didn’t qualify for the free medical care. They replied that they didn’t have any forms for making out a bill, no one who would know how to make out the form if they had one and anyway everyone who was getting paid was busy taking care of sick people. On the other hand, when my son needed surgery for his cancer, he had to wait six weeks for the doctor to have an opening in his schedule. And, later, his treatments were postponed because the insurance company was deciding whether to pay for them. This was the president of the Midwestern Prostate Ontological group being dictated to by a pencil pusher who probably never graduated from college. That was in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. We pay more for medical care than anyone else on earth and it’s not because we are paying for actual medical care. We are spending money to support a huge insurance industry with money that then isn’t available to provide for patient care. Can you blame a person who is offered a high paying job in an industry that is already established and sucking the blood out of the health care needed by Americans, or blame the system that offered him the job?

5. 12 days ago on Moderately Confused

   All the people I enjoyed hearing from each morning have stopped posting. Does anyone know where they went? I would drop this site like a rock to hear one word from about 10 of them.

6. 18 days ago on The Other Coast

   Get a drop feeder and they can eat whenever they want. Get a doggie door and a fenced yard and they can go out whenever they want. So, why do they spend 23 1/2 hours a day within three feet of me? They’re Havanese— velcro dogs.

7. 19 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That’s just putting a guilt trip on them if they don’t spend more money than necessary. Preplan a funeral that will leave most of your money to people who can still enjoy it.

8. 21 days ago on Zack Hill

   Fox’s lawyer used the argument that no reasonable adult would believe what Fox was broadcasting. Which would work out fine if unreasonable adults weren’t allowed to vote.

9. 21 days ago on Frazz

   Good Will has a whole kid’s section in every store. I had a cousin a year older than me growing up and never had a brand new coat until I bought it for myself. Don’t even remember being resentful about it— actually saved the shopping experience, which I didn’t enjoy, and I never cared about clothes anyway.

10. 24 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    The Republicans in America want money to go to the rich rather than the middle class because they are beholden to them—the money to finance their campaigns comes from the rich. They tell the public that it will “trickle it down”, and everyone will benefit. Trickle down has never worked, as far as raising the standard of living, anywhere that it has been tried. And, it is completely illogical to believe that it ever could. If you are paying a guy to cut your lawn and he’s doing an adequate job, then you get a tax cut, do you raise his pay? Neither will the 1%ers. The only reason to spend more on hired help is that you need more workers to get the job done. The only way more workers will be needed is if there is an increased demand for product- in other words people are buying more stuff. The only reason people would be buying more stuff is that they can afford it. And, the only reason that more people can afford more is that they are the ones getting the tax cuts, not the rich guys. Trickle down just gives the rich guys more money to hide offshore, or more money to buy more politicians to write laws so they have more money to hide offshore. If you want that money to stay in America, increase production, and raise everyone’s standard of living, trickle UP will do the job, not trickle down.