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April 7, 2025 at 4:57 pm
(April 7, 2025 at 4:12 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (April 7, 2025 at 1:48 pm)Angrboda Wrote: "Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf," Reilly wrote. "He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: 'Pele.'”
I had to read that twice to make sure you were taking about golf. I thought that was how he operates - period - end of sentence.
Indeed, Donald cheats in everything. Here's his children describing how he cheats in skiing:
“He would try to push me over, just so he could beat his 10-year-old son down the mountain,” his son Eric told Van Meter.
“We were sort of bred to be competitive,” says Ivanka. “Dad encourages it. I remember skiing with him and we were racing. I was ahead, and he reached his ski pole out and pulled me back.”
https://www.inthesnow.com/donald-trump-can-ski/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 25, 2025 at 4:03 pm
‘The lesson I want you to learn is, it doesn’t matter what you look like. You can be tall or short or thin or fat or ugly or handsome or you can be black, yellow or white. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.’ - Herman Munster
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April 26, 2025 at 8:26 am
“My belief system is that when it’s over, it’s over. That you don’t look down from heaven and wait for your loved ones to join you.” (William Shatner) 
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May 5, 2025 at 3:21 am
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May 11, 2025 at 3:22 pm
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May 13, 2025 at 12:09 am
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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May 13, 2025 at 4:20 am
Similarly:
'I believe in a Creator on alternate days, with one day off a week for pure, unadulterated solipsism.' - Jubal Harshaw
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May 13, 2025 at 4:27 am
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I saw where Connie Willis was touted as the "New Heinlein"; I forget where. This is patently absurd. New Heinlein wouldn't have that kind of crust.
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May 13, 2025 at 5:13 am
(May 13, 2025 at 4:27 am)Fireball Wrote: I saw where Connie Willis was touted as the "New Heinlein"; I forget where. This is patently absurd. New Heinlein wouldn't have that kind of crust.
I remember when they said the same thing about Joe Haldeman. Pfft.
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May 13, 2025 at 5:28 am
(May 13, 2025 at 5:13 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 13, 2025 at 4:27 am)Fireball Wrote: I saw where Connie Willis was touted as the "New Heinlein"; I forget where. This is patently absurd. New Heinlein wouldn't have that kind of crust.
I remember when they said the same thing about Joe Haldeman. Pfft.
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It took me awhile to figure out where you current sig came from. Pterry, now there's a story writer! For the life of me, I can't understand how I didn't discover his writing until 2018. 
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