Definition of Opinion:  A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.

Please be respectful to others with differing opinions. 

Lester Cox

I agree with Condaleeza Rice as a pick for our first female president. Classy and very smart. She leads the Hoover Institute which has some brilliant think tank members, Victor Davis Hansen among them. A guy I have worked with and for over the past 45 plus years, Michael Tennenbaum, funds a program at Hoover titled "Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy. Only strike against her is her part ownership in the Denver Broncos who beat up my Chiefs this year. That would not be enough to keep me from voting for her. 

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

I could vote for Condi Rice anytime and especially since she is part owner of the Broncos  .

Bill RIHS

I agree! Condi Rice would get my vote!

Mary Powers (Evans)

Jim and other Android Users--I recently noticed a pop-up "View Reading Mode" when using my Android phone for the Forum.  When I clicked on it, the text came up in a quite readable font size.  

Jim Coats

Mary.  Where did the pop-up occur and what window were you in?  Were you all the way in to MESSAGE FORUM?

I have pretty much given up on the @#!!?! thing healing itself and I just turn the phone to a Landscape-like view.  Works OK, but I'm still not happy.

Thanks for the heads-up.  

Michael Kelly

As for who the next President is, they better damn well not be Soft on Communism or Socialism, no "havawd educated" international genius, who will get us into a War by being in the 'How Much Money Can I Make Club" and sell out people in the process. Maybe if they Could Clone Harry Truman it would be a good think. 

DeWitt Bacon

Condoleezza Rice could be a good choice for President, but there are a few I would rather support than her. Sometimes it's hard to tell where she really stands on some issues. JD Vance will be the apparent frontrunner and will have my support, but there are others that I would consider as well. We still have a couple of years to go, so I'll wait and see how things play out.

Mary Powers (Evans)

Jim, yes, I was in the Message Forum after tapping the tiny "Message Forum" on the opening screen.  Unfortunately the pop-up for reading mode doesn't do its job of popping-up every time.  Your landscape work-around is a good alternative.  

Frank Wiley

I saw our theme picture of the day is for Groundhog Day.  What other country is as goofy as ours and celebrates GHD?                             Canada

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

Groundhog Day is rooted in an ancient European Christian celebration known as Candlemas (Feb. 2), which occurs halfway through winter and spring. It commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem as a light to the people of Israel. Christians traditionally take their candles to church to be blessed and used for the rest of the year.

I just happened to see this earlier today...   Who would have quessed?

Bill RIHS

Thank you Patty, interesting. I had no idea where that came from.👍

Frank Wiley

Hi Patty, Now that makes a lot more sense than dressing up in formal attire, standing in freezing temperatures, and checking the shadow of a groundhog!

DeWitt Bacon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYWSmtuPBU

I came across this gem this morning, and it brought back memories of early school days. Although it may differ from our personal experiences in places, I remember what it was like back then. And wish it still was today.

Jim Coats

It's Terry Abair's Birthday!

I don't know you, but I seem to remember you joining in on the "FUN" a few years ago on the Message Forum.

Well, I found an old birthday card that I saved ffor some reason.  I may have tweaked it a bit.  It's not personal.  I just need to get it off my phone

You put your left leg in and your back goes out;

You're farting like a trooper and you've got a dose of gout;

You're running out of puff, but you blow your candles out;

That's what it's all about!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TERRY.  Here's to many more you old fart.

Frank Wiley

I don't have any classic poems but Happy Birthday Terry!

Frank Wiley

I'm reading a new book and so far it's good.  "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson.

DeWitt Bacon

Jim, I remember different words to that tune from when we danced to it in music class at Monte Vista, but your rendition sure makes sense now. lol. I don't dare try the Hoky Poky now.

Michael Wetzel

Did everyone enjoy the ' awful rabbit ' half time show ?........

Bill RIHS

Micheal W., I did not watch any of it. I watched the game in a bar in Prescott. When halftime started ever tv in the bar tuned into the TP half time show.

Jim Coats

Hated the halftime show.  Wish I had access to TP, but we were at someone's house who were diehard Seahawks fans (most everyone was) and they controlled the TV.  Nobody there liked halftime.  There were 14 old farts there.  Julie won $65 in a pool (not swimming) or whatever it's called.

Frank Wiley

It was the worst halftime ever.  It was interesting that after the show there was a view of Roger Goodell walking somewhere in the stadium and he looked really angry.

Lester Cox

This was Bill O'Reily on the Super Bowl halftime show. From Bill.....

The enormous wealth being generated by established internet media companies has never been seen before.  Billions in profits are being generated.  And now that wealth has crossed over into Bad Bunny land.

But the bad guy was paid nothing by the National Football League for his halftime performance. Nothing. He received about $1,000 a day for rehearsal expenses.

But the Bunny will soon hop on over to the bank because of Apple, and that is the story. CEO Tim Cook cooked up a deal with the NFL whereby close to $100 million Apple dollars flowed to the league for advertising, but most of all, to feature Bad Bunny at halftime.

Spotify and other Apple outlets are the reason why.

Cook understands that demand for whatever the Bunny is shouting about will now explode worldwide on his Apple Music service, closing in on the musician’s Spotify success. Right now, Spotify is the primary Bunny Hutch.  

They’ll be rapping about Puerto Rico in Thailand. Cha-Ching.

Now you know the rest of the story. Money, indeed, makes the world go round.

Michael Wetzel

Bill, just to let you know, I also watched TP at half time. You could not pay me enough to watch that other shit........

Michael Kelly

I set out when the name of Bad Bunny was bantered around to Avoid the bold faced Try by the NFL to give what the upper echelons deem is thier Due on behalf of the League to promote Whatever type of Equality so that peope wont be angry at us. STFW. We have been force fed the idea that us Caucasians are to blame for whatever is wrong in the World, and Im sick of it. When I heard that he supposedly said that if we didn't understand his Language we had just better learn it because he would not bother to say anything in English and it was our Job tu make an effort to understand him. I smiled. I do know some of his lingo, and so I was surprised when Trump did not dress him up on Facebook in a Sombrero, and a Dress. 

David Rainwater

Best wishes for another Arizona statehood day!  114 years and still counting.  Could use a little sun over here.