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Please be respectful to others with differing opinions. 

Frank Wiley

Happy Birthday Devil Dog!!

Randy Edwards

Happy Birthday JIm! Just consider it the Spirit of 76! And you've got spirit.

Jim Coats

Thanks again for the birthday wishes!!

I understand that Governor Precious....sorry....Gov. Newsom has appointed Laphonza Butler to Diane Feinsteins vacated senate seat.  I'm the first to admit that I am NOT a student  of Political Science.  I live and die by the "hit me....I hit back" code.  Additionally, I didn't even graduate from college.  So there's my resume.

However, I did notice that Ms. Butler is a member of the LGBTQ+ "community".  LGBTQ+.......that's a pay channel, right??  Like Paramount+?

DeWitt Bacon

Dennis.

I knew Bill back in Monte Vista. We were in the same early classes together and although not close friends, he was friendly and we got along well with each other. I don't remember him a lot at Camelback, but he was there. i don't know if he remembers me but I remember him well. He was very intelligent. I heard he became a neurosurgeon. 

DeWitt Bacon

Jim. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU OLD MAN. Oh, wait. I'm 76, too. lol

Jim Coats

Katie.  Re: your #10996.  VERY wise words, indeed!  Thank you!

Michael Wetzel

Jim C.,

 Sorry for having missed your B.D. Have not been feeling up to par lately, ( Sorry excuse I know ). I do hope you had a wonderful day youngster, and I know you will have many more !....

As far as the lgbtq+ channel ( Which I'm sure is part of the Disney Network ), ALL of the Christians I know, including myself of course, believe that is a channel that leads straight to' hades' !......................

Earl Harris III

Jim,

Happy birthday.  Katie's comments are true. Made me smile.

I enjoyed reading you post, #10991. Nice thought.

Like they say, "Never say never!" It "could" happen. I'll stop with saying it "might," but you "never" know. It's not "impossible ". Nothing is impossible.
 

Earl

Dennis Moran

Jim Coats, happy birthday sorry I didn't come up with a sunday funnie for you. Your sense of humor has made me all the better. Hope the Duchess has made your favorite meal. And having the remote in a reachable area will aid in your age develpment.  The grandkids have let me watch my favorite cartoons but, don't like the news.  So fox and cnn will have to develop without me.  What news i get is from Nora O'Donald and occasionaly I get to see the white house briefing with a little pentagon thrown in. Getting older means talking to oneself a lot more and the the wife saying What. Happy Birthday....I have a exra spare  of suspenders for your birthday

Dewitt, thanks for the information about Bill.....I wouldn't of known him....don't remember him in "C" english.  Steve Tilley was the only brain I knew and he was awsome. Then and now.

Its time for some capital work on Social Security... From what I read (ref; Motley Fool) its not the government stealing from Social Security (ref;SS) it appears the fund has taken more money than it has paid out since 1983 But, when your getting interest at 2.85% on your assets because you have to invest in Government special bonds and certificates that run for 1 to 15 years.   Then you need to see the writting on the wall.  Its called inflation( whoever fueled it was alone) if a bank can get 3 to 4% or more on a conservative investment then we have the wrong people and need to replace the old bonds as they mature into higher interest generating bonds and certificates.  Thats the first thing i would do...

I'm not sure I want to send funds to in the amounts seen presently to the Ukrainian militay (i know alot of that is in vehicles and planes) but we are supporting their economy.  And we are not supporting our economy  How many of our citizens have to line up to get a care pkg. Its not a matter of companies needing people but companies that see profit before people.  Common sense please.

The boarder is taking way too much funds for handouts...yes our families were part of the wet back revolution from Europe. but we werent paying the cartels for each little hand out we give back.  At the boarder send them back...they get in they have to pay the cartels.  We have kids here that deserve a lot of that money giveaways.

Now I wasn't one who would get many grades above "C" but it sure beat a D or F. School was hard for me cause I was stuborn-much like I am today.. and I was a prove it person.  I did want to be a physician but my math skills were some where around a rock.  I just couldn't accept the laws... yep a real law breaker.

Welcome Bill Bonfield, I know a little more about you now and am looking forward to your oppion...be aware that if i see someone attacking I get my Irish up and say something.  Im into respect and respecting that another person may have a different view than I.

Well its time to sign off form another book report...but, I still like Northwest Passage and the Indians playing lacross with body parts.

Dennis

Jim Coats

DeWitt (re:  Bill Bonfield)....and Dennis (nice post....well, interesting anyhow!).  I could be wrong (rarely am), but I think Bill Bonfield is a shrinkologist...."not that there's anything wrong with that" (to quote Jerry Seinfeld), but I can't verify it because he deleted all personal info from the CHS site.  Maybe a little cyber-stalking thru Google if you're interested.

Frank Wiley

Jim, I noticed that on ms. Butlers website that she/he lists her residence as Maryland.  Noted that she/he does own a home in California.  I guess it is probably o.K. To be a Senator from a state in which you're not a resident based on Hillary's precedent??   Secondly Jim, Remember if you ever forget your age-----There we're 76 Trombones in the Big Parade"!   Next year we can remember because it will be 77----------------------------------Sunset Strip!!  I know, that was Kooky!

Jim Coats

Frank.  Somehow I knew you would fall back and pun.   

BTW......NO question that senate candidate Butler will get in.  None whatsoever.  She'll have her subscription to "I Don't Know What The F**k I'm Doing Here" magazine delivered to a P.O. Box in San Francisco and that'll do it. 

Oh, and how about that black guy, Phillip Washington, with NO aviation experience being nominated for the position of FAA boss?  Pandering at its finest.  His nomination was withdrawn after some "Are You Sh***ing Me?" questioning from Republicans who discovered he did not know if one is to get ON an airplane or IN an airplane.  Rumor has it that he also did not know how to define a man....much less a woman, but that was decided NOT to be germane to the hearing.

$4.92/gal for regular here in North Scottsdale, AZ.  

2.40 million Southwest Land Border encounters in FY 2023.  Contrast with 2.38 million in FY 2022.  NO telling about the "gotaways."  The left will spin that to say....See?  It's slowing down!  ONLY 20,000 more....that we know of.

JUST GO BRANDON!!**

SECURE THE BORDER!!  ENFORCE THE LAW!!  AMERICA FIRST!!  PARENTS RIGHTS!!  FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

**Factoid:  The safest town to live in in South Dakota is Brandon, SD.  Just sayin'.  If nothing else, I am fair and give credit where credit is due.....except to college students.

Bill Kaehler

Happy Birthday Jim!  Just so you know, it has been scientifically proven that people who have birthdays live longer.

Dennis Moran

Well today i joined the dense network... thats the too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time. I looked over Jim post and saw Mr. Butters and thought how does Leopold butters Stotch a character on Sout Park have something to do with Gov same oldstom.  oops it was a senior moment for me.  Jim your birthday is wearing off on me... thank god Im senile already.   Thank goodness i put on underwear this morning...and Im sure it was clean..

As a super hero, its been really tough wearing the spandex double knit it is restricting my blood flow...and its a bitch when im flying.... how many times can a god like person hear your zipper is down... well im at 12 now.

Mr. Butters or Mrs. Butters or for that matter pronoun Buttters.   damm im getting hungry butter popcorn hmmmm.

My next story would be whats it like to have a relative working at a bud store... sorta proud for an ex brownie eater.still remember the green stuff flakes falling out.  I guess its like being canadian and having a relative working at a state liquor store.

hugs and chocolate cigarette papers.

Dennis.

P.S. if i had hair id ask for a comb Frank....but, im just a hipster and Connie Steven of Hawaian Eye oh my

Michael Kelly

i remember Bill Bonfield from Monte Vista. He was tall, and he became a very fast runner in the 100 yard dash. Greg Youmans ahd he competed and were almost dead heat all the time. As Coats said, Bill became a Shrinkologist.  I remember that he got an accelerated Scholarship from High School to a School where he completed undergrad for Pre-Med, and then became a Doctor and then specialized in Shrinkology. My brother Mark ran into Bill at a State Run Mental Hospital where my brother worked as a Security Guard. The occasional potential Escapee was the oblect of my brotner's Job of prevention. My brother told me that one day on one of the Wards one of the detainees/patients was attempting to Escape, and he was a Husky, Football player type and was hell-bent on diving through a window because he was Suicidal. My brother said he wound up in the  unenviable position of having to stop this resourceful Diver who was running full ahead speed for a window, where my brother was pretty sure he would be successful in diving through. My brother said he really needed the Job as it was helping him pay for college, so my brother tackled this Arizona version of  Jim Brown, and wrestled him to the Floor, but the fellow was extremely strong, so my brother said that as a last gap measure to subdue this madman, he began tickling the fellow's feet. Well, it worked, between laughter and cussing, my brother was able to keep him pinned down until help arrived and he was brought under control.Thereafter my brother avoided this fellows place on the Ward for he remained Angry at my brother for stopping him. It was while working  at this Hospital that my brother met Bill Bonfield who mentioned that he knew me and some of my knowledge comes second hand to me from my brother's meeting Bill there. 

I remember seeing a Movie with Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro, where Billy plays a Shrinkologist, and DeNiro is a Top Leader of all the Crime Families in New York. DeNiro meets Crystal in a car accident scenario and confides in him that he has break downs that are unpredictable where he begins crying uncontrollably and he i afraid one of the other gangsters will see his Weakness and will Moidah him. He hires the hesitant Billy Crystal to help him cure his uncontrolled crying. During the dialogue with Crystal, DeNiro tells Crystal that he really needs his help to stop the crying, But he threatens Crystal and says "Dont get any crazy ideas Doc, I don't want you treating me and turning me into one of them there Homosexuals, or I'll have to Kill You." Analyze This is the name of the Movie I believe, and it is a Very Funny Movie.

Bill RIHS

Dennis, your sense of humor and writing style is really funny and unique. Keep it coming. Another democrat proving their IQ or unthical behavior. He pulled the fire alarm to get in the the House Chamber to vote. This ex-principle didn't know anything about fire alarms. Right?

Jim Coats

Bill Kaehler.  Re: your #11009.  FINALLY....logic I can understand and live with (pun intended).

DeWitt Bacon

Perhaps Bill Bonfield can weigh in on his profession. I didn't have any contact with him after school. All I know is that When my son had a severe head injury in Las Vegas I was told by a classmate, (I don't remember who) that I should contact him because he was a neurologist at Barrows Institute in Phoenix. I didn't, of course. I had no way to contact him, and my son had a competent team of three Neurologists on his case. He passed away after a couple of weeks in the hospital. Perhaps I was thinking of someone else.

A Shrinkologist is someone who deals with diet and eating disorders, which is a far cry from being a neurologist.

Jim Coats

SECURE THE BORDER!!  ENFORCE THE LAW!!  AMERICA FIRST!!  PARENTS RIGHTS!!  FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

P.S.  DeWitt.  I can never tell when you're joking.....e.g. shrinkologist.

Frank Wiley

I've never discussed Business with my son.  My Son has not done business with anyone in China.  Etc., Etc.  So why did Biden lie unless he knows he's guilty??  The difference between Lyin Biden and Trump is that if Biden is found guilty of pay for play (and I'd bet a bunch he is.) Biden was an elected official---Trump wasn't when the Real Estate transactions were taking place.  Big difference!!

Bill RIHS

I saw an interview with Hillary on one of the lame stream media stations say that Putin will interfere with the 2024 election to help Trump. Wasn't she the one that pushed that naritive when she lost in 2016? Oh and she lost because of that interference. Remember the Russian dossier? Lies proven. Trust Dems? Not me!

Michael Kelly

What we can use as a Defining moment re; Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory has occurred in the House of  Representitives where Kevin McCarthy has just been fired as Leader of the House of Representatives and who will be next? Matt Gaetz Chip Roy etc etc etc. Some Democrat such as Jamaal Brown (D) NY the Twit who pulled the Fire Alarm yesterday? 

Dennis Moran

What if the South won the Civil War

I don't believe it would of happened do to the number of people who arrived in Boston, Philladelphia, and New York. And yes, many immigrants made it to the South States. The plantation South didn't attract the common Joe or Shawn in this case; because the work they would find would give them the rating of below a slave.  Of the Irish who would toil in fields they would be indentured but not in the terms of Assets as a slave.  Many a plantation owner would use these immigrants for the dangerous jobs.. why risk a slave when an Irishman would do. The Other immigrants would be from  a wealthier class as in relatives.So having large amounts of people to fight would be a problem.  This was an agricultural place unless you considered a cotton gin heavy manufacturing.

The North had access to many people (a major reason the Native Americans couldn't win the Indian Wars). With a huge industrial base lots of people were hired and not at a Protestant wage when hiring a Catholic would be far cheaper. President Lincoln used this industrial base to produce multiple weapons that would revolutionize what damage could be done to cities and people.  The President could of been the president of the American Rifle Association.

But,  If the South won; the country would of moved into a greater agricultural base...yes some manufacturing; mainly agricutural..  Slavery would of continued and many companies would of acqired the use of a slave working class.  No KKK, No Black Lives Matters.  

Sports would be White...(the slaves wouldn't be permitted; since work would of taken all their time)

Women I don't believe would of been given the vote (they would of been on a pedestal)  Non whites wouldn't of wanted to enter the New Confederate States of America; being other than white would have no benefits.

Being a Liberal never would take hold  I do believe the LGBTQ would belong with in the sexual industry along with prostitution.

The Indians would of won the Indian Wars and would of retained their tribal lands.. Yes people would of moved to the west and they would of been people who did't agree with the the above.

Im glad the Union won, well except for the numbers of unwanted and illegal trespassers  But, I would prefer not having the extremes in Liberal and Conservative thoughts and actions.

Dennis 

P.S the Native Americans acturally won...the money from gambling has bought back better land than what they were given in;  Hey I got a reservation for you..

Frank Wiley

Growing up and living in the Phoenix Metro area almost my whole life where we had almost no Fall Colors, one of the things I like most about living in a place surrounded by giant Aspens, Oak, and Maples is the colors this time of the year.  Every day we are seeing the colors change beautifully, especially as the breezes move the leaves as the Sunlight hits them.  Even the Ponderosa Pines seem more beautiful as they contrast the Fall Colors.

Frank Wiley

Sorry, but I have to share this!!  I saw a nice looking woman outside the Courthouse in NYC holding up a sign.  "Every Man with testicles will be voting for Donald Trump in 2024 and every Woman with testicles will be voting for Joe Biden in 2024."