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Yes it is. Look on the house. There are two signs. One on the second floor and one on the first.

The empty sign is a graffiti board he put up that is open to the public to write on and nothing is written yet.

The empty sign is on the right and the house is on the left.

The gun toting hillbilly is just to the lower right of the bottom sign on the house and to the left of the empty sign.

Picture of the sign is in the link posted in #6 above

This just dropped on August 19th on Netflix. It's eight episodes.

America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys

Scandals, Super Bowls, and a team's rise and fall:
The untold story of the '90s Cowboys is finally here.

I'm on episode six.
Been some eye opening stuff I didn't know.

@#6 There's another sign below that says "YOU WANTED THIS FELON. NO CRYING. LYING PIECE OF ---- MAKES US ALL ### ###" and interestingly enough, whomever posted that photo felt those last two words needed to be covered up, so I have no idea what that last sentence said. There's also on the sign, "#FDT" which I assume means F*** DONALD TRUMP"

Even more interesting is the guy, who I assume is the owner of the house, is standing out front with shorts, no shirt, bald, long gray beard and holding a rifle with his hand on the trigger. He's about as redneck looking as a redneck can get.

This just dropped on August 19th on Netflix. It's eight episodes.

America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys

Scandals, Super Bowls, and a team's rise and fall:
The untold story of the '90s Cowboys is finally here.

I'm on episode six.
Been some eye opening stuff I didn't know.

So Patrick requiring people to stand and be expelled if they don't, would seem to be a religious type command, as per #18 above. Not good.

And surprise of all surprises, even a Baptist website has a problem with him doing this.

"The group reminded Patrick that he once walked out of the Texas Senate chamber during its first Muslim prayer in 2007, saying at the time that even standing respectfully would appear to be an "endorsement" of the prayer.

Line said such hypocrisy is par for the course for Patrick"

@#16 Lamplighter... Well, as I heard one pastor preach, "If you ever go to a church and they tell you 'you can't do this' or 'you must do this' then RUN...Get out of there! Because they've just destroyed Christianity by turning it into a religion, and it's not. Christianity is a relationship. Deitric von Bonhoeffer who was a Lutheran pastor in Nazi Germany, led a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler. While in prison he started writing a book about how the Nazis had managed to infiltrate the preaching of the Lutheran church by twisting the arms of the pastors. Bonhoeffer noted that the church was too organized and "religious." His title for the book was, "Religiousless Christianity."

Religion, with it's rules and regulations, is something Jesus called out as wrong. From the people who tried to stone a woman, because according to "religious rules" that's what you were supposed to do to an adulterer, to the people who shunned a woman bleeding for months which under Jewish law meant she was "unclean" and therefore an outcast, to constantly associating with outcasts, hookers, thieves, and those types that the religious deemed unworthy, Jesus called out those following religious "rules" in their mistreatment of people (especially women, since they were the most mistreated, of course.)

He was very much against the legalistic nature of man-made religious stuff. He often got ticked off at the bad religious leadership:

Luke 11:43, "Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the front seats in the synagogues, and the respectful greetings in the market places"

Matt. 7:4, "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

Luke 12:1, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."

Matt. 23:23-24, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness"

Matt. 23:33, "You serpents, you brood of vipers"

Those are just a few examples.

Religion is interested in getting people to serve an organized church.

Religion is fueled by fear. It causes people to focus on not wanting to end up in hell. Fear takes the focus off of Love.

Religion doesn't encourage questions.

Religion focuses on how we should be doing things.

Religion grades righteousness. It enslaves people into performing religious acts, and if you miss a prayer or a Bible study, you feel guilty about it. But "doing" religious stuff to curry God's favor isn't what Jesus taught. Since He taught that it's about a *relationship* between God and His children, that love is unconditional, and "doing" things isn't going to make you loved or not. I mean, do you love your own children or family any more or less based on what they "do?"

Religion causes judgement of others. It can make someone look down on a drug addict, or look up to a religious leader. A comparison game. Jesus was constantly hanging out with those who, even today, people consider "lower than."

So, when I hear people today complain about Christians, they often have legitimate concerns because I hear them cite Christians behaving in a "religious" sort of fashion (as per above's use of the word "religion.") They cite bigotry, or people being judgemental, or cultism, or supporting the mistreatment of a type of people, or any manner of complaints. Complaints that, even back in the day, Jesus also complained, and spoke out about. Sometimes quite harshly.

Oh, and as an aside...the same pastor I mentioned above also said, "And when anyone walks in through those doors, PLEASE never ask them 'are you saved?' That is none of our business. When they walk in they are family." Which is probably why a lot of atheists and people who weren't Christian felt welcome (with some citing how "judged" they felt in other places of "worship.")

@#9 Corky

I hadn't heard this one before... "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel"

Love it! I'm putting that up there with when He said, "Remove the log out of your own eye, before commenting on the speck in another's"

Another interesting thing to me is when He says, "You snakes! You brood of vipers!" In the language of the day, that's some pretty fierce words...high insults and cursing.... So maybe cursing isn't necessarily a sin...... A quick search on it reveals "Yes, the phrase "You snakes! You brood of vipers!" is considered a strong insult and a form of cursing, as it conveys a harsh judgment against those being addressed, often implying deceitfulness or evil. This expression is used in the Bible to criticize hypocritical religious leaders."

As much as people *rightfully* criticize some Christian leaders...I imagine Jesus would have criticized them harshly as well. In fact, I think most of the issues people have with "religion" in general, Jesus also had severe problems with.

To be sure, modern day Pharisees are alive and well.

So, I personally find it interesting the use of the word "rights" and "power" in the Constitution. It's also interesting that the word "power" wasn't used in the 2nd Amendment, although "well regulated" was. "Rights" usually referred to the people, and "power" referred to things the government did.

I've always been fascinated by this but never really see any discussion on it.

#73 Snoofy,

Do you think that preserving the liberty of owning slaves was virtually the only reason arms were used, or was it one of several big reasons, or just a few reasons with preserving the liberty of owning slaves being the biggest?

I'm not being argumentative...just am genuinely curious......

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Here's a funny, since you brought up Santa Anna...

@#57 Corky... Thanks for the article. I'll have to take a look. Is that the same article as the one that this post was made from? "Most Dangerous Sentence In The Constitution" posted by Retort at the very top... that one points to a New York Times article. Is that the same as in your #57?

No worries about Whataboutism...I just know it's SO easy to be misinterpreted via typed messaging.

The cited article is behind a paywall, and I'm not paying for a subscription. That being said, I'm see a lot of discussion about "well regulated militia."

What do y'all think about the use of the word "right" instead of the word "power" in the 2nd amendment?

Those are the two strong words used throughout the constitution.

Curious what y'all think...

@#46 Corky... No no no, you misunderstand. (One thing about conversations in text, is you can't get across tone of voice, body language..etc..so easy to misinterpret.) I am NOT disagreeing with you at all. I was only adding to what you were saying....sure, right wing extremists maybe be the largest one overall, but to me I don't want to ignore those in 2nd place either...To me it's not an all or nothing thing. Extremists are extremists. They are made up of people who have violent tendancies, and many of them don't care about their "cause" (though they think they do)...their "cause" just provides them an outlet for their need to be violent. Just my opinion on that last part...

Anyways, you had stated that right winger extremists had always been the largest threat, and I was remembering that for about a decade, that the eco terrorists were pretty bad...that's all.

And I apologize, I wasn't meaning to make a whataboutism. Again, I'm not disagreeing with you, nor denying anything you were saying...just adding to it.

"Violent rwing white nationalists have been the largest threat of Domestic Terrorism in this country for several decades now. But that's only according to Homeland Security, the FBI, and every US agency that's ever reported on it."
--Corky
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Violent right-wingers are of course extremely dangerous...but they weren't always considered the number one threat. Of course extremists of any group can be dangerous, whether right-wing, left-wing or chicken-wing. (Because most violent people of these groups, in my opinion, are a bunch of wimpy-azzed chickens looking for a way to wear a black mask and blow up stuff for their mentally deranged entertainment.)

In the 2000's eco-terrorists were considered to be the greatest domestic threat, according to the FBI.

"In 2006 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it considered ecoterrorism by animal rights activists to be the greatest domestic security threat facing the United States. In 2009 an American animal rights activist, Daniel Andreas San Diego, became the first "domestic terrorist" to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list."

Sorry, I just can't resist...

Amish Paradise by Weird Al

From the article

"The Hutterite kids and pregnant moms don't go into the animal barns. Kids aren't really exposed to the animal barns until they're like 12 or so... The Amish kids are in and out of the cow barns all day long from an early age," Ober said.

When scientists analyzed dust samples from Amish and Hutterite homes, they discovered that Amish house dust had nearly seven times more microbes. To test whether this made a difference, they exposed mice to each type of dust. Mice that inhaled Amish dust showed much less inflammation in their airways when exposed to allergens.

Whereas mice exposed to Hutterite dust didn't get that benefit. This strongly suggested that early, regular exposure to certain farm microbes trained the immune system of Amish kids to react calmly instead of aggressively to substances like pollen or food. This phenomenon is called the farm effect.

...by studying the microbes responsible for the farm effect, scientists believe it is possible to replicate the protective effect of the Amish environment. For instance, they could develop proactive solutions, such as probiotics, nasal sprays, or even dust-derived treatments that train a child's immune system in the early years of life.

Since CBS will not be replacing Colbert with another host and are cancelling the Late Show, what will they be showing in that time slot?

CBS recently cancelled After Midnight, again choosing not to replace the host (after she left,) in the 12:35(ET) time slot, instead they are going to be showing Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.

In this case however, CBS won't own the show; nor produce it. Instead, it's leasing the time period out to Entertainment Studios, owner of Comics Unleashed.

This type of transaction is known in the TV business as a "time buy." An outside media company pays the network for the right to put a show on its air, expecting to make up the cost by selling commercial time to advertisers.

What will they be doing to replace the Late Show?

CBS recently cancelled After Midnight (choosing not to replace the host after she left) in the 12:35(ET) time slot, instead they are going to be showing Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.

In this case however, CBS won't own the show; nor produce it. Instead, it's leasing the time period out to Entertainment Studios, owner of Comics Unleashed.

This type of transaction is known in the TV business as a "time buy." An outside media company pays the network for the right to put a show on its air, expecting to make up the cost by selling commercial time to advertisers.

Their not just getting rid of Colbert, they're not going to replace him. The entire show will be cancelled. They canned The Late Late show already. All the late night shows on all networks have seen declining ratings for some time now. Yes, Colbert was number one...and by far. But number one in a declining field. (Links in #25 above.)

In 2024, it was reported that The Late show saw a 32% drop in revenue over the last five years. There's also been a huge drop in younger people watching.

So again, yes, he's number one. But number one in a field where even Fallon has had to go to just new shows on four nights a week (reruns on Friday.) Seth Meyers had to get rid of his live band on his show.

As far back as 2012 budgets were being cut. Jay Leno opted to take a 50% pay cut in his salary (from 30 million/year to $15 million) so that none of his staff would be laid off.

And yes, Colbert may have had a bump up this year in revenue, but over the last several years, they ALL have been declining.

THAT BEING SAID...the timing of this is suspect of course. Right after Colbert criticized CBS, the entire show gets cancelled next year.

So some possibilities are, CBS canned Colbert, and the entire show, as payback. Or CBS was going to do this anyway and it's just a coincidence on the timing. Or CBS was thinking about doing this, and Colbert's comments just gave them the excuse they needed to can the show.

To be honest, Colbert would probably do better as a podcast anyway. Late night talk shows on tv are on a sinking ship. This may be a blessing in disguise for Colbert.

I guess I see multiple things going on with these stories. One the one hand, you have the Guard and the Marines being sent in uninvited.

On the other hand, there's something else to be noticed. What the heck is going on with these de-centralized groups showing up at varies places over the last few years where there are protests and causing violent mayhem? Like the links above stated, they come from out of town, they have nothing at all to do with the real protesters (who are peaceful) and just start doing violent stuff. I don't even think it's a left-wing or a right-wing thing. It's a chickensh*t-wing of people wanting to simply cause chaos. At least that's how it looks. The LA police chief said multiple times that the actual protestors were very peaceful, and that the violence was coming from people who were from out of town.

@#33 Yes, and it is of grave concern. I may not have made it clear when highlighting the links, but neither the LA police nor the California Highway Patrol nor any California official made any requests for either the National Guard or any US military to be sent in.

Oh, without a doubt, Klaus Schulze going solo was a VERY, deeply, massively good thing.

And yeah, the Klaus Schulze & Peter Namlook Dark Side of the Moog project of several albums are quite impressive indeed! Although they are in a different style than Schulze's 1970's stuff. I love all the song titles in the multiple Dark Side albums that all correlate, namewise, with Pink Floyd song titles. (Though musically it's all original stuff.)

BY THE WAY...

If you have Netflix, you might want to look up Bandersnatch. It's a flick where you choose what happens. Set in the 1980's. At one point, the main character goes into a record store and you get to choose if he purchases Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, or The Bermuda Triangle by Tomita...the album you choose ends up being part of the soundtrack from that point forward in the flick. I will warn you though, there are many iterations of what happens in the movie based on your choices, with multiple endings, including secret ones. And sometimes, repeating the same choices if you go back, will lead to different things as well. Personally I like the Phaedra by Tangerine Dream option which goes well with the acid sequence, that is if you find it (and no, I never done acid.) And it's not exactly a happy flick, but it is cool in terms of figuring out which way to go, and with all the scenes that put the background music to great effect.

I didn't know if you knew it or not, but Klause Shulze was an original member of Tangerine Dream before going solo. Here is a link to one of his shorter 1970's pieces (it's only 13 minutes long.....lol...when CD's came out in the 80's he had some pieces that ran 70 minutes...)

Anyways, here he is live in 1977 just sitting on a piece of carpet, surrounded by synths...and just...creates. Definitely if you like Ricochet, you should like this one. And should be able to see the connection to Tangerine Dream for sure.

Found a better link (longer) for the Tangerine Dream live in 1975..