Just in case anyone is unfamiliar:

Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry

So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all

Well, the oppressors are trying to keep me down
Trying to drive me underground
And they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they've done

'Cause, as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all

And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave

So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
Hey, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Hey, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Hey, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all

6'3", 230, my skinny white @ss.

I'm going way back into my faulty memory, but I believe a BellRinger manifestation, among others here, was scoffing at the notion of any imminent climate change effects while the New York subways were full of water.

Trump Slams 'Sick Wacko' Rand Paul.

What, 10, 15, 20 years later? Join the club.

4. What's your stance on abortion rights? Can you give birth?

This thread makes me think of a line that drives a Cream-loving friend of mine crazy:

"Eric Clapton is the worst guitarist that anyone's ever considered good."

"[Afghans] don't want freedom. Only the women do. The men don't. So until someone from their nation can come along and fight and die for their freedom, they will never be free."

Kinda feels like home now, doesn't it?

Boaz: How much time do you spend each day fueling your own fears? Or what's the point of this, other than to attract attention to yourself?

You don't want wackos in Wisconsin worrying about North Carolina, do you? So what's your concern here?

We're a nation of fifty independent states, right. There's no communal thing tying America together anymore, nor do you want one.

This should matter no more to you than what's happening in Burkina Faso.

The Democratic Party often can't find its @ss with both hands. Messaging never a strong suit. So I'm not surprised.

YOUR ideology has ------ up black culture, family unit and individual advancement.
That's not in debate here, it's already acknowledged as fact.

#56 | Posted by boaz

How has Snoofy's ideology fouled up everything Black? No one acknowledges it as fact.

Conservative brainwashing/ideology has convinced you that Black people can't think for themselves and are susceptible to whatever the white devils tell them over and over again. Obviously that generalization is wrong.

Although not in your case. You've swallowed white racism hook, line, and sinker.

Did I read here once that you're biracial? I'm just curious.

"I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

Still, advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia.

"This is not just a bureaucratic change," said Jaylani Hussein, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

My Lai is what Boaz hoped would happen to him in Korea, but then there was that whole Lola thing. . . .

Unfortunately, the Democratic Party disagrees with you.

#87 | Posted by eberly

Only if the United States hasn't had a decades-long misinterpretation of the word . . .

I suspect there's a contingent that wouldn't mind finishing the job on his wife either.

Let's start making pariahs of our astronauts. Fine idea.

And it's only certain places in Charlotte where you have to be armed.

#44 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-24 01:05 PM | Reply |

No one has to be armed. Ask that right-wing numbskull and Putin poofer Stephen Seagal.

Your definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

Ok, so? This in and of itself is a bad thing? The community shouldn't be involved in the means of production, distribution, and exchange? Just our reptilian overlords?

I don't know what you're trying to say.

Frankly, from what I remember from college days, fascism is government control of private industry. PoliSci 101.

BRinger:

Merriam Webster's "fascism": Are you enjoying the move toward this?

a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

I'll take Sweden, thanks.

Skipped right over 71, huh?

Are you using "socialism" to refer to totalitarian communism? Wouldn't surprise me. You associate socialism with the Chinese famine of the 1950s-1960s?

Isn't it time for some grilling tips from you so that you reclaim some semblance of DR humanity?

Mr. Floyd doesn't qualify for the above.

If words have meaning.

Denotation, not connotation.

Merriam Webster, deify

220, 221.

What other artworks do you claim as deification?

I remember taking my wife, born and bred in the Deep South, to NYC for the first time. She reviled in horror at General Sherman's statue in Central Park. To her, he was essentially a terrorist. March to the Sea and all that.

The upcoming generation of Americans seems not to be lacking in amorality. These are people born during the GWB administration. They don't know peace, domestic or foreign.

I'm not leaving out Democrats here. When it comes to foreign policy, Obama was no prize. Lots of Americans in our glorious volunteer army from his time also came home trained in lethal violence and with chips on their shoulders. These dopes are their children.

These kids are scum who will never be good in society. Stomp 'em like roaches. If they like islands, take 'em out to one and leave them there.

"The Harder They Come," a song for the ages.

Db,
There's guesses and educated guesses.
--BillJ

I'd say the same goes for Trump's sexual history. Especially since he's proud of his behavior, as live, unfiltered interviews with Howard Stern and others from many years ago have shown.