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Ok, GAME OVER! We have a winner! ?

Wait... You guys turn your music off at night??? ?

"A small plane crashed into a cemetery yesterday. Investigators have already found 200 dead with more expected!"

Liked that! Listened a few times too. Will have to go off and find the album I figure! ?

Never question the logic of Google's YouTube algorithms! ?

It's mostly a Southern California thing. I had mine on three vehicles (a sports car, a 4-Runner, then the one below). Now that I'm out of that state, I wouldn't think of getting one again. Oh well.

I think this could be more accurate. ?

Aw, c'mon Bill! Don't fear the Reaper! ?

But is that worse than this? ?

Poor Steve... Must be drowning in debt...

I have Studio Five 1. Sorry.

Now I understand what the musical terms "scales" and "hooks" mean. (And here I always thought "500 Pound Test" was in regards to what the drum riser could hold! ? )

"Another cardinal error has been made!" ~ Wibbles probably ?

Oh definitely! Totally against Latinos obviously! I mean, isn't "El bow" Spanish for something? ? (For the mentally dull, yes, I'm only kidding!)

And this should handle the rest, ya?

To the rescue? Or not. ?

No, S.L.I.P.! No!!! ?

(Dang! I was sooo ready to post Beethoven's 9th!!! ? )

I'm not sure you can decently chat about philosophy while being completely sober! ?

Anyone using CNN as a "source" needs to start using their brain instead. I've saved several instances where they literally show the exact opposite of what really happened (I save the actual video as well). They've gotten so bad (especially after some videos of their employees talking have come to light) that they are close to losing their "news" designation and may soon have to be called an "entertainment" channel. Since this thread will be locked down very soon, I thought about this, decided against it, then changed my mind again. Here are MY opinions, which I have no problem standing behind: First a short story. We used to have an immigration attorney firm as one of our IT clients (I met lots of good people there over the last four years). Needless to say, their staff is made up of many different colors and cultures. Once, as I was walking by the front desk, there were about a dozen people chatting and the main receptionist made the comment "Well, Craig's not a racist!" I stopped and corrected her. "Actually, I must admit I AM a racist!" (That got a few breath intakes.) She figured I was probably joking and pointed at one of the attorneys down the hall who happens to be black and said "What? You have a problem with someone like Kenny?" To which I replied "No, we're the same race!" She naturally followed with "But, he's black and you're not..." So I explained: "Black and white are only colors. We're both from the human race. I just have a problem accepting extra-terrestrials." That made several of them chuckle and then go "Ahh..." They had never thought of it that way. Next, a second story from about 25 years ago. As I was walking by a large cubicle, someone said "Hey, let's ask Craig!" So, this one young lady (who was black, a prior model and a sharp business analyst) asks me "Do you ever watch BET?" I replied that I didn't have a clue what that channel was. She looked at the others and said "See?" then turned to me and said it was Black Entertainment Television. So I told her that I would never watch a racist channel. It had never even occurred to her that the name of the channel itself was the very definition of racism. I told her that the test was simple: What would happen if a channel called White Entertainment Television was created? People would be in an outrage. The discussion went on to the very popular term (back then) of African-American and whether that sounded better than saying "black." I replied that there was nothing wrong with it for those with dual citizenship from those countries. She smirked a little and asked "So, I shouldn't call myself that?" I asked where she lived in Africa fully knowing that she was born and raised in the good 'ol U. S. of A. (in fact she's related to a baseball player, ended up marrying one and has both Mohammed Ali's daughter and Ken Norton's daughter as two of her best friends). She said that it didn't have to mean you had citizenship, that it indicated a cultural heritage. My reply was "Ah, ok. In that case, please refer to me as a Dutch-English-American then." Then, after her puzzled, but inquiring pause, I added "What? Do we all look alike?" That got a good laugh but, as I said, she was a very sharp girl and liked the points made. As an interesting addendum to that last story, if you go back far enough into history, then we're ALL supposed to be "out of Africa" since that's supposedly the birth place of humans (sorry "Native Americans," but you're just older immigrants to America - via the ice bridge between Alaska and Russia from what I've read). The final nail in my coffin might be this: I look at everything going on and it ALL screams of an agenda. Everything is backwards. You have a bunch (of well meaning and, from what I've seen, nice) enthusiastic people wanting to be anti-racist while aligning themselves in a racist group (for the same reasons mentioned above). You have another bunch of soon-to-be prison inmates going around claiming to be anti-Facists when they are the very definition of Facism. Next you get a lot of glorification for a convicted criminal, repeat offender who happened to get murdered (yes, murdered) during the process of committing a Federal crime while on drugs and resisting arrest. In case you don't know, both Floyd and the officer that killed him worked at the same nightclub (Floyd as a bouncer and Chauvin as security in his off-time). There's no way in my mind that they didn't know each other and I wouldn't be surprised if the charges get rightly upgraded to 1st degree murder. If you look at Chauvin's record, he has a lot of complaints (18?) with some requiring disciplinary action. Neither should be used as examples for anything let alone what they've been painted to stand for. We're ALL originally from the same stock (unless you also believe that there was a second, master race - which there IS some evidence of...). Our uniqueness in color, cultural heritage and spirituality/religion is currently being used against us purely to cause division. As Julius Cesar said, "Divide and conquer!" I have faith in mankind (which, also, is NOT a sexist statement... *sigh...*) that eventually people will resume thinking for themselves and realize who the real puppet-masters are and what they're trying to do to everyone else. Unfortunately, we're dealing with more than one generation that has been seriously brain-washed primarily by school teachers and mass media into being idiotic sheep. 90% of the comments I read on various social sites merely spit out opinions that were provided by mass media, the vast majority of which are exactly opposite of reality. Oh well... there's so much more, but I think I've sealed the lock, ya? And you now have my opinion on all this stupidity.