Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Originally Posted by James Brown

I'm calling BS on this.  You may be crass and churlish Richard, but there is no way I believe you would call an actual learning-impaired child a retard.  Either to his or her face, or when in a serious conversation about the child, or within ear shot of the child's mother. 

Even you recognize that this word, like so many others from our youth, has evolved out of polite discourse.  Jim 

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Finally someone took the bait on this term, albeit a friend and decent guy. 

I have been lectured before about using this term by a friend (and decent person) who objected to my usage of the term retard. NOBODY today would call a mentally disabled person a "retard" for the very reason that it is used as a pejorative, and only a pejorative, The term has been 100% appropriated by modern culture as meaning a hopelessly clueless person. I see no reason to stop using it since it has been purged as a medical term long ago. How does this demean someone with a disability then. How am I wrong here?

BTW, if we shame-ban the word retard at this point, teenage boys will just use the current term for a mentally disabled person as a new pejorative and it will stick. I'm guessing they already do. Let's just stick with retard since it is never used as a medical term anymore and in the common vernacular. 

I'm sorry, but especially today, we need a stinging label for an idiot and this has been used by my generation forever. Give me a good reason to stop using it and I will.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

A lowlife weasel.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrible-president-even-worse-human-being-lisa-boothe-tears-into-biden?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_campaign%3Ddaily_shapiro

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Agreed Darian.  I didn't want the left's collective heads to explode though by being more accurate about Joe Biden.  

In fact I think I stepped in something outside on my lawn recently that smelled really bad so I scraped it off on the curb, and all I could think was thank God I only stepped in that, rather than a pile of Joe Biden!   LOL   

Originally Posted by James Brown

Did you watch the Purdue v. Penn State game?  Seven lead changes.  Better use of my time than any political speech since maybe the Gettysburg Address.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Chicago is the city they always like to pick on and to be fair, Chicago does have a real gun violence problem, but Illinois has a firearm death rate of 14.1 per 100,000. It is 27th in the overall ranking.

The top ten states are almost 2x higher than Illinois, they are all red states, and the only common denominator I can see is probably poverty and gun ownership rates.

1. Mississippi - 28.6
2. Louisiana - 26.3
3. Wyoming -25.9
4. Missouri - 23.9
5. Alabama - 23.6
6. Alaska - 23.5
7. New Mexico - 22.7
8. Arkansas - 22.6
9. South Carolina - 22
10. Tennessee - 21.3
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27.  Illinois - 14.1

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Well.....in this case Joe is correct. Less than 24 hrs ago regular was 2.99 at the cheapest place in town. The rest of town varies from 3.09 to 3.24

Diesel which I use is still 4.45 though which is ridiculous......

Originally Posted by Amadeo Aznar

Dear Sirs,
I would like to post a classified. I have a dome for selling.
Please, could you tell me the way to post it?
Many thanks.

Amadeo

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Boy, we have midterms coming up fast and there is little to no traffic here on the AM politics forum. Haven't heard from Mel in a while, I hope he is OK. Are Darian and Greg still out there? Looks like the screamer is taking a break or is out on maneuvers getting ready, but without his crazy assed rants this place practically ceases to exist. I have no astronomy equipment to sell and recently re-upped my $15 bucks and the only forum that is semi-active here is in the process of dying, too.