dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I'm beginning to think "acknowledge-ur-ma" is nothing but a stuffed shirt. He (as in the default pronoun for he or she in the English language before the left changed the meaning of words) sounds as if he could be one of those professors warping the minds of American youth. But based on his handle, at least he honors his mother. Does anyone think it is a she?

kankune Loc: Iowa

Heck...its way too much work for my brain to work out. Frankly, I dont care to put that much pressure on it. Man.....Woman....

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

I find that liberals here like to hide what sex they are. Insecurity?
Goes with their dishonest tendencies, to hide things for what ever reason.

kankune Loc: Iowa

Couldnt agree with you more.

Mikeyavelli

Uh, lefties don't know what sex they are, or should be, or want to be. They are gender fluid, and no one is supposed to notice.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

So True. Things are not always what they appear to be. Shootings are not always done by right-wing nut jobs even though the media tries to portray them as such. Jussie Smollett!

Last night, CBS Evening News, with Anchor Nora O'Donnell, ran another story to recap and remind everyone about the recent shootings in Gilroy CA, El Paso Texas, and Dayton Ohio.

The very next story was about the NRA. How convenient! I'm not a huge fan of the NRA. I prefer the NAGR (National Association for Gun Rights). Nevertheless, the placement of this story about the NRA made me think it was not a coincidence because it painted the NRA in a bad light.

CBS reported about an ongoing controversy within The NRA whereas Wayne LaPierre, the Executive Director, has allegedly used NRA members dues to purchase, over the past 10 years, nearly $300,000 in designer clothing.

Oliver North Resigned as President of the NRA in June, and two other Board of Directors members stepped down last month amid the controversy that apparently became known through memos released last May. At least, that seems to be what the report suggested. The memos may or may not have been released to the public shortly after they were written.

I don't know the actual timing of the memo's release. However, this suggests to me that CBS has known about the memos and was just waiting for the right moment to report on them so as to further their anti-gun agenda buy embarrassing the NRA.

Now, I could be wrong and it was all just a coincidence. ?

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

acknowledgeurma

I'm not sure how you got the idea that I "come from privileged wealth". As best I can tell, my ancestors were what might be called waste people, white trash, crackers, redemptioner and indentured servants, people drawn from debtor prisons and dumped in British America. All might be called peasants or proletarians. So I didn't "come from privileged wealth". My secret to wealth - lucky connections.

acknowledgeurma

What exactly is a "stuffed shirt"?

acknowledgeurma

Perhaps they don't want to arouse your pornographic imaginations? Save you from the sin of lustful thoughts?

flash

Apparently they arouse yours.

acknowledgeurma

To be honest, I like to "hide things" from some of the people who post on OPP because they scare me.

acknowledgeurma

Mostly just fear.

acknowledgeurma

My preferred pronouns are they, them, and their. We like the implication of royalty (as in, we are not amused). The meaning of words change, helped along by both left and right, upstanding and downtrodden.

As for warping minds, we prefer to have the youth warp ours.

ur: a combining form meaning “earliest, original,” used in words denoting the primal stage of a historical or cultural entity or phenomenon: ur-civilization; urtext.

With our nom de OPP, we acknowledge the original mother (the proverbial Eve).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_(name)
"Eve /iːv/ is an English given name for a female, derived from the Latin name Eva, in turn originating with the Hebrew חַוָּה (Chavah/Havah – chavah, to breathe, and chayah, to live, or to give life). The traditional meaning of Eve is "living"."

"Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4470128

"nothing but a stuffed shirt"? Hmm, we'll have just the shirt, please, leave off the stuffing and gravy.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stuffed%20shirt

stuffed shirt: a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

smug:
1 : highly self-satisfied
(at our age, were we not to some degree self-satisfied, we would be miserable)
2 : trim or smart in dress : SPRUCE
(we're looking good in our overalls)
3 : scrupulously clean, neat, or correct : TIDY
(at least once a week)

conceited:
1 : ingeniously contrived : FANCIFUL
(What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so. - Hamlet (2.2.295-302), Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)

2 : having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself
(see above under highly self-satisfied)

pompous:
1 : excessively elevated or ornate
(we live in a simple single level dwelling and rarely go into the attic)

2 : having or exhibiting self-importance : ARROGANT
(we have been assured of our importance by others)

3 : relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : MAGNIFICENT
(well of course, see above under ingeniously contrived)

Mikeyavelli

Pedantic.