Oh! Contrare Mi Amigo! 😂😂

I opened the patio door the other morning at 4 am and a cold blast hit me in the face and froze my eyelashes! LOL! I immediately shut the door and ran to my trunk and dug out my longhandles and toboggan! The long winter had begun! It was 53 degrees! Brrrrrrr! My goodness, it may beat last year’s record and freeze more than once this winter, if that’s any indication!

For now, all is well….it’s a perfect fall day in lower Alabama at a balmy 78 degrees, but it was too windy and the water too rough to get to the spot my husband and son wanted to fish………maybe tomorrow, my son will be here a week! LOL! 🤗

Are you competing for Rumi’s Drama Queen Crown?

Isn’t brain dead troll kinda like stupid or i***t? 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

How many times have I proven that Republicans give more than Democrates………let me count the ways! 😂😂😂

According to Times columnist Paul Sullivan, “Red counties, which are overwhelmingly Republican, tend to report higher charitable contributions than Democrat-dominated blue counties.” Sullivan was referencing a study published last month in the academic journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. The study was a creation of four research professors “who set out to explore how political differences affect charitable giving.” As Sullivan noted in his analysis of the report, the “more Republican a county is, the more its residents report charitable contributions.”

Further about the study, it should be said up front how the researchers acknowledged that in analyzing itemized tax returns in over 3,000 counties, “they were looking at a more affluent slice of donors.” This rates mention given the presumed desire among some to suggest an economic slant to the study’s findings. More realistically, any study of charitable giving is going to have an affluent slant to it when it’s understood how charitable the rich are. As Arthur Brooks showed in his 2006 book Who Really Cares, U.S. households in the top 10 percent of income accounted for at least a quarter of all money donated, while U.S. households with net worths of over a million dollars were the source of over half of all charitable gifts. Brooks’s study also confirmed what the more recent one did: Republicans give more than Democrats do to charity, and do so at all levels of income.

Taken together, the two studies mentioned exist as inconvenient t***hs for those who equate wealth with a lack of charity and/or overall stinginess. America’s rich are plainly quite generous, and then America’s Republican rich are statistically quite a bit more generous than are Democrats. The latter is particularly inconvenient for a left desperate to paint a picture of “rich” and “Republican” as something that’s indicative of haughty disdain for the poor and unwell.

More importantly, it speaks to a crucial difference in philosophy that should have economic implications. Up front, it’s a known quantity that Republicans tend to v**e for politicians expressing a desire to reduce tax rates. Democrats on the other hand v**e for politicians promising to raise tax rates. At least in the past, these v****g patterns were used by some to create the narrative that the Democrats are more giving in light of their desire to pay more in taxes. Such a viewpoint fails in two ways, and realistically many more.

For one, it’s now a known quantity that red counties are much more charitable than blue counties. What this reminds us is that Republicans aren’t not compassionate as much as they think giving should be a personal choice, as opposed to something coerced through taxation. Republicans are clearly big givers, but think they can more expertly give sans governmental oversight.

Second, readers need only consider the entertainment industry. It’s arguably the most monolithically Democratic sector in the U.S., but also one of the most sk**lful when it comes to avoiding taxes. If anyone doubts this, they need only Google “movies made in Georgia.” Needless to say, voluminous production in the Peach State isn’t an effect of better scenery than California. It’s a tax thing. Those still in doubt should then buy Michael Ovitz’s excellent new book, Who Is Michael Ovitz, only to read about why good agents secure for their clients a percentage of “gross” over “net profits.” Without going into detail, sk**lful entertainment-industry accountants can make seemingly any film unprofitable….

Third, it's never been explained what's at all compassionate about arrogating precious resources to Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi over Jeff Bezos and Fred Smith (FedEx). Government wastes, while private actors relentlessly make our lives better when matched with capital.

Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach once quipped that he liked women every bit as much as noted ladies’ man Joe Namath, but chose to stick with one woman. Applied to charity, Republicans are every bit as giving (and as the stats show, more giving) as Democrats are; the huge difference between Republicans and Democrats being about choice. Republicans would apparently prefer freedom to give away more of their disposable income than Democrats do, but would like to do so without politicians and others choosing whom they give to.

Looked at through an economic lens, though there are extremes in both parties, and though politicians in both parties arguably do an awful job of representing their v**ers, the view of the average Republican is the liberal one. As evidenced by their empirically-proven tendency to give in concert with a desire for reduced taxation, Republicans are expressing a desire for individual choice. On the other hand, and if the film industry is at all indicative of Democrats, then it’s apparent that the Democrats would broadly prefer higher taxes that can be avoided through sk**led accounting maneuvers combined with government-enforced giving of the money of others.

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/11/06/wh**ever_you_may_think_of_republicans_dont_call_them_stingy_103479.html

Is there anything that can’t be chicken fried? 😂

Ya gotta give it to us country folks……we know how to make food taste good! 😉

Wouldn’t this be a boring forum if we all agreed with each other! 😂

You know, we have differences in this country, we fuss and even fight sometimes, but when a foreign force attacks us, we come together and we stand together to defend OUR country. The divide is wide and strong right now, but I have no doubt that the majority of Americans would put their differences aside, once again, and fight united as Americans! In My Opinion! They may find out once again that the “sleeping giant” has awoken! 🇺🇸

This is a public forum and this is the religious section! 😂

If you don’t want to face the truth of The Word, Jesus Christ, then go back to the main section! I have no intention to ever stop spreading the Good News!

As far as you accepting who Jesus is, that is your choice, you can look forward to meeting Sodom and Gomorrah! 😉

I’m all ears!

Compare Biden’s success as a Father to Trump’s! Four kids, all four, no drug or alcohol problems, all successful…..and then there is H****r, the joke! 😂😂😂😂😂

But have you been placed on her “ignore list”…….🤷🏻‍♀️

That is when you make the “panties in a wad” club! It’s a secret club…..we tell secrets 🤫 shhhhhhhhh!

Wrong! One must choose a side at some point…….right versus wrong, good versus evil, accept Jesus as your Savior or reject him, etc.! One does not have to say, I choose this side, for their choice to be evident! Our actions, words spoken and unspoken, speak loud and clear!

Please show me anywhere that I have claimed that Americans or America is perfect! You have, once again, made sweeping comments that are false! Not one American on this forum, on both sides, have not criticized our country.
We all have our opinion of mistakes made both in the past and now…….including me!

Of course I think I’m on the side of righteousness……doesn’t everyone? Why else would anyone support and defend what they believe?

Our country is made up of opposing parties and we have a choice at e******n time…….The CCP is your choice, your only choice! LOL! You have spent an enormous amount of time and energy on what is a foreign political forum for you, criticizing our country, both past and present! Everything from our politics, religion, and personal choices and anything in between……..and defending your leader and the CCP………3 years and 32,000 + posts!

You have a side and it is EVIDENT! It’s cool….This is America! You can declare your choice without fear of being thrown in a re-education camp……..at least, so far! 🇺🇸💥

I said absolutely nothing about THEM using THEIR articles……..reread my statement! ~Chuckle!~

Jesus was talking to his disciples when he quotes these verses! You may want to pay attention to verse 15 as well as 14! You might want to do a little more studying on these two verses!

Matthew 10:14-15

14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

CD, all of my posts come from the Bible…..the entire Bible. I don’t edit the Bible by ignoring entire books or cherry pick scriptures to fit theology!

There you go again accusing others of lacking comprehension! Below is a comment from Rose: read carefully! LOL

“Yes the so called ‘progressives’ want v**es. All politicians do. The democrats just go about getting them differently like it or not.”

Now read your answer to Rose! Read carefully! LOL!

“And in your line of thinking, you think it's only progressives who want v**es, that's what you just said, do you have any idea how slanted that is?”

Now please tell me, Cuda…….who has a problem with reading comprehension? 😂. You make this so easy!

You should take this comedy routine on the road!

How many times have you raved about Tommy and troysal’s articles that are found from Google? LOL! 😉

Try again….that insult didn’t work!

I use Got Guestions most of the time……..from Google!