The truth is also easy to remember which is why I stick to it even when it hurts.

Oldv

I am like Smaug the d**gon from the Hobbit movies. Flames merely polish my armor and since I am not missing a scale, the flames do nothing except k**l off the clinging vermin.

I will give anyone a chance but talking points types or those who pick a phrase to argue to invalidate a complete argument get one such incident. The second earns the blessed ignore. Thanks for the warning.

Hello everyone. My name is Richard, I'm 58, a disabled veteran and retired after over 3 decades of programming, managing and programming or beating people over the head with sledgehammers to bring light from chaos. :-) I did not see a create new message button so I am hoping this is how you do so. That's the programmer in me, not being critical but you tend to check out others' work. I am a grandpa with two grandsons ages 1.5 and 2.5, well I actually have 3 but my oldest daughter has now disowned me. I simply could not support her idea to begin a career as a stripper at the age of 37. I don't like to quarrel very much but I do love an honest discussion. I do not consider typing endlessly from a talking points sheet you found somewhere to be honest discourse. I am a bit of a geek and play online games with my grown children and likely soon my grandchildren to help keep the old brain alive. I tutor calculus for free to do the same thing. That will keep you on your toes! In my family we were either coal miners or soldiers and we have left our blood in a lot of countries. My years were 74-78, not the best time to be in the US Army with Carter as my commander in chief. I still remember the rabbit that threatened him. I am sarcastic and simply cannot change. I raised sarcastic children. If you want to argue with them you'd better be able to back it up with facts or watch out for the howitzers. I have been married to one mean old woman for 36 years who is just waiting for me to die so she gets the insurance and can find a boy toy. That or go live with my best friend and become part of his harem. He is not Muslim, he just attracts women but why is a question I will ask God when I finally, hopefully get there. Let's see, what else? I can talk or argue about a range of subjects. I consider myself a conservative independent. I actually v**ed for a democrat in one cycle, a skinny little guy who came out while the bands of a hurricane were passing over to shake the hand of everyone in his district. It's hard not to support someone that determined but he lost anyway. As to our current President all I can say is we have lost 6 years to the Chinese, Russians and all those who want so much to ruin this peaceful, for the most part, country. Did I v**e for him? No and neither did my wife who happen to be multiracial, a mix of Black (her choice as she H**ES to be called African-American) and American Indian, in particular the Cherokee tribe. If I were serving under him, well, you raise your hand and take the oath to God and Country and you have to respect the office and the powers of the Commander in Chief but it would end there. This will be a wall of text and I apologize in advance. I am running low after 2 grandsons being around for 3 days. :-)