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There were parts of it that made me smile.   Remember when TV was funny without all the potty and sex humor?

  While carrying a Beretta Mexican style in your butt crack.... :rofl:

Several years ago I was rear-ended by a state employee driving a state vehicle while she was on state business. The rear bumper was bent before she hit me, and it wasn't that much worse. I took the check and cashed it. The truck drove just fine without the repair.  :pleased:

  There were also many great witticisms traded between Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy.   "You green-blooded, inhuman....."   "Really, Doctor.... you should learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing."

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Farewell, Mr Nimoy. You are indelibly etched into the minds of millions of fans. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world.

I don't even have chains on my VW and I drove all the way from Franklin to Nashville on Monday a week ago when we got all that ice. Turned out the office was closed. I was the only one who drove in. I was ready to work, but I turned around and drove home.

  Interesting.

  Dunno, but to coin a phrase from Admiral James T. Kirk in Star Trek II, "This is damn peculiar.".

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  Not everyone got his bizarre sense of humor. But, then some of us have a bizarre sense of humor ourselves! I saw him at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in 1978, at the height of his stand-up career. I think he is the funniest guy on the planet. And you are correct, he is an excellent musician and I love the way he incorporates his humor into his music.

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  What puzzles me more than anything else is the feigned surprise from those who are pro-gay when there is a backlash to stuff like this, like they are shocked that ANYONE could have an objection to it.   REALLY?

  On top of all that, the Talking Dead added "insult to injury" (for lack of a better term) by praising the show's producers and writers on their inclusion of this "touching" and "poignant" scene. A short interview with Andrew Lincoln revealed that he was also in favor of it and went on about how wonderful it was.   Let's face it - the gratuitous inclusion of graphic homoerotic scenes on television (and films, for that matter) are neither "brave" nor "ground-breaking" anymore, but that's the picture that the gay activists like to paint. Like you, David, I have nothing against any gay person. The first one I ever met was in college, and he and I were good friends and even lived on the same floor and wing of the dorm. He didn't shove it in my face (metaphorically speaking), and neither did I try to shove my beliefs down his throat. As a result of that positive experience and the mutual respect we had for each other in spite of our differences, I don't have any hostility or animosity towards anyone who's gay. I just don't want it shoved in my face and then told I'm homophobic or that my belief system is "tired" and "old" when my natural revulsion to it kicks in.   The name-calling and insults (both direct and indirect) that result from simply voicing one's disagreement with "alternative lifestyles" are childish and unproductive. Seems to me that the LGBT community has a serious PR problem; they have failed to sell themselves in a positive light to the general public, so they resort to trying to force their views down the throats of others via travesties such as so-called "hate crime" legislation and through character assassination and vilification. Remember the baker who didn't want to be associated with a gay wedding because it was in conflict with his beliefs as a Christian, and his reward for that was a lawsuit? THAT is what turns me off to it more than anything else - the expectation that somehow I MUST change my mind and discard MY beliefs or be labeled as something that I am most definitely NOT. If someone wants to be gay, it's none of my business. But when they tell me that something is wrong with me because I refuse to accept what I know is wrong, then it says far more about them than it does about me.

  You may think it's a "tired old belief system", but it's still very much the majority. The moral values that a country is built on are never "tired", or "old".

  Then you obviously don't know what projecting is.   I'm completely comfortable with my sexuality, since I consider it to be normal and was the way I was raised. The ridiculous argument that people who object to or don't approve of homosexuality are somehow latent gays themselves is nothing if not childish. But people are free to be childish if they choose and they are also free to be perverse if they so choose. Have at it.   What I find really funny is whenever someone voices a concern or objection to it, there's always someone who wants to make it about the person with the objection instead of discussing the subject. Why is that?

  Someone's projecting.   It's not necessary to blow things out of proportion. Do you always get "riled up" about anything that you don't care for?

Nice. I have one Mcusta with VG-10 and Corian scales, and it's a great knife.

Not to mention the fact that Florida has very different demographics now as opposed to several decades ago, but I guess that can be said of any place. I lived in the Oak Ridge Road and SOBT area of Orlando, and it was a nice, safe (relatively) place to live then, with lots of my friends and coworkers living in the area as well, so there was never a shortage of people to carpool with or hang out with. I'm told that today it is pretty much "da hood" and someplace you want to avoid.

Just a note.... "Empire" beat TWD in the Nielsen ratings last night.

  There are also stories of Glocks malfunctioning, but one or two anecdotes don't condemn the entire line. I have two M&Ps with a significant of rounds through both, and I've never had a single issue with either of them.

May God grant you peace and comfort during this difficult time. The greatest gift you can give him now is time.

  Compare television today with television in the 50's and 60's, or even the 70's. Much cleaner, much more restrained. As someone who grew up with television, it's always been a part of my life. I try to be selective in what I fill my brain with. It seems that I have to be more and more so every year, because the minds who think up this trash are diseased and perverse. It's no wonder that people buy DVD's of the Andy Griffith Show and other clean viewing material from years gone by.   And to your point about having other things to worry about, like things much closer to home.... just because I worry about the decline of societal values doesn't mean I'm not concerned about other things as well. I have a son with Type 1 diabetes and several other health issues. I worry about what will become of him in the years ahead. I have a father with dementia, and it breaks my heart each and every single day to see him slip further and further away from my sister, my brother and me. I wonder if I will have a job next week, or even tomorrow. So, yes.... I worry and concern myself with matters involving my family, friends, and my work just like you do.

  Did I look away? Of course not. Know why? Because TV and films have conditioned me to think that it's just another nude scene. They've bombarded me with nudity and the F bomb and all kinds of other things that years ago were rare and even taboo to the point where if I object someone will shoot me down and call me a prude or naive. That was the goal all along, to saturate the material coming out of Hollywood with sex, violence, and perversion to the point that no one even gives it a second thought anymore. They're trying to do the same thing with homosexuality and it looks like they're winning. Even last night's homo kiss wasn't enough to make me turn it off, where maybe a couple of years ago it would've been. Let's not kid ourselves.... we're all being programmed and brainwashed, it appears that many of us don't even care.