I never gave it a thought - in fact I was only reminded when my racist stepfather would lose his shit.

IMO the best country isn’t from Nashville and generally got no respect (at least initially) from establishment country radio - Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, Pat Green, Waylon, Willie, Merle....

Many gods I just don’t care about ;)

Yeah she is all kinds of awesome. I admire her so much. If I had a daughter, I’d want her to be like my SiL - hell I want my sons to be like her :)

Thanks - I tend to process those things better than most and I even still get teary eyed. I adore my sister in law and every guy wasn’t good enough for her, until Johnny. He was a true salt of the earth person. When my SiL was diagnosed with cancer, his commitment never wavered. And they discovered she was pregnant…

Closest I get these days is Meditations or The Prophet

It’s the journey, not the destination :)

I thought about what Kirk said regarding a woman’s role in marriage.

As a polyapatheist, there’s a whole passel of books to ignore :)

Yeah, I always try to emulate that sort of “Yup it sucked, time to make the lattkes” attitude. I fail, generally, but I try.

Oh I agree - sorry if my post left that impression. I should have completed the thought - I wonder if the fact that they left when they did was why they were that way. We lost family to the Holocaust, as many did, but not on the scale or the closeness that others did. That’s likely why they weren’t as driven regarding…

The current version of this is FOBbit - as in someone who stays in the ForWard Operating Base and never leaves it’s safety.

Rear Echelon Mother F...

Construction truck asshole wiped out my sister in laws car a few years back. Killed her husband, MiL and toddler. I may have had some revenge fantasies about him.

Yeah - promise you folks who use those either 1) Never served or 2) Were some REMF who never saw anything more dangerous than alcohol poisoning. Those things piss me off to no end.

Preach!

I miss hunting, but life just doesn’t allow it right now. Luckily I have some folks I can get my venison fix from :)

Human shaped targets were standard, blank silhouettes aren’t bad - specific ones to an ethnic group or person are.

I knew a guy who bought a dually, wasn’t involved in anything that would require one. Complete dbag

My grandfather and his parent left Kiev after the pogroms and then the Bolsheviks - never heard a cross word from him or my grandmother about dating non jewish women, even when my hillbilly stepdad freaked out at my black girlfriend and my Palestinian girlfriend. they were all “Come on in, here have some food!”