let me rephrase it for you: I believe the Cavs are NOT about to become the Miami Heat North.

You know you're just rephrasing what I had said, right?

I watch a lot of baseball, Johnny. Jacob's Field (er, Progressive) isn't very filled these days. Not that I blame them, and I'm not claiming Tiger Stadium wasn't just as empty during the early 1990's.

Actually, your mom and I have had a number of rough patches over the years, but we've worked through them all.

My quotes:

Hey man, I pull for Cleveland teams any time they're not playing Detroit. I don't root against Cleveland. But if you're gonna go there, while the Tigers' World Series track record isn't the best in baseball, I'd take it over the Tribe.

Actually you said both that the Cavs championship-less streak wouldn't be ending "any time soon" AND that the Cavs would be "Miami Heat North"...who...you know...won two Championships in his first 3 years....

Do YOU know what it's like to have a talent like LBJ to call your own (whatever that means)? I mean, you DID, I guess. But then he up and brought those talents to South Beach.

Reading comprehension, buddy. I didn't say that being the Miami Heat North would be a BAD thing. I just said I haven't reserved my commemorative Cleveland Cavs 3-peat plateware set yet.

Thanks. But you might want to wait until the Cavs actually win a championship before insulting me and saying I have no reason to believe the Cavs aren't about to turn into Miami Heat North.

I actually don't really care about basketball, so go for it. But I still don't see Cleveland's championship-less streak ending anytime soon.

What, are you guys from Cleveland? I would never welcome him back. He's like a girlfriend who decided to leave you and bang some other guys for a few years, and then show up at your doorstep with some nice words about how you're really the one she wants to be with. No thanks.

Cleveland fans are pathetic. I get that most of them haven't seen a major professional championship in their lifetimes (I went to college in Cleveland, and I saw the pain first hand when the Tribe came THAT CLOSE). But LeBron humiliated them on national TV only a few years ago. If I was a Cavs fan, I'd rather see us…

I don't see how the first paragraph changes the context of what I quoted, nor do I see how the other 2 paragraphs add any context relevant to whether republicans as a group deny that whites receive welfare.

Size of populations don't matter when you're measuring the donation size of a household.

I'm going to vote respect. And I dislike the NBA and everything I've ever seen about LeBron. But I'm not gonna offer sympathy for someone who chose this lifestyle, is treated like a king, and is set to live like a king his whole life.

Hmmm. Read it again, this time with less anger in your eyes. The article didn't say that secular households don't give. It just says that religious people give more, and NOT only as donations to their church:

You say "Republicans," a pretty wide-encompassing term, and then point to one quotation from one person. And regarding that one example , I'll hand it over the response to Ta-Nehisi Coates at TheAtlantic:

I don't think that goddessoftransitory was referring to politicians and folks on chat shows. She was taking on the whole "Christian" nation.

Finally, people are acknowledging what most of us already knew: getting high is cool.