Because evil assists evil - and will continue to do so until stopped the hard way. And monetary gains aside, and that is a very difficult thing to put aside, we again go back to the old quote "evil is what happens when good people do nothing".

"Why is the destruction of humanity usually the best stock investment? "
Because evil assists evil so the criminals don't get exposed and punished.
Without a overpowering corrupt government, evil can't easily expand and survive.
That government gave a cartel the ability to create money from nothing for their own benefit.
Is it surprising that they use that free money to give other evil people a financial advantage over honest people?
D.C. NIFO
Don't do any business with the enemy or you can become the enemy.

Yep! Thoroughly enjoying this thread....

So many posts (including most of mine) are about serious topics; I wanted to post something lighter. And I've had a blast reading the various comments, a number of which bring back memories long forgotten (e.g., FORTRAN data types.)

Excellent. I am loving hearing all of this.
FWIW, one of the ways I tithe has been to
Tutor younger students, and to help others.
There is a decent list of others who helped along the way. But this is uplifting stuff!

Agreed on the surface, but I worry that we ignore them at our own risk. They still hold far too much power for me to just blow them off.

language today is simply a means used to distort truth

Solid addition to the list.

I refuse to even listen to the nonsense promoted by the left. Its so anti-rational that its not worth listening to.

One of mine was my astronomy teacher. We had a planetarium in our HS and he allowed me to work in there after football and track when everyone else had gone home. So I had the trust of being allowed to use use umpteen thousands (early 70's money) of dollars worth of equipment without supervision and had to ensure that all settings were back to where they were left prior to my leaving. Was able to do a couple of college credit classes that way as a head start. But knowing that someone had that kind of trust in my ability to "self govern" if you will (was at the time considered a bit of a "wild child") and knowing what would happen to him if I were to do anything that caused any kind of a disruption to the system or his classes... That trust allowed me to settle down and realize what it was going to take to get where I was wanting to go.....

I really like Colorado Springs but have been surprised at some of the footage I've seen from there recently. Sad...

My personal favorite....They remove porn (most of it gay and p e d) from elementary school libraries and the left says they're "banning books". That makes me sick to even think about. Somebody says that in front of me and it's not going to end well... Sick.

I had 2 in HS that will never know what they meant to me, DESPITE me telling them. LOL.
FWIW, they both came to my Surprise 21st Birthday Party. And I literally teared up.
I scored 9 percentile in English on the ACT(SAT Like). Anyways 91% did better than me, it was going to be my downfall.

I asked Mr. Wrosch for help. Sr. English, he made me redo 9th Grade English, 10th Grade English after school. On my own, except once per week we would meet and review. The first time I show up without doing all of the work, I was OUT!

He taught me to ALWAYS go back to basics to learn. And the PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. He knew Tim Spanke. So they talked. They strategized how to get me engaged (Tim told him to make it sound harder than it was, that I was that kind of DIE Trying person, and beating it would keep me going).

They MANIPULATED ME into becoming a well-rounded student. LOL. They set me up for success.
I wrote a decently long letter when Mr. Wrosch past. The family posted it, and I got pinged by people who were in attendance. It was the least I could do.
I'd still be 30 miles outside of Detroit.. Poor and Broke with no future had these 2 not saw something and encouraged me.

Much of what we're seeing more of lately with these developments is just the working of a globalist, evil force trying to kill everybody, screw up children, and take all of our money. I used to think it was crazy talk when people would say that there's a force that wants us all dead so they can enjoy a less crowded environment. Not so much anymore. It explains a lot...

Haha.... Can relate. I've been trying to teach young engineers the basic design protocols that I learned designing buildings with AutoCAD and paper drawings. The technology has been replaced along with the basic design review process. Now, engineers are working like maniacs at break-neck speed and producing screwed up designs. With the massive skill/age gap created by the Great Recession along with the pandemic it's me trying to communicate with a bunch of engineers in their 20s. Smart kids. But, it's like I'm talking Greek. And, they think it's normal to spend all your time fixing stuff in construction. I used to never do that. Makes one think...

I think most of us had a few of them. For me, it was one in grade school, and two in high school (one chemistry, one literature/english). I took every class I could that either of them taught; I knew the best way I could learn and grow was to be pushed to (or past) my limits. And Jake, I'm absolutely with you: I don't know where I'd be without them seeing something in me that made them push.

The resistance to stem cell research is purely religious. That one I don't care a bit about.

The Hilalry/Commula nonsense about not being ready for a woman president is invented victimhood, and an excuse. They are absolute masters of envy and victimhood.

The Italian colloquialism for gay is "finnochio", which is fennel in Italian. The reason? They burned homosexuals at the stake, and threw fennel in to cover the smell of burning flesh. Thus, fennel became "gay".

Learned COBOL working in an IBM Mainframe IT shop in the late 1980's. I detested that language as verbose and cumbersome (I know more common languages, C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, LISP, but am not a programmer). However, I recently learned that COBOL has inherent features for data integrity that other (no other?) language has. Interesting.

I guess Adm Grace Hopper wasn't all bad ;)

Indeed. Hate and envy - the fundamental tools of communism.

Agreed on the teacher seeing something in you! Had two of them like that, and would not be where I am without them.... And neither one of them, or me, knew that at the time.....

Ooooooo, I remember that bad programming thingy! Careful careful, LOL!

Back in the '70s I wanted to get some experience on the PDP-11 in our department, but it never really happened. I got assigned to a CDC Cyber-18 job and then HP-1000 for a time. The department bought a Data General Eclipse S/130 and found out it wouldn't do the job they bought it for. Oops. It was programmed to run diagnostics on itself so when management came to see what we were doing it's lights would be blinking like it was doing something. This went on for a year and I was approached to program it (FORTRAN 5 - DGs flavor on the Eclipse) for a special project. I was offered the seemingly impossible schedule and bet a steak dinner from the boss I could do it with the help of a college intern. I got my steak. I later saw a meme regarding the Eclipse: 101 uses for an Eclipse S/130, #1: Boat anchor. Apparently others weren't enamored by it, either.

YES! I wore pocket protectors through high school and most of my programming career, too! I wasn't on the chess team, but burned a lot of HS lunch breaks with the chess board. I wasn't a complete nerd in HS, though, because I was stupid enough to sneak out for a smoke.

Plus one for the algebra joke!!