yes sir

Don't eliminate anything. You probably know Objectivism. Deal with it. BUT my experience is that for one thing you'll live longer.

You're absolutely right about the fact that I need to lighten up, but that is hard for me. I am not in the having fun stage, not until I know for sure what to expect. That's just me and how I operate, much like a machine. I have a feeling it might be due to the line of 20 nurses all with syringes which I had to sign waivers for before injection and was not allowed to read at the time and can not find in my medical records. I like to have fun and I'll do my best, thx for the tip. I guess the shock and awe philosophy is still a part of me and something I need to eliminate since I resigned my commission 10 years ago. Thx again.

There's so much I can respond to about your post, but I'll limit it to just one aspect. You are missing an awful lot of fun. A number of years ago, I posted that humor is the oil that keeps the serious talk from seizing up. You might consider it.

When he recently came out of the closet about his sexual preference, I started to notice that his eyebrows are kinda are kinda girlie looking.

He didn't want to see the gun I keep in my glove compartment back before I started to concealed carry a smaller pistol in my pocket.

I don't hear about Russia anymore as it is just a distraction. They are putting Trump in a box so that when he has to make this next decision, stand by the EU and Nato and place sanctions on Russia, or continue to repair Russian relations by doing nothing, the mainstream will scream if he does nothing to support their failing fantasy. Russia and China are not part of the club and I don't think they will ever accept an invitation to that club because they are not stupid and they can see the advantage it does not give them. The only way they would join the club is if they have leaders who like the idea of a 2 tiered world. If that happens and WW3 is avoided by Russia and China along with all other world leaders accepting their expected role in the new world order, then it matters not what happens in the US or Germany or Russia or Iran or North Korea or any of the 200+ nations that exist. The elites are now separate from us so who cares. That is the grand plan, but never has it worked in history before and I expect it not to work this time either. It is one hell of a show.

"thinks it is just wrong that I think it is fun to go to a pistol range."
It would be nice for that person to tell you himself and say why. Is it wrong to go to the range or wrong to think it's fun? If he think it's just a little wrong, like doing a rolling stop when turning right on red, maybe he would go to the range with you and show you what parts are wrong. It's hard for me to imagine him not having fun, and then he might re-evaluate.

Yeah, I don't watch any mainstream media, I haven't watched TV for over 10 years. I work in isolation so as not to be influenced by anything and placing labels on people is not what I practice. Who is Shephard Smith? I don't really care to know because it is worthless to me. What does CNN talk about? It doesn't matter anymore because they have become irrelevant. I can no longer hold a conversation with 99% of my friends because the cognitive dissonance they experience when talking to me is too great. There is only one person that I pay attention to while I navigate the "news" looking for truth. This person was put in jail with no charges and his predictive model was stolen by the government (Goldman Sachs). They could not understand the output so they were unable to use it. After he got out of prison, for which he never received a charge, he moved to Switzerland and vowed to never help the US again. Then they passed the NDAA to remedy that situation. But anyway, I don't know what group you want to assign me to, that doesn't matter to me. Yes, all those things you mention are insane, but there is a purpose behind them and plan. In my opinion either we lay down and accept our fate, or we can fight it as it appears to me that Trump is doing. I am behind Trump as long as he stays true.

Smith does have a really beautiful baritone voice.

Like beauty, "wrong" is in the eye of the beholder.
Actually that's BS but it writes nice. It's kinda interesting since I have one cousin who fights with me on the internet and another who is close to both of us and gets caught in the middle. They're both women and the one in the middle keeps checking with me to check and see if we're still friends.I tell her that nothing can make me un-love her. She lives in Mass. which is a bastion of liberals, as you know.

I started to tell StevenR he was wrong. Then I remembered that Shephard Smith is on for a whole hour in the afternoon.
So I wrote what I wrote in response instead.

I have four brothers. One is a lib. It's interesting to still how the stifles the conversation between brothers when he is around.
My otherwise most outspoken conservative brother advised me that the lib thinks it is just wrong that I think it is fun to go to a pistol range.

True.
However, Obama loves his daughters.
Hillary wears pant suits.
I think it'll rain this month.

Hiding under the bed covers doesn't work any more.
You know, I would never talk to lefties except for my cousins, and some friends from waaaay back who are still my friends even though politically we're as close politically as earth is to Jupiter.

Could be. I'd like to tell you you're wrong, but I'm not all that sure.

Certainly. A great leftist trick. "Trump says illegals are crossing the border! The nerve of that guy!"

Globalism, wide open borders, the redistribution of wealth, PC speak, gun confiscation, scaring liittle girls in restrooms and etc-insane-tera.

They are all part of the progressive movement toward the new world order. It is conspiracy fact these days. Hidden in plain sight.

He's doing better than I suspected. His biggest problem is that Republicans can't stand prosperity.

That is correct. And now, FOX is moving leftward into a centrist position and no doubt will join the rest of the gang so that there will only be a position on the right with talk radio.

"There are laws upon laws "
It erodes respect for the law. If everyone breaks some law, going 5 over, putting some personal items in a business purchase, walking through a no-firearms area with a legally-carried gun, using drugs, driving without a seat belt; then the authorities learn to look the other way for these little things, and the law becomes an excuse to exercise arbitrary power. The concept of the law was created to prevent this.

You hit the nail. That is definitely one of the reasons so many laws are passed by the Dems. There are laws upon laws to the point where you can be convicted of doing something, or not doing something on the very same circumstance but two different laws.Then, there is the nonsense that a legislator is not doing his/her job unless they sponsor a bill that passes. Between the two pressures there are enough laws on the books to govern fifty countries with one left over for Samoa.

We don't have any lamestream for "mainstream" media organizations in the first place unless you want to count Fox. What is called "maistream" appears to be all libs.

If we gave this much credence to a conservative trying to unseat a leftist President, we would be laughed right out of DC.