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In reply to Big C • 3:00p, 3/1/24
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AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.

Within the past year, I have seen clothing for sale at the CVS in Walnut Creek (too big a store for just health and beauty aids) and I'm pretty sure that included some sun dresses or something like that. FWIW, they were not merchandised behind bullet-proof plexiglass.


Yes, CVS sells lots of things.
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In reply to oski003 • 3:32p, 3/1/24
Compared to Longs Drugs, CVS comes off like an understocked drugstore in the Soviet Union.
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In reply to bearister • 3:38p, 3/1/24
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Compared to Longs Drugs, CVS comes off like an understocked drugstore in the Soviet Union.


But you can take the most beautiful subway to those Russian drug stores!
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In reply to oski003 • 4:07p, 3/1/24
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82gradDLSdad said:
AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.


It is both a joke and there is a shred of truth to it as CVS is putting more and more items behind glass to reduce theft.


Ah ha, you must have a master's degree from Cal.
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In reply to oski003 • 4:08p, 3/1/24
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Big C said:
82gradDLSdad said:
AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.

Within the past year, I have seen clothing for sale at the CVS in Walnut Creek (too big a store for just health and beauty aids) and I'm pretty sure that included some sun dresses or something like that. FWIW, they were not merchandised behind bullet-proof plexiglass.


Yes, CVS sells lots of things.


I need to get out more.
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In reply to 82gradDLSdad • 8:52p, 3/1/24
I wouldn't, if I were. Bulletproof glass everywhere. And bad guys. Probably illegals. Safer to stay inside and watch Hannity or Fox and Friends.
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I wouldn't, if I were. Bulletproof glass everywhere. And bad guys. Probably illegals. Safer to stay inside and watch Hannity or Fox and Friends.


No time for Hannity, too busy walking in SF. You know that. You're probably sick of me writing about it here.
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In reply to oski003 • 8:41a, 3/2/24
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bearister said:
Compared to Longs Drugs, CVS comes off like an understocked drugstore in the Soviet Union.


But you can take the most beautiful subway to those Russian drug stores!


And your shopping cart has magnetic locking wheels when you go up a moving ramp to the second floor (just like I found in Madrid this past summer)!




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9:22a, 3/3/24
GOP is nuts and in order to survive in today's new RINO GOP you have to be a craven opportunist or a genuine idiot. Ideally both.



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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 9:33a, 3/3/24
This!!

Hannah Arendt noted that the Nazis never trusted smart people because they could exercise critical thought and were therefore politically unreliable. They would only rely on the idiots who could be relied upon to repeat the party line and act on orders.

This is the lifeblood of the MAGA movement. The uneducated.
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In reply to 82gradDLSdad • 11:55a, 3/3/24
82gradDLSdad said:
AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.


Actually, CVS does sell clothing. I see someone else already pointed this out.


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In reply to dimitrig • 1:50p, 3/3/24
dimitrig said:
82gradDLSdad said:
AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.


Actually, CVS does sell clothing. I see someone else already pointed this out.



Please don't discourage aunbear from posting substantive things. Let's just move on and appreciate that he put himself out there by posting something that sort of had more substance than childish insults.
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In reply to dimitrig • 4:06p, 3/3/24
dimitrig said:
82gradDLSdad said:
AunBear89 said:
No mention of dresses being sold behind bullet proof anything at CVS. CVS doesn't sell dresses. I doubt they even sell ties, but what do I know - I don't buy clothes at a drug store. And the CVS that I've been to had candy out in the open.

But you keep defending the unhinged postings of conspiracy minded conservative Chicken Littles on BI.

And for a source of confirmation of your closely held beliefs, The Sun is very on brand. Next you will be linking The National Examiner.


Now you are starting to dissect the details of my joke. CVS does indeed not sell clothing. Well done aunbear. I knew a Cal grad would figure this out and get the subtly of my tremendous comedic genius.


Actually, CVS does sell clothing. I see someone else already pointed this out.




Good for you. You don't hover on this board and read all these dumb posts. I already mentioned this a few posts ago. I had no idea they sold clothes.
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Amazing how often our old politicians fall down.


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Amazing that there are still people like this. The quote is just the tip of the dumb iceberg with this guy.
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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 11:27a, 3/5/24
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Amazing that there are still people like this. The quote is just the tip of the dumb iceberg with this guy.


Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 11:43a, 3/5/24
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Amazing that there are still people like this. The quote is just the tip of the dumb iceberg with this guy.

Is that rocket scientist packing a side arm or a cell phone? Listening to him makes me feel very guilty for being an elite that lacks empathy for what it is like to feel left behind and not understood. He is an example of why we can hate tRump but never the wonderful salt of the earth people like that gentleman that support him.

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In reply to oski003 • 11:47a, 3/5/24
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Unit2Sucks said:
Amazing that there are still people like this. The quote is just the tip of the dumb iceberg with this guy.


Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
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In reply to oski003 • 1:27p, 3/5/24
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Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
May I posit that you probably have no ability to define pornography; that it is wholly a subjective term that is used to enforce religious views in a country that is supposed to separate church and state; that if you educated yourself on the vast majority of works that are lazily called pornography and the good they do for large swaths of people you would have even more difficulty defining it; that you pretend that pornography is super easy to spot and that you KNOW it does harm to people even though that proof is very hard to demonstrate and has so many many grey areas; that YOU are not the arbiter of taste or decency; that many people want themselves and their children exposed to different things and that it is shown time and time again that open discussions about issues and different POVs is important to children and helps relationships with their parents and leads to better informed decisions; and that there is no REAL attempt to shove hard core graphic material in the face of two year olds; and that you instead calibrate your affront to high sensitivity to exaggerate the problem and have vapors at titles having never read a book; and that you refuse to learn the history of civilization that book banning always goes hand in hands with all types of repression and censorship and totalitarianism and so it is ALWAYS better to err on the side of protecting free speech and being reasonable, open, and permissible rather than a freaked out curmudgeon telling others how to live and raise their kids.

Censor all the books you want at home. Leave my Fing kids the F out of your morality and nosy priggish hands on MY public library or school.
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In reply to blungld • 1:50p, 3/5/24
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oski003 said:

Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
May I posit that you probably have no ability to define pornography; that it is wholly a subjective term that is used to enforce religious views in a country that is supposed to separate church and state; that if you educated yourself on the vast majority of works that are lazily called pornography and the good they do for large swaths of people you would have even more difficulty defining it; that you pretend that pornography is super easy to spot and that you KNOW it does harm to people even though that proof is very hard to demonstrate and has so many many grey areas; that YOU are not the arbiter of taste or decency; that many people want themselves and their children exposed to different things and that it is shown time and time again that open discussions about issues and different POVs is important to children and helps relationships with their parents and leads to better informed decisions; and that there is no REAL attempt to shove hard core graphic material in the face of two year olds; and that you instead calibrate your affront to high sensitivity to exaggerate the problem and have vapors at titles having never read a book; and that you refuse to learn the history of civilization that book banning always goes hand in hands with all types of repression and censorship and totalitarianism and so it is ALWAYS better to err on the side of protecting free speech and being reasonable, open, and permissible rather than a freaked out curmudgeon telling others how to live and raise their kids.

Censor all the books you want at home. Leave my Fing kids the F out of your morality and nosy priggish hands on MY public library or school.


If you want to show your kids illustrations of naked people going down on each other, go ahead. I absolutely will not stop you. A memoir about someone's sexual awakening, complete with graphic nude illustrations of oral sex, does not belong in a public school. I don't have to have an exact definition to know that this type of pornography does not belong in a public school.
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In reply to oski003 • 5:46p, 3/5/24
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blungld said:
oski003 said:

Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
May I posit that you probably have no ability to define pornography; that it is wholly a subjective term that is used to enforce religious views in a country that is supposed to separate church and state; that if you educated yourself on the vast majority of works that are lazily called pornography and the good they do for large swaths of people you would have even more difficulty defining it; that you pretend that pornography is super easy to spot and that you KNOW it does harm to people even though that proof is very hard to demonstrate and has so many many grey areas; that YOU are not the arbiter of taste or decency; that many people want themselves and their children exposed to different things and that it is shown time and time again that open discussions about issues and different POVs is important to children and helps relationships with their parents and leads to better informed decisions; and that there is no REAL attempt to shove hard core graphic material in the face of two year olds; and that you instead calibrate your affront to high sensitivity to exaggerate the problem and have vapors at titles having never read a book; and that you refuse to learn the history of civilization that book banning always goes hand in hands with all types of repression and censorship and totalitarianism and so it is ALWAYS better to err on the side of protecting free speech and being reasonable, open, and permissible rather than a freaked out curmudgeon telling others how to live and raise their kids.

Censor all the books you want at home. Leave my Fing kids the F out of your morality and nosy priggish hands on MY public library or school.


If you want to show your kids illustrations of naked people going down on each other, go ahead. I absolutely will not stop you. A memoir about someone's sexual awakening, complete with graphic nude illustrations of oral sex, does not belong in a public school. I don't have to have an exact definition to know that this type of pornography does not belong in a public school.
I challenge your description and context, and the point remains: you can ask your kids not to read certain books at home and not impose your standards on everyone else. I guarantee you can find a book that we both agree might not be age appropriate and there can be a civil conversation about THAT book, but this blacklisting of long lists of books and the policing of thought and criminalizing librarians, writers, and distributors is the consequence and that is damning and far far far worse than little Billy seeing a nudie picture. Your fear mongering is decades out of date and wholly unrealistic in an internet age and the WORST response. Just talk to your kids about values. No bad picture destroys their brain. Seriously, grow up.
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In reply to blungld • 5:54p, 3/5/24
Yeah but, his far right news bubble tells him it's porn. He hasn't actually seen the book nor the pages in question, but a reliably outraged X account told him it's porn and that's good enough for fauxoutragebear003.
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In reply to AunBear89 • 6:01p, 3/5/24
AunBear89 said:
Yeah but, his far right news bubble tells him it's porn. He hasn't actually seen the book nor the pages in question, but a reliably outraged X account told him it's porn and that's good enough for fauxoutragebear003.


I have seen the pages in question. Once again, you are 100% wrong.
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In reply to blungld • 6:03p, 3/5/24
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oski003 said:
blungld said:
oski003 said:

Nice outrage because they found someone who won't vote for a woman president because they are a woman. Yet you downplay outrage over a public school having pornographic illustrations in their books. Very tribal.
May I posit that you probably have no ability to define pornography; that it is wholly a subjective term that is used to enforce religious views in a country that is supposed to separate church and state; that if you educated yourself on the vast majority of works that are lazily called pornography and the good they do for large swaths of people you would have even more difficulty defining it; that you pretend that pornography is super easy to spot and that you KNOW it does harm to people even though that proof is very hard to demonstrate and has so many many grey areas; that YOU are not the arbiter of taste or decency; that many people want themselves and their children exposed to different things and that it is shown time and time again that open discussions about issues and different POVs is important to children and helps relationships with their parents and leads to better informed decisions; and that there is no REAL attempt to shove hard core graphic material in the face of two year olds; and that you instead calibrate your affront to high sensitivity to exaggerate the problem and have vapors at titles having never read a book; and that you refuse to learn the history of civilization that book banning always goes hand in hands with all types of repression and censorship and totalitarianism and so it is ALWAYS better to err on the side of protecting free speech and being reasonable, open, and permissible rather than a freaked out curmudgeon telling others how to live and raise their kids.

Censor all the books you want at home. Leave my Fing kids the F out of your morality and nosy priggish hands on MY public library or school.


If you want to show your kids illustrations of naked people going down on each other, go ahead. I absolutely will not stop you. A memoir about someone's sexual awakening, complete with graphic nude illustrations of oral sex, does not belong in a public school. I don't have to have an exact definition to know that this type of pornography does not belong in a public school.
I challenge your description and context, and the point remains: you can ask your kids not to read certain books at home and not impose your standards on everyone else. I guarantee you can find a book that we both agree might not be age appropriate and there can be a civil conversation about THAT book, but this blacklisting of long lists of books and the policing of thought and criminalizing librarians, writers, and distributors is the consequence and that is damning and far far far worse than little Billy seeing a nudie picture. Your fear mongering is decades out of date and wholly unrealistic in an internet age and the WORST response. Just talk to your kids about values. No bad picture destroys their brain. Seriously, grow up.


What fear mongering am I doing? I said this book doesn't belong in a public school library. I am not imposing my standards on everyone else, nor am I even asking for this book to be banned. I am asking that public educators do not expose my kid to this book. YOU can very well expose YOUR kid to this book if you so desire.
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In reply to oski003 • 6:08p, 3/5/24
Liars, hypocrites, and morons. The beauty of this trifecta is that you clowns exhibit all three with regularity. Today you're more the one than the other two.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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In reply to okaydo • 9:45p, 3/5/24
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You beat me to the punch. Just more evidence that the GOP is completely insane.
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In reply to blungld • 6:21a, 3/6/24
I just have to say…. You and I both know you're far too intelligent and reasoned to be debating pornography with clowns on this board.
But have at it. Unleash the fury!
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In reply to oski003 • 8:08a, 3/6/24
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What fear mongering am I doing? I said this book doesn't belong in a public school library. I am not imposing my standards on everyone else, nor am I even asking for this book to be banned. I am asking that public educators do not expose my kid to this book. YOU can very well expose YOUR kid to this book if you so desire.
You is a universal YOU, and you is that YOU that needs people like you to take your "reasonable" position so that the movement of YOU has base support to go much further than perhaps you would...but you will still stand with YOU and not take a stand against it. You are manipulated by YOU and that leads to the things I've listed and the politicians firing up YOU with scare stories and legislation that is for show but has truly damning effects on free speech, publishing, writing, parenting, and the being of marginalized groups; and is ALWAYS the underpinning of authoritarian regimes. I have several friends in publishing and a whole network of writers, the chilling effects are real and extensive already.

To put it simply, you think you are on "team good" when you worry about little Billy seeing a nudie picture (look how moral I am being), but you actually are in denial about being on team bad and all the harm that repression, censorship, and yes violence causes. As I said before, it is far more ethical and moral to err on the side of permissiveness because the cost is too high when you have the mob and self-serving politicians start telling us what our morals are, making the value judgments for families, and pointing at what they call pornography. You don't have to agree or get it, but you are wrong.
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In reply to blungld • 8:27a, 3/6/24
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oski003 said:
What fear mongering am I doing? I said this book doesn't belong in a public school library. I am not imposing my standards on everyone else, nor am I even asking for this book to be banned. I am asking that public educators do not expose my kid to this book. YOU can very well expose YOUR kid to this book if you so desire.
You is a universal YOU, and you is that YOU that needs people like you to take your "reasonable" position so that the movement of YOU has base support to go much further than perhaps you would...but you will still stand with YOU and not take a stand against it. You are manipulated by YOU and that leads to the things I've listed and the politicians firing up YOU with scare stories and legislation that is for show but has truly damning effects on free speech, publishing, writing, parenting, and the being of marginalized groups; and is ALWAYS the underpinning of authoritarian regimes. I have several friends in publishing and a whole network of writers, the chilling effects are real and extensive already.

To put it simply, you think you are on "team good" when you worry about little Billy seeing a nudie picture (look how moral I am being), but you actually are in denial about being on team bad and all the harm that repression, censorship, and yes violence causes. As I said before, it is far more ethical and moral to err on the side of permissiveness because the cost is too high when you have the mob and self-serving politicians start telling us what our morals are, making the value judgments for families, and pointing at what they call pornography. You don't have to agree or get it, but you are wrong.


I am not on team bad. Were there signups somewhere? I can debate individual issues and points. I am not so simplistic that I see everything in black and white.

For example, I am generally pro-choice. It is a complex issue. However, allowing early term abortions as well as late term for the health of the baby and mother is good social policy. I am not going to take the extreme viewpoint that life starts at or before conception or that kids will have rampant, unprotected sex because abortion is available.

Just because you and I don't want liberal books censored altogether, it doesn't mean that public schools should expose my kid to naked non-scientific illustrations of oral sex. Nobody here is advocating that you not have access to this book to expose your own child to it. Of course, I'd actually care about this a lot if it were my kid's school. I care less because it is not; but then again we debate issues on BI Off topic all the time. Pompous narrow-minded liberals rule here and concordtom is a clown. Please consider other viewpoints instead of dismissing them.
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In reply to concordtom • 8:27a, 3/6/24
concordtom said:
I just have to say…. You and I both know you're far too intelligent and reasoned to be debating pornography with clowns on this board.
But have at it. Unleash the fury!
. You are a clown.
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