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I always think about this because I like going swimming really deep, whether in the ocean or a lake. I am way over my head, sometimes in 100 feet of water or more. But I'm very comfortable just floating and doing free-style swimming. The deep water doesn't scare me at all as I can float for hours.

However, if I was to have a heart attack or something while out there, I guess that would be the end of me.

I've been in riptides before. Just swim perpendicular to the shore and you will come out of it. People who panic and swim for shore are the ones that die.

They definitely need to slice the private parts off these perverts. Not to make them women but to make them harmless to everybody else.

If any nation thinks it is a good idea to supply Iran with nuclear bombs, it should be wiped off the face of the Earth.

I've been here at Free Republic since the very beginning.

I came here as a fairly young man and now I'm coming up to retirement age! I have become one of the cranky old bastards that I used to complain about many years ago.

I don't post here quite as often as I used to but I'll never write an opus. They never go over well!

I have my own issues with this site, which is why I pulled my monthly contribution after many, many years of contributing, but if they ever get bad enough for me not to come back, I'll just disappear.

That said, I never experienced the anti-semitism here you point out. Maybe I just don't read those particular threads.

Anyway, this site has now been a part of my life for nearly 28 years now (I was here in 1997 under a different username). Lot of great times here and hopefully the site gets back to it's old form one of these days. I think the main problem here is that we are mostly a bunch of old people. We need an influx of youngsters. Without younger people, this site eventually will go away because we will all be dead.

I want to see a long line of 150 low-flying B52H Stratofortresses. Each accompanied by a half-dozen fighter jets.

Do we still have that many left?

If Bannon used Olaplex, his hair would look better.

I say that as a man with long hair.

I suppose the much ballyhooed fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has yet to happen.

I would pay money for that!

I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the early 1980s and spent a lot of time in Oceanside, Carlsbad, Escondido.

I was not political in those days but remember President Reagan had a lot of support in that area.

In fact, Reagan carried California in 1984 with nearly 60% of the vote, which is unimaginable from today's perspective.

It was a great rally.

Need more of them!

I wish Ayn Rand would have been around to see Trump as president. She would have been a supporter.

Probably not then. But I had visions of Shaprio wringing his hands in nervousness (of Trump's success).

Perhaps he is doing that in private.

Those Three Stooges, they were on TV when I was a kid.

That was a long time ago. I still remember the theme song.

I'm hoping Trump puts Governor Shapiro on stage so he can nervously wring his hands and wish he was someplace else.

We'll find out if that actually happens.

The "Big Bad Bruins" of the early 1970s were a hard-living, hard-drinking bunch.

One story from that time, not confirmed, was that forward Wayne Cashman got put in the can for drunk and disorderly after a game. While in jail, he ordered in Chinese food for himself and the guards, who happily partaked. They then let him out the next morning so he could make the trip to the next road game.

That was a fun team to watch back in the day. We are now talking more than half a century ago. Makes me feel old.

Everybody dies in the end.

Tina Louise, who played "Ginger" in Gilligan's Island is the only main character from that show still alive today. She's 91.

Now that is depressing!

I’ll be watching this one. Stuck home in Connecticut on a Friday night waiting for the heavy rains to come. Tomorrow I head up to New Hampshire and I guess I follow the rain up there.

Max Q

Counting down again!

Countdown frozen at 40 seconds while they work out some “issues”

Remember during the early 1970s when all three networks would pre-empt regular broadcasting to show all the NASA space launches.

Now they couldn't care less because the space launches are being done by Elon Musk and by extension, President Trump.