oh hahaha 'someone' keeps getting sooooo upset 'cause I'm anonymous --- well, my secret's out - I'm a bot... oh, but, but, but, is that other someone one, too? We'll never know...
And I will always say The Smothers Brothers were far superior to any recent "comedians", & I use that term loosely when referring to many these days.
And I have all the best wishes for the family w/ several children. That's certainly better reading, imo, than:
Approximately 15% of men in the U.S. will have children with more than one woman by age 40, according to a Child Trends study. Other data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that about 13% of men aged 40 to 44 have multiple partner fertility (MPF), and this is more common among Black men (40%) than white men (18%).
Key data points
Overall prevalence: About 15% of men will have children with more than one partner by age 40.
Age progression: The prevalence of multiple-partner fertility increases with age, rising from 5% by age 25 to 15% by age 40.
Racial differences: Multiple partner fertility is more common among Black and multiracial parents compared to white and Asian parents, according to Institute for Family Studies data.
Higher fertility rates: Men with multiple partners tend to have a higher number of children overall.
Marital status: Men who were not married when their first child was born were more likely to have multiple partner fertility.
Age at first birth: Having a first child at a younger age is associated with higher rates of multiple-partner fertility.
Social factors: Multiple partner fertility is higher in disadvantaged communities.
While exact numbers vary by year and program, around 48.5% of single mothers receive some form of government assistance, such as SNAP (food stamps) or WIC (nutrition for women, infants, and children), with specific 2022 data showing 38% receiving SNAP benefits. Children account for a significant portion of these programs; for example, children made up approximately 39% of all SNAP participants in fiscal year 2023.
Bot or not, great comments. I don't know who said it first, but I often say the best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their mom. Regardless of location, nationality, ethnic background, or income level, the one common thing that has the biggest impact on childhood outcomes is having their father in the home.
- Regarding bots and captchas: before I retired, I had a number of data scientists on my team. I remember a conversation we had where they told me that the real purpose of captchas is to help train AI engines for autonomous vehicles. Think about it -- they never ask you to identify pictures with butterflies or flowers. It's always motorcycles, school buses, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc. Since they told me that, I cannot un-see it when presented with a captcha.
- Regarding families making it on a modest income. I served 26 years in the Air Force, and our son is halfway through his Army career. For military families, the Ivy's experience is not the exception; it's the rule. Their story isn't news for anyone who had a family while wearing the uniform.
- Regarding David Letterman: late night hosts of Dave's generation including Leno, O'Brien, Ferguson, poked fun at everyone and were never mean-spirited. It's curious that the loudest voices are outraged about a host being de-platformed, and not the death of a husband and father who was murdered while expressing his First Amendment rights.
You better watch out, Bill… 😵💫 🥴 Always remember: if your voice had no power they wouldn’t try to silence you.
“President Trump said on Thursday that regulators should consider revoking the licenses of broadcasters that air negative coverage or commentary of him, indicating that his assault on critics’ language is motivated at least in part by personal animus.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Mr. Trump called the networks “an arm of the Democrat party” who are out to get him.
“I have read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me, I get 97 percent negative, and yet I won and easily,” Mr. Trump said as he returned to Washington following a state visit to Britain, adding: “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
Remember Roseann Barr? How about Piers Morgan, Megyn Kelly, Sharon Osbourne, Tucker Carlson, Gina Carano?? The left was practically dancing in the streets when they were cancelled.
Now, Jimmy Kimmel gets cancelled by the ABC Affiliates who found his rhetoric not in line with their standards and the same group of lefties are apoplectic.
Kimmel is referred to as a comedian, but he is nowhere near funny and people are tired of it.
According to monthly Nielsen figures, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, down 43% from January’s 1.95 million. His August household rating of 0.35 marked the weakest showing of the year.
"In the last year, about five monologues have focused on a subject other than Trump, with the most recent coming on Dec. 11, in which Kimmel provided light-hearted updates on Luigi Mangione, who he said America “thirsted” after."
In the end, ABC has the right to protect their bottom line and their shareholders. Stephen Colbert seems to forget that he's not the chosen one at CBS (even though the Emmy's gave him a pity award), and Kimmel should remember that too. Everyone is replaceable, but these guys seem to think they're Teflon. They're not. And they're not victims either.
If trump doesn’t like being the butt of jokes he should stop doing those things that can be mocked. Every other president has dealt with it without threatening to block mergers and/or pull licenses.
No other president has had to put up with the crap he has, in both of his presidencies. That said, he is fair game. What about the 77 million supporters though? How is it ok to call patriotic Americans nazis, fascists and other names that unstable people take as a war cry? There's a selective blindness that the liberals turn on when the tables are turned. All of a sudden it's wrong to cancel a failing show hosted by a man who has clearly gone off the deep end.
Anyone who is more upset about Kimmel being cancelled than they are about a man being shot to death in cold blood (in front of his wife and child) is part of the problem.
As someone who has been around for 69 years I can say other presidents have been equally as mercilessly be mocked. Trump has done things much worse.
There currently can be no denying that the 2025 group want to bring us to a white patriarchal America with a checklist of fascist themes.
You and I clearly will not agree on that and I won’t conflate everything going on with the Kirk killing; with or without what happened the rest is the same. Most of the red herring extreme stuff falls outside the statistical standard deviation.
77 million out of 347 million is just over 20 percent, hardly a landslide of support. Trump has brought a lot of the crap on himself. If you think what he is doing is for the good of America and not for the good of Trump and his inner circle, you need to look better. He is headed down a dangerous path and America is going to be dramatically changed when his term is up.
I never watched Kimmel, since I am not up but comedians have always poked fun at government figures. If you can’t take some negative press, maybe you should not be a politician or public figure. What happened to Charlie Kirk is incredibly sad, but no sadder than the children killed in a school shooting the same day. And the second event has become so common in the US that is barely made the headlines. That is what is truly sad.
You're adding non voters into your number. All 347 million people are not eligible to vote and 270 million are not all democrats.
Obama turned the IRS on conservatives, for which the IRS apologized in 2017.
We had Biden calling Facebook to cancel accounts of people who spoke out against his administrations handling of covid. Kamala Harris said in 2019 that Trump needed his X account suspended. People were thrown in jail for not getting vaccinated, had their businesses shuttered and their livelihoods destroyed by his administration. Then, in a final act of deceit, they all covered up the fact that he could not fulfill his duties as president so, instead, his wife ran cabinet meetings and his inner circle ran the country. I'll take Trump over another administration like that any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Okay, according to Google, there are about 174 million registered voters, so you are still under 50% who voted for disaster. And I am sure many of those who did vote Republican are wondering what they have done. People are getting deported now even those they have been in the States for decades and are doing jobs that Americans won’t do. Trump has unleashed the national guard against US citizens. And based on some of the things coming out of Trump’s mouth, he isn’t doing too well in the mental health area either. If you think that Trump is the one running the country, you are delusional. But we all have our opinions, I respect that you see things from a different lens. That’s the beauty of America, at least for the moment.
It matters not. He was not elected by a majority of potential voters. His share of votes was less than 50%. Now that his voters are finally figuring out how his BFBB of a bill is going to screw them over before the midterms next year, even some of the knuckleheads in congress who voted for the damn thing are starting to worry. That Big Fat Beautiful Boondoggle will hit a lot of his supporters right between the eyes. He’s pretty sure republicans will get steamrolled next year. That’s why he’s getting all his crooked buddies in TX, MS and Indiana to gerrymander blue districts out of existence. He’s scared to death of losing his bare majority in the House because he knows he’s been a bad boy and he’s likely to get impeached for a third time.
Thank you for saying exactly what I would have. Some people think it’s just fine for a US president to bitch and whine about everything that goes on in his life while he and his family get fat to the tune of BILLIONS with all their grifts. If he doesn’t like being described as a Nazi perhaps he should stop doing Nazi things; like tearing up our Constitution for a start.
“ Yet, a few influential supporters of Mr. Kirk are now warning that attacks from the right on political expression could tarnish the legacy of the combative right-wing activist, who was seen as a champion of free speech by his legions of followers.
Tucker Carlson, the conservative writer and podcaster, told listeners this week that Mr. Kirk never would have wanted his death to be used as a pretext for a crackdown on speech.
“You hope that a year from now the turmoil we’re seeing in the aftermath of his murder won’t be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country,” said Mr. Carlson, who himself was dropped from Fox News in 2023 after revelations that he had made a comment implying white superiority in a text message.
The speed and fury with which powerful allies of Mr. Kirk have reacted to attacks on his legacy has drawn sharp criticism from other political corners.
Critics of the conservative movement have said that the Trump administration and its allies in the media are exploiting Mr. Kirk’s death to wage a campaign of repression. They have begun drawing an unflattering comparison to other recent efforts to police political discourse, pointing out that the right’s response fits a familiar pattern.
I am not a bot, but I do take most of what I see online with a grain of salt.
Really glad I don’t have to be in the dating world these days. And grey divorce - speaking from experience, women don’t remarry because we are sick and tired of dealing with men! Speaking kind of tongue in cheek, but after 24 years of marriage, I am exhausted from having to always do what he wants when he wants, regardless of what I may have planned. Been through more battle ships, war museums, air museums and flight shows than anyone not interested in them should have to. Won’t be getting divorced as he has been diagnosed with dementia, which only exacerbates matter, but when he is gone, I look forward to being on my own schedule again.
And Jimmy Kimmel? Pretty scary when the media is afraid of the president of a country.Charlie Kim’s killing was sad, but so was the school shooting the same day. The problem is the availability of guns, not a late night talk show host.
oh hahaha 'someone' keeps getting sooooo upset 'cause I'm anonymous --- well, my secret's out - I'm a bot... oh, but, but, but, is that other someone one, too? We'll never know...
And I will always say The Smothers Brothers were far superior to any recent "comedians", & I use that term loosely when referring to many these days.
And I have all the best wishes for the family w/ several children. That's certainly better reading, imo, than:
Approximately 15% of men in the U.S. will have children with more than one woman by age 40, according to a Child Trends study. Other data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that about 13% of men aged 40 to 44 have multiple partner fertility (MPF), and this is more common among Black men (40%) than white men (18%).
Key data points
Overall prevalence: About 15% of men will have children with more than one partner by age 40.
Age progression: The prevalence of multiple-partner fertility increases with age, rising from 5% by age 25 to 15% by age 40.
Racial differences: Multiple partner fertility is more common among Black and multiracial parents compared to white and Asian parents, according to Institute for Family Studies data.
Higher fertility rates: Men with multiple partners tend to have a higher number of children overall.
Marital status: Men who were not married when their first child was born were more likely to have multiple partner fertility.
Age at first birth: Having a first child at a younger age is associated with higher rates of multiple-partner fertility.
Social factors: Multiple partner fertility is higher in disadvantaged communities.
While exact numbers vary by year and program, around 48.5% of single mothers receive some form of government assistance, such as SNAP (food stamps) or WIC (nutrition for women, infants, and children), with specific 2022 data showing 38% receiving SNAP benefits. Children account for a significant portion of these programs; for example, children made up approximately 39% of all SNAP participants in fiscal year 2023.
Bot or not, great comments. I don't know who said it first, but I often say the best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their mom. Regardless of location, nationality, ethnic background, or income level, the one common thing that has the biggest impact on childhood outcomes is having their father in the home.
- Regarding bots and captchas: before I retired, I had a number of data scientists on my team. I remember a conversation we had where they told me that the real purpose of captchas is to help train AI engines for autonomous vehicles. Think about it -- they never ask you to identify pictures with butterflies or flowers. It's always motorcycles, school buses, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc. Since they told me that, I cannot un-see it when presented with a captcha.
- Regarding families making it on a modest income. I served 26 years in the Air Force, and our son is halfway through his Army career. For military families, the Ivy's experience is not the exception; it's the rule. Their story isn't news for anyone who had a family while wearing the uniform.
- Regarding David Letterman: late night hosts of Dave's generation including Leno, O'Brien, Ferguson, poked fun at everyone and were never mean-spirited. It's curious that the loudest voices are outraged about a host being de-platformed, and not the death of a husband and father who was murdered while expressing his First Amendment rights.
You better watch out, Bill… 😵💫 🥴 Always remember: if your voice had no power they wouldn’t try to silence you.
“President Trump said on Thursday that regulators should consider revoking the licenses of broadcasters that air negative coverage or commentary of him, indicating that his assault on critics’ language is motivated at least in part by personal animus.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Mr. Trump called the networks “an arm of the Democrat party” who are out to get him.
“I have read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me, I get 97 percent negative, and yet I won and easily,” Mr. Trump said as he returned to Washington following a state visit to Britain, adding: “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
— NYT
Grey divorce? Or gray divorce? : / You cite both!
This is probably the one word the stumps me the most.
Gray is American while grey is British. Both can be used interchangeably.
Sometimes if I have British or Canadian articles, I try to Americanize the spelling etc. Whilst I endeavour to be thorough, I sometimes fall short.
WOW! What a short memory the liberal media has.
Remember Roseann Barr? How about Piers Morgan, Megyn Kelly, Sharon Osbourne, Tucker Carlson, Gina Carano?? The left was practically dancing in the streets when they were cancelled.
Now, Jimmy Kimmel gets cancelled by the ABC Affiliates who found his rhetoric not in line with their standards and the same group of lefties are apoplectic.
Kimmel is referred to as a comedian, but he is nowhere near funny and people are tired of it.
According to monthly Nielsen figures, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, down 43% from January’s 1.95 million. His August household rating of 0.35 marked the weakest showing of the year.
"In the last year, about five monologues have focused on a subject other than Trump, with the most recent coming on Dec. 11, in which Kimmel provided light-hearted updates on Luigi Mangione, who he said America “thirsted” after."
In the end, ABC has the right to protect their bottom line and their shareholders. Stephen Colbert seems to forget that he's not the chosen one at CBS (even though the Emmy's gave him a pity award), and Kimmel should remember that too. Everyone is replaceable, but these guys seem to think they're Teflon. They're not. And they're not victims either.
If trump doesn’t like being the butt of jokes he should stop doing those things that can be mocked. Every other president has dealt with it without threatening to block mergers and/or pull licenses.
No other president has had to put up with the crap he has, in both of his presidencies. That said, he is fair game. What about the 77 million supporters though? How is it ok to call patriotic Americans nazis, fascists and other names that unstable people take as a war cry? There's a selective blindness that the liberals turn on when the tables are turned. All of a sudden it's wrong to cancel a failing show hosted by a man who has clearly gone off the deep end.
Anyone who is more upset about Kimmel being cancelled than they are about a man being shot to death in cold blood (in front of his wife and child) is part of the problem.
As someone who has been around for 69 years I can say other presidents have been equally as mercilessly be mocked. Trump has done things much worse.
There currently can be no denying that the 2025 group want to bring us to a white patriarchal America with a checklist of fascist themes.
You and I clearly will not agree on that and I won’t conflate everything going on with the Kirk killing; with or without what happened the rest is the same. Most of the red herring extreme stuff falls outside the statistical standard deviation.
77 million out of 347 million is just over 20 percent, hardly a landslide of support. Trump has brought a lot of the crap on himself. If you think what he is doing is for the good of America and not for the good of Trump and his inner circle, you need to look better. He is headed down a dangerous path and America is going to be dramatically changed when his term is up.
I never watched Kimmel, since I am not up but comedians have always poked fun at government figures. If you can’t take some negative press, maybe you should not be a politician or public figure. What happened to Charlie Kirk is incredibly sad, but no sadder than the children killed in a school shooting the same day. And the second event has become so common in the US that is barely made the headlines. That is what is truly sad.
You're adding non voters into your number. All 347 million people are not eligible to vote and 270 million are not all democrats.
Obama turned the IRS on conservatives, for which the IRS apologized in 2017.
We had Biden calling Facebook to cancel accounts of people who spoke out against his administrations handling of covid. Kamala Harris said in 2019 that Trump needed his X account suspended. People were thrown in jail for not getting vaccinated, had their businesses shuttered and their livelihoods destroyed by his administration. Then, in a final act of deceit, they all covered up the fact that he could not fulfill his duties as president so, instead, his wife ran cabinet meetings and his inner circle ran the country. I'll take Trump over another administration like that any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Okay, according to Google, there are about 174 million registered voters, so you are still under 50% who voted for disaster. And I am sure many of those who did vote Republican are wondering what they have done. People are getting deported now even those they have been in the States for decades and are doing jobs that Americans won’t do. Trump has unleashed the national guard against US citizens. And based on some of the things coming out of Trump’s mouth, he isn’t doing too well in the mental health area either. If you think that Trump is the one running the country, you are delusional. But we all have our opinions, I respect that you see things from a different lens. That’s the beauty of America, at least for the moment.
It matters not. He was not elected by a majority of potential voters. His share of votes was less than 50%. Now that his voters are finally figuring out how his BFBB of a bill is going to screw them over before the midterms next year, even some of the knuckleheads in congress who voted for the damn thing are starting to worry. That Big Fat Beautiful Boondoggle will hit a lot of his supporters right between the eyes. He’s pretty sure republicans will get steamrolled next year. That’s why he’s getting all his crooked buddies in TX, MS and Indiana to gerrymander blue districts out of existence. He’s scared to death of losing his bare majority in the House because he knows he’s been a bad boy and he’s likely to get impeached for a third time.
Thank you for saying exactly what I would have. Some people think it’s just fine for a US president to bitch and whine about everything that goes on in his life while he and his family get fat to the tune of BILLIONS with all their grifts. If he doesn’t like being described as a Nazi perhaps he should stop doing Nazi things; like tearing up our Constitution for a start.
I'm not minimizing the tragedy that happened at Evergreen High School. I am clarifying that only the shooter died, of a self-inflicted wound. The other two students are in serious and critical condition. https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/15/evergreen-high-school-shooting-colorado-closed/
“ Yet, a few influential supporters of Mr. Kirk are now warning that attacks from the right on political expression could tarnish the legacy of the combative right-wing activist, who was seen as a champion of free speech by his legions of followers.
Tucker Carlson, the conservative writer and podcaster, told listeners this week that Mr. Kirk never would have wanted his death to be used as a pretext for a crackdown on speech.
“You hope that a year from now the turmoil we’re seeing in the aftermath of his murder won’t be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country,” said Mr. Carlson, who himself was dropped from Fox News in 2023 after revelations that he had made a comment implying white superiority in a text message.
The speed and fury with which powerful allies of Mr. Kirk have reacted to attacks on his legacy has drawn sharp criticism from other political corners.
Critics of the conservative movement have said that the Trump administration and its allies in the media are exploiting Mr. Kirk’s death to wage a campaign of repression. They have begun drawing an unflattering comparison to other recent efforts to police political discourse, pointing out that the right’s response fits a familiar pattern.
The right, they assert, has gone “woke.”
— NYT
I am not a bot, but I do take most of what I see online with a grain of salt.
Really glad I don’t have to be in the dating world these days. And grey divorce - speaking from experience, women don’t remarry because we are sick and tired of dealing with men! Speaking kind of tongue in cheek, but after 24 years of marriage, I am exhausted from having to always do what he wants when he wants, regardless of what I may have planned. Been through more battle ships, war museums, air museums and flight shows than anyone not interested in them should have to. Won’t be getting divorced as he has been diagnosed with dementia, which only exacerbates matter, but when he is gone, I look forward to being on my own schedule again.
And Jimmy Kimmel? Pretty scary when the media is afraid of the president of a country.Charlie Kim’s killing was sad, but so was the school shooting the same day. The problem is the availability of guns, not a late night talk show host.