if you had stopped at New England, I would have called you just a retarded, self important asshole. But you went and threw in CA, which means you are obviously not responsible for what you say or type and undoubtedly reside in an institution with white floors and padded walls.
Everything about this plane is new. It is also probably had the most anal QA process that any airliner has ever had. With the hundreds of thousands of parts, it was inevitable that there would be some issues.
At least is hasn't flown into a forest and crashed and burned.
If I live in a suburb in a mid-sized city in the Midwest that does not have a gang problem, then the fact that people in LA are slaughtering each other is not relevant to me.
The vast majority of gun crime in the U.S is drug/gang related and occurs in urban centers. The vast majority of U.S. is peaceful and pretty much safe...at least as safe as is your average European country.
When the Bosnian conflict was happening and people by the thousands were being killed, no one put out a report saying that Europe had a high death rate. Same thing here. You just can't sum up all the deaths and then make a general statement about the nation when the majority of the deaths are localized and do not affect the majority of the nation.
If there were one type of vehicle that accounted for the vast majority of all the traffic deaths then this would make sense. Gang violence is a statistical outlier in that 99% of the people are unlikely to encounter it. And that 1% who do and perpetrate it are racking up huge numbers that influence the over all results.
If you took Europe and included the Balkans back during the Bosnian conflict, their rate would likely dwarf ours. Not because Europe as a whole was violent, but because the one part was extremely violent.
Remove from the statistics illegals showing up with advanced health problems and the gangs that are constantly killing each other and I bet our ranking would improve tremendously.
"Giving" back to society is much different than having it taken from at gun point.
And Obama is pretty much against Giving back anything because he views deductions for Charitable giving as money he can't get his greedy little paws on.
As soon as they can fire the first rocket, they need to gather ALL the members of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association and load them up and shoot them into orbit...forever or until they burn up in the atmosphere.
The Irony is 1st Amendment practitioners being afraid of 2nd Amendment proponents exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Especially since law enforcement has yet to find ANY communications that are legally threatening. All the publisher's accusations of "threatening" communications have been garbage.
What everyone is overlooking is that the American Armed Forces are made up for the most part of the very same Rednecks and other pejorative terms people like to use, that they whine about having all these fearsome "assault rifles".
I seem to recall that various companies which customized Mustangs to look like Elinor from the original Gone in Sixty Seconds were successfully sued in the past.
Maybe is was because they actually marketed it as "Elinor", and I think put the name somewhere on the vehicle, that cinched that case. Not sure.
I have long thought attempts to do this kind of thing were stupid and intrusive.
But think, those of you with kids, how many times have you refused your kids desire to watch a program because it is too violent? If you are any kind of parent, then that happens often. Desensitization is a long time practice in the military and kids watching/playing violent shows/games is very similar to the process the military goes through.
I think it's time that this subject is given a hard look. Unfortunately, any solution I can think of (in the five minutes I've been writing this post) would be a big legal mess, running afoul of any number of existing rights and freedoms.
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What brings the article into question is the gratuitous labeling of a group as "uninformed".
if you had stopped at New England, I would have called you just a retarded, self important asshole. But you went and threw in CA, which means you are obviously not responsible for what you say or type and undoubtedly reside in an institution with white floors and padded walls.
American is for the most part, a continent. At least as much of a continent as Europe is of Eurasia.
Everything about this plane is new. It is also probably had the most anal QA process that any airliner has ever had. With the hundreds of thousands of parts, it was inevitable that there would be some issues.
At least is hasn't flown into a forest and crashed and burned.
I don't lock my door because there is a burglary epidemic in a city a thousand miles away from me.
If I live in a suburb in a mid-sized city in the Midwest that does not have a gang problem, then the fact that people in LA are slaughtering each other is not relevant to me.
The vast majority of gun crime in the U.S is drug/gang related and occurs in urban centers. The vast majority of U.S. is peaceful and pretty much safe...at least as safe as is your average European country.
When the Bosnian conflict was happening and people by the thousands were being killed, no one put out a report saying that Europe had a high death rate. Same thing here. You just can't sum up all the deaths and then make a general statement about the nation when the majority of the deaths are localized and do not affect the majority of the nation.
If there were one type of vehicle that accounted for the vast majority of all the traffic deaths then this would make sense. Gang violence is a statistical outlier in that 99% of the people are unlikely to encounter it. And that 1% who do and perpetrate it are racking up huge numbers that influence the over all results.
If you took Europe and included the Balkans back during the Bosnian conflict, their rate would likely dwarf ours. Not because Europe as a whole was violent, but because the one part was extremely violent.
Same thing here and the report ignores it.
Remove from the statistics illegals showing up with advanced health problems and the gangs that are constantly killing each other and I bet our ranking would improve tremendously.
No worries, the gun will only fire if you have the right region code.
Democrat Underground is down the hall on the extreme left.
And that was before the recent tax increase.
"Giving" back to society is much different than having it taken from at gun point.
And Obama is pretty much against Giving back anything because he views deductions for Charitable giving as money he can't get his greedy little paws on.
Lastly, they’ll begin making these high-energy laser systems mobile by mounting a laser onto a TM170 armored vehicle.
Godzilla doesn't stand a chance now!
Its the old, "Well, your right...but, but but".
Women are paid less. No dispute.
Moron.
The assertion is true. Deal with it AC. Why don't you go kiss Anderson Cooper's crotch? I'm sure you like that kind of stuff.
Why is my 1034-55/12 Authorization for Nuclear Strike form all garbaged up now?
Even the far left Polti-"fact" says you are full of shit.
As soon as they can fire the first rocket, they need to gather ALL the members of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association and load them up and shoot them into orbit...forever or until they burn up in the atmosphere.
Or less if they work in the White House.
The Irony is 1st Amendment practitioners being afraid of 2nd Amendment proponents exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Especially since law enforcement has yet to find ANY communications that are legally threatening. All the publisher's accusations of "threatening" communications have been garbage.
What everyone is overlooking is that the American Armed Forces are made up for the most part of the very same Rednecks and other pejorative terms people like to use, that they whine about having all these fearsome "assault rifles".
Well, everyone killed in the Revolutionary War for one.
If you want clear cut examples, I'd throw in WWII also.
Certainly, those who fought in the Civil War were passionate about their cause.
I think you underestimate the propensity of the average American to take up arms in defense of their cause.
As to your last point, General Patten said it best:
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.”
Irony is a gun grabber talking about scapegoats.
I seem to recall that various companies which customized Mustangs to look like Elinor from the original Gone in Sixty Seconds were successfully sued in the past.
Maybe is was because they actually marketed it as "Elinor", and I think put the name somewhere on the vehicle, that cinched that case. Not sure.
I have long thought attempts to do this kind of thing were stupid and intrusive.
But think, those of you with kids, how many times have you refused your kids desire to watch a program because it is too violent? If you are any kind of parent, then that happens often. Desensitization is a long time practice in the military and kids watching/playing violent shows/games is very similar to the process the military goes through.
I think it's time that this subject is given a hard look. Unfortunately, any solution I can think of (in the five minutes I've been writing this post) would be a big legal mess, running afoul of any number of existing rights and freedoms.
I am amazed they needed a whole fricken team to figure this out.