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My favorite andyism: “what the fuck is muesli? Are you crazy?”

Maybe we can finally get rid of civil forfeiture, the war on drugs and other trash This stuff was instituted to keep minorities down. I don't think there's evidence the Republican base is interested in giving up on that quite yet. A GOP candidate that embraced rolling back the militarization of pol...

But... her... emails? transferring classified emails to an unclassified server is not a small thing. It would be an impossible thing, and in fact it didn’t happen. So classified information wasn’t systemically taken from a secret system and systemically transferred to a private one? Oooookkk.

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:18 pm But... her... emails?

transferring classified emails to an unclassified server is not a small thing.

Uh, the rules for clearances are different for career v. politically appointed/elected officials. Maybe they shouldn't be, but they are.

And this thing is just getting started. https://www.lawfareblog.com/thoughts-mar-lago-search

Damn. Bill Russell and Vin Scully. RIP.

Winning: https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/0 ... dvice.html

Managed breeding? Please explain.

Gene wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:54 pm
Twelve percent of cars are not insured, Nafod. In Mississippi it's roughly one in three.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/fact ... -motorists

It’s not numbers of cars, it’s numbers of drivers involved in reported accidents.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... by-country

Not even close.

Public policy is hard, and is worth doing right.

Sounds nice until you go into the details they don’t mention. 1. Who enforces the insurance mandate and how? Th Obamacare insurance mandate failed and we can’t even enforce the existing red flag laws. 2. Ignores fact that we don’t have a supply shortage of guns and they are a durable good (unlike a ...

I'm going to ask you, Bram, what Nafod refuses to answer. There are 15,000,000 such rifles in private hands. How do you intend to get them out of circulation? The key is illegality and/or liability. Require insurance to own one, and you’ll see them filling landfills. Insurance doesn’t cover crimina...

Bottom line: not looking good for dems in November, and Americans care a lot less about the abortion issue than I thought.
https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-conten ... esults.pdf

A friend of mine is a staunch conservative. He's delighted that Roe v Wade was overturned because "now the states can decide." But in talking about what the outcome is going to be, which is realistically only going to affect poor people, it really comes down to him being a Catholic and wa...

A friend of mine is a staunch conservative. He's delighted that Roe v Wade was overturned because "now the states can decide." But in talking about what the outcome is going to be, which is realistically only going to affect poor people, it really comes down to him being a Catholic and wa...

Lotta estrogen in that post. You might want to cut down your HRT dose.

Nafod you’re mixing two different questions together: at what point should abortion be illegal and who should make the laws. The western norm seems to be illegal at 12-16 weeks and that the laws should be made by legislatures. What are your views? Please be specific because public opinions on the le...

If you think he’s a dick most others probably do too. What is your sense of how his bosses view him? If you’ve got a negative vibe about his bosses it might be time to polish up the resume.

If we removed the artificial block on liability, the market would take care of a lot of this. How? I get some people want the firearm manufacturers to fail. But no one has explained how bankrupting gun businesses will actually stop any mass shootings or active shootings today or within the next cou...

HBO series about the first year of the 80’s Lakers dynasty. Generally it takes the piss out of laker legends but generally presents a positive picture from of each one. The series focuses on john C Reilly as man-child owner jerry Buss and Quincy Isaiah as magic Johnson— and both are incredible. The ...

Although the ‘don’t prop the exit only doors with a rock because you want to make it easier to take a smoke break’ training for employees could be improved.

Here's a study that shows state and federal assault weapons bans decrease mass shootings: "It was found that both state and federal assault weapons bans have statistically significant and negative effects on mass shooting fatalities but that only the federal assault weapons ban had a negative ...

Analysis of 179 school shootings (1999-2018) finds: "the presence of a school resource officer was unassociated with any reduction in school shooting severity. Importantly, the type of gun used was strongly associated with casualties and fatalities." https://www.jahonline.org/article/S105...