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Rocky for president in 2016?
"Hispanics," one presumes, are people from Spain, or whose ancestors came from Spain. The majority of those targeted for exclusion may or may not have ancestors who came from Spain; the ancestors of many, if not most, of those being excluded were the folks who were here before there was a border, an artificial barrier created to perpetuate the injustice the Hispanics and other European invaders forced upon them. Inconsistencies like this do not hold up under logical analysis. Tw— October 4, 2015 9:39 a.m.
Rocky for president in 2016?
Will he wall out the "Hispanics?"— October 3, 2015 11:14 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
I regret that you have proven my prediction. "You have a right to your beliefs, but not your own facts." --Dan Moynihan Refusing to discuss the merits and demerits of the specific points, arbitrarily cutting off debate is doubly regrettable and a violation of even Robert's Rules. Accusing me--damning me if you will--of parroting an ideology is, in my view, disrespectfully beneath your intellectual stature. But I will respect you on other grounds, which are more than ample. Respectfully, Tw— October 3, 2015 8:04 p.m.
Another echo from the dot-com bubble burst
Justabill: Yeah, I had to go to the dictionerry too; Bauder ain't all bad . . . at least he impishly betters my vocallabulary with multy-sillyabull werds. IF I can remember to show them off enough to get them to stick in my lumpin', bumpin' brane, maybe I can get a job so's I can afford to live in San Diego so's I don' have to join Don in the frozen North. Justatwister (Regis Patoff)— October 3, 2015 7:28 p.m.
Another echo from the dot-com bubble burst
You must have the -motive. Tw— October 3, 2015 7:17 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
You got me there! Are there DEGREES of sociopathology, or either ya are or ya ain't?— October 3, 2015 7:12 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
" Don Bauder Oct. 3, 2015 @ 2:53 p.m. Twister: You mean you think there is no sensible gun control? Explain, please. Best, Don Bauder" There is, but it is taboo. The "discussion" is always polarized, "idiologized," politicized, and politically corrected. A calm, objective look at the relevant facts and relevant factors are prohibited. At Charlie Ebdo, for example, if the guy shooting the video from his window had had a rifle, the Muslim cop might still be alive. If the guards at the office had had some simple barriers for protection and had been permitted, nay, trained to "profile," nobody but the attackers might have been killed. If well-trained people at schools had weapons available (in safes, where all guns belong), lots of kids, other students, and teachers might still be alive. What if the well-trained hero of Roseburg had had a weapon? Would he have taken 7 bullets to his body? Around 10,000,000 households in the USA have guns, most locked up in safes. I don't know how many guns that amounts to, but I know a couple of guys who have tens of guns in their collections, most of which have never been fired. Where are the statistics on the percentage of legal guns that have been used for murder? "We" can't talk about that. But let's say that there are only 100,000,000 guns in the country to confiscate. Sending back a million or so illegal immigrants would seem a picnic by comparison. Yeah, it's a conundrum. The more gun violence, the more people need guns to protect themselves. Police are rarely on the spot and able to take action when a crime occurs; they mostly wipe up the mess and chase down the bad guy. But the bad guy's victims are still dead. Just like no matter how much "defensible space" you have around your house, it can (and probably will) burn when a wildfire swoops down on it, throwing uncounted incendiary devices before it. The trouble with logic is that if it doesn't comport with one's biases, it will be rejected out-of-hand, and the discussion will fall back on emotion and prejudice. Tw— October 3, 2015 6:53 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
I agree. However, my point is, when people were less sociopathic, we didn't need the laws as much as we do now. People with limited capacities, like the friend I mentioned elsewhere, prefer to be as independent as possible, which means that they don't want to be any more of a burden on others as possible. Tw— October 3, 2015 6:27 p.m.
Another echo from the dot-com bubble burst
THAT is an IMPEACHYABLE offense!— October 3, 2015 4:04 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
The laws don't really "protect" the disabled; they are signposts to mark where social mores have failed, where empathy and respect have been supplanted by pity and indifference.— October 2, 2015 10:35 p.m.