winsor

My first thought was the petrodollar. One of many problems I have with fossil fuels is that they are, by their very nature, finite. I agree that the people who want to 'simply' replace fossil fuels with sunshine and unicorn farts tend to be weak on the thermodynamics of scale involved, but that does not mean we can continue indefinitely down the road of plentiful and cheap fossil fuels shoring up our way of life. The point that the video missed is that the ROI on natural gas is only good until you use it up. Quite when is that point can vary as a function of efficiency and sundry wild cards, but that point is coming sooner than later. You may as well get in another few skydives and tear around in exquisite Italian cars and whatnot, because it will only slightly affect when the inevitable comes to pass. No long term gain from missing out. BTW, Lamborghinis are best rented, so the owner is stuck with it when the fuel pump runs dry. BSBD, Winsor

L Ron Hoover anyone?

Muhammad would still have to register as a pervert.

My father absolutely loathed Tricky Dick Nixon, but was fine with Ford's decision to focus on the pressing issues of the day instead of wallowing in the muck of the previous administration. Ford actually followed longstanding tradition where, say, King Henry offered blanket pardons to enable the loyalty of nobles who had served Richard. As an aside, our previous president makes Nixon look like a model of competence, integrity and decency - which I would not have thought possible. A review of constitutional law suggests that Trump could be both convicted and elected. It seems Boston's Mayor Curley was both in office and prison during his last term, so there's precedent. I'm curious if outfitting accommodations at Leavenworth to serve as an executive office would do, or maybe an ankle bracelet for White House Arrest would be an option. Would his parole officer have to approve meetings with heads of state? Deciding whether Kamala Harris is an improvement is akin to trying to pick between polio and leprosy. Any way you cut it, we're fucked this time around. If a people truly get the government they deserve, it would appear that we suck out loud. It was fun while it lasted, Winsor

I think the Bull Moose candidate, Teddy Roosevelt, is a better choice than the Republican or Democrat offering.

If you want to consider statistics regarding demographics and violence, you'll be pleased to note that you have things backwards.

My targets are pretty much limited to various bullseye style and clay frisbees.

Given the purpose to kill people, that makes me a terrible shot. I've fired hundreds of thousands of rounds and haven't hit anyone. Heck, I've never seen fit to shoot at anyone.

Bill Clinton?

The old "we KNOW Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction - we have the RECEIPTS!" Having lived in Cook County, Philadelphia and a few other similar locales, there is a baseline level of voter fraud that is taken as the norm. It's only when it gets egregious that people object. In the upcoming election, writing in Theodore Roosevelt is looking attractive. He may be dead, but he's still preferable to the the "living" candidates.

Mine has 613 some odd.

Case in point. Despite malevolent stupidity having achieved critical mass here, the only shot(s) fired came from LE. The lesson relearned here is that playing chicken with lethal consequences does not tend to end well. It strikes me as odd that acts of suicidal stupidity are all too often interpreted as martyrdom (Horst Wesel, John Birch, et al.) and misremembered with reverence.

If you remove a few key demographics to which the "binary men" you mention are included, the statistics change drastically. I agree that the representation of those subject to gender confusion is massively disproportionate, and thus disgusting, but I included them as an example of truly messed up people given to violence (z.B. - zum Beispiel).

Maybe it's the culture, not the implement. I'm sure the Tutsis weren't reassured that Hutus weren't given to using firearms. In this country, removing from consideration a very small number of subsets of the population, to include users of SSRIs, changes the statistics drastically. z.B.:

I can understand why Putin is concerned about his weakening support. He garnered barely 113% of the vote in the recent election.